Hay seasons not starting out to good.

jimva · Jun 4, 2013

Well last week we had a perfect stretch of hay making weather. Wednesday thru Saturday. High temp, windy low humidity. Plan was to drop a good many acres Wednesday and Thursday and bale Friday and Saturday. Wednesday morning i start and get 150 yards into the first round on the first field and everything goes to he!!. Some idiot decided to dump 4 tires on rims in the field. The discbine found them. Picked up half the parts yesterday and waitin on the rest to show up today or tomorrow.

I wish i hadnt sold the back up mower last summer.

Keith Molden · Jun 4, 2013

Sounds like it's the same way for me too. Thursday on the way home, wife calls & said they blew a tire on the front of the 255 (deer antler). Stopped & picked up one on the way home & fixed it that evening. Friday buddy was baling with the square baler & picked up a tree limb. sheared both shear bolts but didn't break anything. was raking & noticed the mud guard on the WD was dragging the ground (bolt was almost out of it( of course the threads were stripped on the bolt, thank goodness). Started to bale with the 845 New Holland & the twine arm wouldn't release, fought with it for about an hour & decided to go get the Gehl 1400 & try it again. Darned thing still won't start a bale. One of the guys that was raking for me came to the field & said he broke the u Joint on the rake. Then the rain came. You know, I'm kinda glad it came, just don't know what else could go wrong, but I'm still alive and able to grumble about it so I guess it'll be OK LOL. We keep doing it because we like it & wouldn't have it any other way (well maybe no breakdowns LOL. Keep smiling, Keith

Anonymous-0 · Jun 4, 2013

I left work early Monday to bale a little patch I cut on Saturday. First time I had ever used this baler (old IH 47 wire tie). The windrows were just to big even though I only raked 1.5 windows togather with a 9' rake.

I puttered along in first gear kicking out a bale every 10 feet or so. I was just about done and it sheared off both shear bolts. That's when I learned the folly of only have one shear bolt in the tool box. Ran to town and made one more bale and then the wire splice between the boxes of wire pulled apart and failed to feed. Restrung the wire and made 4 more bales then it started kicking out more broken bales. Pulled all the hay out and realized I'd missed the needle completely (how it ever made the first 4 bales at all is a wonder). Correctly restrung it went back working like it should. The last 10 - 15 bales took more time and effort than the first 160. Off a little 3.6 acre patch I got 175 70 pound bales - sold all but 20 for cash to 5 different buyers that showed up looking for "horse hay" while I was still baling it. Now I'm just waiting for the rain that the weatherman promised.

Larry NEIL · Jun 4, 2013

Only been getting 2.5 day windows here, I need at least three and a half.

Anonymous-0 · Jun 4, 2013

Weatherman says we are getting three day windows - but he's probably predicted a foot more rain than we've actually gotten.

rrlund · Jun 4, 2013

We're the other way around. We've had a foot more than they've predicted. I hope they're right for the next 3 days. They're saying a chance of rain all three days,but not more than a tenth total. I'm not making any plans for that little.

Adirondack case guy · Jun 4, 2013

Can't seam to get started here with dry baled hay now. Finally finished planting the corn and beans. We had a window a couple weeks back for some hayledge, but nothing since, and three days of rain predicted starting tomarrow night, here in central NY.
Loren, the Acg.

johndeere720diesel · Jun 4, 2013

I'm hoping for a window soon the alfalfa is starting to bloom. It looks like next mon-thu looks dry but not holding my breath

retired farmer · Jun 4, 2013

I am already sick of haying and we haven't even started.

RayP(MI) · Jun 4, 2013

Cut a small field Saturday. Probably lost 30% due to mower continually clogging. Raked it today, but quite a bit was still very green. May have to rake it agin to roll it over in a day or so. Need a couple dry sunny days!

Don-Wi · Jun 4, 2013

we're a solid 2-3 weeks behind. buds are just starting to show on the alfalfa. I planted 20 acres of corn yesterday. still have to plant another 28-30 acres, and hopefully we can start 1st crop in a week or so.

Donovan from Wisconsin

Bret4207 · Jun 5, 2013

My "corn field" has ponds in it and my disc is still sitting in a pond. My Speltz seems to have been completely wiped out. I'm behind on fencing, the potatoes are still not planted and there are streams running in the hay meadows.

Typical start to "summer".

Anonymous-0 · Jun 6, 2013

Would be a little surprised to see something that big discarded in the field but around here you can anticipate everything else that is small. I walk the field roadsides every spring and fall before doing any field work to pickup the trash and avoid problems. Somewhat surprised they went to the effort to carry them thru the ditch rather than just throw them there. Perhaps they wanted to "slow you down" or just wanted cover so the roadside would remain pristine.

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