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rrlund · Jun 28, 2015

Hay's done! I rolled 134 bales in four hours and forty minutes this afternoon. 774 total that I put twine on this year. I brought one home without twine every trip home this year and fed it up.
My deepest sympathy to everybody who's having trouble,it's been around July 10 before I finished the last two years. This is the first time in a lot of years that I've been done before the Fourth of July.
Huge sigh of relief.

Bruce from Can. · Jun 28, 2015

Good for you Randy !! You have lucked out with some good weather I guess. Some nerve and hard work helps out too. But it takes more than just nerve to go and cut, you need some sunshine too . We just can't get two dry days in a row . I have been able to wrap over 200 so far .But dry hay without rain, just ain't happening. Bruce

Pair-a-dice farm · Jun 28, 2015

(quoted from post at 17:07:19 06/28/15) Hay's done! I rolled 134 bales in four hours and forty minutes this afternoon. 774 total that I put twine on this year. I brought one home without twine every trip home this year and fed it up.
My deepest sympathy to everybody who's having trouble,it's been around July 10 before I finished the last two years. This is the first time in a lot of years that I've been done before the Fourth of July.
Huge sigh of relief.

Holy cow what size bales? It would take me 2 hours just to tie and dump 134 bales. The best I've ever done was 89 bales in just a little over 4 hours, that was 2 weeks ago. I got done with 1st cutting Wednesday. I may cut another 25 acres but I've got over 500 bales already, 4x6 bales.

rrlund · Jun 28, 2015

I knew I was gonna pay for working on Sunday,I just didn't know how. It was a round about way,but it cost me a tail light in the wife's pickup.
She took mine today,she and the girls went to pick strawberries. I needed to go check that hay late morning to see if it was ready so I unhooked the flatbed dually off the trailer and drove that. When I got home,Beth's car was in front of the shop and Marissa's car was beside the garage,so I parked the dually way up by the clothesline. She backed her pickup out of the garage this afternoon and backed way up farther than she needed to and hit the back of the flatbed. If I hadn't needed to go check that hay,the truck would still be hooked to the trailer and she'd still have a tail light.

Bruce from Can. · Jun 28, 2015

Wimmen only use mirrors for putting on make up. I am going to pay for that comment.

rrlund · Jun 28, 2015

4x5 high density with that Gehl 1475. It's all computerized so about all I have to do is drive. It has a dual twine arm and puts two strings on at once so I'm not stopped for very long. I was pretty amazed myself that I rolled it that quick. That was on just 22 acres. It was a new seeding and super heavy. I give a lot of credit to that new Kuhn disc mower/conditioner with the steel flail conditioner. It makes the hay unbelievably soft and cut that down,tangled mess pretty darned clean.
With the old machine with rolls,hay like that would have raked up with a lot of wads and bunches and would have been a nightmare to bale. I remember the last time I baled a new seeding off that field. I ended up unhooking the baler and driving on all the windrows with the tractor tires to pack them down and smooth them out.

old · Jun 28, 2015

Between the weather guessers and the break downs I still have about 2/3 of my hay to do. There calling for more rain here off and on all week so not going to drop any hay in trhe next few days but sure need to SOON

rrlund · Jun 28, 2015

Here's a couple of pictures that I snapped from the high corner of the field.

rrlund · Jun 28, 2015

Could have been worse,she could have hit it with mine.
Beth runs the shipping department at Weller Truck and Auto. They sell new and used car and truck parts. She said she'd find a used one. She cracked a little bit of fiberglass right under the light,but I guess she'll have to live with it.

Allan in NE · Jun 28, 2015

I started cutting this afternoon. Probably should have waited another week, but have lots of ground to cover.

Allan

Mike(NEOhio) · Jun 28, 2015

Send some of that weather down this way. Nobody has even started cutting yet. Hay was ready three weeks ago but it's been wet ever since. Rained all day Saturday and some today. Supposed to be rainy the next three days. Need a week of dry weather before I can even get in the fields. Lucky that I don't rely on farming for my living.

rrlund · Jun 28, 2015

They were talking rain here for the next two or three days,but now that I worked on Sunday,they've updated the forecast to a 20% chance all week with a 50% chance Friday. We'll be lucky to see another drop of rain all summer.

NEIADan · Jun 28, 2015

Sends spme of that weather over here. I was able to cut and bale 40 acres for the neighbor last week. Cut on tuesday and tedded on Wednesday and Friday, Raked and baled Saturday. We did 117 bales in just over 3 hours. 5x6 bales. Should have been done in 2 1/2 hours but somebody with old-timers had threaded the net wrap wrong and really fought the first fifteen bales. I think the old boy was trying to get fired. To bad for him. hope to start cutting 160 acres Tuesday or Wednesday. At least I had an opurtunity to get things set and running before heading 15 miles from home to find the issues. Now if I could just remember why I wasnt fired.

donjr · Jun 28, 2015

I have about 36 acres to cu and roll yet- may start again tomorrow....

Dave H (MI) · Jun 28, 2015

Not even started on the small squares. Looking at my schedule for the next few weeks I guess it will not be happening until late July at this point. I am just plain out of time.

Dale c mi · Jun 28, 2015

2 miles south of Woodbury, 30 miles south of randy.cut my hay on Thursday night. Friday nice drying day, yes!!! Woke up yesterday to rain, nice 6/10 of a inch before it quit. I still have water running off the end of field!

rrlund · Jun 28, 2015

That rain stayed just off to the south and east of me yesterday. By one o'clock the sun was poking through and the wind picked up. I started raking about 3:30. I started baling at noon today as soon as the dew was all off.

Texasmark1 · Jun 28, 2015

Nice clean 5x6s. What's the grass?

rrlund · Jun 29, 2015

It's new seeding alfalfa and clover. No grass in it.

onefarmer · Jun 29, 2015

My hay mowed same day as yours has been washed twice now. Once the first day and again Sat. I bought a tedder and ran that over it yesterday but still didn't dry enough.

Texasmark1 · Jun 30, 2015

Bet the protein is way up there. Feeding dairy cows?

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