Hauling Flax Bales

rusty6 · Dec 8, 2016

Glad we got the flax straw bales hauled on the weekend before this cold weather hit. Daytime highs of 0 to +5 are not the kind of temps I like to work in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXYhi4BW-qI&feature=share

Gene Dotson · Dec 9, 2016

Another good video Ralph. Always like your videos from the north country. Just now getting below freezing temps in western Ohio.
No snow and 20 degrees this morning. Strong winds makes outside work unpleasant.

Gene

Bill in IL · Dec 9, 2016

That's great temps to work in as long as the wind is not blowing.

We are getting our first taste of your Canadian air this week. Suppose to be about 20 today and the wind is down a bit from yesterday probably
blowing 10 to 15 right now.

Stan - Florida · Dec 9, 2016

I always enjoy your videos, too. We have a friend (retired) near Star City, SK. I've been there a couple of times, once during wheat harvest in 2003. Not a good year, though, maybe 15 BPA. The neighbours were combining in a 270 acre field, which was 55 acres more than we farmed in Indiana when I was growing up.

4520BW · Dec 9, 2016

Don't know a thing about flax so please educate me.I do the seed are for linseed oil but do you make linen out of it to?

rusty6 · Dec 9, 2016

(quoted from post at 02:27:12 12/09/16) Another good video Ralph. Always like your videos from the north country. Just now getting below freezing temps in western Ohio.
No snow and 20 degrees this morning. Strong winds makes outside work unpleasant.

Gene

Gene we just hit 20 degrees on the wrong side of zero this morning so your 20 sounds good. But I know its no picnic either.

rusty6 · Dec 9, 2016

(quoted from post at 07:13:59 12/09/16) Don't know a thing about flax so please educate me.I do the seed are for linseed oil but do you make linen out of it to?

Its all about the seed. The straw is just a useless by product that we have to dispose of before we can work the field again next year. That straw was so stubborn this year that I was unable to harvest all the crop. The constant straw wrapping on the combine beater and resulting smoke just got to be too much. I'm leaving it for spring.

4520BW · Dec 9, 2016

Do you use the straw for bedding or feed? Does flax have a purple flower?

rusty6 · Dec 9, 2016

(quoted from post at 07:55:27 12/09/16) Do you use the straw for bedding or feed? Does flax have a purple flower?

The straw we bale is to burn in a greenhouse stove. It burns clean with less ashes. Not so good for bedding as it is tough and wiry. A cow would have to be starving to chew on that stuff.
The flowers are blue as the sky. Picture of mine from July.

WI Dan · Dec 9, 2016

Thank you Rusty for taking time to post this and answer questions. It's nice to learn about something new.

do the bales get burned in a stove?

rusty6 · Dec 9, 2016

(quoted from post at 09:33:59 12/09/16) Thank you Rusty for taking time to post this and answer questions. It's nice to learn about something new.

do the bales get burned in a stove?

Yes, the stove is a big round piece of pipe with the ends welded closed, door in one end for putting the bales in and a stove pipe outlet on top for the smoke. It will hold 3 bales at a time and that keeps the greenhouse warm enough overnight as the bales burn slow in the almost air tight stove.

WI Dan · Dec 9, 2016

That sounds like a good way to do it. Does the stove over heat the greenhouse? Or, is it a slow release of heat?
How big of greenhouse?

Bob · Dec 9, 2016

(quoted from post at 09:13:59 12/09/16) Don't know a thing about flax so please educate me.I do the seed are for linseed oil but do you make linen out of it to?

Here's what a nearby company does with flax (and/or wheat) straw...

http://flaxtech.us/

Jim in NC · Dec 9, 2016

Really enjoyed the video.Rusty. I can't imagine hauling bales covered with snow.

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