The grass in my Alfalfa is higher that the 11.2/24 tires on my little loader tractor. As slow as I have to drive with the 17 MPH wind at 85?F it looks like the third round back would be ready to rake and bale. Just looks like it on top. I can only take a half of a five foot cut with the dorF rotary cutter with it raised about 6" off the ground. I should have hired someone to cut it with a haybine to get more hay in the barn. After I get it covered with road apples and mulched tight It will make more for next cutting I guess.
- Thread starter Dick L
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You think you have problems ! Many many years ago on our farm "mid 50s" the local farm extesion had some field trials in one of the hay fields. All orchard grass. What they did was lay out strips in the field and spread a variety of lime and fertilizer aplications. They would invite the whole local farm community to come and learn modern farming. What you or I would think is fine came out reasonably well. They had a little sickle mower but it was NOT a Gravely. Just a junky little machine. They would mow a single pass maybe twenty feet long and they had a portable hanger scale with tripod legs. They weighed each plot. Well as they went plot to plot the piles got bigger and bigger.. Well by the time they got to what was their maximum plot it was a solid standing jungle wall of Kelly Green vegitation. The rinky dink sickle mower had to be fed in and out evey few inches. It was a real eye opener how much can be raised if you pour the juice to a field. That test plot pile stood six or seven feet high like a huge green mountain. Back when farming was still primative.
I got in to a new seeding today. WOW! Sure makes up for the poor crap that I cut Monday and Tuesday. I'm glad it's supposed to be crowding 90 and windy the next few days or that stuff would never dry. All I can say about no rain is,it was standing good. A heavy rain would have put in on the ground and made a heck of a mess. I was sure glad I've got a discbine for stuff as heavy as that was. I'd still be out there cutting with a sickle type machine.
showcrop
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Very little hay has been cut in this area yet due to rain. There is more of it laying down now than standing. Almost everyone in the area is using discbines now, although one of the largest producers Jost got a new 7ft. haybine. He has always been marching to his own conservative drum beat.
^DBet you are pretty close. When I was a kid the neighbor had a little tiny place with a team of horses in the late 50s. Can still remember him with the horses and one of those hay loader things that walked the hay up to the wagon as they went down the field. All long loose hay. All you heard were two horses working and that machine doing a rhythmic crunch of hay as the bars lifted the hay up the ramp. The last picture....is this thing real and the latest creation out there?
Dad used horses until the spring of 1941. After that he used a horse drawn mower and also a hay loader pulled with a Farmal B for a few years. I was not old enough to help but was allowed out and about when it was being done. Dad was the one to tromp in and spread the hay over the slings.
WI Dan
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- Northern Wisconsin, Price County
haha I laughed when I saw that "photoshopped" contraption the first time.
I think it's a distant cousin to the Essex Tri-Directional!
I think it's a distant cousin to the Essex Tri-Directional!
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