Baling straw in southern Ohio.

My youngest daughter is helping me post these pictures (I hope) of our straw baling of last Thursday (6/22/17). Nice (not hot), breezy, partly cloudy weather.
We used a combination of tractor, horse, and man power.
A Deere 4430 tractor with 328 baler, a Deere 4240 tractor with another 328 baler(borrowed), a team of Belgians or my 1986 GMC pick-up to pull wagons to barn & back, and many Amish friends. I'm the pleasantly plump (fat) "english" guy in the white T-shirt (prednisone does give you an appetite).
Don't think we got a picture of the bales going up the (electric) elavator to the mow.
We baled a total of 2,300 bales. Filled up my hay mow, and all the Amish help got their barns filled too.
Money raised from sale of straw bales goes to help fund the Amish School teachers' pay.
Anyone near south-central Ohio need straw?
Feel free to ask questions.
Last picture is middle daughter and 3 of my grand kids.

Larry: Get well soon, and you can come help next year. I'm pulling (and praying) for you.
 
Here are the four photos.
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What sort of bale is that, in the third picture, that the fellow on the front of the wagon is pulling from the baler? Does your 328 tie them both ways? or are they five flake bales?
 
The windrows were huge (I think a 40 or 42 foot head on the combine). Drove the tractors as slow as they would go (both are Quad Range - so "A-1"). I suspect you are right, they are "five flake" bales.
 
Great pictures. I really like the one with the horses pulling the wagon. Of course cute grandkids are always a hit too.
 
I saw that too- the 5 (we called them chunks) bale. Driver must really be cramming that baler! Reminds me of the thread about "too big of a tractor on a baler"-- or rather too big of a shear pin.
 
I wonder too what's going on there. If you look at the top bale in that pic it has many more flakes. I don't know how you can get a baler to push a bale out in five strokes unless
you really have tension loose. Which it looks like it is by the way the strings are sagging on the bale he is grabbing.
 
It has been some nice weather to move hay or straw. Glad to see the kids enjoying the work, hope they got to ride the wagons, too. I know the neighbor's grain head used to push my JD 336 to the limit with a windrow, and now he has a bigger one yet! We'll see in a week or so how that goes this year, unless we get all the rain they a re predicting...
 
I just finished reading the post about hay hooks and noticed that there are no hooks, must be a regional thing. around here seems everyone has some hooks laying around but no one uses them. I've always picked them up by the strings.
 

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