I'm beat...

Best part was, I've got the best driver ever, and I'm getting married to her next year on May! She's really getting the hang to over-steering to get everything on a corner etc...

Worst part is I'm completely drained, my nose is full of extremely black boogers because it got about 2" of rain on it and it was cut on Memorial day, and I'm just plain sore. Only got about 1 1/2-2 loads to go tomorrow before I go to work in the afternoon. Then 1st crop is all off the field! Should get close to 1750-1800 bales total off about 30-35 acres or so. Shoulda been much higher, but some was a little shorter and then the rain just didn't help one bit. Lost quite a bit because of that.

Now fter I finish baling, I get to hook onto the plow and turn under a couple acres that wasn't too hot and turn it into a corn field.

I'll try to get a picture of our baling rig tomorrow, it's our Massey 285 and #12 baler. 4 16' wagons and 2 18's too.... I got 2 running gears that I'm planning to build more racks on sometime in the next year or 2...

Donovan from Wisconsin

My BIL with the 1600 Oli just started baling so I'll help him out with at least a few loads just to remind myself why I became a machinist! :)

Take care,
ll

Congrats on the upcoming nuptials! She sounds like a keeper!

It sounds like the Massey is home and the engine is now officially broken in.

Did you see the pictures I posted a while back on my 1014? Repairs are still slow as I am waiting on parts, but its at least a couple of weeks till we start knocking hay down up here.

John

Your 1014 is a slightly different animal. Once they came out with the 1014+2, it didn't have the fingers in the auger like the 1014's, and there's just a few other small differences.

Probably another 3 weeks and I'll be knocking down 2nd crop. I think we may just get a 4th crop this year being that I cut so early for 1st crop... We get a 3rd crop pretty much every year, unless we get really bad luck...

For now, I have to cultivate the pumpins tomorrow, my brother and I have about 2 1/4 acres this year. We got some herbicide spray (called Curb-it) that's supposed to be ok with any vine plant such as pumpkins and squash, but it's a pre-emergence so I have to knock down what weeds are up then go at it with the little sprayer we bought to go behind the garden tractor.

Also gotta change the oil in 2 tractors, plow a small field, and try to get it in within about 1 week.

Donovan from Wisconsin

Plus with the small squares, we don't have to worry about the tractor starting in -30 weather, or it breaking down any other time. We do buy quite a bit of hay, and most of that is in big squares. They cost us too much to have ours done by a custom baler, but it is fast if the rain's coming...

Donovan from Wisconsin

ALL the farm women I hired over the years kicked the men's a$$ every day on the job and went on to be supervisors.

I was raised on the 80 pounder round bales. Grass was the worest to keep on the rack in fields with water ways and ditches. The orange hooked to JD looked uneven. The hand clutch was a hot one in heavy hay. Used on a JD B for many years. A true pain without live pto. Each bale tractor had to be out of gear and clutch engauged. Made for long afternoons.

Congrats on finding a good one.