Hay 1st cutting went good 2nd giving me a hard time

old · Sep 7, 2013

Well my first cutting of hay I had little to no trouble with the equipment. 2nd cutting is giving be problems. Started in cutting with the BA and lost the pitman bolts. So go back and put in new bolts. Make it about 1/2 way around the field and the pitman stick breaks. So started up the Allis C and installed a new swather board and now in cooling off. Also tried to more the Oliver S88 out of the way and battery is to low to spin it over so have the solar charger on it. Oh well not like I really need the hay but would be nice to have

Larry NEIL · Sep 7, 2013

Just fionished putting my paultry 2nd cut in the barn. 287 bales....was hopin, against all odds for close to 500. Looks like I'll be ion the market for around 150 bales or so for the winter.

old · Sep 7, 2013

Only reason I am doing a 2nd is because it is there and figure it is better for the filed if I cut the hay so fewer weeds will be there if I am lucky. Do not have much of any room to store a 2nd cutting so will either have to make room of sell it out of the field

rrlund · Sep 7, 2013

So far so good. I knocked down another 20 acres today,that's makes about 70 this week. I raked and baled 33 acres yesterday without incident,as they say.

old · Sep 7, 2013

Shoot I didn't get 3 full spins around the field and the mower on the Allis C broke down. Pulled the pitman on the BA and fixed it and went back out with it till I figured it was time to say it was a day and come in and get a beer. LOL

GordoSD · Sep 7, 2013

I got my third cutting of alfalfa two weeks ago. Both tractors ran flawlessly, rake spit two teeth, haybine plugged once due to operator error, too little tension on pickup clutch. Baler two busted. First two out. Sold at 4.25 in the field. Pre harvest maintenance. Every year it gets better and better.

Bret4207 · Sep 8, 2013

I'm still trying to get my 1st cut done and the rain is making it impossible. I'm way short on rounds and only got a couple hundred of the thousand or more squares I need in so far. My help is back in school. 2nd cut is there and coming on strong, and I'm praying for 2-3 weeks with no rain.

rrlund · Sep 8, 2013

First cutting was a nightmare. Weather didn't cooperate,clutch went out on a tractor,broke the baler so bad it wasn't worth what it would cost to fix it,so I bought another one,$240 pitman socket took a crap on the haybine,etc.

I'm ready to just get out there and get this second and third cutting done.

old · Sep 8, 2013

Rain sure is not a problem right now. Springfield weather yesterday said in the last 4 weeks/month we have had all of .82 inches of rain but go out 5 weeks and we had over 15 inches but getting 15 inches in a week does not help much since most of it runs off and can not sock in

Brendon Warren · Sep 9, 2013

I"m waiting for the dew to burn off this morning so I can go rake some second cutting. This should be the last of it, only 12 more acres. I baled a thousand bales of second this week and we did 119 round bales over on your side of the lake Brett. Wasn"t to bad only broke two guards on those big rocks you guys in Macomb have growing everywhere.

old · Sep 9, 2013

I am doing the same thing with the Dew. LOL Hope the IH 340 will fire up with out having to be jump started. Had the solar charger on it till the S88 would not start so it is on the S88 now. I am only about 1/4 of the way into the 2nd cutting and do not know how much more I will try to do since the hay barn if full

JRSutton · Sep 11, 2013

Broke my pitman stick too - halfway through the field, with the sun going down.

Whipped one up out of a ratty old 2x4 on my table saw.

Figured it would be too soft, but it got me through the field and it's still holding strong.

Now I'm thinking I'll hack out a few extras and stop paying for the stupid things.

old · Sep 11, 2013

This pit-man is a metal one I made years ago. The sickle mower on my BA has a belt drive so the belt is set up so it will slip before any thing else breaks. The problem was that the bolts worked loose which in turn caused the end to wear and then snap off. I just pulled it off took it to the shop and welded the end back on and then slipped a piece of square stock inside and welded that in

Bret4207 · Sep 11, 2013

(quoted from post at 06:02:11 09/09/13) I"m waiting for the dew to burn off this morning so I can go rake some second cutting. This should be the last of it, only 12 more acres. I baled a thousand bales of second this week and we did 119 round bales over on your side of the lake Brett. Wasn"t to bad only broke two guards on those big rocks you guys in Macomb have growing everywhere.

You must have a lot bigger equipment than I do and more help. Next couple days are supposed to be wet and then I'm going to try to knock down the rest of it. That should give me the 200 or so rounds I need....assuming nothing breaks. Then we'll try for squares on the 2nd cut.

What? Those little stones? Those are how we keep the wind from blowing the dirt away!

Brendon Warren · Sep 13, 2013

Yeah we don't have big equipment just more of it. When I hay it with my uncle we were running four haybines and four balers. We have 23 hay wagons between the two of us. Sometimes I think we need a traffic light in the field.

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