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Kelly C

06-20-2006 05:26:16

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Good thing my life didnt depend on me making the right guess on cutting hay last week. I dont think it could have went worse.
How many times do you see a couple chances of rain and decide not to cut only to have the best weekend there ever was for hay?
Happens to me alot.
So I decide to roll the dice and cut about 300 bales on Thursday.
Friday we get a pretty light sprinkle maybe just a little more than that.
I figure " No big deal I will just Ted er up with the 55 and save it like last time".
Sat I run up about 1pm to ted the hay. Its a over cast day but no rain. As soon as I pull into the field. And I kid you not on this. I mean as soon as my wheels hit my land. She opens up like a bucket.
So I hop back in the truck and head home. get 1/2 way home the sun comes out. ACK.

Late sat to Sunday morning it poared down.

Monday after work I go to ted the hay. Heck this stuff looks like crap but is just dry enough to bale. So I rake it up and bale dropping on the ground. Finnished after dark. Figured I could pick them up after work today.
Weather radar shows a wall of rain coming this way. So much for this 300 bales.

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davpal

06-20-2006 22:06:37

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Re: Boy is that a mess in reply to Kelly C, 06-20-2006 05:26:16

We went down to our other farm a couple of weeks ago to plant beans and I had everything ready for saturday morning "go time". It was a nice morning, few clouds, nothing serious. I got the fertilizer down there, in a wagon, 40 bags of seed in the back of my pickup, two tractors, quad , covered trailer for a base vehical and all our supplies we could possibly need. Big tractor fitting ground, dad planting with his tractor and planter all going good and I noticed some black clouds coming from the north and the wind was out of the north. It was happening so fast I couldn't even prepare for it. Started sprinkling. I was getting the 40 bags of seed put in the trailer like a marathon runner, dad was trying to cover the planter, polaris 6x6 sitting out with about 10 bags of seed and some fertilizer in a trailer behind that. We were in deep trouble fast. I ran for a tarp but had forgot the tarp straps for the fertilizer wagon. The wind blew about 50 mph, it hailed and we got drenched and were sitting in the headland of a muddy field with all our stuff. Windows were open on the pickup, quad was out and running getting wet, tractor cab door and windows wide open and I had to stand there and hold a tarp on a gravity box and water was coming out the shute on my feet like a river! We went 2 steps forward and 20 back. We finally mudded our way home, changed clothes, cleaned everything (big job) it poured again but two miles away it was dry. Next day (sunday) it was beautiful, ground dried out and we fit and planted it that day. I wish I had stayed in bed and been lazy saturday. In other words I know exactly how you feel and feel your pain! Later, better days ahead.

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RickL

06-20-2006 15:34:52

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Re: Boy is that a mess in reply to Kelly C, 06-20-2006 05:26:16

thats the stuff that I always have rolled and is alwayds sold by next morning,but putting that type in small square rarely pays off for me anyway.

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Kelly C

06-20-2006 21:54:05

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Re: Boy is that a mess in reply to RickL, 06-20-2006 15:34:52

Not going to sell those. MAMA said I can buy a couple of cows. So I will be feeding them out to my own soon as I get some fencing and the heffers of course. Besides it cost me plenty to use my rounder. Should have just rolled them. Didnt have it up there at the time. Sort of killing my own plan.

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RickL

06-21-2006 10:23:32

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Re: Boy is that a mess in reply to Kelly C, 06-20-2006 21:54:05

you will always have some of that hay regardless some years. I don't own a round unit they are all around me so its way cheaper to have it done in my case. Cause it gets me a man a new baler and net wrap, I can stay in the shop setting up which pays better in those times of haying.

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Errin OH

06-20-2006 08:12:28

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Re: Boy is that a mess in reply to Kelly C, 06-20-2006 05:26:16

I am getting better at guessing. 2 years ago was the worst. If it rained at all in the state, it was over my field. I literally sat in the road and watched (planning my revenge on a few weathermen) it down pour on a 3 day old cutting and not a drop fall on the corn behind me. Lost, I mean turn black and rot in the field lost, almost all of that year's hay because 10 "forecasted" sunny days would turn into a reenactment of Noah�s Great Flood (playing every 3-4 days). Last year I cheated and mowed just before the rains came, then bale it up in the 3 days before the next storm. Sweated getting many a bale in before it rained again. This year I made all of first cutting with only a third getting any on it at all, and it was only enough to lighten it up a few shades. Sold it right out of the field. Had it all, but 25 bales, sold before it got picked up.

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souNdguy

06-20-2006 08:11:24

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Re: Boy is that a mess in reply to Kelly C, 06-20-2006 05:26:16

Works like that for me and painting. it is sunny and calm till I pull my compressor out.. then it clouds and the wind kicks up..

Soundguy

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Matt from CT

06-20-2006 11:14:43

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Re: Boy is that a mess in reply to souNdguy, 06-20-2006 08:11:24

Have to chuckle at the paint commment...

Last night I look on the radar screen...nice line of heavy rain & t-storms across CT & MA around Hartford (I'm on the east end of the state).

I go out and side dress my sweet corn in the garden figuring it'll be nicely washed in.

Line of storms just upped and disappeared at the county line...not even a drop of drizzle!

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centralilbaler

06-20-2006 05:36:55

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Re: Boy is that a mess in reply to Kelly C, 06-20-2006 05:26:16

Sounds like a page from the book of my life. Except that this year, i finally made the first cutting without any rain on it!!!!! !

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paul

06-20-2006 05:32:10

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Re: Boy is that a mess in reply to Kelly C, 06-20-2006 05:26:16

This has been a tough year. The past 3 weeks, forcast is 5 days of rain out of the next 7. Always.

Doesn't turn out that way, but enough rain to keep one guessing. Gotta shut down the computer, rumbles are coming.....

Wish I had a job where I could be as (in)accurate as a weather person & still have a job.....

--->Paul

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j cook (iowa)

06-20-2006 18:05:11

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Re: Boy is that a mess in reply to paul, 06-20-2006 05:32:10

I feel that it would make an interesting "promotion" for a local TV station, at a county fair for example, if they would set up their weather forecasting staff, on some sort of elevated platform and offer the crowd the chance to pelt the forecaster with tomatoes for example, while they did their forcast each day!

Just wishful thinking , I know, but think of the possibilities?

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