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TMay

07-19-2006 17:29:37

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Was baling hay the other day and found out that there is a big difference between 46 and 26 LOL. I was on the wagon behind the baler while wife was baling. Thank goodness the wagon was only 14' long. I finally had to get her to slow down to 1st gear. I will say it was hot about 87. i had the same problem most of you guys had. It would rain about every time I tried to cut. Finally got to cut some. I live in Ky. Well take care stay safe.

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Kelly C

07-24-2006 04:37:29

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Re: not 26 any more in reply to TMay, 07-19-2006 17:29:37

I am 43 now and find I can go like the dickens for short spurts. Did 500 bales my self a couple weeks ago. Thought I did pretty good. But I sure was not worth a crud the next 3 days after. Every thing hurt.
Most times I just take a nice slow pace and rest alot.

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Steve Crum

07-21-2006 04:46:45

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Re: not 26 any more in reply to TMay, 07-19-2006 17:29:37

Just turned 46, Last night I finished 3 weeks of scheduled 12 hour overnight shifts. I did this on a regular basis 20 years ago and didn't blink an eye. This time around it hurts like h**l. The old adage Grandpa always used was 'machines are made to work, man was made to think'. Now as a supervisor I preach that, but it still seems like all this thinking still makes for a pretty sore body at the end of the run.

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Randy as in Randy-IA

07-20-2006 17:56:05

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Re: not 26 any more in reply to TMay, 07-19-2006 17:29:37

WOW ! Is it good to hear that I'm not the only late forty version that's feeling it ! Last year doing hay didn't bother me much at 48 . Now at 49 as the country song goes " I ain't good as I once was but I'm as good once as I ever was " is so true because I can't do anything much more than once now . Just a couple years ago I could work most but not all the younger ones in their twenties at work into the ground but not this year . That work was shovelling concrete , running a 90 lb jackhammer , handling simons forms or moving re-bar . Now I'm lucky to just make it through a hot day . I gotta quit being a supervisor and go back to the labor side and get back in shape ! Sitting in equipment doesn't help either . I just can't get used to this growing old thing . I'd like to find the person that started calling it " the golden years " and shove it down his throat ! Take care ! ...Randy

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unioncreek

07-20-2006 13:11:57

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Re: not 26 any more in reply to TMay, 07-19-2006 17:29:37

I'll be 48 this fall, still do as much physical labor as I did when I was in my 20's. Just go about it a different way, I guess I'm using my brain now.

Bobg

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bvomark

07-20-2006 07:16:39

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Re: not 26 any more in reply to TMay, 07-19-2006 17:29:37

I have been lucky enough to recruit some 16 year old boys to help with the small squares the last two years. I normally only cut and bale between 200 and 500 bales at a time and do that enough to get around 2000 bales a year. I have found that even though I'm 45 I can keep up with the 16 year olds for that small amount of hay.

About 3 years ago I couldn't keep up with them. Then I found out I had diabetes. After getting my sugar down to the proper level I now feel 20 years younger and have much more energy and stamina.

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pcy1066

07-21-2006 12:33:47

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Re: not 26 any more in reply to bvomark, 07-20-2006 07:16:39

i must b the youngster here im 44 what i could do 20 years ago about makes me pass out thinking about it now, i spent to many years with my blood sugar over 700 and blood pressure 190 over 120, im not blind i just cant see, done lost a little toe and have no feeling below my knees when i got married in 1983 i weighed 350 now im down to 250 , not looking foward to getting much older

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old

07-19-2006 20:06:09

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Re: not 26 any more in reply to TMay, 07-19-2006 17:29:37

Yep just got home 30 minutes ago from doing some of that and I'm a few years older then you. Sure seemed easier back when I was 18. But I also don't have to handle the bales I just run the tractor and fix what ever brakes. Some how my bad back and bales don't mix and boy would my doctor be mad if I did throw bales around. I have a 35 lbs weight limit for the rest of my life

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Cliff Neubauer

07-19-2006 19:24:02

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Re: not 26 any more in reply to TMay, 07-19-2006 17:29:37

You may not be 26 anymore but you probably did more work than most 26 year olds would have been willing to do. I am 26 and a week ago we (my brother, dad and I) baled and unloaded a little over 3,000 bales of alfalfa by hand in four days and it was a pretty good work out.

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RickL

07-20-2006 15:33:24

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Re: not 26 any more in reply to Cliff Neubauer, 07-19-2006 19:24:02

did 2700 some day and half straw,accumulator system, you never stop really m,ake diffeerence. It was alos all on wheels. they will definetly spoil you. If we handle ten bales all year now by hand thats pushing it. When you do get another helper to move trailers you can really move the bales. I have 13 trailers just load and tarp if need 200-260 to load

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Cliff Neubauer

07-21-2006 08:58:55

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Re: not 26 any more in reply to RickL, 07-20-2006 15:33:24

I"m going to get pretty serious about getting an accumulator for next year. This year we bought a better baler and rake and by next year we want a disk mower conditioner and an accumulator. This year we went from a 60 stroke per minute baler to a 100 stroke baler and it didn"t take very long with the bigger baler to realize that the bigger baler really isn"t made for hand stacking on racks. Right now my plan is to build a copy of an Agway or Haymaster 12 bale accumulator and grapple.

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RickL

07-21-2006 11:08:51

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Re: not 26 any more in reply to Cliff Neubauer, 07-21-2006 08:58:55

the agway is the old netherexe units. I had neighbor that seen one last year at the hay show and said they parked it I guess. I didn't want to drag the bales that much I guess and if they are in rougher fields have heard they try to roll the bales. If you have low areas like crossing a waterway for example ai geuss they want to try roll the bale which I could see that happening pretty easy. Just do your home work first okay. i run a hoelscher unit and after couple modifications I love it we never stop now,my second choice would be a Kuhn unit since i have used the bale basket wagons in the past. I use the old donahue implement trailers for my hay trailers plus can use them the rest of year for alot of other things. There is a New Holland 570 baler and accumulator system in the Iowa farmwer today for sale now if interested. Come watch my unit if you want will be running next week again,we getting rain right now where it came from don't know. Mowed small patch down last night I like the bales all on edge also better they don't slide around near as much that way also I found out.

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Cliff Neubauer

07-19-2006 19:23:12

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Dachshund

07-19-2006 17:50:49

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Re: not 26 any more in reply to TMay, 07-19-2006 17:29:37

I know the feeling! I'm 44 and helped the neighbor yesterday and today with baleing 10 acres. His Swartz accumulator wasn't working right, so he recruited me and my bad knees to ride the thing in 100* heat to kick the bales over so they wouldn't bind. I jumps (crawls) up there, cane and all, and lets him drag me around for 3 hours. Then we load up four racks with hay and unload them with his bale squeeze (10 at a time). He got 650 bales off of 10 acres of CRP native grasses. Got the rest in this morning and unloaded the last one at about 2 pm today. It was 106* out when we stopped. Glad we're done with hay for this year!

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