Haying season is here!!

donjr · May 25, 2012

Time for hay. Got about twenty acres up last week before the rain, now it looks like we've got a week with only a chance of a shower about four days out. Cutting big time, now!

JD Farmer · May 25, 2012

Nice crop ya got there.....

We are hitting it hard again this weekend too...

Mowed a bottom field tonight that had standing water in it last year.....not this time, we are dry now.

Anonymous-0 · May 25, 2012

bout time ya got off yous azz and started doin sumtin. yous were spendin the last couple of days lookin at girly pics down in tales...shame, shame!
PS nice pics!!

northvale-PA · May 25, 2012

the T-storms are hard to predict. Will they stay north?

Ralph Bauer · May 25, 2012

What are you cutting there, oats? And what is your equipment besides the JD 1460 and the turbo tedder? A JD4020 O.S.? Baler? Just curious. Ralph in OK.

Keith Molden · May 26, 2012

We dropped about 20 acres of orchard grass clover mix on Thursday and another 20 today hopefully. Hay is about 60% better this year than last here in S.E. Ohio. No rain in sight till Monday night. Just my thoughts, Keith

donjr · May 26, 2012

Yah, but that one was as hard as a drill bit an twice as ugly---

donjr · May 26, 2012

It's orchard grass, and loaded (where it came from?) with red clover, about four feet tall and getting thick. I cut with a 1460, which I bought new, tedd with a 4400TT Pequea, which is a great machine, and bale with a New Holland 644 or a 14T JD if we do some square bales for someone. The tedder is a real secret to good hay. It'll cut drying time by almost half and decrease sun bleaching. It'll bring a premium price at auction, and has saved a lot of good quality hay for us.

And if the t storms run north, youse guys will get them. But I'm just south of the state line.

donjr · May 26, 2012

By the way, it's only a 2520. First and only tractor I bought new, in 1970. Not as big as a 4020, handles better, and just as tough, and uses a lot less fuel. Perfect size for most jobs.

James Howell · May 26, 2012

Looks like a good cutting; lots of hay in those windrows.

Do you test the crude protein on your hay?

Thanks for sharing your photos with us.

tomstractorsandtoys1 · May 26, 2012

My dad bought a new 2520 diesel in the spring of 1973. The engine blew up in about 20 hours,dealer took it back patached it up and sent it back and it lasted about 50 hours.Dad decided to take a look at the engine and discovered that the tractor had been in a flood.In the fall of 1972 hurrician(sp?) Agness flooded the northeast and the dealership he purchesed it from was underwater.It was in Chambersburg PA.Dad talked to another dealer who gave him a phone number for the branchhouse in NY.The original dealer picked up the tractor and a complete new engine was installed after that it was a great tractor.

The Red · May 26, 2012

WOW big time cutting! Indiana neighbors had a great first cut last week.

Haying season is here!!

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