Doing some hay Pic's

After we chopped first cut , and filled silage pit on the home farm,and did some 200 dry bales for heifers on the other place , I still had 27 acers of new seed to deal with. So hired a neighbour to wet bale 4foot six in. by 4foot bales for me. I trucked them back to the home farm, At about a 1000lb each, 11 felt about right on the old truck at one time. It is 4 mile from home place to heifer farm, and we made 187 bales. This was done in the last week of June, another neigbourgh, who wraps was hired to wrap it all up. Slick way to do hay but pricey. Next bunch of photos are picking up dry hay, This was the farm where I was raised. Our faimily had this farm from 1903 till the settling of my fathers estate in 2010. As to his wishes it was sold, The new owner has built a summer home by the lake, that is the house in the pictures, and there is also a pic of our old barn, built in 1855. I can truck 16 bales at a time 4x4 dry hay, and this is a 25 mile trip one way, But I get to cut the hay as an exsentionof the new owners lawn care service, so the price is right . And it is nice to see the old home place agin. It was just a lovley day down by the lake picking up bales , thought I would share. Bruce

Looks like some really nice hay.

The 4x4 bales are also easy to handle.

What is wet baling hay?

Beautiful homeplace by the lake.

Thanks for sharing your photos with us.

James, wet bales are cut one day and baled the next, and wrapped in streched plastic to seal out air , and allow fermentation to take place, thus creating silage. Bruce

What Brand is the tubeline machine?

I did some wet hay about 20 years age in single bags. Way to much work but sure liked the feed.
I think I'm the only one to every try, no silage in our area.
Great pictures.

Thanks for the information.

Just learned something new.

Look how that loaded track is compacting that field. You ought to load itby the approach.

All that is getting compacted is the long stubble, the truck was empty when parked and did not move again until loaded. The ground is pretty dry and hard. Bruce

Beautiful! I'll be dog goned if Canada doesn't look better and better! Why did your dad want to sell? They ain't making any more dirt, and I'm struggling to find some to pass down to the kids.

Tractor plus bale is 16 psi on the ground. Truck plus bales is 70 psi. Do whatever you choose.