finally got the haying done

Leon R · Jul 13, 2012

after a month delay in getting the first cut done due to bad weather it finally is in the shed. Cut it on a Wednesday and flipped it and baled on the Sunday. Hired a couple of neighbor boys to help with the picking which sure made that part of the job a lot easier, especially with the temperature creeping up.

xfarma · Jul 13, 2012

Thats always a good feeling.

James Howell · Jul 13, 2012

That is some nice looking hay.

Thanks for sharing your photos with us.

wolfman · Jul 13, 2012

Congratulations. Always a good feeling to get-er-done. 3000 more bales & I'll call it a year. Should be done by labor day this year - last year quit in November! So dry around here (s.w.Pa) that not much second cut. Cut 6 acres of second a week ago and got 82 bales.

northvale-PA · Jul 13, 2012

very green 1st cut. Here in SE PA it would be brown this time of year.

Ken Macfarlane · Jul 14, 2012

Ouch, I hope you have a big v-rake.

Anonymous-0 · Jul 14, 2012

Good for you... got the worst of what we had to do rolled just a few minutes before the sky opened up the other day....

Now humor me.... Why do you stack on edge? Habit or does it serve a purpose?

armand tatro · Jul 14, 2012

The theory is mice won't cut the strings when hay is stacked on edge. At least this is what i have been told. Downside is makes it a lot harder to walk on. When Dad was farming he and the neighbors always stacked twine strings up and I don't recall that many cut strings. Armand

randallinMo · Jul 14, 2012

Nice hay. Good color. 'Sure do like your barn. Now that thing is built hell for stout.

massey333 · Jul 14, 2012

Lets it breath as the bale edges are not as tight together.That goes back about as far as baling.

Eric Rylander · Jul 14, 2012

Nice looking hay. I like the low trailer, if you are going to drop the bales on the ground it's much easier to load them that way than on a conventional rack you would pull behind the baler.

finally got the haying done

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