The water hazard

showcrop · Jun 25, 2014

Do you have problems with bodies of water attracting hay bales? Sometimes it seems I can't go near a stream or pond without the thrower launching one into the water. It is always when I am in a tight corner chasing the end of a windrow. One yesterday and one three days before. Last year a friend was rolling hay on a hillside when he stopped to eject a bale. He kept watching over his right shoulder for it to roll out, when he finally looked the other way, there it was just going into the pond at the bottom. He was sure, of course, that he had it dead square against the hill before opening the gate. He said the extraction was very time consuming.

Anonymous-0 · Jun 25, 2014

Yep! first bale of the year turned hard left and in the pond. Still there for the frogs to sit on.

Nancy Howell · Jun 25, 2014

James dropped one on a slight incline and it started to roll. Luckily, it didn't have enough steam to make it all the way to the creek. Don't know that we would have been able to get it out.

Anonymous-0 · Jun 25, 2014

Folks from West Virginia tell me that the reason all their hay fields are above the barn, is so when they bale the bales roll down the hill into the barn.
One time the vind blew the barn door shut and they had a mess when the round bales come crashing thru it.
Seems as if all farming has its hazards.
I was talking to a man from the flint hills of Kansas and he told me that when baling there were sew many flint stones that it would get the hay on fire in the baler. I think he wuz being funny.

James Williams · Jun 25, 2014

Ive got a friend in the mountains of WV,and he has a problem with the bear rolling the bales down the verrrrry steep hills

jimmy

Heyseed · Jun 25, 2014

Not water, but I watched a round bale pick up speed heading right for the fence along a busy highway. I slowed down to watch (and make sure I wasn't going to be part of the mess) but for some lucky reason that bale made a hard left and stopped just next to the fence. It made me wonder how often one does get away and cause real damage.

Bob Bancroft · Jun 25, 2014

Wasn't there a link to a story, maybe on here, a while back, about a bale rolling onto a road, onto a van, and killing some sort of famous person? Seems like it was the British Isles, and maybe a band member?

Anonymous-0 · Jun 25, 2014

Sumone frum Louisiana said there were so many alligators that when bailing hey one had to be careful and not git one in the baler cause when it came out the discharge shoot it might carry it off into the swomp.
I think he vas joshing me aboot that one.

just another old geezer · Jun 25, 2014

Just launch the first bale of the season in the
pond and that will break the spell for the rest of
the year. Lol

The water hazard

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