Still doing hay . Pics

Bruce from Can. · Aug 11, 2014

Dragged the old wrapper out, and wrapped up 50 bales
Sunday morning. Waited till late afternoon to start balding
again as hay was none too dry. Got done with the aid of
moonshine at 10:15 pm. Here I am shortly after 7:00 am this
morning, with 98 more bales to haul home and wrap. Bruce

Geo-TH,In · Aug 11, 2014

I live in Indiana. I've never seen any farmer around me wrap their hay. Nor have I seen a wrapper. Guess I don't get out much.

They just leave it in the field, usually off to the edge. Haul it when needed.

randallinMo · Aug 11, 2014

Bruce, I've noted that you wait up to 12-24 hours to wrap some of your silage bales. Here in Missouri we've always been advised to wrap our silage bales within 2-4 hours after baling. 'Idea being that too much heat develops within the bale causing too much proliferation of the "bad" bacteria. Have you ever seen any difference in the quality of your wrapped bales wrapped "later"? Also, what kind of silage baler do you use? Do you have to move the tractor forward after wrapping each bale or do you move them with your tractor and some kind of grabber? I too wrap silage bales with an individual bale wrapper. It's slow. Trying to get every thing wrapped up immediately after baling makes for some "long" nights. Maybe I should think about switching from beer to "moonshine" (like you do) to make the job go quicker!

Anonymous-0 · Aug 11, 2014

Have you noticed the cows showing a preference for eating the wrapped bales compared to the unwrapped bales. Or is this done mostly to reduce spoilage of the hay bale over winter.

Bruce from Can. · Aug 11, 2014

As long as bales get wrapped within 24 hours , I see little difference in feed quality. I have a grapple on the loader, and move the bales most times. Took a pic of the moonshine that I was using last night. Almost like daylight last night Bruce

4010 puller · Aug 11, 2014

What kind of round baler do you use?

Alan K · Aug 11, 2014

Nice pictures. Was just thinking in the first picture.... "Man..if that was only filled with cotton candy lol" Don't know why that came to mind.

Bruce from Can. · Aug 11, 2014

CaseIH BR 454 silage special

Bruce from Can. · Aug 11, 2014

Cows love these bales and milk better on this kind of feed. There is very little leaf loss, and you can save higher protein feed, and therefore feed less grain. Bruce

uncle henry · Aug 11, 2014

ya"ll have that happy grass

Anonymous-0 · Aug 11, 2014

I am baling 2nd cutting later today

1130Leo · Aug 11, 2014

We did 8 acres of second yesterday, barely got dry enough, the weather here looked nice, but it was certainly not hay drying weather.

Tx Jim · Aug 11, 2014

(quoted from post at 07:31:52 08/11/14) Here I am shortly after 7:00 am this
morning, with 98 more bales to haul home and wrap. Bruce

Bruce
I never realized you were so nice looking!
:lol:
Jim

calf · Aug 12, 2014

How dry does the hay need to be wrapped, or how wet can it be? Do you use some sort of moisture meter, or go by 'feel'?

Thanks

Bret4207 · Aug 12, 2014

I imagine that we'll be haying into late September or October. Hard to get decent dry hay that way, but you do what you gotta do.

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