Donald Lehman

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Jeff picked up a 12 foot JD 930 discbine over the winter. We gave it the once over today and made a couple of passes around the hay piece to adjust everything. With the crappy weather, we are about 2 weeks late from normal. The stuff is thigh high and so thick a woodchuck would have to eat his way through the stuff. The 1850 has injector pump issues, so the 1650 has to run it this time around. In this heavy tangled stuff that's a load for a 70 hp tractor. Gonna take a little extra time, that's all. Gonna be plenty of hay in the first cutting, that's for sure.
 
Sounds like a good crop...that's a lot of mower for a 1850 as well.We're making hay here in Southwest Washington.The pic is looking out the cab of my White 2-88.
Paul
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Nice looking crop. Ours will be round bales and certainly not dry. I expect they will be some of the heaviest/highest moisture round bales we have ever put up. Gonna try to wedge seeding a field in between mowing and baling this weekend, too.
 
Are you in the midwest?If so I really feel for you guys having deal with all the rain.I do all dry hay,some for me but mostly for the local horse/livestock market.
Paul
 


More rain here today Don. On our clay that means even if it stops right now it's still 7-10 days before we can start! Everything is late, but that life in Northern NY I guess.
 
In my area with decent hay, a 9 foot is a big load for a 70 hp tractor, it really needs at least 80. Can imagine your 12foot will really test the 1650
 
pms, those are regular size small squares, right? Are you working alone and don't have someone to tow behind the baler and stack on a wagon as you bale? Do you go back out alone and stop and pick each one up yourself? Or is there a machine you use to pick them up?
 
I have a 920 with rolls and it will sometimes work my 4020 and my 4020 is tuned up more than the average 4020. I cut in 5th gear but my sons always run in 6th. I sure would hate to go back to a sickle machine. My 920 is in the shop right now getting all new turtles as the original ones have worn completly thru on the humps. Tom
 
I cut 15 acres last Saturday( only field I could travel on) and it gave a 140 hp tractor a workout with an 11 footer. I ended up with 33 5x6 bales. I seen where square bales in Ohio brought $65 each at an auction,hay is scarce for sure.
 
I have a JD 930 with the impeller conditioning, I usually run it with a JD 4440. In heavy hay and some hills it will make them bark. Running it with a 70 HP tractor would be slow going around here.
 
Nice looking hay, pms- where are you in SW Washington? I'm near Chehalis. Some nice hay being put up here as well.
 
I mowed the first field of hay tonight- nine foot JD 920 on a 4430. I can usually go about as fast as I want with that setup, but we had another 0.4 inches last night, and I kept the speed down to avoid slipping the front tires on the damp soil. Going to need every bit of dryish weather we are supposed to have over the next three days to get it dry enough to square bale.

Next week forecast is 30-40% chance of rain every day, highs in the mid sixties and cloudy.

Not a single acre of corn or beans planted within two miles of my place, maybe even farther.
 
Yup, I know what you are saying. We are sandy soil here. Raining all night. supposed to be sunny today (Thurs.). Gonna mow all of the first first cutting. Pending breakdowns, of course. Go some seeding to do this weekend, too. (pending breakdowns) Gonna be a busy weekend. Gonna be some wet round bales, but it's gotta get done.
 
Your on clay aren't you? They got our beans in around may 25th just before it started raining. There is about 180 acres of beans about 1 1/2" tall and some 2" tall corn. We need some warm weather to make it grow. We are on a sandy loam but have a few strips clay running through them.
 
Hopefully we will have the 1850 up and running shortly. The injector pump was never quite right when we bought it and it's now leaking fuel into the oil. The dozer is done and out of the shop, so as soon as the hay is done the 1850 will be the next project. The good thing about it is that the injector guy is only 3 miles away.

Jeff bought the 930 because that was what was available and affordable. We knew it was big for the 1650, but figured on using the 1850 most of the time. We have one steep hill to mow. We'll see how that goes with the 1650. We only do about 30 acres of hay for the young stock, so if it takes us a bit longer to mow, we can get away with it.
 
No like small squares. Said there was only 15 bales at the auction and 2 people wanted them!
 

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