Hard work around the kingdom

Had some hard work to do this weekend. Started by baling some oats hay I cut a while back that got a couple small rains on. It's not as bad as it looks, but not salable. I'll get some calves to feed it to. Used my 400d and 200 baler, the wagon under the rack is also a case. 200 bales is a lot more work now than it used to be. Lol








That's Jeff driving the tractor, my wife even helped driving the truck to pick up the bales that didn't fit on the wagon.






Even Baxter helped.




Saturday I had to work in the morning, but started cutting oats in the afternoon. Had some carb issues to work out, but after that the 955 swather worked great. The oats is pretty poor.






Sunday I worked on the combine some. The bracket that holds the lower sieve in the front somehow got lost and allowed the lower sieve to get destroyed.




I was able to get a sieve at my salvage yard luckily. So Sunday after finishing the swathing I fabbed up a new holder.




That should work. Going to be a busy week getting the rest of the combine ready for the oats. Still have to put the head on and a few other things to do. Hope to be able to combine next weekend.
Oats cutting

Always a lot to do. Before you quit for the day, be sure to patch the tire on the hay wagon. Stan

That looks familiar. Is the 955 Heston built? The field I recall from my youth was smothered with chicken manure and grew tall and lodged. Pa made crop lifters to fit our Heston and I finished cutting that neighbor?s field as dad started custom combining for another neighbor. Ironically I found some Gaeterman lifters and we put them on the binders at Junkshow and harvested that same field for threshing last year some 35 years after the chicken manure crop.

Yes was gonna say HEY WAGON HAS A FLAT

That oat hay has me itching just looking at it. LOL

great pictures!!!!

I'm waiting the tire out, I think it will get tired of waiting for me and fix itself. That's my plan anyway.

The oats were poor before you cut them, is that what you mean? What do you mean by poor?

Thin and low yield. The stuff
I cut for hay wouldn't have
been worth combining, but
between the oats and grass
would have been decent hay.