Baling Late

rusty6

Well-known Member
I baled hay with the 2090 and 847 baler yesterday evening from abut 8 to 11. Got pretty damp by the time I quit. Shot some video and took some pictures of an outstanding sunset. It was nice working in a cool comfortable cab after sweating it out on the open Massey Super 90 and hay rake all day.

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Dampness not a problem? Many years ago, about 2005, we had a bad drought here in the mid-Atlantic
area. Wife and I baled alfalfa starting when the sun went down and the dew came up. Only way to keep
the leaves on. But that is very unusual around here as the humidity is normally too high.
 
any real hay operation here in the southwest won't even turn a baler wheel until the suns long gone. I have gone through 3 counties and elevations from 8100' to 4900' in ONE NIGHT!!! trying like pilgrims in unholy land to get raked and baled before work the next morning.
 
Nice.

I was swathing my barley at 4:00 this afternoon, stems were wet, weeds were wet, tires were wet.

We just had all that rain a couple days ago, I was impressed I stayed on the surface of the field, didn’t get stuck.

I hope with the barley in windrows, the ground can dry out some if the sun hits it, so the barley and weeds can dry out after that.

The dew neck er really left today, even tho it was mostly sunny and a bit of a breeze.

Just so humid and so much water trying to vent out of the ground.

I walked out barefoot a couple minutes ago, grass is so wet it like it rained .05”, tge dew is so thick.

Boy did I have to drive slow. It should have been swathed last week, but with 5.3 inches of rain...... anyhow the pigeon grass really set in now. Was tough cutting.

Hope to do the oats tomorrow, that has less weeds so should go a bit faster. Then goodness for tile, the oats field used to have 14 little dips through out the 15 acres, it
would be a swampy mess. Got it tiled a decade ago, what a difference that made!

Paul
 
With the old square baler I always knew when it was too tough. Shear pins started breaking. But this round baler will work no matter how damp the hay. I never
know how far to push my luck with the moisture levels. I've surprised myself before and it turned out fine. Also had some greenish oats baled and they got really
hot inside after a few days. Turned out ok though.
This baler does not work well if it is too hot and dry as it will not feed past the pickup but build up a wall of hay in front of the chains. No fun unplugging
that mess in the heat.
I wish tiling was an affordable option here but I don't know of anybody that does it. We already get enough bad press if we dare to dig a ditch to drain a low
spot in the field.
 
Not much gets baled here in the daylight . More this year then any because the dew point has been so high a lot of years dew point will be 35 degrees with a low temperature only getting down to maybe 55 then you have to just bale basically like baling at noon except it’s dark
 
I have baled past midnight several times, not to try
to keep the leaves on because it was too dry, but
just trying to catch up. Because my hay is nearly all
wrapped, the moisture isn’t much of a concern.
Rusty, you must have one heck of a time rolling up
a straw bale with that baler if it doesn’t like dry hay.
Or perhaps you never bale straw ?
 
Are you saying the round bales wrapped wont heat up and mold if the moisture is too high? I've only done the old rectangular bales and baling them with high moisture is a disaster waiting to happen.
 
(quoted from post at 03:25:26 07/30/20) Are you saying the round bales wrapped wont heat up and mold if the moisture is too high? I've only done the old rectangular bales and baling them with high moisture is a disaster waiting to happen.
No, I'm saying I have been lucky so far that none have molded from heating. Most of the time there is enough dry material in the bale to even out the overall moisture level I guess. I won't haul and stack them at the yard until they have sat in the field a while just in case they get really hot.
Bruce, I've baled straw with no problem with this NH chain baler. But again, if its too hot and dry it can give problems feeding. The shorter and broken straw from my IH axial flow combine is worse.
 
Enjoyed seeing the video and the bison. Broke up the stress in my work day. What does a big bale of grass hay bring up there ? About $40 here right now.
 
(quoted from post at 09:26:30 07/30/20) Enjoyed seeing the video and the bison. Broke up the stress in my work day. What does a big bale of grass hay bring up there ? About $40 here right now.
Thanks for watching Bill. I enjoyed making it. Just on a quick search here I see big round hay bales range from 75 to 110 per bale. Glad I don't have to buy any at that price. I should probably sell the cattle and the hay at those prices. :shock:
 

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