A little video

grandpa Love

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Video doesn't show the hills in this field. Not terrible but keeps your mind on the job! This is part of the 40 acres that was a huge discussion over the winter. At one point I decided not to fool with it. But it's turning out good. Will end up with 25 acres of decent hay out of it. Property owner planted some big sunflower and corn patches for wildlife food.
Hay bales
 
Good job.
You are getting very good at hay making.
Better get that hay loader on that wagon to help those 2 young men. LOL
Richard
 
That field does not look as bad as I remember you describing.

Can you get a commitment from owner if you apply inputs, as that will provide results?
 
Dropping bales on the ground makes HARDER work out of baling. I never worked behind a bale loader, but its just another trip across the fields. I've even baled six at a time and went back to the rack to stack them. A pia but still better than loading from the ground,IMHO. You are mastering the hay making operation. gobble
 
Either that hay was super dry or the tedder was digging in the ground. If it was digging into the ground, you'll spend quite a bit of money and time replacing the tines. Raise it up a little, it doesn't have to catch all the hay just most of it. Just trying to help a little Keith
 
That looked pretty good. One thing about baling hay in hill country, as you pointed out, it gets to be a "tail wagging the dog" episode unless you have a tractor heavy enough, and, as others have pointed out, use a slower gear when going down hill. I would recommend making the tractor as heavy as you can reasonably make it. i.e. fluid in tires and wheel weights. If you've already done that, then I recommend a heavier tractor. ($$$$) We pulled a New Holland 77 Hayliner in my day with a 16 or 18 foot wagon behind. For that kind of loading, in hilly fields, it took something on the order of a John Deere A or Oliver 88/Super88.
 
Sorry Grandpa, I didn't know you were raking. I didn't pay much attention only to the tedder. My tedder only tedds so you might be doing ok with it. My grandson has ruined a lot of tines from tedding too low. He is finally 18 and listens to me a little now LOL
 
Ford sounds good, and having made hay on hillsides that doesn't look too bad to me. Your tuning and tweaking is paying off.
 
We did some hay on shares with the owner one year. When the wagon got full rather than change wagons his wife just baled on the ground to finish a patch. We helped pick those few up that day. The next time that got done we left them on the ground. He had to go pick them up and that solved the baling on the ground. IF I had to load from the ground or bale on the ground haying would be over and corn or beans planted.
 

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