Freeze Dried Hay

Part Time Pete

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Mowed some bedding hay for a friend this morning - a little chilly on an open station tractor, but nice view
Pete
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I am cutting 10 acres today/tomorrow.Still green despite numerous freezes.it will freeze dry in about a week.
 
Here in Central NY a week without rain is pretty rare, but it looks good through Sunday. Probably ted it out tomorrow and Saturday, and roll it up Sunday. The biggest problem is going to be getting them down the hill - it's steep and wet
Pete
 
Bale only going up hill. When you let the bales out, gravity will take them down the hill for you.
We sure have had our share of rain since May. Lets hope the moisture levels dont continue like this, or you will be waist deep in snow by New Years in western NY
 
Just mowed about 6 acres of 4th cutting orchard grass, completely unheard of for us in central Maine, and it's better than second crop usually is. It may not get dry enough for baleage, but we can just feed it out, no bad weather forecast for the next week. As for Bruce's idea on baling uphill, he can come retrieve one of ours that ended up so far into the woods that we cant even get to it.
 
I like your chrome stack. I had a JD 100 hp 4230 with soundguard cab for a time. It was 400 cu in and the outlet pipe on the muffler was 1.5 dia while the inlet was 4.....because that engine with a turbo is a popular 125 hp 4430 and needs the area to breathe.

Since GM apparently learned from Dodge (RAM) that engines are air pumps and if you want to pump air you need large diameter pipes, I felt that I had had enough of that muffler. So I got on the www and found a 4' 4 chrome pipe and installed it. The soundguard did it's job.

It was a 1979 model and I bought it in 2005 with 3900 easy (mowing) hours and a full cosmetic restoration.....beautiful. So for 4th of July parades and such, I would adorn it with American flags and move along with the procession, in a high enough gear so that you could hear every piston SMACK.....beautiful sound and I can't tell you how many thumbs up I got from bystanders as I went by.

I sold it one day to a local guy that farms the area for a living. He told me the first thing he did was to put a (OEM) muffler back on it. I just had to laugh!
 
Mark,
It's an IH 966 that he added a turbo to - it does have a nice bark when you work it. It was in the low twenties when I started it - no preheat, block heater or ether - started right up. I'd love to have that engine in an Oliver 1855
 

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