Ellis Kinney
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I wish I could rake a hayfield in Kansas that is a half a mile long and only four corners. I live and farm in Northern Ky. hilly and every field has a dozen corners. Ellis
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redforlife
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The bigger the feild, and the further you can go in a straight line, the more time consuming it becomes, and the more boring it gets. It also doesn't seem like your getting much done when you rake forever, and you don't get moved over crossways in the feild very far.
My longest straight line stretch is 1/4 mile. But that's all slowed way down since I rake it with a single side delivery. Two passes to make one wind row. Kind of makes it the same as going 1/2 mile with a wheel rake, minus one turn around per pass.
I've spent some long and boring days out there.
I put up some smaller curvey patches. If they are wide enough to go around the outside, and have enough left in the middle to make straight rows rather than continuing to follow the curvey outside, I'll do that, and make straight rows in the middle.
My longest straight line stretch is 1/4 mile. But that's all slowed way down since I rake it with a single side delivery. Two passes to make one wind row. Kind of makes it the same as going 1/2 mile with a wheel rake, minus one turn around per pass.
I've spent some long and boring days out there.
I put up some smaller curvey patches. If they are wide enough to go around the outside, and have enough left in the middle to make straight rows rather than continuing to follow the curvey outside, I'll do that, and make straight rows in the middle.
Steven Allen
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Worked on a farm in Eastern KS one summer while I was a grad student. 1st Day, Task 1: hoe 6 rows of cantaloupe. 6 [b:39c7794a7b]1/2mile-long[/b:39c7794a7b] rows of cantaloupe.
mtf
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- Location
- Bottom of the Bluegrass State
It is the same way in Southern Kentucky. Nathan
The bigger dairy farms, the very few left, make nice big alfalfa fields.
Most other hay here is grass from waste land that is a tad too wet to crop farm, or road ditches, and that sort of junk ground. Nothing is straight or even and much is shaded with scrub trees making it hard to dry uniformly.
Paul
Most other hay here is grass from waste land that is a tad too wet to crop farm, or road ditches, and that sort of junk ground. Nothing is straight or even and much is shaded with scrub trees making it hard to dry uniformly.
Paul
Richard G.
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Use to work a field for my uncle many years ago.
Very hilly with a river on one side.
Bunch of little curves and coves in that field.
Was only about 20 acres, but the first few times around it would take forever.
Then when you got all the coves finished, it took no time to go around.
Had a big flatbed truck loaded one day on a slope and most of the bales went off the side.
Richard in NW SC
Very hilly with a river on one side.
Bunch of little curves and coves in that field.
Was only about 20 acres, but the first few times around it would take forever.
Then when you got all the coves finished, it took no time to go around.
Had a big flatbed truck loaded one day on a slope and most of the bales went off the side.
Richard in NW SC
Tom in TN
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- Location
- Southern Middle Tennessee
Ellis,
I live in southern Middle Tennessee. The fields here are also small, hilly, and odd shaped. My roller bar rake doesn't do at all well on the corners. If I'm feeling my oats, I go back after raking a field, and using a pitch fork, I GENERALLY pitch the hay over into the swath that the rake didn't get. I wouldn't have any idea how to deal with a square field.
Tom in TN
I live in southern Middle Tennessee. The fields here are also small, hilly, and odd shaped. My roller bar rake doesn't do at all well on the corners. If I'm feeling my oats, I go back after raking a field, and using a pitch fork, I GENERALLY pitch the hay over into the swath that the rake didn't get. I wouldn't have any idea how to deal with a square field.
Tom in TN
ford1956tractor
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You might appreciate those smaller fields when it come loading time
retired farmer
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It is not as much fun as you think it would be. Fifty acres into a hundred acre field and you wish you weren't doing it.
I had a good neighbor, now deceased, who had a 40 acre field with a real thick stand of red clover. His wife called me one Sunday morning, wondering if I could come over and square bale that field because her husband was sick. Her husband had helped me many times over the years (along with him being my wife's cousin), and I could not turn her down, even though I had a terrible summer cold and felt miserable myself. There was a brisk wind out of the south, and if I was heading south into the wind the clover chaff would blow away from me, but when I turned at the south end of the field and headed north, the cloud of clover chaff just hovered about my head. I'd hold my breath until I thought I was gonna pass out, and then I'd spend the rest of the quarter mile hacking and coughing the stuff out of my lungs. It was probably the most miserable day that I've ever experienced in a hay field, but I would do it again without hesitation for those good neighbors.
MARK ROBKE
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I hear ya- all those extra corners take extra time, mowing and raking. My raking tractor does not have power steering so that wears me out too! Mark. P.S. Do you have cattle?
DMartin9N-2N
Member
Good evening, oldsarge and all: Your comment reminds me, my uncle in Michigan referred to "sections" quite often, and he knew many, many surveyors' terms that I was amazed at! He farmed about 50 miles north of Detroit.
Dennis M. in W. Tenn.
Dennis M. in W. Tenn.
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