Raking hay

Bruce from Can. · Jul 2, 2022

This hay isnt going to be dry enough to keep as dry hay today, but forecast is sunny and nice again tomorrow, so I will wait

Have roughly 40 acres raked once this field is completed, the field near the barn in the picture is 30 acres its self. Want to do dry hay as much as possible this year, as that big barn is empty. And you can see some of the carry over of wrapped hay from last year

Northvale PA · Jul 2, 2022

My son ahead of me on the TO35. I am on the TO20, 2 weeks ago. The hay was dry and we started baling not long after that, about 12 noon. That sky looks bad but it cleared out. It had been windy and got up near 90 degs the day before. I could have baled that evening, about the fastest drying ever.

showcrop · Jul 2, 2022

(quoted from post at 14:58:54 07/02/22)
<img src=https://www.yesterdaystractors.com/cvphotos/cvphoto129479.jpg>
My son ahead of me on the TO35. I am on the TO20, 2 weeks ago. The hay was dry and we started baling not long after that, about 12 noon. That sky looks bad but it cleared out. It had been windy and got up near 90 degs the day before. I could have baled that evening, about the fastest drying ever.

Even after you discharged all that moisture up into the air, when it got to me it was still hot dry and breezy. I posted at that time about how good the drying was.

SweetFeet · Jul 2, 2022

I know nothing about haying... but that sure is a pretty picture.

grandpa Love · Jul 2, 2022

Wish I was your neighbor, we would come help!

Bruce from Can. · Jul 2, 2022

Id sure love to have the help come hauling it off. No matter how big the wagon, they never seem big enough, lol

K Effective · Jul 2, 2022

Hi, Bruce!

I cut five acres of second cutting last Monday morning after work, and it was dry enough to bale Tuesday afternoon. We made 75 solid, dense small bales before 8pm. Yield was hampered by a total of 0.10 inches of rain since first cutting, when we made 470 bales from the same field.

I mowed another five acres this afternoon, also second cutting, mostly alfalfa. The maturity demanded it be cut now, despite a forecast of rain Tuesday, and every day after. I hope this field dries as well as the last!

T in NE · Jul 3, 2022

If we don't get a couple inches soon, second cutting may be the last of our dryland hay this year.
Forecast for the next 10 days is near or above 100 with no chance for rain. Wheat harvest and dryland corn harvest could both be wrapped up next week.

chcase · Jul 3, 2022

Always neat to see your pictures.Just think if that was all done in small square bales.

Bruce from Can. · Jul 3, 2022

If it was all square bales, that old barn would get full to the roof by end of summer. Main barn is 50x80 and the L portion is 40x40. Wears me out just thinking about it .

chcase · Jul 3, 2022

My dad's old barn that just came down this year was build in 1910 and was 50x120 it sure held a lot of hay

Raking hay

Bruce from Can.

Well-known Member

Northvale PA

Member

showcrop

Well-known Member

SweetFeet

Well-known Member

grandpa Love

Well-known Member

Bruce from Can.

Well-known Member

K Effective

Well-known Member

T in NE

Well-known Member

chcase

Member

Bruce from Can.

Well-known Member

chcase

Member

Similar threads