latest in year for baling hay

formerly ny bill · Nov 22, 2023

Picture is from Nov 17, just got them. I made 5 round bales of 4th cutting alfalfa that my neighbor wrapped for me. Bales will feed the Herfs for a month. The old chain baler worked flawlessly, after the belt baler kept clogging up. 826 Hydro is a great baler tractor.

Chester5731 · Nov 22, 2023

Nice setup!! I would like a similar tractor for doing such chores. How many Herefords do you have? We have a half dozen and adding to them.

formerly ny bill · Nov 22, 2023

I have only 3 Herefords- a cow and 2 daughters, housed in a freestall that used to hold 110 milking
Holsteins. Cow is half Holstein, left over from the dairy cows.

Part Time Pete · Nov 22, 2023

Looks like nice stuff. Are you in NY? I'm in central NY and the latest I've made dry hay was November 7th. Mine was freeze dried though

Geo-TH,In · Nov 22, 2023

Things are so dry in my hood, farmers are baling corn stalks and bean stalks.

formerly ny bill · Nov 22, 2023

yes, follow I88 toward Binghamton. We aren't that far apart.

DeltaRed · Nov 22, 2023

I too have an 826Hydro.Yep,it's the best baling tractor there is.I bale 12 000 to 15,000 bales with it annually.

rustred · Nov 22, 2023

thats what i like about them old chain balers, nobody wants them and can buy them cheap and bale anything.

rrlund · Nov 22, 2023

Did you use a preservative? If you didn't, you might not be able to feed it up fast enough. I baled some third in September that felt dry to me, but the weather was far from perfect. I never had hay go bad like some of that did. Mold is one thing, but I stuck my hand in and some of it was just black slime. I brought all 45 bales home and just dropped them all out in the pastures and let them have at it.

I put 20 in with one herd and 25 with the other. They ate a few bales down to the ground in a day, but some were still pretty much whole after a week. They flattened everything down, either ate it or laid on it, but that stuff was a mess.

formerly ny bill · Nov 22, 2023

no preservative, it was wrapped the next day.

formerly ny bill · Nov 22, 2023

I used this baler for years, until the sides had holes worn through them in several places. I bought the 650 belt baler while 848 was at the metal shop getting new sides welded in. Repairs took longer than planned.

Richard G. · Nov 22, 2023

I baled fescue in December one year.
Got 3 cuttings that year.
Richard in NW SC

Timmycornpicker · Nov 22, 2023

one year I made freeze-dried hay on December 28th! We'd had an abnormally wet and warm fall. Then it got cold and dry right before Christmas. Too much grass on those fields to leave it go.

Jim in NC · Nov 22, 2023

Haymaking was still happening last week in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Va and NC.

T in NE · Nov 23, 2023

Mid February, I baled some milo stover one year.

T in NE · Nov 23, 2023

Corn stalks are a normal thing to bale 800 miles west of you.
Run a wheel rake through it, follow with the baler.
The majority of what doesn't get baled gets fence put up around it and cattle let out.

Destroked 450 · Nov 23, 2023

Baled these Nov 9th

Latest I ever baled was Dec 7th in the mid 90 s, we had a very mild fall with no frost, I was baling with a open station tractor in shirt sleeves
The next year we had snow in mid Nov

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