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WyoDave

09-29-2006 17:03:08

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Just aboug done haying my 3rd cutting and then I'll do a couple fields of 4th to call it a year. The rows in this field are just a touch under a mile long and it seems all you do is drive and drive and drive.
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Glen in TX

09-30-2006 07:57:43

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Re: 3rd Cutting Pictures in reply to WyoDave, 09-29-2006 17:03:08

Sure looks and sounds like a good hay year there for you Dave. I'm glad for you. Lots of haygrazer and last cutting going down here too now and even some grass for hay after the rains but summer is making a return for another week so maybe they can get it put up.

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Cliff Neubauer

09-30-2006 07:28:49

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Re: 3rd Cutting Pictures in reply to WyoDave, 09-29-2006 17:03:08

I'd love to have some hay fields like that. Our average hay field is around 5 acres and we have several that are around an acre.

I'm somewhat sirprised how many newer sickle mower conditioner's are out west, around here just about everything sold in the past 10 years or so is a disk mower.

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WyoDave

09-30-2006 11:23:25

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Re: 3rd Cutting Pictures in reply to Cliff Neubauer, 09-30-2006 07:28:49

I cut a 5 acre field for a neighbor one time. By the time I got my mower in the field and made 3 trips around the outside like I always do I was more or less done cutting. I don't think I could hardly get it turned around on 1 acre. There are quite a few self propelled disc mowers becoming popular in the area right now, but I don't have that kind of $$$.
David

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mtgummibear

09-30-2006 06:41:54

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Re: 3rd Cutting Pictures in reply to WyoDave, 09-29-2006 17:03:08

Every time I read your posts I think about my siutation here in Gerogia where alfalfa doesn't grow well.

On occasion we need/want a little alfalfa for the old horses and we pay $20.00 for a 65 pound bale, which works out to more than $600.00 a ton.

So if you want to send a couple of those semis this way, I'll act as your agent, for a modest cut of the profits of course. (LOL)

Of course I don't know if there would be much profit left after trucking from Wyoming. I've never figured out what it would cost to get it here.

Larry

ps I also miss the country. We moved here after 15 years in western Montana (Bitterroot Valley).

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Mike (WA)

09-30-2006 14:45:13

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Re: 3rd Cutting Pictures in reply to mtgummibear, 09-30-2006 06:41:54

You might oughta think about that Georgia deal, Dave- 20 tons on a semi at $600 per is $12,000. Fuel at 3 MPG of $3 diesel ends up being a dollar a mile, for the 4000 mile round trip. You could sell it off the back of the truck in a day or so, if you find a spot and put up some ads at the farm stores, so no middle man. A couple of trips a year, in the winter, when I hear Georgia and nearby Florida are pretty nice places to spend a few days, for a Wyoming-ite. Take the missus, nice little vacation (or two). Couple of guys here grow a zillion Christmas trees, and pack a selection of varieties and sizes into a refer container and send it to Hawaii every December. They have it delivered to the lot they have on a lease on Maui, near their time share condo, and sell them out of the back of the container, then spend a couple of weeks in the sun, and bank a considerable amount to boot.

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WyoDave

09-30-2006 10:57:59

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Re: 3rd Cutting Pictures in reply to mtgummibear, 09-30-2006 06:41:54

Actually a lot of this hay heads east. Hay brokers and freighters get a bigger share of that $600, but the 3rd and 4th cuttings will often be bought here and shipped east. I don't know for sure where it all goes, but I know hay from my place has been to both Maine and Florida, so it covers some territory. The hardest part is it has to be loaded in enclosed semi trailers or fully tarped tight to go that way because of what the humidity does to it as you travel east. When you ship hay out here you just set it on a flatbed and tie it down.
David

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37 chief

09-30-2006 07:36:31

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Re: 3rd Cutting Pictures in reply to mtgummibear, 09-30-2006 06:41:54

You sure pay a lot for alfalfa. I am never going to feel bad again, for paying $12-$13 for 80 lb bales. Stan

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Bill in Ala

09-30-2006 05:03:04

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Re: 3rd Cutting Pictures in reply to WyoDave, 09-29-2006 17:03:08

Great pics and what a great place to live. As soon as I saw the pics I said that looks like land somewhere between Hawk Springs and Torrington off hwy 85. Been in the area a few times. Man I love the wide open space of Wyoming.

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WyoDave

09-30-2006 05:20:37

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Re: 3rd Cutting Pictures in reply to Bill in Ala, 09-30-2006 05:03:04

Yep, you're getting pretty close. I farm just a few miles west of US 85 in that area. David

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Allan In NE

09-30-2006 05:35:26

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Re: 3rd Cutting Pictures in reply to WyoDave, 09-30-2006 05:20:37

Dave,

Do you run a farm that lays on the side of a hill running up towards the west off the Veteran highway?

Saw a feller running a NH bale wagon a couple of years ago when I was over in that area trying to buy farmland; wonder if that was you?

Allan

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WyoDave

09-30-2006 10:53:03

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Re: 3rd Cutting Pictures in reply to Allan In NE, 09-30-2006 05:35:26

Could have been. My place is off the Veteran highway to the south. It stretches from about 6 miles west from Torrington to 10 miles west from Torrington so I cover a lot of ground I definately have the most small bales in the area, but there a few smaller places running balewagons in the area as well.
David

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Allan In NE

09-30-2006 05:10:29

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Re: 3rd Cutting Pictures in reply to Bill in Ala, 09-30-2006 05:03:04

Boy, did you ever nail that one. :>)

'Member where the old Silver Tip Cafe stands? I was hatched just a few miles east of there.

Allan

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IaGary

09-30-2006 04:15:32

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Re: 3rd Cutting Pictures in reply to WyoDave, 09-29-2006 17:03:08

Has most of the hay been hauled out that you sold?

Great looking alfalfa.

Do you have to spray for weevals or aphids out there?

One last question how many bales did you end up with?

Gary

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WyoDave

09-30-2006 05:18:08

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Re: 3rd Cutting Pictures in reply to IaGary, 09-30-2006 04:15:32

Some of the hay has been hauled away and its really picking up right now. Its moving at an average of 1-2 semi loads a day right now and will for the next couple weeks. No real need to spray this year, but some years I end up spraying quite a bit of it between cuttings. I don't have a final bale count yet, but I figured I've cut pretty close to 3000 acres over the summer. 2300 of mine, and about 700 custom. I would guess my total bale count will be right at the 100,000 giver or take 5000.
David

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IaGary

09-30-2006 05:25:06

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Re: 3rd Cutting Pictures in reply to WyoDave, 09-30-2006 05:18:08

Dave

Thats pretty amazing.

Thats 1000 bales a day average for 4 months if you take Sundays off.

Gary

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WyoDave

09-30-2006 05:28:52

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Re: 3rd Cutting Pictures in reply to IaGary, 09-30-2006 05:25:06

1000 bales would be a small day. I'd say I can bale(if all three balers are running) 3500 bales in a morning. Not to mention from June first till October first I am doing something with hay every day unless it rains, and I think we had 3 of those days this summer.
David

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hayray

09-30-2006 04:11:14

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Re: 3rd Cutting Pictures in reply to WyoDave, 09-29-2006 17:03:08

just round baled some of my third that has been laying there for two weeks, cold and wet here. How do you irrigate that, that looks pretty thick for 3rd. How much fertilizer a year are you using and do you need to apply lime out there?

Ray

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WyoDave

09-30-2006 11:02:43

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Re: 3rd Cutting Pictures in reply to hayray, 09-30-2006 04:11:14

Its irrigated with gated pipe and then just flood irrigated. No need to lime here as we have the opposite problem actually. Our soil is alkaline. This is alfalfa grass mix, so I don't put down any nitrogen, and we have very high potassium levels naturally, so I really only hit it with a pretty heavy phosphorus application mainly for the alfalfa. I have the local fertilizer company complete soil tests and do the application for me, so I don't know what they put on this field exactly unless I dig through the records and find it.
David

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Allan In NE

09-30-2006 03:59:42

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Re: 3rd Cutting Pictures in reply to WyoDave, 09-29-2006 17:03:08

Hi Dave,

Lookin' good! I'm in the same process. Like you, I've got some good and I've got some bad.

I'm just gonna keep going until the weather puts an end to this little game. :>)

Allan

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Badly Bent

09-30-2006 03:55:48

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Re: 3rd Cutting Pictures in reply to WyoDave, 09-29-2006 17:03:08

Nice pics, Dave. I'd love to get out your way and see you one of these days (and take a look at those tractors). Keep those pictures coming. Tim

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in-too-deep

09-30-2006 01:23:21

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Re: 3rd Cutting Pictures in reply to WyoDave, 09-29-2006 17:03:08

Mile-long? Wow. I chiseled a field that was about 1/2 mile and almost went nuts waiting to turn around. I 'spose cruising at 8 mph it would be a little easier.

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WyoDave

09-30-2006 05:24:49

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Re: 3rd Cutting Pictures in reply to in-too-deep, 09-30-2006 01:23:21

Yeah, it seems all you do is drive. A round takes about 15 minutes I'd guess, and so then in an hour you only make 4 rounds and in a 5 hour morning you only make 20 rounds. Seems to drag on, but when you actually figure acres you're cutting a bunch of them. Every round is about 3.5 acres I think.
David

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2x4

09-29-2006 22:28:41

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Re: 3rd Cutting Pictures in reply to WyoDave, 09-29-2006 17:03:08

looks like you need a 13 ft header on the front. What brand & model is your cutter?

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WyoDave

09-30-2006 01:16:11

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Re: 3rd Cutting Pictures in reply to 2x4, 09-29-2006 22:28:41

Its a New Holland 1475 mower with an HS series header. Its a 16ft cut and in heavy hay can work that 110 hp tractor pretty good. I can mow along at about 8 mph in most conditions.
David

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hayray

09-30-2006 16:58:42

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Re: 3rd Cutting Pictures in reply to WyoDave, 09-30-2006 01:16:11

8 mph, that is fast, I did not know a reel and sickel mower could do that. I mow with a disc mower-conditioner and I don't think I hardly ever go that fast.

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JohnNoregon

09-29-2006 21:24:09

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Re: 3rd Cutting Pictures in reply to WyoDave, 09-29-2006 17:03:08

WyoDave what part of Wyo is that tried to grow some peppermint out side of Powell for a few years didnt really get going like it did here in Oregon but it is still up one side down the other not a better time to be had. oh nice pic's good looking country JohnNoregon

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WyoDave

09-30-2006 01:18:08

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Re: 3rd Cutting Pictures in reply to JohnNoregon , 09-29-2006 21:24:09

I guess I'm not real familiar with the peppermint deal. Wyoming is a big state. I'm about 20 miles from the Nebraska border along the North Platte River, so Powell is a pretty good days drive from here.
David

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Nebraska Cowman

09-29-2006 17:28:43

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Re: 3rd Cutting Pictures in reply to WyoDave, 09-29-2006 17:03:08

Oh that looks nice! I already unhooked my cutter, have a few bales to roll up tomorrow and I'm done. I think I have enough alfalfa but am gonna have to buy roughage or something after the first of the year. One year I wintered the girls on ground corn and soybean hulls.

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WyoDave

09-29-2006 17:35:26

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Re: 3rd Cutting Pictures in reply to Nebraska Cowman, 09-29-2006 17:28:43

Yeah, this stuff will bring a pretty good price in the horse hay market. I have some weedy new seeding alfalfa, and some second cutting that was rained on about 4 times, plus a little carryover hay that my cows will be getting for winter feed. Their roll on the operation is to eat the poorer hay so I can sell only the highest quality hay, and they do their job well.
David

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