trying to get flooded hay off of field

parisspringstom · Jun 17, 2008

Well I had cut about three acres of hay down and then six inches of rain came and flooded the field. It put cut hay in the creek,trees, and swirled it into piles in the field. I have been trying to bust up the hay piles from the flood and get them dry enough to bale up and get rid of. I finally got them broke apart but it will be days before they get dry enough if it does not rot first. What a mess. I'm glad i did not cut the whoe field. Does anyone know of a better way to get rid of this flooded hay mess.

Rettchr · Jun 17, 2008

Probably chop it. This could be into chopper boxes for hay silage or just blowing back on the field.
My field is about the same size. It is not flooded, but it does have standing water. I was in 4-wheel drive while cutting and left ruts! I hope to get about half of it off as OK bales, but the rest will probably be mulch.
I think both of us better hope for second cutting for hay.

Michael Soldan · Jun 17, 2008

I have used the loader with tines and shoved it up in heaps, let it dry up and burn it.

sd pete · Jun 17, 2008

Put the hay buck on and burn it.

parisspringstom · Jun 17, 2008

All good suggestions. If I can not get it dry enough to bale I will probably have to rake it into two or three piles and burn it. With the dirt and debris in the hay I would not want the cattle to eat it anyway, but it might make garden mulch.

RobMD · Jun 17, 2008

can you break it up with a loader and use a tedder in it all the way up?

Anonymous-0 · Jun 18, 2008

I baled wet hay like that once to get rid of it. I opened the hay tensioners almost all the way and it worked pretty good, except it used a lot of twine because the number of bales was way up.

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