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Allan in NE

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At the field at 4:45

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Raked until 8:30. Not enough dew; it's starting to get dry.

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Baled until 11:45. Too darned dry; should have quit at 9:30, but I'm gettin' sick of doing hay. Wanna get this over with. Maybe tomorrow we can finish this up IF THERE IS A DECENT DEW! :>)

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Allan
 
Tired? ;) not like you have livestock to deal with, combine to finish, whatever you do to pay the bills besides the field work, and other equipment repair work....... those windrows look so uniform and straight, looks like you could drop the bales at the same spot each way !

Everyone is cutting a little at a time here, a lot of it has gone to seed, whil'st mowing the lawn, saw the strangest thing on saturday, neighbor and longtime dairyman's tractor came out of his road to the state road with a wooden hay wagon and 1/2 a load of idiot cubes, that used to be a real common thing to see, usually with 2 wagons hand stacked over the top, had to stop and watch it go by, he's got a nice 315 1 owner sq. baler, was still doing those until recently, but I see a new JD round baler now, after helping him get a bunch of rounds and large squares last year, I can see forgetting those small squares, 'cept for the harse people.
 
Hello Allan, would you please tell me why you need the moisture from the dew to bail? I have never been around bailing hay or much of anything else. You have me curious. Thanks for all the pictures. They teach me a lot.


Thanks, Darin S.
 

Know the feeling about getting it done, Allan. That hay dosen't do the animals any good if its not baled.

My computer has been down so I'm not up on the latest belt baler vs chain baler debate. I've expressed my preference for belts. My general rule: If it's made after 1990 it's probably a good baler. Also: If you are limited to JD or NH my observation is that the NH dosen't have it all over the JD, but it's hard to beat NH for hay equipment. For a good model of JD that would meet your needs and be somewhat reasonable in price, a JD 535 would be great. Don't know the good NH models. Now is not a good time to get hay equipment IMO, I would wait until fall or winter when fewer people are buying.

KEH
 
This is alfalfa.

After it is cut and cured, it is VERY, VERY fragile. Especially in the heat of the day. All ya have to do is "bump" it and the leaves will fall off.

You have to handle it when it is "tough" or ya just end up grinding it.

I put 28 feet of swath together (big windrows) and go just as fast as the baler can swallow it. But sooner or later, it just gets "too dry" to work.

Think I'm gonna plant some grass and then I'd be able to bale during normal hours. :>)

Allan
 
Allan, man, those are some wide open spaces you got out there! Don"t see anything like that in Pennsylvania, especially Columbia County where I live in the Allegheny foothills. Here, you go a mile or two, and everything is different. Looks like out there, you go 200 miles, it"s still the same.
You"ve put up some nice pictures!
 
The whole "wanting a decent dew" thing blows my mind. Up here in central MN I curse the dew and humidity. Seems once you get the stuff dry enough to bale and get rolling the dew is setting back in or the clouds are building up.

Seldom can you run the lights and the baler at the same time.. especially when you turn the corner towards fall.

I understand what your up against, it`s just a different difference..
 
Couldn't agree with You more Brokenwrench! Here in NE IL ya need to do a lot of praying and running to get it in the barn before it gets wet!! Last year first cutting is the only time I EVER remember baling "too dry" hay. :)
Larry NE IL
 
Yepper, Alf is a different animal. If it gets dry during the head of the day and you get a HAIL storm through it will knock the leaf off two. Happend to my first cutting ;{
 
Here in Wi, like the Mn boys, we curse the dew and hope it gets dry enough to bale. Here it has been a great year , just finished first crop and more than doubled last years production, hang in there man! We had four years of drought and just broke it this spring. knock on wood looks like we will get a second crop this year
 
its no big deal calm down if it gets you thastworked about don't do it anymore. In my area have same situations just opposite. Never bale befor noon hardly befor 1 in the afternoon. Rake in the late mornign to start. It just yearly thing does'nt make it any different getting worked up. You only doing one cutting right, I starting seciond hoping for two more yet, just different areas have different situations. Or make it simpler gett another fellow to run the rake or baler and be done with it. thats what i usually do even with my grapple setup plus he is on the payroll anyway doing machine setup with me in the shop. Life to short to worry about day to day projects. Personall y the belt baler will make your baling alot less shatter problems from what we see here. the chainers are basically scrap in this part of the country. Nothing personally here just different area and different ways of doing things for different folks. If it suits you thats alll matters anyway,But in this case I really think you need to have some one try few rounds with belt unit and you make the call. razor blades not issue here haven't shaved since high school years
 
Just finished first cutting today about a month late . Not much jucie in the hay in the last field or two . If the weather guessers are right this is the first week so far this season without rain in it but were gona get the 90`s and high humitity , ya wont see me settin any records this week .
 
Allen,

You really just get one cutting from your Alfalfa?

I know we only cut our brome one time, down in KS, but the Alfalfa we get at least 3, usully four cuts.
 
Alfalfa takes 6" of water per cutting. We just flat don't get it out here.

Has to be irrigated to get more than one cutting.

Allan
 
Coming home yesterday I saw something that looked odd. A tractor with a bale spike on the front end loader pulling 2 bale wagons well loaded with small square bales.

I'm looking at getting a small square baler because those bales sell better to horse, sheep, and goat people.
 
Time to get yourself a big square baler and trade your old IH in for a 225hp or larger. Then you could "GET ER DONE" in a hurry. There are some vidos on youtube of people baling with those monsters and its simply amazing how fast they can clear a field.
 
Looks like you got to see a pretty sunrise. Here in OK we have to wait til the dew burns off; about noon of later.
 
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