I'll Try Again

Allan in NE · Jul 16, 2008

No one showed up to run the hay rake for me, so let me try this from a different angle.

Anyone here wanna come gather up 180 big, heavy bales of alfalfa and stack 'em fer me? Ya only gots to move 'em 'bout three to four miles.

NO pay involved, but it'll do ya good to get out in the country air. :>)

All done baling for this round and I'm tired of looking at hay. :>)

Allan

Vito · Jul 16, 2008

Allan,
No pay is OK ,but not even a meal? LOL
Vito

Allan in NE · Jul 16, 2008

Yeah, maybe your're right; we should stop and eat.

Notice that I'm getting that "thin-whispy", "Nebraska-Summer" look. Don't recognize that guy in the mirror anymore. :>(

Allan

sd pete · Jul 16, 2008

Enjoy the open air. I just came back from southern Mississippi and open space looks like it could be a rare commodity in the future. Some people live like ants.

oklahay · Jul 16, 2008

Sounds like a great offer but I guess I had better stay in ok and finish the hay I have on the ground. Got in on a really good deal. Spent five hours and two breakdowns cutting another five raking and baling for a neighbor and might make 15 rounds.

How is the hay crop that way this season? Pretty good here.

P.S. I almost forgot: I HATE TERRACES.

IaGary · Jul 16, 2008

Sounds like your in the hay Allan.

That should take you thru the winter.

So 3 or4 miles. Does that mean truck and trailer or tractor trailer?

Is there any chance of a second cutting out there?

Gary

jose bagge · Jul 16, 2008

My son is leaving Portland Or by bicycle today riding across country to DC- I'll tell him to stop by and lend you a hand.
Expect him in about....September. he's pedalling as fast as he can

Jim H. SW-PA · Jul 16, 2008

I ran into the same problem you have. Rather than hauling the hay, I came up with a feazable solution

Some of the hay I had was for sale so I opened up a Cow / Horse diner and the locals would bring in their livestock to eat. the field makes a good recreation area so it's kinda like a picnic to the animals, and they seem to be happier as they don't have to stay at home all the time.

To get a charge on each meal the animals eat we weighed them before and after they ate subtract that from the average a bale weighed and walah pretty close. If they lost some while eating,[You know made a patty?]weigh that too and subtract that from the first weigh in. You may loose a little profit on that dinner but you will have many happy costumer's that will gladly return their animals.

If you can get them to stay for supper the other benefit you get is the fertilizer they leave in return, kinda like a tip.

My animals seem to really enjoy their company. [I walk them over with my 4 wheeler}, or my son does as he likes to run it too. They are so happy knowing they are going to meet new friends I think they could actually go themselves.

Allan in NE · Jul 16, 2008

I've got the 1066 with the duals hooked up to the hay sled. Got to cross one steep HUGE-AZZED canyon. :>(

Really doubt the chance of a 2nd cutting. Stranger things have happened tho.

Where did ya say I was supposed to buy those extra cows? :>)

Allan

IaGary · Jul 16, 2008

I got 15 or so I want to get rid of. You ready for a road trip?

Gary

r john johnson · Jul 16, 2008

If I lived closer, I'd bring my fancy rig and have it done in a day.

John

Jrry · Jul 16, 2008

or is it hay Allan. Alfalfa Hay. You're just too far away from everybody.

Allan in NE · Jul 16, 2008

John,

We gotta talk. I need your brain.

Here's the plan: Next year I wanna either buy or build a front mounted V-rake to put on my baler tractor. I work all alone and just don't have the time to be doing two separate operations, especially fighting the dew issue like I do.

Just a two sided kicker affair that will reach out and pull two windrows together and shove 'em under the tractor.

Ever hear of such an animal?

Allan

sammy the RED · Jul 16, 2008

Allan,
No pay is OK ,but not even a meal? LOL
Vito

My Grandaddy always said: "You must feed the help". :x

Steven f/AZ · Jul 16, 2008

180? That's it?

We usually have around 800 of the things to haul, but thanks to the drought this year we only have 286, waiting on the CRP to open up and hoping to get enough out of that to save what's left of the cow herd...

Hotflashjr · Jul 16, 2008

If you pay my way out there from Mass. I will gladly give you a weeks worth of raking and staking. Better than sittin in this office all day!

Allan in NE · Jul 16, 2008

Yep,

180 left to haul/stack.

Allan

r john johnson · Jul 16, 2008

I'll do a little looking. I'm sure thats already been done.

John

keh · Jul 16, 2008

Concerning the V rake in front, search back issues for Farm Show magazine. A few years ago there was an article that bay a guy who had made one. Basically you mount the rakes on the front end loader and devise a method of swinging them over in line for transport and adjustment of width of the windrow. Problems I could see in operation: Don't think you could weave any to keep the bale even in size, leading to bales bigger in the middle. Also I couldn't visualize more than an 8 wheel v rake. If you have thin hay, you would be baling small windrows.

On the other hand, you would save a lot of trips over the field.

KEH

Mike (WA) · Jul 16, 2008

Last time I helped somebody out (combining for 2 weeks near Spokane), the transmission went out on my van, and when I got home, promptly got laid off from my job (not because I was away- just a RIF). Don't know how much more charity work I can afford. . .

Anonymous-0 · Jul 16, 2008

I think I saw one of them on a FarmShow video- some fellow in Canada made it.

randallinMo · Jul 16, 2008

Allen, there was an article about a man in Texas in the "Hay and Forage Grower" magazine about 1 or 2 years ago that had rigged up exactly what you are talking about. He however ran a small square baler. I'll see if I can find that article and get back to you. I called him and talked to him about it. Nice fella. I just simply cannot remember his name.

Superman66 · Jul 16, 2008

Allan:
How about a picture of the canyon/obstacle to hay hauling? I appreciate all your pictures.
S66

Anonymous-0 · Jul 16, 2008

You can check out www.bootsma.com for some ideas. They have it on a swather.

Also I would think Claas or Kuhn might have something for over in Europe where they have all the front hitches.

JoshuaGA · Jul 17, 2008

(quoted from post at 22:29:55 07/16/08) John,

We gotta talk. I need your brain.

Here's the plan: Next year I wanna either buy or build a front mounted V-rake to put on my baler tractor. I work all alone and just don't have the time to be doing two separate operations, especially fighting the dew issue like I do.

Just a two sided kicker affair that will reach out and pull two windrows together and shove 'em under the tractor.

Ever hear of such an animal?

Allan

Allan, if you can get me a few pictures of your rake front and rear and a picture of the front of your baler, I will see if I can come up with anything for you.

JoshuaGA

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