Think I'm Gonna Quit

Allan in NE · Sep 6, 2009

Trouble with making prairie hay is that there is a heck of a lot of prairie out in this country. :>)

Darned bales are beginning to roll to the bottom of the hills and into the gulleys when I open the gate.

Heck, it will take me two months to haul in all this hay anyhoo.

However, if I run out of hay this year, I'm gonna be pizzed, 'cause 400 ton sure ought to hold 'em. If it doesn't, I live way too far north. :>(

Allan

keh · Sep 6, 2009

Looks like you are catching up. What kind of grass makes prarie hay?

Drouth in August hurt second cutting of hay here. I'm going to wait and hope for September rain.

KEH

Fergienewbee · Sep 6, 2009

Man, I sure love that country. I'd give anything to have seen it when the country was brand new. John Madson, a nature writer, wrote of big blue stem so tall, soldiers could tie it over their saddle's pommel. Cows could only be found by watching the grass move. Drove the early settler's wives to maddness, all that sky.

Larry in tree-studded Michigan

Erik Ks farmer · Sep 6, 2009

Boy you sure make a guy yearn for wide open spaces! My biggest patch here's just over 40 acres.

lloyd in sc · Sep 6, 2009

Allen you're killing me... Raised up in buffalo grass country, (Kansas) sure miss all that sky! Here in SC it gets light & gets dark. Sure do miss sunset & sunrise.

Plan on visiting Nat'l Grasslands in Neb. someday...

Dutchman · Sep 6, 2009

You DO have some HILLS ... I see you are leaving the duals on... are you having any trouble with them on ??

Very nice pictures AGAIN ... Always enjoy your posts...

THANKS for sharing ... Mark

Allan in NE · Sep 6, 2009

This is an old wheat farm that was drilled back into grass many, many years ago as it is totally land-locked.

Only way in and out is across this canyon and there are no roads.

Mostly bluegrass and crested wheatgrass. The broam has taken over the low areas.

Allan

Allan in NE · Sep 6, 2009

I can't tie 'er in a knot like I used to; really have to stay awake to keep the tires out of the tin.

I really like it this way tho; sure makes for an easy ride across this rough country.

Allan

keh · Sep 6, 2009

Thanks. I'm curious about native grasses. Never been able to get a satisfactory answer about what the native grasses here in SC were. Pretty sure broomstraw was one, and it's name lists the only use for it, unless some wildlife use parts of it.

KEH

Allan in NE · Sep 6, 2009

Dunno,

This grass kind of spoils a feller. Cut and bale without waiting a week for it to dry. Not to mention bale in the daytime. :>)

Allan

Dutchman · Sep 6, 2009

I never gave it a thought that the ride would be smoother ...
Mark

Bill(Wis) · Sep 6, 2009

I think they're rolling off the edge of the earth, Allan. I see that pesky curvature in your photos again. There are times when curvature is fine ;>) but not while making round bales.

Bill(Wis) · Sep 6, 2009

There! See it? That curvature. You're sitting on top of the world. That would make a good title for a song but it's not good when you're trying to make round bales. No sir.

Absent Minded Farmer · Sep 6, 2009

Wow, I didn't know Ertl released a '66 with white duals & yellow fronts. Neat! - Mike

Bob Kerr · Sep 6, 2009

Sounds like you need a well earned vacation, Tell you what I'll do! You can come out this way to western Indiana and cut my winter firewood and I will go out to your place and haul bales. We have rain called for everyday for the next week.

the tractor vet · Sep 6, 2009

Good grief that is flat land farming and if you call them hills don't come over here as over here when ya go to kick out a bale ya got to stop and think just how to turn the baler when ya back up BEFORE YA open the door and kick it out or it may end up a long way away

John B. · Sep 6, 2009

That was good!

Anonymous-0 · Sep 6, 2009

We have some land here that does not vary a foot in a 1/2 miles

Anonymous-0 · Sep 6, 2009

I was only that far west once in my life. We joked: It's not the edge of the earth, but you can see it from there.

Jerry/MT · Sep 6, 2009

What a sweep of ground you work, Allan!

Old Roy · Sep 7, 2009

By cracky Allan you got all kinds of toys don'tcha?
Ya never said they were remote control !!

2x4 · Sep 7, 2009

I remember driving west in New Mexico on old Rt. 66 & seeing the sign "Next 40 miles downhill". It might 've been but it would've taken a transit to tell it. That 40 miles looked flat as a pancake to me.

Kippster · Sep 7, 2009

Ya know Allen, if you needed someone to help you play with your toys.....er...I mean give you a hand working sometime, just send me a plane ticket and pick me up at the airport. Imagine how much hay you could make if you had one man on the rake, one on the baler and one hauling them off the field!!

NEKS · Sep 7, 2009

Age must be catching up with you a little. See them duals are still on the baling tractor. That makes your ride more comfortable, but that baler still feels every bump. Keep the pictures coming,love them. You need to put up hay around here. Trees, brush, ditches, and terreces. Big fields get farmed, Whats left gets put up for hay. You would be yelling, give me some open space.

P and R Pete · Sep 7, 2009

This is a fascinating thread.
The extent of my travels has been up and down the east coast. I yearn to take a big lap around, which won"t be until after I retire. I want to see that wide open space, what I read a writer call "the floor of the sky".

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