Rake wise, I start with a 9 wheel inline. I try to set the haybine to swath enough to where I can catch 1.5 11 foot swaths each way, then when that dries out I can flip it with a 256 NH bar rake to get the bottom side dry. May have to flip again, thats why it hurt so bad being down a man.
None of them in yet. The rain didnt appear, slight chance end of this week so I'm going to cut again today. We've got around a hundred staged to go in the barn. What I try to do is move and stage rolls on gravel pads in front of the barn where they are going. Let them sit there for a week or so monitoring moisture. Sometimes hay that was dead dry going into the bale will sweat enough it will act crazy in a tight stack of round bales. Not many things worse than going past a barn that you just stacked 300 rolls in and smelling one that you know is getting hot. Nothing to do but pick through them til you find it, and usually by then its spread to some others.
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