Posted by Bruce from Can. on May 02, 2021 at 03:33:33 from (70.51.53.119):
In Reply to: Barn cured hay posted by SVcummins on May 01, 2021 at 23:38:45:
I still have a hay dryer in our dairy barn. We used to put small square bales on it. Our barn is 55 feet wide and probably 40 feet high at the peek. We could easily store 8,000 small squares and not be right into the peek of this barn but always up to the shoulder, with nothing stored on the threshing floor. That was where the forage and kicker wagons went over winter. The dryer worked really well, down side was the bales of damp hay weighed 25-30% more than dry hay bales going in. Coming out the bales lost a ton of weight, and the strings were loose once the hay was dry. With the fan running and the mow stacked full, the air coming up through the hay would billow out your pant legs if you had loose fitting pants. I would run the dryer fan for a month, and never had any mouldy hay. Getting perfect quality dry alfalfa hay here is next to impossible, and the dryers made sense. We quit small bales, and went to wet wrap round bales. I picked up the false floor sections with the skid steer and stood them on end against the wall, so I can store big round straw bales 3 high with the skid steer now.
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