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Posted by Hal/WA on June 18, 2003 at 22:04:49 from (208.8.194.51):
In Reply to: My hay seems a little too warm posted by ole on June 18, 2003 at 06:52:57:
I have read the other posts and thought I would add an idea. We often had problems with rain on our baled hay before we were able to get them picked up out of the field. So what we would do is stand them up on end and lean them up against eachother, making "tepees" of 2 to 4 bales. Then if it rained, maybe some of the water would run off them and there would be maximum area exposed to the air for evaporation and minimum are exposed to ground moisture. I sure hated 140 pound wire tied bales that I ran into occasionally. They almost always were too wet. It probably helped some, but we still used salt sometimes between bale layers in the barn. Wet hay can burn by spontaneous combustion. And such a fire is very difficult to get all out--usually involves removing every bale from a stack. Good luck.
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