Posted by Harold Hubbard on September 28, 2008 at 06:27:33 from (199.232.228.77):
In Reply to: Flooded hay posted by Harold Hubbard on September 27, 2008 at 21:21:50:
The hay is going to be mulch/constuction hay only. We are advertising it as such, FREE TOPSOIL INCLUDED. If I am lucky I will get the value of my fuel and fertilizer back out of it. The landowner paid the neighbor to mow it, but I did the rest of the job. I was really hoping that right after it was mowed, some dirtbag would drop a cigarette! This ground gets flooded at least one year in three, but this is the first time it has happened at a time when there was still a heavy crop on the ground. Most years it will be during spring breakup, so all I have to do is check for debris.
In 1998 it happened just after I finished the first cut. I woke up to heavy rain, and thought little of it except that I wouldn't be able to work outdoors that day. Then the landowner' wife called and said "David just went don to pull your tractor out of the river." "EXCUUUSE ME, that tractor was a quarter mile from the river." "Not any more." He got the tractor, but I had two rakes, a tedder, and one hay wagon that sat through it. From the shore you couldn't see the tedder at all, the rakes were just a slight disturbance in the water, and the wagon was in up to the bottom of the deck. After the water went down, we cleaned everything up, repacked the wheel bearings and greased the snot out of every thing, and it seemed to come through it all right.
I have already told the landowner that I will never do this again. If a heavy crop gets flooded it will be bush-hogged or plowed under, and if he thinks otherwise, somebody else can deal with it. He travels a lot on business, and if he had been gone that week he would have come back to find it all knocked down, and my equipment long gone.
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