Hay 2021

[indyjohn]

This is one I follow. Uses all old equipment. Interesting cat, quit being an Architect.

 

[indyjohn]

We use a loader tractor. Better reach and visibility.

Post a pic when you get a chance.

 

[cmann250]

I’m usually on the baler tractor and not the loader tractor, so this is about all I have.


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[cmann250]

Tedding out some second cutting alfalfa today.


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[tmschuller]

My second cutting is looking promising! Trying to find some to do square bales or do rounds and sell them. Still a couple weeks out. This rain we had a few days ago really helped.

 

[cmann250]

As requested, the grapple. I pull an 18 bale Kuhn’s MFG accumulator behind the baler. 6 bales wide and 3 bales deep. Fits well on 102” wide trailers. The guy running the loader pushes the end to even the back up, swipes the side to even it up, and then sets the hooks.

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[WebSnyper]

Know nothing about this at all, but just for understanding, what is the approximate monetary value to a square bale and one of the big rounds?

Just trying to understand the economics involved.

 

[Cameramonkey]

Pretty typical year for us. We’re getting late on first cutting. About 3000 squares and 100 rounds so far with 2/3s of first cutting done.

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curious. What's in the white tank?

 

[cmann250]

Know nothing about this at all, but just for understanding, what is the approximate monetary value to a square bale and one of the big rounds?

Just trying to understand the economics involved.

Square bale- $3-7 Round bale $30-60


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[cmann250]

curious. What's in the white tank?

Preservative


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[BigRed]

When I go up through the mowing field,
The headless aftermath,
Smooth-laid like thatch with the heavy dew,
Half closes the garden path.

And when I come to the garden ground,
The whir of sober birds
Up from the tangle of withered weeds
Is sadder than any words

A tree beside the wall stands bare,
But a leaf that lingered brown,
Disturbed, I doubt not, by my thought,
Comes softly rattling down.

I end not far from my going forth
By picking the faded blue
Of the last remaining aster flower
To carry again to you.


-Frost

 

[shibumiseeker]

We pay 3.50-4.50 for square depending on which cutting, if we pick it up out if the field. Our guy uses a grapple so we get the furthest bales. He charged us $50 for a large round bale. I’ve got a lot of land but it is all timber and the couple of open acres we have is pasture.

 

[Leadeye]

I miss the smell of sweat and hay..... It has been too damn long.

I don't. It's tough work even when you are young and in shape.

 

[Leadeye]

Same here. I remember the struggle to toss a square onto the wagon (yes, I started that early). Then up into the loft to unload, hot and dusty!


Am I crazy that I've been talking to the OG about going all Green Acres on her, quitting the city life and starting a haying business that caters directly to the horse people???

I grew up ag and that included working in the hay fields and barns. You and OG are tough people, but I wouldn't try it at 65 where I am. Best of luck though.

 

[Leadeye]

We pay 3.50-4.50 for square depending on which cutting, if we pick it up out if the field. Our guy uses a grapple so we get the furthest bales. He charged us $50 for a large round bale. I’ve got a lot of land but it is all timber and the couple of open acres we have is pasture.

Fortunately I have no critters to take care of, I had all the animal husbandry burned out of me growing up. Hunting and gathering is what I do now.

 

[indyjohn]

I grew up ag and that included working in the hay fields and barns. You and OG are tough people, but I wouldn't try it at 65 where I am. Best of luck though.

You are right Leadeye as I am at 58. So unless I win the lottery, it's all a pipe dream.

But if I did.... I would do the small bales to an accumulator that sets them in a group that can be picked up by a hay grapple and set on a hay wagon and taken to a shed to be unloaded by another grapple. I never have to leave the seat! Like noted above.

 

[Leadeye]

For me as a young man hay season was pick up the bale and toss on a wagon, then take the wagon back to a barn and toss into a loft, then stack. It's amazing to me today that at the end of all that I still had the energy to get cleaned up and go into town for a night of fun. Then start all over again the next day.

To be young and foolish again.

 

[Leadeye]

You are right Leadeye as I am at 58. So unless I win the lottery, it's all a pipe dream.

But if I did.... I would do the small bales to an accumulator that sets them in a group that can be picked up by a hay grapple and set on a hay wagon and taken to a shed to be unloaded by another grapple. I never have to leave the seat! Like noted above.

You guys do a good job with the firewood.

 

[indyjohn]

For me as a young man hay season was pick up the bale and toss on a wagon, then take the wagon back to a barn and toss into a loft, then stack. It's amazing to me today that at the end of all that I still had the energy to get cleaned up and go into town for a night of fun. Then start all over again the next day.

To be young and foolish again.

So in the modern days, friends would commend you on getting your steps in.

 

[cmann250]

Picking them up off the ground and throwing them on a wagon is miserable. I’ve never understood why people did that. Before we bought this accumulator, we pulled a wagon behind the baler.


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