ot haying season

[pokey]

getting there, about half way.


oh, and the supervisor.

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[Chuck 100 yd]

Looks like work to me!!

[Modoc ED]

Looks like work to me!!

or a fire hazard waiting to happen

[AJMD429]

Need to get a harness for that doggie - pull those bales up the slide...

[pokey]

Looks like work to me!!

or a fire hazard waiting to happen

oh man, don't even think that!

[pokey]

Need to get a harness for that doggie - pull those bales up the slide...

i've been told i resemble the grinch, more than once.

[JerryB]

That is some good looking grass hay what kind is it?

[Sheepman Dave]

We've been dodging raindrops the last week, we're late finishing our 1st cut.
My sons & I are some tired hombres! But we've got 750 bales in the barn & that's a good feeling.

[BigSky56]

Pokey, Ive been swathing and round baling for a week should finish the first cutting by saturday cause rain is coming on sunday. danny

[pokey]

That is some good looking grass hay what kind is it?

just pasture mix, fescue,orchard grass,timothy the usual suspects.

a little late cutting but still good color and sweet smelling. it'll do.

kinda hot for here low 90's. really wears me out, that's one reason i left AZ.

just me and my 15yo son. the wife tries but mostly just drives.

we'll get her done though, no worries.

[Old Savage]

used to do that as a kid. that looks like about 15 min work.

[pokey]

used to do that as a kid. that looks like about 15 min work.

that's just the tip of the iceberg.... uh, heatberg?

i used those pics cuz the supervisor was in them.

[HEAD0001]

Ground Hog hunting after hay season is definitely one of my favorite times of the year. The round bale sure has made the job considerably easier. We still do some square baling(from 500-2000) bales a year. But those are all sold before we fire the baler up., and they are sold in the field, and I also learned to get paid before we bale them. Tom.

[don Tomás]

used to do that as a kid...

+1 Man, all of a sudden I'm itching all over...

[Rusty]

Makes me want to sneeze.

[Sixgun]

Nice lookin' hay--(and nice looking barn and dog)--send about 60 bales over. I have some hay burners here that want to turn the hay into dark colored piles.

How many cuttings do you boys get up there in Wa.? We always get three and sometimes 4 here in Pa. We just got our first several days of sunshine in a month and the hay people are "making hay while the sun shines. ---------Sixgun

[Old Shatterhand]

Noone still making haystacks in the field, and loading the wagons by hand with hey forks? We used to do that when I was a boy in the sixties. Later we filled the wagons with a tractor front loader.

BTW, nice dog!

Pete

[pokey]

Nice lookin' hay--(and nice looking barn and dog)--send about 60 bales over. I have some hay burners here that want to turn the hay into dark colored piles.

How many cuttings do you boys get up there in Wa.? We always get three and sometimes 4 here in Pa. We just got our first several days of sunshine in a month and the hay people are "making hay while the sun shines. ---------Sixgun

haying here on the wet side is a tricky proposition.
if you are brave and lucky you can get 2 cuttings.
you have to play roulette with the weather if you try for
an early cut. the old timers say wait till the 4th and you
will be alright, that will get you 1[one] cutting a year unless
you irrigate. our weather is fairly WET nov-june and then almost
no rain july-oct. east of the cascades is all dry land/irrigated, so
they get multiple cuttings, mostly alfalfa, every 28 days or so.

[shdwlkr]

Back in the 60's when I was a teenager and working on a dairy farm we put in 10,000 bales in one day and we had 30 folks helping in the fields. I was the guy in the barn with one other person and we got it all in sort of. That winter I was cussing that day as we got all that hay in very little of it got stacked it all just kind of fell in to a huge pile.
We had a lot of cows to feed, I think it was like 350 total with milking, young stock and calves.
I have helped a friend back east to hay and he got upset with me because I filled the hay wagons to the max. I got three fields of hay baled and in the barn that day and just laughed as it was almost midnight when we got the last of the hay in the barn. That winter he did thank me for getting all that hay in the barn and we are still good friends.
With my bad back I don't know if I could do the work needed to move hay bales anymore but if I could I would just because it does you good to work up a good sweat and build muscles.

[Griff]

I go thry about 100 squares a year. Hard to find anyone putting up squares... looked into buyin' a used baler... You'd of thunk they wwere all made by Mercedes!

[JerryB]

Old Shatterhand, I put up alot of hay with a three tine hay fork from haycocks to the wagon and then stack it in the barn.

[shdwlkr]

griff
the last good baler I saw had a price tag closer to Rolls Royce pricing. It seems that farming is no longer a good thing. If I was to get some land and get back into haying I would do it as loose hay and forget the baler as it is just to expensive for too little use.

[pokey]

wahoo, done [with the grass anyway] for another year.
730 bales up and i can still move.
now all i have to worry over is alfalfa, aka green gold.

hope everybody is having a good indy day.

best to you, pokey

[buckeyeshooter]

I thank God I do not have to put in hay anymore! Growing up, there were several weekends a year with the fully loaded semi's rolling in. We fed 10,000 bales a year on the farm and I handled each bale a minimum of 4 times !!