Made some big bales this weekend

[ljjhouser]

HAY DUDE - That looks like a lot of hay in the raked rows in post #18. Very nice pictures. Thanks
Here you can tell it is haying time. Many round bales in the fields and an occasional one beside the highway on a turn.

 

[LittleBittyBigJohn]

I had a guy lined up to bail about 6 acres on my place just to keep me from having to bush hog. He did all around me last week and totally skipped mine... Sad day.

 

[sea2summit]

Under partly sunny skies and 86* temps, we made 720 4x4x8’s @ 1500lbs/each today on 26 acres.
Used the Krone on this property.

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A million pounds of hay off 26 acres? 720 x 1,500#?

 

[sea2summit]

720 off of 26 acres would be over 20 tons to the acre, we don't even come close to that down here, maybe 6 tons to the acre of alicia coastal bermuda and that would be really good grass. What type of grass is it? Was 720 supposed to be 72 bales? If not I would have never dreamed that there was that much of a difference in hay production by region.

Beat me to it.

 

[Hay Dude]

yeah supposed to be 72) 1500lb bales.
not 720 1500lb bales.

720 in my dreams

Here’s 27 of them in a little rain shower

 

[Lineman North Florida]

yeah supposed to be 72) 1500lb bales.
not 720 1500lb bales.

720 in my dreams

Here’s 27 of them in a little rain shower

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LOL, I know what you mean and figured that's what it was, but you never know. What type of grass is that? Down here we will have coastal bermuda several variety's ( Alicia, Jiggs, etc ) Bahia ( Pensacola, Argentine, Tift 85, etc and then native grass like crabgrass, some fields will be clean and of one variety others will have a mix of all , most of the horse people are freaks about anything other than coastal you can't convince them that their horse will eat that roll with a mix of coastal and native grass better than just coastal.

 

[Hay Dude]

Reeds canary grass mixed with some orchard & timothy.
Horses & cows devour it like candy.

 

[Hay Dude]

On a YouTube video, the guy was saying that there are only two designs for hay bailers, the Krone and the Massey. Everyone else copies one of those two designs. He was using a Massy round bailer when he was saying this. Do you think he's correct?

I have heard same. Krone’s design looks very similar, but there’s a few subtle differences.
Very complex machines. You get nervous every baling day that the baler will pull through and get the job done.

 

[Hay Dude]

Raked & baled a smaller field today.

First time I ever dropped a bale on the corner of another bale. All 6 strings popped.
Big mess and lost a lot of time in cleanup.

 

[Hay Dude]

I had a guy lined up to bail about 6 acres on my place just to keep me from having to bush hog. He did all around me last week and totally skipped mine... Sad day.

Opportunity knocking?

 

[EddieWalker]

Do you haul all that equipment around on a trailer or do you drive it there?

 

[Hay Dude]

Do you haul all that equipment around on a trailer or do you drive it there?

I drive it from farm to farm.
The Case-IH MX-270 and the Krone Baler weigh about 64,000lbs combined.

 

[Hay Dude]

Little bale stacking today.
Bales were about 1700lbs/ea.

 

[LittleBittyBigJohn]

You had said that you bail smaller ones for livestock. What are the larger ones used for?

 

[Hay Dude]

You had said that you bail smaller ones for livestock. What are the larger ones used for?

The larger (4x4x8) ones can also be for livestock. I just verbally sold some to a buyer who raises beef. She will be taking delivery soon.

The 4x4x8’s you see in the pictures above can also become mushroom hay. Still has to be good hay, under 20% moisture (it’s checked before unloading) and free of noxious weeds, but they want that hay to lay out a little longer and turn tan/brown. They don’t want to handle green/hot hay.

Some clowns think mushroom hay moldy or junky. If it is, the mushroom hay buyers will reject it. It‘s actually just feed hay left down a few extra days to lose it’s color. They dont want hay with chlorophyll or moisture in it.

What we attempt to do is make feed hay on every field, but if it gets rained on or sits too long, it becomes mushroom hay. That way we aren’t trying to sell rained on hay to feed customers.

The smaller bales (4x4x5) you ask of are specifically made for my smaller feed hay buyers that have hay huts or smaller feeders.

 

[Citydude]

Little bale stacking today.
Bales were about 1700lbs/ea.



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Pretty nice office you work in HD.

 

[Hay Dude]

Still baling LOTS of hay. Stopped briefly from late July to mid August to take a vacation and right back at it when we returned.
Organic fertilizer paying big dividends for tonnage

Below: These are my first bales weighing over 2,000lbs each. Just made these blocks today.

Below: 2000lbs

Below: Unfertilized field. Yields not that great. Sparse on clump grasses.

 

[dodge man]

I’ve never seen big squares around here, just big rounds and a few people still do some small squares. I was somewhere on vacation and they did the large squares and had huge stacks of them. Maybe in Colorado where they irrigated their hay fields?

 

[EddieWalker]

I'd love to have some 2,000 pound horse quality bales around here!!!!! I can't help but wonder how long they would last compared to the round bales that I'm feeding my horses and goats.

 

[deserteagle71]

Haydude, your photos are making me homesick, missing that green Pennsylvania farm country. Only green around here this time of year are the pivots.......