2014 Hay Season

[lucky001]

Reference Bigfoot62 comment: If we waited to cut hay here when there is a 20% rain forecast we would never get any hay baled!!!!! We usually go for it unless there's better than a 50% chance and i rarely have hay get rained on.

 

[foreman Etexas]

Reference Bigfoot62 comment: If we waited to cut hay here when there is a 20% rain forecast we would never get any hay baled!!!!! We usually go for it unless there's better than a 50% chance and i rarely have hay get rained on.

It's a gamble either way,I have been dumped on with a 20% couple times and wait on the 50% and nothing ever happened. Alsong not couple days in a row high chance will go ahead and cut on those days just don't like them % at bailing time. Got the Tedder this year and now just use it any way hay looks so much better when done,cuts some time off in field too. I think was a sound investment,that will last me many years...

 

[Bigfoot62]

IIRC, I think that the week in question had from a 20% up to a 70% chance of rain.

Turns out it was good to wait. The following week was perfect weather. Got it all done and hauled to a customer. Had an order for 55 rolls, delivered, and I baled 52. Took 3 out of the barn to fill the order.

That's it. It's over for this year. My total harvest was 290 rolls (4x5) from 55 acres. (4 cuttings) That's the best hay season I've had in about 5 or 6 years. :thumbsup:

 

[foreman Etexas]

IIRC, I think that the week in question had from a 20% up to a 70% chance of rain.

Turns out it was good to wait. The following week was perfect weather. Got it all done and hauled to a customer. Had an order for 55 rolls, delivered, and I baled 52. Took 3 out of the barn to fill the order.

That's it. It's over for this year. My total harvest was 290 rolls (4x5) from 55 acres. (4 cuttings) That's the best hay season I've had in about 5 or 6 years. :thumbsup:

Amen to that. Guess will be seeing you around next season,maybe will have two good ones in a row

 

[Bigfoot62]

Amen to that. Guess will be seeing you around next season,maybe will have two good ones in a row

We can hope so, anyway.

Just because it's winter, doesn't mean "hay season" is completely over. I've already covered about 30 acres with the Hay King renovator plow. Got about 25 more to go. We got almost 1.5" of rain last night. Probably be a few days before I can finish up.

 

[foreman Etexas]

We can hope so, anyway.

Just because it's winter, doesn't mean "hay season" is completely over. I've already covered about 30 acres with the Hay King renovator plow. Got about 25 more to go. We got almost 1.5" of rain last night. Probably be a few days before I can finish up.

I been over seeding rye grass in the 30acre meadow at house and then in some the cattle pastures we have them shut out of. I have feed 6bales so far(just the really cold days),a lot of dead grass to get them try clean up,been putting the 28% Hi Energy tubs out in stead right now.

 

[Bigfoot62]

I been over seeding rye grass in the 30acre meadow at house and then in some the cattle pastures we have them shut out of. I have feed 6bales so far(just the really cold days),a lot of dead grass to get them try clean up,been putting the 28% Hi Energy tubs out in stead right now.

Yessir,
When I had cattle here, that's what they got too. Super Blocks and free choice hay. Stayed in good shape year round.
If the hay is good, they get everything else they need from the energy block.

 

[foreman Etexas]

Yeah they don't hustle much when easy bale hay out.

 

[azfarmboy]

The weather out here in az kinda sucks where getting rain but its spread out to where we can't do anything with the fields and not enough to shut the irrigation off

 

[JD6430]

I had a good hay season just enough rain and sun. put up around 600 small square bales and 75 round bales. This year I mowed and conditioned my bigger fields and it went to a local buffalo farm. They brought in a Kubota and round bailer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-IykuMMvzs

 

[MikePA]

I had a good hay season just enough rain and sun. put up around 600 small square bales and 75 round bales. This year I mowed and conditioned my bigger fields and it went to a local buffalo farm. They brought in a Kubota and round bailer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-IykuMMvzs

Great pics on a cold winter day. Thanks!

 

[Tx Jim]

JD6430
Does your JD tractor break down so regularly that you have to carry a 4 wheeler with you to get home??
Devil made me ask!:dance1:

I can't believe in the age of quick attach buckets/bale spears one carries a bucket around while baling hay such as the operator of the Kubota is doing. The bucket creates a lot rougher ride.

 

[JD6430]

JD6430
Does your JD tractor break down so regularly that you have to carry a 4 wheeler with you to get home??
Devil made me ask!:dance1:

I can't believe in the age of quick attach buckets/bale spears one carries a bucket around while baling hay such as the operator of the Kubota is doing. The bucket creates a lot rougher ride.

No, none of my JD tractors have broke down. 6 years ago I was involved in an accident and ended up in a wheel chair. 2 years later and hundreds of hours of rehab I can walk with crutches but only for a few hundred yards. When I am more than a mile from home I carry my ATV just incase I do break down or get hung up. A friend and my self built that carrier along with one that fits the blade of my John Deere 135C excavator. It will fit both of my 6430 tractors and works extremely well. When Im working with my 5095M Im on my own, no way to carry an ATV.

As for the Kubota with the bucket. It belonged to the buffalo farm and they purchased it just befor hay season began and were still using the bucket for other projects. As everyone knows you make hay while the sun is shining and they were here to bale on a short notice. I used my 6430 to load the round bails.

 

[Tx Jim]

I'm sorry to hear about your disability. I too am disabled since '96 and it's aggravating not being able to do what I once could do but one has to make the best of a bad situation.
Jim