First Haying complete with pics

[ddivinia]

Nice pictures. Nice sized bales too! No way the back gets involved with those!

Thanks - the bales turned out better than I expected. With the bale track pro, it is hard to screw one up.

48" by 65" is what I had the baler setup to spit out.

D.

 

[chetlenox]

Great picture Darin. Those fields look like mine (only bigger)... of course, since you are 20 miles away from me.... they should!

Chet.

 

[flusher]

I am finally getting around to posting pics. I baled up our place a couple weeks ago. Here are some pics of the Krone cutter in the KMC mower caddy.

D.

Cool equipment. How do you like that trailer mower? Any problem on the turns?

 

[ddivinia]

Cool equipment. How do you like that trailer mower? Any problem on the turns?

None at all - just have to learn how to drive it.

I could not imagine not having a caddy - hook up is so easy. Storage is a breeze also.

D.

 

[mark.r]

Everytime I see a window like that it makes me want to buy a haybine rather than a disc mower, but I just don't see how I can transport a haybine efficiently around some of these small roads that we have around here.

Darin looks like everthing is working out nicely.

 

[ddivinia]

A haybine has a sickle mower right?

With all the ant mounds I have, I would never get the place mowed!

I love watching the disc mower do a number on a fire ant mound.

D.

 

[mark.r]

A haybine has a sickle mower right?

With all the ant mounds I have, I would never get the place mowed!

I love watching the disc mower do a number on a fire ant mound.

D.

Yeah, they are a sickle bar cutter. I'd rather do a disk mower and am willing to take the chance on doing it even though I don't have a cab on my tractor. It's just that I have issues pulling those big ol' haybines around these smaller roads with the city folk driving rather quickly around corners and such.

 

[ddivinia]

Yeah - it seems discmowers are the way to go. Also, for what I am doing a wider disc mower makes sense because I really don't need to crimp what I bale.

D.

 

[mark.r]

Yeah - it seems discmowers are the way to go. Also, for what I am doing a wider disc mower makes sense because I really don't need to crimp what I bale.

D.

I could do with out the conditioning as well. I am only working with 45hp so have only shopped the 6ft disc mowers. I just cringe everytime I see a rock headed towards the cab . . . but that happens with the rotary as well and no one hesitates to use those on cabless tractors either.

 

[ddivinia]

How many acres will you be cutting?

Rocks are luck of the draw. Now that piece of rebar that took out my first window - that is a different story. An old old fence - I guess we missed one...

D.