First Haying complete with pics

[mark.r]

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.

I am new to all this so I would be shooting to do around 50-60 acres max all relatively close to my home, say within a 20 mile radius. None of it is more than parcels made up of more than 5 -15 acre plots. Of course this would not all be done at the same time and would have to be on a careful rotation.

 

[dgl24087]

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.

Uh, there are disc moco's out there, JD, NH, Kuhn, Vermeer (also offers pull type disc mowers), and Hesston, just to name a few.

 

[mark.r]

Uh, there are disc moco's out there, JD, NH, Kuhn, Vermeer (also offers pull type disc mowers), and Hesston, just to name a few.

Yes, I believe Darin is aware of that. But he mention earlier he does not need the crimp feature on his Bermuda grass so a moco is not necessary.

 

[ddivinia]

Yes, I believe Darin is aware of that. But he mention earlier he does not need the crimp feature on his Bermuda grass so a moco is not necessary.

Exactly,
D.

 

[Greyfields]

Someday I'll get a baler with the bale shape sensor on it. I spit out some pretty ugly bales on occassion. Those look great!

 

[ddivinia]

I tell ya, it would wear me out having to turn around and watch the bale sensors on a baler the whole time.

D.

 

[chh]

Nice looking bales. Having a monitor with the shape sensors is the only way to go. I have done it the old way and with some of the early monitors. The new ones are great.
Too bad about the window. I bet the rebar incident was scary.

 

[ddivinia]

Nice looking bales. Having a monitor with the shape sensors is the only way to go. I have done it the old way and with some of the early monitors. The new ones are great.
Too bad about the window. I bet the rebar incident was scary.

Rebar incident sucked - it was a couple years ago with my batwing. Oh well, the place is getting cleaned up nicely now.

D.

 

[Briana03]

I moved your thread to the new Haying forum!