Hay Making on a Different Scale

[Hay Dude]

I guess I hadn't posted the pictures yet. It was baled the next day and wrapped.

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The dust isn't because the hay is dry.

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Just a wet depressing year. Got 13 acres of 185 done up as dry. Have some rye down now for baleage that now is wet from rain.

You almost have to wrap in your situation, right? I mean it’s like fighting a losing battle to make all of your hay dry hay?

In the last picture, it looks like you had less than stellar cutter bar results. Was the hay lodged real bad from heavy rain?

 

[Hay Dude]

Square baler was ready for a maintenance repair. $338.30 later

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I got a bad scare on my small challenger. My son ran the tractor for the last few days raking and it kept giving him a “high pressure transmission filter” light and alarm. I changed the filter 3 times in less than a month, and two times this week alone (supposed to be changed maybe every 2 years). The filters are $75. I thought my CVT was on its’ way out….
Anyway, I didn’t know the light and the alarm was a “dual purpose” warning light. The other purpose is to warn the operator that the transmission fluid was overheating.
Here it turns out the transmission cooler line at the cooler inlet sprung a leak, soaked the cooler fins, then pugged it up with trash. That caused transmission to run up to 210 degrees. Normal is like 160-175. The tractor de-powers and the PTO is inoperable.

Got that solved. I feel lucky. I got off with a low cost repair.

Glad yours wasn’t too bad, either, LF

 

[LHF2019]

You almost have to wrap in your situation, right? I mean it’s like fighting a losing battle to make all of your hay dry hay?

In the last picture, it looks like you had less than stellar cutter bar results. Was the hay lodged real bad from heavy rain?

It's a weed field that I haven't decided what I'm doing with it yet. Lots of low growing clover and Johnson grass. Needed to be cut weeks ago to salvage the Johnson grass. Once it dies just falls flat on the ground. Cattle love it though.

What I wrap is the fields that always get wrapped. It won't matter if it is beginning of August. The dry hay will be made dry. Customers don't like it they can buy elsewhere which if I'm not making hay neither is anybody else. Of course there are those that will make it no matter once then you hear unhappy customers that where they got it from it was dusty, moldy, and/or mud in it. As long as I have 1st Cutting orders to fill it will stay in the field.

 

[LHF2019]

Yesterday's baleage. Mature Rye again several weeks late.

 

[Hay Dude]

Tough year. We have 50% possibility of rain for the next 7 days.

 

[5030]

Yesterday I got a good solid inch in the rain gage and again, last night mother nature dripped an additional 1/4 inch. Corn and beans are growing like no tomorrow however.

Today (6-27) supposed to be sunny this AM (it is) with T storms in the PM (probably will). Cannot even mow the lawn, not that I want to anyway. Discbine is hooked up but not moving anytime soon.