Hay Making on a Different Scale

[5030]

One thing for certain and that is presently it would be torture running an open station without climate control.

 

[CliffordK]

One thing for certain and that is presently it would be torture running an open station without climate control.

Each place is different. We rarely top 100°. For the next couple of days, we'll have the upper 70's, then a couple of days in the low 80's. And it is generally a dry heat.

So my climate control... I splurged and bought a straw hat.

Of course, perhaps eventually I'll get tired of the dust.

 

[Hay Dude]

Have a whopping 6 acres down when we should have 20-30. Look at that ground. Entire time mowing was thinking how nice this was.

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Then we went to the other farm that is good ground and knocked down 11 acres for baleage and knew why we made the decision we did. There is soft then there is well beyond soft. Nothing but standing water and mud.


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How soon after you cut until you got that baled up? Usually I get an alarm for too much moisture if I bale over water or mud.

Man your ground holds a LOT of water!

 

[5030]

Wet here again and showers almost every day. Don't do wet hay.

 

[LHF2019]

How soon after you cut until you got that baled up? Usually I get an alarm for too much moisture if I bale over water or mud.

Man your ground holds a LOT of water!

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

The dust isn't because the hay is dry.

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.

 

[LHF2019]

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

 

[5030]

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

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I'd say so. Those are wear parts afterall. Looks like the 575 I sold a couple years ago, minus the knotter blowers and one shot knotter stack greasing. NH in my opinion still makes the best small square bailer with a Hesston inline coming in second. There is another outfit (Macchino or some such) that builds a copy of the Hesston in line.

If I was to ever consider another small square bailer, it would be an inline.

Weather sucks here as well. Rains about every other day, not enough to be a soaker but enough to spoil dry hay for sure. Good for the corn and beans however, growing at time and a half. Just put on the anhydrous and let it rip.

 

[5030]

I'd say so. Those are wear parts afterall. Looks like the 575 I sold a couple years ago, minus the knotter blowers and one shot knotter stack greasing. NH in my opinion still makes the best small square bailer with a Hesston inline coming in second. There is another outfit (Macchino or some such) that builds a copy of the Hesston in line.

If I was to ever consider another small square bailer, it would be an inline.

Weather sucks here as well. Rains about every other day, not enough to be a soaker but enough to spoil dry hay for sure. Good for the corn and beans however, growing at time and a half. Just put on the anhydrous and let it rip.

NH makes the serrated wheel harder than the arm, concequently, the teeth on the actuator arm wear out and round off when causes the bailer to trip erratically. You have my physical address so you can contact me and I can remachine your old one with new teeth if you want, In fact I need to look but I may have a remachineable one in the shop somwehere. What I did with mine to insure uniform bales is I took a small block of die plate and slotted it and drilled and tapped it for a thumbscrew so I could attach it to the trip arm to provide additional weight so the trip arm was prevented from bouncing as the bale grew in the bale chamber and you could adust the weight for optimum bailing. If you want one, let me know, only take a minute to slot a piece of die plate and thread it for a thumbscrew. Once I got it 'dailed' in my bales were all uniform length.

 

[5030]

Just got another inch of precip today with more on the way... soggy here.

 

[RayIN]

Man, you guys are rolling up a lot of silage hay.
I rotary mowed my bottom field down to 8" high 2 weeks ago, it's already knee high again; at least I've succeeded in killing off the Goldenrod and most other weeds. . It's a good thing my leather work boots are water-proof, I still have standing water too.