The Life of a Custom Mowing contractor

[LouNY]

I have several Oak and Walnuts that like to scare the heck out of you either while walking or in a tractor or truck.

 

[Hay Dude]

Momentum is building! Baled another 20-25 acres today.
I love this spot. It’s above the “body bag” field (where the bodies were dumped). I love the little stone spring house and the lilly pond. All this has been here for hundreds of years. Sorry about the glass reflections in the photo.

Believe it or not, this is a pretty steep hill with some difficult ditches.

This part can be soft. It’s below the lily pond. Previous guy got his tractor & baler stuck here real bad. It’s nice & dry now.

Below: Finished up and heading back to another field down the road.
Plenty of branches that need a sever cutting-back to deal with. Notice the rock outcroppings on the right. I lost a baler tire on my previous square baler to those rocks. Ripped the sidewall off the tire and bent the rim. $3,000 in damage.
Absolutely NO place to go here. Guardrail on the other lane and ZERO road shoulder. I’m over the yellow lines a bit. Worst is when you get a woman driving a school bus coming at ya.

Hey, I didn’t build the roads, I just drive on them, right???

 

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Hey, I didn’t build the roads, I just drive on them, right???

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hopefully for their sake, nobody else does when you're there

 

[LHF2019]

I like those kinds of roads. Good reminders to other drivers to pay attention.

Other day met my relative on the road. I had 15ft Cultimulcher and he had his big CaseIH with duals spreading manure. We were ditch to ditch passing each other. State police behind me got a good learning experience on what they might find in the country and the difficulties with narrow rural roads.

 

[Duds13]

Momentum is building! Baled another 20-25 acres today.
I love this spot. It’s above the “body bag” field (where the bodies were dumped). I love the little stone spring house and the lilly pond. All this has been here for hundreds of years. Sorry about the glass reflections in the photo.

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Believe it or not, this is a pretty steep hill with some difficult ditches.

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This part can be soft. It’s below the lily pond. Previous guy got his tractor & baler stuck here real bad. It’s nice & dry now.

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Finished up and heading back to another field down the road.
Plenty of branches that need a sever cutting-back to deal with. Notice the rock outcroppings on the right. I lost a baler tire on my previous square baler to those rocks. Ripped the sidewall off the tire and bent the rim. $3,000 in damage.

Below: Absolutely NO place to go here. Guardrail on the other lane and ZERO road shoulder. I’m over the yellow lines a bit. Worst is when you get a woman driving a school bus coming at ya.

Hey, I didn’t build the roads, I just drive on them, right???

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Absolutely beautiful property!

 

[Hay Dude]

Absolutely beautiful property!

It really is.
Old money property.
People who own it have unimaginable wealth.
Like never-worked-a-day-in-their-lives inherited wealth. My buddy who manages their property drives them to airports and they fly all over the world to other properties they own. Paris, Stockholm, Caribbean Islands, etc.

Despite that, they are very kind and generous. Rumor has it their family is worth 6 BILLION.

I really love this field they own. One enormous tree in the middle. I like the contour of it and the way it dog-legs to the right like a golf course.

 

[Hay Dude]

hopefully for their sake, nobody else does when you're there

When you say “hopefully for their sake”, what about my sake?
People want to live in “farm country” and complain about tractors on the road. What’s up with that?

Trust me, last thing I want is an accident with a car, because the police blame the trucker or farmer, no matter what.

A farmer buddy of mine got into an accident with a car driven by an attractive female and she put on a real show for the male state trooper.

Yet according to the law, despite all the beacons, flashers, SMV triangles, and headlights, I have just as much right to that road as they do.

 

[LouNY]

Or more, especially if your county has a right to farm law. Those old narrow roads were farm roads to begin with.

 

[Hay Dude]

I dug up this picture of my previous Hesston 4910 square baler that was mangled on a rock outcropping when an oncoming motorist ran me off the road. Tire & rim was $3,000.

Of course the ******* just kept driving their car. Never stopped.
I bet they are one of the types that brags about their “farm country” home, too.