The Life of a Custom Mowing contractor

[scootr]

We had drought from middle of May to middle of June, then nothing but rain from June 20 to about July 8.

We seem to have kind of turned the page and are now in a more typical July pattern of hot & humid.

Normally I’m done first cutting by 4th of July (Independence Day for all the uninformed lol) but this year has been exceptionally rainy.

Have 2 customers who specifically request to have 1st cutting done in mid-late July because of the nesting birds in the fields.
Should be cutting/haying their fields next week, weather permitting.

Those rolling hills look great. Post more haying pictures.

 

[Hay Dude]

Those rolling hills look great. Post more haying pictures.

Thanks.

Left from one field to go bale another. Waiting on the train crossing Fairville Road. The old red building on the right was an International Harvester dealer way back in the 60’s & 70’s when we made things here in America.

Here we are, hammer down on a smaller field. Hay was beautiful dry & green. I hope I can move these bales as feed hay quickly.

Baling

 

[scootr]

Looking good. That train crossing looks like typical rural PA. We lived there 100 yrs ago when I was a boy. /lol

 

[Hay Dude]

Looking good. That train crossing looks like typical rural PA. We lived there 100 yrs ago when I was a boy. /lol

Yeah its still nice in my immediate area, although the pink haired bolsheviks are starting to creep in with all their big ideas and tax hikes.
Lots of “progressiveness” here (closed steel mills, abandoned railroads, overgrown roads, high taxes, etc).

 

[workinonit]

Nothing like progress.

 

[dodge man]

I have never seen large squares around here, western Illinois. Mostly large rounds or some people make small squares from one cutting. I have noticed large squares out west. Do others in your area make large squares or is it your specialty?

 

[aczlan]

I have never seen large squares around here, western Illinois. Mostly large rounds or some people make small squares from one cutting. I have noticed large squares out west. Do others in your area make large squares or is it your specialty?

Very common here in upstate New York primarily on the bigger farms, I suspect because they stack/feed easier and the time to eject them from the baler is much less than the time it takes even to net wrap a bale.

Aaron Z

 

[Hay Dude]

I have never seen large squares around here, western Illinois. Mostly large rounds or some people make small squares from one cutting. I have noticed large squares out west. Do others in your area make large squares or is it your specialty?

Oh yeah. Large squares very popular.
3x3, 3x4, 4x4.

 

[Lineman North Florida]

Very common here in upstate New York primarily on the bigger farms, I suspect because they stack/feed easier and the time to eject them from the baler is much less than the time it takes even to net wrap a bale.

Aaron Z

I would think spitting out an 800 - 1000 pound round bale on some of those rolling hills I see in the pictures in this thread could be kind of iffy if not dangerous as to where it might end up.

 

[eagle628]

Last year we did some round baling for a guy with a few particularly unpleasant hillside pieces. Afterwards I sent him a message that "I dumped one bale way way down in the hedgerow, and another was last seen rolling out the driveway and gathering speed. I have no idea where it ended up. So we can take two off the bill for operator incompetence."