The Life of a Custom Mowing contractor

[LHF2019]

People have become so impatient and will pass at anytime any where and it is only a matter of time before someone gets killed. All it takes is a log truck coming around the corner and that person passing is going to be in trouble because they didn't wait. A lot of people don't even let up and pass at full speed. Not even taking the time to see what's coming at them.

Had my first implement/vehicle accident. Person tried to pass on a narrow dirt road and discovered there wasn't room after rubbing the mower and could not complete the pass. The very next day had a vehicle pass at full speed around a corner and get back in our lane in front of me before hitting my driver head on who was coming from the other direction. Just a normal day.

 

[groundcover]

no farms, no food

 

[groundcover]

No farms ,no farm girls !

 

[workinonit]

I help out a buddy of mine that farms my place. I help him move equipment, grain trucks and wagons and I cut most of the hedgerows for him. He just this season bought a 12 row folding corn header. It folds to the width of the combine. Really nice for roading. The other interesting thing here in SC is you aren't required to have a CDL to drive farm tractor trailer. As long as it's on the way to the grain bins or moving equipment.

 

[Hay Dude]

I help out a buddy of mine that farms my place. I help him move equipment, grain trucks and wagons and I cut most of the hedgerows for him. He just this season bought a 12 row folding corn header. It folds to the width of the combine. Really nice for roading. The other interesting thing here in SC is you aren't required to have a CDL to drive farm tractor trailer. As long as it's on the way to the grain bins or moving equipment.

We aren’t required to have a CDL in PA for farm machinery & trucks, either.
But I have one anyways.

 

[workinonit]

I had mine for years and never used it. I gave it up when the medical became such a pain.

 

[workinonit]

I enjoy your thread. That you actually take the time to take pictures is the key. I do a lot of interesting stuff and run some pretty neat equipment but I just don't have the discipline to chronical my actions. Heck, most people on here would be amazed at the work I do. I know I am, every day I'm in a power plant. I work for a company that's in the Pittsburgh area. How far are you from there?

 

[Hay Dude]

I enjoy your thread. That you actually take the time to take pictures is the key. I do a lot of interesting stuff and run some pretty neat equipment but I just don't have the discipline to chronical my actions. Heck, most people on here would be amazed at the work I do. I know I am, every day I'm in a power plant. I work for a company that's in the Pittsburgh area. How far are you from there?

Thanks.
There are many times I wish I had taken pictures, but didn’t.
I am clear across the state near Wilmington, DE

 

[workinonit]

I go to that area every now and then. I go to Salem nuclear station.

 

[sixdogs]

$1,100 later, I’m back to baling.
Today was the last one before a few days of rain.


Got this field baled up

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2nd cutting bales are generally heavier. This one is 2,013 pounds.

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Loading bales out of the field, too.

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Done for the day. Country Roads, Take Me Home.


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How do you know weight of bale? Where are scales in the baler and are they reliable?