The Life of a Custom Mowing contractor

[anomad]

No, just main roads.
Looks like my snowplowing bid for a big HOA finished 2nd lowest and they took the lowest bid.

If you think hiring a professional is expensive, hire an amateur and see...

 

[Hay Dude]

Been real busy getting final loads of hay trucked out of fields. My daughter left me this note this morning.

I took this photo while loading up the trailer (on the right).
Off in the distance across the river, East Penn Railroad is heading southwest on the RR tracks.

Tough to see with the woods. Can you see it?

Back to the stack to get 2 more

Now at the hay yard getting unloaded. Their loaders are huge and dwarf the bales, easily unloading a truck in minutes.

You can see the mountain of loose hay in the background waiting to go into processing.
Either somebody likes my hay bales…..or maybe they like me? lol

 

[RjCorazza]

That's a whole lot of loose hay! How does it get processed and used?

 

[Hay Dude]

That's a whole lot of loose hay! How does it get processed and used?

It’s kind of difficult to explain, but I am part of the beginning of the process. All incoming bales are unloaded and immediately have the strings or net wrap removed. Large square Bales are broken up by a big front end loader and pushed up onto a huge pile. Round bales are sawed in half with a giant saw blade mounted on a skid loader.

The loose hay is then mixed with straw. Then that blend is put into 1000’ long rows where lime, chicken litter, straw, topsoil and water are put on the tops of the rows. The long rows break down into a rich black fluffy bedding soil that looks sort of like peat moss.
It is then trucked to mushroom farmers who use the special soil to grow mushrooms.

 

[pmsmechanic]

That note would warm just about any Dad's heart.

 

[Hay Dude]

Using the 20’ 10K trailer to haul 3 of my shorter bales behind the tractor.
I’m still using a set of portable old school auxilliary flashers.
I can’t seem to find a 7 pin tractor to 7 pin truck adapter with more than 12” of cord, so I can plug my trailer into the tractor plug.

 

[LHF2019]

Using the 20’ 10K trailer to haul 3 bales behind the tractor.
I’m still using a set of portable old school auxilliary flashers.
I can’t seem to find a 7 pin tractor to 7 pin truck adapter with more than 12” of cord, so I can plug my trailer into the tractor plug.

Probably have to build that yourself to get the length.

 

[Hay Dude]

Probably have to build that yourself to get the length.

And yet every other conceivable combination of plugs exist with long cords between them.

 

[LouNY]

A couple of the farms tractors actually had a EU pin out. They didn't work right with all the implements.