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danielgage
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baled 750 Bermuda small square bales off my 12 acres most it has ever baled in one cutting
long hot day
long hot day
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it has rained so much in Arkansas that if it ever stops we will have more hay than we know what to do with
Small bails are selling for$3.00.
There are even more fields that have not even been mowed. The fields that have been mowed and bailed are all small fields.
540 bales today
long hard day but it feels good now [^][:)]
I broke a sweat just reading your post. My haying days are long past but I still vaguely remember some very long hot days. I did all mine with a small round Allis baler. I worked shifts at the time so many times I would be hauling hay at four in the morning. Nobody bothers you a that time.[:D]
I always made it a habit not to bother anybody at any time of day if they were making hay. You never know when they are going to say "grab a hook". [:D]
Can you provide details of your harvest???
Equipment - terrain - staff - usage - destination - what happens in the fields now - storage - transport - give us a snapshot please...
We have 3 bales (small standard rectangle) in the backyard for use as backstop for their archery practice...
They have hung some paper targets for me - I have been practicing with an assortment of air pistols from a chair on the back porch.
Delran - Burlington county from the Delaware river heading east used to be farm country bug most of its gone now
Mike
as a very young fellow a GF's family were all farmers, I help a couple times with straw and hay baling as in stacking on the wagon and in the barns . thank goodness I was 18 and full of piss and vinegar , now I would just run the other way if ask [B)][B)][:0]
Sounds like a full days hands on task
Can you provide details of your harvest???
Equipment - terrain - staff - usage - destination - what happens in the fields now - storage - transport - give us a snapshot please...
We have 3 bales (small standard rectangle) in the backyard for use as backstop for their archery practice...
They have hung some paper targets for me - I have been practicing with an assortment of air pistols from a chair on the back porch.
Delran - Burlington county from the Delaware river heading east used to be farm country bug most of its gone now
Mike
Bermuda hay cut it Thursday evening Ted it Friday
raked/baled/loaded/delivered it Saturday
cut it with a 5525 John Deere and a 270 disc mower
ted it with a 5525 JD & a TE250 Vermeer tedder
raked it with a 5105 JD & a Kuhn rotary rake
baled it with a 5525 JD & a 348 JD square baler with Holescher accumulator
loaded/unloaded it with a 5105 JD and a 15 bale Holescher grapple onto 30' cotton wagon with one side cut out
sorry don't know how to do pictures on here
Used to look forward to it back then. 14,15-17 yrs of age.
I can distinctly remember some 2000 bale days.
Then Grandpa/Papaw would hand you a $20. [:0][B)][V]
That's okay. I was young, glad to help out, and that was big $$ to me then.
All my Kinfolk here in NE TN owned/own farmland, put up so much hay growing up it was not even funny.
Used to look forward to it back then. 14,15-17 yrs of age.
I can distinctly remember some 2000 bale days.
Then Grandpa/Papaw would hand you a $20. [:0][B)][V]
That's okay. I was young, glad to help out, and that was big $$ to me then.
2000 bale a day is alot
don't think I have ever done that much in one day.