Put up about 100 bales this afternoon. Baler ran without a hitch and I left about 50 bales on the trailer covered with a tarp. All of it looked pretty dry and I didn't pick up too much uncut stuff in the windrows but I did have to set the baler feed up higher than I would like. I probably could have gotten another 20 bales or so if I had set it down but the combustion risk is just too high with all this rain and humidity.
I even got a good video of the 861 and 532 baler working together that I plan on posting up in the next few days. The son says it needs to be edited and rendered to youtube useable whatever that means.
Other than that I am so sore and tired I can barely walk. I am getting way too old to be throwing those damned square bales around anymore. The worst part is we are only about halfway done with hay season. Got the front half of the big field and the smaller front field I can get at least another cutting off of.
Keep Prepping Everyone!!!!!
Nothing like looking back and seeing the field full of bales.
ReplyDeleteSf - Ya I wish I had a trailer and a slave to stack em while they came off the baler though :)
DeleteIt's better to have the discharge chute on and a teenager on the wagon stacking as you go. The killer then is unloading and stacking at the barn.
ReplyDeleteI just got my second cutting in...800 bales. Me and my 26 year old daughter. She's a real worker, but I'm getting too old for this as well.
Brother J - I hear ya. Wish I did. I am not sure how my old tractor would handle a baler and a trailer plus the bales though on some of the terrace slopes I have.
DeleteThanks for your words of encouragement on my blog
ReplyDeleteNE time Rob.
DeleteI loved hay making when we did it, but then it was only a tiny field we harvested, but it was tiring, so I am glad we now buy hay in!
ReplyDeleteVera - It is a lot of work but usually I have plenty of dry days to do it. This year not so much and having to rush it makes the work that much harder.
DeleteGrowing up we spent our childhood moving bales. Dad used to buy straw, bale it then sell and deliver it. We used to deliver 6000 to one farm alone. Grow up strong on a farm!
ReplyDeleteKV - WOW. LOL I thought about baling up a few hundred straw bales last year and selling them but then the guy plowed the straw under..... I guess he got tired of waiting for me to make up my mind :)
DeleteIt's miserable work but it sure feels good to see all the bales up.
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