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Allan in NE · Jul 12, 2013

Hi Guys,

Just some picutures of the old mower doin' her thing yesterday.

Allan

gtractorfan · Jul 12, 2013

With a horizon like that it looks like you could nod off and wake up in Kansas or something.

Murray2 · Jul 12, 2013

Hi Allen, Question? What is distance or length of those fields. In my area we can usually/alway's have trees within a few yards or meters or another hill or mountain. When a young person was growing up, scenery like your fields we would think was the end of the world. Cheers, Murray

HillsofTn · Jul 12, 2013

Are ya" sure you"ve got enough room to turn that thing around?

randallinMo · Jul 12, 2013

I think that is what happened to Allen. He actually started out in Kansas, nodded off to sleep and ended up in Nebraska.

Allen, is that your first cutting? Will you get a second? How long do you usually have to let it lay in order to bale?

dcarp · Jul 12, 2013

My hay equipment would think it died & went to heaven if it saw fields like that. No hog wallows, no fire ant mounds, no gopher mounds, no trees in the middle of the field.
I'm guessing you have narrowed the swath to skip raking?

The Red · Jul 12, 2013

Is that field a whole 640 acre section???

37chief · Jul 12, 2013

That is going to keep you bussy for a few days. Is that the same machine you were looking for a part for a week or so ago? Stan

Anonymous-0 · Jul 12, 2013

That describes the fields that I mow as well,dcarp.

Allan in NE · Jul 12, 2013

3/4 mile on this field.

Allan

Allan in NE · Jul 12, 2013

Wind came up 'bout 5 or 6 this morning and started moving windrows (wind really blows hard out here). :>(

So rather than deal with a bunch of haystacks, I put the 966 up in 2nd gear and baled 30 or 40 acres or so right behind the swather. Had to quit when it got too dry (wind went down too).

I should have 'er all done by 9am tomorrow.

Allan

Allan in NE · Jul 12, 2013

Oh heck no,

3/4 mile by 1/4 mile. Derned if I know how many acres.......way too tired to cypher it out. :>(

Allan

paul · Jul 12, 2013

>Had to quit when it got too dry (wind went down too).

That is just an incomprehensible statement to those of us in the humid areas of the country, a person waits and waits and waits for the dewpoint to dry down enough to bale slightly dry hay.....

Paul

The Red · Jul 12, 2013

That would be 120 acres.

Wheat Farmer · Jul 12, 2013

Nice pictures Allen. When I use to take picture like that at Big Springs they would ask which State that was in the back ground. HA HA.

DaninKansas · Jul 12, 2013

In NE Kansas the big problem with brome earlier this year was the windrows were so big it wouldn't get dry and baled in the two and three day windows we had to get things put up.

Not an issue anymore - its quit raining getting very dry fast and the brome is now a little overdone. The native hay isn't producing near as well as the brome did.

GordoSD · Jul 12, 2013

In this instance "One picture is worth a thousand questions"

TomH in PA · Jul 12, 2013

Look carefully and you can see the back of Allan"s head in one of those pictures

Ken Macfarlane · Jul 12, 2013

And I had felt pretty proud as I mowed somewhere around 35 acres today, ha! I guess mine was in 8 fields separated by narrow roads with the brush almost touching and I picked up a tree and broke the mower part way through too. Thats where my other 85 acres went.

Goose · Jul 12, 2013

I drove through that part of the state a coupla months ago. At least twice I went around 10 miles without seeing another vehicle going either way.

NEKS · Jul 12, 2013

Have been putting up brome hay for three weeks and haven't got a machine rained on yet. Them ol cows with little or no teeth are going to have trouble this winter.

Rich Iowa · Jul 13, 2013

That sure is a lot of alfalfa.

rusty6 · Jul 13, 2013

(quoted from post at 10:54:54 07/12/13) >Had to quit when it got too dry (wind went down too).

That is just an incomprehensible statement to those of us in the humid areas of the country, a person waits and waits and waits for the dewpoint to dry down enough to bale slightly dry hay.....

Paul

Used to be that way with the square baler for me but since I got an old NH chain baler I can not bale if it is too hot and dry. I have actually had to shut down in afternoons and wait til nearer sundown when there is a little moisture to help feed the windrow in. It can go too far though , Two days ago the humidity was higher than I have ever seen it. Tires started getting wet from the grass by 9:00 pm and I called it a day.

T in NE · Jul 14, 2013

Baling usually happens at night. Late in the season you might have to wait more than a day or two to bale, but in the summer heat, with near 0 humidity, it doesn't take long for the hay to get too dry.

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