Long days...

I must be getting old or something... 71, 112, 164, 116 rolls in the last 4 days and I'm ready for a day or a week off, lol

KyHayMan what part of ky are in you. I live in the western part of the state and it came a flood last night and this morning. SKy's look good where you are.

Just outside Lexington on BG Parkway. We barely got a 1/10th. Actually needing a good rain.

When I was working about 75 acres in ten fields, and I had a good forecast, if I put more than 500 small squares worth down, it was just too much jumping from one tractor to another and moving from one field to another. Start out at ten tedding, then go to another field and rake, then another to mow, then back to the one that I raked to bale, then go rake the one that I tedded then go mow some more. From 7:00 AM to 10:00 I worked at my real job. Fun being a one man band.

My wife's family is from Versailles.

That is some good looking hay. 7610?? What is the roller? Any
tobacco left around you?

In south central ky today we have got 3.2 inches, over much of
last night and most of the day today. No sunshine today at all.
Maybe I can start cutting after lunch tomorrow. Nathan

Interesting, I worked for many years for a division of Kuhlman Corp. Their main transformer plant was right on Ky60 at Versailles, been there many times. Pretty country around there, lots of horse farms.

was just up there this weekend. Lot of good hay went up along I-64.

Oh wow, I taught vo-ag there 94 to 07.

Thank you, it was some of the best color I've ever done. Came up easy other than my backside doesn't fit that seat too well anymore. 7610 series II pulling a NH 450 with bale command. I bought the baler new at the beginning of last year to replace a NH 644, which in turn replaced a dialed down NH 650, which is what I built my business on. I was thinking Saturday that the I'd thought the 450 made it fun but NH did a software upgrade the winter that makes it light years ahead of even how it came out. All our tractors are that series from a pair of old 7600's (one pulls the batwing, one either the tedder or square baler), 3 7610's (2 wd with cab on the baler (in the pic), 4wd is a spare, and a low profile orchard on the rake), and a TB110 on the discbine.

Good luck on the weather, I'd say with 3.2 inches might be tough to get on the ground tomorrow. We got a good solid 8/10ths about dark. We're finished at this place, down at least another day catching up on repairs and maintenance, maybe 2.

No tobacco like there used to be. Probably 2 dozen growers or so around me left. Seems like maybe a bit more interest this year than in years past. I had some offers to rent ground.

Do you know Tony Wilhoit,the judge? He my wife's first cousin.

Not personally as I recall. Was his dad Henry? Federal judge out of Ashland.

I'm between Louisville and Owensboro off of US60, we fought wet weather all last week starting with 3 inches of rain on Sunday and another 3/10 Tuesday morning after we had put down 44 acres Monday.
Tedded it 3 times and raked twice to get it dried up enough to finish baling Friday.
Rained yesterday morning and a hard rain last night, need to replace a bearing in the tedder and put the panels back on one mower where we had to replace a hydraulic line.
May try to cut some this afternoon, 83 acres done, another 40-60 to got depending if I take that last job I was offered of around 20 acres of native prairie grass. About 15 miles away on a farm I've never been on so we'll have to look it over first.

I bale with a 6610 series II cab tractor and NH BR7070 baler, mow with 4000 and 5000 Fords, the 4000SU I normally use for tedding and raking is down with a broken crank so I'm using my old Ford 801 diesel select o speed this year that normally only goes to shows and on antique tractor drives as a unrestored original, figured it needed a little more exercise this year.

Not so far as I know. I never heard mention of him anyway. Aunt Fran and Uncle Gene lived right there in Versailles,but Gene was Tony's step dad.