Posted by Destroked 450 on June 06, 2017 at 08:30:18 from (173.242.142.14):
In Reply to: Long days... posted by kyhayman on June 05, 2017 at 13:56:40:
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.
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