Blondzilla finished the first cutting of 2023 today. Ten acres on the ground with a plan to bale on Saturday.
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Hay 2023
- Thread starter Invictus77
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We have 600 on the ground and a bunch more to go in 1st cutting, the fun of baling starts tonite. Glad I'm just the truck guy. 
When my ole buddy Pete (RIP) was in a hurry, he'd say, "I got hay down - gotta rake, gotta bale, gotta go!"
Abominog
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You need one of those machines that bales and spits them out the back.
We have 5 that spit 3x4x8' bales out the back, right at 1500# apiece. every 43 seconds or so. I'll grab some more pics of how we do it.
peter-paul
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What do you all do with those bales?
You sir are in a different league than I. We are doing our "yard" and sometimes a couple other local patches.
This is how we do it.......
This is how we do it.......
Story
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This thread needs music.
Mike, if you could get that hay out to southern Arizona cheaply, you'd be RICH beyond your dreams!!!!!
All our super good stuff is exported to Japan and Asia, the not so good feeds cattle in local feedlots after getting mixed with cow candy, Molasses, vitamin supplements and other good stuff. The nearby dairy takes our high moisture last cutting wrapped in plastic to make fermented "baleage" similar to regular sileage.
This is how I stacked small bales at 14-16 for granddad. Ford 460 industrial engine and 60 gallons of gas per day. But it stacked 99 bales per load.
For some reason, I'm thinking your equipment may be just a tiny bit larger and more modern than what we use????
Could be... Our balers are a quarter million dollars each. But as a kid I remember pulling those ground drive rakes like yours with a John Deere "B" or a Farmall "M", good old days. I once had the clutch go in the JD and finished up with the rake on my '72 Blazer. It had some good tunes... The JD did not.
MACV
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I remember back around 2012 or so. My daughter and her horse were at Murray State Univ in W Ky. There was a drought and hay was hard to find. We were buying it here in Missouri for around $12-$14 per small bale and hauling it down there. People were stealing hay from the University stables. They eventually got a steady supply from Texas.
I mowed last week. Just enough to check out all the haying equipment. Has rained everyday since. Usually put in about 600 round bales. We feed just cattle and sell enough to recoup our fuel and wrap.
Balers lined up this morning ready to eat hay.
A couple of the huge rakes we use.
No idea where the swathers were, somewhere in a 25 mile radius.
A couple of the huge rakes we use.
No idea where the swathers were, somewhere in a 25 mile radius.
This is us. Keep half and sell half usually covers our costs.
JDs got rhythm, tho.....
Yup, putt-putt, wait... putt-putt. Grandad had an 820 Diesel that really sounded good working.
Got a surprise this morning, new stacker rig, demo machine with 90 hours, quick check out, install a company radio and out the door
We took the day off and found a beach. Grocery store deli fried chicken and a bottle of wine.
Had to "de-stress" while waiting for the hay to dry, ya know.......
1911Ron
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Who's that pretty lady standing next to?We took the day off and found a beach. Grocery store deli fried chicken and a bottle of wine.
Had to "de-stress" while waiting for the hay to dry, ya know.......
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My fat old ass and my young trusty sidekick did not participate in stacking the square bales. That is young men's work.
She did get out of the pool and wanted to help me stack the rounds bales
She did get out of the pool and wanted to help me stack the rounds bales
I'd love to see how those suckers work.
Well, I guess I could google it.
Alfalfa is just under $25/bale here (80-100#)
Fortunately the bermuda is coming in strong, so I just turn my horses out in the morning to graze.
Well, I guess I could google it.
Alfalfa is just under $25/bale here (80-100#)
Fortunately the bermuda is coming in strong, so I just turn my horses out in the morning to graze.
Boy, this brings back memories. Baling hay was the required job for all of the High School Football team. We would go around to the local farms and hire ourselves out to "bale" hay. This involved the farmer running the baler and the farm wagon while we walked beside the wagon and toss the bales by hand on to it. Two guys rode on the wagon to stack it up. We normally got paid 8-12 cents per bale each depending the type of hay with the heavier stuff like lespedeza paying more. Bales normally ran about 75 pounds and the heavy ones about 100 pound. The trick of loading the wagon was to swing the bale back then towards the wagon and at the right moment, use your knee to kick it up and over the edge of the trailer. You could always tell when a bale had a snake baled up with the hay because that bale usually sailed over the trailer and landed on the other side, accompanied by some language young men weren't supposed to know or say. On a good day, an 8-10 man crew could load 1000-1200 bales depending how many trailers were available.
