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Post by Beerwiser on Jul 24, 2020 20:17:32 GMT -6
Well I finally started. Didn't go to well. I should have waited another day. Hay looks great, but is soaking wet. Material wrapping on the augers and well wet spots where they shouldn't be. Made a hell of a rut on my headland pass. Front tire went over no problem but when the back hit, oh shit.... Tomorrow is another day.  |
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Post by meskie on Jul 24, 2020 20:44:28 GMT -6
Should finish up haying tomorrow. Then chop silage in another couple weeks.
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tsipp
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Post by tsipp on Jul 24, 2020 21:27:44 GMT -6
Started on Wednesday,I’ve got 80 acres down and then received an inch and a half of rain, rain is always welcome in this area I’m sure it will dry out soon enough. Usually I’m done the big field's by now but everything is a little late this year.
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Post by garyfunk on Jul 24, 2020 23:30:34 GMT -6
Started cutting in earnest on Monday and probably have around 1000 round bales worth down now (just in time for this rain). I did roll up 150 today though, yay! lol
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Post by Albertabuck on Jul 25, 2020 19:07:59 GMT -6
Had planned on starting few days ago but just when one is about to roll, more rain, and today's start ended after midnite with another half inch over nite. Only going to try to bale the lighter stands, heavy stuff is going into silage, so once it dries enough will start cutting some of that lighter stuff. Still bit soft for the hydump in places but can't wait forever either if a guy wants to try to get a second cut as well, getting late already for that.
Is some good stands though, and for the first time in years, haven't seen one grasshopper....oh and just now as I type what do I hear, damm think I have some tools out....
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Post by offroadnt on Jul 25, 2020 22:53:12 GMT -6
Been taking silage and first cut off for a month now it'll go practically continuous until the end of October if we're lucky.
Rain is done here until September, if June/early July is any indication September is going to be wet. October should be beautiful. This reminds me of summers in the '70s/'80s when I was a kid.
We've been lucky here, only a single shower on some hay so far. The chopper really saves first cut, chance of rain? Silage it... We need to double the size of the silage pit though.
I guess Kamloops is really wet, my buddy says he's just doing first cut yet, usually he's done second cut by now.
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Post by KellyM on Jul 26, 2020 22:40:44 GMT -6
Just got started today. Some areas are not too bad, but in the sandy areas even though it either had manure or fertilizer spread on it, all there is is just burn't out short crap. Photo is of the best spot where there is a spring coming out of the side of the hill LOL. I'd be jumping for joy if it was all that tall and thick. My son took the pic.  |
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Post by Beerwiser on Jul 26, 2020 23:40:17 GMT -6
Shit, one extreme to the next. Mother nature needs a kick in the ass.....
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Post by northernfarmer on Jul 28, 2020 10:06:52 GMT -6
While I don't hay I see the neighbors struggling in the last while trying to get some done and those that took the chance and cut some a bit ago have not fared well as we kept on getting random rain clouds coming over every other day and re soaking the windrows. Finally just in the last few days the rain has stayed away and the temps come up but I see risk of thundershowers once again. I bet the ground was not great if they had low spots, still have standing water in crop in the lower spots.
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tsipp
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Post by tsipp on Aug 31, 2020 21:52:19 GMT -6
I’m almost done haying, just a few patches left of crapy rough ground that I should clean up. Fairly poor stand this year in general, probably a little below average so I cut most of the fields with a
730 case ih pull type swather, last year I used the front half of a 742 ih and it would always cut everything but the knife jammed really easily on the 730 and it’s a 540 rpm machine so I started using the 1000 shaft and would run the swather around 700 rpm and the jamming totally stopped and worked great. I did put new guards and sickles on and it helped but the extra speed worked really well, it would probably be a good idea to slow the reals and canvas a little, I did cut about 700 acres with it at 700 rpm and didn’t find any adverse effects so maybe I’m onto something, maybe everyone does this. The tractor did use a lot Les fuel running at a slower speed so that was a little bonus.
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Post by Beerwiser on Aug 31, 2020 22:31:18 GMT -6
One thing I found is the course serrated sections are way better than the fine serrated ones. I had half and half on that pos Heston. Fine would always plug up first. I have extra fine on a old coop 550 for cleaning up and that won't cut a danm thing.
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tsipp
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Post by tsipp on Sept 1, 2020 5:59:47 GMT -6
I put the course on it and I thought maybe I should have went with the fine ones, but a fast knife just about cuts anything. I think it was the type of grass that was the real problem I’m not sure what type the grass is but it’s a single blade usually 10 inches long and tip actually curls down and touches the ground, I seeded this stuff about 20 years ago as a hay mixture and this single blade stuff eventually took over but it makes good fall grazing, I don’t have a real problem cutting alfalfa or brome.
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