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i posted this on the new ag talk forums just seeing what everbodys biggest day for balingwas ...im still in shock that things worked so good and got everything baled up...i did 670 bales in 24 hours of alfalfa on 140 acres...about 14 hours of baling time....i shattered my record of 350 in one day...the hay was nice and dry, it was alfalfa and was only laying for 5 days...this first cutting did not too far off of 4 ton an acre! like i said im still in schock cuz things dont usually go that good and if rain is coming it seems you have a break down....i got done and within half hour it started pouring the only down time i had was roughly 15 minutes of changing netwrap 3 times...this was baled with 567 baler with netwrap and megawide pickup
 
670 bales :shock:

I didn't get that many haying all summer last year. Probably won't again this year.

That's a pile of hay. good for you. It's nice when a plan comes together. :D

Now quit your braggin' :wink: :lol: :lol:
 
well i've been at it for about a week and got about 30 made so far :? :???: i think last year i did about 450 in 16 hours, and i know i slept in the tractor for a couple hours waiting for the dew to lift....i think it was something like that, hell i don't know. this haying season has got me talkin' to my self already, and it just started. :?
 
Well that's pretty impressive! It sure is nice when things work out like that!

My day on the baler was not so much fun. The net wrapper was as stubborn as a mule and I sure got my exercise jumping off and on that tractor. :evil: But I got done.
 
Well - we might as well talk about magical bales done in a day - warning this is a thread hijack.

Got a Skype call from the old gal today - seems our baler disappeared from the shop a day or so ago - she noticed it missing late the other night when she walked in to grab some cat food from a bin - she had not been in the shop for a week or two and did not know exactly when it might have left - and she thought about calling the police - but figured one of the neighbours might have come and got it unannounced as everyone was in a hurry to get the local hay done up before the forecast big rain came.

Seems the baler and a couple hundred bales showed up late today at the house - the neighbours son Chris - home from college had been in the back of our place on his four wheeler recently and he figured the hay was ready and he knew I was away - so he did it up for us without telling anyone - now I do not have to do it when I get home next month for a two week break

Probably have to take him and his girlfriend out for a pizza and a beer when I get home.

Now if I could only get him to do up the next 3000 bales on the rented land - I would be in real heaven!

Kid is 21 years old and raised right

Cheers

BC
 
Broke Cowboy said:
Well - we might as well talk about magical bales done in a day - warning this is a thread hijack.

Got a Skype call from the old gal today - seems our baler disappeared from the shop a day or so ago - she noticed it missing late the other night when she walked in to grab some cat food from a bin - she had not been in the shop for a week or two and did not know exactly when it might have left - and she thought about calling the police - but figured one of the neighbours might have come and got it unannounced as everyone was in a hurry to get the local hay done up before the forecast big rain came.

Seems the baler and a couple hundred bales showed up late today at the house - the neighbours son Chris - home from college had been in the back of our place on his four wheeler recently and he figured the hay was ready and he knew I was away - so he did it up for us without telling anyone - now I do not have to do it when I get home next month for a two week break

Probably have to take him and his girlfriend out for a pizza and a beer when I get home.

Now if I could only get him to do up the next 3000 bales on the rented land - I would be in real heaven!

Kid is 21 years old and raised right

Cheers

BC
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Man, that's almost grounds for leaving him in your Last Will and Testament for sure!!!


Good for you and hope he nevers leaves the area!!!
 
tlakota said:
i posted this on the new ag talk forums just seeing what everbodys biggest day for balingwas ...im still in shock that things worked so good and got everything baled up...i did 670 bales in 24 hours of alfalfa on 140 acres...about 14 hours of baling time....i shattered my record of 350 in one day...the hay was nice and dry, it was alfalfa and was only laying for 5 days...this first cutting did not too far off of 4 ton an acre! like i said im still in schock cuz things dont usually go that good and if rain is coming it seems you have a break down....i got done and within half hour it started pouring the only down time i had was roughly 15 minutes of changing netwrap 3 times...this was baled with 567 baler with netwrap and megawide pickup
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Very good! Never underestimate the power of green. :wink: The mega wide 568s work awesome, as well. Even harder to plug up.
 
14 hours times 60 minutes = 840 minutes / 670 bales = one bale every 1.25 minutes ( one minute and 15 seconds with no time for turning on the ends or moving to another area of the field, put in twine, pee or anything else.)

You are much better than me!
 
Last year we did a 160 acre field in one night started about 9:00 pm and finally got done about 11:00 am the next morning. I don't really remember exactly how many bales there where but I think it was around 550-600 3x3 bales. I keeped thinking that they hay was going to get to wet to keep baling but it never did. I was good the whole night staying up but when that sun finally came up that morning dang that was the hardest 6 hrs of trying to stay up.
 
George said:
14 hours times 60 minutes = 840 minutes / 670 bales = one bale every 1.25 minutes ( one minute and 15 seconds with no time for turning on the ends or moving to another area of the field, put in twine, pee or anything else.)

You are much better than me!
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I have been in crops where I could make a bale in 1 min 20 seconds from tailgate close to tailgate close, tying with string. In this case he's using netwrap rather than string, so I assume that should be quicker yet.
I do know I will likely never have such a day, but I'm okay with that :wink:
 
i changed net wrap 3 times and never took a leak i dont know how...i timed it of actualy baling down the windrow and not including turning around i was doing 1 bale in 1min 10 seconds all day long...with our 8480 before this baler...it would have taken me a week to get that much hay baled
 
burnt said:
Netwrap makes an amazing difference in time saving.
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Not really. You give all that time back at feeding time. :?
Never, ever, ever again.
 

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