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TimH

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You guys probably don't want to hear this, but.............. I had to quit baling because it is TOO DRY. It was still pretty tough at noon so went out at 3:00 and good to go. That blast furnace NW wind has it so dry right now that it is just shattering and leaves flying everywhere. :shock:
I'm gonna have a beer(or 2), a steak and a nap(in that order), and head back out when the wind dies off and the dew drops down.

Go ahead and call me a Turd now. :D :wink:
 
The guys here have been doing most of the baling from about 9:30 in the morning till 1 or 2 in the afternoon. Quit for the rest of the day, then go back out around 10:00 at night till about 2 in the morning. We passed this afternoon away in the local bar (our version of celebrating Canada Day), but most afternoons we're cutting hay and other odd jobs.
 
Brad S said:
Tim In kansas we bale at night almost exclusively. When I'm on RNet late at night, I'm usually baling hay also.
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Brad, I bale at night quite often, as well. It was amazing how the hay went from raggy-wet to powder dry in a matter of a few hours yesterday. Gotta love that wind.
I managed to go all night, just got in at 7:30. Covered enough ground that I am almost caught up to the swather. The section I was on is mostly on a hill and as an added bonus I got to watch the Canada Day fireworks displays from 4 different towns. Gotta love the prairies.
I'm off to bed until the crack of noon or 2:00. :D :D
 
Not going call you names Tim. :shock:

That same wind is doing us a world of good. The humidity yesterday afternoon was really low, and it's done a lot of drying for us. Hubby is going to try and bale this afternoon, which is amazing less than 48 hours after a three inch rain! :D

Besides, the rain made it so we could take in the fireworks last night. They fired them off over the lake, and everyone brought their lawn chairs and sat on the beach to watch. It was a perfect night for it. We had a wonderful time.

And best of all .... there were NO MOSQUITOES!!!!!!!! :wink:
 
Tim,

You lucky bugger.... our hay is still lying in water :shock: Think I will have to put the tracks on to bale it....lol
Glad to hear your getting your hay up!!
 
We just had another strong thunderstom move through here brought the haying operations to a stop. Got over an inch of rain in just a few minutes.
 
Kato said:
Not going call you names Tim. :shock:

That same wind is doing us a world of good. The humidity yesterday afternoon was really low, and it's done a lot of drying for us. Hubby is going to try and bale this afternoon, which is amazing less than 48 hours after a three inch rain! :D

Besides, the rain made it so we could take in the fireworks last night. They fired them off over the lake, and everyone brought their lawn chairs and sat on the beach to watch. It was a perfect night for it. We had a wonderful time.

And best of all .... there were NO MOSQUITOES!!!!!!!! :wink:[/quote

What lake?
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I' getting the same weather as M R today it only rained in one place in the valley and that was my hayfields. Now its clouding up like it wants to do it again.
 
Neighbors to the south barley got enough to lay the dust and here we had a hard time getting up the old trail to get the tractor back home.
 
cowboyup said:
I' getting the same weather as M R today it only rained in one place in the valley and that was my hayfields. Now its clouding up like it wants to do it again.
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I'm starting to think there are some of us that are living wrong- or right- whichever way you want to look at it...In talking with the neighbors, it sounds like the only place that really got rain was my place where the hayfields were all down-- Cousin a mile north of me only got a 1/10th where we got the 3/4's of an inch- most areas got none...

Some of the farmers around here are starting to think the only way they'll get anything out of their wheat crops is if the white reaper moves thru and they can collect on insurance....In some of the poorer ground areas the wheat is burned enough now down on the stems that all the rain in the world isn't going to help.......

Old friend up the river is still claiming that July is going to turn wet- with rain storms galore moving up out of the Pacific-- better hurry up an do it , or it won't matter much....
 
We got hit again about eleven and then again at two so I'm shut down till after the fourth and all the forecasts call for showers.

The neighbors straight west of us across the river had one field hit and another a mile north didn't get a thing so they are haying today.
 
Brad S said:
Tim In kansas we bale at night almost exclusively. When I'm on RNet late at night, I'm usually baling hay also.
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The alfalfa that I've been involved in putting up in Nebraska has been late at night or early in the morning. Wild hay though we like to put up dry.
 
For you guys having trouble with dry hay, if you've got some extra coins kicking around, you may want to consider buying an old M&W chain baler as a backup. I've got a 1999 5506 as my primary, and when its paid off, I plan to keep it as a backup. I was baling hay today that was testing 11 and 12 with almost no leaf loss (just a little loss off the pickup). I've seen older 1800s selling for as little as $2000 in decent shape, because no-one knows anything about them. The twine tie is a little finnicky, but not bad. My 5506 is a soft core, but will roll a 1400 lb bale at 7 mph. Definitely one of the better, if not the best, softcore baler on the market. It certainly beats trying to bale at 4 am.

Note: The 1800s are a little slower, around 5 mph to get a 1500lb soft core bale. One of the custom guys keeps an 1800 around for poor conditions. Wet or dry, they'll roll pretty much anything.

Rod
 
Heck if you own a newer hesston baler just get a $200 short crop kit in it and you can bale anytime it is real dry. We can bale when its real hot and dry and always have all the leaves.
 
Thanks for this info MR. My dealer hadn't mentioned a word about it. I'd passed by the Hesstons as they were more money in my neck of the woods, but didn't appear to buy me anything more than the Case I was looking at.

I don't spose you can tell what the kit entails? I looked on Hesston's site but they had nothing on. Does it slow you down at all when you get into heavy stuff? No leaf loss out the back of the baler like other belt balers?

Rod
 
DiamondSCattleCo said:
Thanks for this info MR. My dealer hadn't mentioned a word about it. I'd passed by the Hesstons as they were more money in my neck of the woods, but didn't appear to buy me anything more than the Case I was looking at.

I don't spose you can tell what the kit entails? I looked on Hesston's site but they had nothing on. Does it slow you down at all when you get into heavy stuff? No leaf loss out the back of the baler like other belt balers?

Rod
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The short crop kit consists of jsut a bar that bolts into the baler jsut above the pickup. Four bolts hold it in and its easy to put in and take out. It doesnt slow you down at all in the heavy stuff. And you dont loose hardly any leaves. Some day when I have the baler door up I will take a pix of it. We never take ours out.
 
DiamondSCattleCo said:
For you guys having trouble with dry hay, if you've got some extra coins kicking around, you may want to consider buying an old M&W chain baler as a backup. I've got a 1999 5506 as my primary, and when its paid off, I plan to keep it as a backup. I was baling hay today that was testing 11 and 12 with almost no leaf loss (just a little loss off the pickup). I've seen older 1800s selling for as little as $2000 in decent shape, because no-one knows anything about them. The twine tie is a little finnicky, but not bad. My 5506 is a soft core, but will roll a 1400 lb bale at 7 mph. Definitely one of the better, if not the best, softcore baler on the market. It certainly beats trying to bale at 4 am.

Note: The 1800s are a little slower, around 5 mph to get a 1500lb soft core bale. One of the custom guys keeps an 1800 around for poor conditions. Wet or dry, they'll roll pretty much anything.

Rod
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I have the same baler it will eat as big of windrow as you can make.We baled some new seeding last year and when I fed the bales last winter there were rocks in the bale's as big as muskmelons.And plenty of tree branches.They will also bale whole corn stalks you dont even need to chop them.I have a 595 OMC drum baler also it make 5x6 bales it will bale better in the lowground the pickup on my M&W gets in the mud and it breaks the teeth off.
 

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