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Miocene

gcreek -yes, cut last friday hsd some fall rye that was upto my arm pits 6 acres made 35 4x5 foot silage bales another 6 acres of weeds made 8 bales then we had a baler break down .took out 2 pick up tine bars about 10:30 sunday morning got them ordered monday finaly recieved them today at noon should be back together by noon tomorow.started cutting at noon today.crop looks better than last year.will see how it bales up.
 
gcreekrch said:
Wouldn't it be nice if haying machinery broke down in the winter when a guy had time to fix it?

Will start cutting here next week sometime.
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Ha that made me laugh I made 5 bales this year before my first bearing went out. It was a sealed bearing behind the drive sproket on the pickup. Of course I had 200 bales worth on the ground. It only rained 1 1/2 inches that night on big raked up windrows. :mad:
 
Denny said:
gcreekrch said:
Wouldn't it be nice if haying machinery broke down in the winter when a guy had time to fix it?

Will start cutting here next week sometime.
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Ha that made me laugh I made 5 bales this year before my first bearing went out. It was a sealed bearing behind the drive sproket on the pickup. Of course I had 200 bales worth on the ground. It only rained 1 1/2 inches that night on big raked up windrows. :mad:
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That's just a bear. We're kinda lucky around here in that if a baler breaks down, I can call a neighbour or a neighbour can call me should one of us run into trouble.

It happened here a few weeks ago when I was almost finished baling haylage and the wrapper was waiting on me to finish the field so he could finish wrapping . . . the back UV joint on the PTO shaft fell apart at 8:00 PM and I had no replacement. But I had a neighbour with a baler that wasn't baling at the moment and he gotter done.

It's good to have good neighbours living fairly close by in more ways than one.
 
well we,re up and going again,thre old boy put the wind guard in by himself and had a rod stuck in behind the stuffer so things wouldn.t turn. once that was removed things worked good .i was cutting thie back swath on a field this afternoon and hit a rock knocking out 4 knives no bi deal but also lost a crop riser those things run $122 plus tax per pair new and not a used one to be had at the dealer. for2 a pieces of cast iron and a couple of bolts annd nuts that is a ripoff
 
Glad to hear haying season is progressing normally for everyone. :twisted:
We are still waiting to cut and have some seeding left to do. another half inch tonight to go with the 1 and a half on Wednesday night. I can think of worse problems, and at least we are fixing...
 
Big thunder boomer rolled by at 2am and deposited more rain. :mad: Started baling yesterday. :cry: It was in surprisingly good shape considering it has been repeatedly washed. Send up the heat. :roll:
 
We've tested a lot of rained on hay, per, and what you lose is vitamins and minerals. The protein won't be affected much. Of course if you turn
alfalfa hay several times, that's a different story--because of losing
the leaves.

We had alfalfa get rained on several times last year, just
waited it out and let it lay and it was fine. Cows liked it and
it tested good.

I know it's hard to wait tho...
 
Haven't a won't likely roll mine. It is siting up pretty good. I am juicing it with acidophilus and lactic acid and baling at 30% and under. I don't like raking alfalfa. Too much to loose.
 
Faster horses said:
Would you repeat that? :D
"Haven't a won't likely roll mine"... :???: :D
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Roll over as in rake. It is in a windrow and being as I am only aiming for 30% I won't rake it.
 
per said:
Haven't a won't likely roll mine. It is siting up pretty good. I am juicing it with acidophilus and lactic acid and baling at 30% and under. I don't like raking alfalfa. Too much to loose.
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That's interesting, I find I get more alfalfa leaves when I rake.
 
Silver said:
per said:
Haven't a won't likely roll mine. It is siting up pretty good. I am juicing it with acidophilus and lactic acid and baling at 30% and under. I don't like raking alfalfa. Too much to loose.
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That's interesting, I find I get more alfalfa leaves when I rake.
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Even with our high humidity conditions I find that if I rake after about 111:30 in the morning I knock a lot of leaves off. In the evening after the dew begins to fall or in the morning after it starts to dry off a bit is the only time I can rake without losing a lot of leaves. Kind of a small window for a slow job here.

How do you figure you get more leaves when you rake?
 
burnt said:
Silver said:
per said:
Haven't a won't likely roll mine. It is siting up pretty good. I am juicing it with acidophilus and lactic acid and baling at 30% and under. I don't like raking alfalfa. Too much to loose.
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That's interesting, I find I get more alfalfa leaves when I rake.
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:???: :???: :???:

Even with our high humidity conditions I find that if I rake after about 111:30 in the morning I knock a lot of leaves off. In the evening after the dew begins to fall or in the morning after it starts to dry off a bit is the only time I can rake without losing a lot of leaves. Kind of a small window for a slow job here.

How do you figure you get more leaves when you rake?
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I get more leaves when I rake for a couple of reasons. If I don't rake and I wait until the swath is dry right to the bottom then the top is too dry and the leaves there shatter and are 'gone with the wind'. But if I rake well before the top is dry and while the bottom is still wet, few leaves are lost, and the resulting windrow will dry evenly and can be baled before it gets to the point of being too dry.
Ever since we got our v-rake our dry alfalfa has had far more leaves in it than when we did not rake, and the quality of hay has been superior.
 
I don't think I lose a single leaf since baling between 20 and 30%. Some day I might test your theory on dry hay.
 
per said:
I don't think I lose a single leaf since baling between 20 and 30%. Some day I might test your theory on dry hay.
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Most of ours this year has been baled at 40% or more then straight into a bag.... there's not enough hay this year to lose anything :?
 
several years ago dad &I invested in a tube liner,it certainly takes the pressure off when we get bad weather. when you figure it out the cost is about the same as dry hay and no raking is involved,the bales are picked up immediately instead off sitting in the field till we get time to do it. as the season get later the distance between swather &baler decreases .i know 1 guy who runs as close as 45 feet.
 
miocene said:
several years ago dad &I invested in a tube liner,it certainly takes the pressure off when we get bad weather. when you figure it out the cost is about the same as dry hay and no raking is involved,the bales are picked up immediately instead off sitting in the field till we get time to do it. as the season get later the distance between swather &baler decreases .i know 1 guy who runs as close as 45 feet.
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Different times we have been baling withing 2 hrs of cutting. The folks with all the knowledge say you can't do that, but it looked to us to be pretty fine feed. I don't know why it would be different than putting up loose silage where it is straight cut, chopped, and stuck in a pit...
Like you say, miocene, one of the nice things is that the hay is immediately clean of bales and free to regrow at it's leisure.
 

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