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Some pictures if I get'em up.

burnt

Well-known member
Well this didn't turn out again! I'm not getting something right when I move these over from the gallery. Just got the thumbnails.

Madder than a wet hen!


Luckily, I mowed lawn yesterday.


5' culvert running full, usually less than 1'.


Well it WAS dry when I parked the rake here!


Two months ago, a trickle, now 4' deep.


This trough collected 6" of rain water since I put it there less than 1wk. ago


Foraging ahead.


Before and after, right down to the wire. I move it ahead 8', 2 or 3 times a day.


Mud on a sand hill!


"Momma says I gotta eat this burdock tonic." And they do!


More than enough water. Lotsa grass.


"No need to get pushy, you can get your own!"


Best bovine forage.
 

allen57

Well-known member
burnt said:
Well this didn't turn out again! I'm not getting something right when I move these over from the gallery. Just got the thumbnails.

Madder than a wet hen!


Luckily, I mowed lawn yesterday.


5' culvert running full, usually less than 1'.


Well it WAS dry when I parked the rake here!


Two months ago, a trickle, now 4' deep.


This trough collected 6" of rain water since I put it there less than 1wk. ago


Foraging ahead.


Before and after, right down to the wire. I move it ahead 8', 2 or 3 times a day.


Mud on a sand hill!


"Momma says I gotta eat this burdock tonic." And they do!


More than enough water. Lotsa grass.


"No need to get pushy, you can get your own!"


Best bovine forage.
 

Big Muddy rancher

Well-known member
We used a pair of those rakes on a tandem hitch. Both left handed 7 footer. I put lots of 15 ft swaths together with those things. One got wrecked and I used the other one hitched to my V rake to merge 2 light rows together last year. :D

Did you miss the wind that hit south of Dungannon the other night?
 

burnt

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Thank you, allen57. What did you do to make it work? I fiddled with it for over an hour before I posted them and couldn't get it. :?

BMr, I'd like to put two together opposing each other for putting two rows of light hay (2nd cut) together.

For 1st cut, I just use the last 4' of the rake to just flip the windrow over the morning of the day I bale it. This summer I made an offset extension for the tractor draw bar so I don't have to drive on the windrow in order to use just the end of the rake.

We were fortunate to miss the storm that hit Dungannon. I guess they really got hammered up. Got hit by kind of a microburst they said. Just 5 miles west of us they had a smash of hail go through and slashed the corn and beans to the stalk in places. Dungannon is about 20 miles west of us.

Do you know if Jeff got hit? I don't know where he lives.
 

Big Muddy rancher

Well-known member
burnt said:
Thank you, allen57. What did you do to make it work? I fiddled with it for over an hour before I posted them and couldn't get it. :?

BMr, I'd like to put two together opposing each other for putting two rows of light hay (2nd cut) together.

For 1st cut, I just use the last 4' of the rake to just flip the windrow over the morning of the day I bale it. This summer I made an offset extension for the tractor draw bar so I don't have to drive on the windrow in order to use just the end of the rake.

We were fortunate to miss the storm that hit Dungannon. I guess they really got hammered up. Got hit by kind of a microburst they said. Just 5 miles west of us they had a smash of hail go through and slashed the corn and beans to the stalk in places. Dungannon is about 20 miles west of us.

Do you know if Jeff got hit? I don't know where he lives.

It missed his farm as it's a mile and a half north of Dungannon. He was glad it did as his barn doors were open to the west.

Our hitch was an L shape with a caster wheel beside the front rake hitch and a wheel on the side in front of the back rake.
 

Silver

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Hey Burnt, I've got a mob grazing question for you. In the fall when the grass is dormant, do you still bring up a fence behind the herd as well? And how much further will your grazing go at that time of year?
I envy your water and forage, things look good.
 

burnt

Well-known member
Silver said:
Hey Burnt, I've got a mob grazing question for you. In the fall when the grass is dormant, do you still bring up a fence behind the herd as well? And how much further will your grazing go at that time of year?
I envy your water and forage, things look good.

That's a tough question to answer because the past few years we have been so dry that we had no pasture much beyond early to mid-September. Hit the bales early . . .

I don't usually move fence like I am this year but rather just move the cows from paddock to paddock about once every 5 -7 days. The grass just got ahead of them this year because we have far less cows and rain makes grass grow. So this is not my area of expertise at all.

Usually they get over all the pasture ground twice in a season, about 4 - 5 weeks between seeing the same ground.

Then after the 2nd pass I try to keep them off of all the pastures until there is a good top or freeze up. Last fall I didn't get them back onto one paddock at all for the 3rd pass and this year it is my best producing pasture so that sure was a lesson for me.

And when it's dry like it was for a few summers, it's pretty easy to overgraze and then it takes a year or more for the field to get back to good productivity.

You just got to leave a bottom in the grass no matter what your practice is.
 
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