Jon 3085
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- Location
- Worcester, UK
No,bales fell on it in a storm in winter?Did that tree fall on your bonnet?
Hay making 2020
- Thread starter Mark C
- Start date
- Location
- Ceredigion
Hope health and sanity dont see that [emoji1]
farmerm
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- Location
- Shropshire
I think I am glad I didn't drop grass last Sunday, it would now be sitting rowed up ready to bale and wet this morn...
fieldfarmer
Member
Kabota bought kv and kv already owned vicon.
Northeastfarmer
Member
- Location
- Cleveland
Will just be feeding them to the cows as well
- Location
- South West
Hope the damage was just the mirror arm And exhaust pipe as hopefully the loader saved the tractor?
- Location
- NE Derbyshire
Of course, I remember now...
Goweresque
Member
- Location
- North Wilts
Around here its half the normal yield if you are lucky.
BDBed
Member
- Location
- Melton Mowbray
Another job done, just. Finished cleaning off the baler as the thunder, lightning and hail started. Got back to my yard dry as a bone. Close call today.
Lovely photo .
Does it make any difference as they are so tightly baled , we tend ease the pressure off hay , let it breathe .Will just be feeding them to the cows as well
Simon Chiles
DD Moderator
- Location
- Surrey/ Kent Border, UK
Cut this on Tuesday, turned once on Wednesday and Rowed up and baled on Thursday ( yesterday) the moisture meter on the baler rarely went above 8% ( 8% is the lowest it can read ) and the max it read was 16%. In a normal year it would normally max out on the odd wet lump but this year there wasn’t any. The average was 8% so effectively so dry that it couldn’t be read properly. It averaged 50 decent sized conventional bales per acre.
You've got some big acres Simon
Grassman
Member
- Location
- Derbyshire
Different world with you. Lovely big fields?We average about 5 acre fields so lots of headland bales.
Is yield down a lot. 100 is more a usual yield?
Simon Chiles
DD Moderator
- Location
- Surrey/ Kent Border, UK
It’s not all big fields. The hay we baled on Wednesday was one 11 acre field that we have to bale effectively as 4 fields and 4 others. The whole total was 25 acres.
- Location
- south norfolk, uk
Done a bit wednesday and Thursday, cut Sunday afternoon and Monday afternoon.
Shower here at 9am this morning with nearly 2mm, pleased I'd cleared it up.
@Magnum Man Had to slum it on a blue tractor for raking. Haven't got any red ones for him.
Shower here at 9am this morning with nearly 2mm, pleased I'd cleared it up.
@Magnum Man Had to slum it on a blue tractor for raking. Haven't got any red ones for him.
Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
I slackened the pressure off in centre slightly but I don’t like soft bales....if it goes like tobacco in the centre I won’t be too worried...the cows will fight over it
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Baled this evening. Seven and a half 4'6'' firm Welger bales to the acre. Old permanent pasture with no fert'. 4 day hay in Aberdeenshire isn't to be trusted so they will be laid out individually in a shed until the trust has been restored.