- Location
- Hereford
.....If its in beer tokens £1 a bale otherwise I would want £400 . ..350 bales sounds about 5 acres . Its lot of hassle!
Hay making 2022
- Thread starter carbonfibre farmer
- Start date
Timothy doesn't lose its digestible when it's stemmy as much as other grasses
He only rowed it up and baled it
- Location
- Hereford
But surely its a £1 a bale these days for just baling ...... I don't really know but with diesel and string prices
Don't know tbh , avoid little bales like the plagueBut surely its a £1 a bale these days for just baling ...... I don't really know but with diesel and string prices
- Location
- somerset
big difference in helping a neighbour out, and contracting. Helping your neighbour is good, you may need a hand yourself, one day. Work out what it cost, tell them, and leave it to them, there's always another day.
M-J-G
Member
Timothy is mainly popular for hay as it grows to huge bulk and goes like straw so is easily made into hay.
Unfortunately it feeds like straw too.
- Location
- somerset
as a student, timothy was grown for seed. The threshed hay, had gone to feed elephants at a zoo/circus, that contract was lost. So little baled it, wire baler -flints, and stacked the bundles of wire wool in barn. Come the winter, those bundles of wire wool, were eaten, with relish, by the dairy herd. Big surprise.
- Location
- Cheltenham
Yes indeed. Round and round.
- Location
- Yorkshire
Yes my answer was to the question I quoted where he clearly said he did it for a neighbour and they keep asking him how much they owe. I know you can go contracting and ask to be paid what the person thinks and they quite happily give you nothing. Yes helping your neighbour is good I know all about that as I'm sat here with two people one not even a neighbour coming to do some work with sheep for me as I have broken my leg so not able to do much
- Location
- Near Colchester
Horses love Timothy hay too.
- Location
- somerset
had a load of timothy hay, come in, last year, consisting of the headlands, of several pure timothy leys, grown for serious horses, headlands might be contaminated, by different grasses, so were discarded, from the rest. Our stock didn't worry, beautiful stuff.
- Location
- Near Colchester
Yes, serious horses in the UK love the pure Timothy, I am not brave enough to put in a pure stand though as it takes 2 years to establish properly.
Very serious horses only eat Kentucky Blue Grass, can't grow that here though.
Chris123
Member
- Location
- Shropshire
Depends on the neighbour some of ours will be your best mate when they want or need something and wouldn’t pee on you if you were on fire the rest of the time.
if it’s the later £50 for the raking and £1 a bale so £400
If they are friends and you don’t need the money crate of your favourite beer and tell them you might need their help one day.
Shout out for Hurrels diplod and timothy mix , best hay I've ever made . weather helped
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- Location
- Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos
They’re all at today, including me
Best get your finger out , friday isn't looking great
Jon 3085
Member
- Location
- Worcester, UK
Cut another field.
Spencer
Member
- Location
- North West
- Location
- somerset
been asked to make someone's hay, didn't ask, when we did ours last week, so pain in the butt job. Drove by today, someone else cutting it 
basically, he got told he could have it, didn't do anything, so owner gave it to someone else. A lesson learnt, maybe ? These incomers, just want it to look tidy, 11 acres.
basically, he got told he could have it, didn't do anything, so owner gave it to someone else. A lesson learnt, maybe ? These incomers, just want it to look tidy, 11 acres.