Anyone made any hay yet?
- Thread starter Goweresque
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Grassman
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- Derbyshire
Managed to make 140 nice haylage today.
Looks good .
Ummm...........anyone tried making hay in October....
got 15 acres of second cut left to do but if it isnt cut by this time next wk I will just top it, too may other things to do and the ground is now damp and days shortUmmm...........anyone tried making hay in October....
This today? Peeded it down here all day in Cumbria and most of the week and looks like same for next week.
Same here in Mid Wales
Clever Dic
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- Location
- Melton
Once you make that mental decision to say no more I am done it is a huge release .
Sat in France now slightly wavy courtesy of bar Barbylone thinking that's it for another season.
Just sold our house here and a combination of end of another hectic summer season and selling our house in which our very young kids learnt to ski but are now young adults makes me reflective on time passing by.
Get me another beer please. ..
Sat in France now slightly wavy courtesy of bar Barbylone thinking that's it for another season.
Just sold our house here and a combination of end of another hectic summer season and selling our house in which our very young kids learnt to ski but are now young adults makes me reflective on time passing by.
Get me another beer please. ..
Is that the one in Les gets ? What made you sell it ?
Goweresque
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- Location
- North Wilts
I was wondering if anyone had managed to make any hay recently, well done
You must have had better weather than here, no way anyone could have made hay here over the last week or so, had the odd sunny day, but mostly been rather autumnal. No sign of any warm weather in the offing either. I've been cutting and splitting logs instead........
- Location
- Near Colchester
Finished the 'hay' today.
This stuff should be very valuable as it is an example of the extremely rare 'Three Test Match Hay'
Cut during the first Test against the Windies, turned throughout the second, baled on day one of the third.
Anyone care to bid?
This stuff should be very valuable as it is an example of the extremely rare 'Three Test Match Hay'
Cut during the first Test against the Windies, turned throughout the second, baled on day one of the third.
Anyone care to bid?
Clever Dic
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- Location
- Melton
Funnily enough bloody hay making was one reason. As getting older getting fed up with stressful no sun summers so have decided in the winter to catch some sun rather than ski.Also have taken my day skipper sailing certificate so enjoying this more and more.
My daughter is studying agriculture at uni and is having a year as part of her degree at the university of Sydney so we are having that 1 big family holiday this Christmas out there.
What is sad really is the marking of time we have had it 12 years and it is another chapter closing.
However new diffrent adventures are around the corner for my wife and I as long as the kids don't kill us for selling the chalet lol.
Grassman
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- Location
- Derbyshire
Just baled the last 10 acres of what was to be second cut seeds haylage but it's silage. Been down ages. Cloud or rain nearly every day. Just hopeless this year.
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
STOP!!!
You are about to bale the Queen!
Simon Chiles
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- Surrey/ Kent Border, UK
Now you're talking sense. I can thoroughly recommend sailing in the Med off Turkey and Greece. You can get to some quiet bays that would suit a Bacardi advert away from the normal holiday makers. However when I was 18 I took a 25ft yacht to Spain through a force 10 gale in the Bay of Biscay. I was left single handily to helm as my crew mates were so ill they had to strap themselves into their bunks for 4 days. With waves bigger than your average oak tree and clocking 24 knots on a fully reefed main and a storm jib no bigger than a handkerchief was more than exciting, I seriously thought I was going to die. In those days we didn't have any sat nav so navigation was by plotting your course over the last hour and marking on a map how far you thought you'd travelled. By the time I got to the North Coast of Spain I was 20 miles out which I was quite pleased with. Sailed into La Coruna as the locals were celebrating the repeal of Drake, not a good time to fly a Red Ensign, they had rocket fireworks with sticks like broom handles that they launched by hand and the local band had shimmied up the electricity poles, stripped the wire back and twisted their cables on to power their electric guitars. They were doing covers of the Quo......
Anyway I digress, finished baling on August bank holiday Monday.
For those with some left to do I can assure you that I've made hay in October before now and it's been OK but hard to get as so few drying hours in a day.
Clever Dic
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- Melton
Yes Athens in 2 weeks for a week of island hopping.Turkey is also excellent.
Your Biscay story I don't need thanks .
Not sure I want any of that.
Shorts, G&T and sun that's my idea.
- Location
- Near Colchester
Is this some attempt to get us off the horrible haymaking problems?
Making hay in October may be possible here and in Kent in some years but I would bet that it would be even more tricky any further North and West.
My equine hay is racing out of the shed and I have quite bulky second cut I have just found on some outlaying land that I haven't visited for some time...............
Grassman
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- Location
- Derbyshire
One good thing to come out if this haylage I had to dump is it seems the constant tedding knocked the seeds out and the field looks like it's been reseeded!
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