Anyone made any hay yet?

[Clever Dic]

Mowing 75 acres now for haylage hopefully get it nearly there by Wednesday and if it does rain it's surface water on not over mature grass so should shake off easily Thurday to bale. That's the plan..fingers crossed.
Still got 700 acres to get so got take a chance.

 

[hang-on]

Mowing 75 acres now for haylage hopefully get it nearly there by Wednesday and if it does rain it's surface water on not over mature grass so should shake off easily Thurday to bale. That's the plan..fingers crossed.
Still got 700 acres to get so got take a chance.

I don't feel just so bad that I have 30acres of first cut left now [emoji15]

 

[holywell farmer]

I herd off a contractor who got fired from job once when turned up 11pm to bale the hey farmer wasn't having as drew had set in

 

[davieh3350]

Mowed it Friday afternoon and left it till yesterday afternoon to throw about

It got damp Saturday morning but dried up and the wind got blowing.
Threw it about a few times today, it was roasting and blowy, too blowy in fact, I had to turn and row up across the slope/ploughing... bouncy as hell Because the wind was blowing the bouts over.

Slowed me right down, but it's baled.

 

[FG.]

No it isn't.
Actually giving in and turning on the windscreen wiper is!

I disagree, getting back to the yard after rowing up 30 acres for the big baler and being greeted by rain.
Didn't even get the chance to get in the tractor to put the wiper on! (Last year)

 

[davieh3350]

Why is there no "I feel your pain" button on TFF?

 

[onthehoof]

Still got 700 acres to get so got take a chance.

Yup time to stop looking at weather forecast and crack on - September just around the corner

 

[Grassman]

Yup time to stop looking at weather forecast and crack on - September just around the corner

Remember last year though. Plenty of reasonable stuff got made late on.

 

[bobk]

Well the 2 day dry spell appears to be 1 ....

 

[Roy_H]

I've accidentally tedded fields for the wrong people several times over the years. Sometimes directions like "past the church, on the left" could refer to several options. If "you can't miss it" is included in the description, there's a very good chance that you can!

A couple of years ago I spotted a contractor's rake turn up in an 80acre field of my wet straw. I had a quick check that rain was still forecast later that day before I went and pointed out to the lad that the straw was nothing to do with them. I suggested he could accidentally turn it in a few days when the forecast was better, but he didn't come back!

One of our neighbours employed a new lad and sent him to spread some fertilizer on a field. The lad must have got a bit confused when his new boss told him where the field was because he spread it on our field instead

 

[Clever Dic]

For hay or is trickier but in haylage I would much sooner it was cut when ready and had a shower or two then wait till it's gone well over the top.

 

[Clever Dic]

Got to love weather forcasting...
Met office and met check for begining of August .......totally opposite.

 

[Grassman]

I gave up with met check. Just use bbc, itv, met office and Simon paid for service.

 

[RushesToo]

I have kept half an eye on Corbyn senior [Yes - as in Jeremy] who has run an interesting weather site for a good while - here:
http://www.weatheraction.com/
It is visually about the worst website on the planet [clearly managed by the owner - typical scientist] but I would be interested in whether any of the predications available here:
http://www.weatheraction.com/pages/pv.asp?p=wact41
were any good. In the past there seemed to be some quite solid longer term forecasts - a month or so and I have oft wondered about the accuracy.

Enjoy, for many and varied reasons.

 

[Goweresque]

I have kept half an eye on Corbyn senior [Yes - as in Jeremy] who has run an interesting weather site for a good while - here:
http://www.weatheraction.com/
It is visually about the worst website on the planet [clearly managed by the owner - typical scientist] but I would be interested in whether any of the predications available here:
http://www.weatheraction.com/pages/pv.asp?p=wact41
were any good. In the past there seemed to be some quite solid longer term forecasts - a month or so and I have oft wondered about the accuracy.

Enjoy, for many and varied reasons.

I too was intrigued by Corbyn senior and did pay for a few of his forecasts a few years ago, but never found them that accurate or useful. Thats not to say he's a crank, its entirely possible that his method is capable of predicting the more extreme weather events, he certainly seems to major on that sort of thing - big storms, heatwaves, blizzards etc. The day to day weather seems to be less his thing.

 

[Clever Dic]

I doubt very much these days that they can accurately forecast Christmas.

 

[Pan mixer]

I doubt very much these days that they can accurately forecast Christmas.

It is still one heck of a lot better than it was 30 years ago.

 

[Simon Chiles]

I doubt very much these days that they can accurately forecast Christmas.

Many moons ago I used to subscribe to Piers Corbyn's weather forecasts when it cost £12/year and he would regularly place a bet with William Hill about this time of the year on what the weather would be on Christmas Day and I think he won about 80% of the time. However he then launched into a PLC and issued shares on the stock exchange an the forecasts went from £12 to £500 which was a tad over the current rate of inflation so I dropped out.
His theory is that weather isn't random at all but is affected by solar activity and by studying solar flares enables him to predict the weather at least 6 months in advance. Because of this theory he is also of the opinion that global warming is actually nonsense as it is all down to solar activity.
Whilst I had the forecasts for many years I would say he was right about 70-80% of the time although some months he got completely wrong. When you compare the accuracy of this to the likes of the Met Office I can't help but think that he may well be right.

 

[Clever Dic]

Mowing 75 acres now for haylage hopefully get it nearly there by Wednesday and if it does rain it's surface water on not over mature grass so should shake off easily Thurday to bale. That's the plan..fingers crossed.
Still got 700 acres to get so got take a chance.

Update in the 75 acres mown and not too worried about it catching a shower....
This block of land is now moving to sad pictures of hay thread.

 

[Grassman]

My 7 acres mown last Saturday is poor now. It lost its nice smell in one wet night. Getting wrapped up today whatever. I'm fed up of tedding it.