Hay making 2020

Hfd Cattle

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Hereford
Got baled up 5 mins before the heavens opened .
Had to draft in the OH to finish baling while I fetched the wrapper
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Lovely rain during the night
 

Hesstondriver

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Huntingdon
I had 6 customers wanted to mow over the weekend and yesterday. All cancelled bar two. Both mowed on Sunday. One said he had a field he’d like to try this morning but baler and bandit got rained off before it even reached the field. The other I did with the fusion. Tipped the last bale off the wrapper as the heavens opened. Hay making for me so far seems to be phone calls to book work in and then phone calls to cancel or get it wrapped. :banghead:

On a plus I did help a neighbour out with some rowing up yesterday to make sure he got his done.
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was that you who did some little bales in bandits over near wymeswold the other week ?
 

ILovebaling

Member
Location
Co Durham
My bit was mown last Monday, thick ryegrass, no hope of it drying anytime soon with the forecast. Had to get someone else in to rake (thanks @KJR) due to an annoying appointment

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Baler dude came along, 175 bales from 10 acres, never seen grass like it, new ley, grazed until mid May although the ewes were having trouble finding their lambs by the time we moved them. I guess we should reseed more often, this had been wheat for 3 years before this.

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Then my wrapper broke - sensor trouble I think, @KJR to the rescue again, all wrapped by dark and the rain started.

I now have no grass on the ground, Woo Hoo, still only 120 acres to cut...
Can I ask how the 998 handled the rounds and does it have a round bale kit on it. Just bought 1 for squares so wonder how it handles rounds as well. Thanks.
 

Pan mixer

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Near Colchester
Can I ask how the 998 handled the rounds and does it have a round bale kit on it. Just bought 1 for squares so wonder how it handles rounds as well. Thanks.
It doesn't have a round bale kit, this was a bit of a help in a crisis.

We had to put the bales in a row so that it would pick them up, one or two were a bit naughty and got cross ways. the other 90 odd were fine.

I read in the instructions for my wrapper (whilst looking for a spare part number) that the film on the tanco is stretched much more for round bales than square, the ones done by the 988 looked a little slacker I thought at the time although I am not bothered too much but previously with not such stretched plastic we have used more plastic and had quite a lot of white yeast on the bales. (when we were wrapping 2 squares at a time.

In the Tanco book it is the difference between 70 % stretch (for rounds and 55% stretch. No idea about this until today.
 

puppet

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
sw scotland
We cut on Tuesday with some rain forecast tomorrow then more settled. It got soaked last night and now Monday is wet too.
Usually expect to take a week to make here so no panic just yet.
 

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