Tha Ulsterscot
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Nothing like rain to give you patience.Cut for hay yesterday, but looking at the forecast i'm thinking to round bale and wrap it up tomorrow
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Nothing like rain to give you patience.Cut for hay yesterday, but looking at the forecast i'm thinking to round bale and wrap it up tomorrow
Seen loads of forage style wagons in Iceland. They pick up the hay and then blow it into a shed loose. Liked the idea. Most have gone to wrapping it :-(Keeps better in fluffy bales.
Old farmer who used to train shire horses, told me hay never made horses cough, when it was stored loose. He thought I should use a forage pick up wagon & bale it just before sale.
Will it be covered at all? Or just stacked and left?
Another 55 acres raked for a customer and my mate baled it for hay but it will never see a shed as will be spaced out in lines like can be seen across the valley in photo and eaten by out wintering dry cows. Photos don’t really give credit to how steep the ground actually is. Fair bit of it was second cut hay
Has he become a “farmer” now?Came back home to earn my machines storage by helping ex landlord with his grass on some of my old land.
he made me bale stuff at 9pm that wasn’t ready and dampness was setting in. Suggested he wrap it in the morning, “no it’s too dry to wrap”
Next day I went to bale some haylage that was drier than the stuff from the night before. Oh well, not my place to care.
The bales are just left out in lines about 5 metres apart (individually). Zoom in and can see lines In the green field across the valley I put there last week as drayed 250 into that block from 17 miles away. When done there will be well over a thousand bales in lines along that valley.Will it be covered at all? Or just stacked and left?
Has been for 20 odd years.Has he become a “farmer” now?
All that fertility going with it.The bales are just left out in lines about 5 metres apart (individually). Zoom in and can see lines In the green field across the valley I put there last week as drayed 250 into that block from 17 miles away. When done there will be well over a thousand bales in lines along that valley.
More like non hay making 2020Should we rename this the thread 'Haylage Making 2020'
Or is there a chance of an Indian summer....?
Should we rename this thread 'Haylage Making 2020'
Or is there a chance of an Indian summer....?
Well you can keep today.. I’ll take three nice days in September thanksDoing stuff in September/ October is hardly conducive to making good hay/ harvesting dry corn. Dew is still hanging round at midday, and back again by 7pm, there's no warmth, days are short, grass is fecking manky old shite, corn is flat on it's face......
A day in early August is worth 3 in September.