Hay Making 2021

[George from SJM Planning]

150ish small bales off of 2.6ac. Far more than we expected considering the fields have no fert, no manure, no nothing. They are soaking wet all winter, so wet there is a well in the middle.

Those stacked in the yard against the sleepers will be wrapped as come from the outside under the trees.

 

[JPB]

Got 140 bales of good stuff made over the weekend

 

[Werzle]

Sheep will eat it just the same
What do you think is wrong with them?

Nothing wrong with the hay but the bales are slack, my elders would be shouting to screw the baler down and make heavier, tighter and better looking bales which also stack and travel better

 

[Pan mixer]

finally baled some, barely ready but will be OK. Heavy rain forecast here for the next 2 afternoons which may not help.

 

[Simon Chiles]

Managed to dodge the torrential rain yesterday, it missed us fortunately by about a mile. The big black clouds building didn’t do my blood pressure any good.

 

[som farmer]

Managed to dodge the torrential rain yesterday, it missed us fortunately by about a mile. The big black clouds building didn’t do my blood pressure any good.

will feel a lot happier when our 25 acres looks like that, should have been yesterday, now today, all balers seem to be working flat out.

 

[delilah]

Managed to dodge the torrential rain yesterday, it missed us fortunately by about a mile. The big black clouds building didn’t do my blood pressure any good.

The thunder rolling in from Romney Marsh was so loud and prolonged I thought Dungeness had gone pop.

 

[som farmer]

sat in our garden, when glastonbury happens, we can hear the music, must be at least 12 miles away, as the crow flies, wind in the wrong direction, sounds like an enormous thunder storm. Top of the farm, you can add the lights as well !

 

[George from SJM Planning]

The thunder rolling in from Romney Marsh was so loud and prolonged I thought Dungeness had gone pop.

I miss the spectacle of a Kent thunderstorms. Never had one like it in 15 years of living in West Wales.

 

[Northern territory]

Nothing wrong with the hay but the bales are slack, my elders would be shouting to screw the baler down and make heavier, tighter and better looking bales which also stack and travel better

Mine was well wound down yesterday.

 

[delilah]

I miss the spectacle of a Kent thunderstorms. Never had one like it in 15 years of living in West Wales.

Flash floods 20 miles away today, we got away with just the odd spot, even had time for some tractor driving lessons . (Apologies to anyone offended by the excessive HP in the field )

 

[bobk]

Flash floods 20 miles away today, we got away with just the odd spot, even had time for some tractor driving lessons . (Apologies to anyone offended by the excessive HP in the field )

Looks nice stuff .

 

[delilah]

Looks nice stuff .

not one complaint about thistles all day, always a good sign.

 

[Pan mixer]

At last the washed out hay is dry enough to bale. Spread it out first.

Rake it up later on.

Baler man shows up.

16% ideal for the power station

Once round the field and it peed down.

Meanwhile at the other end of the farm my helpers are trying to actually finish a 10 acre field that we started yesterday and didn't get much done as it wasn't ready to start until 4 o clock.

Then it peed down there too.

and the field was abandoned with a few rows left.

Sometimes farming is slightly too much fun.

 

[som farmer]

our haymaking aint been good either, 1st field no bother, 2nd, still unbaled, told baler man to turn first, and come in from the other way, nope, didn't react to stop, front wheel caught gate post, blew tyre, half in/out. And completely blocking the road, new tyre on it's way, 3 hrs.
Tractor only 170 hrs on clock, new tyre £700, hay not baled.
Grass growth since cutting last thursday, is manic, rowed up today, it's green between the rows, like it had been down for weeks, turn it again, there will be to much green in it, think it will have to be wrapped, bugger.

 

[Gordy1]

Cut & turned 15 acres on Sunday ready for rowing & baling yesterday but thought I’d leave it for late afternoon/ evening today but the weather dammed caught me out, was beautiful day but just to busy to bale, it rained late afternoon & still raining….oh well there you go he who hesitates is lost….for now anyway.️

 

[DrWazzock]

All stacked in the shed up the lister blackstone. Every year we say no small bales ever again then we do some more. 700 this year. Not as many as in the good old days but enough for two 50+ year olds in this heat. Last stuff was meadow hay nice and dry. Ryegrass in June was a bit damp. Something will eat it.

 

[GmB]

finally baled some, barely ready but will be OK. Heavy rain forecast here for the next 2 afternoons which may not help.

Beautiful rows, what machine?

 

[Gordy1]

All stacked in the shed up the lister blackstone. Every year we say no small bales ever again then we do some more. 700 this year. Not as many as in the good old days but enough for two 50+ year olds in this heat. Last stuff was meadow hay nice and dry. Ryegrass in June was a bit damp. Something will eat it.

I like the small bales reminds me of my younger days pitching them up onto the trailer with the pitch fork laughing when you dropped it back over your head if you had heavy ones & they were stacked high on the trailer, then the bale slave came along took a lot of the hard work out of it just had to get them stacked for the loader to pick them up after leaving the sledge…..happy days

 

[Hesstondriver]

12mm in 20mins here today and not on the forecast until this morning