Hay making 2022

[Goweresque]

What sort of money would a baler like that be if you don't mind me asking?

IIRC it was about £45k, but it was ordered in late 2018, so God knows what it would be today.

 

[Lowland1]

Maybe he likes to keep folk working

People are the easy option here. If there were plenty of people on farms in the UK then probably it'd still be pitchforks and hayricks possibly. We are combining for him today and loading onto an half sided non tipping trailer that carries 20 tonnes once full it's shovelled off. They will use the trailer for hay but it's five foot off the ground. The push for mechanization comes when you have to do or have done the job yourself.

 

[glasshouse]

People are the easy option here. If there were plenty of people on farms in the UK then probably it'd still be pitchforks and hayricks possibly. We are combining for him today and loading onto an half sided non tipping trailer that carries 20 tonnes once full it's shovelled off. They will use the trailer for hay but it's five foot off the ground. The push for mechanization comes when you have to do or have done the job yourself.

Best let the people do it
Mechanisation is a two way street, when we went to a potato harvester the locals were upset they couldnt do the job any more. The farm also went downhill as the steep land didnt get spuds on it any more.

 

[Lowland1]

Best let the people do it
Mechanisation is a two way street, when we went to a potato harvester the locals were upset they couldnt do the job any more. The farm also went downhill as the steep land didnt get spuds on it any more.

The stuff of nightmares i reckon

 

[Simon Chiles]

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That would be much worse if they had big black clouds looming on the horizon.

 

[Red Fred]

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When I was a student, I baled hundreds of acres of straw on the Wiltshire Downs with a Hayliner and it was all picked up by hand by a gang of lads who had started off as students but kept coming down every year in the summer because they enjoyed doing it.. I think I had the luxuiry of a random sledge on the back so at least the heaps were in windrows, but there was no flat8 or loader to be seen. I remember they built two massive stacks of around 100,000 bales, and the whole lot went up in smoke when a neighbour went stubble burning in a high wind.

 

[glasshouse]

View attachment 1054069The stuff of nightmares i reckon

Not really if u have plenty willing staff

When I was a student, I baled hundreds of acres of straw on the Wiltshire Downs with a Hayliner and it was all picked up by hand by a gang of lads who had started off as students but kept coming down every year in the summer because they enjoyed doing it.. I think I had the luxuiry of a random sledge on the back so at least the heaps were in windrows, but there was no flat8 or loader to be seen. I remember they built two massive stacks of around 100,000 bales, and the whole lot went up in smoke when a neighbour went stubble burning in a high wind.

bugger

 

[M-J-G]

View attachment 1054069The stuff of nightmares i reckon

A sledge and flat 8 grab wouldn't be a daft addition.

 

[M-J-G]

Not really if u have plenty willing staff

I agree, that are difficult to afford and even more difficult to find these days.

 

[Lowland1]

Not really if u have plenty willing staff

bugger

I've got 400 of them. Often that's 400 too many.

A sledge and flat 8 grab wouldn't be a daft addition.

A flat 10. I used to have to get off the forklift to alter the direction with flat 8s to get them to tie right for our carrier that gets tiring after a while.

 

[Lowland1]

Not really if u have plenty willing staff

bugger

Got a gang in to help with the straw.

 

[hendrebc]

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Baboons? I've got a friend in South Africa who farms sheep and he absolutely hates baboons they hang around at lambing time and take lambs. Says they are very clever and hard to stop and even harder to shoot.

 

[Lowland1]

Baboons? I've got a friend in South Africa who farms sheep and he absolutely hates baboons they hang around at lambing time and take lambs. Says they are very clever and hard to stop and even harder to shoot.

Yes. They are very wiley we have several troops around. They are thiefs but i could never shoot one it would be like shooting a child.

 

[Boohoo]

That should be hay 2022 finished

It's rare for the best hay to be baled last.

 

[hill shepherd]

That should be hay 2022 finished
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It's rare for the best hay to be baled last.

I've baled some for a mate today and so thats him finished too, got itall good this year and rare for him to be finished this early, often still on in September

 

[Boohoo]

I've baled some for a mate today and so thats him finished too, got itall good this year and rare for him to be finished this early, often still on in September

Summer only arrived with us this week. Everything made earlier in the year was average enough. What I baled today was a bit bleached, it needed less sun and more air through it, but at least it's dry and was leafy grass when it was cut.
We tried a bit of September hay once, never again.

 

[hill shepherd]

Summer only arrived with us this week. Everything made earlier in the year was average enough. What I baled today was a bit bleached, it needed less sun and more air through it, but at least it's dry and was leafy grass when it was cut.
We tried a bit of September hay once, never again.

My mate never plans for September hay but it just always seems to happen