Hay making tip please…

[czechmate]

Yesterday I mowed about 30 ha, quite heavy grass.
Always looking to only have until Friday lunchtime. Was also always the risk of a bit of light rain Tuesday morning first thing. Can Ted today, tomorrow looks a great day… so so I just leave it tedded over Monday night or row up so less grass takes rain? Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday look fine.
My bro would of raked up for Monday night then spun out when dry Tuesday… but talking about haybob days; I don’t think I could spin out 8 metre rows; only roll them over with the rake.
Any advice please.
I can always wrap it but would prefer hay

 

[czechmate]

Just thought, I suppose I could take missing a couple of metres and make 6 m rows, that would maybe re Tedd

 

[spin cycle]

wrap it Thursday

 

[Sam Partridge]

We put stuff in rows last summer when we knew a shower was coming, it was heavy enough to have soaked all the way through so don't know if it gained us much or not. It will give the rest of the ground a chance to dry out I suppose before respreading. I think we did about 6 metres of a medium/heavy crop into one row. Actually found the haybob flicked it out better from the row, took 2 more passes with tedder and it was almost full width again

 

[czechmate]

We put stuff in rows last summer when we knew a shower was coming, it was heavy enough to have soaked all the way through so don't know if it gained us much or not. It will give the rest of the ground a chance to dry out I suppose before respreading. I think we did about 6 metres of a medium/heavy crop into one row. Actually found the haybob flicked it out better from the row, took 2 more passes with tedder and it was almost full width again

Forcast is for 2mm…
These days that could mean 2 inches

 

[glasshouse]

Yesterday I mowed about 30 ha, quite heavy grass.
Always looking to only have until Friday lunchtime. Was also always the risk of a bit of light rain Tuesday morning first thing. Can Ted today, tomorrow looks a great day… so so I just leave it tedded over Monday night or row up so less grass takes rain? Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday look fine.
My bro would of raked up for Monday night then spun out when dry Tuesday… but talking about haybob days; I don’t think I could spin out 8 metre rows; only roll them over with the rake.
Any advice please.
I can always wrap it but would prefer hay

Ted it out today
And again tomorrow
A bit light rain wont hurt it

 

[Sam Partridge]

Its multiple rains that'll hurt it, even if not a lot in one go. Washes the colour right out of it

 

[Hfd Cattle]

Ted it out today
And again tomorrow
A bit light rain wont hurt it

....problem is the forecasters don't seem you know the right weather to predict !

 

[Hfd Cattle]

.....my local weather app has changed 3 times in 4 hrs !

 

[czechmate]

....problem is the forecasters don't seem you know the right weather to predict !

i always paddle my own canoe… it wiuyof been nice to hear some other mowers

 

[glasshouse]

i always paddle my own canoe… it wiuyof been nice to hear some other mowers

You are in gods country!!

 

[glasshouse]

Hedg ur bets
Ted half leave half
Ted all the endriggs

 

[Wombat]

I prefer to row it then it can dry in between then just flip it with our single row rake onto the dry bits

 

[Wombat]

....problem is the forecasters don't seem you know the right weather to predict !

Yup rained nearly everyday since we cut some last Sat was supposed to be a dry week

 

[Goweresque]

A bit of rain won't matter a jot at this time of year, its early June, the grass is at its greenest and juiciest. Spread it today, leave it spread out for the rain, you won't even know its been rained on when its made. In fact a bit of rain will probably help it make. Its later in the year when the grass is much deader that you need to avoid rain at all costs.

 

[Boohoo]

Too early to say, see what tomorrow brings, but as others have said a bit of light rain won't hurt it.
If you are going to row it I wouldn't make rows bigger than haybob size rows so it's easily spread out again. What tedder have you got? You can move tines on some or reduce revs with others so they row it up a bit.

 

[glasshouse]

Too early to say, see what tomorrow brings, but as others have said a bit of light rain won't hurt it.
If you are going to row it I wouldn't make rows bigger than haybob size rows so it's easily spread out again. What tedder have you got? You can move tines on some or reduce revs with others so they row it up a bit.

Yes
My claas 800 makes three rows at low revs

 

[Bob the beef]

Wouldn’t bother rowing up this time of year when grass is really green. As said above it late in the season when a night’s rain can wash the colour and Any feed value right out of it

 

[egbert]

Don't bother rowing it to take less rain.
If it gets rained on half made, simply bale and wrap as soon as it's moveable.
The damage is when you start trying to dry it again after rain.

Been there, many many times.

 

[czechmate]

Yesterday I mowed about 30 ha, quite heavy grass.
Always looking to only have until Friday lunchtime. Was also always the risk of a bit of light rain Tuesday morning first thing. Can Ted today, tomorrow looks a great day… so so I just leave it tedded over Monday night or row up so less grass takes rain? Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday look fine.
My bro would of raked up for Monday night then spun out when dry Tuesday… but talking about haybob days; I don’t think I could spin out 8 metre rows; only roll them over with the rake.
Any advice please.
I can always wrap it but would prefer hay

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