hay making

[Henarar]

yep plenty of black stuff made when you couldn't just turn round and roll it up for silage
Dad use to tell about cutting the lose hay in our old hay shed right down through the middle with a hay knife, throw a pick full out and it wouldn't land just gone to ash, He said he could just about stay in there for five min's at a time

 

[kneedeep]

He also talks about all the sh!t hay they used to make and things they used to do like spreading salt on it etc and hay barns getting to the brink of fire etc etc they lived in wet Cumbria in them days couldn't have been easy, men women and children in hay fields and roaring and shoutning if anyone dared to stop working lol, cant be many alive remember making hay with horses for real !!! and most of was probably for the feking horse !lol he reckond mowing it was the hardest work a horse would do in the farming calendar.

The legendary Frank Sharrock , tractor dealer extraordinaire, used to tell me as a kid ,his first ever job was being sent out to 'time' a new mower my great grandfather had bought.
Six foot..... a THREE horse mower.
Something never seen in these parts before.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Thank goodness we don't hear anything about Farmers Lung anymore

 

[Pan mixer]

Thank goodness we don't hear anything about Farmers Lung anymore

Only from Joe Grundy but that is probably the tobacco too.

 

[kneedeep]

Thank goodness we don't hear anything about Farmers Lung anymore

Y ' reckon.
First stricken 30 odd years ago..
Can detect a mouldy bale at a hundred yards.
Cold shivering sweats, and coughing fits.

This stuff does work, 2 'gasps' in summer, upto 6 a day in late autumn.
Apparently each dose costs 60p.
Thank God for the NHS.

 

[kneedeep]

Y ' reckon.
First stricken 30 odd years ago..
Can detect a mouldy bale at a hundred yards.
Cold shivering sweats, and coughing fits.

This stuff does work, 2 'gasps' in summer, upto 6 a day in late autumn.
Apparently each dose costs 60p.
Thank God for the NHS.

 

[Hilly]

I'm allergic to hay dread working with it and if it turns out bad hay oh ya buffer no good .

 

[Wombat]

Certainly couldn't do any here for the last week as showers and monsoons every few days

 

[Simon Chiles]

Dont have one, but if I did it would be a Bale Bandit, don't like those small bales from the others, can't sell them, it is quite well know that a pack needs a bit more time, bales stacked will cure a little in the stack,treat a pack as a big bale

The Bale Bandit has metal bands which is what put me off it. Agree with you about the Baron only being able to handle small ( less than 0.8 m long ) that I too wouldn't be able to sell. I also agree that you need to make drier bales if they are being packed.

 

[Bury the Trash]

The Bale Bandit has metal bands which is what put me off it. Agree with you about the Baron only being able to handle small ( less than 0.8 m long ) that I too wouldn't be able to sell. I also agree that you need to make drier bales if they are being packed.

i wonder why the mcconnel bale packer was it ? didnt get continued and developed - from memory people that used it seemed to like it.?

 

[dazza b]

Herein lies the north /south divide.
Whilst I'm in awe of your operation,
owning every conceivable piece of haymaking kit ever invented , type an 'La,Pr, L' postcode and study away till your eyes melt.....
If it rains every day, or at least every other, not even Harry bloody Potter and Gandalf can make good hay reliably up here.
I'd be surprised if there's been 270 acres of hay made in the whole of Lancashire up to now.

This is very true not many bales done round me yet maybe 20acre at a push I am also in an la postcode all that ever gets forecast for here is sunshine n showers and there seems to be more showers than sun lol

 

[Simon Chiles]

Herein lies the north /south divide.
Whilst I'm in awe of your operation,
owning every conceivable piece of haymaking kit ever invented , type an 'La,Pr, L' postcode and study away till your eyes melt.....
If it rains every day, or at least every other, not even Harry bloody Potter and Gandalf can make good hay reliably up here.
I'd be surprised if there's been 270 acres of hay made in the whole of Lancashire up to now.

Don't confuse the weather you get in East Anglia with what we get down here. We have had many a June and July spent looking out of the window at the rain. Have also made many first cuts of hay in September and October. Have been reasonably lucky with the weather this year as we have had a lot less rain than has been forecast. If we hadn't taken a chance we probably wouldn't have started yet!
As for owning every bit of hay making kit ever invented probably the only difference is a balepacker, which is the one bit of kit that has transformed the job. It speeds up the baler ( the sledge was the limiting factor ) as well as the handling, and dramatically reducing the labour required for the job.

 

[Speedstar]

This is very true not many bales done round me yet maybe 20acre at a push I am also in an la postcode all that ever gets forecast for here is sunshine n showers and there seems to be more showers than sun lol

Same here , Think a job as a weather man would be good only job were you can get it wrong & still get paid for it.

 

[Simon Chiles]

i wonder why the mcconnel bale packer was it ? didnt get continued and developed - from memory people that used it seemed to like it.?

The packs were too loose and needed a special grab to handle them. Modern bale packs are in a completely different league and can be handled with any type of grab/squeezer on the market.

 

[dazza b]

Same here , Think a job as a weather man would be good only job were you can get it wrong & still get paid for it.

So true I'm sure sunshine showers is told so that there covered lol