How quick is your hay making?

[carpenter1]

Bent tine or Gates have dropped a bit with wear /bent/from general long term /wear use i guess.

Drave on

yes, just trying to remember what caused it

 

[Bury the Trash]

yes, just trying to remember what caused it

Replacing any of the broken little twisty springs on the tine holders ....is a good way of making it run sweeter and preventing tine bending..
That also stops the odd droopy tine hooking up in the grown out hedges going down the lane as well ....

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Replacing any of the broken little twisty springs ...

There’s a job I don’t miss...

 

[lloyd]

Haybob still does a job here although we are only small scale.View attachment 815420

Nice Marshall

 

[Bury the Trash]

There’s a job I don’t miss...

I get my son to do it

 

[Northeastfarmer]

I get my son to do it

My dad got me to do it

 

[Bury the Trash]

 

[Princess Pooper]

you must be only cutting half a crop you try making seeds with 16-17 round bales to the acre its taking 6-7 days and turned lots of times

Prince Pooper is mowing a field of meadow hay as we speak, but it had a good dose of muck and some ferts and is more like seeds. It laid in the torrential rain we had a couple of weeks ago and it is wet as anything in the bottom. Although we have a strong drying breeze today and tomorrow, the ground is still soaking (there are puddles on the yard still from 4 days ago). It will get shifted to get some breeze through that bottom side but then left as the ground needs to dry out as much as the hay does. Wind is set to drop after tomorrow and we are in for dull but dry after then so I reckon we're next Friday before it will be fit to bale. It's ridge and furrow so we have to turn it as little as we dare because otherwise it costs a fortune in broken tines and other kit!

 

[Boohoo]

There's no set rule for hay making because there are too many variables. Grass type, weight of crop, time of year, ground conditions, the weather both before and during hay making plus what machinery is available all affect when hay is ready. I had 4 different systems on the go last week and still had to wrap most of it

 

[Still Farming]

Week ago who would have thought June hay was on the cards?
Some fields took 4 days some 3 days to make.
Anyhow all baled and finished tonight and not July untill tommorrow.

 

[had e nuff]

Cut ours last Thursday, won't be ready until this Thursday at the earliest. Proper grass though.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Proper grass though.

As apposed to Astro turf?

 

[had e nuff]

As apposed to Astro turf?

Newish re seeds not this old land stuff with no nutrition in it.