depends how thick the crop is to be fair
How quick is your hay making?
- Thread starter carpenter1
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- Dumfries & Galloway
Last i bought for 350 only gets used on a small tractor as well what sips deisal.
Can go around thd feild a lot of times for say the 7k that a modern tedder might cost , and kerps md out of triouble
Hd lives outdoors as well i dong gavs spars shed space and i dont look at him in mid winter and cry...
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Last i bought for 350 only gets used on a small tractor as well what sips deisal.
Can go around thd feild a lot of times for say the 7k that a modern tedder might cost , and kerps md out of triouble
Hd lives outdoors as well i dong gavs spars shed space and i dont look at him in mid winter and cry...
You wouldn't want to knock over 100 acres a day though would you
Ok then..... Maybe 2 daysYou wouldn't want to knock over 100 acres a day though would you
in good weather hay will make itself.
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
Ok then..... Maybe 2 days
That's the bit everyone forgets!!
Leaving it alone and letting the sun do it's job is as good as anything. Doesn't matter whether you've a haybob, tedder, wuffler or whatever - turn it as little as possible
- Location
- Black Isle
If your lucky and have dry land and sun/wind I agree leaving it alone it will make eventually, I cut some green stuff yesterday morning, it’s been shaken out 3x already, mainly because we can do 6 acre in 40 mins but each time it’s done it’s bringing up damp grass to the surface which within an hour is dry. That’s taking days off the total make time in my opinion.
I have an excentric good lifer type neighbour who has bought a couple acre beside us. He is a sythe fanatic [emoji849]
last year he made an acre of hay by cutting it with sythe, then stookin it in racks. No turning or anything. In November he offered it to me as he knew I was short of forage (200 cows plus followers) so I grudgingly accepted to go up an collect it as I thought it would make a days bedding for a pen off 20! I was shocked at how good it was, long green strands of hay. Filled a 12ton trailer packing it in with the loadall and it fed at least 20cows for about 5 days. If only that method could be scaled up to something workable for us.
I have an excentric good lifer type neighbour who has bought a couple acre beside us. He is a sythe fanatic [emoji849]
last year he made an acre of hay by cutting it with sythe, then stookin it in racks. No turning or anything. In November he offered it to me as he knew I was short of forage (200 cows plus followers) so I grudgingly accepted to go up an collect it as I thought it would make a days bedding for a pen off 20! I was shocked at how good it was, long green strands of hay. Filled a 12ton trailer packing it in with the loadall and it fed at least 20cows for about 5 days. If only that method could be scaled up to something workable for us.if you could get cheap labour and turn by hand there would be no wet patches underneath dry bitsIf your lucky and have dry land and sun/wind I agree leaving it alone it will make eventually, I cut some green stuff yesterday morning, it’s been shaken out 3x already, mainly because we can do 6 acre in 40 mins but each time it’s done it’s bringing up damp grass to the surface which within an hour is dry. That’s taking days off the total make time in my opinion.
I have an excentric good lifer type neighbour who has bought a couple acre beside us. He is a sythe fanatic [emoji849]
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- North Yorkshire
General rule of thumb for us is, cut on day 1 with a plain disk mower, do nothing day 2, ted on day 3 and 4, then row up and bale on day 5, if it is a bit near leave in rows for a few hours - they are called windrows for a reason!
- Location
- Black Isle
That’s the only thing I miss our hay bob for, rowing it up into nice 9ft rows where the wind can go through it and not pulling it into a 30ft swath where once it’s there you are committed to baling it. It’s a pity a 6 rotor Tedder couldn’t leave 3 small rows which would keep it off the ground at night, let the ground dry then when actually fit to bale pull 3 in to 1 with big rake and get on baling.
If you move the tines on a stabilo to the second position it will to a degree row it up as long as you keep rotor speed down
Dont you find it gets damp from sitting on the ground overnight ?
Will be a wee bit quicker when i eventually manage to get it cut
- Location
- South east scotland
i was on holiday with the family in the netherlands a couple of years ago and i seen a few fields of cut grass being turned by hand as we pulled into the camp place we stayed at the next morning i noticed them out again then nothing all day and then back again at about 4.30 and all up and down the field fith pitch forks flicking and moving it. Anyway they did this for a few days then they all went up and down the field and raked it into rows by hand then was small square baled that day. Was out for a walk one evening and the farmer was there loading it up and he happend to be english he told me he owned the houses we stayed in and the rest of the camps and the folk turning it were eastern europeans who stayed there for free but did a bit of work for him before and after there main jobs. He said even if he could have done it in the uk he wouldnt have because you are always under to much pressure with the weather.
For those that like the Spanish guitarist, Manual Labour......
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
I'm baling silage...
But stuff cut on Tuesday and baled today is 3/4 the way into hay and it's only been turned once. If we had been wanting hay we could have had it!
Race is on to get the last done before the rain tomorrow now... weather App keeps changing the time it'll come though
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- Location
- South East Wales
Cut Wednesday, hoping to bale hay tomorrow afternoon/evening. Baled and wrapped the headlands today then turned the hay. Still the odd bit of green in it so will probably need turning twice tomorrow but we shall see.