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- Aberdeenshire
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I thought I'd seen it all, hay making Montana style.
- Thread starter Longlowdog
- Start date
- Location
- Scottsih Borders
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- Ballyclare Northern Ireland
Naww, I found this one easier to watch.
Great to see and learn.
My recollection however in MT, was 6ft round bales of hay everywhere, stacked out ready for feeding out in winter on the range or the lots.
A stunning landscape around every bend (when we actually had a bend) but not somewhere Herself fancied living in, for just the reason I loved the idea... Big spaces and low population.
My recollection however in MT, was 6ft round bales of hay everywhere, stacked out ready for feeding out in winter on the range or the lots.
A stunning landscape around every bend (when we actually had a bend) but not somewhere Herself fancied living in, for just the reason I loved the idea... Big spaces and low population.
- Location
- N.Lincs
No knotter problems in a system like that 
True.... with that amount of labour about, you could practically hand knot a bale mind....No knotter problems in a system like that
As the bloke in the commentary stated "they don't get much rain here". From what i can gather, the temperature in the summer is usually around
the 30C mark, if we had that here, in the uk, how much silage would be made. Also, if you watch "Qur Wyoming Life", Mike said that during the previous drought summer he round baled, from 90 acres - the total of 6 bales. And this was with a standard,belt round baler. Different farming
altogether.
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- Scottish Highlands
I seem to remember kit similar to the first video being used here in the UK but smaller scale and powered by horses, but I was very young at the time. Occasionally see the rakes (obviously smaller so they fit through gates!) advertised as ornaments, but with the shafts cut off and a tow bar for tractor use. Just because it's old technology doesn't mean it won't work.
I've seen cocked hay made in the West of Ireland and that's a way to make excellent hay in a wet climate.
I've seen cocked hay made in the West of Ireland and that's a way to make excellent hay in a wet climate.
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- S. Staffs
I loved Montana, but as said above a remote area to live in for sure, very cold winters too iirc.
Grandad had a haysweep on the front of a car in the early 50’s whenI was a sprog.
Grandad had a haysweep on the front of a car in the early 50’s whenI was a sprog.
farmerm
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- Location
- Shropshire
Ah so this is the future when the government has banned single use plastics....
- Location
- N.Lincs
Farms down on the Trentside in this part of the world used a thing called a Derrick Crane (IIRC) to unload a wagon of hay in one go.
It was like a giant wooden buckrake swung off a thing that was like a ship's derrick. Picked the whole load up and swung to round onto the stack.
I remember the old blokes saying, that if they got it wrong, they sometimes picked up the waggon and horses as well
Plenty of uses for old baler string! Belt, hinges, hobble, dog lead, gate latch, padlock (when someone can't tie quick release knots for hinges)
- Location
- The North
Let’s hope he can afford a new syncromesh for his gearbox
It was already broken.
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- Location
- South Norfolk
A friend of mine has a daughter that lives out there and claims that if they have a wild fire they just let all the stock and horses out to fend for themselves, then after it has past they spend a few days with the neighbours sorting out whatever is left.
Danllan
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- Location
- Sir Gar / Carms
Yep, heard that happened in Zim a couple of times when I was out there, never saw it though since it was in a different province; in my initial ignorance it seemed a bit ill thought through to me at the time.
But,that written... if the wind is in the 'wrong' direction, the speed of a bush fire and the distance it can 'jump' is hard to appreciate until you've witnessed it - as I subsequently have a few times.
I've seen the Montana sweep approach when i was out there 35 years ago ---looked quite impressive
I've done the scythe/rake/stook /cart method in Poland 30 years ago---back braking is an understatement
- Location
- Herefordshire
Could you please educate us youngsters, as to what “cocked hay” is?
- Location
- America's dairyland
A hay cock would be a small hand made pile, designed to allow it to keep drying, like a shock/stook of corn. A hay cock could be built around a small pole, or without any support. Some places will/would hang wet hay on a rack of wood or wire also.
Yep, and stooks of Oats, around 1980 I guess.
- Location
- Herefordshire
Looks like hay making Mad Max style.