Night Rows

[Pan mixer]

More night row production today, expecting up to 60mm of rain if the doom mongers are to be believed.

Cut Saturday, still in mower rows when I started today.

 

[oil barron]

More night row production today, expecting up to 60mm of rain if the doom mongers are to be believed.

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Cut Saturday, still in mower rows when I started today.

Night rows is more for when it has been spread out. Better left in the mower bout if you are expecting rain - no?

 

[Pan mixer]

Night rows is more for when it has been spread out. Better left in the mower bout if you are expecting rain - no?

Starting to go yellow, needed moving

 

[Boohoo]

I've got day rows as well as night rows at the moment and it'll never make hay.

 

[David.]

That makes solid sense on sea mist/fog...

I will row up a crop the night before when its an overcast and heavy forecast for the night.

M

look mate, what was good for my Great Grandfather is good enough for me

Actually my Great Grandfather is supposed to have made a lot of money in WW1 selling hay to the army, not sure if we should be proud of that or not

As long as it was for the British Army, you can be proud.
Though, if he was making mouldy, ragwort infested hay for the Germans, I suppose we could admire him for that too..

 

[Pan mixer]

Now thinking that I will keep more leaf in the face of very high temperatures (forecast) if I just keep shuffling the night rows.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

I cant do day rows .its blowing away

 

[steveR]

I cant do day rows .its blowing away

Maybe time to invest in an Acrobat!!!! The rows are nicely anti blow...

If it's that fluffy, get the baler going this afternoon...

I went through some cut before the deluge a 2nd time at 1pm today and was disappointed to still see a bit of green coming up, but bearing in mind how wet the land was/is, it's hardly a surprise! Maybe this evening... else it'll be night rows!!

 

[steveR]

I've got day rows as well as night rows at the moment and it'll never make hay.

Looking better today I bet with the wind from the South

 

[Boohoo]

Looking better today I bet with the wind from the South

Some of it is but we've still got rows that we're shifting twice a day. Rain forecast for tomorrow so we'll wrap it this afternoon

 

[puppet]

Baking hot in Galloway today. 14 acres tossed out just waiting for a baler. Thank God for big bales as lifting wee bales in this heat would kill the wife.

 

[steveR]

Some of it is but we've still got rows that we're shifting twice a day. Rain forecast for tomorrow so we'll wrap it this afternoon

Bummer!

Though I might get my first hay tonight, but still a lot of damp green stuff, so I have rowed up to allow the ground to dry a bit, and will move it in the morning. Tempting to warp it, but that quality hardly justifies the cost of the wrap...

 

[Pan mixer]

Making this field in night rows, cut 6 days ago, not hot enough to take your jacket off this afternoon though.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

The wind finally dropped at 3 and we got it baled

 

[d williams]

The wind finally dropped at 3 and we got it baled View attachment 815074

Is that for hay?

 

[Derrick Hughes]

No haylage

 

[steveR]

No haylage

Green!! The grass that is....

 

[Jimbo]

Making this field in night rows, cut 6 days ago, not hot enough to take your jacket off this afternoon though.

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Tidy row that . Thought the combi didn’t row up well ?

 

[Pan mixer]

It is better with drier grass and an experienced operator helps a bit

 

[Jimbo]

It is better with drier grass and an experienced operator helps a bit

I’ve just bought a second hand one to replace two old haybobs. Do a fair bit of night swathing if catchy weather . Do have a rake for rowing up . Not picked it up yet so time will tell how we get on with it . Any tips for making tidier row if rowing up for baler for Hay ?