Round baling hay

[steveR]

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Just love that area. Been bike touring twice, mostly just riding the passes, but my God it is beautiful around every corner...

 

[Sid]

Quite amazing really, and the slopes they will travel on are amazing... I wouldn't rde a bike up them...

But down would be

 

[jh.]

End of last month/start of this month we had a good spell forecast for our wee patch of hay . Got it cut and then the forecast changed to heavy rain so was round chamber baled at 5 days . I'd have really liked another day or 2 but as the baler left the field the rain started and had about 75mm over the next week .

Left outside and turned every few days . Metal spikes, had some cool bales and others pretty hot . Got the grain temp probe out and the cools are under 30°c , so any over 30 have now been marked , to see how they go in coming weeks .

Usually we stack on bean can but will leave them on round with a foot between each row this year to see

Just a follow up . The bales stayed outside another week or so and the below 30°c had dropped to mid 20s. We then put them inside as rain was forecast and stored them 2 high bean can .

The over 30°c bales by this time had just dropped into high 20s so they got flung inside on the round .

4 days later the probe showed they where still dropping while the original "cooler" top bean can bales , had started to rise back to high 20s so we dropped the whole lot on to the round and they are all dropping temps again .

Only tested a few of each this morning but all in the low 20s now

 

[robs1]

But down would be

Dont you believe it,need good brakes, one missed corner and you would be flying