Sad Pictures of Hay

[Grassman]

Mine is still in the field uncut - bloody weather is a rite pita. At this rate will get nothing of the fields as I was told to wait till july for Hay, as June hay is shite apparently. Wish I took the gamble in June now!

Don't panic. There was a lot got in august and September last year

 

[7610 super q]

Stuff cut in August and September will be shite.........

 

[jemski]

Fine Monday and Tuesday. Possibly Wednesday as well. Get it wrapped.

I would but I already have too much haylage, and it has molehills in it.

 

[gone up the hill]

Mine is still in the field uncut - bloody weather is a rite pita. At this rate will get nothing of the fields as I was told to wait till july for Hay, as June hay is shite apparently. Wish I took the gamble in June now!

If you make it right then June hay is the best hay you will EVER make.

Whoever told you that about June hay being rubbish have no idea what good hay should be like!

 

[multi power]

Mine is still in the field uncut - bloody weather is a rite pita. At this rate will get nothing of the fields as I was told to wait till july for Hay, as June hay is shite apparently. Wish I took the gamble in June now!

Make hay when the sun shines, month isn't realavent

 

[jondear]

I baled the worst hay i ever baled this week .got it dry but ended up like dead rushes .mistake i made was listening to the weather man .rain forcast no rain . Dry weeather forcast it pours down

Did forcast wide spread thunder for Tues !No way would make hay even in the south west last week .

 

[Farmersdaughter]

Should have been cut a few weeks ago, when the weather was great

Our problem is HLS ground which is not allowed to be cut until 15th July, 2 years in 3.

 

[multi power]

Our problem is HLS ground which is not allowed to be cut until 15th July, 2 years in 3.

But I'm sure the hls payment more than makes up for that

 

[JohnGalway]

Couldn't stop to take a pic as it was on a bad bend, but saw hay rowed up in a field where you could row a boat between the rows.

 

[Nh6050]

Totally rubbish, sorry to disagree
Grass is the best feed, after all that's what cattle are designed to eat

I agree with @silverfox all the high yielding dairy men round her chopbstraw in there tmr.

 

[multi power]

I agree with @silverfox all the high yielding dairy men round her chopbstraw in there tmr.

Yeild don't interest me, only profit matters

 

[Nh6050]

Well I

Yeild don't interest me, only profit matters

Can guarntee 2 fellas round here doing the same that are in the top 10% in the area. Agree not all about yield but a lot depends on production and the costs

 

[Yale]

This is my hay.

Unloaded this morning....off a truck.

 

[jendan]

This is my hay.

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Unloaded this morning....off a truck.

Tidy shed.Self build? How much was the hay £/ton delivered?

 

[Yale]

Tidy shed.Self build? How much was the hay £/ton delivered?

 

[Yale]

Tidy shed.Self build? How much was the hay £/ton delivered?

The shed was built in the 70's under the old FHDS scheme however used to have a sheeted side so a while ago we took the side sheets off and used them for a cantilever to keep the weather out.

You can see where we sawed the timber off for the door where the elevator used to push in to lift the small bales.

Not sure exactly the price as our supplier is very fair so we tend to just order a load and then the bill will arrive sometime.

 

[caveman]

Just to make everyone feel better, today's pictures, nothing fit, rain tonight, tomorrow, Sunday and Monday on forecast....

View attachment 553202 Italian second cut.

View attachment 553204 Meadow hay only cut.

and, my saddest of all - Westerwold headland, abandoned last Friday for clay build up beneath the mower bed.

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The joys of making hay in the driest corner of England, all cut a week ago on a good forecast.

Why on earth are you just "frog tossing" (a term used by an old boy I knew who is sadly departed now) it?
If you'd of rolled it over onto the dry ground between the rows..... you'd probably of got it with a couple of hours of sun and a breeze.

 

[Pan mixer]

Why on earth are you just "frog tossing" (a term used by an old boy I knew who is sadly departed now) it?
If you'd of rolled it over onto the dry ground between the rows..... you'd probably of got it with a couple of hours of sun and a breeze.

I am rolling it onto new ground - just, wind was so strong that the rows then started to blow - very frustrating.

I like the idea of frog-tossing, it could be a new pastime post Brexit?

 

[multi power]

I'm thinking a ten wheel acrobat would be great this year

 

[JWL]

I'm thinking a ten wheel acrobat would be great this year

You could park the baler at the end of the rows and it would reel in the swath without leaving more wheelmarks