Thick as pig shite.

[Castle Farm]

Mad rush to get hay baled when the weather is right.
3-4 weeks later bales still where the baler dropped them. Grass growing up around the base and soaking wet from all the rain we have had.

Can anyone throw any light onto why farmers leave 'good' hay out to ruin. ?

 

[Bury the Trash]

Rounds?

 

[Castle Farm]

Yes. Don't tell me they wont spoil One guy fed his horses last year and the hay was black. There are 3 farms near me with bales still out after 4 weeks.

 

[Drago]

If your refering to the farmer I think you are he died last week in a tragic accident.

 

[Stej12]

Mad rush to get hay baled when the weather is right.
3-4 weeks later bales still where the baler dropped them. Grass growing up around the base and soaking wet from all the rain we have had.

Can anyone throw any light onto why farmers leave 'good' hay out to ruin. ?

I left some out wasn’t quite there when we baled it warmed up so better in the field than on fire in the shed

 

[yellowbelly]

We've some round bales to lead tomorrow, they've been out since that last spell of very hot weather (been busy with other stuff or it's been raining) but they'll be right as ninepence. Done it loads of times before.

 

[Werzle]

Mad rush to get hay baled when the weather is right.
3-4 weeks later bales still where the baler dropped them. Grass growing up around the base and soaking wet from all the rain we have had.

Can anyone throw any light onto why farmers leave 'good' hay out to ruin. ?

Why concern yourself, its none of your business

 

[neilo]

Why concern yourself, its none of your business

If we all thought like that, this forum would be a very quiet place......

 

[Werzle]

If we all thought like that, this forum would be a very quiet place......

Wouldnt be such a bad thing, less is more / quality over quantity and all that.

 

[Bury the Trash]

I nominate round bales as one of the best farming inventions of the 20th century....

 

[Derrick Hughes]

I thought these new age farmers who out winter do that as routine

 

[Martyn]

If your refering to the farmer I think you are he died last week in a tragic accident.

Not enougher local one?!

 

[hendrebc]

I left some out wasn’t quite there when we baled it warmed up so better in the field than on fire in the shed

This. And if they get wet while waiting for them to cool down they need to be dry to stack. Ive never left bales out long because i normally have enough space to put them singly to cool without getting wet if its a bit iffy but i did get caught a few years ago when everywhere was full and nowhere to put them in singly. I had some bales out that had a bit of rain on them with thunderstorms forecast for the night so i stacked them as loosely as i could thinking they would dry seeing as they werent that wet. They were ruined and all mouldy when it came time to feed them they would have been better out even in the really heavy rain thunderstorm we had.
Im not saying they wouldnt be better stacked inside if its properly dry and not heating but i understand why people end up with bales out a long time. Not sure how squares or small bales would fare though not as well i suspect.

 

[beardface]

Was routine practice when I worked in the States they would often mow round them for a second cut and then collect them on the first frost.

 

[Agrivator]

Was routine practice when I worked in the States they would often mow round them for a second cut and then collect them on the first frost.

If you had a strong enough finger-bar mower, you might actually be able to mow under them.

But it might be a bit difficult to ted and/or row up.

 

[Drago]

Not enougher local one?!

No. Bad joke, there lots of reasons why bales don't get fetched in. Not all farmers who dont get bales in are thick as pig shite

 

[michael N123]

I normally end up at 3 different farms doing bale jobs and our own are last to deal with.. and this year with all the showers a lot of wrapped and hay bales would of been left out a couple weeks

 

[multi power]

Round bales of hay are absolutely fine outside for weeks

 

[Woolless]

I'm going to look at hay that's been baled as nice stuff but has been lying out in the rain since. Consensus is that they will be fine where they are (will run a lot of water off, I suppose) but would want to have dried off before going in my shed? Rounds, obviously.

 

[linga]

I have often heard it said that its only an inch or two that gets spoilt if rounds are left out for a long time but if you work out how much that is as a percentage of the whole bale it makes you think.
Mind you its clearly preferable to having it catch fire in the shed