Summer time

Erik Ks farmer · Jan 26, 2013

The last couple of weeks have been busy and I haven't had time to participate in the summer time pics or Larry's red/green/orange nights. Here a some pics from my collection from the last couple years. Thanks, Larry, for your dedication in sharing with us, I look for your pics everyday, they bring joy to us.

gtractorfan · Jan 26, 2013

Thanks for the pictures. I'm curious about the one where the guys are picking up small square bales. All during my young years when we baled we pulled wagons behind the baler. Seems like it's more work to drop them on the ground and then have to lift each one up on a wagon or truck. One guy (often me) would keep up stacking on the hay rack behind the baler, and I didn't mind that job (out in the breeze) as much as stacking in the mow. The question is, why drop them on the ground?

John B. · Jan 26, 2013

When my brother and I would bale hay or straw by ourselves we had two wagons and pulled them behind the baler, when one got full we unhooked and hooked on the empty. To us it took longer that way.

But when we had help we had one guy baling and had help to pick them up off the ground and got finished a lot quicker.

On hilly ground with the wagon behind the baler you had to be real careful especially when you got almost a full load. But picking them up off the ground the guys could carry the ones from the hill to the wagon without taking the wagon on steep hills. We would limit our walking distance to 3 rows of bales on each side of the wagon. Then also the driver would drive close to bales when he could.

gtractorfan · Jan 26, 2013

You just reminded me, one time I baled hay all by myself. With wagons hooked behind the baler, the baler pushed the bales onto the wagon til I got to where I had to turn, then I jumped off and stacked them, then proceeded. Of course couldn't fill the wagons very full. Not only that I ran them up in the mow myself too. Talk about tired at the end of the day!

Erik Ks farmer · Jan 26, 2013

I used to bale them on the ground, then pull them into groups of 5, then pull wagons through the field and load them, then stack them in the barn by myself.....then I got affluent, I could hire help, keep in mind I only had 2 wagons, takes a lot of time to bale on wagons, then haul them up to 15 miles to the barn and stack them. We can load and move a lot more hay a lot faster on trucks and trailers. We are in the big time now, pop up loader on 2 ton trucks. Wife can drive and I can stack then she throws em on the elevator and I stack....I still use the boys when I can get em.

Anonymous-0 · Jan 26, 2013

When I was a kid in Kansas back in the 1950-60's. We pulled wagons behind the baler but we always baled in the heat of the day. Today I do all the baling at night. Both round bales and small square bales. NO one baled at night back then.
How about an 8 or 10 bale accumulator and a bale fork? Used ones are not all that expensive.

SweetFeet · Jan 26, 2013

Eric KS Farmer,

All fantastic pics. Just love both of the wheat closeup shots. Beautiful country there.

My uncles in WI were both Massey farmers and they were both into pulling with them too.

Zachary Hoyt · Jan 26, 2013

I sell as much hay off the field as I can and let the customer pick it up. I have a chute so I can pull a wagon behind the baler and used to do it that way when all of our hay went to one place. They would send a guy over to drive the tractor and I would stack the wagon. Now that they aren't needing hay anymore I don't have anyone to help most of the time so I drop the bales on the ground, go around with the wagon by myself and load it and then take it to the shed and unload and stack it. This limits how much I can do in a day, the most I have done was around 300 bales baled and picked up and put away and that felt like a lot.
Zach

The Red · Jan 26, 2013

Great pictures Erik! Looks like you had a good wheat crop. You were building a shed, barn or a house?

Anonymous-0 · Jan 26, 2013

Excellent pictures!

DoubleR · Jan 26, 2013

I looked out my window by my computer and see my cattle covered with snow in the single digit temps. Its hard to imagine them siding in the lake to cool off at this time.
Nice pics and thanks for the reminder that winter is not going to be here forever.

Wheat Farmer · Jan 26, 2013

Thanks for posting. Each one of those picture COULD have been taken at my old farm in Nebr. Kinda miss that place.

BigMarv1085 · Jan 26, 2013

Like the 1085, wish mine had a cab on it

larry@stinescorners · Jan 26, 2013

Really nice pictures!!!! I especially like the cows in the water,I think this site is great!!!!

Mike (WA) · Jan 26, 2013

Great pictures, Eric. Thanks for posting.

Seeing the grazing cattle in the first one brought back a memory. When Mrs. and I were first married, 42 years ago (she was a city girl), we accumulated a small herd of cattle, and bought a farm just down the road from our home place. It was perimeter fenced, and we put a mobile home on it. Put a gate across the driveway out by the county road, and moved the cattle in. They could graze anywhere, including right up to the mobile.

Woke up in the middle of the night, to a sound I still can't describe. She woke up too, and we went to the living room and turned on the light, and the sound was the cattle, grazing right up next to the house. She got a big smile, and said "That is so cool. Thanks for getting me out of town!"

We watched for awhile, then went back to bed. But didn't go right back to sleep. Those were great days.

We're both 64 now- lots of good memories. Would love to be young again, but don't know if it would be better to do it all again, or just have the memories.

Life is good- embrace it.

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