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Almost dry hay now rained on

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Bkpigs

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Rain caught me as I was baling. We got less than a tenth of an inch. The hay was windrowed. What would you do? Was thinking just trying to turn the rows tomorrow night if we didn't get anymore rain. I don't have a Tedder. Do you think the tenth of an inch hurt the quality much?
 
Wait and see tomorrow it will probably be ok .a
trick I have used in heavy hay is to take a rake and
put the basket all the way up on the outside and
leave the inside at the normal position it will
unroll your windrow and scatter the hay out
 
Well, whenever hay gets rained on especially after it has dried but before baled there is going to be damage to some extent. Things can't be changed after the fact. The trick is to get it baled before further damage such as rained on again. A good hot dry day with the wind blowing could very well dry the hay out without touching it with the rake. A cloudy humid still day probly is not going to dry it out much for ya. I have let the top of windrow dry, and then just barely hit em enough with the rake to just flip them over upside down to dry what was underneath. Ya just got to do what you can to get it wraped up.
 
I doubt that .1 is enough to cause any measurable drop in the quality unless you don't let it dry.

That's such a small amount, it may not have penetrated the entire windrow. You might check the bottom of the windrow and see if its wet.
 
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