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Part Time Pete

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I have a field that I do for one of my friends that's about the steepest I do - must be that's why I do it last every year
It's hard to tell from the picture, but some of the banks are steep enough that you almost have to drive on the windrow to keep the baler in it. Makes it tough to get a full wagon and still keep it upright.
Pete
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Looks like my land, and yeah, I can tell. Never owned a baler that didn't have the hitch torn out of the bale chamber at least once. Lol!
 
Pete, I'm working over in Laurens on Cty Rt 44 on a Tridecagon foundation. Pouring the floor Monday if we can! The picture is pointing back towards Laurens. I'm jumping hills to get there Westford to Milford to Mt Vison then Laurens.
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Hills look nice...on calendars. I wouldn"t want to farm them. The field across the road in the pic is the steepest slope I have in 360 acres.
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Neighbours run some hilly farms nearby, will leave the combine unloading auger full and swung out, uphill to act as a counterweight. Every few years though something gets dumped there.
 
I baled one this year for a local banker that was needing land surveyed to divide. It looked like good hay so I agreed. Man was it steep. I raked it with the 886 cause nothing smaller could pull the rake up the hills and I wanted a cab in case I rolled it. The few times I went with the hills I had to put a foot up on the window to stay in the seat. A round bale will roll really far in those conditions no matter what you do. If I could get one to stick I just parked all of the others up against it. It was a hot mess.
 
We don't use wagons to bale hay here, Fields are just too darned steep (mostly reclaimed strip mines. Have a couple that I won't even begin to bale round bales on. Tried that a couple years ago and some of them rolled down into the woods. When hillsides are all you've got, that's what you farm, you just learn to steer the tractor with the brakes when the front end is off the ground and keep going. Keith
 
I've got a couple of those hillsides. Haven't baled onto a wagon in well over 20 years. And at least one round bale is "sacrificed" to the woods every year.
 
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