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cut some the other nite ,,gona bale tomorrow and mow more in the morning..hows everybody else doing so far??
 
Not good! Have soemtift-85 almost waist high and thick. Has been raining the past several days and looks like we may have 4 days of clear weather. It seems to take several days of sunshine on Tift-85 for me. wider leavers and bigger stems. Undecided on what to do!
 
Northwest Iowa here. Baled 94 idiot cubes of waterway hay in perfect conditions. The three acres of alfalfa that was cut Mon morn is extra heavy and good quality. Flipped it this morn, will bale tomorrow pm if no rain. Baling will be creeper gear with the old New Holland 67 and I will have to use a tractor with a slow creeper gear. Main problem is this 66 year old body of mine. Last evening two of my granddaughters, aged 12 and 13 we're throwing bales on the rack faster than I could stack them. They were running to the next bale before the rack got there. I was hoping they would slow down. LOL
 
Here at the Lake of the Ozarks MO I started cutting hay on Monday just to get caught in a nice rain shower. It started when I was as far from the house as I was going that day so all I needed was a BAR OF SOAP.

Then yesterday I cut more. I hope to bale hay tomorrow if all goes as planned.

Maybe even cut some more hay latter today
 
Cut some yesterday. More to get ahead of the weeds than for the hay. Just checked, and hardly wilted. Maybe I can rake tomorrow. Maybe not.
 
Will cut about 45 acres of Bermuda horse hay tomorrow. Got about a 7 day window of good weather with only a stray shower possible on Monday. This is our second cutting and this hay is high quality without a weed in sight as was the first cutting. Will square bale about 60% and roll the rest as I've already sold all of the second cutting rounds and some of the first cutting squares. Trying to decide how much fertilizer to apply for the third cutting as the rain usually tails off in the first week of July. Lot of 2016 hay still available in East Texas so the good harvests in 2017 will keep hay prices down unless we have a dry summer and/or fall.
 
Done. Chopped 198 acres Wed afternoon thru Friday night, and finished the last 12 Monday. Great drying conditions Monday... cut the last field in the morning, and chopped at 6pm that night!

Fertilizer is spread... now it can rain any time!
 
Got about a third of mine down. I rolled 12 acres this afternoon,50 bales. Had to put a new battery in the 1550. I had to jump it after dinner to go back and finish raking. Then I unhooked the discbine off the 2-105,hooked to the baler and the amp gauge was down in the yellow,almost in the red. Had to go get a new alternator for it. Got a new battery for the 1550 while I was writing the check. Got to baling a little after three,got done about 4:45.
Got 20 acres to bale tomorrow,15 for Friday if the weather cooperates. Hope to knock down another 25 acres Friday or Saturday,that'll get me to about half.
 
Here in SE TX way behind. It's been a dry spring here so I haven't even made a 1st cut. Some years I've made 2 cuts by now. Good news is I have 3 yrs of hay stacked up so I'm not worried.
 
Here in NW Oregon I've done 1800 small squares since the 23rd of May. We are getting small windows of weather so we jump on them. I haven't gotten anything rained on yet. I think I have 16 acres to go of my own, and then I'll do some custom work for the neighbors. Baled about 300 last night and a customer is picking them out of the field as we speak. Supposed to rain tomorrow so the timing is perfect.
 
Between the sun and the wind,I wouldn't want to let anything get too hot around it. It's dry as a popcorn fart. I started raking at about 11 this morning. There was dew under the trees on the east end of the field,but the rest raked up dusty already at that time of day.
 
Rain, Rain, and more rain. Had sun today, but ground is really wet, even on slopes. The BTO's are trying to make haylage, but most are making a mess of hay fields.
Loren
 
Last week I started raking at 8am one morning. Don't think I've ever done that before this early in the season, maybe in August. Was trying to conserve some alfalfa leaves and did some, but was very dry then.
 
Rain stopped Monday night. Field still wet to the touch on top up in where the plants are blocking the sun.. Hoping for Friday otherwise may do like you do "unyens".....mud-em-in. Hope not. If this high pressure ridge holds like intellicast thinks it will I'll make it.
 
Baled up one field at a neighbors tonight, had a coworker take a wagon load for their organic farmette, rest is on the trailer in the barn. I was going to sell 1000 squares of 2016 crop to the horse lady across the street, but our high school neighbor boy has fallen through with his promise to get the transfer done. He and a buddy moved 100 bales and never showed back up. Hard to ride him much when he uses studying for finals as an excuse, especially when he is not my kid.

I mowed the five acres in front of the house on Monday, was by far the thickest crop I have ever mowed. Really glad I upgraded the mowing tractor this year. With dry, sunny weather, most of it will be ready tomorrow after work. Some may still be damp, and we now have a chance of rain tomorrow night. We need the rain. That leaves me with about ten more acres to go. Might not even put fertilizer out, since I have so much hay already. Need to look into round bales soon, these boys won't be able to help for much longer.
 
Well doing pretty good here in So. Mn. Got about 2000 small squares baled. Half of them are sold and gone already. Nice not having to put them up in barn. Was cutting more this evening when the old JD 800 swather let me down. Bearing on the drive axle. This is the third one of four that I had to replace over the years. Of course it never fails in the yard. No it has to happen in one of the farthest fields. Got it taken apart and chain put back on. Will pickup new bearing first thing in morning and put it back together. Should be going again by 10:00. This is some real heavy alfalfa. But we are coming into some upper 90s temp so should dry down rather fast even in this humid northland.
 
old,
How can you be doing all that work when you are on disability for a bad back.???? I had back surgery last year and i can't even pick up bales anymore.
 
I cut 30 acres Wednesday , no blooms and the grass is not headed out , very backwards year here . Sunny again , so far Thursday morning , hope to start chopping today . No water laying on our fields , as we are for the most part high and well drained , but the ground is sure soft , and the hay is very succulent .
 
I only do one cutting of hay, so I'm a ways off yet. Harvest and finishing planting gets done first. I did the second alfalfa cutting this week and put down the oat hay. Baled the alfalfa yesterday and will do the oats today.

I bale the town sewer plant for a friend. I mowed it Tuesday and I had to go in A1 on the 4440. It was over chest high. I'll roll it this afternoon and hopefully it will bale tomorrow. I can't believe it isn't super high in nitrates with all of the sewer plant water they irrigate it with, but he feeds it to his cows every year. I would be leery of it.
 

Cut and rolled 38 acres week before last, good weather and everything went well but didn't make as much hay as last year.
Came a heavy 3 inch rain as I was leaving the field (luckily in a cab tractor).
Cut and tedded another 44 acres last monday, fields where wet from the heavy rain over the weekend and more rain was forecast by the end of the week, got a surprise 3/10" rain tuesday morning and had to reted everything again, after retedding again wednesday we were able to get some raked and started baling late that afternoon but evening moisture stopped us with only 45 rolls made, thursday after tedding out the unraked windrows due to ground moisture we got all of the hay raked and another 150 rolls baled, friday we flipped the windrows over and gave them a couple hours to dry before finishing up the rest of the field, it was a long week and even though the hay dried and was in good condition the tires on the tractor and baler stayed wet because of the ground moisture.
Finished cutting 12 acres last evening and plan to finish cutting the last 35 acres today.
A guy down the road offered me another 10-15 acres this morning for free if I'd cut it, it's about 15 miles away and normally I don't travel that far, but with everything we've cut so far coming up short of last year I'm going to look at it tomorrow.

We've had a very wet spring like last year but we had a very dry fall and feed hay during Sept and Oct, finished feeding in Apr with only 35 rolls left of the 950 I had rolled up last year. Normally we only need around 800 rolls but I'd like to have some extra in case pastures dry up again.
 
I had to repair the baler from when it broke down last year. 2016 was a really hard year here and when it broke after 50 bales I called a guy up and gave him the hay if he would bale it. I kept 100 bales to keep around for the kids goats. I had enough of farming by mid June last year and almost quit entirely. So this year I had the rest of the place planted early so I pulled up the baler and I think I have it repaired. I cut a couple acres yesterday to test it on later this week. Hopefully we are back up and running. Hay gives me a little operating $$$$ during the summer to tide me over until fall. Otherwise I have to borrow from the business that pays the other bills...and I rather not.

Never really gave it a lot of thought but it is kind of cool how quickly I move this stuff in and out of the shop these days. Usually stays fixed too! Learned a lot here over the years! :)
 
I had the same issue with wheel bearings on my 800....why didn"t the engineers make that housing a half inch wider, so the thrown chain would not bind against the sidewall? Just plain stupid! I used a bent welding rod to assist getting the chain back on, working through that little access cover on top.
 
I have a weight limit of 35lbs so I when I do square bakes make them around that and I have help picking them up. But I also only do around 100 a year in squares and the rest are big rounds so I only have to drive but even then I have to rake then wait a couple hours before my back will let me bale. I can drive a tractor for an hour or so then have to get off for an hour or so just how life is any more
 
Everyone you talk to who has or has had an 800 has to replace those bearings. Some guys without much patience will cut the side panel out, put chain on and may or may not weld panel back in. It gets tempting.
 
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