I didn?t stop to take pictures but I got some nice feed up the last few days. I got Tuesday afternoon off and cut 1/2 of a 40 acre field across the road. Yesterday morning I started cutting again at 7 and finished up around 9:30. It?s a nice long field maybe 3/4 of a mile long and smooth so I cut between 10-11mph. I started baling the first 20 acres shortly after 10 stopped an hour and a half for dinner because family was home then finished baling just before 5. Then I hauled and wrapped those,93 5? bales. I started baling around 8 this morning and finished at 1,92 bales off that side. I finished wrapping at 7:30 then cut 12 more acres for tomorrow evening ,I may leave them unwrapped till Saturday morning depending how late I?m baling. I?m running a 3505 MF on a NewHolland 648 with net. I like the JD 48? net the best of any I?ve tried over the years. I?m running 2 steel tandem wagons with big tires and carrying 32 bales counting 1 on the loader. It?s grass hay and they?re not overly wet.
- Thread starter Philip d
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How does that work waiting to wrap the bales??? I am meaning as far as the ensilage process/spoilage.
I wrap bales with a Anderson inline wrapper. The first hay I wrapped with it had been baled for two days before I got it wrapped. I had spoilage/mold in between the bales. Also some spots inside the bales. So I wrap them as soon as they hit the ground anymore. Someone is baling and we are wrapping then ASAP. I never really knew if it was the waiting and the hay already heating or if the hay was too dry to start with or whatever??? I just know the resulting hay was not very good. Where the hay that is wrapped ASAP is like candy most of the time.
I wrap bales with a Anderson inline wrapper. The first hay I wrapped with it had been baled for two days before I got it wrapped. I had spoilage/mold in between the bales. Also some spots inside the bales. So I wrap them as soon as they hit the ground anymore. Someone is baling and we are wrapping then ASAP. I never really knew if it was the waiting and the hay already heating or if the hay was too dry to start with or whatever??? I just know the resulting hay was not very good. Where the hay that is wrapped ASAP is like candy most of the time.
tomstractorsandtoys
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We always like to wrap the day it is baled but have had to wait overnight a few times on the wrapper. Always have them wrapped within 24 hours after baling. Neighbor baled a bunch of rye this spring and they went 5 days before wrapping them. At that point I would not of even bothered as they will be junk anyway. Tom
Bruce from Can.
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I have found a lot depends on moisture and what is in the hay. Wetter bales don?t wait well, especially Alfalfa and red clover need to be wrapped as soon as possible. Grassy hay is more forgiving, even after two days, so long as it?s not really wet when baled.
Bruce I tend to agree with you about the wetter the sooner on alfalfa/clover hay. The hay I had trouble with was grass hay. It seems like there is too much air in the bales if you wait. I think the heat has started and allowed some of the gases to escape when not wrapped soon enough.
Bruce from Can.
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Sounds like your making progress. We have had a bit of a dry spell, and I have made 300 bales, 35 more acres to bale tomorrow. Made 100 bales this evening, got in a te o?clock. Those bales will get wrapped on the edge of the field where they were made, and hauled home as needed in winter. Takes too much time running 5 miles with hay, to get it all home and wrapped, and get on to the next field. Takes a lot of space too
The sooner the better for sure JD but we?ve never noticed any issues so long as they?re not too wet and it?s within 24 hours. The slickest video I?ve noticed on YouTube was a guy with a front mount gyro rake running a baler with a wrapper on the baler. Very expensive looking setup but it would make for some nice silage. We rent my cousins Anderson in-line wrapper,its an older model but it works well. A neighbor has a newer one with a remote 4 ball wrapping and laser auto steer. Once you get the first row run it can steer itself and will automatically stop if a roll tears or runs out.
Donald Lehman
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Jeff always wraps them the same day they are baled, barring breakdowns. By the time 24 hours has gone by you run the chance of moldy hay.
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