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SVcummins · Sep 5, 2020

Just finished the last field of the year unless i can find more straw but I don’t think I will.

Fawteen · Sep 5, 2020

Idle curiosity - I see a lot of night work in your pictures. Is that due to better conditions or your schedule?

caterpillar guy · Sep 5, 2020

SV you remind me of a guy I worked with 30 years ago. He was never ready to go to the field till the lights come on then he was ready to go all night. When combining in the fall he would find all kinds of things to tinker on till the boss would run him out of the shop then when it got close to dark he was ready to go. Used to drive me nuts. When I got there in the morning I was ready to go. By 8-10 pm I was ready to hit the hay.
Hay and straw get to dry out there for daytime baling most of the time don't they.

jon f mn · Sep 5, 2020

That's great. I'm so glad that baler is working for you. Now bring it to my place to bale my hay this weekend.

jal-SD · Sep 5, 2020

Now you'll have to bring out the yellow Dodge with a big flatbed to get that straw back to the ranch.

grandpa Love · Sep 5, 2020

We just cut hay yesterday, wanna come help bale? All you can eat biscuits......

Traditional Farmer · Sep 5, 2020

Thought I'd be finishing up but with all the wet weather hay on the place next to me has really grown back while I was cutting hay across the river,have close to 90 acres to cut if I can get it done before more rain.Hay making in Sept and Oct here is day by day thing.

Bill(Wis) · Sep 5, 2020

SV and his neighbors have good reasons for baling at night in that dry country.

David G · Sep 5, 2020

That is a pretty picture.

SVcummins · Sep 5, 2020

I work all day at fertilizer and chemical company so farming has to get done all night also strsw and hay gets baled at night until early moring sometimes until 10 or 11 am depending on the dew big straw bales explode if you dont bale with some dew unless you run a lot of pressure and then the bales are still crappy

SVcummins · Sep 5, 2020

Thats how it is here towards the end of the month had some one year that didn’t get baled till thanksgiving and then had a 3 hour window and the rain hit again just as I finished i have baled straw in December before

SVcummins · Sep 5, 2020

Going to use the tractors to haul this time

SVcummins · Sep 5, 2020

Id love to

SVcummins · Sep 5, 2020

If i had a truck big enough I’d bale your hay for the rest of my life wouldn’t have the baler if it wasnt for you

SVcummins · Sep 5, 2020

Big straw bales explode if you do not put em up with dew on

SVcummins · Sep 5, 2020

I have to work all day then come home and farm and get my work done

SVcummins · Sep 5, 2020

Thanks. Do you know is there a satellite 🛰 that follows the moon around

David G · Sep 5, 2020

I did not

SVcummins · Sep 5, 2020

And no you can’t bale atraw or hay without dew and make decent bales

SVcummins · Sep 5, 2020

Short distances works good to just take the tractor was going to use both tractors so my nephew could run one but hes busy with other things

SVcummins · Sep 6, 2020

You can see how hard the baler was trying to press a good bale but the straw was so dry it just crushed it three total casualties from baling to dry ill feed these and sell the others that got put up with dew

jon f mn · Sep 6, 2020

That was one of the most fun jobs I've done. And now I can quit worrying that they won't hold up. You are very welcome.

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