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grandpa Love

grandpa Love

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Finally got enough dry days so we can
get in the field, and enough dry days
coming up to bale!
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Gonna try out our new hay wagon.
 
There should be another Shute on the baler. First one goes mostly flat so the bale doesn't bend in the Shute, second one turns up.


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It's not really made to bale on a wagon like your is. Hopefully it will work ok for you.
 
They are kinda hard to come by, they get beat up on the wagons or taken off to drop on the ground and get lost. If you have a metal shop they can bend one up for less than you can buy one. They are just thin metal, maybe 12 Gage. You could make one with a couple angle irons and a flat sheet between easy enough too.
 
You must live a lot better than we do down here in LA (lower Alabama). Over 2 and 1/2 inches so far this week. I couldn't mow the lawn tonight, still to wet.
 
This is first cutting. It's September. June, July and August were way too wet. Glad I don't depend on hay for a living.
 
Gonna gamble. Good flat field. Will drop it all we can on straight runs. Flip it up when we turn sharp.
 
When I was a kid, my Dad had a setup like yours on an IH baler, twine, but I don't remember the model. He put some springs in the chain that holds the chute so that when there was no bale on it, the springs raised it just enough to clear the wagon during turns. Worked great as I recall.
 


I have seen chutes made of plywood and angle stock. I recall a mowing picture from a year or two ago that showed you driving on uncut hay. Is that how you do it?
 
Good luck . You are usually ahead of us northerners with hay, this year way behind. That being said, there is still quite a bit of uncut hay in my area that usually gets either square baled or dry round baled. At this point I cant imagine much more will get baled as we are getting late in the year to make dry hay and there is second cutting ready at some of these places that would be real good quality .
 
What is the purpose of that bush in the middle of the hayfield? I left a nice cedar in one of mine years ago as a late season deer blind. Cut a notch out of the back side of it ,used a bucket with a rotating lid in there and was hidden on about 90%. Pruned out three shooting ports. Best blind I ever had.
 
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