Square baling photos

A few photos from this weekend. Beat the rain and had only a few problems. We are in Otsego County New York about 20 minutes from Cooperstown.

A few more. 3020 on the square baler 60 on the Tedder. Can only post 2 photos at a time this morning.

Easier to feed in a barn and nicer money for them. That is where it ends though with limited labor.

Not gonna lie ..... I miss square baling. ...

Spent a week around Copperstown Dream Park in 1997 I was impressed its beautiful county I always wanted to go back and hang out for a bit.

I got into a conversation at the park with a nice guy he said you are not from around here are ya. I spec its easy for y'all to pick out a southern boy He told me he owned the park and was from Salisbury NC.

We lost the Championship game 2-1 at that time the farthest a team from NC had went in their tournaments. He invited us to their end of the season world series and offered to fly us up their. We had already made plans to go to the national AAU tournament in Minnesota for that week.

Copperstown Dream Park is a big deal and the best week of baseball we ever had. I encourage everyone to go their and hang out for bit you can not beat the weather in July and August.

Caterpillar guy yeah I only need like 350 square bales stuffed through the little door. Winter can get a little cold up here so only need to get the wife or me started to feed hay. Only 2 horses and some days 2 to many.

Grandpa the baler only had string hang up on the bill hook and broke 3 bales by the time I spotted a problem. Kicker needed a little adjustment as it didnt stay latched a few times. Baling was fun its the unloading that gets old! Lol

True!

Please tell me you are not throwing them up in that loft by hand.

Hobo Cooperstown is big business around here. What part of
North Carolina are you in? My father in law lives near Murphy.
Hes no Yankee but did live in Upstate N.Y. for awhile. Neighbor
kid moved down to Kings Mountain and drives tractor trailer. He
posted an add that his company was looking for snow plow
drivers trying to lure some of us down. My boys grew up in
Columbia South Carolina with their mamma . My youngest
moved back up here but has about had it with New York.

We used to throw them higher than that.

It will be fun, Dad said......

Ah, the good old days.

Larry

I can only post 2 at a time all the time. I hit preview then return to forum and do 2 more. Repeat as necessary. Can get as many as I want in 1 post.

Love the photos. We also baled here (SE Iowa) this past week. Some schenanigans with the baler so I didn't get any photos because I was too busy cursing a blue streak and fixing things. Fortunately nothing horrible, just a combination of small things that happened one after another and slowed us down.

Got all our hay in yesterday after spending Friday night after work tidying up the baler. I hate when you check something over and think all is well and find a couple things you missed..

I only unloaded the last load by myself. The 1st load I started to unload and my neighbor stopped and he threw them up to me. The 2nd load was the heaviest and I started and then my neighbor who owns the equipment threw them up to me. He had quadruple bypass surgery in June of 2018 and is in his mid 60s. I did have an elevator a few years ago but sold it as it took up a lot of space. Great neighbors! Jeff had just finished mowing at least 80 acres when he stopped and Pete had hay to bale no whining just getting it done.

Our baling crew was two men and a small boy driving the neighbor's tractor pulling the baler since I was 8-9 years old, neighbor who owned the baler loaded the loads, Dad hauled in and unloaded in our barns, we fed the bales right where they stopped rolling down the pile of bales. When we baled for the neighbor who owned the baler jobs were all the same except a neighbor helped stacking the hay in the barn. We baled for that other neighbor some too, little straw, some hay. Dad owned a 50 ft Deere bale conveyor everybody used ONLY IF Dad went with it. He didn't even like Me to help him unload.
The last time Dad and I baled was 20 acres of 2nd or 3rd cutting alfalfa I cut, I raked, Dad sent me after the baler, the old IH 55-T engine powered baler was replaced with a much newer #37 IH PTO baler. We had two racks, did 6 or 8 loads that day just the 2 of us. The Super H ran that baler just great in 2nd gear. When I raked for the 55-T I raked up MONSTER windows because I could idle down or clutch the tractor pulling the baler. Two rake swaths per window with the #37 was great.
Neighbor across the road sold 40 acres of hay to a cattle sale barn in town one summer. Hauled it the 10 miles to town in livestock semi-trailers. Dad opted out of the project, was Me and neighbor on the baler, neighbor kid stacking IN the livestock trailer.
Not hard to see why big round hay bales are so popular!

Greg, I wouldn't care if the elevator took up half the barn- it would stay. Great pictures.
we have had some fine weather the last week, except for Friday night. I finished first cutting, round baling and stowing the bales on Friday afternoon.

Sanford,NC center of the state. We stayed in a cabin about 15 miles NW of the park so got to see some of the country side. The water pump pully broke On My Chrysler mini van I ordered one from a Mopar dealer on the other side of that big lake he got it in a a day are two later. I never thought NY would be that country but it was. We spent a day in Coopers Town exploring all those old antique shops we spent a buck are to there.

It was the week of baseball hall of fame inductions We were a day early to meet Pete Rose... Like him are not he's still "Mr. Hustle"

Looks like beautiful country. Those bales get chucked pretty high. Nice shot.

I Still hope he can get in the hall.

My Uncle in Minnesota bought a new baler, I think in the late 50's. It was a New Holland, can't remember the model (maybe 66) had a 2 cylinder wisconsin engine. He went all over the neighborhood for different farmers plus his own hay and straw too. Paid for the baler and then some.
DWF

Baling Timothy 2 weeks ago.

I was wondering if you were going to be able to do any haying this year.