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Will it bale dry this afternoon?

rockyridgefarm

rockyridgefarm

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Cut on Saturday. Yesterday was 95 degrees and 20mph winds. Not much dew last night due to winds. Stems in the alfalfa are brittle and easily snapped. But it is 80 percent humidity and no sun. 10-15 mph winds. Might rain after midnight, so it is getting big square baled today. I am hoping to not have to wrap it.


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Im having the same questions. Cut Sunday but mine is grass hay dries quicker.

It is supposed to rain tonight. Or maybe this afternoon. Or possibly in 30 minutes, there are tiny showers popping up
they type you cant measure but wet down a hay crop.

So if I rake it but not dry, then it rains and its a bigger mess to dry out.

If I dont rake it but it would have dried out, I miss an opportunity to get it baled before it rains.

Ah the life of a hay maker.

Paul
 
I baled some yesterday in real good shape. I cut it Friday. Saturday was cloudy and humid. It was green underneath
when I raked it, but didn't take long at all to dry out.

I baled oat straw in the clouds and humidity Saturday. The straw itself was dry, but the baler pulled so much green
stuff up from the stubble that I have some sweaty bales today.
 
Gosh I think you should have raked it first time with the curtain up so it spread out more. Then come back in couple hours and rake again.
 

Next to no hay weather this summer here. These was like 3 times there was 3 or 4 days in a row June/July/Aug with no rain AND the sun was out the whole time
 
I mowed some hay Saturday and finished mowing Sunday. The first was dry and good to go. The Sunday hay I raked some while I hauled the first baled in the field to open it up then baled what I had raked. Then rake some more while I haul those and so on till it got dark with no raked hay in the field and no bales either just several rounds left flat. Yes it is better to be flat if it rains than raked or baled and out in a rain. What is baled is inside out of the weather. Always a devil if you do and a devil if you don't.
 
Its a crap shoot as is my pot luck in the spring....damned if you do, damned if you don't. I can see that your inputs have you sitting on
the fence. I use a tedder that really shortens the drying of the crop. I use JD parallel bar rakes and if you rake it too many times to
get the bottom dry, it tends to roll up, but will rake with nothing else. With the tedder which you may need to make more than one
pass, usually not, you only have to rake it once and bale.
 
(quoted from post at 08:14:02 09/05/23) Send some of that hay over here in West
Central Missouri. We're gonna need it.
GG

Nice looking stuff
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Some of it will keep I think. So I wrapped 55ish and stuck 45 in the shed. I will have to monitor it and dig it back out if it starts heating. I also made 300 small squares.


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(quoted from post at 06:25:13 09/07/23)
(quoted from post at 08:14:02 09/05/23) Send some of that hay over here in West
Central Missouri. We're gonna need it.
GG

Nice looking stuff
Click to expand...

Some of it will keep I think. So I wrapped 55ish and stuck 45 in the shed. I will have to monitor it and dig it back out if it starts heating. I also made 300 small squares.


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What do you use to pick up large squares after wrapping?
 

I'd guess the bale squeeze at the top of the photo.

I like the QA plate on the wrapper hitch for moving it with a loader.
 
(quoted from post at 16:44:01 09/08/23)
I'd guess the bale squeeze at the top of the photo.

I like the QA plate on the wrapper hitch for moving it with a loader.
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Oh! I never noticed it up there, thanks.
 
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