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The subject title is true, seems we only get a few days of nice weather here and there and it's really something to enjoy when you do have it. 2 weeks ago, my longtime farmer neighbor, baled up 1000 squares 2nd cut, really nice green hay alfalfa mix, he had a new JD MOCO ( as per what the decal read ) on demo and he was irked, He thinks his old NH with rollers would have done a better job for drying, cut it on thursday, and baled on the following tues and there were some wet ones, I sorted them out of the load, they got hot too. His hay is usually paper dry, but it's October, no tellin how that JD demo worked out, might not have been the best move. He bought a new JD rotary cutter and it did not cut well, LOL blades on backward, dealer must have had a red face on that one ! I loaded 100 or so bales onto the old F-600 and hauled them 30 miles to the farm, really enjoyed the old familiar smell, I took it right off the field. He used to bale 20,000 a season years back, used to fill the giant mows in both our barns as I recall as a kid, we used to do a couple thousand, and that familiar smell of fresh local hay is kind of a rarity now, but something about the hay that comes from the fields here, it's got an unique aroma. Still a lot of work the small squares are but I don't mind haulin a few loads here and there, good exercise still, and not so bad when it's cool, little tougher in the heat, but how many people know what real work is anyways, you got to be in shape to deal with small squares in the hot summer.
Nice shots, always good to take a few on a good day, helps carry us through the bad ones !
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