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Allan's swather, again

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keh

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Allan,

Did you get the swather fixed? Curious to know what the speed control problem was.

Got to hand it to you. You managed to find a canyon to run it off in in all that flat land, LOL. I know the feeling, hate surprises in someone else's hay field.

National weather maps show you guys on the Great Plains have been getting upper 90s and 100s temps. Welcome to what we have been having for the last month or so and little rain.

KEH
 
Got the neutral gate adjusted and now the handle is back to working correctly.

Found an oil leak at a hydraulic line up inside the frame rail going to the header. Leaks oil at a fairly steady rate any time the header is off the ground. Think that was the biggest problem; just starving for oil.

Now, I gotta swap out the sickels. That darned cheat grass yanked the head right off the other one. :>(

Rained here all night. Maybe I'll see another cutting? Naw, just can't be........can it? :>)

Allan
 
I'm telling you Allan you better come and get some of my cows to get rid of that hay.

Gary
 
Well, yeah. I've got plenty of hay.

However, I keep thinking about last year when it was so darned dry and I got 16 bales off of 43 acres.

Don't mind stockpiling a bit. :>)

Allan
 

Good news on the repairs and the rain. Yeah, with all that hay Allan may be looking to buy calves to overwinter and sell in the Spring.

KEH
 
Yep I stock pile also.

Barn has about 4000 little squares that have been in there for 20 plus years as a reserve.

They have to go before I get rid of all my cows, and I ain't lookin forward to pulling them out of the barn. I was much younger when I put them in there.

If these grain prices keep falling, the cows may be here for several years yet.

Gary
 

Referring to ebbspeed's question about hay keeping, it varies with the type of hay.Oats won't keep more than one year because the rats get in it to get the oat seed. Grass hay keeps longer. The climate matters. It keeps longer in a dry cold climate than in a moist hot climate. Hay loses some feed value each year.

KEH
 
I first heard an old saying from a Nebraska farmer who relocated to Washington, concerning poor hay- "Well, it'll beat a snowbank." As to Gary's 20 year stuff, guess I'm uncertain. . .
 
I was told by a vet that after 3years it doesn't matter. Its all about the same.

First two years it looses some vitamins.

Gary
 
Gary, I'd start using that for bedding I've tried ten year old hay and the cows kind of rustled through it and wound up tromping it down in the manure plus it proabaly has all the strings riddled by the rats and will get caught in the spreader. IMHO
 
No Rats and I started feeding it last winter and they ate it just fine.

Left the big round 2year old that were stored in side and went after the 20year old little squares.

It was all 2nd and 3rd cutting alfalfa when it went into the barn. Still green also.

But my cows are color blind anyway.

Gary
 
I also have several thousand 30+ year old small squares in 4 different barns and hay sheds. It needs to get fed out to but its hard to get motivated with 30 years of coon and pigeon crap on it not to mention the hibernating skunks I'd run into. Last fall I sold an old barn to a guy for the lumber. He had a crew of amish take it down. There were several hundred old squares they threw out. I pushed them over a bluff with the loader tractor with the intention of burning it. Next morning the cows were all over the bluff cleaning up the 30 year old hay. The pastures were green yet, but they cleaned up every bit of that old stuff.
 
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