Pulled Thru A Knot-hole Backwards

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Allan in NE

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• Jul 19, 2009

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Ugh!,

Started at 2:30 this morning and baled until 10:30. Tell ya, I've got one mean case of jet-lag going on right about now. :>(

That no-good Hesston right-throw rake didn't help things a bit neither. I've gotta get rid of that thing.

Good news is that if ya can get 'er under the tractor, that chainer is gonna bale it. :>)

Allan

 

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Tom671

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• Jul 19, 2009

• #1

What time of day did you start baling?
Around here we can't get started til about 1000 or if no dew on the hay, maybe around 0900.

 

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LenND

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• Jul 19, 2009

• #1

Great pictures. But ya know if you would take less pictures you could get more baling done.LOL But then I suppose it's about p*** call time anyhoo, huh? Len

 

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Allan in NE

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• Jul 19, 2009

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This is alfalfa.

It has to be baled when it's "tough" (when the dew is down) to retain the leaves on the stem.

Think yesterday is catchin' up with me. I ran the hay rakes across 50 acres until 9 or 10, then worked 60 acres of summer fallow until 7 last night. Up again at 2:30 to bale.

Allan

 

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Paul from MI

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• Jul 19, 2009

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Here in Michigan the dew is usually heavy enough that it's hard to get dry before 2-3p.m. Can't imagine starting to bale at 2:30a.m. We'd be wringing water out of every bale. This is with the old small squares of course.
Paul

 

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Allan in NE

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• Jul 19, 2009

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Same as in your country.

When ya get around that field when it is pitch-black out, you're so darned happy to find the pickup and a point of reference again.

One field I'm doing has a whole bunch of terraces. Only way ya know where ya are at night is to just pick one and follow it back to the head of the field. :>)

Allan

 

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Allan in NE

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• Jul 19, 2009

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I hear ya,

I've got a couple of little patches of grass hay. I bale those guys in broad daylight. Grass dries really, really fast too.

We cut edible beans at night too. Just too darned brittle to do without a dew.

Allan

 

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TGIN

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• Jul 19, 2009

• #1

Looks like There s been a troll out there in the dark stirrin up them windrows .

 

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Ken 46

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• Jul 19, 2009

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Here in SW Kansas we used to do the same thing as Allen - Bale in the middle of the nite until the dew came up and it was too tough to bale - wait till the sun came out then bale till it got too dry.
Makes for long days - We put up small bales with sp NH balers and then stacked them with NH bale wagon.
Also had JD bread loaf wagons.

 

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Cub n M in OR

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• Jul 19, 2009

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I know what you're goin through. I started baling wheat hay last sunday night at about midnight and ran till 10:00 monday morning. Did the same thing every night till thursday morning. Put up 1251- 1100lb square bales, in one field. 688 ton, about 6.5 ton to the acre. Some days there just ain't enough coffee. The stack wagon operator had his hands full too. Have a little break in the storm now. Picked 15 lbs of peas, and 25 lbs of squash outta my garden this morning.

Ben

 

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Anonymous-0

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• Jul 19, 2009

• #1

You are great. Just tell us that. You are great.
Out standing. Just tell us that.
Screw it.

 

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TGIN

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• Jul 19, 2009

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Hey nebluejeans , Did nt you get anything done worth talkin about

 

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Larry806

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• Jul 19, 2009

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Well we've heard from yet another jealous wanna bee

 

olgentdc

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Location

Harrison County , Elizabeth Ind 47117

• Jul 19, 2009

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That chainer will BALE IT ....I am convinced a chain baler will out last any of the best belt balers 2 t0 1,Bale for Bale., dollar for dollar, Year after year of hotter than he!!and colder than Cold ,that chain baler WILL KEEP GOING , Just Oil Up ther Chains ,,my brother is on His 3rd belt baler ,,,VERMEER was the WORST , lost so much religion ... and this year B-I-L traded his 30 yr old NH 848 for a 4 yr old NH baler ,,, So far so good ,,... He hopes He will not regret leavin the chains

 

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Traditional Farmer

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Location

Virginia

• Jul 20, 2009

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What is that rake doing to make those windrows look like that? I love the old NH chain balers like you said they will bale up anything.

 

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Anonymous-0

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• Jul 20, 2009

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Nebluejeans, looks like something was needed to make $ex less attractive to your mom and dad.

 

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GordoSD

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• Jul 20, 2009

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You get an "A" for baling, and "D" for raking

Gordo

 

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in-too-deep

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• Jul 20, 2009

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First time I heard anyone on hear talk about edible beans : ) I planted 480 acres of blacks and 160 of Navy"s this spring for the farm I work for. It"s an interesting crop. Lots of passes over the field though.

 

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Doug in Illinois

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• Jul 21, 2009

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Looks about like one of the hay fields I custom bale. I thought my Hesston 5580 would eat almost anything, you can get it in the baler OK when it is that lumpy, but if TOO wet forming belts will slip a little until I get it back to more or less round.

The 1066 will drag it under the drawbar long enough it doesn't feed it all at once, but those big globs are wet and heavy when it rains twice a week. I am WAY behind on trying to do mine. Little hard to do with just Sundays and every other Saturday off now.

I don't even know if I am going to get any small squares baled this summer. I have second cutting grass ready for them, but can't even get all the first way past due first cutting up in rounds. To add insult to injury the NH 479 lost the top bearing on the crimper roll. Guess I better drag it home, my longest term hay shares was running it when it went out. Not his fault, sealed bearing just got tired. He can't get the gib key out, but I think I have more tools to persuade it. DOUG