Re: Personal best

Posted by WellWorn on June 04, 2016 at 09:00:32 from (75.213.172.89):

In Reply to: Personal best posted by Fred Werring on June 03, 2016 at 08:01:40:

Fred, I don't think I can top that for putting up anything that wetted that much, nor do I want to try. Here in far western Noo Yawk, down wind of Lake Erie, we have our own challenges.

Due to weather and soil conditions last year, I did get a first cutting in late August when our "damp" field finally dried off enough to not get stuck in. It was for bedding hay and to keep the field from getting weedy, but the hogs seem to like it. I buried a tractor attempting to run a conditioner around a damp spot in a "dry" field for a first cutting in July the year before, but comparing our usual weather and many others is nearly "apples and oranges". Here a 3-4 day window of no rain AND low humidity is almost as rare as hens teeth, whether forecast or not.

It's been an exceptionally dry spring here, and still, a bale sitting on the ground for 15 minutes will be picking up moisture you can feel with a hand. I cut high to keep the windrows 'up'. Several rakings are necessary, the last just a few minutes in front of the baler. And even if blue skies and sunshine are predicted for 200 miles in any direction for a solid week, there are micro-climates around here that can brew a pop-up shower on a cloudless day. I still have a few windrows of "washed hay" from rain thursday night that was supposed to miss us, that didn't dry down enough yesterday, that I'm hoping will get enough (predicted) sunshine to get up today. The current look of the sky isn't very promising. Beyond today the guessers are calling for a solid week of "Mostly cloudy with a 30-80% chance of scattered showers and thunder showers". If today fails, that would make twice in 4 years that this small but heavy yielding field gets composted rather than baled.

While spending uncountable hours on often un-padded pan seats over 50 years, I've come to sing this to myself to pass the time:

"Cut, ted, rake the hay,

'till your butt's in pain;

And pray we get it baled and up

before it starts to rain."

For brain exercise I try to hear it in my head as a three part round, which I've gotten pretty good at. Four part, not so much. Yet. I suspect I'll have plenty more seat time to practice.

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