What A Combination

[Donny M]

My neighbor hays this way:


The colors don't match but it works pretty well. Rake and bale in one pass. Pretty

[Scott]

im supprised the rake and baler arent trying to pull the other way from that horrible red tractor

[John *.?-!.* cub owner]

Must be a little dry there too

[beaconlight]

Must be tough to back up.

Bill

[Donny M]

EJP,
It is very dry here

Bill,
My neighbor can back up very good with that rig, I was surprised he did so easily. You would be correct if I was driving

Scotty,
I think the tractor is the one trying to get away

[John *.?-!.* cub owner]

Must be tough to back up.

Bill

If you wanted to see something, you should have seen my Dad back a 4 wheel wagon behind a sileage chooper with his tractor. Now that took talent. I never could do it.

[beaconlight]

John i have done that. We were doing green chop.
I was concerned about the two pto drive shafts. from the tractor to the rake to the bailer. It isn't easy but I was taught by the best. Al Cobb taught me to use a chisel with a team of Belgeans too. He had a lot of patience and a way of explaining things.

Bill

[Patbretagne]

Donny, is that hay for winter fodder kept dry or is it for silage, put into handy polythene bags.
To make dry hay over herre we need a couple of days between cutting and baling.
Silage straight off though. There is a tremendous amount of maize (corn to you) grown here in Finistère to make silage for the winter.
Interesting to know.
Pat

[Bigdog]

Pat, that hay is being baled into large round bales for dry storage. Much less labor intensive than baling into small bales.

[beaconlight]

Looks too dry for haylage to me. Looks as if it were raked and the wind rows down a while, they look as if they had settled a bit.

Bill

[Donny M]

The hay is cut one day teddered (turned) on the next and then baled the day after that. It's baled in rolls 1200#'s each. The picture is a little misleading as the hay is much greener than it appears. Most of it is stored under cover until use in the winter. The rake/bale rig saves using 2 tractors.

[beaconlight]

You sure that was tedded? Looks more like wind rows and turned by a rake not tedded. Tedding leaves a more even dispersal. Raking is generall easier on the leaves. Couse there are times to cut, ted rake again and then bale. All according to the weather, of course each time you touch it you loose some as well as use more fuel. But what do I know! A city boy from NY.
I understand that a picture can be deceiving but any way that is how it looks to me.

Bill

[Donny M]

Guess I should have taken pictures each day.

[Bigdog]

Those aren't windrows in that picture. Has to have been mowed and tedded or just mowed.

[Marion(57 Loboy)]

I worked on a farm as a young teen.

They'd cut the hay down with a sickle bar mower; rake it into rows & run it through a 'crimper'; then bale it. If I remember, they'd wait a day for each chore. They used a Holland square baler and boy was it hot up in the top of that huge barn stacking them up!!