Bama Red Posted September 8, 2015 Share Posted September 8, 2015 Here's what was happening at our place last week. I love to watch haying operations, and really love it if I can be involved. No, this wasn't me - we have a fella come each summer and get as many cuttings as he can. He gets the hay and we get our nine acres kept relatively clear. Beautiful! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles B. Gatewood SASS #48517 Posted September 8, 2015 Share Posted September 8, 2015 Nice place Red! Spent a lot of time in the hayfields back home. It was work, but we had a good time. CBG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tex Jones, SASS 2263 Posted September 8, 2015 Share Posted September 8, 2015 We don't have that much space anywhere around here, now. Used to have years ago before all the developments came along. Used to see the rolls from the NJ Turnpike going south. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Sage, SASS #49891 Life Posted September 9, 2015 Share Posted September 9, 2015 Just finished our 3rd cut. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bama Red Posted September 9, 2015 Author Share Posted September 9, 2015 I'm hoping for a third cutting, but it may get too cool for that to happen. At least that will give the critters some cover for winter and places to burrow for their dens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted September 9, 2015 Share Posted September 9, 2015 When I was a boy I worked for the farmer down the street. Second cut was a better quality hay than first. The cows loved it. This is New Hampshire. The summers aren't long enough to get a third. Some fields never got a second. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bama Red Posted September 9, 2015 Author Share Posted September 9, 2015 This is the first year since we've been here ('09) that we've gotten a second cutting. We're having a minor drought, so a third may be out of the question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted September 9, 2015 Share Posted September 9, 2015 Wouldn't it be great if someone could bottle the fresh-cut fragrance.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted September 9, 2015 Share Posted September 9, 2015 Amen, Hardpan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bama Red Posted September 9, 2015 Author Share Posted September 9, 2015 I remember an old British sci-fi novel called "The Scent of New Mown Hay". Spooky little book! http://www.valancourtbooks.com/a-scent-of-new-mown-hay-1958.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Four-Eyed Buck,SASS #14795 Posted September 9, 2015 Share Posted September 9, 2015 AAAAAAAAA-Chooooooo! Sorry, hay fever Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Sage, SASS #49891 Life Posted September 9, 2015 Share Posted September 9, 2015 I'm hoping for a third cutting, but it may get too cool for that to happen. At least that will give the critters some cover for winter and places to burrow for their dens. We usually get a 4th cut, but it's only about half as much as early cuts. Sometimes if it gets really cold early, we get nada for a 4th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loophole LaRue, SASS #51438 Posted September 10, 2015 Share Posted September 10, 2015 As a boy in PA, I lived next to a stud farm, and all of the hay was baled in rectangular bales. One man could handle them, and they stacked securely. I spent some time in Germany, where the hay was stacked in tepees in the fields; never saw if they baled it in some other form for winter storage. I'm guessing that the round bales are a by-product of more mechanized systems...but how does a farmer handle bales so big? Do they leave them in the field, roll them to a barn, or have another machine to pick them up and move them? LL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Sage, SASS #49891 Life Posted September 10, 2015 Share Posted September 10, 2015 As a boy in PA, I lived next to a stud farm, and all of the hay was baled in rectangular bales. One man could handle them, and they stacked securely. I spent some time in Germany, where the hay was stacked in tepees in the fields; never saw if they baled it in some other form for winter storage. I'm guessing that the round bales are a by-product of more mechanized systems...but how does a farmer handle bales so big? Do they leave them in the field, roll them to a barn, or have another machine to pick them up and move them? LL Most around here do 3 wire bales. Some do the rolls, takes a special fork lift type tractor to load, unload and move them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted September 10, 2015 Share Posted September 10, 2015 As a boy in PA, I lived next to a stud farm, and all of the hay was baled in rectangular bales. One man could handle them, and they stacked securely. I spent some time in Germany, where the hay was stacked in tepees in the fields; never saw if they baled it in some other form for winter storage. I'm guessing that the round bales are a by-product of more mechanized systems...but how does a farmer handle bales so big? Do they leave them in the field, roll them to a barn, or have another machine to pick them up and move them? LL I was in Bavaria in the 60s and saw round bales. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grizzly Dave Posted September 10, 2015 Share Posted September 10, 2015 My kids laugh at me when we drive past a well established neighborhood and I tell them, probably for the 100th time about loading bales of hay on to a truck in that field there, before the houses were there... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted September 10, 2015 Share Posted September 10, 2015 The problem with round bales, . . . .. . . . . . . cattle just never get a square meal any more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bama Red Posted September 10, 2015 Author Share Posted September 10, 2015 Groaaaaaaaannnnnnnn!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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