TODAYS SEAT TIME

[bazman82]

Looks like a Great Pyrenees.. My favorite dog on planet earth..

Sure is. We got her for 60 bucks when she was only 6 months old. Already fixed and had shots, the couple just couldnt keep her Its been her thing lately to follow me out in the fields while I'm working. I've come very close to running her over cause she will walk in front of the tractor then roll or stop to sniff....

Todays seat time included 56 round bales made 4'x4.5' with the old gehl 1460 and the cutting knives suck and don't cut all the time so I have to get off after every bale to make sure the string is cut. We had new knives on it awhile ago but still had the same result. Would've been an easier day but had a fairly major break on the plate that holds the door lift arms to the machine. It looked like it was welded before and it broke clean off on me so I had to bring it back and ask the wifes gdpa to help weld it up. Had to do a repair on the plate as well and have more repairs to do to fix it completely but that can wait till after I finish up with some hay. I will just have to take it easy with opening and closing the door until everything is fixed.



Only pictures I took as I still had a lot left to bale and it was getting late. These are all before pics but after we got the broken part to line with together. Only 1 small fire from welding but I already had the hose ready

 

[cat fever]

I'm still trying to visualize 30 tons of hay, this picture isn't doing it for me.....................

Well, look at the picture 6 different times.:laughing:

 

[cat fever]

I remember as a youth Cat, moving the irrigation pipes, one on each shoulder and by the time we got to where we were going those pipes were hanging down about waist high (walking thru mud etc.) and these were 12"ers, mains.

The hand line thing is certainly not going to last. A wheel line with the power mover is in my future. Not sure how far in my future, buts it's there.

 

[cat fever]

It's not the camera then _ your scenery must really look like that !!

Water rights is something most easterners never heard of. First time I was in American Falls I was working with a local mechanic and he invited me to supper. He said come on help me water the horses. We started lugging buckets and walked along a little brook that ran thru his little place and flowed down into the snake river. The brook was fenced off. When I asked why he didn't use the brook to water the horses he said I don't own the water rights the power company does. They own all the water rights if it flows into the snake river because they have power dams. Doesn't matter who owns the land. That's the way I remember it anyway. I had never heard of such a thing. A hard concept to grab hold of and understand.

gg

The scenery is beautiful for sure but the photographer has a little to do with it.

We could easily go a month with no rain out west so water is very important to farmers. They have been fighting and dying over water since "cowboy & indian" days.

 

[daugen]

was time to beat down the weeds between the rows in the collards field, which I bush hogged last week about a foot tall.
Took my Gravely garden tractor through that in low range, bangedy bangedy bang on those thick weed stalks, but not much slows
the Gravely down.

 

[4570Man]

I was digging a ditch for an electric service and hit a water main. The locate was about 3’ off so this was their problem to fix. It still made a huge mud hole.

 

[LouNY]

Lots of seat time the last week ground has dried out and finishing up first cutting finally, mowing and tedding.
The the driveway was getting in rough shape so graded that out Sunday some of it is dry enough that it wasn't packing back down,
so spread some calcium foe dust control and to pull some moisture into it.


Takes about 100-150 pounds of calcium for the driveway when I have to do it,
had to get a new spreader today the old one the wheels had rotted off.
I'm not sure I had enough tractor to handle the size load in the spreader :laughing:

 

[Oldpath05]

Well, look at the picture 6 different times.:laughing:

Good one LOL :thumbsup:

 

[Oldpath05]

That's easy, it's 5 loads THIS big,

SR

So you just had to make me to the math, dont you know that makes my head hurt................... I came up with 1,500 lbs/ea, sounds right. I also came up with the regular small square bales medium weight is 50 lbs/ea, so one of your big round bales has the equivalent of 30 regular small square bales, dry light weight hay I figure 3/100 lbs =45 bales. So at an average, 30 ton is approx 1,200 -1,800 bales + or -. Inquiring minds want to know, some just have a hard time at arithmeticking.......... Now I can picture 30 tons of hay.

 

[Jstpssng]

So you just had to make me to the math, dont you know that makes my head hurt................... I came up with 1,500 lbs/ea, sounds right. I also came up with the regular small square bales medium weight is 50 lbs/ea, so one of your big round bales has the equivalent of 30 regular small square bales, dry light weight hay I figure 3/100 lbs =45 bales. So at an average, 30 ton is approx 1,200 -1,800 bales + or -. Inquiring minds want to know, some just have a hard time at arithmeticking.......... Now I can picture 30 tons of hay.

Trying to watch you do the math made my head hurt, I wish that I had just read your final bale count.