The Life of a Custom Mowing contractor

[LouNY]

I’m guessing you need to also get wrapped up with hay sooner since it gets colder up in your area than mine?
2nd cutting just about ready to start here….

A little bit but not a lot I believe. Especially for the grass hays, we have often done a bit of hay as haylage after chopping corn.
Too had to get it dry enough to bale in the fall from all the dew every night.

 

[Hay Dude]

Back to some field mowing today. 3 weeks late to this customer. I squeezed them in today after Tuesday’s rain. Still had water in low spots as you can imagine.
Finished up about 4pm. By 8pm we had red cell thunderstorms come over and wash us out again.

 

[Hay Dude]

Some steep stuff, too.

Upper rear tire was starting to bob up off the ground a bit.

 

[Thall303]

That is a beautiful piece of property. Wish we had some of that rain.

 

[EddieWalker]

How long is your trailer that you use to haul your tractor and batwing?

 

[Hay Dude]

How long is your trailer that you use to haul your tractor and batwing?

Usually I just drive the tractor and mower to my customers locations because they are all within 5 mile radius and the tractors have road speed gears (34MPH).

Trailer is 35’. It also has a deck on the neck for the loader if I need additional space.

 

[dodge man]

A picture of some old school hay. You don’t see haystacks very often but the Amish still make them. They weren’t very big, maybe 2 feet high. I rode by this on my bicycle today and they were moving some kind of hay equipment down the road being pulled by two large draft horses. There was two pieces of equipment, one sort of looked like a tedder I’m not sure what the other was, maybe a rake. I’m not sure if they bale it or what?

Edit, someone on another forum said it might be something like oats.

 

[Hay Dude]

Back onto some real steep ground today mowing with the Challenger.
This place is STEEP. Like pucker steep.

 

[Lineman North Florida]

I don't remember for sure what year it was but seems like 2010 or 2011 I was working a storm for Baltimore Gas & Electric and wound up in farm country at the Mason Dixon Line and it looked just like that in your pictures, and fields full of some sort of flowers that were planted in rows, but it was pretty country.

 

[Hay Dude]

Well, I FINALLY finished 1st cutting

Only about 3 weeks later than normal.…..
Strangest summer, so much rain.