Anyone mow hay yet?

[YLee Kioti]

I'm a happy camper. Our 500 year FEMA flood zone is now productive.
last year we got five bales. This year got eight bales.
Texas law makes me build an annual record for five years before we get ag exempt on our property taxes.
This year I did not 'help' my friend and left him all of it and did not trim around trees so three extra bales, lesson learned for me.
This week we will be getting about five inches of rain while Houston is set to get 12. yikes!
I'm looking at another fall crop.
last year sprayed 70 gallons of remedy and the HUISACHE kill was about 70%. Results after first good rain last year was instant blue stem. Thanks to being downwind from neighbor! Got all his pasture grass seeds! lol...

 

[EddieWalker]

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last year sprayed 70 gallons of remedy ...

That's some expensive stuff!!!! I'm buying it to spray Mesquite trees. What are you mixing it with?

 

[YLee Kioti]

That's some expensive stuff!!!! I'm buying it to spray Mesquite trees. What are you mixing it with?

One ounce per gallon, and same ratio of Erasure for Johnson grass plus a few ounces of generic dawn for surfactant. Got a 15 gallon sprayer from Full-O-Pep rated for Diesel use. Set it in the bucket and use the 15 foot hose and walk around trees and get the fence line.
Yeah not cheap, I buy the gallon jugs. Thank goodness for the Ag (tax) exempt!!!

 

[buckeyefarmer]

i order gal of roundup super concentrate for $149 today.

 

[Hay Dude]

I’ve splattered more fawns than I care to discuss. It was really bad when I made mostly feed hay, because you are in the fields earlier, when the fawns can’t run as well.
When first born, their instinct is to lay low they are almost scentless.

 

[Hay Dude]

Hammer down!

 

[YLee Kioti]

Hammer down!

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Pretty serious equipment there!
And seems to make really clean cuts. Ignorant question from me: I noticed last year when my neighbor cut and finished baling left a lot of stems standing everywhere. Which was OK. I re-cut to mulch and let it feed the soil.
This year the cut was super clean and very low, much like what I see in your images.
So are those cutters using blades that get sharpened?
I know nothing about the cutter used. So just interested cause I can learn something about this retirement past time of mine! Ha...
And yeah awesome avatar....I got it....! totally agree....

 

[Hay Dude]

Pretty serious equipment there!

We make about 1,200 tons per year and the equipment is barely up to the task in some ways. Really need another loader tractor.

And seems to make really clean cuts. Ignorant question from me: I noticed last year when my neighbor cut and finished baling left a lot of stems standing everywhere. Which was OK. I re-cut to mulch and let it feed the soil.
This year the cut was super clean and very low, much like what I see in your images.
So are those cutters using blades that get sharpened?
I know nothing about the cutter used. So just interested cause I can learn something about this retirement past time of mine! Ha...
And yeah awesome avatar....I got it....! totally agree....

Usually discbine blades are throw away, but they are reversible, so you get 2 edges from them. They’re maybe $2 a piece.

 

[YLee Kioti]

Got it...appreciate it thank you....!

 

[LouNY]

Long straggly cuts can be from dull knives or blades but is often from hay that has been knocked down by weather or animal traffic. The wind can lay it over so you have along cut traveling in one direction and a short cut in the opposite direction.