Hay making help

[Phred]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( you'd never be able to stay in the seat of the tractor )</font>
Yep that's my problem. And I hate to think what that would do to the ware plates on the bottom of my disc mower. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

The other day it was no more than about 4 mph for me.
Got it all down and had three or four really hot dry days, perfect hay curing weather. Still green but just the right moisture content. Weather man says no rain until about 10:00 pm.

Early afternoon and I am half done baling since I waited abit in the morning for the dew to burn off. Everything is looking great, no equipment problems, nice tight perfect bales are churning out.......
D%$ if it does not poor rain for about 20 min out of the blue.
Cats and dogs. Just enough to totally mess up what has not been baled and then it stops! A couple hours latter the skys open up and it has been off and on ever since. /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif

Some years you just can't win.

I should stop complaining and be glad I got about half of it up.
It can always be worse.

Richard is right about the angus. One very good thing about the midwest is the excellent beef one can easily find. Far better than the east or west coast IMHO.

Fred

 

[tough451]

Hmm a lot of the steers sold at the local auction are bought and taken to the midwest to the feed lots.

 

[cowboydoc]

Hmm a lot of the steers sold at the local auction are bought and taken to the midwest to the feed lots.


That's because most of the feedlots in the country are in the midwest. It doesn't mean there aren't alot of cattle in the midwest, there are, but when you're talking about millions of cattle going through the lots each year they come from all over the country. We make numerous runs with the semi's every year bringing cattle from Idaho to Iowa.

 

[pikels]

i think the first thing that you need is this...

 

[slowzuki]

I was certainly leary but the fellow hired to do the mowing for us said he was hitting 12 mph on the better fields! He had a 2 yo JD discbine and a 1 yo 100 hp or so JD tractor.

The people watching him said he's crazy and couldn't believe how fast he was going after watching us with the haybine.

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( That mowing at 10 mph., sticks in my craw.'

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