Haying in WV

[Backwoods Welding]

Just thought I would share a pic from the hay fields this summer. Mowing with a John Deere 1020 with mid mount 7' sickle and I'm on the Massey Ferguson 231 with the Galfre 2 spool tedder. This was one of the gentler hills we bale.

 

[smstonypoint]

What type of baler are you using?

Steve

 

[Backwoods Welding]

We used a Massey Ferguson 12 square baler but I upgraded to a New Holland Super Hayliner 69

 

[Backwoods Welding]

We used a Massey Ferguson 12 square baler but I upgraded to a New Holland 69 square baler later in the summer.

 

[smstonypoint]

We used a Massey Ferguson 12 square baler but I upgraded to a New Holland Super Hayliner 69

I was thinking that I wouldn't want to be downhill if you were using a round baler.

Steve

 

[dieselcrawler]

Gotta love them WV hillsides.... I've got 118 acres of them. My dad has a MF 12 baler also, been using it since I was a kid...

Thanks for sharing

 

[Backwoods Welding]

The one field we do I sat with both legs on the up hill side of the steering wheel ready to jump it was that steep! I actually had the hay rake tip up with me. I got my Ferguson TO-35 and it sits so low and it is out wide I didn't feel a thing on them hill. The person who cut the one farm before us did round bale it!

 

[Backwoods Welding]

More pics, Massey 12 baler, Kioti DK35SE running it.

 

[Backwoods Welding]

Kioti tractor and old International side delivery rake

 

[dieselcrawler]

My father-in-law has baled hay on some crazy steep hills with his round baler... 300 to 400 bales a year, when my wife was a kid, they did 10 to 12 thousand square bales every summer with an old NH 243 hayliner.

I have yet to try baling our fields, be a few more years until the briars are beat back enough in the fields to yield good horse feed hay. The previous owner let the fields go a few years before we bought it 3 years ago.