The Life of a Custom Mowing contractor

[Molalla1]

If you can buy the right short adapter, splicing in longer wiring to your desired length is pretty easy to do. You know, while you are sitting around with nothing to do - LOL!

Now that is funny, right HD . . .

 

[civilian]

HD, what about wireless trailer lights for when hauling trailers with your tractors. I know the tow trucks have them and also saw somewhere that someone was using them instead of fixing his trailer lights. Jon

 

[Molalla1]

HD, what about wireless trailer lights for when hauling trailers with your tractors. I
know the tow trucks have them and also saw somewhere that someone was using them instead of fixing his trailer lights. Jon

Jon, you beat me to it . . .

 

[LHF2019]

And yet every other conceivable combination of plugs exist with long cords between them.

How many farmers out there pull trailers with tractors. On top of that how many even care if they had lights working. I have the truck to implement adapter for towing equipment on the road. I don't even see dealers using them when new equipment goes by.

 

[LouNY]

Many implements also have lights.

 

[Hay Dude]

HD, what about wireless trailer lights for when hauling trailers with your tractors. I know the tow trucks have them and also saw somewhere that someone was using them instead of fixing his trailer lights. Jon

I looked into them. Looks like a great idea.

How many farmers out there pull trailers with tractors. On top of that how many even care if they had lights working. I have the truck to implement adapter for towing equipment on the road. I don't even see dealers using them when new equipment goes by.

We don’t have police here. We have Gestapo. They must be obeyed. But the main reason is because I worry about someone crashing into the back of my trailer while they are following me 2 feet off my back bumper while drinking a latte and and talking on the phone. At least some of them are beautiful to look at in my rear view mirrors lol

Many implements also have lights.

All mine do and I have the converter cord for truck to implement. Just weird how there’s no longer cord for a farm tractor to a licensed & inspected road trailer.

 

[BackRoad]

Do the gestapo bother you about displaying SMV triangles on trailers?

Unfortunately, I've forgotten mine twice while roading my tractor, but we have NO police or constable presence in my area.

 

[Hay Dude]

Finally got the rake and tedder stowed-away for the winter & spring.

First the rake….

Then the tedder.

Today was one of those kind of cold, gloomy days. Feels like the end of hay for a long while (and it is). It got very cold early here this year. We’re in the 30’s, but probably should be around 50.
Kind of strange what a battle hay is and then boom, it’s over and everything looks so desolate and void of life.

 

[WI Dan]

It’s kind of difficult to explain, but I am part of the beginning of the process. All incoming bales are unloaded and immediately have the strings or net wrap removed. Large square Bales are broken up by a big front end loader and pushed up onto a huge pile. Round bales are sawed in half with a giant saw blade mounted on a skid loader.

The loose hay is then mixed with straw. Then that blend is put into 1000’ long rows where lime, chicken litter, straw, topsoil and water are put on the tops of the rows. The long rows break down into a rich black fluffy bedding soil that looks sort of like peat moss.
It is then trucked to mushroom farmers who use the special soil to grow mushrooms.

That was very well put. Thank you for typing it out.
How do they deal with net wrap and twine? Does the human get out of the machine and pick it up by hand? Or does it get ripped off by the loader and piled up with bits of hay mingled in?
What percentage of hay is twine compared to netwrap?

 

[Hay Dude]

That was very well put. Thank you for typing it out.

My pleasure.

How do they deal with net wrap and twine? Does the human get out of the machine and pick it up by hand?

Yes.
One place I deliver to that pays more per ton, makes the delivery driver (me) remove all the twine and put it in a recycling bin. Takes me about 10-15 minutes to remove the twine off of 15 bales. The bales are pushed up into a huge pile shortly thereafter.

Another buyer I have unloads the hay, but immediately stacks the bales up about 6 layers high. They then come back later and retrieve bales as needed.

Or does it get ripped off by the loader and piled up with bits of hay mingled in?

No they don’t want any twine or net in the mix.

What percentage of hay is twine compared to netwrap?

All the large square bales are twine and just about all the round bales are net wrap. Few, if any round bales are twine anymore.

 

[Dryland Farmer]

My pleasure.


Yes.
One place I deliver to that pays more per ton, makes the delivery driver (me) remove all the twine and put it in a recycling bin. Takes me about 10-15 minutes to remove the twine off of 15 bales. The bales are pushed up into a huge pile shortly thereafter.

Another buyer I have unloads the hay, but immediately stacks the bales up about 6 layers high. They then come back later and retrieve bales as needed.




No they don’t want any twine or net in the mix.


All the large square bales are twine and just about all the round bales are net wrap. Few, if any round bales are twine anymore.

Twine and especially net wrap are terrible if it gets into mixers and bale processers. It wraps around shafts and takes out bearings.