The Life of a Custom Mowing contractor

[Hay Dude]

With all you have going on, how do you find time to go anywhere?

You have to make some time, or your family will suffer.
That baseball game was a chance to spend 5 fun hours with my son and his girlfriend.

 

[Hay Dude]

Back in the saddle today. Feeding the foxes.

Summer is definitely over. It was 95* 3 weeks ago. Now it’s 59*

 

[Hay Dude]

More raking & baling today. Nice weather here for 3-4 days.

Check out this Red Tail Hawk scooping up a snake. Happened while I was raking.

I must have connected & disconnected rake 100 times this year. Wheel rake is nice in that theres no PTO shaft.

At the helm Baling a fairly large hillside field. Windows are smaller on 2nd cutting in some field\s

 

[WM75Guy]

At the helm Baling a fairly large hillside field. Windows are smaller on 2nd cutting in some field\s

We never put windows in our bales. If you leave them open the bales get wet on the inside when it rains.

 

[lman]

We never put windows in our bales. If you leave them open the bales get wet on the inside when it rains.

I've seen a few of these.

 

[Hay Dude]

We never put windows in our bales. If you leave them open the bales get wet on the inside when it rains.

Yeah, like I mean the windows of time to bale, but ahahaha

 

[sixdogs]

Is it difficult to get it to dry this time of year? I never had much luck this late in the season.

 

[Hay Dude]

You can, yes, but the window of time is now 1-5PM (in ideal weather conditions) so that’s not a lot of time to rake & bale 65 acres like this.
Today was mostly sunny & 80*, so I went like hell yesterday & today.

A 1,982 LB biscuit ready for bale heaven.

I did about 30 bales each 5 hour day. With large equipment, you can really move fast IF everything operates correctly
Before baling, I truck a load of bales to a customer.
After baling, I stack bales, or move equipment to the next field.

 

[sixdogs]

You can, yes, but the window of time is now 1-5PM (in ideal weather conditions) so that’s not a lot of time to rake & bale 65 acres like this.
Today was mostly sunny & 80*, so I went like hell yesterday & today.

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I did about 30 each 5 hour day alone. With large equipment, you can really move. Before baling, I truck a load to a customer. Afterwards, I stack bales, or move equipment to the next field.

Nothing beats looking at long windrows when you're running ahead of the time curve.

 

[Hay Dude]

Nothing beats looking at long windrows when you're running ahead of the time curve.

Those are almost a mile long. They go over 3 hills and 2 valleys.