The Life of a Custom Mowing contractor

[Hay Dude]

Haydude you have a picture eating hay out of a small green structure. Is that a deer stand? I’ve seen people around here do the same thing. Do you pick it up somehow and set it over a hay bale?

Hay Hut. One of the best hay feeding inventions I have ever seen.
I almost became a dealer when they first came out. The inventor is a pretty brilliant guy

Hay Hut Horse Feeder | Hay Hut Net Kit | Chapin, SC

Hay Huts protect and preserve hay for feeding horses, saving you money and keeping your horses happy and healthy. The Hay Hut Net Kit increases feeding efficiency with 5 different hole sizes to cover all aspects of slow, regular, clean and training feeding.

www.dogwoodridgesupply.com

 

[scootr]

Hay Hut. One of the best hay feeding inventions I have ever seen.
I almost became a dealer when they first came out. The inventor is a pretty brilliant guy

Hay Hut Horse Feeder | Hay Hut Net Kit | Chapin, SC

Hay Huts protect and preserve hay for feeding horses, saving you money and keeping your horses happy and healthy. The Hay Hut Net Kit increases feeding efficiency with 5 different hole sizes to cover all aspects of slow, regular, clean and training feeding.

www.dogwoodridgesupply.com

I can see that saving a $1000 in wasted feed that gets spread out and trampled into the ground. But it goes against the horse's nature to be on the lookout for danger while grazing by having his head in a bin.

 

[bearthebruce]

@Hay Dude, since you asked for some pics, I just added a few from our September mowing to a google album.

Here is the link: Mowing

You'll see a few pics of our troubles on the trip when I blew one of the steering Hydraulic lines.. And of course, it was the most difficult to get to... tore the whole front of Missy off to get to the fitting! Fun days that!

Oh, and I live in Montgomery County PA, the land is in Floyd County, VA. Jonesville/Pennington Gap is significantly west of Floyd VA. Still gorgeous country.

 

[Hay Dude]

I can see that saving a $1000 in wasted feed that gets spread out and trampled into the ground. But it goes against the horse's nature to be on the lookout for danger while grazing by having his head in a bin.

Well, ok, but all my customers have them and love em.
Extremely popular feeder.

 

[scootr]

Well, ok, but all my customers have them and love em.
Extremely popular feeder.

And that is why the horse became the workhorse because it is so darn domesticated.
Not saying it's wrong, just saying it isn't natural. And hunger is a real motivator.
Maybe they use a buddy system where one horse watches while the other eats?

 

[Hay Dude]

Today was a bit challenging with getting bales out of a field. We had rain over the weekend. Rain does not dry out this time of year in SE PA like it does in the warmer months. Here’s a 12 stack begging to be hauled out. Looks like a nice herd of deer in the distance.

That means even with 4WD, and even on flat ground, the potential is always there of getting the truck & trailer stuck.

Here I am hauling out the heaviest load yet this year. I made it to the asphalt, which is a great relief to me.

The Jeep Rubicon stands by to laugh at the RAMS situation. Those 15 bales were 29,400lbs.

Once to the wharf and unloaded I stopped for fuel on the way home. I love the 2” truck stop nozzle.

 

[Yander]

She's squatin pretty good there!

 

[Hay Dude]

She's squatin pretty good there!

Yeah it’s weird because once I got on the road, the squat kind of went away.

 

[ning]

Front of the truck is closer, wide-angle lens makes it look a lot bigger than the back which distorts the overall picture a little.
Then, the truck's front is higher up on the road than the rear - not by a lot but enough to make it look squat.
Possibly too, if the gooseneck hitch is mounted ahead of the rear axle at all, then if the truck is inclined then there's actually slightly more weight over the rear axle than when the truck is flat.

 

[Hay Dude]

It’s centered over rear axle