The Life of a Custom Mowing contractor

[Rustyiron]

Beautiful!
Your first pic with the little bit of red in a tree made me take notice.

So I snapped this just now for comparison. We're like 26" of rain deficit and it effects the fall colors.

 

[Hay Dude]

I disconnected the Krone 4x4XC baler from the Challenger MT655E yesterday. That’s it…the end of 2025 haying.

Now have to get into Property Maintenance mode. Brush cutting around ponds, clearing, etc.
Still a LOT of hay to deliver, too. So although no cut/rake/bale, there’s plenty to sell.

I have a snowplowing bid out that, if I get it, will be a game changer for me. I just heard the customer has not made a decision, but I am still in the hunt….

The future looks pretty good.

 

[Hay Dude]

Loading some bales on lightly frosted ground this morning.

Autumn colors still raging here on the farm.

In the afternoon, I have moved to an estate I farm. This place is amazing. Wealth I could never imagine.

The Estate of Irenee DuPont. Looks like I might be able to get a 3rd cutting lol

Now on the scale. You wouldn’t believe the gross weight, but the bales were like 1,785LBs each.

 

[EddieWalker]

I always wonder what it's like to live in a massive mansion like that. How many rooms are never used, or even visited? Seems to me like most people only use a certain part of their house and the rest just sits there empty. I have two bedrooms and a bathroom upstairs that I haven't seen in months. I just don't have any reason to go up there.

 

[Hay Dude]

Agree. I think when you had the kind of wealth the DuPont family had, those mansions are more of a statement of wealth and stature. The excessive rooms are useless.

 

[Lastkidpicked]

Now on the scale. You wouldn’t believe the gross weight, but the bales were like 1,785LBs each.

Seeing your truck on the scale reminds me of working in the oilfield during the big heyday (Or should I say HAYday)

We were shipping big rounds out and each load had to weigh 80,000 with only a 1000 pound allowance.

Well, there wasn't time to be adding or removing bales so you would pull on the scale and the scalemaster would yell:

"We need one tire!"

And a guy would run his pickup to the scale and put one tire on it, bringing you up to 80,000

Or if you were over, the scalemaster would yell:

"3 Bars!"

And three guys would run over and grab long bars to lift a bit of weight off the scale until you were down to 80,000

I was young at the time and just couldn't believe it! But quick math showed we were over as many times as under so I guess it all evened out.

All these years later I saw @Hay Dude 's picture on the scale and those memories came roaring back.

 

[Willman]

Seeing your truck on the scale reminds me of working in the oilfield during the big heyday (Or should I say HAYday)

We were shipping big rounds out and each load had to weigh 80,000 with only a 1000 pound allowance.

Well, there wasn't time to be adding or removing bales so you would pull on the scale and the scalemaster would yell:

"We need one tire!"

And a guy would run his pickup to the scale and put one tire on it, bringing you up to 80,000

Or if you were over, the scalemaster would yell:

"3 Bars!"

And three guys would run over and grab long bars to lift a bit of weight off the scale until you were down to 80,000

I was young at the time and just couldn't believe it! But quick math showed we were over as many times as under so I guess it all evened out.

All these years later I saw @Hay Dude 's picture on the scale and those memories came roaring back.

Yes happens all the time, but could have put the scale master in jail for his actions and any others helping to the illegal actions

 

[Hay Dude]

Stupid cops pulling over farmers and weighing them as if they know what each hay bale weighs, each bushed of soybeans, corn, etc.
My bales weigh 1600-2000.
I really would like a overbuilt rig to haul hay….someday.