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Post by Dave-ECIA on Jul 17, 2011 17:16:22 GMT -5
Knocked a small alfalfa field down on Friday around noon.
Sure, should be ready to bale this afternoon.
Three days of 60% humidity and turning the windrows twice today, and it's still tough.
Now the haze is closing in and lowest humidity tomorrow is 65%.
Planning to bale it tomorrow, keep the loads small and let them cure on the rack before stacking it.
The joy of making hay in the humid upper midwest.
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Post by cornandbeef on Jul 17, 2011 18:42:14 GMT -5
Well on the brite side atleast we still got grass and plenty of hay
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Post by Dave-ECIA on Jul 17, 2011 19:22:51 GMT -5
This is true.
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Post by RickNCMD on Jul 17, 2011 19:42:19 GMT -5
Whiner, whiner boohoo, the humidity is hardly ever below 65% over here. The hay gets wetter once its cut.
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Post by Dave-ECIA on Jul 17, 2011 20:19:56 GMT -5
Whiner, whiner boohoo, the humidity is hardly ever below 65% over here. The hay gets wetter once its cut. Not whining, I hoped to bale early afternoon so I could drink Margaritas the rest of the day.... We're back up to 91% currently, with a Margarita in my hand. It's all good... We'll try it again tomorrow.
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Post by RickNCMD on Jul 17, 2011 20:41:36 GMT -5
You need a forage harvester, quick and simple.
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Post by Rich© on Jul 18, 2011 4:24:07 GMT -5
You need a forage harvester, quick and simple. What the heck you think he's making the bales for? Those arn't parade wagon benches or roadside art decor. Hee hee hee. Any of you guys remember an article years ago in one of the farm magazines.... farm journal or farm industry news or similar.. I be damned if I can remember which one.... About a guy that invented a mobile oven to run the hay through to dry it and then be able to immediately bale? I think it was based on the same theory as a microwave oven but don't hold me to that. What I do truly remember about the machine is it was long. Looked like it must of been over 60 feet. It must of been a fake? I sure havn't heard of anyone using machinery made that artificially dries or dehumidifys forage for baling. I really am interested in what happened to that machine and how come it was a flop. From the article ... Like all farm magazine articles printed.... it was the hot stuff. No pun intended.
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Post by Dave-ECIA on Jul 18, 2011 7:09:11 GMT -5
Rich, don't remember it being mobile, but RFDTv had a show on it a few years back. Kinda remember it was in the northeast. New York state maybe?? Think they were talking about putting one out in the west coast/ northwest. It's all a little fuzzy....
They brought in wilted long-stem hay on wagons and walking floor trailers (don't remember how they loaded them) and ran the alfalfa through an infrared drying system on a belt conveyor. Came out bright green and dry. They then baled it into mid-sized squares if my memory serves. Big friggin operation.
Thought I heard recently that that operation shut down, wasn't economically feasable.
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Post by rowfarmer on Jul 18, 2011 9:09:53 GMT -5
i remember that article. i'm like you can't remember which magizene it was in but you pulled it behind a tractor and when it came out the other end it was dry. I do remember they said it worked on the same princpiel as your microwave.
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Post by cornandbeef on Jul 18, 2011 9:36:28 GMT -5
It was in Farmshow
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Post by Rich© on Jul 18, 2011 13:57:54 GMT -5
I don't recall dad getting the farmshow magazine. Tell you how much I have progressed over the years. I used to look at some of those concoctions and think to myself "Man, thats brilliant!"... and I look at the same ones today and think to myself "Good God, who in thier right mind would build and run a p.o.s. like that??". Of course... after owning/working/running a Massey you learn to improve your standards. ;D
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Post by acfarmer on Jul 20, 2011 8:08:42 GMT -5
Just stack them on edge and salt the shit out of them.
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Post by cornandbeef on Jul 20, 2011 16:06:12 GMT -5
Some stuff those guy build actually become main stream farm equipment. Some is just plain nuts. .AC too much salt will give them hi blood pressure. LOL.
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Post by RickNCMD on Jul 20, 2011 20:41:00 GMT -5
Just stack them on edge and salt the shit out of them. I was a real skeptic of the salt program, put up some very tough alfalfa, salted the crap out of it, beautiful hay when it came out. Cut edge up is the preferred way to stack if using salt.
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Post by acfarmer on Jul 21, 2011 0:15:49 GMT -5
Just stack them on edge and salt the shit out of them. I was a real skeptic of the salt program, put up some very tough alfalfa, salted the crap out of it, beautiful hay when it came out. Cut edge up is the preferred way to stack if using salt. Im no hay expert but we put alot of hay up wet and did the salt thing. It was in my younger days and I did as dad said and there you go. we never lost a barn and I realized that wet square bales will weight 30lbs more than dry ones. LOL
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