Celebrate we’re done haying
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Topic: Celebrate we’re done haying
Posted By: captaindana
Subject: Celebrate we’re done haying
Date Posted: 05 Sep 2023 at 5:39am
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After 99 days of making or trying to make high quality horse hay of 42 pounds each, our season has come to an end. Thank God! 12,951 bales stacked cut side up in three barns. Son Ian delivers to Rhode Island, Mass and Ct. He has his own high end customers. ‘‘Twas a trying season as it was few and far between getting 3 consecutive days of decent hay drying weather. Basically a wet summer. Soil tests said to apply 347 pounds of 30-40-120 per acre at over $800 / ton! I spread on average one third of that amount. That with the rains made a record year. I’ll try the same for next year after more soil sampling. I will figure out the hours and costs to make our product after everything is washed, waxed and stored away till next June1 2024. I do know the way we operated this year we produced 25 bales for every gallon of diesel. And labor was $10,000. And yes every bale is spoken for! ------------- Blue Skies and Tail Winds Dana |
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Posted By: captaindana
Date Posted: 05 Sep 2023 at 5:53am
  Everything gets put away polished. Actually several times during the season. I always said I may not know what I am doing but I am going to look good doing it. 😆 ------------- Blue Skies and Tail Winds Dana |
Posted By: captaindana
Date Posted: 05 Sep 2023 at 6:05am
 Now it’s time to return to a much easier less stressful occupation! ------------- Blue Skies and Tail Winds Dana |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 05 Sep 2023 at 6:20am
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MY back hurts just thinking of lifting a few of them bales..... In '75 helped toss bales onto friends dads wagon, GREAT exercise,couldn't see as I'm allergic to 'grasses'..... I'm thinking you're back in the air to make up for the losses of being a farmer. Sigh, reminds me I have 20 'small squares' to get from farm up the road,hoping they all fit into my F150 short box. ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: plummerscarin
Date Posted: 05 Sep 2023 at 6:21am
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Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 05 Sep 2023 at 7:09am
It’s not great exercise, the form usually sucks 
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jaybmiller wrote:Posted By: captaindana
Date Posted: 05 Sep 2023 at 12:18pm
   Putting away 35 year old 575 which Ian bales with the 7030 and my 34 year old 570 which I bale with behind my 200. The 7000 runs the Paquea 6 spool Tedder and we run a 4 spool Krone with a 185. Aerial view of our Ranch from 3000 feet msl (2500’ above ground level) from a 180 hp Skyhawk with an IFR student practicing slow flight steep turns power on and off stalls unusual attitudes and emergency descents. ------------- Blue Skies and Tail Winds Dana |
Posted By: captaindana
Date Posted: 05 Sep 2023 at 12:27pm
  ------------- Blue Skies and Tail Winds Dana |
Posted By: AC720Man
Date Posted: 05 Sep 2023 at 5:53pm
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Is that one of the prototype 11’ center pivot Discbine? My buddy Gary was the first customer in our area asked to try one in the spring. It had a lot more moving parts than his 2 Discbines that he bought new last year. Performed well but he passed on trading for it. Nice equipment you have and obviously take very good care of them. ------------- 1968 B-208, 1976 720 (2 of them)Danco brush hog, single bottom plow,52" snow thrower, belly mower,rear tine tiller, rear blade, front blade, 57"sickle bar,1983 917 hydro, 1968 7hp sno-bee, 1968 190XTD |
Posted By: captaindana
Date Posted: 05 Sep 2023 at 6:15pm
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AC720Man my discbine is a New Holland 313. Think it’s a 2017 model. Running behind our 7040 together they are amazing. ------------- Blue Skies and Tail Winds Dana |
Posted By: dr p
Date Posted: 05 Sep 2023 at 7:02pm
| I finished on monday. Over 90 degrees but humidity was so high , it wouldn't get as dry as i hoped. And we all know how rotobalers love tough hay. Forked the last ten bales loose onto a wagon and parked it in the pasture. Onto corn silage. |
Posted By: AC720Man
Date Posted: 05 Sep 2023 at 9:33pm
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Thanks for the clarification, difficult to see the size in the picture. I never heard if NH decided to put it into production. Maybe they are waiting for more results. ------------- 1968 B-208, 1976 720 (2 of them)Danco brush hog, single bottom plow,52" snow thrower, belly mower,rear tine tiller, rear blade, front blade, 57"sickle bar,1983 917 hydro, 1968 7hp sno-bee, 1968 190XTD |
Posted By: AC720Man
Date Posted: 05 Sep 2023 at 9:35pm
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We only got second cutting on 2 small fields. Others 1st cutting only. Took a big hit this year with the cost of fertilizer and spray only to see it go to waste with very little rain. ------------- 1968 B-208, 1976 720 (2 of them)Danco brush hog, single bottom plow,52" snow thrower, belly mower,rear tine tiller, rear blade, front blade, 57"sickle bar,1983 917 hydro, 1968 7hp sno-bee, 1968 190XTD |
Posted By: Brad in WA
Date Posted: 05 Sep 2023 at 10:26pm
| Rob, New Holland has been building the 313 and 316 for several years now. |
Posted By: AC720Man
Date Posted: 06 Sep 2023 at 8:55pm
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This was a 10’ or 11’ version. It had not gone into production yet according to the NH rep. They were asking select farmers to demo it for 2 weeks at a time if their hay crop was ready. ------------- 1968 B-208, 1976 720 (2 of them)Danco brush hog, single bottom plow,52" snow thrower, belly mower,rear tine tiller, rear blade, front blade, 57"sickle bar,1983 917 hydro, 1968 7hp sno-bee, 1968 190XTD |