Posted by Billy NY on July 19, 2014 at 22:26:12 from (66.67.105.23):
In Reply to: hay preservative posted by Muduc on July 19, 2014 at 20:33:45:
Thats nothing to fool with, proprionic acid, is applied as you mentioned before its a bale.
I've dealt with wet bales, way too many times, lay out a tarp, open them up and spread them out, feed it immediately, but DO not fool with suspect wet bales for any reason. I've heard and seen all kinds of crap over the years, one a long time farmer, telling me the dry ones in the stack will soak up the moisture, and sure enough I've found those hard, dense, and dusty bales come out of his mow, as I used to buy directly out of his barn, load the wagon myself, hard to believe his never went up given what I pulled out of the stack. The same guy, (and I liked him, he was a good guy but..) brought me 200 just baled, thankfully I handled each one, separated, opened and spread them out, we would have lost our barn without any doubt, he was very apologetic, but that meant nothing, wet bales do not care about apologies. The darned things were heating up already. I had a long time neighbor farmer/dairyman, that I helped in his last years, and one year he had some great 2nd cut, I wanted several hundred bales of it, so we put the NH 315 on the 3150 JD and made up the order, one field was bone dry, days of perfect weather, but another for some darned reason, just did not dry down, we had the time, it should have been flipped in the windrow or tedded one more time prior too, some thick green hay grasses. I handled all of what I baled, stacked the wagon as it was baled, not enough wagons, then loaded his truck, then unloaded it, and I found hot ones, one the wagon, coming off the truck, dealt with those accordingly. Its russian roulette as far as I am concerned, one thing I hate and will make sure NEVER goes in any barn is wet bales. I have seen one devastating fire from it, in '74 as a kid, horrible situation with livestock, horses etc.
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