Re: Not the way Dad did it!

Posted by Ron-MO on July 03, 2016 at 17:10:15 from (174.131.235.238):

In Reply to: Not the way Dad did it! posted by Bruce from Can. on July 03, 2016 at 13:01:09:

When I was growing up, it was fairly rare for anyone to cut any hay until around this time of year (in MO). Most or our hay was Timothy and Red Top, no one wanted Fescue at the time. We usually started cutting first of July, and we were lucky to get finished in a month, and this was on two farms, about 60 acres total. But at the time we were cutting with a Farmall C with a 7 foot sickle mower and baling with an IH 45 pulled by an 8N Ford (the 8N was the largest tractor dad ever owned). I still own the two tractors, rake, and mower. For the most part, it was just the two of us cutting, raking, baling and hauling the square bales with most going into the loft of two barns, and we never had a elevator, so it was all thrown in from the wagon or pickup. We usually only cut and baled 100 or so bales a day, and a normal day was raking as soon as dew was dry. On a good day we could cut and by the end of the day we could rake and bale, but that was the exception and hay needed to be fairly thin, and humidity low and temps in the 90's. No one spends a month baling 60 acres now, but back then you did what you had to do. BTW, part of the slowness for us was that IH 45 baler, and those who have baled with one know exactly what I am referring to. Dad loved the IH equipment, but hated that baler. I rode many rounds on the left side twine box.

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