Posted by Destroked 450 on July 04, 2016 at 20:54:40 from (173.242.142.14):
In Reply to: Not the way Dad did it! posted by Bruce from Can. on July 03, 2016 at 13:01:09:
Dad sometimes didn't cut the whole field in one day but he finished cutting that field before he moved to the next. Partly because of slower mowing speeds back in the day with one tractor and sickle bar mower, also the time it took to square bale and get it hauled into the barn.
Now we use two tractors with 8-9ft disc mowers laying down 30-40 acres a day tedding behind the mowers and making 4x5 round bales a day or two later.
Hay season started late this year because of spring rains but we had a couple weeks of good hay drying weather around the first week of June. Hired a young man to help this year to make things easier on the wife, in 12 days on four small farms we cut, tedded, raked and baled 120 acres making 840 rolls of hay. The wife stayed busy bring us food, drinks, fuel and twine along with transporting us back and forth between farms has we moved equipment.
Took another week to move all the bale off the fields and get equipment back home.
Finished second cutting of clover and johnson grass in square bales on the first field we had cut Friday, everything else we'll pasture.
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