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Re: Re: Advice Needed for Hay Baling
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Posted by Amen Brother, another old gray farmer. on May 08, 1999 at 13:28:10:
In Reply to: Re: Advice Needed for Hay Baling posted by old gray farmer on May 07, 1999 at 09:16:42:
As I noticed all the "advice" given to this poor soul, it was good to see your opinion. I still use my old Super Hayliners. I tried new series balers then went back to a work horse, these "boys" here that can't run them, and give advice to round bale don't know quality hay from Skoal snuff.
My advice to the man would be to get a brand new Sittrex 3 point hitch ground driven hay rake, the small one is about $850, you won't live long enough to tear it up or wear it out. I would get a Super Hayliner 68 New Holland baler, get the manuals for baler, clean service and adjust the knotters, bill hooks and plunger just like the manual explains, before you go to the hay patch. The NH manual will show what worn out bill hooks look like and how to file and adjust them back right.That old baler will cost maybe $150. You can recondition it in , not over a week working part time on it after work, very few parts just elbow grease required. Use the pickup truck you already have and enjoy the hay season.
Some of the advice he has been given, is a bunch of B.S.
It's amazing that some of these cowboy hat wearing, diesel pick-up driving, sitting at the co-op bragging & lying sissies can come up with for advice. It's also amazing what dreams they dream while they watch a real man at work.
The biggest problem with small scale farming today is the sissy, yuppie, smart alec, know nothings that jump on here and give advice to questions that weren't asked. Hay went to hell when these boys, yeah I said boys, started baleing hay. Probably the only thing wrong with their old baler, was the operators, and not knowing how to windrow hay. You'll get the feel and smell for hay real quick, after you down it, go back the next morning after dew gets off, and go back checking real regular til when you pick up a handful, wring it up between your hands, shouldn't crack&break, nor should it have moisture wring out of it under pressure. Smell it. You'll soon get the feel, look, and smell of good quality hay, that's the way old gray farmers learned it and you can too.
Soon you'll be experienced enough to smell a mule poot, and tell who baled the hay and what kind it is.
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