Might have posted these before, I've never loaded as much hay as we did this day, nothing to brag about, but was quite a bit to me. He had a real nice fellow from the next county north come down and bale up a bunch of fields in large squares, then another guy did the round bales, he has since bought a new JD sileage special, round baler, matches nice with that late model JD 7420 he got from the horse race track, was just used for dragging, nice in there too, computer monitors, must have taken awhile to figure it all out, it's awesome to see a guy who has been at it 50 + years, keeping up with the times and enjoying some creature comfort, though he still brings out his 620, nice to hear that from a distance.
The weather was really nice in '07, plenty of time to cut and dry, but even then, if this was done in small squares, not sure he would have cut so much at once, we got it all away in 1 1/2 days, last day was a real long one, think it was well over 200 large squares, and 175 rounds though I forget exactly. The next day, was July 4th and it rained like heck, boy it feels good to beat the rain for once. I really enjoyed helping out, sometimes I'll get a call, if everyone is busy, he's got 3 sons, all are dedicated hard workers. Some of these fields I've never been in, it's like a maze to find him working sometimes, rolling hills, hedgerows, fields and winding tractor paths to get to em, whole area was like this, some has been developed though. Hay was a real big thing around here at one time.
Time to round em up
Trying to get ahead and ready to load, also had to find a place safe to load, all these fields are hills
Background, another 30 acres that did not get cut and a long since idle dairy farm, land now owned by a wealthy horse farm, he had been taking some real nice stuff from that field too.
Coming up with a pair of rounds, he's waiting to get loaded. To the right and above the hood of the truck, a pair of silos and barn, dairy farm tucked into the hill over there, nice area still.
This field is done, but look off in the distance, couple more fields and another you can't see.
Here's the rig, I saw it pass by and at a glance I had no idea what it was, think he's got those front weights on for the hills, I honestly do not know how that sucker baled these fields, I had to round up all the bales to a crest or level area, too steep too load in most places
Neighbor was watching as I load, one of those rounds got away and was headed down this steep hill to the section of corn below, can't really see how steep in the photo, it was just getting started, but was going, I out ran it and got a fork in front of it, that was the defining moment of the day, everything went well, not one lousy bale lost down the hill. This year he lost one into a swamp, skidsteer stuck, had to get the JD3150 fwd, I've never had the pleasure of driving one of those til that day, healthy piece of iron that is.
Parting shot, the last bale, lot of fields in the distance and some dairy operations to go with them rolling hills
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