Posted by JVMopar on May 13, 2010 at 08:33:58 from (174.124.6.122):
In Reply to: Re: hay combustion posted by chrisinsoky on May 12, 2010 at 23:57:08:
I always worry about mine too. I'm no farmer, kinda got thrown into it after my wifes grandfather died. But I've put some bales in the loft that I thought were too wet. 2 bales out of 1000 were a little moldy. I was told by the old farmer down the road to stack "damp" bales on their end in the barn. He said his dad would put bales up that he was sure would burn the barn down and never did.
I was told by another person to put pickling salt inbetween the stack layers.
So far stacking them on end in the barn has worked out pretty good. Although they don't stack quite as nice. So I throw all the heavy bales over to another part of the barn and stack a whole bin on end.
Has worked ok for the last 5 years that I've been doing this. We've only had 2-3 bales that were just barely moldy.
I baled some oats for feed and that was a bad idea. They were green when I cut them and I let it dry and it was really dry. Twisting the stalks would break off easily. So I baled it. After going through the baler you'd a thought it rained on them. I feed them to the neighbors cattle. He said there wasn't enough left of it to bed a cat. Musta been good stuff.
I suppose some day I'll actually get it all figured out. Maybe by the time I'm 90.
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