Posted by jd-tom on May 13, 2010 at 08:44:45 from (98.132.209.14):
In Reply to: Re: hay combustion posted by Ken Macfarlane on May 13, 2010 at 04:54:23:
I'm going to have to disagree with you about the salt, Ken. I've done this many times over the years and it works like a charm. Now mind you, this is for hay that is just a little too wet, not sopping wet. I did this late last summer with some really nice 3rd alfalfa/orchardgrass mix hay. It needed just a few more hours of drying weather to make it perfect but it clouded up and was threatening to rain so we baled all the racks full and had what was left round baled. I stacked all of this (800+ square bales) in the center of my barn mow. We stacked then on edge in a normal stack, no spaces between the bales, 6-7 layers high. (My experience with this is that it doesn't matter if the cut side is up or down. When the bales keep coming up the conveyor the guy in the barn doesn't have time to check each bale for that.) We salted each layer as we stacked it with regular feed salt. Then we left the mow doors and windows open for awhile after that and let the Minnesota winds blow thru the barn. It kept very well! The bales were heavy when we took them out this past winter and I thought that they would be hard in the middle. We checked several and they weren't - just really nice well-preserved hay. It sold very well at the hay auction - several different persons bought it over the course of the winter and they all loved it - most of them were feeding it to horses!
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