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Hay 2021

Sami23

Well lads n lassies - that time year again.
Anyone think there might be a window later this week and over the weekend to make some Hay.
Have a field ready to cut here so debating whether to just wrap it or try get Hay from it

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Too_Old_Boots

Sami23 wrote: »

Ah it's fairly heavy but not mad heavy either I suppose.
Think I'll chance it as I'd be kicking myself if I'm a day short at the other end

Depends alot on the ground underneath too. If its a dry meadow then it makes it a lot easier.
I'll be cutting now too, it'll take 12-24 hours just to wilt before saving can start so as long as it stays dry I'm making progress

Jb1989

bogman_bass wrote: »

Not to be smart but walk the field. If your trousers are wet after walking it you’re better off leaving it

Is it not the internal moisture of the grass that determines the wilt, if so I'd be cutting ASAP, the outside moisture should be relatively easy to dry off near the end of the cycle.

Reggie.

Sami23 wrote: »

Ah it's fairly heavy but not mad heavy either I suppose.
Think I'll chance it as I'd be kicking myself if I'm a day short at the other end

Mow it.

mr.stonewall

Sami23 wrote: »

Is grass dry enough to cut after yesterday's rain already

Reports back yes it's dry. The wind has dried it well

mr.stonewall

Mad about baa baas wrote: »

Fortune favours the brave.. I'd say cut

With hay, you have to have balls. Weather charts are good. And reliability drops after 5days

893bet

Dry bed on the mower. Was full of oil theee weeks ago. Hmmmmmmm.

Reggie.

893bet wrote: »

Dry bed on the mower. Was full of oil theee weeks ago. Hmmmmmmm.

Natural evaporation

893bet

Reggie. wrote: »

Natural evaporation

Sadly there is a drip....

Reggie.

893bet wrote: »

Sadly there is a drip....

Always is. Weld up the hole

lab man

Reggie. wrote: »

Always is. Weld up the hole

Takes time to weld a bed you need to heat the area well to dry off any oil and use a tig welder to do it properly if you weld without heating the area it will crack again beside the weld seam iykwim. If twas me I'd fill up with oil drive on and get it welded after your done with the hay etc btw the tig welder doesn't heat the bed case as much as a stick welder

Bleating Lamb

Wouldn’t think much hay has been saved at all yet this year?.......definitely not up here in the North West.....most we have had is maybe 2 or 3 dry days in a row so far......and not even sunny ones at that!
As a matter of interest will people who specialise in making hay to sell be chancing to mow now as forecast is good till next Friday.At this time of year don’t the Stud farms try and save the horse hay?

Who2

I’ve 12 acres saved a week now in the north east. With hay around me a lot will cut it even wet a day or so before there’s a good spell of weather coming. The thought is that it’s only dying off the first day then ted out as soon as the fist dry day comes . It then gives it a good chance of being saved.

Reggie.

Bleating Lamb wrote: »

Wouldn’t think much hay has been saved at all yet this year?.......definitely not up here in the North West.....most we have had is maybe 2 or 3 dry days in a row so far......and not even sunny ones at that!
As a matter of interest will people who specialise in making hay to sell be chancing to mow now as forecast is good till next Friday.At this time of year don’t the Stud farms try and save the horse hay?

We have 87 bales got so far. I fear the FIL has a taste of it now tho

Base price

We have 12 acres to mow but there was dirty dark clouds for most of the day, it didn't rain although we've had a good breeze. We had a nice drop of rain yesterday. The sun is starting to peep out now so I think we will go at it tomorrow morning presuming the forecast hasn't changed.

Sami23

Reggie. wrote: »

Mow it.

I did indeed so let the fun begin.

Best of luck everyone - hope next week is a scorcher

Reggie.

Sami23 wrote: »

I did indeed so let the fun begin.

Best of luck everyone - hope next week is a scorcher

Good man. Fortune favours the brave

paddysdream

Am I living in some alternate Universe ?

Here in the Sunny South East its a very dull damp evening and the prospect of more tomorrow .Yesterday was a full wet day here and this morning was cold and wet with no drying .
Lot of hay mowed around here on Monday and is pretty soggy at this stage .Seen some that was tedded on Tuesday and another couple of days sun and rain will leave it poor enough.
Grass wet enough here tonight ,enough that you would be leaving it for a day or two to dry for silage let alone consider dropping it for hay.
All that said have a few acres of hay to cut here as think have enough wraps done at this stage but think next week is loads of time as its still very green .Make lovely hay but the only thing that makes green (or any sort ) of hay is weather .No fancy tedder ,conditioner or wuffler is of any use without some nice sun and wind

Reggie.

paddysdream wrote: »

Am I living in some alternate Universe ?

Here in the Sunny South East its a very dull damp evening and the prospect of more tomorrow .Yesterday was a full wet day here and this morning was cold and wet with no drying .
Lot of hay mowed around here on Monday and is pretty soggy at this stage .Seen some that was tedded on Tuesday and another couple of days sun and rain will leave it poor enough.
Grass wet enough here tonight ,enough that you would be leaving it for a day or two to dry for silage let alone consider dropping it for hay.
All that said have a few acres of hay to cut here as think have enough wraps done at this stage but think next week is loads of time as its still very green .Make lovely hay but the only thing that makes green (or any sort ) of hay is weather .No fancy tedder ,conditioner or wuffler is of any use without some nice sun and wind

I do be more interested in wind and heat over sun

Robson99

Reggie. wrote: »

I do be more interested in wind and heat over sun

Always find you need Sun the day after you cut it to kill it off and again the day you bale it to liven it up. In between wind and heat will suffice

Reggie.

Robson99 wrote: »

Always find you need Sun the day after you cut it to kill it off and again the day you bale it to liven it up. In between wind and heat will suffice

Often made hay here with feck all sun

paddysdream

Reggie. wrote: »

I do be more interested in wind and heat over sun

Sun for baling is pretty important. Dull day aint ideal for baling especially if its in anything but perfect condition .

Robson99

Reggie. wrote: »

Often made hay here with feck all sun

Very hard to make ryegrass hay without sun.

Reggie.

Robson99 wrote: »

Very hard to make ryegrass hay without sun.

Still managed it

893bet

Reggie. wrote: »

Always is. Weld up the hole

You say that with the confidence of a lad who can weld or who has a mechanic close by that will prioritise you.

I feel like it’s coming from between the bed plates if that makes sense. Maybe the gasket has failed.

lab man wrote: »

Takes time to weld a bed you need to heat the area well to dry off any oil and use a tig welder to do it properly if you weld without heating the area it will crack again beside the weld seam iykwim. If twas me I'd fill up with oil drive on and get it welded after your done with the hay etc btw the tig welder doesn't heat the bed case as much as a stick welder

This is what I did. Checked the oil a few times and it didn’t need top up.

Had the below 30 mins in......kept going obviously!

paddysdream

Just in after feeding the dogs and a nice sup falling here now .
Nothing will be turned around here tomorrow by the looks of it .Be Sunday before its dry enough to ted I would think .
A lot cut here abouts last Sunday/ Monday .Got great blast of weather Tuesday and Wednesday and nearly everything was turned at least once .Full wet day yesterday and today was no hay day at all; cold and damp with little or no drying. Tonight's rain will not help .

All that said there is nobody relying on hay anymore.Its either small bits or cut for sale .Still a pain to get it spoiled although the economics of meadows cut for hay to sell is hard to see paying at anything less than 30 euro a bale in the field and that sort of money is hard got .Different with a bit of grazing ground that got strong .
Think will leave mine till next week at least .
Last few years have been easy hay making ones with nice bits of good weather so we are probably due a difficult year on the law of averages .

Just having a mug of coffee before the leaba and its starting to rain heavy enough .

Now in bed and its lashing down outside .No hay work till Monday by the looks of tonight.

On another note what weather forecast are people looking at ?Anything I saw ,and will admit to not really following it closely the last few days ,was giving broken weather up until the weekend with an improvement for next week .

Too_Old_Boots

Nice get see the Sun out this morning. Got 17 acres cut yesterday evening, left 3 acres as the ground is boggy so a dry week would only help it
Now I have to pull the rust bucket of a haybob out of the shed, I think its on it's last legs as it was like pulling around a bag of tin cans last time it was used.Its amazing how some of these ancient machines have still use today

Sami23

Too_Old_Boots wrote: »

Nice get see the Sun out this morning. Got 17 acres cut yesterday evening, left 3 acres as the ground is boggy so a dry week would only help it
Now I have to pull the rust bucket of a haybob out of the shed, I think its on it's last legs as it was like pulling around a bag of tin cans last time it was used.Its amazing how some of these ancient machines have still use today

Nice to see the sun alright.

It would be lovely to have the likes of a 4 rotor tedder for the hay but hard to justifying buying 1 for the 1 week a year we'd need it.
Think they up around 10k new or thereabouts.
The haybob will have to do here too

893bet

Sami23 wrote: »

Nice to see the sun alright.

It would be lovely to have the likes of a 4 rotor tedder for the hay but hard to justifying buying 1 for the 1 week a year we'd need it.
Think they up around 10k new or thereabouts.
The haybob will have to do here too

Same as here. I am looking at maybe a new 40 year old one myself. Not a lot to go wrong with them.

Too_Old_Boots

893bet wrote: »

Same as here. I am looking at maybe a new 40 year old one myself. Not a lot to go wrong with them.

A new 40 year old one

minerleague

Cut some here today, very light crop, but have 2 glas meadows to do after the 1st so decided to get this bit out of the way