Hay 2024

Jesus seeing that I could be better to go with a good second hand lely instead of a new one looks immaculate hard to beat the lely's with the hook tines. Suppose 4-5k would buy a good clean second hand lely

Mine is green enough stuff would need 5 days mow tomorrow and maybe get the hay Saturday evening think there's rain on thurs but that can be knocked out of it

Mowed 9 acres there this evening..feck all rain due for the next 7 days

Have a 6m lely here from new and would not buy another,throws tedded grass to far each side of the machine covering the ditch and grass that had yet to be done and throws hay up in the air behind it causing lumps if you have a good breeze blowing across..they all seem to do it regardless how you set them up from what I see,..the malone is a copy but seems to struggle to pick up all the grass as I rake for 2 different customers that have them and find alot of grass is left flattend into the ground leaving it that you have to slow done alot for the rake to pull into rows..Krone make a great tedder,flufs up the hay lovely without pegging it everywhere

Find the kverneland a good tedder. Does the krone not leave the grass lumpy. I find the rotors are too small

Never seen a KV tedder working to be honest,Cant say I seen much lumps after the krone,the newer ones have curved tines helps flip over the grass

I did the same, now or never

I'm looking at much the same, but somehow I don't think I'll get it, very changeable, can't see it not raining all week, we'll see..

Thaks for reply. I have enough silage hence the question. What you mean by you'd know a lot by day 2? Do you mean weather or how soft the grass is?

Conditions are very different all over Ireland……..just watched BBC NI news and it was 25 degrees in Tyrone today!…..here in lovely Leitrim it was only 17 to 18 degrees at it's warmest and the day didn't open out till after 3pm……and it was threatening a cloudburst all morning! Lot of stuff mowed down yesterday in nice sunshine for Silage around here and would have been baled up nicely today.

Hard to see any hay saving weather around this neck of the woods anyway as they are giving rain from Thursday on into Saturday.Hope some of ye get yere's anyway…….we might be looking to buy some next Spring!😄

Have 12 acers down since Saturday. It's like playing poker with the weather.

Baled up and wrapped yesterday. Couldn't get the haybob going, stuff was cut on Saturday untouched in the raheen yet it was halfway saved to hay, it was a pity as it could have been got this week. It will make nice Hayledge instead.