We have had a nice RAIN FREE week up here on St Joseph Island, near Sault Ste Marie, so we have been taking hay off...still. Tons of work to do before winter, but haying waits for NO ONE... See the video we made yesterday of the hay coming off the field...yesterday.
Information making hay while the sun shines!
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Killerbunny
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Re: making hay while the sun shines!
Square bales too!
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Re: making hay while the sun shines!
ONLY square bales, I prefer idiot blocks to dummy rolls! (if you are from the prairies you will understand this reference).....we can LIFT blocks by hand, rounds...not so much so....
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TomK
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Re: making hay while the sun shines!
I am with Muffin on this one...those round bales are just a symptom of 'I'd rather play on my ipad than work the farm' syndrome...and whats with all the hay loss on the round ones?...
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Jaye
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Re: making hay while the sun shines!
Wow! Thank goodness for those one-second breaks between hauling bales.
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windwalkingwolf
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Re: making hay while the sun shines!
Glad we're not the only shmucks haying in September! Awesome.
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Re: making hay while the sun shines!
last year we were haying until late October...hoping for another cut on a couple fields if our weather holds another 3 weeks...
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