Damn soft l loved mowing hay ! In nd it was always July and the haybine was fun ! The smell of the hay and the warm evenings ! And few ice cold beers after the equipment was serviced and parked Nice !!

 

These guys been doing it for 100 years. Everyone grows pretty much the same stuff. The gamble is when to plant. We planted almost 2 months early figuring on a dry year. Hay is thin. 100lb of seed per acre. Our soil needs about $50,000 in soil amendments to get it producing. We dont let it go fallow so it gets drained of nutrients pretty bad.

 

Even though im no farmer I enjoy being a part of it. Sure beats a cubicle. No offence to those stuck in a cubicle.

 

Our horse unit loves that grass hay. They are paying more than $30 a bail for that stuff. Ours is used primarily for the dairy.

 

Yeah me too as long as everything was working well. Best money I ever spent on the farm was when I set the old sickle bar mower to the side and got a disc mower (Kuhn GMD500). Man those things will lay it down and you can cut as fast as the terrain will allow.


All is great until you hit a nest of yellow jackets or a young deer.

 

Unfortunately we cant use a disc swather header. Too many rocks and clumps.

 

Horse unit! LOL


Yeah I got a couple of those too. We call 'em hay burners

 

Again, just curious.. what DO you use?

 

Yea we have a horse dept. Lots of gals walk by my shop in those dressage costumes.

 

We have a MacDon swather. Real head with steel conditioners. Also have a Hesston pull behind for small fields.