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I thought of the fuel filter, but when he took the line off, after the fuel filter, it was pumping gas good while it was cranking. So not that.
We are so busy in hay that it will have to wait for a day or 2 more. This weekend there is 50% chance of rain/showers/storms Sat Sun and into next week. So it is important to get the hay rolled.
Waiting for DS to call me to come get him at the field, he is still baling. Had a bearing go out in the PTO shaft so he went and got the other baler... very thankful that we have an older "backup baler"....
I got everything raked except a small 2 acre piece that he cut for a guy where we used to cut. The place got sold, the guy has some horses, and he asked DS if he would cut the "lot" that is not fenced... He cut it, I need to rake it in the morning and he will bale it. EVERYTHING else is raked... Deb's is all baled, baled my little piece here, he is working on the 2 places we cut every year in a subdivision. They like it done by july 4th and it worked to get it done.
Then we will be done down this direction and can concentrate on doing the custom piece, and 2 lots close to it, then go do the other place that we do for the hay. And just down the road is the 9 acres at the one pasture...no fences around this 9 acres and it makes some good hay..... and I think he is going to cut the "bottom" of the 3rd field we rotate cattle into. We have to bush hog this place by the end of July. Since the grass has been really good once we got over the cold late spring warmup, there is no point in bush hogging it if we are there with the mower.... May as well get a few extra bales out of it. Cattle are not making much of a dent in the grass there. Last year they had grass until after Christmas.....Rotating the cows into the middle field, now, and they will be nowheres near to needing the 3rd section for awhile. We will have to bush hog the steeper parts and the rocky parts, but may as well make some hay in the flat "bottom".
Going to pick up DS and take him to the truck so he can come back and finish baling the field tomorrow.
We are so busy in hay that it will have to wait for a day or 2 more. This weekend there is 50% chance of rain/showers/storms Sat Sun and into next week. So it is important to get the hay rolled.
Waiting for DS to call me to come get him at the field, he is still baling. Had a bearing go out in the PTO shaft so he went and got the other baler... very thankful that we have an older "backup baler"....
I got everything raked except a small 2 acre piece that he cut for a guy where we used to cut. The place got sold, the guy has some horses, and he asked DS if he would cut the "lot" that is not fenced... He cut it, I need to rake it in the morning and he will bale it. EVERYTHING else is raked... Deb's is all baled, baled my little piece here, he is working on the 2 places we cut every year in a subdivision. They like it done by july 4th and it worked to get it done.
Then we will be done down this direction and can concentrate on doing the custom piece, and 2 lots close to it, then go do the other place that we do for the hay. And just down the road is the 9 acres at the one pasture...no fences around this 9 acres and it makes some good hay..... and I think he is going to cut the "bottom" of the 3rd field we rotate cattle into. We have to bush hog this place by the end of July. Since the grass has been really good once we got over the cold late spring warmup, there is no point in bush hogging it if we are there with the mower.... May as well get a few extra bales out of it. Cattle are not making much of a dent in the grass there. Last year they had grass until after Christmas.....Rotating the cows into the middle field, now, and they will be nowheres near to needing the 3rd section for awhile. We will have to bush hog the steeper parts and the rocky parts, but may as well make some hay in the flat "bottom".
Going to pick up DS and take him to the truck so he can come back and finish baling the field tomorrow.