Good Morning!--Chat thread

[Thewife]

thewife, there is usually a way to adjust the bales. The spring tension, the cranks on top decide how tightly they are packed. The bar on the side that trips to tie the bale can be adjusted to determine the length.

Hubby has that part figured out! He played with it while doing the neighbors hay, so they have all the oddball sized bales! (That's not why he did theirs first, their field was ready to bale ours was not)

This baler makes them 2 inches bigger in the other directions and seems to be able to pack them better!

And here I figured you were going to ask for pics to go with the explaination.

It may pack better due to being PTO driven instead of motor driven. Although some just pack better than others.

No pictures needed!
Hubby is pretty good at the equipment stuff! With me breaking everything, he has to be! He has his manuals and if he gets stumped, there are a few brains he can pick just a phone call away!
I do need to find a manual for the tiller before I break it!

 

[amysflock]

thewife, what kind of seed mix did you use? I saw one at The Farm Store in Chehalis that's for drier areas (like mine), but someone up north suggested a mix of orchard grass and red clover. (We have two kinds of rye, sweet vernal, some orchard grass and timothy right now, with a tiny bit of vetch and clover mixed in.)

 

[Thewife]

thewife, what kind of seed mix did you use? I saw one at The Farm Store in Chehalis that's for drier areas (like mine), but someone up north suggested a mix of orchard grass and red clover. (We have two kinds of rye, sweet vernal, some orchard grass and timothy right now, with a tiny bit of vetch and clover mixed in.)

Off hand, I really don't know what we planted! Mr X had the mixes mixed! Learning what grasses I should be planting is on my to-do list!


I might have killed the expensive Japanese maple Hubby bought for me. I probably should do some watering today?

 

[Farmer Kitty]

thewife, what kind of seed mix did you use? I saw one at The Farm Store in Chehalis that's for drier areas (like mine), but someone up north suggested a mix of orchard grass and red clover. (We have two kinds of rye, sweet vernal, some orchard grass and timothy right now, with a tiny bit of vetch and clover mixed in.)

Off hand, I really don't know what we planted! Mr X had the mixes mixed! Learning what grasses I should be planting is on my to-do list!


I might have killed the expensive Japanese maple Hubby bought for me. I probably should do some watering today?

How did you might have killed it? Lack of water?

A good place to learn what to plant is the road side ditches and the extension office.

 

[Thewife]

How did you might have killed it? Lack of water?

A good place to learn what to plant is the road side ditches and the extension office.

Yep, seems plants need to be watered when it doesn't rain and the temps get above 80?

I will try to find out where the neighbors got their seed, they do custom mixes.

 

[Farmer Kitty]

How did you might have killed it? Lack of water?

A good place to learn what to plant is the road side ditches and the extension office.

Yep, seems plants need to be watered when it doesn't rain and the temps get above 80?

I will try to find out where the neighbors got their seed, they do custom mixes.

So, I should water my plants tonight as we are at 80? Kute Kitten watered the house plants for me yesterday. She asked when the last time was that they were watered and I couldn't remember.

 

[homesteadingcowgirl]

How did you might have killed it? Lack of water?

A good place to learn what to plant is the road side ditches and the extension office.

Yep, seems plants need to be watered when it doesn't rain and the temps get above 80?

I will try to find out where the neighbors got their seed, they do custom mixes.

So, I should water my plants tonight as we are at 80? Kute Kitten watered the house plants for me yesterday. She asked when the last time was that they were watered and I couldn't remember.

we have had rain here for 24 out of 35 days-unheard of for this area

 

[wynedot55]

ok yall are making my back hurt talking bout hauling sq bales.me an a buddy hauled hay all summer for his copusin.an everything was fine as long as his cousin was running the baler.because he put up 65lb bales.but when uncle fatman baled they was 80lb bales.because he would crank the tractor.walk to the baler an start tighting her down.bale a few bales get off the tractor an lift an 80lb bale with 1 hand.an say not tight enough.an tighten the baler down some more.mind you uncle fatman was 5`10 325lbs.so he could hustle those bales with ease.

 

[amysflock]

_yawn, stretch_ I'm back awake now, had to take a little nap. This heat was getting to me, plus DH called and confirmed that yes, the calves did bellow all night (I only heard them when I took my earplugs out to check).

We're waiting to hear whether we can pick up our hay this weekend. The guy was supposed to have started last week and his sons were to be baling and stuff today through the weekend. We're anxious to get it put up in the barn so we don't have to worry anymore. We're getting last year's price somehow...the guy really could charge more but he's not, so that's awesome since we need more than we bought last year! Selling T-Bone and Annabel will pay for all the hay (2008 and 2009), though, and then some, which is fantastic.

 

[Thewife]

Evil Hubby had me rake everything!
Thought I was going to come home and have lunch and nap, but now the boy wants me to drive while him and the nephew pick up bales?
It should be interesting, if I drive, I will have the 2 year old in the truck with me!

homesteadingcowgirl, we had a long dry spell. Now they are saying the rain that is supposed to come on sunday might not show!(we won't tell the boys, I want my hay put away by then)

wynedot55, if Hubby made 80lb bales, I think me and the boys would quit!

Amysflock, you sound all rested up, ready to buck bales?

Ok, back to the field!