Beat by the hay…
August 29, 2010 | 
Author Thanks to my darling husband Ken and my brother The Welder, we managed to pick up 87 bales of hay in the field today, stack it, get it home, unload it, and stack it in the barn. We are all dead tired. When did we get so out of shape? Well, maybe I shouldn’t say that about The Welder; he held up pretty well. I think it’s only DH and I that are sorely out of shape!
I’ll go back in the morning and get the remaining 13 bales I contracted for to make an even 100. That will be it for a while.
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that sounds like a plan. I gotta start somewhere.
we cut hay yesterday, but we are so new at it. We cut it I think too short, so I am not sure we can bale it. My hubby has been planning on building a baler, and I just don’t know what we will do with this stuff now-it is piled in the field, I used some of it last night in all the pens, but I am afraid it will rain before we decide how to tackle it. Do you have any suggestions?
Well, you never know unless you try the baler. You might be surprised. The guy I bought my hay from was actually complaining that his got longer than he wanted it to because it rained and he couldn’t get in to bale it. And watching the guys who baled our field, it didn’t seem all that long to me when they cut it. My only suggestion would be to put some temporary sides on a flatbed trailer using plywood, gather up as much as you can, and either put a sturdy tarp over the top or park it under shelter before it rains. You know how garbage trucks work? how they compress the trash? If you use another sheet of plywood to make a top on your trailer, then another sheet to push the hay back and secure it with a rope, you might even be able to pack it in. That’s all a baler really does anyway – scoop it up, pack it in, and tie string or wire around it. Good luck!