[AT] Fight over hay

[Phil Auten]

Sounds like a "Hee-Haw" day to me. "If it weren't fer bad luck, I'd 
have no luck at all".

Hope things improve,
Phil  :o)

At 07:59 AM 11/15/2009, you wrote:


>My New Holland round baler broke a shaft last week in the middle of the
>night.  Not knowing what happened, We put the baler in the shed and
>waited for this *&^%% weather to clear.  It has been foggy and mist
>every morning for the last week.  I had about 40 acres cut with a
>swather.  I had to hire a swather to cut this bermuda field because the
>wind has been so bad if you cut it with a mower, when the rake picks it
>up off the ground it blows into the next county.  You can't run the rake
>some directions because the hay will not clean off the wheels from the
>wind.
>
>I found out my round baler was in trouble Thursday and spent most of
>Friday getting the pickup out from under the baler and then getting the
>feeder shaft out of the pickup.  I hooked onto the little vicon square
>baler to get it baled before the rain set in, and bent the PTO shaft
>driving out the gate.  I borrowed a neighbors JD 24WS baler and baled
>about 190 bales Fri night.  I called a contractor friend who wanted the
>hay for silt fence, and he did not seem as interested as he was when I
>asked him if he wanted some hay for this project we are working on..
>Sat morning I made a couple of phone calls and then put an ad on Craigs
>list for small hay bales of horse quality bermuda and listed the
>location.  From the phone calls I had 190 bales spoken for, One taking
>150 bales and the other taking the 40.  However, the 40 bale guy did not
>show up until about 3pm.  I had 4 people show up with trailers by 10am.
>   I started baling again with the vicon after I had repaired the pto
>shaft and the shear pin on the pickup had broken.  It had been cobbled
>up before I got it..  I think the entire baler has been put together in
>a salvage yard.  I put in a new shear bolt, but the twine knotter
>wasi=n't working on one side.  I quit and went back to the JD baler.  I
>needed to rake these windrows together since the wind was down, but when
>I went to get the rake that was hooked onto the tractor, the tractor had
>a flat and when I aired up the tire, the batteries were down..  I went
>back and just started baling.  This borrowed baler is missing 3
>strippers from the feeder and about 8 teeth.  So, I left some in the
>field and the windrow was wider than the pickup so I had to make two
>passes over the windrow.  I had promised 50 bales to a couple who were
>to be back in about 1 hour.  I went on baling and the contractor friend
>showed up with 2 trailers and his grandkids to load hay and started
>loading even after I told him that 50 bales had to go to someone else.
>Had to stop in the middle of things and let in the nurse that takes care
>of Dad.  So, 2 more trailers show up and load 20 bales on each and hand
>me cash while on the tractor!!!  Finally the couple with the 50 bales
>show up and start to bitch at me for not having enough of the "good" hay
>that they had to have for the horse "cassie" that founders on pasture
>grass only!!! (sounds like a horse with a lead deficiency, about
>70grains worth).  Then the lady proceeds to start a fight with the
>contractor friend.  He just has the kids put the 45 bales he had loaded
>on her trailer, and then she starts blaming me for her having to borrow
>a trailer from a neighbor and it needed a tire!!!!!   I just told her
>that sundowner sells trailers on I-40..  Next thing happened was my JX85
>new tractor went flat on a front tire, so I had to quit.  Took the
>Belarus with the loader and pulled the baler away from the drawbar and
>shoved it under the shed. Then went back to the tractor and found that I
>did not have a large enough socket with me to take off the wheel.  So,
>went back to the house and just got the wrecker I bought a month ago and
>   towed the tractor back behind the wrecker!!!  Sure nice to have extra
>equipment.  I have to deliver round bales this morning and my Case JX85
>is the only one with a bale spike on it right now, and it has the flat...
>
>I have about 30 acres of bermuda left to cut and bale.  The field is
>clean, no bales left, and I never touched a bale.  Looks like I need to
>find a good square baler and maybe one of those accumulator setups, and
>some more flatproof tires.
>
>Cecil in OKla
>
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