[AT] Hay

[Len Rugen]

As a kid, we baled 6-10K small round bales a year.  I started raking the summer after 5th grade, then progressed to mowing and eventually baling some.  Dad wanted to bale, he tended to drive wide open in the fastest gear he had, so he broke a lot of chain on that old AC baler....
 Len Rugen

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     On Wednesday, June 10, 2015 10:23 PM, "Gunnells, Bradley R" <brad-gunnells at uiowa.edu> wrote:
   

 Ah the joys of making hay. I can appreciate all you've said. 

I have a few acres here to make and watching the weather. Hopefully soon I can get the old Ford 801 and IH 990 conditioner in the field. The neighbor will round bale the first crop with new JD equipment. The later crops will see the old IH 46 square baler. That's my idea of making hay!  

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On Jun 10, 2015, at 10:05 PM, "Dean Vinson" <dean at vinsonfarm.net> wrote:

> Turned out to be less humid Wednesday than I'd expected, so by late
> afternoon the young guy who bales my few acres of hay figured it was plenty
> dry and we ought not let the remaining hours of daylight go to
> waste--especially with a forecast for higher humidity and scattered
> thunderstorms Thursday.  He'd raked the main field before I got home then
> switched to baling once a couple other kids came to help, leaving the raking
> in the smaller areas to me and the trusty Super M.  It's just grass hay but
> it looks, feels, and smells good.  Quite a nice evening.  (At least up
> until the knotter broke halfway into the second wagonload and defied all
> efforts to fix it in the field.  Oh well.)
> 
> http://www.vinsonfarm.net/photos/raking_hay_20150610.jpg.
> 
> Dean Vinson
> Saint Paris, Ohio
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