First Cutting
Summary:
- Weather was good throughout the session.
- Total bales 710
- All equipment worked well
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Loft clean and ready for hay
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Cutting hay with Gaspardo sickle cutter
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Raking into windrows with Fransgard CombiRake
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Raking done, ready for bailing
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Bailing the windrows – tractor seat view.
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Farmhands riding home
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120 Bales per load
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Here is the first load, 6 more to go!
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Monday June 8
- Sunny 80-85 Degrees
- Cut perimeter about 1/3 of field before outside shoe came loose.
Tuesday June 9
- Sunny 80-85 Degrees
- Replaced plow bolts to re-attach shoe. Finished cutting field in the afternoon.
Wednesday June 10
- Sunny but cooler and breezy 70-75 Degrees
- Tedded field late afternoon.
Thursday June 11
- Sunny with evening partial cloudiness
- Tedded field in the evening.
Friday June 12
- Morning clouds, partial afternoon sun
- Tedded field in afternoon
Saturday June 13
- Tedded in late morning
- Baled in the evening (5 hours)
Sunday June 14
- Bale Storage in the afternoon.
- 3 loads picked up 2 loads loaded in loft.
- 120 bales on each trailer load.
