Caterpillar equipment defeats drought!

Seiscat,

Too bad we can't ship you some water from here in Minnesota. Everything is wet. Towns and fields are flooded, many fields too wet to plant. Corn is short and yellow. Mississippi river has been over flood stage for at least a month. I know Tom Madden would like some for their parts of California too.

Good Luck. I hope the rains are timely.

Biggastractor.

Seiscat, Red has been paying around $22 for a bail of grass hay that weights around 75 Lbs. How much does a round bail weight?

Seiscat, Red has been paying around $22 for a bail of grass hay that weights around 75 Lbs. How much does a round bail weight?

here in the northeast a four foot round bale weighs about 1000 lbs
regards Dennie

old mother nature is a fickle thing she is always sure to throw a spanner in the works just as everything is going right . A 5x4 round bale has 14 small squares or so thats what I have always worked off but proberly more now that at lot of hay is knifed and the bale density is so much heavier glad to here you got some rain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3vEs5ii7HE

the first time I heard this was I reckon in 2001 or 2002 at the same time as we had the first rain in 18 months didnt last the rain that is had to wait till 2010 for the drought to break I couldnt wait in 2007 packed up the family and farm and shifted the lot of us 3000km north to were the there was no drought broke my heart ah well thats farming toughen Paul lol


Paul

We all tend to think what is normal for our area is the same elsewhere. In my area there are no 4 ft. width balers, we use 5 ft. width balers and my hay guy pushes the diameter to near 6 ft. We took these photos of hay that was baled by him and has been stored for more than 2 years. Please note these bales have little "squat" after sitting for so long because of their density.
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The grass baled here is Coastal Bermuda or Alicia Bermuda and this contributes to the density. I gotta' stick with his estimate of 1500-1800 lbs.These bales are heavy! I don't want to start a hay debate, just defending my statement.:target:
Thanks and :focus:

[quote="seiscat"]We all tend to think what is normal for our area is the same elsewhere. In my area there are no 4 ft. width balers, we use 5 ft. width balers and my hay guy pushes the diameter to near 6 ft. We took these photos of hay that was baled by him and has been stored for more than 2 years. Please note these bales have little "squat" after sitting for so long because of their density.

The grass baled here is Coastal Bermuda or Alicia Bermuda and this contributes to the density. I gotta' stick with his estimate of 1500-1800 lbs.These bales are heavy! I don't want to start a hay debate, just defending my statement.:target:
Thanks and :focus:[/quote]
just to be real bad and take it off topic the first round baler I had was newholland 851 made what I thought was huge bales 5x5 the only problem with these size rolls in Australia is they are to hard to shift as our trucks are only allowed to be 8foot or 2.5 meters wide we can buy those bigger balers here but I dont think they have sold any for years because we just cant shift the bales ok back on topic and I hope it keeps raining if it stops you better go buy some yellow toys lol

Paul

Thanks for the reply Paul. We can permit really wide loads in rural areas. All that is needed is a state permit and the proper "Wide Load" signage. It is common to occasionally see a large tractor-trailer rig with these large bales stacked two wide on bottom and another on top for the full length of the trailer. These trucks struggle up hills and are a challenge to pass, they sometimes cause me to use language that my mother didn't teach me. No worries about topic, just trying to avoid a "Hay Day" argument on ACMOC.👍
Thanks,
Craig

Heh, I remember carting hay in the '80s - those round bales were barely on the truck - must have been 11-12' with two across but the cops didn't care because we were doing what farmers had to do - that was then, now you need a permit just to open the dang door of the truck.
6 bales on the bottom, 2 on top, truck and trailer for a total of 16 bales, vs 200 rectangular bales each for a total of 400 bales per load eight high, loaded with a bale elevator and two men - those were the days - 16 hours of body building per day : )
I think haymaking is a one-man operation these days, judging by the scenes I'm seeing in the local area. I passed one guy in the AM that was tedding. The baler and hay trailer were parked in the corner. In the PM I drove by again and he was loading up the last of the bales using a self-loading trailer. We used to have a kid on the tedder, a man on the baler, a girl driving the truck and trailer with the bale loader attached to the side, and a couple of us on the back stacking bales as they fell off the loader.
This is like the arrangement we had but with a full size truck and trailer:

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Not really on topic but our ones were Cat yellow! : )