Pictures

[Sheldon Martin]

Rosses goose took charge of the Canada geese:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross%27s_goose

My neighbor's hay bales:
https://postimg.cc/gallery/HspsyhQ

[Dave Smith]

I wish my friend's family had had a baler like that back in the mid 60s
when I used to go an spend time there and help them bring in the hay.
We were start off in the cool of the morning and pick up the bales and
toss them onto the wagon.As the wagon filled we had to toss them higher
and higher. When the wagon was full we would take it to the barn, climb
up and toss the balls down.

As the day went on it got hotter and hotter, and dustier. The bales were
stack so high in the mow that we had to toss them up even from the full
wagon, so by the time we got to the wagon deck they were going way up
and to the far end. By the time we were done we had muscles in our turds.

So much easier now. Even the smallest farms have big bales and front end
loads so they never have to chunk a bale by hand.

[Sqwertz]

Rather than spending $6K on your tractor, why not be sustainable and
let your front and back 40 hay and bail it? And make some $$$ of it
it rather than paying to maintain it?

And why was your neighbors hay bailed in your yard?

-sw

[Sqwertz]

On Fri, 31 Jul 2020 11:38:55 -0500, Sqwertz wrote:

> On Fri, 31 Jul 2020 10:48:02 -0400, Sheldon Martin wrote:
>
>> Rosses goose took charge of the Canada geese:
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross%27s_goose
>>
>> My neighbor's hay bales:
>> https://postimg.cc/gallery/HspsyhQ
>
> Rather than spending $6K on your tractor, why not be sustainable and
> let your front and back 40 hay and bail it? And make some $$$ of it
> it rather than paying to maintain it?

It looks like your back 40 is about 3/4 the size of the land he just
bailed. Maybe not your front 40, but your back 40 for hay seems like
a no-brainer.

https://i.postimg.cc/SRdFg06G/Greenville-Hay.jpg

> And why was your neighbors hay bailed in your yard?

I see why now.

-sw

[Sheldon Martin]

My neighbors have the machinery that makes those round bales. Those
round bales weigh about one ton each, they pick them up by stabbing
them with a fork on the tractor's front loader. Most feeding hay
today is made into square bales, those are light enough to toss by
hand. Which bale shape depends on the type of hay, low quality hay is
made into round bales because that's bedding hay, mostly weeds,
whatever is growing naturally in the fields... might say that's goat
hay. Feeding hay is made into square bales, and there are several
types of hay specially grown for feeding... a lot more expensive to
buy because it's a lot more expensive to grow.

Since living here I've learned a lot about haying but this year since
my neighbor is using my barn to store his equipment and bales and
haying some of my fields I'm learning a lot more about hay. More and
more I'm learning that hay is a big business in agricultural country,
probably one of the more important crops as it's needed for live
stock... really can't raise beef without hay... and bedding hay is
very important too, for all kinds of animals, can't keep beef and
horses without bedding hay. There are several cattle farms and horse
ranches within a 15 minute walk from my front door The horses here
are those used by the police departments and the NYC race horses. And
people raise all sorts of live stock, including those for their
fleece; llamas, alpacas, and all kinds of sheep... fiber art is a very
big business.

[Gary]

Could you or Sheldon circle just what is his property there?
I recognize some but not sure about all. Just curious.

[Sqwertz]

According to plat maps, half of that rea that way used for hay is
Sheldon's. As for which property it is, it's easy to tell from the
pictures he's posted an the mention of "back 40".

-sw