The Official Farming Thread...

[czar800]

 

[jakethesnake]

 

[stihl_head1982]

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Brings back some memories, from many years ago. We didn't have round bales in those days -- my dad and uncles slinging up square bales on the trucks and trailers.
Thanks for the memory jog -- I miss those days. I was a very young sprout.

 

[amberg]

I finished planting corn and beans!


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1086 with a 7000 series planter, maybe?

 

[czar800]

1086 with a 7000 series planter, maybe?

1086 with a 950 cyclone. I can also mount row splitters and plant 15" beans with it.

 

[czar800]

Brings back some memories, from many years ago. We didn't have round bales in those days -- my dad and uncles slinging up square bales on the trucks and trailers.
Thanks for the memory jog -- I miss those days. I was a very young sprout.

We didn't have a round Baler in tell about 10 years ago. We would make about 30,000 to 35,000 square bales a year sometimes and we never had a kicker.... my dad sold to the mushroom farms and wanted biggest bales we could make. They stacked well and to get more tonnage on a semi.

 

[czar800]

This is a picture of the farm in 1989, you can see one of the hay stacks.
We filled up anything with a roof and then we stacks outside.

 

[amberg]

Love those dry boxes on the cyclone, I always wanted dry boxes on the old AC.

 

[czar800]

Finally finished my sorting pen,

 

[czar800]

Put some hay on the ground after work today.

 

[amberg]

Baling very late Orchard grass and Alfalfa mix. ( Way late! ) Still making 6 4 x 5 bales acre. Much to tough for horses.

 

[amberg]

Finally finished the first cutting today, Just a little late I think! Only two years old so it is still decent cow hay. Then the alternator stops charging, and the ac. filters are stopped up with dust.

 

[amberg]

Had some time today to make a little compost. The garden people love this stuff.

 

[czar800]

Bought another haybine on Saturday.

 

[Mastermind]

I finally got a round baler of my very own. It's nothing special, and I still gotta build some remotes on the little 1120, but I'm glad to have it.

It's a New Idea 484 that makes a 5 x 4 soft core bale.

At 54hp it's the biggest baler my 1120 would run, and might be slow on it as is.

I'll be picking up parts and pieces for the remotes asap......more will be revealed.

 

[concretegrazer]

I finally got a round baler of my very own. It's nothing special, and I still gotta build some remotes on the little 1120, but I'm glad to have it.

It's a New Idea 484 that makes a 5 x 4 soft core bale.

At 54hp it's the biggest baler my 1120 would run, and might be slow on it as is.

I'll be picking up parts and pieces for the remotes asap......more will be revealed.

We've baled a lot of hay with a 50hp tractor. That old Heston couldn't eat it any faster than that tractor could pull it anyways.

 

[jakethesnake]

Usually horsepower for balers is more of a weight thing. I've run mine with way too small of a tractor. It doesn't take a ton of umph to turn one

 

[Only the Tony]

Only farming can one be bush hogging, looking at how well it looks as you clean up tall weeds, the feeling of accomplishment, the panic as you drive over a bumble bee nest on an open station tractor.......

 

[amberg]

Bought another haybine on Saturday.


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Looks like a new Holland 12' hydro swing, Got to like that!!

 

[exSW]

We've baled a lot of hay with a 50hp tractor. That old Heston couldn't eat it any faster than that tractor could pull it anyways.

540?