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Silver
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 8:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Won't quit showering here, so started bagging hay. Tried to put an oversized bale through it and pulled the hitch off the son of gun. Can't seem to get things going. Confused
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Rowdy Ranch
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 4:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Here in central KS the 1st and 2nd cutting of alfalfa were really good and the 3rd ( what little there is in the bottoms) is being put up along with the prairie hay. The brome was not real good guess due to late frost. We run two balers,one swather , and I have been demoted from baling to raking the past 2 years as son took over the newer baler(real fine with me!) and husband runs my older baler. I do enjoy putting up hay. WE do have a lot of carry over hay,but not complaining as never know how the crop will be. If it does not rain soon we may have lots of corn sileage also-oh well .
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jigs
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 6:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
what part of central KS rowdy? I am in the Concordia area.

got a lot of friends in the central part.
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Jeannie
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 8:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Silver wrote:
Won't quit showering here, so started bagging hay. Tried to put an oversized bale through it and pulled the hitch off the son of gun. Can't seem to get things going. Confused



Hi Silver! I have never heard of 'bagging hay' and was wondering if you would please explain how one does it and what the advantages/disadvantages are? Thanks!
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Mike
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 9:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Jeannie wrote:
Silver wrote:
Won't quit showering here, so started bagging hay. Tried to put an oversized bale through it and pulled the hitch off the son of gun. Can't seem to get things going. Confused



Hi Silver! I have never heard of 'bagging hay' and was wondering if you would please explain how one does it and what the advantages/disadvantages are? Thanks!


Jeannie, Some guys around here do it this time of year when there's so much humidity and hay won't cure. Some call it haylage. It's a long tube of plastic that's stretched over the bales end-to-end, and sealed on the end. I think there's an indiviual bale bagger too.
You can cut it that morning and bag it that afternoon. Works good if you can keep it sealed so it won't mold. Cows love it!
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TimH
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 9:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I put up 800 to 1000 bales of round bale silage every year. I thing it is great. I'll see if one of the bale wrapper manufacturers has a website and post a link on here. Two manufacturers that I know of are "Tube-line" and "Anderson".
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Jessie
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 9:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Sad Zip ...zilch...DH( Darlin hubby) still waiting for fields to dry up. At least for them not to be a swimmimg hole. Shocked
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TimH
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 10:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Here is a link to the Anderson wrapper site. We use a tube-line wrapper but their website didn't have a decent picture on it!! They are basicly the same though.
www.anderson-machineries.com/English/inlinebalewrapper.html
Sorry, I can't get the hot link to work. Copy and paste the above into your address bar. Smile
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Sagebrush
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 11:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
About 3/4ths done here. Have about 200 acres of grass and 150 acres of second cutting alfalfa left to cut. Yields have been good and not so good averaging around 1 ton per acre..
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Mudhen
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 5:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
We had bad luck with our hay this year. I think we are going to just run cattle. We have a guy here we buy our hay from at a good price it is about the same as it cost to do it ourself.
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Faster horses
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 6:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
If you are in that kind of scenerio, mudhen, I say GO FOR IT!! Why have the headache and the equipment for haying when you can buy it so easily. You could probably run a few more cows on the ground you were haying to partly offset the cost. Most of the reason buying hay doesn't work so well is because of the transportation costs and you don't have that!

I think you are thinking correctly!
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Silver
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 8:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Jeannie wrote:
Silver wrote:
Won't quit showering here, so started bagging hay. Tried to put an oversized bale through it and pulled the hitch off the son of gun. Can't seem to get things going. Confused



Hi Silver! I have never heard of 'bagging hay' and was wondering if you would please explain how one does it and what the advantages/disadvantages are? Thanks!


Hi Jeannie, as for what it does, Mike explained it pretty well. We have a little machine that pulls a tube of plastic over a row of bales. Brand name is tube-o-lator or some such. The machine was cheap and simple (no moving parts), but the bags are expensive. Works out to close to $5.00 cdn per bale. We use it mainly so we don't have to worry about losing our hay in the swath to rain. It makes great feed as long as the elk don't come along and tear the bags.... Confused If that happens all is lost. Maybe Ill take some pics and post them when I get a chance.
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