We bale enough small squares to keep for horses, and sick cattle - when the conditions permit - just a few hundred, usually. If we get a heavy crop - we'll bale quite a few for horse folks. (Alfalfa / brome mix)
I've always been a curmudgeon - now I'm an old curmudgeon. ~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~
If we still ran the cows here instead of leasing, and we still did small squares.... I'd be in better shape bucking bales.
Although ours were not all that heavy.
In a drought we got two 18 wheelers of alfalfa... about damn near killed a buddy and I....
Of course we rarely put away more than 1000 to 1200 of the small ones... but it kept you a bit better in shape.....
And then there was my buddy Tim from WI..... he could knock you off the trailer with a bale.... I think he was the smallest kid of the family.. 7 foot and 350 and skinny... well maybe not quite but you get the drift....wish I knew where he was these days.
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
If they's seagulls why in heck does same have 'em in his fields?
SamO, you holding out on us? You got a ocean up there in MT we don't know about?
Geno
PS, sorry guys, it's my edumacation coming out. We were "trained" that they are "gulls", not "seagulls" My wife also, and when we're traveling and see them in a town like Reno or someplace far inland we always look at each other and say there must be an ocean somewhere.
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
Sam, I bet some of these folks around here are doing alright. Saw a barge at the elevators downriver Saturday filling up with 4000 ton, and two more 3K-3.5K barges at the one across the river today. I bet the farmers around here are emptying the Butler bins as fast as they can.
Geno
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
That's pretty cool stuff there, I bet half or better of the American public has no idea how much time, effort, sweat etc goes into their McDonald's burger and fries. I've been across the country a few times and seen a lot of farmland, yet I was still amazed at how much wheat they grow over here on the Palouse. And this is just E WA. Watching those barges fill up and go down to Potland then back up, over and over and over. That big 4 Shaver barge at 4k tonnes is something else, 8 million pounds of wheat in one barge. Almost crazy, that's a bunch of burger buns for sure.
You farmers are great,
Maybe a bit overpaid and underworked.......... like us .gov workers!
enjoy your evening all you farmers, I know you'll be back at it again in the morning............. if not for a good chunk of the night.
Geno
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
Geno, those damn gulls are absolutely hell on the mice and anything else than can swallow.
When the pheasant chicks hatch I carry a shotgun in the cab....
And no chicks yet which is weird. Drove over a couple nests but the eggs were fresh and appeared to be a ways away from making chicks.
Jim, you've officially made it in life...
grin
This relentless wind will drive a guy to drinkin'!
1minute, I always cut a little slower just in hopes that the critters have time to get out of the way. But the new disc or rotary headers can really go I guess.
Geno, those damn gulls are absolutely hell on the mice and anything else than can swallow.
When the pheasant chicks hatch I carry a shotgun in the cab....
And no chicks yet which is weird. Drove over a couple nests but the eggs were fresh and appeared to be a ways away from making chicks.
Sam,
Gulls are tremendous predators/scavengers/jacks of all trades. Smarter than usually given credit for too. I've seen things at hatcheries I worked at that were pretty amazing.
Haven't seen any peasant chicks here yet either. And relatively few quail peeps too. Starting to get a bit worried that we won't have much to hunt. Saw one set of quail with their 10 or so chicks last week, saw another with only 4 chicks jut the other day, think something's been eating little quail!
I'm guessing the first broods failed and hoping they get a decent second one. I'm planning on coming back up from the retirement place for the bird season and maybe do some salmon fishing too.
Geno
PS, I've not heard anything about shotguns in the tractor if anyone asks
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
PS, how much rain needed for that red clover? I've got a small pasture at the retirement place. I may want to put a goat or three on there or maybe a coupla sheep. Thinking I'd vary the mix of grasses with something like clover.
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
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