Hay 2023

Too early for this sort of thing......boooo

Looks like no rain till June 1st or 2nd at the earliest, I would be tempted too. Could be a great chance to get some light crop hay.

That maybe but when it's seeding out and about a week of fine weather its very tempting.

I find May or Early June stuff very grassy and it makes it very hard to make hay, but it is excellent weather to make Haylage out of that stuff, it's the best feeding you can get

I cut out 3ac for hay just now 😅

Knocked 15 ac last night. It's light and leafy.

Very hard to turn down the chance of getting hay with feeding value.

I have some hay cut in bad land and the contractor started rowing it for silage. He is doing silage in the field next door for me. I forgot to close the gate.

If its in 20ft or bigger rows it would be a pure mess trying to shake it out

Anyone know of a cheap effective rake make..I've a lotus for tedding but its ant no rake..

@ €12+vat an acre for raking its a no brainer.. I rake around 1000 acres per year for lads for hire who just have tedders..this works well as it frees them up to turn other stuff while we bale the fit stuff

Yeah it's starting to kick off here aswell.ive 30 acres to sort this week

^^^ Is that a Procut 800 mower? How do you find it?

Latest update. Hay is flying. Stuff cut Thursday night is nearly there. Just turned twice. have 25 acres down now and come thinking of knocking another 5 acres

Just find it easier when the weather is on your side to make hay. There has been years where the yard was full of expensive black puddings, it's just too expensive make wraps if not needed

Yeah I have one since new for 6 years. Works good and does a good job. But in heavy crops it wraps grass around the outside hat and would stall the tractor, or stall the bed and burn the belts. Have them tightened to the max already. Do you have similar issues on the outside hat?

There's a swatch wheel which is very flimsy. I have it a few inches from the hat but makes no odds if it's close or far away. The blades are direct from Malone and there's no issue with the mounting. There's no play in it and the pins match the balls (snigger)