>
>I'm grinning to myself as I now may have identified Dave as
>the guy that drives the baler on his farm <smile>. I
>inferred that as it's extremely rare that a farmer stacks
>hay with the "cut edge" down as he apparently described
>above. (Maybe I misunderstood his meaning.)
>
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>F. W. Owen
Actually, it would be rare for me to deal with "hot" bales since we started
using hay preservatives years ago.
But back when, there would be a small amount of bales put up just ahead of
an advancing t-storm and we'd spread the bales out in the mow to cure,
using salt. Only after things settled down, were the bales actually mowed
away.
Today, I deal with very few small squares because it is labor intensive.
Putting up rounds and feeding them is something an "old guy" like me can do
with hydraulic levers. When I need to do small squares, it is small
amounts and I'm smart enough to pay some high school age boys to deal with
the hard part. Then I have some deer hunters who mow the hay away in
exchange for hunting privileges.
Dave G.
