I finished Muddy Valley hay field sometime around 11 p.m. Monday. I got stuck a couple times with the stacker. I was pulled out once by a Traxscavator which is basically a 1940's D-4 with a hydraulic loader bucket. I may have a photo.
The other five times with just used the 2-135.
I was on my way to stack for the neighbor Tuesday Morning when I started to see more and more wet pavement and then puddles. I turned around and went home.
My land lady at Gopher V. called to tell me it was raining on her hay and I should do it first next year. I was polite. I think there will be no next year at Gopher V. I'm not sure what to do with 40 acres of rained on hay in this market. I should just walk away. Would have been done if I would have had another day of nice weather.
Today it is raining. We are working on the stacker. I am going to attempt to rebuild some large hydraulic cylinders...
In the mean time, for lack of photos out of my phone, I leave you with a fiddling Robot.
My condolences on the bad hay weather!
ReplyDeleteBad news about the hay. Mine gets rained on pretty well every year before I bale it. The cows still eat it.I've quit worrying about it.
ReplyDeleteLooks like Gopher Valley had .06" of rain today.
ReplyDeleteWe got it next. It's a D-6 by the way. Worth more than a D4 for scrap!
Gorges and Ralph, Into every life a little rain must fall...They say it falls equally on the just and unjust I sometimes wonder whose life I'm averaging out...
ReplyDeleteMuddy, A D-6! It seemed pretty large for a D-4. I looked up Traxcavator with several spellings trying to find a picture.
Robofeller looks like he was programmed by someone with small square experience.
ReplyDeleteReplace the fiddle with a 60lb hay bale and the bow with a bale hook and I've danced that same jig stacking the 5th layer on a hayrack on a side hill July afternoon above the river.
Interesting a fiddling robot draws more offensive hits than a rant. Or maybe someone doesn't like people fixing stackers.
Collieguy, I don't really see what is offensive about this post. Probably the fiddle players union worried that they will be made redundant.
ReplyDeleteDid you ever dive in the river as a respite from stacking the hay?
Late July, the river runs low enough you'd be hard pressed to get much respite there. If I could've, I would've. Guess I should call it a creek, in respect to your proper river.
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