One of the highlights of the summer for me so far, was making hay on one of the rental farms that is managed by Polyface. The farm is about twenty five minutes away and has about 400 acres of pasture.
I got to do a lot of tractor work because we were dealing with bales with an average wight of 600lbs! All the loading and hauling had to be done with tractors and trucks. FUN STUFF!!
We did just over eighteen hundred bales in one week. It will be on experience that I will look back on with a smile of satisfaction for a long time.
Hope you all enjoy the pictures.
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| Polyface hired out all the cutting and baling, but did the fluffing of the hay and raking it into rows. | | | |
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| We had two "truck n' trailer" teams running all over the field hauling bales to where they would be put into stacks. |
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| Some of the crew. |
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| The equipment is ready to roll just as soon as the baler can get a head start on the field. I loaded the trailers out in the field and Daniel Salatin unloaded them and stacked them into big piles. |
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| The guys putting a heavy duty tarp over one of the stack. The stacks are fifteen feet high and about twenty five feet wide and about.......well,......very long! There are a couple hundred bales in that pile. |
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| This is one of my favorite photos. It was fun to enjoy the beautiful sunsets as we finished up the day's work |
