hay time wash out

[jac]

22nd June… rain has been falling here for the last 3 weeks with the odd dry day. Mower been greased…a lot !!!.. horses getting a bit figety now an still it rains..Another week and will have to think about trying for silage… mother nature sure is diffrent from when I was a kid at hay time:(
John

[clayfoot-sandyman]

I’m getting the feeling that April and June swapped places this year?

[near horse]

I’m with you guys on this one! Nice looking hay crop is lodging now with any more rain/wind. That might make haying a little more challenging.

Waiting for sun.

[mitchmaine]

same here. i thnink donn mentioned it, but we are trying to find two good days in a row and mowing before the rain hoping to make it and get it in on dry ground. is there such a thing as one day in a row??????/ anyway, in spite of the poor weather(hail), the ground around here is pretty hard and the gardens look like they need rain. very hard making a plan. hoping for a bright future for all. mitch

[gwpoky]

You guys are all making me feel a little better, it looks like we might get a four day stretch of good weather, but with the moisture in the fields and the ground it might take an extra day to dry. I going to have some tonnage but quality may be a little low. Best of luck to you all.

[Donn Hewes]

Clipping a very rough piece of ground today I folded a poor evener on one of my mowers! Two seconds later as I was trying to steer my way home my seat post snapped. All you can do is laugh! That little piece of a seat post is really hard to get out. It was rusted in and I cut the pack rust out with a saw z all and got it moving with a punch.

[near horse]

@Donn Hewes 27791 wrote:

Clipping a very rough piece of ground today I folded a poor evener on one of my mowers! Two seconds later as I was trying to steer my way home my seat post snapped. All you can do is laugh! That little piece of a seat post is really hard to get out. It was rusted in and I cut the pack rust out with a saw z all and got it moving with a punch.

When I first read this Donn, all I could think of was “where did that little piece of seat post end up?” And “was a sawzall the most appropriate method of ….ummmm, …. extraction?” Ouch!

I hope I can keep the good humor you’re demonstrating when things go south. It’s a gift.

[clayfoot-sandyman]

You started cutting yet John? I’m in two minds, been nice for a couple of days now raining REALLY heavily – glad I haven’t cut yet….it’s a tricky call this year, the weather maps show a good robust high but the temp’s are quite low and it’s really humid – I don’t make silage/haylage so just got ot hold my nerve for a clearer spot for hay…..what’s happenning up your way?

Ed

[jac]

Hi Ed .. sorry I missed your post.. we have been rained on pretty much constant here on the west coast but now {3rd July} we have had a good spell but we still wont make hay.. Been dry but not a lot of wind, not ideal for hay so we will wrap in the plastic..not ideal but better than mouldy hay…
John

[clayfoot-sandyman]

Nice photo John….hope your haylage/silage worked out…..well I’m still dithering and am beginning to think I should turn away from the endless forecast watching on the internet and instead just follow the old Yorkshire saying

If there’s enough blue sky to make a pair of trousers it’s a hay day!

They must have had some really awful hay in the old days, my granny remembers in Swaledale years when the hay was cut and it got rained on so much it went black on the surface but it still eventually made, when the sun eventually shone again.

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