Nice People Thread No. 14, all Nice and Proper

mystic_trev

lostinrates wrote: »

Send strong men......my hay is coming in this weekend. Only keeping two hundred bales I think though, but all needs to get out of the fields none the less.

Head hurts, tired.

I bet it'll be just like this….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coNAQLYysh0

silvercar

Nothing, nothing, nothing and then all systems go.

Just exchanged on a BTL.

Could feature on HutH, but without the auction bit. It needs a lot of work and its about 100 miles away.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Send strong men......my hay is coming in this weekend.

No soliciting ....stick your business cards in local phone boxes like the others

lostinrates wrote: »

Only keeping two hundred bales I think though, but all needs to get out of the fields none the less.

Although I'm the first to admit I'm lazy, weak and pathetic ... if I weren't otherwise occupied I'd pop along to do what I could...

I can often show willing, I just fail to rank on end results when it comes to physical labour.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

No soliciting ....stick your business cards in local phone boxes like the others


Although I'm the first to admit I'm lazy, weak and pathetic ... if I weren't otherwise occupied I'd pop along to do what I could...

I can often show willing, I just fail to rank on end results when it comes to physical labour.

When I was young and fit some hay week ends il lost half a stone. All fluid mind you, but...gives an idea of how hard you can work in the heat.

michaels

lostinrates wrote: »

When I was young and fit some hay week ends il lost half a stone. All fluid mind you, but...gives an idea of how hard you can work in the heat.

When you started writing about hay weekends when you were young and fit I was expecting you to say you had taken on a fair bit of liquid

michaels

silvercar wrote: »

Nothing, nothing, nothing and then all systems go.

Just exchanged on a BTL.

Could feature on HutH, but without the auction bit. It needs a lot of work and its about 100 miles away.

100 miles away - our right move search parameter is half a mile from our house...

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

When you started writing about hay weekends when you were young and fit I was expecting you to say you had taken on a fair bit of liquid

If there is enough energy, the hay could have been moved quicker, so no. . Afterwards you ache too much. This is cos its all old school small bales, so manual lifting for a lot of it.

mystic_trev

PasturesNew wrote: »

I went into one once, but I'm a scaredy cat, so soon left.

You bailed out?

GDB2222

Isn't the hay all done by machine? In those giant bales that look like a Swiss roll? Much too heavy to move by hand.

lostinrates

GDB2222 wrote: »

Isn't the hay all done by machine? In those giant bales that look like a Swiss roll? Much too heavy to move by hand.

No, we thought we were going to have to have those, but some one has offered to small bale for us. Small bales are a pain this one time a year, but through the year with horses, they are MUCH easier. They are not as popular with farmers because of the labour involve in bringing them in and stacking, but its the only way to sell to small scale horse people ( and small holders ) , so diminishing numbers of small balers is a bit of a problem for small scale keepers who want small bales.

As you say, round bales are a pita to move without machinery ( it can be done, but its messy and silly, and also possible are what we have had before which is even bigger square bales. They are fine for us here, but mean there is no potential for anyone to sell bales on.

We're splitting the hay with the guy making them, which is why he is prepared to small bale them.....he can sell the small bales on for tremendous profit. We only need about two hundred this year.