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Had to buy a tedder for the hybrid pearl millet hay
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<blockquote data-quote="Steve Wilson" data-source="post: 679125" data-attributes="member: 8362"><p>I only have 11 acres of Tiffleaf3 planted for hay, so I'm going to stick with the 2 basket tedder. $2000 is enough of a cash expense for a tedder right now. I just spent another $2000 last week on a tractor repair and I just about refuse to have to make payments. But I truely appreciate the advise to buy a bigger one. I would like to tedder all the hay we put up; which only amounts to less than 200 big bales a year. I don't know that I could justify doubling the cost of a tedder for our use. The bottom line is that a little 2 basket model beats the living snot out of the "NO basket model" we've had until now. :lol2: </p><p></p><p>I haven't talked to the farm yet today to see if they had any rain but it poured here outside of St. Louis this morning. The farm is over in the center of the state by Jefferson City. If it rained there again, I'm afraid to think what kind of shape the downed millet is in by now. It's been on the ground a week today with 4 rains on it, if they got any today. I'm going to have to get it off the ground soon because it had already grown 5 inches from when it was cut Wednesday, till when we raked it Saturday. If it's junk it will be used to fill erosion ditches or for animal bedding, but it's got to get off the field.....one way or another. The plan right now is to get it dry enough to roll up in big bales. I asked around and nobody has the equipment to do high moisture bales or baleage. </p><p></p><p>Tytower, yes I'm very pleased with the millet, as always. I'll be way more pleased when we start catching a break in the weather and can deal with it properly instead of being in this current crisis mode.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steve Wilson, post: 679125, member: 8362"] I only have 11 acres of Tiffleaf3 planted for hay, so I'm going to stick with the 2 basket tedder. $2000 is enough of a cash expense for a tedder right now. I just spent another $2000 last week on a tractor repair and I just about refuse to have to make payments. But I truely appreciate the advise to buy a bigger one. I would like to tedder all the hay we put up; which only amounts to less than 200 big bales a year. I don't know that I could justify doubling the cost of a tedder for our use. The bottom line is that a little 2 basket model beats the living snot out of the "NO basket model" we've had until now. :lol2: I haven't talked to the farm yet today to see if they had any rain but it poured here outside of St. Louis this morning. The farm is over in the center of the state by Jefferson City. If it rained there again, I'm afraid to think what kind of shape the downed millet is in by now. It's been on the ground a week today with 4 rains on it, if they got any today. I'm going to have to get it off the ground soon because it had already grown 5 inches from when it was cut Wednesday, till when we raked it Saturday. If it's junk it will be used to fill erosion ditches or for animal bedding, but it's got to get off the field.....one way or another. The plan right now is to get it dry enough to roll up in big bales. I asked around and nobody has the equipment to do high moisture bales or baleage. Tytower, yes I'm very pleased with the millet, as always. I'll be way more pleased when we start catching a break in the weather and can deal with it properly instead of being in this current crisis mode. [/QUOTE]
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