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If you do uncover it and leave it for a while I'd unstack the bales and run them north south end to end without touching each other on the sides. When they are stacked in a pyramid or even laid side by side the bales tend to hold water and mold where they are touching.

Okay, I know, you did climb out, but you know that at that depth it's easy to quickly expend all of the air that's down there? It's the start of the classic joke told when training firefighters about farm accidents. Farmer goes down in the well. Said farmer runs out of air and dies. Eldest...

I've used it in the fire service but never considered using it for farming...

I called Geotek today. They said to use a prusik knot. I used a piece of 1/2" soft braided nylon type rope to tie the prusik knot with and pulled it up with the hay spears on my skidloader. Worked like a charm!

The post jack wouldn't get a good bite on the Sunguard posts. Too slick and when it did it slid up and stripped the outside of the post off. I put the jack on a stainless steel clip and that worked, but it wasn't great, and I've got quite a few to do. It started to pour down rain so I didn't...

I've got one but am afraid that it would crack the post. Guess I can give it a try on one of them to see what happens.

I also use sunguard posts. From Geotek.

We had a tough winter in NW Iowa this year. Lots of snow and ice. For the first time I've had T-posts and fiberglass line posts pulled about 12" into the ground. The steel T-posts aren't a problem to pull out but I've never had to do anything with my fiberglass fence before. The fiberglass...

I have access to a sorghum field that was used as a food plot for deer and pheasant last fall. Anybody ever graze sorghum after it sat all year? Anybody know if prussic acid or anything else would be an issue for pregnant cows?

OK, last question from me. What do you do about exposure? Do you worry about making sure the cows have any way of getting out of the wind?

I'd love to try bale grazing but our winters don't seem to fit. I see you're in Canada. How do you get the posts in the ground in the winter and what about snow? Here in NW Iowa it's been double digits below 0 for quite a while and the snow drifted over the round bales out in the fields back...