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Will is cutting mt hay fields right now. The thermometer out on the deck reads 100 degrees. The computer weather lists the humidity at 22%. Just a slight breeze blowing. How fast will this hay dry? That swather is a rotary cut and 16 foot wide. He mows at about 10 mph, maybe faster. Knocks down a lot of hay in a hurry.

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kenny thomas said:
With our grass it would round bale by late tomorrow
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They cut a couple hundred acres on the next door neighbor on Wednesday and Thursday. I am sure it will get baled first. Yesterday he was fueling up the baler tractor and hooking it up to the baler. So I think that hay will get baled tomorrow. They use a V rake to pull together 2 of these 16 foot windrows. It is a 250 hp tractor pulling a 3x4x8 big square baler so like the swather it goes through a lot of in a hurry.
 
Can't say I've ever seen 22% humidity except in the dead of winter. Would imagine the hay would dry quick.

I mowed today and will bale Monday and Tuesday but our temps are only just touching 80 and the humidity is running 60+%.
 
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chevytaHOE5674 said:
Can't say I've ever seen 22% humidity except in the dead of winter. Would imagine the hay would dry quick.

I mowed today and will bale Monday and Tuesday but our temps are only just touching 80 and the humidity is running 60+%.
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The humidity will get lower by the time summer is over. One of the reasons fire danger is very real here. Temperature in the 90's with humidity at 12% and about a 20 mph wind. Fire can take off and run.
 
chevytaHOE5674 said:
Can't say I've ever seen 22% humidity except in the dead of winter. Would imagine the hay would dry quick.

I mowed today and will bale Monday and Tuesday but our temps are only just touching 80 and the humidity is running 60+%.
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The forecast for Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of this coming week is 16% humidity. The trouble with that is you don't think you are even sweating. But the truth is it evaporates as fast as it come out. You really need to pour the liquid in to stay hydrated.
 
Dave said:
The forecast for Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of this coming week is 16% humidity. The trouble with that is you don't think you are even sweating. But the truth is it evaporates as fast as it come out. You really need to pour the liquid in to stay hydrated.
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A few years ago I was working a wildfire in the western part of the hill country in Texas. 108F and 8% humidity. My green firepants would get white from sweat but I never felt any sweat. It dried instantly. Took a lot of water and Gatorade to stay hydrated.
 
22% humidity is unheard of in my area, except as Tahoe said, in the middle of winter. Depending on how heavy the crop is, I'd think you'd be baling with 36 hours of mowing.
 
I cut with two 9' pull type discbines in the field at the same time, one following the other. Not as nice as a SP, but doesn't come with the hefty price tag either. Tractors are both 1980's models that I bought used and have owned now for 25 years. I paid about $10,000 total for the two discbines (NI 5209/MF 1359). Run 10 mph all day long.
 

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