Here we go.

[gcreekrch]

After most of you have your hay in the stack, here we go. Will finish baling first meadow at the Home Place today. There was a full day of baling today and as of midnight when I quit we were at par of last year's short crop. If the trend stays our fears of being short will be for naught. We have 375 tons of 16% alfalfa already bought and 4 loads are here now.
Got to bed at 1 am and up at 5:30 to check a bear snare that the predator trappers set up yesterday. It was full of bear that is now not a calf killer. Second in two weeks, the first killed a yearling steer.

 

[chevytaHOE5674]

You guys must not get much dew?

It's been into the 40s most nights here. Dew so heavy you have to quit by 7.30 to 8pm.

 

[1982vett]

Kudos to whomever polished the windows in the tractor. Impressive reflection of the baler behind you.

 

[gcreekrch]

You guys must not get much dew?

It's been into the 40s most nights here. Dew so heavy you have to quit by 7.30 to 8pm.

Normally we quit not long after sundown. Last night the wind never stopped blowing. We should be baled up before the rain starts tonight. Mostly hay but a few bales of silage to wrap in am.

I am parts guy and supper cook this afternoon.

 

[gcreekrch]

Kudos to whomever polished the windows in the tractor. Impressive reflection of the baler behind you.

Shows my one high ear too!

 

[chevytaHOE5674]

Normally we quit not long after sundown. Last night the wind never stopped blowing. We should be baled up before the rain starts tonight. Mostly hay but a few bales of silage to wrap in am.

I am parts guy and supper cook this afternoon.

We sometimes get a night or two a year that we can go into the later evening. But typically the dew has set with a few hours of daylight left. Gives a guy 2 or 3 hours of daylight to group up bales so you can find them to haul in the dark. Haha

 

[cfpinz]

Your cat is awesome.

 

[SmokinM]

Your cat is awesome.

Wait til I tell your dog what you said!

 

[cfpinz]

Wait til I tell your dog what you said!

Pickle knows I'm a cat person....

 

[dave_shelby]

Where you located again?

 

[gcreekrch]

Ten bales left in the windrow at home, bearing went out of baler and showers overnight. Oh well. Two more loads of alfalfa on their way.
Have to back blade the damp soil from the stacks, we don't put hay on wet ground.

 

[gcreekrch]

Where you located again?

I live so far in the bush we come out to hunt…….

The only guy further is Silver, he sees polar bears regularly and speaks Eskimo fluently.

We are at Anahim Lake BC.

 

[dave_shelby]

Beautiful. I find myself thinking of moving out west escaping the crowds. Not sure I am suited for those cold Canadian winters though.

 

[Dave]

You guys must not get much dew?

It's been into the 40s most nights here. Dew so heavy you have to quit by 7.30 to 8pm.

Another one of those big country with differences. Here they start baling around 2:00 AM while the dew is on and have to stop by around 10:00 in the morning. But you live in an area with lots of moisture and I live in a desert.

 

[Dave]

Where you located again?

He is so far out into the middle of nowhere that his nearest neighbor carries extra gas when driving over to see him.

 

[chevytaHOE5674]

Another one of those big country with differences. Here they start baling around 2:00 AM while the dew is on and have to stop by around 10:00 in the morning. But you live in an area with lots of moisture and I live in a desert.

At 2am here the rain gauge has measurable dew. Need rubber boots to walk outside. Usually accompanied by fog and mist.

 

[WAnabee]

I live so far in the bush we come out to hunt…….

The only guy further is Silver, he sees polar bears regularly and speaks Eskimo fluently.

We are at Anahim Lake BC.

My father in law grew up on a ranch near Burns Lake, I was fortunate enough to see lots of old pictures at a family reunion recently, it seems like sort of a similar area to where you are at, cold, but lots of space.

 

[gcreekrch]

Home finished finally. 20 silage bales laid in a windrow for three days while it showered. Cut another small patch and wrapped 32 haylage bales today. Got all the iron moved to Morrison Meadow today also.
Rain forecast tomorrow again.

 

[Dave]

At 2am here the rain gauge has measurable dew. Need rubber boots to walk outside. Usually accompanied by fog and mist.

The people I use to buy bulls from are right on the Willapa Bay. Look west and it is the Pacific Ocean. In the corner of their pasture at high tide you can throw and rock and hit salt water. It is 110 inch annual rainfall. And in the summer the fog doesn't clear until 10:00 or later. They were amazed how much easier it was to put up feed when they started doing haylage.

 

[gcreekrch]

Yesterday, 3 cutters until 4:30 and then 2 balers until 10 pm