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<blockquote data-quote="irked" data-source="post: 668156" data-attributes="member: 7861"><p>i think you're correct. one year i checked some hay that i had baled just to get out of the field. it had been rained on for days in the windrows and never dried out. i needed it out of the way so i just baled it up and planned on filling up some washes and ditches with it. it was so wet and baled so tight that it had water seeping out of it in the baler. i moved it into a swampy area so that nothing else would burn in case it caught on fire and stacked the bales about 10' apart. i was curious about the heating process, so i checked it twice a day to see how long it took to start cooling off. i made a simple probe out of two pieces of tubing welded into a t-shape that was long enough to go into the center of the bales. i sharpened an old broken 5/8 bolt and welded into one end to make a point. (a person could easily drill a hole in it to run a temp sensor down in it but i was only interested in hot to the touch or cool to the touch.) the bales that generated the most heat, with the probe too hot to even touch after a few minutes in the bale, did so until the 6th and 7th days before they started cooling back down. </p><p></p><p>i realize that the equipment was quite rudimentary and the method not very scientific, but it showed me what i needed to know: that the 2 or 3 days that i had always thought was enough to leave wet or questionable hay out...really wasn't long enough.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="irked, post: 668156, member: 7861"] i think you're correct. one year i checked some hay that i had baled just to get out of the field. it had been rained on for days in the windrows and never dried out. i needed it out of the way so i just baled it up and planned on filling up some washes and ditches with it. it was so wet and baled so tight that it had water seeping out of it in the baler. i moved it into a swampy area so that nothing else would burn in case it caught on fire and stacked the bales about 10' apart. i was curious about the heating process, so i checked it twice a day to see how long it took to start cooling off. i made a simple probe out of two pieces of tubing welded into a t-shape that was long enough to go into the center of the bales. i sharpened an old broken 5/8 bolt and welded into one end to make a point. (a person could easily drill a hole in it to run a temp sensor down in it but i was only interested in hot to the touch or cool to the touch.) the bales that generated the most heat, with the probe too hot to even touch after a few minutes in the bale, did so until the 6th and 7th days before they started cooling back down. i realize that the equipment was quite rudimentary and the method not very scientific, but it showed me what i needed to know: that the 2 or 3 days that i had always thought was enough to leave wet or questionable hay out...really wasn't long enough. [/QUOTE]
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