. We are doing end of year maintenance on our equipment in Pennsylvania, USA. Expecting snow this Thursday. It's a good time to work inside. I like your approach to removing the roll pins on your hay bob, which I'm assuming is a rotary rake. "A hitch pin and a big hammer." In my book, if that doesn't work, just get a bigger hammer! Cheers! Whipple
I was watching PA Farms channel, he'd said there was snow forcast round your way. I'm trying to get to the stage of repairs in winter rather than in the field 😂. The haybob does both Tedding and raking depending how you set it up, i'll try get a video of the set up at some point. Lol I can't take credit for the big hammer idea, my mate had told me about it.
Casto . To give you some reference, PA Farms is located in eastern Pennsylvania near Philadelphia. We are closer to Pittsburgh in western Pennsylvania in the western foothills of the Allegheny Mountains but we have both had lots and lots of rain this summer. Our area averages 38 inches of rain annually. To date this year we have gotten 56 inches. Some of that rain has come in 2 or 3 inch rain events over just an hour or two. Topsoil has been displaced this year at an alarming rate on our farm. Erosion channels have opened up and we have had to resort to plugging them with spoiled hay bales until it is dry enough to get into the fields and build earthen swales and plant wide terraced grassy waterways. It's a mess. I'm sure you've seen the pounding water in PA Farms corn field below his barn. Our place has rolling hills so there's no place for water to collect, but we've had more than our share. It's too wet and almost too late now to plant a cover crop of winter rye so we will loose out on added nitrogen and organic material in the soil come spring planting time. Take care... Cheers! Whipple
Yeah it seems a bit desperate over with you guys. We had a wet summer last year with late hay crops, in fact some people didn't get one! It seems like in the US there's a lot of soil erosion, we don't tend to have it that bad 😕. I'll have to have a look on a map and see how different the land is. Were fairly flat land round me, in a Vale actually so a lot of floods but that's about it! Take care! Casto