And just when...

[Onepoint]

...I thought I had seen it all.

I know you guys are say "so?",  let me splain

I have had round bales come apart in all kind of ways some I have had no sting and baled too wet and they still stayed together, some I have baled too dry of something fluffy like grass or straw and one string busts and they explode into a pile but always as a single unit.   But today I had something new.  Some of this hay is really light, so I raked 2 windrows together. I have a new rake that is set for heavier hay and it doesn't quite put them touching, so there are 2 distinct windrows side by side, but just wide enough to drive over so I can be weaving around much which is what you do to fill the bale evenly.  Normally that would make a bale with short sides that looks a lot like a ball instead of square topped bale.   But these turned out looking OK. So I am toodling around out there picking them up with the loader and  spike on the back,  I pick one up on back and stab one up front and took off for the stack, but I look back and there is a nice 1/2 bale laying flat on the ground and the other half still on the spike.

It was actually much cleaner looking, and looked like someone cut it with a knife, but I smooshed it up a little trying to pick it up, that would be the very center of the bale if it was altogether still.

[balsum fractus]

What?? No square bales anymore?

[Onepoint]

Oh yeah, but I do them later in the summer after 1st cutting.

[stetto]

Hang on while I think of a humerous response. I don't make hay, this might take some time.....

[Onepoint]

Well it's probably some kind of inside joke,  just in 35 years of doing this I have never seen that happen.

[balsum fractus]

Oh yeah, but I do them later in the summer after 1st cutting.

Oh thank goodness......next thing you know, you would be telling us you traded the ox team for one of them new fangled mechanical tractor thingys.......😜

[Onepoint]

20 goat team harness. Can't afford oxen

[stetto]

I actually thought those WERE your version of square. The way the wind keeps rolling them around....

[Frazz]

Vermeer baler?

[Onepoint]

Yeah,  an older one without the monitor etc.

[Frazz]

Are you sure you didn't steal that baler from us?   The baler we had was all worn out, and half the time when you got the bale finally started rolling, it would pop out between the belts and get them twisted up.  However, the last couple years we had it and baled, it was known as that "fing" baler!!!

We always carried a high lift jack so we could lift between rollers and take the spring tension off and fix the mess.  And sometimes the bale just refused to start rolling. Occasionally the belts would break at the seam and roll up in the bale, well you know, you baled more than us.

Yeah, I hated baling more than anything.   

[Onepoint]

Like anything else, I don't mind it when everything works.      Unless the hay is really short or it's something like straw or cheatgrass that's super slick, it works pretty well.

But I have  several of that brand of equipment, "that F...ing POS..."