Mundane News

[potsy]

you mean you have actually ridden it?
or did you get someone else to ride it for you and they got it dirty?

It and my feet got a little wet

I also found the most pot-holed path in Manchester on my travels

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

It and my feet got a little wet

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I also found the most pot-holed path in Manchester on my travels

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thought I knew your other picture. I have cycled along there quite a few times on a road bike

 

[mybike]

It has definitely rained overnight or early this morning, trail was quite soggy, will have to give it a wash later

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That's what I like, ambition. Which trail will you be washing?

what size was it? conventional, mini heston, heston, 4ft round, 4ft 6in round, 6 ft round... i've probably missed some
what is the hay like in your bale, roughly what moisture content was it baled at? and does it have any weeds and/or thistles in it? what sort of grass did it come from,? timmothy, rye grass (perennial or italian?), yorkshire fog...? what about clover, does it contain much clover? the grass it came from, how much artifitial granualr nitrogen fertiliser how much liquid fertiliser and how much muck has it had on it this year?

am i boring anyone yet?
i could go on with what sort of bailer twine, humidity ATM how many times has it been handled and in what way, when was it cut, baled and how many times and when was it turned, did it have any rain on it after being cut? and probably much more than that! haha
ok i'll stop now

now, now, now what shall we have to do with you! the difference between hay and straw is HUGE and one you don't want to get mixed up
straw is better for bedding, sheep don't tend to eat straw too much but cows quite happily eat straw with barley straw being the best
if this weather ever dries up we're due to start straw any day now, looking at the local weather forecast that would appear to be next week, maybe end of this week, it's not been a bad year for straw so i expect we will do 2,500-3,500 bales maybe upto 3,500
Cheers Ed

I thought you were revising for summat.

 

[young Ed]

I know all about hay, straw and bales. When I was a lad I spent many summers on my uncle's farm in Yorkshire stacking bales, loading them (with a pitchfork) onto a trailer and building stacks in his Dutch Barn. I've ruined my hands many times with baler twine. I preferred the straw bales because the hay bales weighed much more and I struggled to lift them with the fork.

move them with your hands, we always do and i can't imagine doing it any other way
we do use a flat 8 grab to lift 8 bales at a time onto the trailer but stack them on the trailer by hand and then stack them straight off the trailer into the barns by hand, although from the ground i can throw a bale 5 lanes (a stack of 5 bales high) on a trailer. although as i say for the sake of efficiency we use a flat 8 grab to put 8 bales at a time on the trailer for the stackers to stack up in formation

when i start doing my own hay in a couple years time i will probably have a 3 man operation with one driving the tractor towing the hay trailer very slowly whilst you have one person on the trailer stacking the bales and then another person (probably me) sitting on the back of the trailer jumping off to pickup each bale individually and throw it up on the trailer, that way i don't need a loader, bale sledge, and grab
Cheers Ed

 

[postman]

Going to Scarborough tomorrow.By train staying over night in Hunmanby,a dear old friend rang last week.He is not too well,says he wants to see me.Looking forward to catching up.

 

[potsy]

thought I knew your other picture. I have cycled along there quite a few times on a road bike

I have made a 'photo map' for @Katherine to help her find a route, it may or may not help

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

right, the pate is done, the bread is not. the chickpeas for tonight's meal are also done, there are 3 new loaves of sourdough bread in the fridge proofing, (2 honey and sunflower rye sourdough and one straight rye sourdough) and there is a loaf of bread (50/50 white/wholemeal sourdough rising to be cooked later). the kitchen is a disaster area and I still need to do a batch of scones and cook this evenings meal...


and it has just started raining...

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

I have made a 'photo map' for @Katherine to help her find a route, it may or may not help

ahhh - that good. I didn't think it was that hard to follow the route the first time I did it... but then I may or may not have followed it correctly that is part of the fun and there are worse areas of m/c to get lost in during daylight hours... you just don't want to be around there after daylight...

 

[classic33]

what size was it? conventional, mini heston, heston, 4ft round, 4ft 6in round, 6 ft round... i've probably missed some
what is the hay like in your bale, roughly what moisture content was it baled at? and does it have any weeds and/or thistles in it? what sort of grass did it come from,? timmothy, rye grass (perennial or italian?), yorkshire fog...? what about clover, does it contain much clover? the grass it came from, how much artifitial granualr nitrogen fertiliser how much liquid fertiliser and how much muck has it had on it this year?

am i boring anyone yet?
i could go on with what sort of bailer twine, humidity ATM how many times has it been handled and in what way, when was it cut, baled and how many times and when was it turned, did it have any rain on it after being cut? and probably much more than that! haha
ok i'll stop now

now, now, now what shall we have to do with you! the difference between hay and straw is HUGE and one you don't want to get mixed up
straw is better for bedding, sheep don't tend to eat straw too much but cows quite happily eat straw with barley straw being the best
if this weather ever dries up we're due to start straw any day now, looking at the local weather forecast that would appear to be next week, maybe end of this week, it's not been a bad year for straw so i expect we will do 2,500-3,500 bales maybe upto 3,500
Cheers Ed

You missed the Jumbo bale, nine foot by four foot by one & half feet

Also what about netting?

 

[young Ed]

You missed the Jumbo bale, nine foot by four foot by one & half feet

Also what about netting?

told you i'd forgotten one the jumbo slipped my mind as you jest never see them about, not really practical to handle a bale that size! a hell of a lot of people do the big 4 string square hestons these days as they are easy to handle, space efficient and easy to stack but for me on a small livestock farm you just can't beat good ol' conventional 2 string hay bales... although that might change as my body wears out
Cheers Ed

 

[classic33]

I know all about hay, straw and bales. When I was a lad I spent many summers on my uncle's farm in Yorkshire stacking bales, loading them (with a pitchfork) onto a trailer and building stacks in his Dutch Barn. I've ruined my hands many times with baler twine. I preferred the straw bales because the hay bales weighed much more and I struggled to lift them with the fork.

Tha must have been doing it wrong!
Did they have round bales back then?

 

[classic33]

This was in the 1970s before the widescale adoption of those round thingies.

Not a good idea on hills either, round bales.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

This was in the 1970s before the widescale adoption of those round thingies.

ahhh - the black spot and the pale green spots that appear like plagues in the countryside and slowly spread north as the weather improves...
we currently have a green spot outbreak around here



Sorry they don't half ruin a perfectly good landscape photo....

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I thought you were revising for summat.

Yebbut every bale begins with a BA....

 

[summerdays]

I loved hay time on any of my relations farms, long days where we ran around, and then building dens in the hay shed afterwards. Some of the fields were down on the moss, and it could be difficult getting the machinery onto it without it churning up the land, so there was always more traditional methods used there, doing as much by hand and cart as possible. It was all traditional bales or the round haystacks.