A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

[Bantambird]

Sure... Not a problem....


Can I dictate the size of the bales? I might get that in a week....

The bales are an easy 50-60 lbs. Dad calls them lady bales because he makes them small enough for my mom to lift them.

 

[duluthralphie]

Ahh,, those are nice bales, the 80-100 pounders can make me feel every year of my age at the end of a day...

I have a friend (older than me even) who bales hay all summer long the hard way. I tell him he is nuts and should call for my help...

He bales and lets the hay bales be pushed up on the hay rack, then when no more can be pushed up there, he gets off. Goes back and stacks them. He does this all day long..


He has a large round baler, but does this instead..NUTSO!!!

 

[Bantambird]

Ahh,, those are nice bales, the 80-100 pounders can make me feel every year of my age at the end of a day...

I have a friend (older than me even) who bales hay all summer long the hard way. I tell him he is nuts and should call for my help...

He bales and lets the hay bales be pushed up on the hay rack, then when no more can be pushed up there, he gets off. Goes back and stacks them. He does this all day long..


He has a large round baler, but does this instead..NUTSO!!!

Yeah, sometimes we get the bale wagon working. There is always celebration at those times. If the field has a lot of Timothy grass, the bales end up heavier, however... But yes, the bales are pretty manageable. After all, the horses belong to my mother, so she should be able to feed them easily.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

The bales are an easy 50-60 lbs. Dad calls them lady bales because he makes them small enough for my mom to lift them.

those are my favorite size bales! so easy to handle

 

[duluthralphie]

Yeah, sometimes we get the bale wagon working. There is always celebration at those times. If the field has a lot of Timothy grass, the bales end up heavier, however... But yes, the bales are pretty manageable. After all, the horses belong to my mother, so she should be able to feed them easily.

Your Mom owns horses?

I knew there was something I liked about her when I met her!!!

 

[duluthralphie]

those are my favorite size bales! so easy to handle

I prefer the 1800 pound bales. I can pick them up move them, stack them and not use hardly any energy of my own..

If I had a newer tractor of Bobcat I could even listen to music while I did it.

 

[Bantambird]

Your Mom owns horses?

I knew there was something I liked about her when I met her!!!

Oh yeah, when my mom got into the veterinarian program at CSU, her Grandpa sent her a foal as a present along with a pair of water buffalo skin boots. Mom said it was the only time she ever used the tears to get her way, was keeping Freckles despite being poor college students. She got her way and they figured it out. Freckles herself was interesting.... Half saddle horse, (probably quarter horse or some similar confirmation) half coal miner pony ( was always told Shetland). She was a striped strawberry roan. Very colorful little thing, but had asthma. My mom's grandparents ranched near Wolf Point, and had a small coal mine they worked during the winter during the farming off season. The ponies hauled the loads out of the mine. My mom would wither away without horses. Movies aren't worth watching without horses in them. She even kept her grandfather's horse brand in use, it's a right shoulder brand, M standing Z. It's in the Montana brand registry.

 

[memphis]

Aurora thanks...I liked that pic too. She was one tired turkey! That brown thing is a big rock on the seat of the wire bench. When a turkey launches from the back, the bench would fall over. Since I've weighted it with the rock, all the chickens & turkeys use it to file their beaks.

 

[Bantambird]

I prefer the 1800 pound bales. I can pick them up move them, stack them and not use hardly any energy of my own..

If I had a newer tractor of Bobcat I could even listen to music while I did it.

The funny part is that he has a round baler and an arm lift attachment for the flatbed truck, but everyone wants to buy the small squares anyways. Easier to gauge feeding for horses. Rounds are more for cows.

 

[duluthralphie]

Around here everyone wants the large bales, Other than those with 2 acres and a horse...