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| Very nice looking hay.
I worked in California hayfields in the sixties and we cut with Hesston swathers, baled with Freeman 3-wire tie balers and picked up bales and hauled them to the haylot with a Harobed (later New Holland Stack Liner). I was the Harobed operator.
4 days after cutting 2 14 foot swaths would be raked together and baled, both being done at night and early morning in dew.
I would move in just before the balers quit and collect and move the hay, up to 2700 bales in a looong day.
Is that about the way hay is put up today too?
I remember "our" hay being some more bleached by the sun than yours seem to be. After 4 days it would be almost white in top of the swath. Also I remember the bales being heavier, about 140 pounds apiece.
I wanted to put in a picture from then but can´t figure it out. Maybe that is not an option for guests.
Jorn in Denmark
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Finially Done with Second Crop
