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14 minutes ago, Brocky said:

But it is better to have it in Nu Joisey than South Carolina!!!

nope, no way. since i no longer push it around for money, i dont want it anywhere within 100 miles of the homestead.

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when you are up to your armpits in alligators,

it is hard to remember you only came in to drain the swamp..

Main complaint if the sun is not shining around here I don’t feel like doing anything outside I heard that from an older fellow when I  was working in the truck tire shop way back in 73 …. I don’t even know how I remember that he told me the same thing …. When the suns  out I’m out working—-no sun I sit in the house  pretty much what happened to me yesterday I had plans and I did nothing but watch TV I did run around a bit haircut hardware store supermarket

Paul, Thanks for the explanation of baling at night.. We had always baled the small square bales in the afternoon when the moisture content was at its lowest.. If the hay was too wet it would mold in the barn. Even A few barns were lost to a spontaneous combustion fire from the mold..

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Brocky

same here in joisey Brocky. only raked and  baled in late afternoon after a full day of sun drying it out. then straight to the barn. 

i remember when i was around 10  dad was the fire chief and a guy raked, baled, and stacked out in the field early morning to pick up later. well, it sat out in that field uncovered for around 3 weeks before it caught on fire from the inside. he had to hire a large excavator to rip the pile open to put the fire out..... it burned for 4-5  days before they finally got it all out. 

he lost something like 1,000 bales. 

4 years later the same guy cleared another field and chipped all the trees into a large pile in the middle of the field. same thing. dad by now was town fire marshal and gave the guy a few tickets to get rid of the pile, or the town would and charge him for it. 

never got that far as it too caught on fore from the inside and he had to hire the large excavator again to tear it apart. 

that one too 4-5 days 4-5 days to put out.

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when you are up to your armpits in alligators,

it is hard to remember you only came in to drain the swamp..

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