Originally Posted by Mr. Haney

I've been kept very busy running this machine



Doing this



This bale is 3 feet tall by 4 feet wide by 8 feet long and weighs roughly 1200 lbs. I've baled 1300 bales since Tuesday morning and covered 500 acres of ground



This tractor and baler takes complete concentration to operate properly, so I am not answering my phone much. I'm moving so fast across the fields that if I don't concentrate 100% at doing this I'll spend 1/2 to 1 hours unplugging the feeder head. The slightest change in the amount of straw in the windrows, causes me to have to adjust speed instantly.

I'm not trying to ignore my incoming phone calls or messages. Hell half the time I never realize that it rang, because I'm so engrossed with this. Unless you're willing for me to call you back late at night..........please understand if I'm a little slow returning your messages at the moment.

Thanks

Why are you in Ill farming? LOL

Originally Posted by 07-379Pete

Why are you in Ill farming? LOL

I'm not that far from home. There is some very nice farmland not far from the slums of DC............you only need to be someone with a very large bank account to own them.

This is a 2000 acre farm outside of Frederick/Buckeystown MD that is owned by Alcoa. They used a couple hundred acres to build an aluminum plant there many years ago that is now being torn down, but kept the remaining acreage as a working farm.

After the plant closed a number of years ago they have leased the land to a local farmer to grow grain crops on it. This is the reason the straw has to be baled so quickly after the wheat is harvested. These pictures were taken Friday morning. Friday afternoon after the straw was baled and the bales cleared from this field the farmer was planting his soybean crop for fall harvest. I have to move as fast as the 2 combines harvesting the grain from the acreage. Friday night I didn't stop baling until 1:30 AM. The only reason I stopped then was because of a few houses along the edge of the field that were occupied that I was getting close to and I didn't want to hear grief later about keeping people awake with the tractor and baler pounding away all night.

Originally Posted by Mr. Haney

Friday night I didn't stop baling until 1:30 AM. The only reason I stopped then was because of a few houses along the edge of the field that were occupied that I was getting close to and I didn't want to hear grief later about keeping people awake with the tractor and baler pounding away all night.

Aint it funny how city folk will move out to the country and dont have a clue how farm life is, then ##### about it when they find out and want the people they moved into to change there ways.

Originally Posted by 07-379Pete

Aint it funny how city folk will move out to the country and dont have a clue how farm life is, then ##### about it when they find out and want the people they moved into to change there ways.

Alot of this crap in the NE.

In WI too. They love liquid manure LOL

Originally Posted by 07-379Pete

Aint it funny how city folk will move out to the country and dont have a clue how farm life is, then ##### about it when they find out and want the people they moved into to change there ways.

This goes on everywhere. In my younger years I lived in Old Bridge Township NJ, home to Englishtown Raceway Park. When I lived there it was a 3 mile ride into nothing to the track. In the 80's the land developers built tract housing close by, but wouldn't have the sales office open on race days.............needless to say the new homeowners weren't happy after they moved in and had to listen to the nitro and alcohol cars rattle the windows in there houses on Wednesday night test and tune, Friday night test and tune, and Sunday race afternoons. I though it was neat sitting on my back porch as a kid listening to the night test & tune/races growing up. They almost closed that track down then because of the noise. I actually was friends with the owners son growing up, fortunately they survived and still have major NHRA events there.

Guessing that's a similar way the other mushrooms are made that help you hallucinate and feel funny.