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Making Haylage: 15 Hours = 25 Wrapped Bales of Haylage

7/26/2015

 
It rained most days from Memorial Day until this past week.  That was no problem for me as I planned to do my second haylage harvest at the end of July.  I started mowing with my Vermeer M7040 mower at 11 am.  I wanted to wait until the dew dried off.  The field is uneven so I can't go real fast.  I finished mowing in 4 hours.  This time I mowed much more evenly and also I did not drive on the uncut grass and mash it down like last time.  I took the tractor back to my home base and parked the mower.  I then hooked up my Vermeer VR820 rake.  I was able to rake the field in 2 hours.  At 6 pm I started bailing.  I did not want the windrows to be covered with dew as would be the case if I left them out all night.  I was able to bale the whole field by 10 pm.  My John Deere has very good lights.  I was very happy as I had 25 good bales when I was finished.  Three rolled into the woods, but these were easier to retrieve then last time.  In the future everything gets dumped onto the flatter middle portion of my field.  The next day I wrapped all the bales with the McHale 991 BE Wrapper.  I was told I had to wrap the bales within 2 hours or they could catch on fire.  I felt no heat on any of the bales the next morning.  My rule is going to be the bales must be wrapped in 24 hours.  Other sources on the internet state a similar time frame.  I was able to wrap everything in about 3 hours.  All in all this second haylage harvest went very well. 
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