Chicken Coop Down
Soon to become our new garden area.
Category Archives: Crops
Hay: Baled
Note that Tyler is on the rack, same as in my video from 2008 when we were baling with the 8N and the same baler.
When the Sun Shines…
You make hay! The Hesston 6400 Windrower is my newest (1975) implement, and made the hay cutting a much faster and more pleasant job as compared to using my old New Idea sickle bar, which tended to plug up and stop working at least once every other trip around the field.
Planting Day
About ten of our fifteen acres is in crops each year, and last fall’s harvest was field corn. I had an epic plowing session with the 8N and a two-bottom plow, and then left the field “rough” over the winter to “mellow down,” which just means the freeze/thaw cycle breaks down and loosens the dirt, leaving it soft as butter in the spring…. Read more »