What makes grass cutting better or worse?

Chip Sylverne said:
58 Massey-Ferguson 65 and a New Holland 68 baler.
What do you think.
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I started out driving an international Super M tractor when my legs were too short to reach the pedals. It pulled an Intpernational string tie baler. Eventually we moved up to a Massey-Ferguson 165 pulling a John Deere wire tie baler. By then I was bucking the bales for Dad. After years of riding on a trailer bouncing over rough as a cob field, it's no wonder I don't get sea, nor air, sick.

I made two cents a bale bucking hay on a trailer, and four cents when I hauled custom for the neighbors.
 
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Crashnburn said:
I made two cents a bale bucking hay on a trailer, and four cents when I hauled custom for the neighbors.
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You got paid to buck hay bales.??

When I was a teenager and asked my dad about getting paid to haul hay, he would mention that he doesn't charge me for room and board...
 
Zeldman said:
You got paid to buck hay bales.??

When I was a teenager and asked my dad about getting paid to haul hay, he would mention that he doesn't charge me for room and board...
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Bucking hay was our summer job. We got room and board for the other work we did on the ranch.

Also, with inflation, a penny was worth at least twice what it is today 50 years ago.
 
I actually really like mowing, and the right machine helps a lot! Also, with the run up in plane prices, my mower is no longer more expensive than my plane (unlike two years ago, when I bought the tractor). This is my 6 acres of runway.
 

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Crashnburn said:
Bucking hay was our summer job. We got room and board for the other work we did on the ranch.

Also, with inflation, a penny was worth at least twice what it is today 50 years ago.
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A few years ago I was offering .50 a bale to stack. No takers.

Screw 'em. So I built a grapple system and now do it all myself, from mowing to stacking in the barn. Don't have to touch a bale by hand unless it falls off a wagon.
 
Dad eventually went to big round bales. He put a fork on another tractor to grab the bales, and stack them on trailers, and a haystack. The only time he needed to touch the hay was when he cut the twine before feeding it to the cattle. One guy can move a lot of hay with that setup. I helped him get caught up one summer. He offered to pay me; I just said "You can't afford my rate."
 
psween said:
I actually really like mowing, and the right machine helps a lot! Also, with the run up in plane prices, my mower is no longer more expensive than my plane (unlike two years ago, when I bought the tractor). This is my 6 acres of runway.
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Beautiful runway!! I would love to have one myself. I fly around all the time dreaming about landing in someone's hay field. They were cut recently around here and they look awfully inviting to a little cessna like I fly!!
Yes the right equipment makes a big difference too...until you do it for 20 years. I think I am ready for a newer zero turn or just pay someone to do it for me? Nice runway!!!!
 
RudyP said:
The two smells I like most are jet exhaust smell and heated brake pads… they remind me of my happy places (airports and race tracks)
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Self quoting seems like a bit of a faux pas but I hope you’ll allow it. Today, I will get to smell both: I’m at Sonoma at the track all morning/early PM and then headed to the airport to fly the Mustang to Missouri. Sure beats going to the office!!
 
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