Here in the Midwest, bales of hay are not square and stacked to make (of all things!) a HAYSTACK. Rather, bales are round, and sometimes covered with a sheet of plastic, kind of like a tarp. When the "vacant" field behind our house was recently cut and baled, I caught the machinery in the process.
This is the tractor pulling the baling machine.
As the tractor heads down the field, he runs RIGHT OVER the rows of grass (part alfalfa, my dad tells me) which were cut a few days earlier and left to dry.
Here's another row of dry grass, as seen through the bean patch in our garden!
The baler rounds the corner.
Even as slow as my camera is, I was able to snap a picture as the back opened up and dropped its new bale of hay.
A couple of days later the tractor showed up again with a forklift type of attachment on the front. The worker "stabbed" the lifts into the bale and heaved it onto the trailer.
When the field was empty, the trailer was full, and the process ended--we need only watch the grass grow again, then be cut, dried, rolled and stacked as history repeats itself. One eternal round!
This is the tractor pulling the baling machine.
As the tractor heads down the field, he runs RIGHT OVER the rows of grass (part alfalfa, my dad tells me) which were cut a few days earlier and left to dry.
Here's another row of dry grass, as seen through the bean patch in our garden!
The baler rounds the corner.
Even as slow as my camera is, I was able to snap a picture as the back opened up and dropped its new bale of hay.
A couple of days later the tractor showed up again with a forklift type of attachment on the front. The worker "stabbed" the lifts into the bale and heaved it onto the trailer.
When the field was empty, the trailer was full, and the process ended--we need only watch the grass grow again, then be cut, dried, rolled and stacked as history repeats itself. One eternal round!
2 comments:
They do it that way here too, the field across from me has hundreds...I call them the monarchs of the field! Fall is here..is it there? Take care :D
That's so interesting! Good job on catching the process in action too - being the visual learner I am it gives me a much better understanding how they process things. Very cool! That will make some cows / horses / barnfolk tummies very happy!
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