Saturday, June 6, 2009

First cut: beating the rain

 
The near tractor is pulling a "chopper" that picks up and chops the hay, blowing it into a wagon. The far tractor is using spiky disks to fold and rake one row of hay into another, "doubling up," so that the chopper makes fewer passes and the field can be finished in the shortest time possible. We have to hurry; we are doing another farmer's alfalfa fields, too.

ps: We didn't beat the rain.