Haying Season

We moved the last of the hay into barns just before a record breaking heat wave was due to hit. 

Johnny mowing

 

Johnny raking

 

baling, front view

 

baling

 

Tradition requires Johnny to jump the last bale to prove he can still do that. If he can, he gets to hay again next year. He made it! 

 

 Although Johnny does 99% of the haying work, I do walk around the fields picking up bales and loading them onto the hay wagon while he drives his van and stops periodically to climb up on the wagon and stack bales. Then I load the bales onto a hay elevator that takes them up into the barn loft where Johnny stacks them. The hay from around barn and in orchard went into the llama shed area, which is where the hay in the above photo was going. 

Both tractors were hitched to mowing equipment, one to rake and one to baler, so the trusty old Roustmobile was called in to action. Its engine is only good for short road trips but it made it through hay hauling. Never count old guys (or gals) out.