The Hay Pusher

Today, I saw a video on Facebook of a young woman gathering hay. 

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(The Hay Pusher at https://youtu.be/fIVAlV8YVF0) 

No, it's not me in the video, silly, but the viewing was timely, as we've just watched our farmer next door do precisely that job using an amazing machine. I actually said to Kevin, 'I wonder how they did this job before machines...'. And I've now been presented with the answer.

These were our two lower fields on Monday, after the very long grass was chopped off low down, then lain out in one direction. There was a special attachment on the back of the tractor that did this quickly and efficiently. The farmer returned the next day to whip it up and over to expose the underside of the lines in order to dry it out.



On Wednesday morning, the hay was pushed into heaped lines using another tractor attachment. And yesterday evening, a very neat little attachment did the gathering and bailing. Ours were not the only fields that were worked this week; our farmer has many hectares of land. I find it staggering how efficiently this major job can be done in the modern age of farming.



Changing a roll of netting

Kevin goes to help

Kevin returns an hour later with a beer. (?)

The machine deposits the bail



We will soon be able to use our lower fields again! Thanks, Farmer Joel!

 By the way, it's getting hot here... 32 in the shade yesterday! Same again today. It's slowing us down with our work!

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