Yet another shot of silage being baled - this time during the night. Unlike hay, which has to be bone dry, silage is baled as half-dried grass, so work can continue late into the night if needed.
Long exposure on this one. Very effective and informative. All I ever see of these bales is from driving along highways and admiring the patterns of them in paddocks. Well set up sand captured
I love that you share the life of the farmer. No one knows the time and effort they put in their profession and this isn't even considering the price of their farm equipment. Thank you for posting!
Fantastic image of farmers night work......suc an advantage being able to work late but I remember clearly working until one o'clock in the morning on a summers evening getting the hay into the barn. Loading it onto trailers carting down farm tracks to the barn & stacking it high....you will have done the same Dianne! All done with tractor lights showing us the way.
@happypat Yes - we have many memories of making hay into small conventional sized bales. Interestingly, coming from a family of five girls, and no boys, we helped a little in the hay paddock, but were more often than not roped in to help mum with the catering for the gang of farmers who all worked together on each others' properties. The catering involved much home baking - apple pies, sausage rolls, sandwiches (club sandwiches that is!) Nowdays it is very different - contractors seem to do most of the harvest work, and seldom do the farmers feed them! Our son, Josh, has my dad's old square baler which he uses for the small lifestyle blocks. Harry would be proud of the way he stripped it down and did it all up!
Ian