Likely I'll be there right around 6am, maybe slightly earlier. I've been 7 hours getting the grass/stalks off the field. Had to re-rake it to tighten the windrows. Then Teresa went to town for another bale of twine Southern States said they had. She gets there & they don't have it
Told her not to worry, come on home. I figured my neighbor would have a bale. She went by her Dad's & got 2 small rolls of binder twine. That wasn't enough to finish either. went to my neighbor's and he had a new bale of twine & he just finished rolling for the year. Then my tractor overheated, just as my daughter had me on my phone about having her car towed to my house for me to fix....yep, you guessed it....her car was overheating, now if you put water in it, it just flows out from under the engine.
That's all I need right now, but maybe just a hose. Got my tractor cooled down, and turns out it was just low on coolant. Topped it sloooowly with water to finish baling the field. Will add antifreeze another day. Oh, baler gave problems at first too, but got that rectified. FINALLY got done rolling around 7pm tonight. Made 90 4x5 rolls! This is off just 25 to 30 acres, so imagine all that on the ground where we would be trying to plow! I just hope someone will buy the stuff cheap. It'll make decent feed, just not quality feed. At this point I'd take very little per bale. I still have 55 bales to get out of the field, but that won't be a problem. Dad may do it for me. As far as field prep, this has been a one man show & has me worn out, but after Fred & I test plowed a few minutes ago, that made me feel better, as I never had a trash buildup problem at all. Also with the loose trash gone, traction is much improved. Main thing with this hard ground is to slide the plow to the right so NOT to take a full bite. We'll be plowing!