October countryside, lll

your hay shufflers are definitely tedders, they leave nice lines of hay for the farmers to bale. i like your pictures,can you post pictures on some one else’s live journal. i took some pictures of the mountains behind my house with the leave changing. it is very pretty.

The implement, here, is called a hay tedder – I don’t know, though, whether one teds the hay, or what one does with it. I like your “shuffling”!

My daughter is currently in the US on holiday so I’ve asked her to find me a copy of “Chalice” – hope she succeeds!

LOL Hay Shuffling, such an appropriate term :)

hay is raked into rows for ease of baling once its dry – you just run the machine along the row and it picks it all up and bales it quite easily.

And what they are doing above is turning the hay so it dries properly – wet hay can rot which ruins the bale and can potentially poison any animal that eats it, so its quite important that its dry before baling.

Nothing smells as good as good quality fresh hay – love the smell when you split a bale open for the first time, and take of a few flakes to feed out. And I know the horses love it!

My useful tip – do not transport hay in a normal domestic car (that you care about), you will NEVER get the seeds out of the upholstery, ever!