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Looks a treat with the sprayers Mike, Job well done. 

Excellent purchase mate, keep us updated, hopefully some pictures when she comes if you have the chance. 

Many thanks Marcus! 

After everything was picked up, the farm truck was loaded with an astonishing 15 bales, not a great number but much more than what the farm had expected. These bales will be placed in the loft and used most likely during the farm's annual End-Of-The-Year Party. After everything was completed, the machines were parked back under the tree grove, and everyone left for the day:

Hate to say it, but that's all for this week folks! Tune in next week for some fall crop harvesting!

After the mowing was done, Marky came out on the Massey Ferguson and baled the hay. The cut hay had a good moisture rating, so the baling did not take long at all:

After the hay was baled, Gavin picked up the bales with the loader, and placed them onto the flatbed farm truck:

The Farm Owner had Denis sit in the passenger seat of the Self Propelled Mower, and taught him how to use the machine. He later let Denis cut a row of hay, he seemed to handle the machine well being his first time:

As the farm is now starting to finish up in the fields, we can now see that fall is fully under swing. This week, the farm focused on cutting and bailing it's last hayfield that had enough height to be cut. Considering the immense rain followed by a two week drought, we were quite surprised at the number of bales produced from this field. Overall, it turned out to be a decent last cut.

Early in the Morning, Marky and Dennis K, a newly hired Farm Employee took the older gator out of the barn and proceeded down to the hay field on the back road woods path:

The Farm Owner had brought down all of the haying machinery and parked it under a grove of trees the night before:

...And Finally, last but not least an Allis Chalmers D17 with John Deere rotary brush mower attached...

I have larger full size versions of all of these images, I will gladly post them up if requested.

Kubota Utility parked up by some haying machinery

John Deere B, nicely Restored

Nice Older Farmall Cub in front of a driveway

Case Tricycle Wheel

A few older John Deere 4500 Series

Nice Case with a wagon for the farm stand in which the majority of the tractor photos were taken

John Deere GP

Model- Less John Deere (Looks like an A possibly?)

Another Allis Chalmers, also without a model (Help identifying please!)

Old Super M with cultivators, one of my favourite older workhorse tractors

Older (late 80's- early 90's) John Deere small utility tractor with mowing deck and home made canopy

Farmall H with cultivators Tricycle wheel

Two Shots of a particularly nice Farmall A

Allis Chalmers at a different angle

Nice old Restored International B6xx

Nice Old Case

Allis Chalmers (C Possibly? The Experts will know!)

Some from down south. 

John Deere R Diesel

John Deere A Spike Wheels

Few ones from this spring vacation up in Vermont. 

Hey congrats Rob, what's his first model tractor going to be? 

Ahh yes very entertaining...top job Cerin  :D

Nice kit you are running there Peter, great shots! 

Nice old beast, good to see them still running in harvest! 

Nice shots mate, the photo of the combine driving off into the twilight with it's lights on is my favourite. 

As we have said always, nothing goes to waste on the farm. The many rain storms that the farm has received has left some of the farm roads with large ditches formed by the rainwater draining into surrounding dips by the road. All of the sediment that was dug up from the bottom of the pond was thereafter brought up to the roads that needed mending, and spread with the bulldozer crawler by Dave:

The road from the barnyard to the field was the first road to be fixed, as it was unsafe to drive on in some spots. Before:

After:

Hate to say it, but that's all for this week folks! The next journal will focus on the final cut of hay.