Second to last on the list in the last post was to get winter hay. That may have fallen into my lap this year. One of the neighbors has some hay that has a bit of mold in it. It is not great, but it is not horrible, either. Since I have livestock that is not milking, and have had such hay before, I am happy to take it at the discount he is offering and sort out the good stuff for the animals to eat.
The neighbor suggests the hay bales weight 1,200 pounds. They are six string bales of grass, 4x4x8. I can’t be sure, but I think he may be right, or even underestimating it. My tractor could not lift it off the top of a three-bale stack, but I was able to lift and knock it off, then lift it from the ground, so I was all set to carry. I brought it over and set a pallet next to the goat pen, then set the bale and opened it up there. It is in a place where I can lift the daily feeds without having to go over the dirt drive, which turns into a mud bog in the spring. I’d like to set this up somehow, so I don’t end up stuck in the mud like in previous years. I need an even better location, but this will do for now, and there is a lot of dry and snow and ice till mud season comes.
I got the mill-head on the saw today. It was a challenge to do it alone, but I got it. Now there is more work to do to get it rolling smoothly, but that will be fairly straightforward, though not necessarily easy. We’ll see.
The rest of today is a restful day. There is a couple of hours till I go to bed. I may go up and clean in my den, as it needs it! Or I may sit here. Thanks to the neighbor with the hay, I have already fed the animals!