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Stewartcreeksomethings

Hello, we would love to have you explore our journey on maintaining and improving a century old family farm while working full time. We keep it real both the heartaches, costs and joys of maintaining a small family farm

Baling done, now real work begins

Well, I did it, I managed to get all the hay baled. It was not a smooth process. I wish it would just happen but it just doesn’t seem like that is possible. I am sure that the key to being a farmer is to expect that stuff will break when you want to use…

Making Hay bales!

I have turned the hay twice during the week after work. It took about 4 hours the first time to get it into rows and then it took a little over 2 hours to turn those rows. The first pass took a lot longer as I had to move all the poison oak to the…

Who needs a new tractor?

Well I want a new tractor but what I really need it for is to lift big bales full height. So it needs to bigger than the two I currently own. I went to the dealer and for that lift capability I need to get something with over 50 HP. Which is going to run…

Officially haying

Well hay season has officially started. I took the arena groomer off of the Kubota and had the Gingerman help me get the sickle bar attached. It is a five minute job with two people, alone it takes me 20-30 minutes using a pry bar to get it in place. I was able to use…

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