Fantastic shots!!!

wonderful photo!!

... whilst the sun shines? Umm, there is a bit of a green museaum piece...! Cheers, Clive

superb collage and captures.well, I learned something

Dang, you keep stealing my lines, I was SO gonna say, "while the sun shines"!!! lol Bucking hay was my son's first real job,he'd come home covered in it, but wow did he make some good $$$--then they went to those plastic wrapped (I still wonder where all THAT goes after they use the hay!!). gigantic marshmallows!!

great capture

I remember when we had proper haystacks! Interestng pics.

Fantastic collage,

You've got me looking up various methods for baling hay, and I've learned far more than I ever needed to know about round hay bales! (Even an article on how to build a hay baler, including cutting the sheet metal, bar stock, welding ... you get the idea.) Just as a point of interest, it seems that the acoutrements of hay rakes and balers do NOT include a Pitot tube.

I am surprised to see both round bales and square in your photo. Most farms here do one or the other out of necessity. The smaller bales are common and can be seen on conveyors riding to many barn loft, though if the field will not dry, the round bales are made and often plastic wrapped in the field until needed. The sun was out yesterday for the first time in weeks- many fields sadly will lay down gone to seed if we do not get more sun soon. Excellent photo!

The scariest of the hay-making machines IMO, are the three-pronged round bale movers. Especially if a rancher drives a front-end loader with that fierce attachment at you.

Excellent shot Bill, great POV you chose

Super cool shots Bill!

is that an old John Deere? Great shots here bill .. Looks like what you'd see around here :) I sent that tractor pic to hubby .. he is a John Deere and Cockshutt fanatic!

Caught it right. The farmers round these parts are doing the same. From he lake to town there must be over a hundred bales lined up ready to be hauled off. They will be gone by the dinner bell tonight. Good shooting. Skipper

Beautiful, I love summer :)

Great shots. We are harvesting wheat right now.

wonderful collage of the hay-making, this kind of landscape fascinates me every time!

Hay thats pretty.. nice work my friend :)

Mmmmm I can smell the sweet hay from here.

Nice shot and collage. After spending a few summers helping do this job its something I do not miss lol.

Its been a long time since I watched a baling machine at work. I've been in the city too long. What a marvelous feel to these shots.

AAACCChhhhhoooo! lol

Other than superlative POV, clarity and colors, not much more I can add to this one except for the above comments, Bill!

wonderful shot! i'm posting from a parking lot using a free non protected connection. We'll stay in touch unil the internet goes, then who knows, maybe pigeons .........

Great captures and collage!!!

Great shots, Bill, and yes they have to work quickly, like here during wheat harvest, as the week of harvest always seems to have rain!

Lovely captures of the different methods of haymaking.

i can almost smell it...

Square bales! You have to hunt real hard to find those in the UK now! A beautiful pastoral scene. Beautifully taken as well! Nice Bill! Nice. Rob.