On Apr 6, 2008, at 3:57 PM, Janice McDonald wrote: > . I had to toss > a half roll yesterday from all the rain. But I dont have anywhere to > keep square bales either and they get wet all the way through easier > etc.
After 20 years with no covered hay storage and buying only 20-25 bales a month, we've worked out a good routine and I rarely lose a bale. We've got pallets ( set 2x5) on the side of the driveway on gravel near where I park the trailer. The pallet bed is covered with plywood (to keep out the mice, ground squirrels and soil wetness) and the bales are stacked there. When rain is expected we cover the hay with a big, sturdy tarp (Harbor Freight has good inexpensive ones) and lash it to hooks my hubby drilled into the pallets. When one of our big, multiday winter storms is expected we remove a few bales of hay for feeding and store them in the horse trailer so we don't have to undo the tarp and expose the hay in the blowing rain. After the rain passes we take off the tarp. > Lynn Kinsky, Santa Ynez, CA http://www.silcom.com/~lkinsky/ http://www.dslextreme.com/~napha/HighPoint/
