That straight pipe just sounds straight up mean. Hay looked good and that convoy following you to the field was probably the best parade that town ever has. Such an awesome farm Andy. Thanks for taking the extra time to share.
84 loads of haylage today brought in by myself and the other employees of Welcome Stock Farm in Schuylerville New York, come home from the farm and watch you farm. Thank you for sharing your experience Mr. Hourigan
I like your tedders, they make the original windrows disappear. I see many other brands spread out the hay some but I can still see the windrows. Nice to watch you chop hay. Thx for the video!!
Thanks for the video Andy even as busy as you are with everything you still make a video, Thank you I truly enjoy watching them, I miss farming so much. Besafe, God Bless you and your family.
thanks andy,thanks for all the camera work,like the slow motion work with the tedder,nice gettin truck unloaded,never liked leaving feed on even a chopper wagon over night, you looked a little more rested in the sunday,fathers day video,maybe THANKS AGAIN
Keep up the good work Andy. You have a good crew and they have one fine Boss. I know its alot of stress and worry. Andy again thanks and take care. Thomas Vojta Long Island
Awesome operation ya got going there Andy!!!!! But jeez those wires and power lines and even the bloody traffic lights are low down!!! Loving the roar from the 8320 though!!!!!!! Stay safe!
Cat diggers, JD Tractors and KW Trucks it dont get better than that for me 👍 Be nice to see some kit like yours over here but we mostly dont have the room to manoeuvre. Keep em coming good entertainment.
The merger is a foreign tool to me made a lot of dry hay with conventional type rakes but that looks like real hay stacker for that big chopper! Are they pretty high maintenance ? That new trailer unloaded that settled in hay really easy it looked like!! Thanks for the video!!
Saw you on Webb, waved but you were busy. No rush, but I would like to talk at some point this summer. Just about where the new drain tile went (we told your Dad) but I would also like to point out some other things we found/did on our land that you lease. Also, they are digging up Webb in a few days as well where it meets Naughton. Glad you are getting your hay in now before they replace that culvert.
@@FarmingFixingFabricating nope, they just made initial cuts. They said it will be Monday or Tuesday of next week that they dig it up and replace it. You should be done by then anyway at the rate you all move! Although this rain tomorrow won't help.
Just founds your channel and you have my sub sir. Great info, new material, and you keep up the pace. Awesome channel!!! I bet those duals help in this wet ground.
Love your videoes I stille think the american farmers are the best and coolest in the world I would wish I could come over and work with you Friendly regards from René in Denmark :)
Why do you mix Fescue, Timothy, in with the straight alfalfa, is it to give your silage more roughage? I am guessing you are running about 70 feet of hay into 1 windrow? Thank you for today's video.
That was an old mix we use to put together. The last couple of years I've been putting in straight alfalfa. The Timothy/fesque trick was to give the wetter ground something to fill in with
Hey Andy hope you are doing well and staying warm I just watched a video on the compressor and chopping hay silage on a particular field I don't listen to you speak I just watch the video and what type of grass was that and do you tetter your alfalfa grass and how far do you let your alfalfa bloom and do you own any land in Cortland we had some friends who dairied there thanks again B.Frye
It looks like you can move pretty good with the merger. We've never had a merger but now that we have that fp240 I've been thinking about getting a merger
We like our merger. I know rakes are getting popular again. A rotary rake can do a good job with a operator who can set them right. We have used a wheel rake when the merger is down but it’s not ideal on our ground
How big is your Family? Is your Dairy operation so big that all you do is the farming and a different part of Family deals with all the Cows. Can you give us a whole Farm/Operation tour. Can you invite us to a Family Gathering. Along with your Family you must have a huge employee pool. I see your kids doing a lot of Farming with you. Do they have 20-30 cousins working other parts of Farm. Do you live and work on the farm. Is it spread over 5 counties.
@@FarmingFixingFabricating I would like to see a overall operational tour. Also any Family gathering. Do y'all split the income evenly. How many other employees and what all you do for them. Feed them? How do you decide all the expenses. What EQ to buy. If your Father does now what you have planned for the future. Is it a company you each have stock options in. I see you driving the Tractor and 5-10 trucks loading up silage. Who drives them. Do you sell any of the crops? What other side business are involved. Family outings and vacations?
@@ianthomas3938 Don't mean to be nosey but some fond memories of my youth are My Grandparents were tenant farmers in Pigeon Forge East Tenn. in the 1960,s I can remember going to visit them from the city up from Florida every year. My Grandmother would get up at 4am everyday and make Breakfast for her 10 kids and a Husband She would than spend the next 14 hours Cooking,Canning(200 Mason Jars),Cleaning,Gardening(She had a personal 2acre Family Food Garden),Filling two freezers, She Made Butter,Tended Chickens and Pigs, Had a Milk Cow. and than made Lunch and Dinner Went to Bed at 8pm 365 days a year. A great Cook we always had Green Beans,Pork Chops,Fried Chicken,Pinto Beans and Corn Bread,Fresh Biscuits,Fresh Corn cooked every-way,Fried Okra,Fried Potatoes plus Mashed and Homemade Potato Salad, Cole Slaw and so much more. Every Sunday was a Minnie Reunion and went to several family reunions that had 60 to a 100 people. All the Kids had plenty of Chores but she Planted,Tended,Harvested,Cooked and Canned a very large Personal Garden while her Husband and Kids went out in the 100,s of acres of the main fields and worked them so she would have a house to live in.
I am surprised while watching this video that you are more or less begging your viewers for approval. There is absolutely no need for that. When your videos are honored, the thumbs will automatically go up because viewers like them. It's OK, if there is sometimes a bad one in between. That's not bad at all! Don't lose any sleep about it. Try to be satisfied with the responses you receive. As far as I can see, the Lord has blessed you richly in this life. During the short time here on earth we may be stewards over what we have been given. Everything is temporary here on earth while eternity is waiting forever!
Over powered? Naw, just more like on the safe side. At least you're able to get in the field and started. Sucks about the compressor but, best to fix it and get it done. After market items aren't too bad but, I've learned certain things, stick with the OEM parts. Great video as always. Cheers :) P.S. Have you considered adding a camera mounted on the cross bar on the trailer to help see when it's fully empty? Or other possible issues?
Fat cat air compressor job is not so terrible I've done a bunch of Cummins and they're just so awful because of the injection pump being on the back of a air compressor you can't pull the compressor with the fuel pump still attached to the end of it you got to have a wrench bent a certain way with a little notch cut in it because of one of the webs in the Cummins engine block hampers movement of the wrench
@@FarmingFixingFabricating I've never been so lucky I've only done Cummins Bossman always said the cats were too expensive for him every Truck he ever had with a cat he either sold when it came near rebuild time or he replaced it with an 855 or the n 14 which were basically the same thing they change the accessory Drive for the n14 and the cam is missing a lobe when the injectors went electronic
I appreciate all your videos, time and effort!
That straight pipe just sounds straight up mean. Hay looked good and that convoy following you to the field was probably the best parade that town ever has. Such an awesome farm Andy. Thanks for taking the extra time to share.
Thanks for the comment Brian
84 loads of haylage today brought in by myself and the other employees of Welcome Stock Farm in Schuylerville New York, come home from the farm and watch you farm. Thank you for sharing your experience Mr. Hourigan
I miss farming. Thanks for including us in your day.
I like your tedders, they make the original windrows disappear. I see many other brands spread out the hay some but I can still see the windrows. Nice to watch you chop hay. Thx for the video!!
Thanks for the comment
Love it. You in the chopper and your posse behind behind. That’s a good amount of trucks. Getting it done.
Thanks for the video Andy even as busy as you are with everything you still make a video, Thank you I truly enjoy watching them, I miss farming so much. Besafe, God Bless you and your family.
Thanks again for watching William
thanks andy,thanks for all the camera work,like the slow motion work with the tedder,nice gettin truck unloaded,never liked leaving feed on even a chopper wagon over night, you looked a little more rested in the sunday,fathers day video,maybe THANKS AGAIN
It happens
Keep up the good work Andy. You have a good crew and they have one fine Boss. I know its alot of stress and worry. Andy again thanks and take care. Thomas Vojta Long Island
Awesome operation ya got going there Andy!!!!!
But jeez those wires and power lines and even the bloody traffic lights are low down!!! Loving the roar from the 8320 though!!!!!!! Stay safe!
Quite an impressive operation you have. Congratulations, and May you have a Safe, Healthy and Prosperous Year
Thank you sir
Lol I'm glad that you called out that you were a little overpowered on the tedder. I still remember tedding with our H growing up.
You have some hardworking men out there. God bless you, and your family, and all the hard working men, and their families .
enjoyed the video andy thanks great job all
Cat diggers, JD Tractors and KW Trucks it dont get better than that for me 👍 Be nice to see some kit like yours over here but we mostly dont have the room to manoeuvre. Keep em coming good entertainment.
Great work Andy
I have never seen a merger. Thanks for sharing
Another busy day I see. Great video thanks for sharing
Nice video Andy.
Nice to see the Boss getting stuck inn.
Johnny boy does a badass job welding. I'm sure he would love to more fabrication work
i think you have 5 children. 3 girls and 2 boys that i have seen in your videos. Wonderful blessed life you have going.
Thanks
That tractor with the straight pipe is a beast
Thumbs up good video andy
Love the sound of a straight pipe.
Dang, some of those power & cable lines along your route don't clear your equipment by much! Great Video!
Thanks for sharing and if you would do a video on the milk barn and how it’s done. Thanks again!!
Someday
The merger is a foreign tool to me made a lot of dry hay with conventional type rakes but that looks like real hay stacker for that big chopper! Are they pretty high maintenance ? That new trailer unloaded that settled in hay really easy it looked like!! Thanks for the video!!
“CAT” 👍👍👍 the new trailer really unloads fast impressive !
Thanks Andy for the video 🚜👍
Nice video! Great 8020 with straight pipe!
Great Video. Love from the 🇬🇧
opening scene ... "And the caravan has arrived" LOL
Excellent video that 1👍enjoyed it💪full on days! You looked like you needed to look at your eyelids at the end of it!! Lol
the straight pipe sounds amazing, from a viewer point lol. Operating that unit its probably hell on the ears.
It can be, and it's what you usually hear in your sleep after running it
That was a nice mess of trucks following the chopper...👍👍
Saw you on Webb, waved but you were busy. No rush, but I would like to talk at some point this summer. Just about where the new drain tile went (we told your Dad) but I would also like to point out some other things we found/did on our land that you lease. Also, they are digging up Webb in a few days as well where it meets Naughton. Glad you are getting your hay in now before they replace that culvert.
I think they replaced that culvert today. I chopped a couple loads tonight up on Mcvoyes and I seen where the road was cut by your place
@@FarmingFixingFabricating nope, they just made initial cuts. They said it will be Monday or Tuesday of next week that they dig it up and replace it. You should be done by then anyway at the rate you all move! Although this rain tomorrow won't help.
Just founds your channel and you have my sub sir. Great info, new material, and you keep up the pace. Awesome channel!!! I bet those duals help in this wet ground.
That's awesome glad that you found us
Slow motion from a You tuber!!! Don't think I've seen that before. Nice!
I'm glad you have liked it
Very Good Video Greets Marko
Boy that trailer has a "fast" walking floor in it.
RAIN is being a real pain this year down here too getting hay off.
Do you run the Tedder tractors on 1000 pto and low revs to save on fuel?
540
Why not on 1000 pto rpm and the engine at about 1100 rpm? You saved a lot of fuel with this very overpowered tractors
It isn't enough engine room too drive the tractors around the field with in hills and what not
Love your videoes I stille think the american farmers are the best and coolest in the world I would wish I could come over and work with you Friendly regards from René in Denmark :)
What is the difference between raking and merging? I have never herd that term .
Take flips bottom sides up and mergers just merge together
Good video, do you put any manure on your hay after cutting?
No we don't
Nice looking hay
Why do you mix Fescue, Timothy, in with the straight alfalfa, is it to give your silage more roughage? I am guessing you are running about 70 feet of hay into 1 windrow? Thank you for today's video.
That was an old mix we use to put together. The last couple of years I've been putting in straight alfalfa. The Timothy/fesque trick was to give the wetter ground something to fill in with
Hello. Love to Follow your channel.
You need to change wheelbearing in your truck, i can hear It all the way to Norway 😃😃
It's the tires
Hey Andy hope you are doing well and staying warm I just watched a video on the compressor and chopping hay silage on a particular field I don't listen to you speak I just watch the video and what type of grass was that and do you tetter your alfalfa grass and how far do you let your alfalfa bloom and do you own any land in Cortland we had some friends who dairied there thanks again B.Frye
We don’t own any land in cortland
Do thumbs up and comments help on old video's?
New to me 👍
Yes
Man those mergers are cool never see anything like that here
Is that right, anybody chop hay in your area?
@@FarmingFixingFabricating only one farm about 45 minutes away that does some corn silage haha
It looks like you can move pretty good with the merger. We've never had a merger but now that we have that fp240 I've been thinking about getting a merger
I bet you can pickup a single row merger for cheap.
I knew a guy who had 3 of these fingerlakes.craigslist.org/grd/d/west-leyden-new-holland-166-merger/6899012694.html
A rake works just as good. Damn merger picks up just as many stones as a rake.
We like our merger. I know rakes are getting popular again. A rotary rake can do a good job with a operator who can set them right. We have used a wheel rake when the merger is down but it’s not ideal on our ground
@@JCLawn51 he must have liked them if he had 3 of them
How does the Timothy and fescue feed as silage. We do that mix with about 20% alfalfa but dry bale it. Does it feed as good as the straight alfalfa?
Kinda, it ain't bad
How big is your Family? Is your Dairy operation so big that all you do is the farming and a different part of Family deals with all the Cows. Can you give us a whole Farm/Operation tour. Can you invite us to a Family Gathering. Along with your Family you must have a huge employee pool. I see your kids doing a lot of Farming with you. Do they have 20-30 cousins working other parts of Farm. Do you live and work on the farm. Is it spread over 5 counties.
I do the field, feed and fixing side of things. I have 2 brothers along with my father and several nieces and nephews.
@@FarmingFixingFabricating I would like to see a overall operational tour. Also any Family gathering. Do y'all split the income evenly. How many other employees and what all you do for them. Feed them? How do you decide all the expenses. What EQ to buy. If your Father does now what you have planned for the future. Is it a company you each have stock options in. I see you driving the Tractor and 5-10 trucks loading up silage. Who drives them. Do you sell any of the crops? What other side business are involved. Family outings and vacations?
@@kwayne9846 I wouldn't say you're very nosey but friendly maybe Andy can tell you what they eat for breakfast and everybody's shoe
Shoe size!!
@@ianthomas3938 Don't mean to be nosey but some fond memories of my youth are
My Grandparents were tenant farmers in Pigeon Forge East Tenn. in the 1960,s I can remember going to visit them from the city up from Florida every year. My Grandmother would get up at 4am everyday and make Breakfast for her 10 kids and a Husband She would than spend the next 14 hours Cooking,Canning(200 Mason Jars),Cleaning,Gardening(She had a personal 2acre Family Food Garden),Filling two freezers, She Made Butter,Tended Chickens and Pigs, Had a Milk Cow. and than made Lunch and Dinner Went to Bed at 8pm 365 days a year. A great Cook we always had Green Beans,Pork Chops,Fried Chicken,Pinto Beans and Corn Bread,Fresh Biscuits,Fresh Corn cooked every-way,Fried Okra,Fried Potatoes plus Mashed and Homemade Potato Salad, Cole Slaw and so much more. Every Sunday was a Minnie Reunion and went to several family reunions that had 60 to a 100 people.
All the Kids had plenty of Chores but she Planted,Tended,Harvested,Cooked and Canned a very large Personal Garden
while her Husband and Kids went out in the 100,s of acres of the main fields and worked them so she would have a house to live in.
What are u running for grippers on the heavy Chevy
I'll get back to you, I forget
Sweet operation boss man. You can get some shit done quick with that set up.
Thanks for the comment Nate
how many cuttings do you get a year.
4
never tedded before can you tell were you have done
Yes
great videos ! anychance getting a video on your milking herd getting milked?
Chopping is the most WONDERFUL time of the yyeeaarr
What PTO pump do u run that will take that engine rpm?
I have a Muncie on that truck
Great video!
Blue collar farm, Wisconsin
Are you located in the Syracuse, NY area? That Cat Dealer looked like the one in Syracuse as I've visited them many times.
Yes Syracuse
I am surprised while watching this video that you are more or less begging your viewers for approval. There is absolutely no need for that. When your videos are honored, the thumbs will automatically go up because viewers like them. It's OK, if there is sometimes a bad one in between. That's not bad at all! Don't lose any sleep about it. Try to be satisfied with the responses you receive. As far as I can see, the Lord has blessed you richly in this life. During the short time here on earth we may be stewards over what we have been given. Everything is temporary here on earth while eternity is waiting forever!
Thanks for the awesome comment
I don't see it as begging but simply reminding people that it helps out a lot.
Thumbs up every time 👍👍👍👍
Thank you
Did you say Milton cat? Where are you located?
Yes Milton, Central new York
Bel video!!!!! Saluti dall’Italia 🇮🇹ciaooooo💪💪💪
Over powered? Naw, just more like on the safe side. At least you're able to get in the field and started.
Sucks about the compressor but, best to fix it and get it done. After market items aren't too bad but, I've learned certain things, stick with the OEM parts. Great video as always. Cheers :)
P.S. Have you considered adding a camera mounted on the cross bar on the trailer to help see when it's fully empty? Or other possible issues?
How many cows do you milk?
1550
Farming,.. what the hell I got myself into..making tire chains for a 46. Omgosh !!!! an Geeeeezzzzz. !!!!!;
Iscritto ora 👍👍👍💪💪💪
Was this morning in there from Kroger's if you want something from 99.9 if anybody wants some the ninety-nine 9% don't forget guys
Ik there is a milton CAT in Batavia where is this one
Syracuse
I've changed alot of those compressors
I had an ugly thought when you were showing all that yellow. It takes yellow and blue to make green!
Yes you are right, it takes 2 to make. I think what you are saying is 2 of them together are almost as good as green?
That would be a good way of putting it!!!@@FarmingFixingFabricating
Fat cat air compressor job is not so terrible I've done a bunch of Cummins and they're just so awful because of the injection pump being on the back of a air compressor you can't pull the compressor with the fuel pump still attached to the end of it you got to have a wrench bent a certain way with a little notch cut in it because of one of the webs in the Cummins engine block hampers movement of the wrench
You are so right, the cat compressor swap is rather easy.
@@FarmingFixingFabricating I've never been so lucky I've only done Cummins Bossman always said the cats were too expensive for him every Truck he ever had with a cat he either sold when it came near rebuild time or he replaced it with an 855 or the n 14 which were basically the same thing they change the accessory Drive for the n14 and the cam is missing a lobe when the injectors went electronic
Less talky talky and more worky worky that’s what we want to see
Thanks for the comment, I'll take that into consideration.
I reckon Andy does an exceptional job at both & has great video & editing skills as well !
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Sorry you didn't show what you was doing
What did you want to see me doing?
Haven’t seen James in awhile, did he move on? Video was a good one as always.
Yes James has found greener pastures
Liked the video when you asked..
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