Baling Hay l 1st Crop 2022 l Dairy Farming in Wisconsin
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- Today we are baling hay! It is a grassy hay that will be used to feed our dry cows and heifers! We are using both of the balers today. The International 686 is pulling the NewHolland 273 little square baler. The 7810 is pulling the NewHolland 575 little square baler. We hope you enjoy the video, thank you for watching!
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These men are as strong as their tractors!! Cream of the country.
I was so fortunate to grow up doing the same things We did all square Bales It was over 40 years ago Best upbringing anybody could ever have
It sure teaches you what hard work is.
@@GierokFarms I really loved it
I gave the greatest respect for you young men and your dedication to your families farm...
God has truly blessed you. I only wish this life was available to more youngins... Teaching them respect, discipline, pride in themselves and family. Much like the military I grew up with...
I'm 71 now and volunteered to join the Army in 1968 before finishing H. S.. I volunteered for Jump school and got my Paratrooper wings then volunteered to go to Vietnam.
I got out after 3 years and retired from Lee County Florida as a front line supervisor. I got my Master Captains license and was sworn under oath again but this time under authority of the U.S.C.G., Merchant Marines.
My youngest of 2 son's has 22 years in the Coast Guard and going for 30... I wish there was was for family owned farms could receive volunteer students ( city kids) to teach, train and work for room rent and food and small wages and days off. Getting a apprentiship certificate in FARMING.. After school for 4 years or so... (NO WORK NO EAT, NO PLAY, 3 STRIKES AND YOUR OUT) thus Changing THEIR LIVES FOREVER. SORRY THIS WAS SO LONG.. I ENJOY WATCHING YOU ALL AND YOUR CHANNEL. I'M 71 AND I WATCH AND WISH I WAS 17 AGAIN... THANKS.. GREAT VIDEOS GUYS
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Thank you for your service.
The way the baler just yeets those bales is hilarious to me.
Wow that’s hard work. Thank goodness you don’t have to pick every bale up off the ground. The shot of the tractor and baler of the rolling hills and trees!! What a beautiful site. God Bless.
It can b done by hand. Years ago we picked them up all by hand.
This is how I farmed 50 years ago. Very fond memories. No electronics or computers. It's amazing how farming equipment has changed. Thanks for sharing.
Yeah the equipment that was built to last and when it needed fixing, it was much easier to do so. Not only is the new equipment less durable, getting it repaired is not only expensive but complicated.
Thank you for commenting and watching Robert!
Construction equipment has changed the same way.
I don't like it either!
Wow this brings me back memories, I loved doing this job when I was a teenager, I only did it for one summer but it's some of my best memories, I had met my best friend who was also a hired helper
Best farm channel on TH-cam
Memories from 40 years ago HOTTEST DAYS OF THE YEAR !!!! UP IN THE TOP OF THE BARN 😮
This is why you don't pick a fight with a farmer. They get a real workout especially when doing things old school like small square bales, hay wagons, elevators, and haymows. Lots of work. I got a small taste of it years ago with visiting my relatives during several haying seasons. That haymow can be really dusty to breath in also (you're sweating and dust sticks to you bad). My relatives got out of small dairy and switched to beef cows. Appreciate your farmers.
I was about 11 when I was tasked with hauling and bringing empty hay wagons back to my Dad who was running the square baler. I felt several inches taller being considered responsible enough to run our 'M' alone for the first time. Hardly anyone square bales anymore. In July when the winter wheat was harvested Dad would set the baler to run straw bales a few inches longer and taught me the art of stacking them on the wagon as a rode along behind the baler. (Bale kicker shut off of course on our old JD D50. Grandpa bought it over the IH just because it had a bale kicker.)
Thanks for letting us ride along. Sure takes me back... and man, that's nice looking hay.
Driving those old tricycle tractors just have a different feel to them, that today's tractors don't have. I Miss the old ways.......
I really enjoy watching those bale throwers for some reason
Liked your dad's comment, it's a sun tan machine! Lol,lol
I’ve never seen a baler hurl a bale of straw like that the other videos I’ve seen on other channels that basically just pushes it up a metal chute and it stacks it in rows, hilarious 😆
Beautiful place you have , that machinery's working well and you hauled off a great harvest . Used similar equipment as a youth which was a treat after starting on the old reaper binder and stooking the sheaves , then pitching them to a hay cart and stacking it until threshing or baling . Another really great video 👍🇬🇧
In Berks Co Pa a JD 2520 wide front end, a NH 275 baler with 65 thrower, 2 wood bale wagons. 32 years ago. Just me, raised beef had a farm store. Made a good living.Beef, Pork, Chicken, Eggs, Turkeys With 35 acres, 1/2 in rotation with alfalfa, contour strips , 50' wide extreme side hill much of it. When in your 20's early 30's just get it done. Eco farmed no herbicide. Cultivating was a skill. Good times :)
That "mowing" job that kid was doing up in the barn was hot and miserable. My dad had a big enough hay loft where it wasn't necessary but it made the bales hard to pull loose in the winter time. My dad's philosophy is that you have more time to tug and pull on bales that time of the year. When the twine broke you landed on your ass though.
When I left for study at University of Wisconsin, I hired out on a Dane County dairy farm. They had twice as many cows, a new confinement set up with a parlor, but the only hay storage was in an old smaller stanchion barn so we really packed the bales into the peak of the roof to get them all in. Hired men (Lloyd and me) got the unpleasant job of mowing. I pulled the bales off the end of the elevator and threw them as far as I could towards Lloyd who stacked them in place. We were wringing wet with sweat by the end of the load but the farmer (a good Bavarian Catholic) rewarded us with a beer after every load so we could climb up in the mow for the next load and sweat it all out again. Unloading the wagons were the farmer's 2 sons, Albert & Eugene. They took sadistic pleasure in loading the elevator faster than what Lloyd and me could handle up in the 110 degree mow. We'd all just finished our beer and there was only 1 load left for the season. Lloyd and I started our climb up the elevator into the mow. "Whoa!!! Hold on there." the farmer said, "This time it's Albert & Eugene's turn to go up in the mow." Lloyd and me got our revenge and the farmer helped us, 3 against 2. We loaded the elevator so heavy that there was zero space between the bales as they rode up the elevator. "Do you think they got the bales fast enough?" said the farmer smiling as his 2 red faced sons crawled out of the mow.
Those hills are no joke. Riding along really shows how steep they are
Thanks Chad
I always liked stacking because you had to be several steps ahead to keep up , good mind workout too!
That sure was a pretty day!
Interesting, I’m glad God made some of us farmers, thank you for your service. Work through.
Every time I hear an M I think of my Dad, he baled thousands and thousands of bales with an M Farmall and a McCormick 46 baler. Watching y'all unload in the barn sure makes me glad we are all round bales these days. That was always the worst part of small square bales. Great video, brought back some memories for sure. Thanks
That bale handling at the barn will wear a pair of jeans out quick.
Enjoy your videos... I myself grew up on a small dairy farm in Vernon Center NY and still in operation today.. Dad and my brother milk 60 holstines and raise 40 young stock. Not to many small family farms around anymore..
I did this so many times back in the late 50s and early 60s. Except we had to pick them up out of the field and stack them on a truck then pull them up on a pully into the barn. But the pay was good. We got .02 a bale to pick them up and another .01 a bale to put them in the barn. Hot, hard work then, as it still is now. Love your videos.
Running the baler was one of my favorite things to run on the farm. Everyone now is allergic to twine strings.
Allergic to twine strings...how true. Lol
Truly enjoy your videos. Reminds me so much of my life in the 50’s growing up on a Kossuth county Iowa dairy farm. Love your place, your setup and your family teamwork. The way things ought to be.
Thank you Bob!
When I was farming with my grandparents we had a 656 gas job (we had a cab) with the same 273 baler we also used a 560 (no cab). I have a lot of great memories from those days. Sun burns, sore back, dehydration just to name a few. 🤣 I learned the satisfaction of a job well done seeing the barn full of hay. Very glad you showed the whole process from field to barn most guys just show the machinery side of it. Great video 👍👍👍👍
Great to see that beautiful hay a lot of work and loads of satisfaction now I'm out to unload straw bales
Wow, so many memories watching the video. One difference I noticed was that my Grandfather and Dad always told us to mow the hay with the cut side up, so if there was any moisture still in the bales it could evaporate through the cut side. We occasionally sprinkled salt on the cut side when mowing in the hay loft
if it was slightly moist when baled to help draw out the moisture. They said it helped prevent spontaneous combustion fires.
We have done that with salt before, I think the cattle like eating it too!
What a fantastic farm. You guys work so hard to keep the traditional setup going . Wonderful anais of tractor brands. It all seems to be working great. Best wishes from me Emerald Isle. 👍
happy for you, you can never have too much hay
Love the 1650 Oliver
Will the Gierok Farms hats be available for sale sometime?
Amazed at how clean the pickup does its job !
Ah the memories you guys stir in me from the 60's helping my Gpa baling hey. Me driving and him stacking. Used tractor pulley driven forks in the hey mow to unload. Then Uncle Melvin bought an IH baler with thrower and an elevator. All I did then was jockey wagons and unload/stack. Hard, sweaty work that was. Gpa's Iowa County Wisconsin farm was hilly like yours. Pulling loaded wagons was always a challenge either going up or trying to keep it slow going down with his Farmall H's especially if we had a double wagon. Thanks for sharing.
Brought back some memories.....glad to see people still doing it this way.
Thanks Chris
Also love the smell of fresh cut hay and baled. The hay looks like great hay
Great Hay Baling video. It is amazing how far the baler tosses the bales out onto the wagons. That is some back breaking work throwing and handling those bales. Good to see the 4 of you working together to get the job done.
Ditto!!!!
Yeah those newhollands belts, really can whip those bales
Way more fun to watch others do it! Thank you. The value of machinery that doesn't owe anybody anything is often underestimated. I miss the cows and the smells of all sorts - sometimes.
Good to see the old equipment out running, same vintage we had back on the farm, although we had to hand stack since kickers and catcher wagons were not in the budget. The knotters were always the headache we had while baling, right after changing weather reports!
We found mowing the hay bales in the barn with strings to the side resulted in firmer layers to walk on and tighter piles than strings up, try it out sometime.
Those knotters sure can be a pain.
I don't farm, but I grew up beside a small family dairy farm. My neighbor had two 686 Internationals and a 273 NH baler, they farmed really steep ground also. The sound of your 686 and baler really bring back some of my childhood memories of watching them do field work.
I worked on family and friends small dairy farms when I was younger. I can definitely relate to your videos with my past experiences. Thanks for taking the time to share your activities on the farm.👍
Man I thought we had some steep hills. Those are steeeep.
Brings back many memories of stacking bales in the hay mount. Seemed like it was always the hottest day of the summer. And we would always go swimming at the lake at the end of the day. Which would seem to make it all worth the hard work.
Glad we could bring back memories
Great video, beautiful countryside, loved watching you all in action bailing 👍. Regards from Down Under.
Small squares are bull work but I still like them.... I still do some every year with a setup like the "Sun tan" machine.😂😂. Thanks for taking us along with you....
Thank you for sharing your videos with us...
I really wish to God that I can get a job running farm machining again.
I really love running older farming machinery!
Great video as always that is a handy way of filling a trailer of bales
Lordy I hauled a lot of alfalfa back in Oklahoma, lots of work but who knew any different 😆 we stuffed every old outbuilding with straw, and alfalfa went in the barn loft. Thanks!
Great video again lads thanks, takes me back to my youth in early seventies. We and our neighbours would gather approximately 12000 bales every year, weeks of back breaking work and little money but we got through it I think better people. Stay safe 🙏
Another great video that brought me great memories!! Always did the unloading of hay wagons.
I used to have to ride on the wagons while the bales are being kicked at me. Plus our wagons didn’t have sides on them. Fell off a many wagons baling hay. Good times.
I can remember very well bailing small square nails of hay that same size . This was back in the very late 60's to the mid 70's . The adult farmer drove the tractor and I as a kid was on the hay wagon stacking bails of hay and the nails did not kick out of the bailer like in this video . You had to get the nails as they came out of the bailer and carry then to the back of the hay wagon to stack them 6 bails high . We loaded 3 to 5 wagons before we had to unload them up in the barn loft . This Is how kids earned their money , working for different neighbors ! It taught us a good lesson and work ethic !!! Not like kids These dang days = lazy , can't do anything and won't do any work !!! Too bad you can't find a kid to work these days . Kids think work is mopping the floor at McDonald's , and they complain about everything !!!!!!
you guys work hard when its needed , you are giving it heaps using a bit older gear , but I see you are maintaining it well, good on you, I was in your country visiting a dairy farm ,just before Covid came along . greetings from the Waikato New Zealand
Great 👍🏻 job gents, I enjoyed making hay. And it’s a good feeling to see hay and firewood piled high. Like “money in the bank” we always said.
Man that is some steep ground you put hay up on! Love your videos!!
You could get an umbrella awning and just weld some water pipe up to hold it.
Great stuff--those hill with a heavy wagon and tricycle front tractors is pretty dicey!
Love yal’s older tractors, especially that 686. Would love to have one. I bale with a 544 diesel and 565 NH bale. Really enjoy your haying videos
Thank you!
Brings back memories. When I was about 17 or 18 I work for a Dairy Farmer one summer we put up over 14,000 bales in the hayloft and we had to pick them up in the field to.
Oh man that's a lot of bales!
During my HS years 1970,1971,1972 we were paid 2 cents a bale to pick up bails from the ground, pitch them up onto the trailer and stack them.
Sometimes we got a penny a bail to help at the storage barn filling & stacking bales inside.
Brutal work in the Louisiana hot sun & high humidity !
Bails = Bales I can't believe I made those mistakes
Thank you for sharing! I grew up on a dairy farm in NB Canada, I am 53 now. I worked on a few other farms. I really miss it though not all of it, as you would know some jobs are not enjoyable (downed cows...). The smells..., sounds also I miss, especially the square baler! THANK YOU so much for not inserting music instead! I am subscribed.
We had a 686 with a buggy top on it, it was pretty comfortable when it was hot ,got it a 4010 now .
I can watch your videos all day if I had the chance. I feel like I’m back home again on the farm 20 years ago. All we did was square bale the steepest hills in Southeast Indiana with equipment similar to yours. I love the look of those hillsides after they’ve been baled. Picture perfect.
Thanks Paul glad we could bring back memories
Yep, been there, done that some 7 decades ago and like Robert Thomas says, fond memories but in reality, it remembers better than it lived! We didn't even have that kicker, Dad said don't need it, I got YOU!
Hey, that's Mason operating that tractor and baler! Justice for Mason!
Aah the good old days!!!
I used to farm in North Easteran Wisconsin. Back in the 80,s.. move to Arizona where I am today. Worked and a engineer in Mexico an Arizona. Miss the farm life.
Nice bales size tightness twine tension good job nice video guys keep up the good work loved it from Minnesota....
In southwest Marathon County, our farm had a steel wheel, John Deere rake pulled by a 1947 John Deere Gas B tractor. Last hay I helped "put up" was 1964. Used to load up to 110 bales on a wood rack hay wagon and put up in the hay mow with an elevator or an overhead hay hook system. Lots of work compared to today's work. Loading bales was 1Penney per bale. Sometimes 8 loads in one day. But, that was farming back then.
Hay in the mow is money in the bank ☺
Your hay crop looks great; farmers in areas of South West
don't have a hay crop, and too expensive to buy, forcing them to cull their cattle.
Like your channel, especially the equipment used, like the Oliver!
Yeah it's crazy how dry it is in some places. Glad you like the channel thanks for watching
We used to bale straw, 5 to 6000 bales, I used to be the bale thrower on the rack. Great baling video, NH balers really doing a nice job. They need to show John Deere how to tie bales, don't ever buy one. Had an IH that worked really good, tied good too. You make your bales a bit short, we always did too. It was 1996 last time I played bale thrower. I was only 26 then, went round after that year. Always have fond memories of small share baling!!!! Thank you for sharing. John T
Thank you for the video, so many memories. Can almost smell the hay!!!
Thanks for sharing, those wide track wagons are a great idea & much more stable. I always liked the front gate latches best on them Minnesota kicker wagons.
We like them, they are light too so it helps getting around on the hills
I did small square bailing as when was a kid like 15 years ago but I would be stacking them neatly on the trailer as someone else was operating the tractor, the bailer didn't throw them, we had to grab them.
Spent summers back in the 60's baling with my uncles and milking cows.
Thanks for continuing the tradition.
That Oliver and MTA International are 60-70 Year old tractors. You must have maintained they well!!
We bale the same way. Our wagons get a bit heavy too. Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful farm!
Back in the 70's we had a conveyer like that. You really had to be careful how you put the bales on it because the paddles were sharp and they would cut twine.
Oliver 1650!!! I love Olivers!
Good to see allot of IH machinery being used!
Love your video's. The modern machines are more vulnerable than this fantastic old machines. Greetings from the Netherlands
Nice looking country you boys have there you've even got shade and shelter for the cows.
Great memories. Thank you so much for sharing this. Stay safe and God bless.
You guys have a beautiful farm, very well maintained.. There are no easy jobs in the hay field it's hot sticky heavy poke you work, but square bales are nice to feed in the winter..
What a rush of memories making hay on the hills of Wisconsin. We farmed in sw part of the state. Oliver 1850s were our work horses just pay attention to under and over drive could be a fun ride in those hills. How come you don't fill your wagons when we wanted to get it done to beat the rain we stacked in the wagon. Our wagons always had bale's hanging off the top and front. Usually those were the days when mom was baking. Something you don't see much anymore.
You guys are awesome!
First of your videos I've seen. Liked and subscribed. 🧐
Great video guys I remember square bales so well they were hard work and stacking in the barn was always the hardest job with the heat and the dust sticking to u but lovely memories the 1970s I'd say great summers
One of the hottest 🔥 places on the farm is up next to a tin roof piling bales.Yep did alot of that over the years.Water is your best friend. Dragging hay bales out of a thrower wagon can be not be so fun on a hot sunny day.Took a trip to the Ashley outlet store the other day.The crops looked really good on 93.Even saw a field of corn 🌽 starting to tassel .Wow farming the hills in that area looks hard to do.Stay careful out there in fields to all farmers working hard to feed us. Thanks 😊.
Thanks for all you do.🤠
WATCHING your videos remind me of my farming days, Gutter cleaner was a wheelbarrow and silo unloader was a pitchfork and 35 cows with three surge buckets. we would put up 400 acres of hay in a weeks' time. we had 15 bale wagons 2 balers 2 v rakes and one discbine. with just 4 people. My dad wasn't able to help with
cows I got that job when I was 12 and done it until I was 28. It was hard work. ended up with what i started out with nothing.
Super video complimenti👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Wow so different then how we put up here in Central Washington, here, we use all swathers, most farmers use Twin star rakes to turn the hay over, Freeman baler's 3tie, or Big 4x3x8 big baler's, and New Holland stack wagons. Most JD's tractors from 4230's 4440's 4450's 6410's 7510's 7800 or 7810's , I used myself 2 JD 6430 tractors to bale and 2 Freeman 385 balers.
This is my wife's account my name is Bob, we always stacked our hay on edge, see you do flat can your dad explain the difference. Thanks enjoy your vids I wanted to dairy just wasn't to be I sledded all our squares.