the basics of cutting hay
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- Today I'm starting first cutting hay. I explain the basics of how the machinery works and how to cut hay while I'm at work cutting the first field. I'm using an International 656 diesel hydro tractor and an International 990 haybine. Both machines were made in the 1970's, bought with cash at auction, and made reliable with a little TLC.
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Of all the years I’ve used TH-cam, not once have I ever left a comment on a video. However, I had to for this one. Pete, you’re my all time favorite instructor and did a perfect job making this video and explaining everything the way you did, I understood every bit of what you presented and then by showing us by example was even better. This is how ALL instructors should be! Thank you Pete!
It's not easy making a good youtube video that people want to watch. Yours made me want to keep watching to the end. First class.
You took the words right out of my keyboard! I could not have said it better!
There’s nothing like the smell of fresh cut hay on a nice summer evening even though it means work the next day.
I live in a suburban area with very few farms left but anytime one of them has cut hay I will stop the car and get out to enjoy that. Cutting my lawn just isn't the same.
My father for many years here (Ireland) always said hay in a shed is better than feeling then money in the bank
Gosh I just love watching Happy Positive people do things.
I've watched many farming videos and nobody has explained what they're doing quite like you have... thank you.
Brings back old memories from the 50's and 60's
This is the calmest most informative lecture on cutting hay ive ever heard,thankyou!
This is exactly what I’ve been looking for! I have a small farm and have been wanting to cut my own hay for years now but I didn’t know hai and many videos I’ve watched haven’t been that informative. Thank you for taking the time to explain this process in detail! Very interesting and informative!
You are going to be a GREAT grandfather ! Your dialog is so patient and articulate, and yet, you don't talk down to your audience. I especially liked how you reminded us to listen to the machinery. I hope your farming continues to be a joy.
Just found your videos,I’m 62 years old and this brings back great memories of my younger years growing up on my dad’s farm and working on the neighbors farms. Thank you, I look forward to the rest of this series
Joe
Hello hope you are doing great
I was a Hay dealer for many years, and had the opportunity to work fields on shares with a lot of farmers. they got the help they needed and I got my hay at a bargin and knew exactly what and how the hay was put up.win win. for both of us. in my late 70's now and even today when I drive by a fresh cut field my nose takes me on a trip down memory lane! thanks for nice video and trip down that lane.
You are such a wonderful instructor Pete. If I were a farmer, instead of a couch sitting old grandma, I would become a better one just by watching your videos. I look forward to each episode. 👍🥰
That 656 looks good in her working clothes! Love that vintage paint! Farmall tractors were ahead of their years, and still remain better than newer products. Thanks for your videos! Very knowledgeable and helpful for folks that don't know the process.
Love the way you explain how to farm without buying new equipment. Practical application of actual operation makes good videos.
Thanks for your approach so interesting.
I use a 656 Diesel and a Farmall H to make hay. I run an old Heston haybine and new Holland Tedder a new Holland rollabar rake, and an old IH baler. It’s constant maintenance and repairs but I absolutely love doing it.
This man is so calm explain well l bet if you was my school teacher l will pass all your subjects
I think 1st graders would get tired of being "Talked down to" by this guy.
@@itruck1 Certainly not talked down to if the listeners know nothing about farming and/or making hay. He's great!
I am not a farmer but your videos have shown me how much detail there is to know. I appreciate our farmers because you not only have to work around the weather but you also have know how to weld, fabricate, upgrade and maintain all of your equipment.
Thank you for all that you do and for sharing your vast knowledge through these wonderful videos!
Good day to you.
Thank for this amazing videos of breaking down the different stages of harvesting hay. I’m just considering getting a hay farm of 117 acres and this was really helpful to understand the process from start to finish!
When I was growing up on a livestock farm, I loved mowing hay. This was in the early ‘60’s, so just a semi mounted sickle bar mower pulled by an M&M ZA. Was very maneuverable. The best was having the barn swallows circle around, swooping in to grab insects out of the air. Several neighbors later went together and bought a “hay conditioner” that I was volunteered to run, following behind each one whenever they mowed their hay. My uncle owned a hay baler, so when each hay field was ready we would all bring our hay racks and help bale, haul and put the bales up in the hay mow. A real community operation. Thanks, Pete for living and documenting this lifestyle. It truly was/is a Wonderful Life.
I love this channel. Thank you so much for teaching ❤
I would like to thank you because I am a French spectator and your way of speaking English is just perfect for me. You are one of the only English speaking youtuber that I can follow normally because your diction is perfect. And the content of your videos is very interesting. Thanks for all you do.
Excellent job! I grew up on a small dairy farm and cutting hay was my job... loved cutting the hay on nice summer mornings!
"A cool, wet May fills the farmer's barn with hay" is the old farmer saying. Good info for the newbies in your video. Glad to see tractors that aren't green. Just came in from cutting hay myself.
Thank you for this video!! First time farm owner here with some fields that need reviving. im soo excited to make hay!
Great explanation of haymaking on a small acreage and utilizing "cheap" equipment to get the job done.
Pete,
I had so many technical questions following other farmers videos, and here you came and simplified and answered most of them.
The old sickle bar was on
my list to purchase, since they are cheap, but now following your video, I scratched it twice with my pen.
Looking forward for the next haying videos.
God bless brother.
Hi Crazy Coyote, glad it was helpful! Sickle bar mowers aren't all bad. You can get them for a few hundred bucks and we got along fine back when we were mowing 10 acres per year. I still use one to mow under the fence lines once a year.
Very nice video! We just started taking hay form our new small acreage, and we're learning so much every time we screw something up! You're video was like 2 years of hard lessons in one 12 minute shot! Thanks, and for anyone else reading my remarks, listen to this man! He' knows what he's talking about!!!
Thank you Pete. I'm a newbie and feel I learned a lot from that video.
That's an excellent description of hay making!
I love how you explain how your equipment operates!!
I'm thoroughly enjoying your videos. Reminds me of my great-grandfather's farm. He had a sickle mower and a small bailer that launched the hay onto the wagon. We stacked it by hand. What a lot of work for some little kids! Keep 'em coming! Thanks.
My grandad on my dad’s side was a farmer but he and I weren’t close. My papa on my mom’s side was a farmer but he died when I was 1. So I never got to grow up around farming but I’ve always had this natural fulfillment in yard work. My wife and I used to have a 3/4 lot and I would spend every evening in the yard doing something and find some sort of hard work.
Recently we decided that we would pursue a home that came with about 50 acres so we can get some cattle, bale some hay and live a nice farm life. I get excited more and more with every video I watch or article I read about farming. I think I would really enjoy it.
This is a constructive video. Based on the title he provides what someone sufficiently needs to know without wasting words, while at the same time keeping one's attention. Very real. Didn't like the pop up commercials, but he's got to get paid.
When I first started farming around 2000 I was using the sickle mower on a IH 454 and it was pretty good going. I still have the old 454 but it only tows the rake now. I moved to a fiat 880 and a discbine ( all old second hand equipment ) Last year I bought my first new machinery, a Kubota M110GX and a 10 year old mower. It feels like a holiday but I still love going around and around each year on my tractors.
Just watched this video!It's so full of information for begginers.I have expirience with this job but i've been looking for a while for video like this!It's great!
This was an OUTSTANDING video. I'm on 80 acres and currently have my hay cut for me but thinking hard on gearing up to cut it myself. This was a huge help, thank you very much sir!
Thanks Pete! This content is exactly what I'm looking for. Great tips and explanation of the process.
What a joy to watch this video. Such a pleasant and passionate person. Keep it going, and stay safe in the current situation 🙄
Old school farming great video.
Top notch content here. No like some that just tell you what they do - here we find out what to do and WHY to do it. This is very valuable information. Thank You.
Love your videos and that you explain things. I'm writing a series @ my g'father's 1920-1936 farm in northern Vermont, and I need to write scenes @ cutting hay, using machines, foaling birth schedules, etc. I am trying ti takes good notes from your videos when trying to match photos and your newer machines. Thanks so much for explaining stuff. I love your videos.
I've just discovered your channel and thank you for the video. We have a small moorland farm, high up in the Pennines in West Yorkshire, England. We recently bought and a David Brown 995 and we hope to start making our own hay next year. I've been a bit daunted by the idea but after watching your video, I feel a lot better for about it. lots of good, practical advise. Thank you xxx
the old geek in me loves your tractors and the lessons and then the practical examples... just melts my raggedy-a$s heart. The old freak in me loves watching your little snippets of life=on-the=farm vids and I even merrily watch the most esoteric stuff about the anymules. Having lived upstate myself for many years (we had a tiny half acre just outside the Res, and even had a horse and a pig. The slaughter was supervised by an old Onondaga who brought a tanker full of people. Did the deed chopped her up and threw the quarters up on the roof. I of course spent a good half hour digging the eyes out, put 'em in a clear coffee cup in the fridge to say good morning to my sister :)... ahhh, good times ) I understand the weather you speaketh of, quite well, Anyway, back to looking thru your backlog.
Superb and enthusiastic and informative narration, together with excellent amount of filming. - Many thanks for all the effort you put into this.
Great job. We can really relate to the old equipment. Thanks for posting.
Thanks Pete! Can't wait to watch the rest of your videos... I think your approach is awesome and you nailed your stated objective of making a video that provides a detailed explanation of the process, not just a visual. Like someone else stated, I wanted to watch to the end.
Super interesting, super well explainded. I love your approach with the older equipment.
Hello Pete
I enjoy your videos . I have a few farmalls h , a , av and one ford 860 I use to w a international 47 bailer . It is a lot of work but I truly love every minute of making hay . I have a neighbor friend just like you thank God who's always my go to when I get myself into trouble for help w machinery now your videos to , I have learned so much from him and the farmer down the road . I think people like yourself are time capsule of all that is great in the world .
I use to do haying long years ago down a family's friends farm and alot of land got hated but I can honestly say I probley love haying as much as you do ..so godbless and will be waiting for the bailing .godbless
i just bought my first tractor today......... not a red one. a orange one. but, I am in the game now.............. so much I can do, really a life changer.
I really enjoy your hay making series. So informative. Sue from Australia
Thanks Pete for your wonderful video.
That was really an excellent video on hay making. I raised cattle for 25 years and made my own hay with a collection of old equipment bought at auction. a Farmall M, an international 31 sickle bar mower, old side delivery rake and a Ford 532 baler. I,m 72 now, so all that old equip. is sitting out in the barn unused for a few years. Brings back memories of being entertained by swallows filling the air, rabbits running from the mower and a hawk or 2 sitting in an old dead tree along the fence row waiting for the right moment to try and grab a rabbit as I mowed merrily along.
John
Hello hope you are doing great
Great vid. I used to love moving grass. Just bought a hay farm. Can’t wait to start cutting. Your decision to change the format up made for a superior video.
Thanks.
Love how informative this video was.
Thanks for all the videos you do Pete, these are great information
Your doing a great job Pete ! My wife, kids and I love watching your videos. We recently got our first 3 head of dexter heifers and we are waiting for our bull to be weaned to join our small heard .
Thanks Jace! Best of luck with your Dexters!
This was a good video explaining how to cut your hay. In Colorado we call it swathing. My grandfather bought an Allis Chalmers WD 45 tractor new in 1950. It was one of the first to have live power to the power-take-off. He used his John Deere to cut with a John Deere #5 mower, rake with his John Deere and a 14 foot rake and bale with his Allis Chalmers and a John Deere 14 T.
Looks like a beautiful day for a great video and hay cutting!
Maan you're so good at keeping us tuned! Dope
Hello ! I'm new to the channel.
After 40 yrs of making hay you have explained the how what when of cutting hay. You showed all the little details of operation of the equipment and all we go through just CUTTING the hay.
Thank you!
I look forward to future visits!
Anthony
Hello hope you are doing great
Thank you! I like that you give the cost and investment amounts.
A really nice description of making hay. I would do the outside pass last because if you take a tree limb or some wire through the machine and are down for a while at least you have the field done.
Holy cow! What a great instructional video. This is so helpful! Thank you so much for all your help. Your videos make me a better farmer. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!
Pete, thank you so much for the videos!
nice refreshing video, your well spoken in all topics you spoke on rite down to the little game you play for timing the cut! 👍 nothing like making hay when all factors mesh, machinery, dew point, humidity and extra help to bring in hay.
this is the real deal hay man, like my high school days of little bales and huge hay-hauler meals made by hard working farm women, no cheap cheeseburgers like today. thanks...:)
Good machine operators are under-rated. So much of farming is maintaining and operating machines well.
Thanks for the video. This one was great really appreciate your time making it 👍
Incredibly helpful sir. I’m looking forward to seeing the next one
Finally an excellent video on hay! Love seeing you so passionate about it. Your living my dream keep going!
I cut hay in Cornwall UK . Thankyou for your video .
Nicely explained thank you. I love older equipment and learning about it.
I legit nearly fell asleep to one of these
This is a compliment
Great video. I learned lots . Looking forward to watching the next one. My wife an I are slowly moving in a similar direction we are olny 3 years in an mostly just trying to become self sufficient but I enjoy videos like yours because you break down the nuts and bolts of how you do things an maby more importantly why . Thank you
Glad it was helpful Jim!
Very interesting video. I like the way you presented it from equipment to actual cutting procedure. It's nice to see some of that older equipment being used.
Thanks Larry! That equipment worked just fine for farmers 40 years ago, and it still does!
Great video. It is what the title says it is "the basics of cutting hay". Not over dramatic, not about your dog or the new log splitter. I will watch more of your videos.
LOL Joseph, I don't like videos that wander all over the place either.
I just stumbled upon your video. It’s great! You explain everything in easy to understand detail. I hope to hay my own land someday. Thanks!
You're welcome Sean!
Love it!! Keep up what you are doing very informative unlike other videos. Great job!
Thanks Melvin!!
You are a real teacher at heart. Great job! love your video. God Bless!
Tim
Hello hope you are doing great
Wow this is spectacular information! As someone just about to get into the business of making hay I really appreciate your time in knowledge. It is obvious you enjoy working your fields and equipment.
Not sure why you felt the need to make these videos while you're already busy with these chores, but THANK YOU! I'm Nota farmer but I live in an area of Texas surrounded by the exact sights you have clearly explained. Wow... I may be able to actually carry my side of a conversation about hay now.
I really loved this video. Wish I could ride with you and just learn what you know, learn about your passion and share in it. I love agriculture. First time I rode in a combine (soybeans) I was hooked. We're on a couple acres and garden everything that ain't on septic lines. Nothing I love more than working the land.
Professional quality video making, love your videos!
Nice job Pete. Your video are very informative.Not being a experienced farmer myself ,your videos are really empowering me to buy my farm and start living more self sustainably. You video about when you left your previous job really hit home. Thanks for info and keep it up.
Hi Sage, starting a farm is one of the best decisions we ever made. Good luck with your journey!
Finaly someone who isn't shy to talk.
I love your videos Pete. Nice job.
Just found this channel a few days ago. I am really enjoying this channel and I am learning a lot!
I bought a 300 Utility to run on my 990, and boy is she sweet with a working TA. This last year was all learning for me, and I bought my machinery late, so it worked the haybine pretty hard until she loosened up. Lots of grease fittings.
I could drive around on that thing all day. My favorite job ever was driving the rough mower at a golf course.
I'm looking forward to more.
Really enjoyed that. Over here in Aus there's a lot of Farmers that still do this. Everything's become so global but the Family farms still exist. You can still find a lot of Amercan made hay equipment over here. Hidden away in small rural communities.
Enjoyed watching you make hay....great details...
Always enjoy learning from your videos. We really want to see the rest of the hay process!
Hi Juliann, thank you! Stay tuned...
We used a John Deere haybine many years. Snagged a drum mower last year. I put it together on my channel good work great video.
Great presentation style , informative and showing in operation makes it all clear . Thank you 👍
Wonderful video! Great job discussing why. I particularly loved how you mentioned to listen and watch. A subtle change in the sound or how the outerside of the haybine is further back tells you that something is not quite right.
A haybine sure plays havoc with a snake or turtle. You are right, your ears and the way the tractor is pulling can tell you a lot about how the haybine is running
Bruce
Hello hope you are doing great
I still do it the "small" way. Jd 3010 with an IH 990 Moco. Great video
Nothing wrong with the small way! A 990 set right mows like the dickens. I call ours "the eater." It sure likes to be fed!