Happy birthday, hun!! Your hubby is a whiz at putting those pads together, not to mention his good luck at missing that stick of rebar- whew! He also has his stuff figured out. He sounds like my dad- i can still remember him taking care of the greens all those years ago- he could spot problems with that bent grass long before it became an issue. Keep up the great videos!!
I love your farm, its nice to see good people working it. I was born and raised on a Dairy Farm in NJ, yes NJ. We mostly I had to pick those kind of bales up and throw them on a elevator then go up in the hay loft and stack them. I'm amazed and enjoy watching the modern machinery work. P.S happy birthday, age is just a number , your a beautiful farm girl !
Nice video. Its just plain nice to see two people having fun doing something they both enjoy and the bonus of being married is awesome. The video demonstrates how technologically far farming has come. The idea, in general, is to increase productivity and at the same time, decrease the stress of working repetitive movements. Many people outside the farming community honestly have no clue how difficult this life can be. When a farmer has a bad day, it can affect his entire year. Weather, sickness and health, family needs, equipment malfunctions and breakdowns are just a few things men and women in this business deal with 24/7. Its a way of life. Either you embrace it or you don't. There are not many rewards in this business. Of course, having a good year, no equipment issues, great cooperative weather, can make all the difference in the world. Farmers know their business. To the penny in some cases, but they know their business. Farms that do well and have consistency can generate vast amounts of money, but what comes in must also contribute to the operation. You see this equipment in this video. Its not cheap to maintain and farmers must often improvise or make in field improvements. This requires allot of knowledge and years of proven experience. Many farmers owe their fellow farmers a debt of gratitude because often, it is the farmer who comes up with the next best thing, idea or improvement to keep operations running smoothly. Again, not easy. There are farming operations which utilize half a million or more worth of tractor. That doesn't include the very expensive implements utilized to complete the task. The money or capital required is staggering. Which explains why so many farms are being removed and why this business can be extremely stressful on the farmer and their family. For those operations working 24 hours, 7 days a week, the stress is quite serious. However, most farmers work through their days doing what they do best........providing for our country. These two people in this video are amazing and deserve a debt of gratitude for their hard work, dedication and loyalty to an occupation fraught with all sorts of obstacles and hurdles. It's truly nice they take time out to video their work and allow us to share in their efforts to farm. 🇺🇸🚜
+Pete Wahkoowah you have to be either a farmer or a small business owner because everything you said was spot on. I want to thank you for watching and commenting because I couldn't have said it nearly as eloquently as you did.
North Texas Hay Thank you for the kind words. I have done both. Horse farm and small business owner. I just started watching your videos last night. I am so very impressed by the both of you. Your tireless efforts to make your operation work day to day is amazing and there are people out there, like myself, who actually appreciate what you both are accomplishing. That, plus you both are so personal and likeable. I lived in Texas for a while. I know the life there. I miss it very much. Seeing y'all work and talking about what you are doing makes me feel as though I were there in the cab of that Deere. Plus I am a getting a real education about hay farming. Oh I know a few things, but y'all are on a whole other level there. If no one else says it, I will....... Thank you both for just being your selves and sharing your love, your life and your knowledge and passion of hay farming and farming in general with the rest of us. 🇺🇸🚜🇺🇸🚜🇺🇸 Pete
Your absolutely right about letting the ground crack. It has to be drought dry for it to really start cracking and when it does everything is pretty well browned over and does not recover. Happy birthday! What’s a birthday without a little work?! Lol y’all have a good week!
Its amazing y'all can grow so well in these soil conditions,we appreciate the information on the fields and techniques applied! I have learned a lot from you two and will be adjusting my hay practices to my region. I like to see the organization and efficiency in your operation. Your video's is an important contributor to the success of my operation,Happy Birthday,Thanks a Ton and Happy Harvesting!
Hello from Western Wisconsin! Great videos!!! Its awesome to see a wife/husband work so great together! Keep it up and looking forward to more great videos! Cutting soybeans here and hoping to combine corn soon. Thanks again for the great vidoes!
Watching you too people doing your thing and your work and day in day out work just makes my day thanks and happy birthday young lady, best of health to you both and stay safe always.
Absolutely beautiful countryside with the ponds & all, but I had no idea hay equipment has advanced this far. I used to use horses & hay slips, wagons, back muscles, and lots of food from the ladies to do this work...
For turf management we use core aerators. They pull 3/4 x 4inch cores out of the ground and you let the cores dissolve and let the organisms go back in. Then you can broadcast seed for overseeding. That might work better for actually relieving compacting. Love your videos. You are both intelligent and have made your operation as efficient as possible.
North Texas Hay i doubt you will find one to rent for your operation but rental yards should have ones for small yards and you can do an acre test plot and see if it is worth it. This will be a common rental unit www.ryanturf.com/products/ryan-aerators-walk-behind/ but you want something more like this www.landpride.com/products/49/ca25-series-core-aerators but larger. Spike aerators make the compaction problem worse but those seem to be popular for large applications.
Landpride does have a 12ft model. It's an AR2510. I am sure there has to be larger but this stuff is so specialized it's hard to find. P.S. that 12 ft is a knife not a core style. 72inch is the largest core they offer.
A slightly late happy birthday. Enjoy watching your videos and the lovely weather you get,far better than what we get here in uk.looking forward to your next upload.
I’ve stood on the back of what they called a bale stucker and you grabbed them of the bale chute and stacked them in triangles , dumped and started over , day after day , then hand loaded onto a wagon and hand bombed into the hayloft. We had a bale elevator but man this is handy setup , nice 👍🏻 !!
Modern farming and farm equipment amazes me. When I was a teen in the 1970's, used to stand on the trailer behind the baler with a hook, bucking and stacking and loading by hand. Unload into the hay loft, by hand. All for $20/day.
Happy birthday young lady, when hubby was driving tractor and commentating there was an apt tune playing for you-tubers, "video killed the radio star", keep up the good work.
Happy Birthday, sweet lady. For the life of me, I can't figure out why you would let that old man drive your pretty green tractor. Seriously, you guys rock. God Bless, my friends. 🇺🇸
Damn what a labor saving device! When I was growing up we used to make money by walking along side the trailer and throw bails up on it. Then we would ride back and load them on the elevator. I hated to be up in the barn stacking bales as it was hot up there!!! I didn't mind being on the trailer or beside the elevator.
My dad and uncle made hay together. Our crew could bale and mow 1,000 bales a day. I always wanted to know how hot it was in the mow, but you really didn't want to know.
Back in 78 I bought my first vehicle. It was a 1961 Chevrolet 1.5 ton flatbed truck. I was 15 yrs old and did not have a drivers license. I was never hassled by the Cops either. My best friend and I hauled a lot of hay in the local area where we lived in Oklahoma. We threw the hay on the truck the first summer but I bought an old hay loader the second summer for $350 . The spindle was broke in half on the left side and after I had an amateur welder put it back together the wheel always wobbled after that. You’d be surprised how much work a skinny 140 lb kid could do when the farmer was paying him .25 cents per bale to haul it away and stack it to the peak of the roof in the barn. Ah, the good old days! 👍
If you ever did hay the old way, you can appreciate the new machinery. Hardest physical labor I did was picking those bales up and then putting away in the barn.
Wow that fork takes the weekend out of the project. I used to load and unload in the barn for 10 cents a bale a long time ago. I like that Ready hitch for the trailer. Awesome........ Looks like alfalfa to me. Bon Fete Mon Amie ~!~!
It's always interesting to see how other people do their operation . We bail all our own hay for our horses, and use similar equipment but , I've never seen an accumulator that drags the bails along the ground while bailing , ours is different . But hey it works for you . I enjoyed to video
+Jeff muha I've seen them all used in action and this has been the most trouble free of all I've seen. Remember, it's just me and the wife putting up 25,000 bales a year I have to have things go smooth to get things done.
Kim, that is excellent camera work. You're 49? Happy Birthday!!! Wow you look dam good and it is not obvious you had a couple of boys either. It gives me a real sense of satisfaction seeing the two of you working together as a loving team and it is obvious Scott appreciates and loves you. Like other folks on this channel I've learned a lot and has prompted me to watch how other hay farms operate and how round and square balers work. Scott you really seem to have it down to a science. I too have wondered if dragging bales across the field in the accumulator damages them in any way or if the baling twine brakes because of it. Your work with the claw is a joy to watch. Thanks again for letting us visit.
Happy birthday and nice set up you have there. But buddy don't walk underneath a suspended load you never know. Keep up the good work! Beautiful place.
When I was a kid I helped bale hay all I had was gloves, a hay hook and muscle to put up hay, course I'm 74 now and retired. Farmed all my life and still live on my farm.
Very good management......Our last cutting is about 2 weeks away....Haven't had any measurable rain fall Since Irma dumped 6 inches on us,the first of Sept.....There is a punch just like the one you have coming up at an auction this coming Sat.....Going to try and buy it or make someone else buy it......Wish me luck
I thought this was a hay channel " more leaf and bigger leaf makes better grass" that sounds like another "cash crop" to me... Happy Birthday young Lady.
My dad when he was young used to go up to Iowa when in his teens to visit with his Grandmother,and his Uncle Grover this was in the late 1920s early 1930s Their Haybarn did not have a loft. It was described to me as an timber framed shed with a manger on each wall and with a lot for the cattle on one side and draft horses on the other milk parlor on the back side with a couple of corncribs and hog lot hay was cut with a sickle mower pulled by horses raked by a bull raked and horses. Forked onto a wagon pulled by horses to the barn and stacked by man into the barn from the ground up. It was hard manual labor.
Hey what's up my great people I was watching one of your videos last year and lost it and could never find your channel again and hey Bam you popped up so I subscribed right away glad to be here you guys are cool man and this was a cool video so I'll be sticking around for a little while always a thumbs-up you guys rock❤👊👊👊👊💪💪💪💪💪👍👍👍👍
I was told Buy stock. Not iron. So I never bought the tractor... Texas black land. Your doing it the way no one else does it. And your making money Been looking at 4020s and square bailing. I have coastal
My Neighbor has two self Propelled New Holland Bale Picker uppers.. One nice stack 12" high in the barn .. would not be a way to load a flat bed though .. Here in MI out Cation Exchange is like 6 or 7 if your clay is that heavy you need Gypsum spread on your found I am guessing .. Legumes like Alfalfa make the ground more mellow like a sub soiler would
Enjoy the vids, we finished 3rd cut up here in NE Ohio two weeks ago. Already looking forward to next year! I would maybe try some graphite based paint on those pieces he added to accumulator. Should reduce friction and help it slide past. Just a thought.
Ready for break, just not for cold and snow!! I have a hoelscher accumulator, Ever have issues with broken strings or dirt in bales from them dragging on ground?
+starwardfarms have never broken a string and have never gotten the bales dirty, but I cut my grass tall and it's pretty thick. I guess it would depend on your conditions.
I commented before I watched the whole video. Back in 1980, we took 3 sheets of tin and made a sled, and I rode behind the baler and as each bale came out I would stack it on the tin behind me as we rode around the field. After I had about 12 bales on it I would stick a bar in between the tin and slide the hay off and start the whole process all over and so it went as we made stacks of 12 or 15 bales. I did this over a 3 day period, 8500 times, needless to say my back was never the same after that.
Have you ever subsoiled that area or your pastor areas and Elise let the water get down in there to the roots you could probably do it in the fall and it would help out
Some really good footage of the claw in action. And that making up pads from several partials is just like the computer game Tetris. Oh, and Happy Birthday, little girl. (I can say that 'cause I am considerably older than either of you.)
I had no idea that you could pull a baler behind the rake and then what the heck is that behind the baler? Man I've been out of the business too long. The last time I ran anything I was 17, I'm 53 now, wow a lot has changed. I used to run the sickle bar mower and then you had to rake then bale Thanks for the video, this was super cool!
Back in the early 60`s Plowing , Discing , Harrowing , Picking roots and rocks , Raking , Tractor assist Oliver combine with a John deere 40 dozer Farmall M - W-4 or 1600 cockshutt in bib overalls straw hat bare feet running behind the tractor it`s going by itself get to the end climb on set the path and go again dinner break jumping into the pond to cool down and wash the field off before dinner comes , Oh ya pulling a horse or calf at the end of the day , Now that`s farming .-We never had Hydraulics on our machinery other than the tractor .But we always said one day there will be a self guided tractor !
I find it funny that you are using a Massey baler. My best friend grew up on a farm and I basically lived out there growing up. His family was John Deere all the way except for their Baler, yup a Massey. His dad always said it made a tighter bale over the JD LOL
That's impressive! I TLC my 8 year stand of orchard grass but no field is as thick as yours. I grew 500 acres of sudangrass and it was the biggest mess. 12' tall and my cows didn't eat it. I ended up mowing it down and it messed with the compaction of my fields. I can see how something like that with aggressive roots benefits a corn or soybean field in winter, but not hay fields. I think you would regret a cover crop. Ext. Agents push that for their own interests, but its not sound advise.
we grew #1 Bermuda in Dale in the 70's and we would weave the runners back into the grass to thicken to keep it thick at that time we were getting $1.25 a bale and that was top dollar
Happy birthday, hun!! Your hubby is a whiz at putting those pads together, not to mention his good luck at missing that stick of rebar- whew! He also has his stuff figured out. He sounds like my dad- i can still remember him taking care of the greens all those years ago- he could spot problems with that bent grass long before it became an issue. Keep up the great videos!!
belinda turner Thank you. And I agree - he is AMAZING with the claw. ~ Kim
I love your farm, its nice to see good people working it. I was born and raised on a Dairy Farm in NJ, yes NJ. We mostly I had to pick those kind of bales up and throw them on a elevator then go up in the hay loft and stack them. I'm amazed and enjoy watching the modern machinery work. P.S happy birthday, age is just a number , your a beautiful farm girl !
Nice video. Its just plain nice to see two people having fun doing something they both enjoy and the bonus of being married is awesome.
The video demonstrates how technologically far farming has come. The idea, in general, is to increase productivity and at the same time, decrease the stress of working repetitive movements. Many people outside the farming community honestly have no clue how difficult this life can be. When a farmer has a bad day, it can affect his entire year. Weather, sickness and health, family needs, equipment malfunctions and breakdowns are just a few things men and women in this business deal with 24/7. Its a way of life. Either you embrace it or you don't.
There are not many rewards in this business. Of course, having a good year, no equipment issues, great cooperative weather, can make all the difference in the world. Farmers know their business. To the penny in some cases, but they know their business. Farms that do well and have consistency can generate vast amounts of money, but what comes in must also contribute to the operation. You see this equipment in this video. Its not cheap to maintain and farmers must often improvise or make in field improvements. This requires allot of knowledge and years of proven experience. Many farmers owe their fellow farmers a debt of gratitude because often, it is the farmer who comes up with the next best thing, idea or improvement to keep operations running smoothly. Again, not easy. There are farming operations which utilize half a million or more worth of tractor. That doesn't include the very expensive implements utilized to complete the task. The money or capital required is staggering. Which explains why so many farms are being removed and why this business can be extremely stressful on the farmer and their family.
For those operations working 24 hours, 7 days a week, the stress is quite serious. However, most farmers work through their days doing what they do best........providing for our country. These two people in this video are amazing and deserve a debt of gratitude for their hard work, dedication and loyalty to an occupation fraught with all sorts of obstacles and hurdles. It's truly nice they take time out to video their work and allow us to share in their efforts to farm.
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+Pete Wahkoowah you have to be either a farmer or a small business owner because everything you said was spot on. I want to thank you for watching and commenting because I couldn't have said it nearly as eloquently as you did.
North Texas Hay Thank you for the kind words. I have done both. Horse farm and small business owner. I just started watching your videos last night. I am so very impressed by the both of you. Your tireless efforts to make your operation work day to day is amazing and there are people out there, like myself, who actually appreciate what you both are accomplishing. That, plus you both are so personal and likeable. I lived in Texas for a while. I know the life there. I miss it very much. Seeing y'all work and talking about what you are doing makes me feel as though I were there in the cab of that Deere. Plus I am a getting a real education about hay farming. Oh I know a few things, but y'all are on a whole other level there.
If no one else says it, I will.......
Thank you both for just being your selves and sharing your love, your life and your knowledge and passion of hay farming and farming in general with the rest of us. 🇺🇸🚜🇺🇸🚜🇺🇸
Pete
What this country needs a lot more of-skilled, decent, hardworking people. Good on ya both!
+Whistle Dawg thank you
Happy birthday. I sure enjoy the videos.
Your absolutely right about letting the ground crack. It has to be drought dry for it to really start cracking and when it does everything is pretty well browned over and does not recover. Happy birthday! What’s a birthday without a little work?! Lol y’all have a good week!
+Joel Ground thank you
Its amazing y'all can grow so well in these soil conditions,we appreciate the information on the fields and techniques applied! I have learned a lot from you two and will be adjusting my hay practices to my region. I like to see the organization and efficiency in your operation. Your video's is an important contributor to the success of my operation,Happy Birthday,Thanks a Ton and Happy Harvesting!
+William Brewer same to you, if I can help you just let me know. I'm sure I can learn a few things from you too.
Great video good luck baling your hay
Looking fab at 49. Happy birthday. Keep up those great videos.
+gerry6420 thanks
Hello from Western Wisconsin! Great videos!!! Its awesome to see a wife/husband work so great together! Keep it up and looking forward to more great videos! Cutting soybeans here and hoping to combine corn soon. Thanks again for the great vidoes!
WesternWi Farmer it
They have came a long way in baling hay since I worked on the farm in the early to middle 50" thanks for a very good video
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Watching you too people doing your thing and your work and day in day out work just makes my day thanks and
happy birthday young lady, best of health to you both and stay safe always.
+canvids1 thank you, we appreciate you watching and commenting
Absolutely beautiful countryside with the ponds & all, but I had no idea hay equipment has advanced this far. I used to use horses & hay slips, wagons, back muscles, and lots of food from the ladies to do this work...
For turf management we use core aerators. They pull 3/4 x 4inch cores out of the ground and you let the cores dissolve and let the organisms go back in. Then you can broadcast seed for overseeding. That might work better for actually relieving compacting. Love your videos. You are both intelligent and have made your operation as efficient as possible.
+JCLawn51 I need to rent one and see if it would work in my soil, I think that would help my compaction greatly
North Texas Hay i doubt you will find one to rent for your operation but rental yards should have ones for small yards and you can do an acre test plot and see if it is worth it. This will be a common rental unit www.ryanturf.com/products/ryan-aerators-walk-behind/ but you want something more like this www.landpride.com/products/49/ca25-series-core-aerators but larger. Spike aerators make the compaction problem worse but those seem to be popular for large applications.
Landpride does have a 12ft model. It's an AR2510. I am sure there has to be larger but this stuff is so specialized it's hard to find.
P.S. that 12 ft is a knife not a core style. 72inch is the largest core they offer.
+JCLawn51 good idea
A slightly late happy birthday. Enjoy watching your videos and the lovely weather you get,far better than what we get here in uk.looking forward to your next upload.
+mark Evans thank you
Happy Birthday!! Y'all have hay cutting down to a fine art .... Good job guys !!!!
Love the baling setup, the most efficient way to handle small squares. North Texas sure looks pretty!
+AKWayne S this little spot sure is
Wow he is good with that equipment. Nice equipment btw. Nice to see both out there. Beautiful property. All in all great relaxing video.
+Ed Michrina thank you
I’ve stood on the back of what they called a bale stucker and you grabbed them of the bale chute and stacked them in triangles , dumped and started over , day after day , then hand loaded onto a wagon and hand bombed into the hayloft. We had a bale elevator but man this is handy setup , nice 👍🏻 !!
Modern farming and farm equipment amazes me. When I was a teen in the 1970's, used to stand on the trailer behind the baler with a hook, bucking and stacking and loading by hand. Unload into the hay loft, by hand. All for $20/day.
Oh boy! That's grueling work. I did that a time or two.
My dad and I would take turns. Drive the tractor for one load, then swap positions, and load the next one. No cabs or AC back then.
Happy birthday young lady, when hubby was driving tractor and commentating there was an apt tune playing for you-tubers, "video killed the radio star", keep up the good work.
+MukyMik thank you, and nice catch on the tune
Side rakes are great. I have an old Massey side rake. I like the way you don’t scalp the grass. It grows back better and faster if you don’t.
Happy birthday, young lady....God bless you both
+Daniel Thomason thank you
Interesting video. I used to throw bales in a hay wagon when I was a teenager.
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I can remember back in the 1950's throwing those 90 LB bales all day by hand. You knew you did a days work then.
Happy Birthday, sweet lady. For the life of me, I can't figure out why you would let that old man drive your pretty green tractor. Seriously, you guys rock. God Bless, my friends. 🇺🇸
+SkyBoss52 thank you, she throws me a bone every now and then.
Damn what a labor saving device! When I was growing up we used to make money by walking along side the trailer and throw bails up on it. Then we would ride back and load them on the elevator. I hated to be up in the barn stacking bales as it was hot up there!!! I didn't mind being on the trailer or beside the elevator.
My dad and uncle made hay together. Our crew could bale and mow 1,000 bales a day. I always wanted to know how hot it was in the mow, but you really didn't want to know.
Happy birthday! What a top day to be outside enjoying it!
+Luke B 10-4
You looking good baling the hay happy burthday
Back in 78 I bought my first vehicle.
It was a 1961 Chevrolet 1.5 ton flatbed truck. I was 15 yrs old and did not have a drivers license. I was never hassled by the Cops either. My best friend and I hauled a lot of hay in the local area where we lived in Oklahoma. We threw the hay on the truck the first summer but I bought an old hay loader the second summer for $350 . The spindle was broke in half on the left side and after I had an amateur welder put it back together the wheel always wobbled after that. You’d be surprised how much work a skinny 140 lb kid could do when the farmer was paying him .25 cents per bale to haul it away and stack it to the peak of the roof in the barn.
Ah, the good old days! 👍
That's got to be a great job, your doing something fun and outside all day. Great video you two👍👍👍
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Happy Birthday Kim. Wow you guys were sure lucky on that stick of rebar. That probably would’ve messed up your baler if it went through.
+loadpin it would have made a mess for sure.
That is a great looking farm👍
If you ever did hay the old way, you can appreciate the new machinery. Hardest physical labor I did was picking those bales up and then putting away in the barn.
+Karl Zimmer I have never done much hand work, but I've done enough to know your back would have a short life span
Nice Tetris work on the bales! That was pretty good.
+Deric Kettel had a lot of people say it reminded them of Tetris, that's funny
Wow that fork takes the weekend out of the project. I used to load and unload in the barn for 10 cents a bale a long time ago. I like that Ready hitch for the trailer. Awesome........
Looks like alfalfa to me.
Bon Fete Mon Amie ~!~!
+Boo LuQuette thanks for watching
Happy birthday young lady hope you have a great day. Hope he takes you out for a great supper. Keep up the great video's
+Kenny Mysak thank you
I like your baling arrangement. Works great. Dean Brown in south Carolina
+Dean Brown seems to work well for us.
My wife runs a 2014 6125 m IVT trans 27mph on the dairy farm in Indiana she loves it. I am born and raised green.
They make good stuff
It's always interesting to see how other people do their operation . We bail all our own hay for our horses, and use similar equipment but , I've never seen an accumulator that drags the bails along the ground while bailing , ours is different . But hey it works for you . I enjoyed to video
+Jeff muha I've seen them all used in action and this has been the most trouble free of all I've seen. Remember, it's just me and the wife putting up 25,000 bales a year I have to have things go smooth to get things done.
Happy Birthday. I love the videos.
+Robert Cronk thank you
I think she looks just fine. Doesn’t look her age at all. May the sun always be shining on the hay fields. Take care.
+aj a thanks
Great set up .
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Kim, that is excellent camera work. You're 49? Happy Birthday!!! Wow you look dam good and it is not obvious you had a couple of boys either. It gives me a real sense of satisfaction seeing the two of you working together as a loving team and it is obvious Scott appreciates and loves you. Like other folks on this channel I've learned a lot and has prompted me to watch how other hay farms operate and how round and square balers work. Scott you really seem to have it down to a science. I too have wondered if dragging bales across the field in the accumulator damages them in any way or if the baling twine brakes because of it. Your work with the claw is a joy to watch.
Thanks again for letting us visit.
+Svend Holme thank you for he kind words, and I've never experienced any damage to the twine
Happy birthday and nice set up you have there. But buddy don't walk underneath a suspended load you never know. Keep up the good work! Beautiful place.
+Efren Hernandez I shouldn't do that but I do.
Awesome amazing beautiful people amazing beautiful places
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Happy Birthday, she don't have to do anything but look good and she's got that covered.....
+Jrbpa 57 I'll agree with that!
Man, that rebar could have done some serious damage. Looks like a beautiful day to do some haying.
When I was a kid I helped bale hay all I had was gloves, a hay hook and muscle to put up hay, course I'm 74 now and retired. Farmed all my life and still live on my farm.
+Elvin Berndt sounds like you were blessed with a good life
Things have changed a lot from when I was in high school and did some of this. In 1966 we had to pick up the bails and throw them up on the truck!
It’s a bit different nowadays
Happy Birthday! Great video. I've never seen hay bales being made before. I learned a lot.
Very good management......Our last cutting is about 2 weeks away....Haven't had any measurable rain fall Since Irma dumped 6 inches on us,the first of Sept.....There is a punch just like the one you have coming up at an auction this coming Sat.....Going to try and buy it or make someone else buy it......Wish me luck
+David Goethe xxx rains been pretty stingy in September, hope you can land that punch they make a difference.
What a great setup ! Everything in one pass
+Carl Wolf has worked for us so far
I thought this was a hay channel " more leaf and bigger leaf makes better grass" that sounds like another "cash crop" to me... Happy Birthday young Lady.
+Blazer02LS that cash crop makes better money than this.
Fresh air and hard work keep you looking good.
+aj a thank you, doesn't seem to be working for the wife though
My dad when he was young used to go up to Iowa when in his teens to visit with his Grandmother,and his Uncle Grover this was in the late 1920s early 1930s
Their Haybarn did not have a loft. It was described to me as an timber framed shed with a manger on each wall and with a lot for the cattle on one side and draft horses on the other milk parlor on the back side with a couple of corncribs and hog lot hay was cut with a sickle mower pulled by horses raked by a bull raked and horses. Forked onto a wagon pulled by horses to the barn and stacked by man into the barn from the ground up.
It was hard manual labor.
Robert Payne Yes no doubt. Real hard manual work.
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Happy Birthday Kim.
+Darryl Digby-Smith thank you
Wow, some lush country! Great gear too!
+antti roppola thanks!
That's a cool way to do it . We always had to buck it by hand .
I was told Buy stock. Not iron. So I never bought the tractor... Texas black land. Your doing it the way no one else does it. And your making money
Been looking at 4020s and square bailing. I have coastal
Smooth operator..... looks like y'all've done that a time or two
My Neighbor has two self Propelled New Holland Bale Picker uppers.. One nice stack 12" high in the barn .. would not be a way to load a flat bed though .. Here in MI out Cation Exchange is like 6 or 7 if your clay is that heavy you need Gypsum spread on your found I am guessing .. Legumes like Alfalfa make the ground more mellow like a sub soiler would
Hello from Chester Country, PA. The farm girl is cute!
Happy Birthday.... 49 yrs old?? Never would have geussed that.. Best wishes to you...
+Ronald Feuerstein thank you
That's a neat bale pick up system!!!
+Larrymmcclain it works for our operation
Enjoy the vids, we finished 3rd cut up here in NE Ohio two weeks ago. Already looking forward to next year! I would maybe try some graphite based paint on those pieces he added to accumulator. Should reduce friction and help it slide past. Just a thought.
+starwardfarms I think I'm going to try that
I'm looking forward to the offseason
Ready for break, just not for cold and snow!! I have a hoelscher accumulator, Ever have issues with broken strings or dirt in bales from them dragging on ground?
Hope the graphite works!
+starwardfarms have never broken a string and have never gotten the bales dirty, but I cut my grass tall and it's pretty thick. I guess it would depend on your conditions.
I commented before I watched the whole video. Back in 1980, we took 3 sheets of tin and made a sled, and I rode behind the baler and as each bale came out I would stack it on the tin behind me as we rode around the field. After I had about 12 bales on it I would stick a bar in between the tin and slide the hay off and start the whole process all over and so it went as we made stacks of 12 or 15 bales. I did this over a 3 day period, 8500 times, needless to say my back was never the same after that.
+Deric Kettel that would break anyone
greetings from northern friesland germany, great video, great machines, beautiful woman 👍👍👍
Thanks
Have you ever subsoiled that area or your pastor areas and Elise let the water get down in there to the roots you could probably do it in the fall and it would help out
Some really good footage of the claw in action. And that making up pads from several partials is just like the computer game Tetris.
Oh, and Happy Birthday, little girl. (I can say that 'cause I am considerably older than either of you.)
+anon y mouse thank you
That's a strong John Deere! pulling all those implements !!
+Larrymmcclain doesn't even know it's there
I like your guy's setup!
+Greg Lewis thank you
Not looking a day over 39.
I'm wondering if you aerate your grass. It looks good.
Happy birthday miss!!🎉🎉🎉🎂🎂
+Luis almeida thank you
Happy Birthday to you as well and many more!!!!!!
+WesternWi Farmer good luck on your harvest and thank you
The lake looks like a nice place to build a house.
JustHeard of ur loss.prayers for u and ur family
Beautifully thick grass!!!
+Drew w if I can just get the soil right
Damn girl your looking good for your age i thought you were in your early forties
Happy birthday. Just subscribed, looks like you have a very nice operation.
It's a *good thing* she's rather easy on the eyes, cause her voice is, *extremely Grating!*
+Lance Vette ha! I'm going to make sure she reads this.
Wow! I'm imagining by your non-threatened & pleasant response.
that you're a supporter of our magnificent President! Donald John Trump
Nice set up!
Oh.. Happy Birthday Sunshine!
+mac dawg thanks
I had no idea that you could pull a baler behind the rake and then what the heck is that behind the baler? Man I've been out of the business too long. The last time I ran anything I was 17, I'm 53 now, wow a lot has changed. I used to run the sickle bar mower and then you had to rake then bale Thanks for the video, this was super cool!
+Deric Kettel time marches on. Thank you for watching and commenting
Happy Birthday! That tractor sure looks better than buckin bales!
+jw '46 I couldn't do it any other way
Were was that piece of equipment at when i was a boy bucking hey on a truck. At .25 cents a bail sun up sun down
Farming is fit for health too..good luck dear
happy birthday, sure like watching that claw in action. maybe need to round out the corners on the accumulator with some flat bar.
+DLK HAY I don't think I can do that, but I'm going to get better video and show you exactly what it's doing and maybe you guys can help me out
Happy Birthday!
+David Broad thank you
Lucky guy.
Where did the rebar come from?
Don witner
You waited picking up square bales now is different from when I grow up
Back in the early 60`s Plowing , Discing , Harrowing , Picking roots and rocks , Raking , Tractor assist Oliver combine with a John deere 40 dozer Farmall M - W-4 or 1600 cockshutt in bib overalls straw hat bare feet running behind the tractor it`s going by itself get to the end climb on set the path and go again dinner break jumping into the pond to cool down and wash the field off before dinner comes , Oh ya pulling a horse or calf at the end of the day , Now that`s farming .-We never had Hydraulics on our machinery other than the tractor .But we always said one day there will be a self guided tractor !
We round bale wet and wrap. Have a baler that chops hay have to run a 6170r on it.
Crazy, I’d like to see how those bales turn out
Nice tractors!
Awesome videos just ran across your Channel
+Walker Outdoors thanks for watching
What about some aeration? To make some holes down into the roots?
I aerate 3 times a year
I find it funny that you are using a Massey baler.
My best friend grew up on a farm and I basically lived out there growing up.
His family was John Deere all the way except for their Baler, yup a Massey. His dad always said it made a tighter bale over the JD LOL
+oldredcoonhound That's funny. I'm kind of limited on balers because of the way I rake and bale together, but the Massey makes a nice bale
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That's impressive! I TLC my 8 year stand of orchard grass but no field is as thick as yours. I grew 500 acres of sudangrass and it was the biggest mess. 12' tall and my cows didn't eat it. I ended up mowing it down and it messed with the compaction of my fields. I can see how something like that with aggressive roots benefits a corn or soybean field in winter, but not hay fields. I think you would regret a cover crop. Ext. Agents push that for their own interests, but its not sound advise.
+zfilmmaker I agree
how much do you sell a bale for? how many bales do you average per season?
That is an interesting rake-baler setup. What is the liquid container on the baler for?
we grew #1 Bermuda in Dale in the 70's and we would weave the runners back into the grass to thicken to keep it thick at that time we were getting $1.25 a bale and that was top dollar
+David Gaylord times have changed
How much hay do you usually get per acre? That cutting looked thin.
+anthony williams everything is determined by weather but yes it was thin
+anthony williams 60bales per acre in the first cutting, 80 in the second, 60 in the third and 40 in the fourth