I really enjoy your videos. I like the way you explain what you are doing and why. The drone scenes add to my enjoyment a great deal. I had a farm years ago and worked a lot of hay over the years, but I am retired now.
That is God's country up there! Such Beautiful rolling hills Dennis. I know you feel fortunate to be up in those hills. It's such a special place. Thanks for the cool video!
I like orchard grass the best too, that and Timothy. I hate messing with alfalfa it's a pain but my main customer like to have a little for foaling. Nobody around here sells alfalfa either so it is in high demand. I'm only doing about 9 acres.
I like alfalfa and have made good money from it for years, but two seasons ago we had all that relentless rain and I couldn’t cut it when I needed and was out thousands of dollars. There’s no subsidy for that around me, only crops which alfalfa doesn’t qualify. I learned a value lesson that year how vulnerable that market is to bad weather. I lost a little money on orchardgrass but I just mowed it and recovered relatively quick but that wasn’t the case with alfalfa. I had similar losses that year on chopped corn. Man, I hope we don’t have another season like that anytime soon.
Good video I enjoyed it very much I would like to try one of those rakes and compare it with a wheel rake the one that we used is a Kuhn thanks for sharing
Yeah I like it. I don't have any major complaints about it. Hard to compare the Deere against it though they are two different animals. I would rather spend my time in the Deere it's definitely more tractor and a little more comfortable on rough ground.
Great video Dennis I always love hay season! Well I did when I was a young lad. couldn't wait to get out of school so I could work on the farm. Hey a dollar a day was good money back then LOL.
Good morning Dennis nice hay field and with the drone I can see how steep those hills are. Beautiful areal footage of it following you. Got the prefect rank to do the job. Enjoyed watching, wish had gone longer. Thanks 🙏👍👏
Good day Dennis ,it looks like you are going to have a cab full little helpers .Hope the rye stays dry enough to get baled . Take care , be safe . see ya .
Man that's a lot of drying time. It looked great though. I hope all the rain we just went through helped your new planting for the season. Drone footage of the rake was really cool.
My dad bought the land for the construction company from my grandpa years ago but when he passed they spit the rest of the farm and my dad got more land that surrounds the construction company and my uncle got the farm you see here. My grandpa owned about 500 acres at one time.
I was going to do a millet and double crop for a couple years then go back to alfalfa but my dad bought land near by that was a corn field so I planted my alfalfa there and decided to turn this into orchard and Timothy
The drone makes for some beautiful footage. Thanks for taking the time to get it goin. Beautiful country. Stay well, stay safe and we’ll see ya on the next one 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
I agree with you about chemicals . Just about every family member that farmed from the 1940's to the 70's had some form of cancer . Back when the government promoted a big use of chemicals . Even the women got some form of cancer . I think it got into the well water .
Yeah sometimes you can't avoid it when you have to do a burn down or get a lot of weeds but usually I avoid it. I wonder if all the people that want their hay 100 percent weed free realize how much chemical has to be sprayed on the hay to make that happen.
How did your family get into doing the dirt work that you do now with your dad? Looking like a pretty good crop we just finished up first cutting here in Kentucky after all the rain.
That’s a nice rake. I’m interested in the rotary rakes. How well does it do in rolling areas or uneven terrain? I have rolling hay fields and some dips here and there in them.
My dad was a cowboy and a Rancher and he always told me that it was okay to feed hay with weeds the cows but hey the horses have to be Weed Free my dad was one of the last Cowboys to die in Florida
It's not to bad, but that is normal for most all cab tractors because of the pressure that the door creates in the cab when you close it. Try opening the back window then shut the door I I bet it will close easier.
Those guys that own that farm now are they the ones that use those big equipment? Well guess they contacted guys...equipment you don't hardly see around those parts..always like harvest time driving into work seeing those guys..one day I'm calling in and going to go watch them lol!
The guys that own hurricane ridge farm have all the big equipment. The farm in the background here still belongs to my uncle, but he is renting most of his land to and working for the big farm on hurricane ridge also.
Dennis a little trick for you is row up the grass and leave it for the couple of days after cutting. It will dry out way faster see the wind can get through the row instead of lying flat on the ground. Same principle as drying clothes I suppose. Sometimes you might have to do twice if it’s a real heavy crop. That’s how we do it in Ireland when you’re lucky to get 3 days of dry weather!! Love the videos the pure raw farmer view is awesome.
Actually I've tried that and it won't dry hardly at all. If the sun can't get to it, it just stays wet. I've had the best luck spreading it wide and thin with a Tedder. Rye takes a long time no matter what you do that why most people just chop it.
DLH Farms aaah... didn’t know rye was so hard to dry. Thanks for the information and keeping me sane!! You’re videos are a great way to pass the time with my family.
Be cause it's much easier to look over your right shoulder because the controls are on the right, then you can see the tree line and fence easier so you don't hit them.
To steep for that to work around here. Normally you have to back the baler up a long ways to find a valley or a spot flat enough that the bales won't roll away.
DLH Farms yeah I personally know about Vicon, I own a RotaFlow R-OM all aluminum precision spreader I bought a year before they were acquired. Cost me 22k and now I can’t get parts. Kubota doesn’t allow them to be sold in USA or Canada and no Europe dealers will send parts. Kubota bought Vicon to kill their line from competition.
I really enjoy your videos. I like the way you explain what you are doing and why. The drone scenes add to my enjoyment a great deal. I had a farm years ago and worked a lot of hay over the years, but I am retired now.
Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching!
That rake does a good job for ya‼️ Drone showed it really well and a great view as well‼️👍🏻👍🏻
Thanks Mark!
Just finished cutting and baling our rye yesterday
Cool deal 👍
That is God's country up there! Such Beautiful rolling hills Dennis. I know you feel fortunate to be up in those hills. It's such a special place. Thanks for the cool video!
Yeah I love it here!
I’d grow more orchardgrass, I sell so much of it. Quality bales are always in high demand but so many people grow alfalfa. To much competition.
I like orchard grass the best too, that and Timothy. I hate messing with alfalfa it's a pain but my main customer like to have a little for foaling. Nobody around here sells alfalfa either so it is in high demand. I'm only doing about 9 acres.
I like alfalfa and have made good money from it for years, but two seasons ago we had all that relentless rain and I couldn’t cut it when I needed and was out thousands of dollars. There’s no subsidy for that around me, only crops which alfalfa doesn’t qualify. I learned a value lesson that year how vulnerable that market is to bad weather. I lost a little money on orchardgrass but I just mowed it and recovered relatively quick but that wasn’t the case with alfalfa. I had similar losses that year on chopped corn. Man, I hope we don’t have another season like that anytime soon.
Good video I enjoyed it very much I would like to try one of those rakes and compare it with a wheel rake the one that we used is a Kuhn thanks for sharing
I think you will like it.
Man that is some country!👌
Yeah Its beautiful
Do you like the Massey Ferguson tractor?Anything that you don`t like about it compared to a John Deere?
Yeah I like it. I don't have any major complaints about it. Hard to compare the Deere against it though they are two different animals. I would rather spend my time in the Deere it's definitely more tractor and a little more comfortable on rough ground.
You make really nice videos thanks for sharing
Thanks!!
Great video Dennis I always love hay season! Well I did when I was a young lad. couldn't wait to get out of school so I could work on the farm. Hey a dollar a day was good money back then LOL.
Cool my father in law said he made a dollar a day working hay and that was good money then
Have to agree with frone footage. Kool.. your too busy!! Time to go fishing??
My boy asked me to go fishing today
Did you go??
Heck yeah! Nothing wrong with those drone shots!! I could watch that all day. Thanks!
Awesome thanks!
Flying, driving, and parenting? That's some multi-tasking Dennis.
Haha yeah!
Good morning Dennis nice hay field and with the drone I can see how steep those hills are. Beautiful areal footage of it following you. Got the prefect rank to do the job. Enjoyed watching, wish had gone longer. Thanks 🙏👍👏
Thanks Ronald sorry it was a little short
Boy that was great drone footage in the field. Your Grampa s old farm on the rolling hills is beautiful, and reminds me of my grampas farm Nice!!!
Awesome Don glad you liked it!
Beautiful countryside, Dennis. Love the hay videos. What type of drone do you have ? Great footage.
It's a Mavic 2 pro
Cool.
I would mix in some red clover.
I would if it was going for cow hay but this will be horse hay and horse people don't like much clover.
Good day Dennis ,it looks like you are going to have a cab full little helpers .Hope the rye stays dry enough to get baled . Take care , be safe . see ya .
Haha I had little helpers the rest of the day
I love the drone footage! It's nice to see the surrounding area where you are. Keep up the great content!
Thanks!
Good looking farm,what kinds of tractors did your grandpa have that you remember
All Ford. TW-20, 7710, 7740, 6600, 4600, 4610, 801. All those tractors are still around except for the 801
Another great video . Thanks for sharing the work you do . Take care and be safe.
Thanks Brad!
Man that's a lot of drying time. It looked great though. I hope all the rain we just went through helped your new planting for the season. Drone footage of the rake was really cool.
Thanks! Yeah it's was difficult to dry but I knew it would be. It worked out.
I have the single version of that rake and have been happy with it. Hope you got some baling footage!
I've got one of those too, haven't used it in a couple years.
thats a beautiful looking area there dennis.reminds me of where i ive in southern tier of ny.nice rolling hills ,with famland scattered around.
Yeah it's a beautiful place. I just take it for granted most of the time.
Splits focus, alot of ppl that smoke weed can do that to... lol
Bahaha
Enjoy your videos, awesome drone footage, beautiful country!!
Thanks David!
Hay fields looks good Dennis mines are full of stickers and weeds 😢
Lime, Fertilizer and maybe a no-till drill. I know cost a lot of money
Really like the aerial footage. Beautiful country to rake hay in.
Thanks!
Nice been of drone footage there Dennis 👍. I'm guessing your still enjoying the rake? You'll have to do an updste/review on it again
Thanks yeah this is it fifth season I should review it.
@@DLHFarms fifth season?!? Surely it can't be?!😲. Think I've lost a couple of years somewhere 😂😂
I know because I financed it for 5 years and it's almost paid for.
@@DLHFarms oh heck! I know you bought it while I was looking at them. Didn't buy mine till last xmas
Is that the uncle that split the land with the construction property?
My dad bought the land for the construction company from my grandpa years ago but when he passed they spit the rest of the farm and my dad got more land that surrounds the construction company and my uncle got the farm you see here. My grandpa owned about 500 acres at one time.
That Kubota seems to be a good rake
So far it's been really good. No issues 5th season doing 200 acres a year.
is there an advantage of that style rake of a wheel rake? Or vice versa?
It never wads up like my old wheel rake did and it doesn't pick up near as much dirt in the hay.
You look so tired
I stay tired haha
That's the sign of a real working man. No time to sleep and a tired look on face
We follow up wheat hay with a German millet/ soybean combination.
I was going to do a millet and double crop for a couple years then go back to alfalfa but my dad bought land near by that was a corn field so I planted my alfalfa there and decided to turn this into orchard and Timothy
After the alfalfa plays out I will switch the fields
The drone makes for some beautiful footage. Thanks for taking the time to get it goin. Beautiful country. Stay well, stay safe and we’ll see ya on the next one 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Thanks Matt !!
Great video Dennis 👍
Thanks!
I agree with you about chemicals . Just about every family member that farmed from the 1940's to the 70's had some form of cancer . Back when the government promoted a big use of chemicals . Even the women got some form of cancer . I think it got into the well water .
Yeah sometimes you can't avoid it when you have to do a burn down or get a lot of weeds but usually I avoid it. I wonder if all the people that want their hay 100 percent weed free realize how much chemical has to be sprayed on the hay to make that happen.
How well I understand about the rain Dennis. Great for the new crops, not so much for making hay. Love the videos, keep up the good work.
Thanks Martin! I was able to get up about 50 acres of my hay this week videos coming soon.
How do you like square baling behind the rotary rake?
Wouldn’t want to bale behind anything else
@@DLHFarms I just bought a double rotary pottinger.
How did your family get into doing the dirt work that you do now with your dad? Looking like a pretty good crop we just finished up first cutting here in Kentucky after all the rain.
My dad saw that there wasn't much future in the dairy business and had an interest in backhoe work so he bought one and it went from there.
That’s a nice rake. I’m interested in the rotary rakes. How well does it do in rolling areas or uneven terrain? I have rolling hay fields and some dips here and there in them.
My field are the rough and the rake does really well I have to run it close to the ground though. Much better than anything else I've used.
My dad was a cowboy and a Rancher and he always told me that it was okay to feed hay with weeds the cows but hey the horses have to be Weed Free my dad was one of the last Cowboys to die in Florida
It doesn't have to be completely weed free. Only way to get weed free is spray the hay with a bunch of chemicals. I'd rather have a few weeds.
Thanks for this awesome drone footage, is it really good!:)
Thanks!!
I work for Kubota tractor in ocala Florida
On my 6330 I pretty much have to slam my doors to get a good seal. Is your 6110R like that?
It's not to bad, but that is normal for most all cab tractors because of the pressure that the door creates in the cab when you close it. Try opening the back window then shut the door I I bet it will close easier.
DLH Farms I’ve driven cab tractors all my life but nothing new enough to have a nice tight door so it’s kinda new to me lol
I was wondering in the next square baking video could you explain how the hydraulic bale tensioner works please and thank u for the great content
I've already filmed the next square baleing video but I'll try to do it next time.
@@DLHFarms ok I just have never seen anyone explain how they it works
Those guys that own that farm now are they the ones that use those big equipment? Well guess they contacted guys...equipment you don't hardly see around those parts..always like harvest time driving into work seeing those guys..one day I'm calling in and going to go watch them lol!
The guys that own hurricane ridge farm have all the big equipment. The farm in the background here still belongs to my uncle, but he is renting most of his land to and working for the big farm on hurricane ridge also.
@@DLHFarms oh ok gottaca...beautiful farms
Dennis a little trick for you is row up the grass and leave it for the couple of days after cutting. It will dry out way faster see the wind can get through the row instead of lying flat on the ground. Same principle as drying clothes I suppose. Sometimes you might have to do twice if it’s a real heavy crop. That’s how we do it in Ireland when you’re lucky to get 3 days of dry weather!! Love the videos the pure raw farmer view is awesome.
Actually I've tried that and it won't dry hardly at all. If the sun can't get to it, it just stays wet. I've had the best luck spreading it wide and thin with a Tedder. Rye takes a long time no matter what you do that why most people just chop it.
DLH Farms aaah... didn’t know rye was so hard to dry. Thanks for the information and keeping me sane!! You’re videos are a great way to pass the time with my family.
Your Drone has a excellent camera very clear couldn't tell it was windy.
Thanks it was gusting up to about 15mph that day I was concerned they say max wind is 20mph for the drone.
👍🏼👍🏼
Thanks!
Why f D o you rake counter click wise
Can’t type why do you rake counter clock wise just curious
Be cause it's much easier to look over your right shoulder because the controls are on the right, then you can see the tree line and fence easier so you don't hit them.
They do produce a rake that you can attach your baler to so you can rake and bale at the same time
To steep for that to work around here. Normally you have to back the baler up a long ways to find a valley or a spot flat enough that the bales won't roll away.
Great video Dennis. Like your drone shots.
Thanks
The rake is missing a bunch ? Maybe need new teeth
Like I said in the video I didn't want to readjust it to rake this one field it's set up for regular hay.
👍👌🇨🇦❤, gettin' "R" done
Oh yeah!! 👍
That rake does a really nice job!
Yeah it does thanks!
Kubota makes hay rakes?
Yeah they bought Kverneland a few years ago so they now have a whole line of hay equipment. Kverneland makes vicon equipment it's all the same stuff.
DLH Farms yeah I personally know about Vicon, I own a RotaFlow R-OM all aluminum precision spreader I bought a year before they were acquired. Cost me 22k and now I can’t get parts. Kubota doesn’t allow them to be sold in USA or Canada and no Europe dealers will send parts. Kubota bought Vicon to kill their line from competition.
Great drone footage! What kind is it? I have an Autel EVO 1. God bless
Thanks it's a Mavic 2 pro
Good to see a great Kubota product in your inventory!
I do like that rake