Very cool video thanks for sharing. Really nice bales Oliver made so many good pieces of machinery. I just love your barn it’s so nice to have one yourself and use it like that . Thanks for taking care of the little rabbit and bury it. You have a good heart.
Watching this video brought back good memories of when I worked for a local dairy farmer during my high school years. Man, we did a lot of baling hay! I did most of the hauling in just because of the fact that I was about the only one that could back up a wagon or hay rack. But, that didn't mean that I wasn't in the barn stacking. When you came out of that barn, it felt really nice out, no matter how hot it was!
In the 60’s we ran an Oliver 520 (bought new) with a Farmall 300, then upgraded to a MM U32 diesel. Stacked hay/straw on wagon identical to how you guys did it! Our dairy was in NW PA
Thanks for the great video, you brought many memories back to this old guy being out there in the field baling hay and straw. back then bales were off the ground on to a flat bed truck pitching with forks etc. guess back then the teck wasn't there/everything by hand. Happy for you that you got all under cover.
I felt really bad about the rabbit too, I had a dog like Teeter, he'd always catch some wild animal, this happened several years ago where he attacked a beaver running around in my yard, my neighbor has a bunch of vintage Massey Ferguson equipment he used to farm with years ago, I kinda know someone else who has Oliver equipment, thanks for sharing the video Ethan
Makes me miss doing hay. I used to stack on the back of my dads 1ton flat bed. We had a sled hay loader which was nice. Wasn’t the biggest fan of putting it in the barn though. When I was even younger I remember riding in our 2 ton truck watching my dad and uncle haul hay for half the night. Anyway thanks for the video.
I highly recommend Brazilian gold 7200 ft sisal twine, i run a newholland 271 baller about the same era as yours and i have very little problems, thats what they were made to use. We baled almost 600 bales of rye straw today and it only missed 6 bales when it changed balls. I learned my lesson with cheaper or thiner twine. Good luck!
That’s what the fucked up ball of orange twine was. I had it on the shelf and wanted to get rid of it so it wasn’t sitting around. I won’t run anything but New Holland 7200 which is what the green twine is.
Nice. I enjoyed the video. Your baler is pretty slick. I Always enjoyed watching the knotters work as a kid. Trying to see what it was doing. Jordan Farms ran a hesston center feed for quite a few years, worked very well. Looking forward to more.
I have a neighbor who was a one man show for a long time. He worked and farmed too. They would bale all day then run a Hesston "stackhand" bale mover at night to pick it all up. That thing had a V8 engine in it with dual exhaust and I think no mufflers. He sounded like a drag racer out in the field. They also had a bale mover they would pick up the stacks with and put them under an open shelter. Yes the slicker you get a baler the better it feeds...
I like seeing that oliver Bailey in action! Hell, I like seeing anything made by Oliver work. I'm with ya on the animal deal. I don't kill anything unless it's suffering, causing harm, or I'm going to eat it. And that's only a yard chicken, or the once a year hog.
That old girl will swallow the straw and makes a nice bale!! These modern-day engineers should take a step back and look at some of this old stuff that still works good after all these years and is simple, compared to the new crap they design every day that doesn’t !!!
I 100% agree with you. The companies just dont care since they can make a lil bit more money with it being cheaply made and having you spend loads of money on overpriced shit parts
Aside from a few tec things like on board moisture sensors and automatic bale tension sensors, small square balers really haven’t changed mechanically at all since the 1960s.
@@Oliver66FarmBoy I agree on the baler part, my point was all this other technology that has taken over; where you can’t even fix your own equipment cuz you don’t have access to software, it’s a downhill slide for this country. If you bought a new tractor today, parked it in the shed , chances are 50-60 years from now your grandkids will have an inoperable piece of equipment nobody can use, cuz nobody will have the tight software to even access- you know what I mean, everything is too complicated nowadays. Unlike and that’s what’s fun about watching you and your dad can take these older pieces equipment and you can still fix them like the old days and they’re just like new better than new stuff they keep working with no problems they just work! That my point.
Glad you had help getting the straw in. I agree about the baler probably just needs more use. I don't like killing animals either. I don't even like to do it when they are destroying something. Sometimes we just don't have a choice.
I made all my money for most of my teenage years baling hay. We never had the pleasure of having a chute onto the wagon, it was two guys on the ground picking up and tossing to one guy on the wagon. Then to the barn loft to store it, most of the time it was around 120 in the loft. Not fun, but do remember working with my buddies and making money. Best part was that you got fed at the end of the day ususally, those farmers wives sure could cook.
Somebody called these dumb bricks as in dumb as a brick. Reflecting back upon where small square bales were the thing. But still done these days and some specialty situations like where your selling straw for landscaping. Or horse feed to make it easy for people to handle it..
Put up a lot of bales behind the neighbors Oliver baler, a bit newer as it had the Roto Feed instead of the auger in the feeder. Made a nice bale, pulled it with a Deere 3020.
If you had the facilities for it, a New Holland bale wagon would be the cats ass. They are New Holland's crowning achievement in my opinion. They are so fun to watch and run. Love some 1800 action
Some good looking straw it very's around here 2 dollars to 5 dollars a bale then if it is big squares bales it goes by tonnage and the same for round bales too and enjoyed the video
Nothing wrong with caring about the rabbit. Having a heart is admirable. Glad to see you having your own barn. Nice to see you had help with the baling.
Good looking setup, especially once the baler got polished up!Nice having help, I’ve been solo this season. I ran our 337 baler with our 720 diesel for 1st cut of horse hay. 1st gear was averaging a bale every 8 seconds and she was tying like a dream. Broke around a dozen out of 800 bales, mostly from the ejector. Apparently last season’s plague has ended! Will you sell any of the straw?
Baling straw for me was a love hate thing, loved the bales being half the weight of alfalfa but the dust oh my! The worst however was baling some clover that had been rained on and was basically only good for bedding to get it off the field and it was this black moldy dust coming at you on the rack...oof!
Good dog! Those suckers are garden raiding critters anyway. Hope Teeter didn't get ticks or fleas off it. he last several rabbits I have shot were loaded. Seems like it's always that way in dry years
Used to do a lot of that sometimes driving sometimes on the wagon 1dollar an hour later 1dollar and 50cents a hour 13 year old at the time thought I making big money lol
Well I always thought when it was time to bail you got the high school football team over there and that's how they got their work out and that's how they had a powerhouse football team maybe it was coaches farm but I guess with the big round and big square bales there's no use for a lot of labor anymore
That could be it lil rusty inside at causes issues . Seen a similar at a local thrasheree watching corn chopping demo old gehl an wagon. Chopper looked like it hadn’t see daylight in years.
That is the problem Ethan the more you use the baler the better it will tie better you are right Ethan .are you going to bale any hay with your baler????
that rabbit must have not been doing well in the first place for teeter to catch it not downing teeter but on a good day them rabbits are a quarter turn past oh my God fast and the reason teeter got it was in pain in the first place as for the baler the guy i helped he would not start counting missed bales till the baler got shined up good that is all he did with his square baler was straw did all his hay with round baler i hated that round baler with my whole body that damned thing was junk i could put 8 bales on the trailer and would have to get off the tractor to gather up the extra twine for all 8 bales from where the twine cutter did not cut the twine very well it was total bull shit i would rather been put on the wagon with the square baler than chase that round baler
None of my business but why you throw twine bale in burn pile should of returned it as it’s so expensive and not your fault. Just don’t think you should take the hit and want you to do well but every dollar counts in farming and in life
Ethan I retired from baling 7 yrs ago when I almost tore my rotator cuff. I always stacked on the wagon either picking up out of the field or behind the baler.
Need a boombox so Cus. Nathan can bust some moves while surfing that wagon!!! Love the old eqipt. & video. Tx
Damn, this video takes me back to my happy childhood helping farmers out stacking bales on a wagon. Thanks for the video!
Thanks for watching
Very cool video thanks for sharing. Really nice bales Oliver made so many good pieces of machinery.
I just love your barn it’s so nice to have one yourself and use it like that . Thanks for taking care of the little rabbit and bury it. You have a good heart.
You don’t know how nice it is to have a barn until it’s right there at the house.
Watching this video brought back good memories of when I worked for a local dairy farmer during my high school years. Man, we did a lot of baling hay! I did most of the hauling in just because of the fact that I was about the only one that could back up a wagon or hay rack. But, that didn't mean that I wasn't in the barn stacking. When you came out of that barn, it felt really nice out, no matter how hot it was!
Easily a 10-15 degree jump in temp when you get up in a loft.
Thank God for what you have, Trust God for what you need.
Late 60's to mid 70's for sure. It was a great time to farm... even a profitable time to farm.
Yep
In the 60’s we ran an Oliver 520 (bought new) with a Farmall 300, then upgraded to a MM U32 diesel. Stacked hay/straw on wagon identical to how you guys did it!
Our dairy was in NW PA
Good heart…got me to subscribe. Love the tractors
Thanks for the great video, you brought many memories back to this old guy being out there in the field baling hay and straw.
back then bales were off the ground on to a flat bed truck pitching with forks etc. guess back then the teck wasn't there/everything by hand.
Happy for you that you got all under cover.
I did that a lot when I was a little kid. The neighbor didn’t have enough wagons.
This brings back memories of when me and my buddies helped our pe teacher bale hay standing on the wagon
Man I wish I lived closer, I would love to be on the rack baling straw. Spent many a day doing that, always enjoyed it!
Great to see older tackle still working an working well too . A credit to you for your mechanical knowledge an skills. Love watching your channel. 👍🏻
Thanks.
Good job overall and thanks for sharing.
Need to see more of that baler in action. You have the coolest equipment.
Thanks
@@Oliver66FarmBoy ¹
It's always nice to have help buddy be safe out there your buddy from Nebraska
Thanks
I felt really bad about the rabbit too, I had a dog like Teeter, he'd always catch some wild animal, this happened several years ago where he attacked a beaver running around in my yard, my neighbor has a bunch of vintage Massey Ferguson equipment he used to farm with years ago, I kinda know someone else who has Oliver equipment, thanks for sharing the video Ethan
. 9I
O
😊😅😅😊😊😅😊😊😊🎉😮😅
Thankyou for sharing, another great video
Thanks
I miss that kind of work
Great video good to see you again
Can’t wait for hay season again
Makes me miss doing hay. I used to stack on the back of my dads 1ton flat bed. We had a sled hay loader which was nice. Wasn’t the biggest fan of putting it in the barn though. When I was even younger I remember riding in our 2 ton truck watching my dad and uncle haul hay for half the night. Anyway thanks for the video.
I’ve been doing hay and straw since I was 6 years old and was strong enough to start pulling bales off the chute.
My dad did a lot of custom baling we put a lot of hay through a 60T baler just like the one you have.
Good times.
Straw came out nice. Thanks for the update Ethan. Take care. Fred.
Thanks
I highly recommend Brazilian gold 7200 ft sisal twine, i run a newholland 271 baller about the same era as yours and i have very little problems, thats what they were made to use. We baled almost 600 bales of rye straw today and it only missed 6 bales when it changed balls. I learned my lesson with cheaper or thiner twine. Good luck!
That’s what the fucked up ball of orange twine was. I had it on the shelf and wanted to get rid of it so it wasn’t sitting around. I won’t run anything but New Holland 7200 which is what the green twine is.
Nice Oliver equipment.
Great video, great team you have 😀😀👍
Thanks.
I liked baling straw as a young kid because straw was lighter and I could stack them higher on the wagon. Them were the good old days.
Hay makes a lot nicer bale though.
That is a good dog! Let the puppy have her rabbit.
Love the 1800
Nice. I enjoyed the video. Your baler is pretty slick. I Always enjoyed watching the knotters work as a kid. Trying to see what it was doing. Jordan Farms ran a hesston center feed for quite a few years, worked very well. Looking forward to more.
Those are supposed to be good balers.
Great video as usual.
You did the right thing Ethan 👍👍👍👍👍
I have a neighbor who was a one man show for a long time. He worked and farmed too. They would bale all day then run a Hesston "stackhand" bale mover at night to pick it all up. That thing had a V8 engine in it with dual exhaust and I think no mufflers. He sounded like a drag racer out in the field. They also had a bale mover they would pick up the stacks with and put them under an open shelter. Yes the slicker you get a baler the better it feeds...
You sure it was a Stackhand? The Hesston stackhand was the loaf baler.
I like seeing that oliver Bailey in action! Hell, I like seeing anything made by Oliver work. I'm with ya on the animal deal. I don't kill anything unless it's suffering, causing harm, or I'm going to eat it. And that's only a yard chicken, or the once a year hog.
Yep
great video as always, makes me want to start growing wheat and eventually beans and corn. we just have hay and cattle.
Back in the day that's the way my boss bailed I was so happy when he went to round bails
That old girl will swallow the straw and makes a nice bale!! These modern-day engineers should take a step back and look at some of this old stuff that still works good after all these years and is simple, compared to the new crap they design every day that doesn’t !!!
I 100% agree with you. The companies just dont care since they can make a lil bit more money with it being cheaply made and having you spend loads of money on overpriced shit parts
Aside from a few tec things like on board moisture sensors and automatic bale tension sensors, small square balers really haven’t changed mechanically at all since the 1960s.
@@Oliver66FarmBoy I agree on the baler part, my point was all this other technology that has taken over; where you can’t even fix your own equipment cuz you don’t have access to software, it’s a downhill slide for this country. If you bought a new tractor today, parked it in the shed , chances are 50-60 years from now your grandkids will have an inoperable piece of equipment nobody can use, cuz nobody will have the tight software to even access- you know what I mean, everything is too complicated nowadays. Unlike and that’s what’s fun about watching you and your dad can take these older pieces equipment and you can still fix them like the old days and they’re just like new better than new stuff they keep working with no problems they just work! That my point.
Love the old Oliver balers, I have a 720 I use. Also have a New Holland 273 but I think the Oliver makes a nicer bale.
I used to be part owner of a 720 with a buddy. Wish I would have never sold out my half. That thing was a hog.
All Balers comming out of the barn 1st time for the season have problems.....Nature of the beast in my opinion .
Yep. The open sided shed I had it in for the winter didn’t help it none. Still better than no roof.
Equipment rust out versus wear out.
Must be a happy medium there somewhere, eh?
Thanks for the video.
Glad you had help getting the straw in. I agree about the baler probably just needs more use. I don't like killing animals either. I don't even like to do it when they are destroying something. Sometimes we just don't have a choice.
Yep
I made all my money for most of my teenage years baling hay. We never had the pleasure of having a chute onto the wagon, it was two guys on the ground picking up and tossing to one guy on the wagon. Then to the barn loft to store it, most of the time it was around 120 in the loft. Not fun, but do remember working with my buddies and making money. Best part was that you got fed at the end of the day ususally, those farmers wives sure could cook.
AWESOME!!!!
Somebody called these dumb bricks as in dumb as a brick. Reflecting back upon where small square bales were the thing. But still done these days and some specialty situations like where your selling straw for landscaping. Or horse feed to make it easy for people to handle it..
Kinda want a Oliver baler now that thing bales nice
It was well cared for.
@@Oliver66FarmBoy it definitely was
Put up a lot of bales behind the neighbors Oliver baler, a bit newer as it had the Roto Feed instead of the auger in the feeder. Made a nice bale, pulled it with a Deere 3020.
That was the best feed system for a baler ever designed hands down.
I just got my oliver 88 running. Now I wanna bale with it😂
If you had the facilities for it, a New Holland bale wagon would be the cats ass. They are New Holland's crowning achievement in my opinion. They are so fun to watch and run. Love some 1800 action
Doesn’t gain you much when they have to go in a loft.
@@Oliver66FarmBoy the single bale unload ones will load them right onto the elevator, or stack them for retrieval later.
Some good looking straw it very's around here 2 dollars to 5 dollars a bale then if it is big squares bales it goes by tonnage and the same for round bales too and enjoyed the video
I’m asking 5 for this.
It's never fun being the poor bastard on the wagon. I'll take stacking over unloading a tossed wagon any day though
Nothing wrong with caring about the rabbit. Having a heart is admirable. Glad to see you having your own barn. Nice to see you had help with the baling.
Thanks
Square bales warm you twice!
The second time when you feed them! 😀
Got yourself a good "crop" of straw Farm Boy! Good cash flow.
Yep
Our favorite companions, dogs and cats, are vicious killing machines - just like us. You’ll feel better after a nice steak dinner.
Cool bailing vid!
This is how we did it in the 80s too heheh
Good looking setup, especially once the baler got polished up!Nice having help, I’ve been solo this season. I ran our 337 baler with our 720 diesel for 1st cut of horse hay. 1st gear was averaging a bale every 8 seconds and she was tying like a dream. Broke around a dozen out of 800 bales, mostly from the ejector. Apparently last season’s plague has ended!
Will you sell any of the straw?
Is all getting sold.
You forgot to introduce Mr. Wyatt who did great for 7 years old…
Used to do around 10000 bales a year with our Deere 214 wire special still use it today to make around 1000 bales of alfalfa
I wouldn’t mind finding a wire tie baler. Mice can’t chew through that.
What weight do you shoot for with these bales?
After all the years I spent bailing, I still don't want to be on the wagon again!
I’d rather be on the wagon than in the loft.
Baling straw for me was a love hate thing, loved the bales being half the weight of alfalfa but the dust oh my! The worst however was baling some clover that had been rained on and was basically only good for bedding to get it off the field and it was this black moldy dust coming at you on the rack...oof!
Straw is pretty clean after it’s been rained on.
Good dog! Those suckers are garden raiding critters anyway. Hope Teeter didn't get ticks or fleas off it. he last several rabbits I have shot were loaded. Seems like it's always that way in dry years
Yeah its no coincidence either. The ticks and shit need the blood to hydrate since there’s no moisture anywhere
17:40 nice clip of your dad on the 1800.
Used to do a lot of that sometimes driving sometimes on the wagon 1dollar an hour later 1dollar and 50cents a hour 13 year old at the time thought I making big money lol
What gear is you're dad running in? The ol baler is punching out the bales for its age
Can you explain why that bailer has such a short tong I don’t think I have ever seen a bailer with such a short tong
It's all the bigger it needs
Almost every baler made in the 50s and early 60s had short tongues like that.
What's your plan with the wheat field ? Late beans? Cover crop?
Plow it.
Hate to see that soil exposed to the elements. Gabe Brown@ TH-cam.
Do you do double crop beans behind your wheat?
No
Well I always thought when it was time to bail you got the high school football team over there and that's how they got their work out and that's how they had a powerhouse football team maybe it was coaches farm but I guess with the big round and big square bales there's no use for a lot of labor anymore
When its dry, ill leave a wagon out just daring it to rain.
Mountain man needs a hay hook
Are you still planning on making a sliding door for the basement of the bank barn?
Yea
Looks like your dad loves running the trackter when gets a chance
That could be it lil rusty inside at causes issues . Seen a similar at a local thrasheree watching corn chopping demo old gehl an wagon. Chopper looked like it hadn’t see daylight in years.
Sitting is the worst thing for them.
That baler might be trying to tell you to do a little hay like you talked about a few videos back!
You must have missed the last month of videos.
That is the problem Ethan the more you use the baler the better it will tie better you are right Ethan .are you going to bale any hay with your baler????
I don’t see what else he will bale hay with next year
Hi oliver66, bring me the trailer load i will buy it lol, thanks for sharing
What’s a bale of straw go for now? Years ago it was 1.00/ bale out of the barn. Lol
5.00
How come you do not use hay hooks? Will save your arms. Make them out of 3/8s reinforcing rod,
Because I’m not a little pansy.
Hi Nathan
Where you have that barn you can alway's add on to it.
I know.
@@Oliver66FarmBoy Sorry I was not trying to be a smart ass I just was saying as you grow you can still add on.
That's what dogs do. Rabbits are nature's potato chips. Don't sweat it.
Don't burn that tangled ball of twine!
It can be used for other things!
I’m burning it.
You need to sell me that tractor and baler😂
Everything is for sale for a price. But if you have to ask, you can’t afford it.
Not sure if he has any or not, but if not, get some gloves on that boy.
So will you just sell that straw
Umm yea.
that rabbit must have not been doing well in the first place for teeter to catch it not downing teeter but on a good day them rabbits are a quarter turn past oh my God fast and the reason teeter got it was in pain in the first place as for the baler the guy i helped he would not start counting missed bales till the baler got shined up good that is all he did with his square baler was straw did all his hay with round baler i hated that round baler with my whole body that damned thing was junk i could put 8 bales on the trailer and would have to get off the tractor to gather up the extra twine for all 8 bales from where the twine cutter did not cut the twine very well it was total bull shit i would rather been put on the wagon with the square baler than chase that round baler
It’s her 3rd rabbit, she’s got 2 fox squirrels, 2 moles a few mice and one bird. Thanks that’s just what I know of.
None of my business but why you throw twine bale in burn pile should of returned it as it’s so expensive and not your fault. Just don’t think you should take the hit and want you to do well but every dollar counts in farming and in life
Because it was a 2 year old twine ball….
Ethan I retired from baling 7 yrs ago when I almost tore my rotator cuff. I always stacked on the wagon either picking up out of the field or behind the baler.