Just keep at it brother. I know a lot of people don't respect what you're doing,but I do. I hope that's worth something. People don't know how hard working a farm is. They have never driven across rough ass land for sixteen hours,and then got out in a cold or steaming hot field and crawled through the mud and grime, then lay down in it and fix something for hours, just to get back in and drive for hours. Keep on going. I wish I was there to help. I'm crippled now,but my spirit is with you.
I had to watch this because I have never seen a track tractor pulling a little round baler. Maybe using huge tractors to pull small equipment could be a cool idea for future videos.
Hugh Marcus you certainly ain't. It's just stupid putting so much hp on something that can be run by a MF4708 (80hp) but a 100hp tractor in America seems to be a ridiculously small tractor even tho our biggest tractor is 115hp and runs everything from barley bruiser to 14 tonne silage wagon. We got a new to us 10ft mower at the start of the season and it made the tractor grunt on our hills but you need to work a tractor to keep its engine healthy.
I am near 60 years old, and I swear to God the weather forecasting was more accurate when I was a child. They can't seem to even predict two days ahead anymore, you look at a forecast, make a plan and wake up the next morning to a different forecast.
Very true! In fact; that nasty storm that blew through on Sunday while we were trying to bake just came out of nowhere. Nobody was predicting that even an hour in advance.
Here comes the climate change conspiracy theorist picking one point out of a video to try to prove their outlandish ideas. You missed the point he made about having the previous 5 or 6 years being wonderful haying weather. I've been farming for 30 years and odd years like this one happen every 7 to 10 years. It's not a new pattern and it's been going on since day 1.
Love your channel. I was born in Iowa and always loved helping out on my grandparents farms in SE Iowa. After a teaching career in California I retired to Mason City, IA just because of the great farm memories of my youth.
Always remember all those square bales that I picked up, hauled and stacked in some of the most stuffy, no air barns in SE Kansas in early July. Every bale needed to be in out of the weather according to Dad, until I went to college. After I left the round baler appeared and it was fine to stack hay outside in the weather and no need to wear hip waders in early Spring when haying the cattle.
Was just zooming past my recommended vids ignored this at the start but the 8rt caught my eye after my muscles started to zoom more. Had to go back LOL
I don't mean to be a smart-ass, it's just frustrating being a city Billy. I love the Agriculture and the Beautiful farmland. But I'm stuck in Detroit and it gets a little frustrating sometimes. Out past Detroit Metro Airport though there is farmland and lots of Agriculture and it is beautiful. I get out there every chance I get! Thank God for you farmers!
You're in an area that gets plenty of rain for growing crops, and you have experienced the down side of that. I have learned a lot from your channel and enjoy watching, and re-watching them.
Carl, Great explanation about crop insurance. But, I'd be holding my breath every time it got cloudy. Still, its about the lifestyle for sure. Thanks and keep em coming.
Shame the tedder has not got some sort of system were as the grass is done another machine behind it puts stainless steel ground spikes into the ground in twos in two lines with a plastic weather proof cover like a long tunnel over the grass so the rain can't wet the grass rows and the wind can't blow it away? But it still lets some air through to dry the cut grass! Then when you have to bale it, the tractor pulling the baler has a machine on the front that takes up the tunnel and removes the spikes in a rolling up way ready to be used next time? Just a idea.
I still dont quite understand why you use the variabel chamber in the US. Here in norway we use the solid chamber on the baler, we bale wet, normal and hay and im willing to bet we get a better bale. Especially when we use the acid on the bales aswell. Im not trying to sound harsh or anything, but we bale about 20-30thousand bales in a year, and the variabel chamber has never catched on here in Europe.
My only experience with a solid chamber baler was an ably 20 years ago an old fellow who baled for us had one. It was an Owatonna I think.that thing made the worst bales I’ve ever seen. They were flat on the bottom a few minutes after he dumped. The core was so soft you couldn’t pick them up with a spear or the whole bale would come apart. You had to move them with pallet forks. Maybe they have gotten better over time. I haven’t seen one in forever.
Dodge Brothers Farm and Ranch we run 5 mchale fusion 3 combi balers (baling and wrapping in one go) and we have 3 single balers mchale. And we have bales hard as rock, we stack them up 4 in height and no problem with them being soft or anything. Take a vacation to norway one day and i will give you a tour of our operation
It's like that here in Ireland most Summers trying to get hay everybody now making haylage or silage out of grass using 4×4 ft round bales wrapped with plastic using a Mchale fusion
The weather in our region is never good for farming. It rains when it's time to harvest but after we start planting, we don't get any rain for 3 months. The plants do not germinate on time and when they do, it is very cold. Wheat has no problems with this but we haven't harvested canola for 3 or 4 years
Thank you for recording this disaster I'm a hay for farmer in Southern Illinois,I've recorded some videos on my own as Midwest former but I haven't had the time to download them every time I turn around in about every hour I've got another issue to take care of, I had cut first cutting hay and the storm came in and took all the hay that was cutting One direction and crisscrossed it across my feel like a checkerboard. These piles are impossible to rake. I took my tatter and level 2 filled out that way as much as I possibly can.I went through a drought in 2011 and was on CBS world news. At that time I never knew about geoengineering. I was looking for replacement crops for alfalfa I ran across aluminum resistant seeds from Monsanto. That's how I found out about geoengineering it's very much real we need to get the word out there and put up a fight to stop this it is controlling the weather.for more information lookup geoengineering watch buy Dane wigington a very incredible man that I've met.
Craig Simon I can’t say for sure. The tachometer hasn’t worked for a long time. It was overhauled about ten years ago and probably has about 1,000 hours on the overhaul. It has a much easier life now than when I was a kid. Dad pulled the planter with it and sprayed with it and hauled manure and chisel plowed with it.
Forgive my ignorance, but my dad has always run a smaller operation with older equipment, but how exactly does the discbine condition the hay? All of our swathers have been older NH reel swathers with the press reels in the rear, the newest being a 1969 if memory serves correct. This all looks very new and interesting to me, but very cool nonetheless.
Yeah I didn’t do a very good job of explaining that. The goal of the conditioning system is to break through the waxy outer layer of the stems to allow the moisture to escape more quickly. The crimpers on your dads mower do that by cracking the stems as they squeeze through the rollers. The impeller on our mower scrapes the hay against a hood that sits right above the impeller. That scrubbing action is what damages the outer layer of the stems. You can adjust the clearance between the impeller and the hood based on how thick your hay is. Most newer machines still have the roller crimpers because the impeller system is a little hard on alfalfa leaves so it is more suited to grassy hay.
Ok, very cool. Thanks for the explanation. And great video by the way. I can’t remember how many times we’ve raced the rain, but it’s definitely easier to do hay here in Colorado with our drier climate.
We make 5x6 round bales (meaning they are 5 feet wide and 6 feet in diameter). The plastic net wrap doesn’t keep them completely dry, but it keeps them far better than twine wrapped bales. The rain water tends to follow the plastic down the sides of the bale instead of just soaking into the hay.
I like to use a hook when unloading the trailer to pull the bales down off the top. But I’m not nearly coordinated enough to use a hook while riding the wagon in the field. I would probably stab myself in the leg!
We use to make hay up until about 8 years ago before the gophers destroyed all our hay land and we have a matador swath turner which worked very well when the hay got rained on and even for a thick swath and if the top was dry we’d turn in in the morning and not even a full day later it would be dry enough to bale. A very good investment! Try it out I think you’d be happy with the results.
Ya it is. It’s a very simple machine. And my advice to you would be if you can get it as a pto drive we got the hydraulic drive It kicks out if your in a heavy swath
Twice I've baled hay with tornado warnings issued to beat the storm and it included chasing windrows as the storm blew them across the field. Once I was watching the clouds churning as the sky developed the stormy green color. I did manage to save most of the hay before the storm hit.
Thanks a lot! It has been a rough year starting about this time last year. But we will get through it. And we will really appreciate the good times again.
I grew up when my Grandpa had a new IH 1066. Always thought is was a great tractor. We had JD by this time on our farm. Bit of red / green competition in the family. Sorry you're having such a tough time with all the rain this year.
I thought getting planted was rough but haying has been way worse with this weather. At least now with the high temps and low humidity the hay is drying about 50% faster than usual.
You can not have rain for three or more months but as soon as you cut hay for baling your bound to cop at least a inch of rain. It’s the same for when ya gotta round up a mob of sheep for shearing them. No rain for two months, you round em up, get em I the yards, the shearering team is due the next day and down it comes. Time and time again it’s happened on our place. Five thousand wet sheep that can’t be shorn till they dry out. That’s farming though I guess.
Don't listen to other when it comes to weather, It's your hay, your choice, if you make a bad choice, its your fault and nobody elses. Surely you can make up your own mind on the conditions for haymaking. IF I was a farmer, I would know when to mow a meadow.
Here,s a Disaster , I got sold off to a foster care parent,s . at the age of 12 . They made money and worked me for 14 hours a day and I never seen a cent . Now tell me about slavery .I'm white and 60 now and when hay season hit it was brutal ! Hay season really sucked for me big time !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m sorry you had a bad foster care experience. Just know that all farm kids at some point in their lives feel like slaves. I remember being bitter that all my friends from town could hang out and play video games after school every day and I was stuck stacking bales, pulling corn wagons and pitching manure. Now I’m glad for the experience and the work ethic I learned.
With all this weather technolog, why do we still have to look at the horizon,to know what the weather is like? I still trust my arthritis to know what's coming.
You are not alone. here in Ohio we are half done with first cutting and it is JULY!, we are usually done with second by this time. Horse market here, not many cows anywhere but 10,000 horses in our county. Prices are at least 150% of normal and going to 200%, everyone is feeding hand to mouth, quality is gone. Hay Hud out.
I have so many people wanting to buy hay from me this year and just like you our prices are through the roof! We picked up some extra ground this year and I though we had it made in the shade. It was going to be the best year yet. But Mother Nature has other plans for us.
I wonder how bad it tears the sod when he turns around on the ends? Out here in the Sandhills of Nebraska we hay some really soft ground and are getting stuck a lot with wheeled equipment but I always thought about trying that?
Thank you . Hope your hay stays mould free . I hate that stuff . All the best. Hard stressfully long days will be over soon . Well they are here already anyway . Stay cheery in your posts it manages too keep me positive. I thanks you
I know exactly what you are talking about. I was doing the same thing in north iowa as the storm came in out of Minnesota. It is a bit unsettling to be bailing with storm warnings coming all over the radio as you are doing it.
Desperate times call for desperate measures. All my regular baler guys were busy and this dude agreed to help us out. There was no time to waste as the storm rolled in so he hooked up the only tractor he had around and headed out!
@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206 ok gotch im around manchester you were saying about getting storms and its like heck they got rain all the same days we did lol
That’s what I thought! All my regular baler guys were busy and this dude agreed to help us out. There was no time to waste as the storm rolled in so he hooked up the only tractor he had around and headed out!
It’s later than we like to cut for sure! By the time we got all the planting, replanting, spraying and side dressing done and the rain stopped long enough to mow hay we have some pretty mature grass. It will be good cow feed for pre-calving or roughage for the feedlots in a TMR.
@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206 thanks for Reply we English need be more subtle. Love vids and that International takes me back but ours was considerably smaller just shrank down. I think it had about 80 horse?
@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206 no it was just what we used to pull the combine header and pull a Fraser trailer from time to time. It was a reliable machine.
Check out the App Windy (from WindyDotCom), it has free access to "ECMWF" which is extremely accurate weather data you usually pay for. It also shows 4 other weather forecasts and has a comparison function.
That’s a great question! We have a bunch of regular customers that need dry hay and can’t use silage. Also, we don’t have enough room to keep all the winter hay at the feedlot. We need to haul from the stack in the field a couple times each winter. So, we can’t inline wrap it and we have no method of moving individually wrapped bales.
So God hates you . Should forget him ! Don't forget god helps them who helps themselves . I believe in the invisible hay monster and never had bad hay or weather . Xxx
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Thanks for teaching us, and letting us farm n ranch with you. Out of all the channels I watch, you are at the top of the list.
Thanks Amos I really appreciate that!
Just keep at it brother. I know a lot of people don't respect what you're doing,but I do. I hope that's worth something. People don't know how hard working a farm is. They have never driven across rough ass land for sixteen hours,and then got out in a cold or steaming hot field and crawled through the mud and grime, then lay down in it and fix something for hours, just to get back in and drive for hours.
Keep on going. I wish I was there to help. I'm crippled now,but my spirit is with you.
It’s the only way I’d want to live...
I had to watch this because I have never seen a track tractor pulling a little round baler. Maybe using huge tractors to pull small equipment could be a cool idea for future videos.
Yeah it sure was a sight to behold!
Am I the only one who thought the big JD was a bit ‘overkill’ on the baler.
I’d be afraid of the tractor turning up ruts on the headland turns
Eli Schultes that is a legitimate concern. You have to skip a couple windrows when you turn around.
Hugh Marcus you certainly ain't. It's just stupid putting so much hp on something that can be run by a MF4708 (80hp) but a 100hp tractor in America seems to be a ridiculously small tractor even tho our biggest tractor is 115hp and runs everything from barley bruiser to 14 tonne silage wagon. We got a new to us 10ft mower at the start of the season and it made the tractor grunt on our hills but you need to work a tractor to keep its engine healthy.
I am near 60 years old, and I swear to God the weather forecasting was more accurate when I was a child.
They can't seem to even predict two days ahead anymore, you look at a forecast, make a plan and wake up the next morning to a different forecast.
Very true! In fact; that nasty storm that blew through on Sunday while we were trying to bake just came out of nowhere. Nobody was predicting that even an hour in advance.
Global warming equals unpredictable rapid changing weather...
Here comes the climate change conspiracy theorist picking one point out of a video to try to prove their outlandish ideas. You missed the point he made about having the previous 5 or 6 years being wonderful haying weather. I've been farming for 30 years and odd years like this one happen every 7 to 10 years. It's not a new pattern and it's been going on since day 1.
That's why you shouldn't listen to these environmental idiots
Just a thank you for your video's, I stumbled upon them and am truly enjoying them as they remind me of my work as a youth on my grandparents farms
Thanks Bob! Thanks what it’s all about. Farming brings us all together in some way or another
Love your channel. I was born in Iowa and always loved helping out on my grandparents farms in SE Iowa. After a teaching career in California I retired to Mason City, IA just because of the great farm memories of my youth.
Always remember all those square bales that I picked up, hauled and stacked in some of the most stuffy, no air barns in SE Kansas in early July. Every bale needed to be in out of the weather according to Dad, until I went to college. After I left the round baler appeared and it was fine to stack hay outside in the weather and no need to wear hip waders in early Spring when haying the cattle.
It’s amazing how much the whole system changes with access to labor...
Was just zooming past my recommended vids ignored this at the start but the 8rt caught my eye after my muscles started to zoom more. Had to go back LOL
Thanks for stopping by! New vids come out weekly. Not all as wild as an 8360RT pulling a round Baler though!
It's a 50% chance of rain every day if you think about it. It may rain, and it may not!! Love your guy's channel!😁😁
Good point 😂
I don't mean to be a smart-ass, it's just frustrating being a city Billy. I love the Agriculture and the Beautiful farmland. But I'm stuck in Detroit and it gets a little frustrating sometimes. Out past Detroit Metro Airport though there is farmland and lots of Agriculture and it is beautiful. I get out there every chance I get! Thank God for you farmers!
You're in an area that gets plenty of rain for growing crops, and you have experienced the down side of that. I have learned a lot from your channel and enjoy watching, and re-watching them.
Thanks for the support Joel! There are ups and downs for sure.
I’ve watched a few of your videos now! Really clean and informative keep up the good work!
Thanks! I really appreciate it! Make sure you subscribe and hit the notifications bell so you don’t miss out. New videos come out weekly!
Carl,
Great explanation about crop insurance. But, I'd be holding my breath every time it got cloudy. Still, its about the lifestyle for sure. Thanks and keep em coming.
Shame the tedder has not got some sort of system were as the grass is done another machine behind it puts stainless steel ground spikes into the ground in twos in two lines with a plastic weather proof cover like a long tunnel over the grass so the rain can't wet the grass rows and the wind can't blow it away? But it still lets some air through to dry the cut grass! Then when you have to bale it, the tractor pulling the baler has a machine on the front that takes up the tunnel and removes the spikes in a rolling up way ready to be used next time? Just a idea.
I still dont quite understand why you use the variabel chamber in the US. Here in norway we use the solid chamber on the baler, we bale wet, normal and hay and im willing to bet we get a better bale. Especially when we use the acid on the bales aswell. Im not trying to sound harsh or anything, but we bale about 20-30thousand bales in a year, and the variabel chamber has never catched on here in Europe.
My only experience with a solid chamber baler was an ably 20 years ago an old fellow who baled for us had one. It was an Owatonna I think.that thing made the worst bales I’ve ever seen. They were flat on the bottom a few minutes after he dumped. The core was so soft you couldn’t pick them up with a spear or the whole bale would come apart. You had to move them with pallet forks. Maybe they have gotten better over time. I haven’t seen one in forever.
Dodge Brothers Farm and Ranch we run 5 mchale fusion 3 combi balers (baling and wrapping in one go) and we have 3 single balers mchale. And we have bales hard as rock, we stack them up 4 in height and no problem with them being soft or anything. Take a vacation to norway one day and i will give you a tour of our operation
I’d love to!
Finally, someone explains what conditioning grass is all about! For that you get a sub! Cheers Dodge Brothers!
It's like that here in Ireland most Summers trying to get hay everybody now making haylage or silage out of grass using 4×4 ft round bales wrapped with plastic using a Mchale fusion
It makes nice feed.
The weather in our region is never good for farming. It rains when it's time to harvest but after we start planting, we don't get any rain for 3 months. The plants do not germinate on time and when they do, it is very cold. Wheat has no problems with this but we haven't harvested canola for 3 or 4 years
Not good! Are you in Canada?
Thank you for recording this disaster I'm a hay for farmer in Southern Illinois,I've recorded some videos on my own as Midwest former but I haven't had the time to download them every time I turn around in about every hour I've got another issue to take care of, I had cut first cutting hay and the storm came in and took all the hay that was cutting One direction and crisscrossed it across my feel like a checkerboard. These piles are impossible to rake. I took my tatter and level 2 filled out that way as much as I possibly can.I went through a drought in 2011 and was on CBS world news. At that time I never knew about geoengineering. I was looking for replacement crops for alfalfa I ran across aluminum resistant seeds from Monsanto. That's how I found out about geoengineering it's very much real we need to get the word out there and put up a fight to stop this it is controlling the weather.for more information lookup geoengineering watch buy Dane wigington a very incredible man that I've met.
When you re-plant the beans, do you mean a full seed replacement, so a full new cost of seeds for the whole field?
This year it was just a small portion of the field. We also cut the seed rate back to about 60% on the replanted acres.
Neighbor back home was still farming wheat with a 1086 last I knew. Planting and summer fallow. Boy I’m glad here we don’t have to do any tedding
Eli Schultes where are you located?
Love the way that 1066 starts. I love the sound of that engine!
The chrome stack really makes it talk!
@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206 How many hours are on it? It looks like it has worked for a living.
Craig Simon I can’t say for sure. The tachometer hasn’t worked for a long time. It was overhauled about ten years ago and probably has about 1,000 hours on the overhaul. It has a much easier life now than when I was a kid. Dad pulled the planter with it and sprayed with it and hauled manure and chisel plowed with it.
Enjoyed your video! Three words stuck with me...after Church today!
First things first man!
Forgive my ignorance, but my dad has always run a smaller operation with older equipment, but how exactly does the discbine condition the hay? All of our swathers have been older NH reel swathers with the press reels in the rear, the newest being a 1969 if memory serves correct. This all looks very new and interesting to me, but very cool nonetheless.
Yeah I didn’t do a very good job of explaining that. The goal of the conditioning system is to break through the waxy outer layer of the stems to allow the moisture to escape more quickly. The crimpers on your dads mower do that by cracking the stems as they squeeze through the rollers. The impeller on our mower scrapes the hay against a hood that sits right above the impeller. That scrubbing action is what damages the outer layer of the stems. You can adjust the clearance between the impeller and the hood based on how thick your hay is. Most newer machines still have the roller crimpers because the impeller system is a little hard on alfalfa leaves so it is more suited to grassy hay.
Ok, very cool. Thanks for the explanation. And great video by the way. I can’t remember how many times we’ve raced the rain, but it’s definitely easier to do hay here in Colorado with our drier climate.
Nice video, in June I thought I saw an 8RT with a round baler just west of Independence off Hwy 20 wonder if it is the same setup.
That is the guy! You saw him first hand!
talk about overkill for a baler!! lol
joel bovaird I gotta day, it looks pretty sweet having an RT pulling a baler lol
I think they needed a little more hp.😉 good luck on the next round of hay.
We are getting ready to mow some more, and the forecast is still just as confusing.
What size bales do you produce and does the wrapping keep them dry?
We make 5x6 round bales (meaning they are 5 feet wide and 6 feet in diameter). The plastic net wrap doesn’t keep them completely dry, but it keeps them far better than twine wrapped bales. The rain water tends to follow the plastic down the sides of the bale instead of just soaking into the hay.
When i worked in Wisconsin and we were baling Hay we used hooks to grab the bales and stack them on the trailer ?
I like to use a hook when unloading the trailer to pull the bales down off the top. But I’m not nearly coordinated enough to use a hook while riding the wagon in the field. I would probably stab myself in the leg!
Love seeing old equipment getting used
It’s what we can afford and it still works!
Also. Good idea with the slow-mo on the implements. More of that please :-) (when the action parts are visible)
Good idea!
Love the channel from northern Ireland
said a Prayer for you and yours , hope it all goes your way soon and stays that way
Thanks Ken! I’d say it worked. Our second cutting went beautifully. We made the best hay I’ve ever seen.
We use to make hay up until about 8 years ago before the gophers destroyed all our hay land and we have a matador swath turner which worked very well when the hay got rained on and even for a thick swath and if the top was dry we’d turn in in the morning and not even a full day later it would be dry enough to bale. A very good investment! Try it out I think you’d be happy with the results.
Where does it lay the windrow when it flips it? Our mower is 9.5 feet wide. Would it lay it on top of the next one when you start out?
It just lays it maybe two feet off from where it was it won’t lay it on top of another swath
If you are cutting your fields in a circle it works better than if you were going end to end
Sounds like a good rig!
Ya it is. It’s a very simple machine. And my advice to you would be if you can get it as a pto drive we got the hydraulic drive It kicks out if your in a heavy swath
Twice I've baled hay with tornado warnings issued to beat the storm and it included chasing windrows as the storm blew them across the field. Once I was watching the clouds churning as the sky developed the stormy green color. I did manage to save most of the hay before the storm hit.
Storm green! One of the creepiest things ever!
We use our track on our krone big baler.other than dragging some hay underneath,it's a kick!
Gene Chronister he has a piece of tin underneath to keep the hay from catching under there. It just slides right through.
As a fellow ag producer, I know exactly what you are going through. Great job on the video, and keep up the good work.
Thanks a lot! It has been a rough year starting about this time last year. But we will get through it. And we will really appreciate the good times again.
And that’s how you tear up a baler. That’s a huge tractor on a tiny baler
It’s been a tough year so far. Maybe it will get better. Happy 4th of July
It’s all ups and downs. Gotta take the good with the bad!
I grew up when my Grandpa had a new IH 1066. Always thought is was a great tractor. We had JD by this time on our farm. Bit of red / green competition in the family. Sorry you're having such a tough time with all the rain this year.
The only green thing we ever had was a combine. Now I drive almost all green equipment for the boss.
Bit overkill on the baler?
At least you guys found a Tedder. That weather last week was horrible for hay making. Hopefully this week is a little better
Did you manage to get yours rolled up Sunday?
We did. Roger just pulled out of that field before the weather got bad Sunday
Good deal! You probably didn’t get that rain Saturday night out there did you?
Why does a bailer always need to make a knot where the knot connecting the twine bundles is?
Good question!
I thought getting planted was rough but haying has been way worse with this weather. At least now with the high temps and low humidity the hay is drying about 50% faster than usual.
We could sure use some of that low humidity here! We have had dewpoints between 70 and 80 degrees all week!
Let you in on a secret. Gourmet hay is made by carefully washing all sides of the grass
That’s a good one!
old tractor started right up not like some newer hi tech stuff ,KISS "keep it simple stupid" praying for better weather
You can not have rain for three or more months but as soon as you cut hay for baling your bound to cop at least a inch of rain. It’s the same for when ya gotta round up a mob of sheep for shearing them. No rain for two months, you round em up, get em I the yards, the shearering team is due the next day and down it comes. Time and time again it’s happened on our place. Five thousand wet sheep that can’t be shorn till they dry out. That’s farming though I guess.
Great Video!
Thanks for highlighting my comment I am only on TH-cam a couple times and I only watch your videos keep up the work
Thanks for watching! I’m really glad you enjoy it!
Don't listen to other when it comes to weather, It's your hay, your choice, if you make a bad choice, its your fault and nobody elses.
Surely you can make up your own mind on the conditions for haymaking. IF I was a farmer, I would know when to mow a meadow.
Yeah we had to mow and it said it would rain so we were out there for 9 hours in our 4430 and were lucky we got to bale but its sloppy in Iowa now....
Here,s a Disaster , I got sold off to a foster care parent,s . at the age of 12 . They made money and worked me for 14 hours a day and I never seen a cent . Now tell me about slavery .I'm white and 60 now and when hay season hit it was brutal ! Hay season really sucked for me big time !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m sorry you had a bad foster care experience. Just know that all farm kids at some point in their lives feel like slaves. I remember being bitter that all my friends from town could hang out and play video games after school every day and I was stuck stacking bales, pulling corn wagons and pitching manure. Now I’m glad for the experience and the work ethic I learned.
With all this weather technolog, why do we still have to look at the horizon,to know what the weather is like? I still trust my arthritis to know what's coming.
Come for the overkill comments. Didn't dissapoint
Is the 1066 gas?
Diesel
Oh it sounds like our 766 gas
You are not alone. here in Ohio we are half done with first cutting and it is JULY!, we are usually done with second by this time. Horse market here, not many cows anywhere but 10,000 horses in our county. Prices are at least 150% of normal and going to 200%, everyone is feeding hand to mouth, quality is gone. Hay Hud out.
I have so many people wanting to buy hay from me this year and just like you our prices are through the roof! We picked up some extra ground this year and I though we had it made in the shade. It was going to be the best year yet. But Mother Nature has other plans for us.
why do they have a 8rt on the baler?
North East Iowa Farming I was wondering about that too... must be the only tractor that they have to do it with
North East Iowa Farming I was wondering about that too... must be the only tractor that they have to do it with
Because, overkill is underrated. Lol
North East Iowa Farming surprised that they do not break shear bolts
I wonder how bad it tears the sod when he turns around on the ends? Out here in the Sandhills of Nebraska we hay some really soft ground and are getting stuck a lot with wheeled equipment but I always thought about trying that?
Don't you think a 9rt is too big for a round baler.
You won’t get stuck!
If it was easy everybody would do it keep your chin up thanks for sharing
Ain’t that the truth! Thanks so much for watching!
Neat to see an 8RT baling.
I thought so!
Dodge Brothers Farm and Ranch I like you channel. Just found it today and subscribed.
Thanks lot! New videos come out weekly. I look forward to chatting with you!
I totally agree with the tedder it’s the first year I’ve used one and it’s a fun job looks like complete chaos behind the tractor
It would be really nice to have one but they are so darned expensive.
I have a buddy that has a new one he said use it whenever you need.
Bill Baas that sounds great! Where is it parked?
Michigan is where it’s parked I’m guessing it’s a bit of a drive for you
Jesus Christ hope he doesn't run out of power pulling that baler guess I better hook mine up to my D8 cat
Not fun at all hope you guys can get it put up were having the same problem been a long time since we have had this much rain in Montana
It’s a real pain. Hay is so expensive and I have a bunch of customers counting on me to make good hay!
Sorry I'm in a bad mood . Did not mean it . I love all farm videos and you are open and honest with your work .
I know how hard it is .
Sorry .
Don’t sweat it Jon! Keep your chin up. Things will get better!
Thank you . Hope your hay stays mould free . I hate that stuff . All the best. Hard stressfully long days will be over soon . Well they are here already anyway . Stay cheery in your posts it manages too keep me positive. I thanks you
I know exactly what you are talking about. I was doing the same thing in north iowa as the storm came in out of Minnesota. It is a bit unsettling to be bailing with storm warnings coming all over the radio as you are doing it.
It was scary! Where are you located?
Dodge Brothers Farm and Ranch near mason City.
400hp pulling an 80hp baler a bit much isnt it?
I dont think they have enough horsepower on that baler
Only bogged it down a couple times 🤣
Been a crazy wet season so far from NW MN to you in IA. These systems just dump rain with crazy wind. Got some stank hay.
The storms are moving in weird directions too. I’ve never seen so many come in from the east or the northeast.
8rt used to bale? Holy crap🤣🤣
Overkill
@@ryansmith3726 no such thing.
Ryan Smith just a tad
Desperate times call for desperate measures. All my regular baler guys were busy and this dude agreed to help us out. There was no time to waste as the storm rolled in so he hooked up the only tractor he had around and headed out!
Using an 8r would be fun to bale instead of an old jd 2755
Cut waterways the same day, raked, n was rained on heavy in windrows, then deal with muddy wet hay, what a mess
Yuck. Hopefully it doesn’t wash away! That’s what we always worry about cutting waterways.
were are you at in iowa ?
Northeast
@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206 ok gotch im around manchester you were saying about getting storms and its like heck they got rain all the same days we did lol
What a small world! I was just in Manchester last week. I had some cattle feeding equipment on display at the Delaware county fair.
@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206 yup i was up there every day
Good Luck Bud North Florida same shape. Farmers are the most optimistic people God Created
Optimistic or forgetful...
i dont think the 8rt has enough power for the baler
It was close...
A John Deere 8rt wit a baler?
That’s what I thought! All my regular baler guys were busy and this dude agreed to help us out. There was no time to waste as the storm rolled in so he hooked up the only tractor he had around and headed out!
Would this grass be any good as silage Bailes?
Comes a point that its not worth the cost of wrapping it due to the rain damage
Exactly. The market for wrapped high moisture hay of poor quality is pretty non existent here where we are.
So if you don't get it up what do you do with the spoiled grass
@@minenotyours9031 bale it eventually to get it off the field
Mine Not Yours we actually managed to get it baled the next day. (Shhh... don’t tell anyone before the next video comes out)
1066 international harvester tractors are the best tractors in the world
They are a pretty solid machine for sure!
John Deere 4020 change my mind
@@jacobgoering3864 low power, PTO rpm changes, wet brakes, syncro transmission issues, hydraulic pump, random gears not working,
Ethan Utter I’ll bet you never even owned one!
@@MilkMan608 that's were you would be wrong
ive had my own deal mowed the same time you did and had it rained on 4 times.lol
Man it starts to wear on a fella.
This is the new thing now, farmer tv hosts lol!! Funny thing is I’d rather watch this then regular tv!! Real life is way more interesting 🤔
I agree! I watch more TH-cam than anything else. It’s fun to “get to know” other people and see what they are up to.
That was a good thumbnail choice
Yeah I’d say so.
All your grass gone to seed? We would call that haylage and wouldn't be excepted on the clamp!
It’s later than we like to cut for sure! By the time we got all the planting, replanting, spraying and side dressing done and the rain stopped long enough to mow hay we have some pretty mature grass. It will be good cow feed for pre-calving or roughage for the feedlots in a TMR.
@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206 thanks for Reply we English need be more subtle. Love vids and that International takes me back but ours was considerably smaller just shrank down. I think it had about 80 horse?
Did yours have the chrome smoke stack and a turbocharger too? Maybe it was a 766?
@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206 no it was just what we used to pull the combine header and pull a Fraser trailer from time to time. It was a reliable machine.
Where is the disaster ?🤔
The whole attempt at making hay was a complete disaster. Tedding 3 days in a row and rain every day...
Check out the App Windy (from WindyDotCom), it has free access to "ECMWF" which is extremely accurate weather data you usually pay for.
It also shows 4 other weather forecasts and has a comparison function.
Michigan I’m guessing it’s a bit of a drive for you lol
Bill Baas yeah that’s pretty far to pull a tedder!
old saying, make hay while the sun is shining !
That’s what dad always said! But how do you know when the sun will be shining???
@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206 easy ...look up !
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That haircut took 10 years of ya 😂😂
I have to get sheared every few months.
they weather forecast have always be bad when trying to make hay
I feel like when I was a young lad we used to get entire weeks with not a drop of rain.
Almost 90k views...
Quite a big jump from your last few vids..
hmmm...'windrows' is right ....
😂
use the radar more often other than that just keep on farming
I use the heck out of the radar on my phone!
Why, do you not make silage, cut today bail 12hrs later.
That’s a great question! We have a bunch of regular customers that need dry hay and can’t use silage. Also, we don’t have enough room to keep all the winter hay at the feedlot. We need to haul from the stack in the field a couple times each winter. So, we can’t inline wrap it and we have no method of moving individually wrapped bales.
That hay didn,t look too dry going to the baler .
It was dryer than it looks on the video. It wasn’t as dry as I’d like though.
Got to ted it again...
nice haircut
I think that tractors little overkill for that round baler🤔
Wow isn’t that 8rt a little overkill
Nah. It’s only 360 hp.
I’ve had those days and they succk
We just gotta keep rolling.
Dodge Brothers Farm and Ranch farming stops for no one. At 71 you tend to get a little slower. Lol be careful out there
Clayton Batten thanks for watching! There is no life like farm life.
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In the words of Michelle Wright take it like a man
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So God hates you . Should forget him !
Don't forget god helps them who helps themselves .
I believe in the invisible hay monster and never had bad hay or weather . Xxx