Just some good ol’ hard working boys, livin’ the dream. When weather, & machines are in sync get’er done while you can!! Thoroughly enjoy every show! Keep’em coming! 👍🏻✌🏼🙏🏼
Boy, isn't that true?! I bailed hay with my uncle, and cousins, also. The meals the women fixed were something you just don't get nowadays: fried chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy, green beans with bacon, etc.
This is the haying I remember when I was a kid, I love small square bailing. I miss my cousins and grandpa and the days we all worked together to stack all the bales on the wagons then fill up the hay loft in the giant barn at least it looked like a giant when I was knee high to a grass hopper! Thanks for sharing another great farm adventure Carl. Stay safe and God bless y’all
Dodge Brothers Farm and Ranch I also have fond memories of the smells on a farm. Driving by farms with the smell of fresh cut hay or the wonderful memories manure can bring to my mind is priceless. Some people think manure is gross but it really does bring back great memories!
So cool to see the "little guy" do some baling... Using the older equipment and not all the new expensive toys! Lots of memories for me!! Good memories!
Back in the 80's I had that exact same John Deere 336 square baler. A greatly reliable baler. I ran it behind my IHC1466. To save fuel on a long day of baling I used a 1000 to 540 PTO adaptor and ran the tractor at 1300 RPM instead of 2200. It slightly overclocked the baler but I was able to punch out early 400 bales an hour on an irrigated grass - alfalfa field. My partner in this operation had New Holland 72 bale picker truck that could barely keep up with the bale picking. At the end of the days work it was rewarding when the equipment worked well and progress was made.
Hey that’s cool! A couple years ago we baled with the 1066. We had made the windrows so big that even in the lowest gear we couldn’t make a nice bale. We were cranking out a bale about every four or five strokes. I remember wishing we had an adapter because that’s exactly what I wanted to try. Sadly we didn’t have one and it was a Sunday afternoon so nobody was open.
Love all the raking work. Your Kuhn is so similar to ours. Love learning more about it. It leaves “rat tails”. When you lift the rakes. It is sometimes an issue in heavy grass. Good work on the truck.
Great video and sometimes when you have problems like your clutch it can be something simple so you got lucky on that one. I enjoy watching haying season and the crops coming off the fields as it brings back old memories working on the farm as a young lad on school summer holidays.
Ha ha, that ain't the hard way. The hard way is when the bailer just drops the bails in place, then you come along with a wagon later and heave 'em from the ground up onto the wagon--higher and higher, of course. Hard as it is, those are some of my best childhood memories. Man, I can smell the hay when I watch this video. Thanks for it.
I had to do it that way once all by myself and I’ll never do it again. I couldn’t find anyone to help me so I baled it all and then picked them up myself as well. It was the worst 🥵
Enjoy your videos, brings back a lot of memories. Baled a lot of hay and straw as a teenager working for a local Farmer. One time, my brother and I (14 and 16 YO) were loading wagons with square bales. On the third wagon. the bales seemed to be getting heavier and heavier till it took us both to lift them. We yelled to the Farmer to stop and he seemed rather perturbed but stopped anyway. We told him what was happening and he cussed at us a little, then came up and tried to lift the bale and immediately threw his back out big time! For some reason the baler was packing bales as tight and heavy as it could. End of baling that day. He fixed the baler a few days later and said the bales were over 150 lbs. Don't know if that was there true weight, but those last dozen or so bales were really heavy.
This video brought back a LOT of great memories! Thanks for sharing your hard word with us! (My choice was almost always to work on the wagon. We'd have contests to see who could stack the most layers on the wagons. (That's when we were 18 years old, and there was a lot of testosterone flowing!) We had the old wooden wagons with no sides on 'em, so we had to "tie them in" - criss-crossing the bales, layer to layer.) I remember a few bales with a snake bailed along with the hay. Another time, we hit a nest of bumble bees! NOT fun!! ;-)
This video brings me memories(or nightmares) of me younger picking up small square bales behind a JD 336 baler!My uncle often had problems with the knotters from the time he bought it brand new until he sold it!We would had plate-form wagons behind the baler until my uncle decided to install (or fit) a kicker behind the baler ;this eliminates one or two guys work but it s the problem of emptying the wagons after...lucky my i ve got a hand hook tool that did the job!
Man those bales can be a real mess with a kicker throwing them into the wagon. I’ve been pretty happy with the knotters on this old girl. We had a 24T that was pretty fussy.
so glad I subed to another Iowan :) I may not be a farmer but I can appreciate the hard work and the service you provide the the community :) Thanks for the video
G'day Carl, glad you got the clutch sorted. I only make large square or round bales, that was until a horse stud asked for small square, they supplied the baler and bale bandit though :)
Hi. What determines WHERE GRASSES N WHAT TYPE is planted vs some other crop? Glad you still had the mechanic friend to back up your diagnosis for your truck. Glad you LISTEN to your equipment 's needs. Peace to you and yours
Well the hay that we are making is on ground that already has had grasses established for many years. If seeding new in would go with a blend of cool and warm season grasses.
Figured you were busy this week. It has been dry here (Illinois) too and now that the hay is in, can we have some rain? How many square bales do you sell each year? When we would buy bales of straw I never could figure how the machine tied the baling twine so well. How does it do that? I too am a fixer and try to figure out stuff how to fix something before ditching it. Frankly though it is a gift not everyone has. You are well blessed to have the gift and you use it well. Have a great week.
Love seeing the Oliver on the baler! Looks like you do it just like us, only difference is we use a New Holland instead of a Deere baler. I've been lacking on TH-cam time lately, did you ever put up any of the drone footage you got of your boss's Oil Pull on the baker fan from the Brown Farm Pioneer Days?
We had a New Holland bailer, too. The square bales have less waste/spoilage. I hated to see the big bales become the norm. But, those round bales are much less labor-intense - and save a lot of money farmers otherwise had to pay - 3 cents, and up to 5 cents per bail.
I grew up behind a 268 new holland. Good Baler! It had a tendency to make banana shaped bales of you didn’t have a big enough windrow because of the way the hay got fed into the plunger. Hey sorry I haven’t posted any of that yet. I need to get onto that!
I still bale small squares for horse hay. Nothing like baling small squares to remind you 'you're not 18 years old anymore'. Still is 'fun and a great workout.
Right! I'd almost forgotten how we'd use hay hooks to pull the bales out of/off the chute from the baler, and it helped us hoist the bales higher when stacking.
I’ve tried to use a hay hook before. I just don’t get as much done with a hook. It’s nice for pulling the bales off the baler but then I don’t know what to do with it once I have the bale on the wagon and i need to hoist it up on the stack. Dad never used one either so that’s probably why I never learned how.
You would literally kill me not lifting the end of the hay chute up off the back of the baler with chains and having to reach over the cross beams on the trailer. Jemminy Crickets.
Great video. What is your favorite brand of hay wagons? Mine is Meyers. It seems like you can get a lot more on them. Nice feature on the hay rake. Nice hay trailer. Glad it was a easy fix on the truck.
Bailing hay this way is a lot more work than that sweet stacker you showed us earlier. Probably worth investing in one. Thanks for another great video, Carl.
This is not a hard way to make hay. It's easy mainly because of the weather. No tedding needed. I love the rake. So simply and effective. Lovely video. Thanks.
I grew up on a farm 50 miles west of Minneapolis. We always had 3 crops of alfalfa. With Iowa's longer growing season it seems strange you only get two.
I like to see just exactly what you have been doing already. The natural order of farming and the life of an American farmer. The everyday things that a farmer does,and why they do these things. You have done a great job of that and I’m glad I found your Chanel and subscribed to it. Keep it up guys!
Square baling is hard work but your way I'd alot easier than what I was used to. No hillsides, and mine are all on the ground. Handle them a couple times. Lol
Boy I’ve done that before and I’ll never do it again. I baled a load onto the ground once and then I pulled the wagon around and picked them all up by myself. That was the worst.
We actually own very little. We own the skidloader, the truck, the small square Baler, and 2/3 of the rake. The oliver, the i international, the mower are dads. All the newer fancier equipment belongs to my boss.
In terms of diesel engines I would have to agree with you. I would love to have a Cummins diesel, especially a 12 valve. As for the rest of the truck I would have to disagree. 🤣
Try t he bales out I f mud lake idaho...those sob will put the hair on your chest. Or take it off....2 wire bales that bend 5 feet from the middle...billy brown
Yeah I spent a lot of time on the phone with the guy who originally worked on it and a couple other mechanic friends. Nobody had ever seen this problem before. It’s good to know the right people.
Just some good ol’ hard working boys, livin’ the dream. When weather, & machines are in sync get’er done while you can!! Thoroughly enjoy every show! Keep’em coming! 👍🏻✌🏼🙏🏼
Watching your square hay baling operation brought back memories of working on a farm in the early 60s and stacking hay from the baler into a wagon.
You can’t beat the smell of good Hay!
This brings back fond memories, I miss square bailing with my cousins! Round bales just aren’t the same.
Boy, isn't that true?! I bailed hay with my uncle, and cousins, also. The meals the women fixed were something you just don't get nowadays: fried chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy, green beans with bacon, etc.
We used to do all of it in square bales!
This is the haying I remember when I was a kid, I love small square bailing. I miss my cousins and grandpa and the days we all worked together to stack all the bales on the wagons then fill up the hay loft in the giant barn at least it looked like a giant when I was knee high to a grass hopper! Thanks for sharing another great farm adventure Carl. Stay safe and God bless y’all
What I love the most is the smell!
Dodge Brothers Farm and Ranch I also have fond memories of the smells on a farm. Driving by farms with the smell of fresh cut hay or the wonderful memories manure can bring to my mind is priceless. Some people think manure is gross but it really does bring back great memories!
There is always more to farming then running around in a new tracker and you guys show it in your videos good job.
Thanks a lot Tom!
A farmer with a psychology degree diagnoses a clutch problem. Outstanding! Keep up the hard work Carl.
😂 thanks!
So cool to see the "little guy" do some baling... Using the older equipment and not all the new expensive toys! Lots of memories for me!! Good memories!
Yeah it’s the way we roll. I’d love to have a bale bandit or something but we make it profitable with what we have first. Then worry about upgrading.
Great video again!!! You are making hay while the sun shines!!
It was a good week for it!
Back in the 80's I had that exact same John Deere 336 square baler. A greatly reliable baler. I ran it behind my IHC1466. To save fuel on a long day of baling I used a 1000 to 540 PTO adaptor and ran the tractor at 1300 RPM instead of 2200. It slightly overclocked the baler but I was able to punch out early 400 bales an hour on an irrigated grass - alfalfa field. My partner in this operation had New Holland 72 bale picker truck that could barely keep up with the bale picking. At the end of the days work it was rewarding when the equipment worked well and progress was made.
Hey that’s cool! A couple years ago we baled with the 1066. We had made the windrows so big that even in the lowest gear we couldn’t make a nice bale. We were cranking out a bale about every four or five strokes. I remember wishing we had an adapter because that’s exactly what I wanted to try. Sadly we didn’t have one and it was a Sunday afternoon so nobody was open.
Love all the raking work. Your Kuhn is so similar to ours. Love learning more about it. It leaves “rat tails”. When you lift the rakes. It is sometimes an issue in heavy grass. Good work on the truck.
Thanks! I’ve found that if you lift it half way and then wait a bit before you lift it all the way it makes a cleaner end to the windrow.
Very good work, thanks for the video, Dodge! Very Nice video. Saludos desde Hidalgo, México. 🇲🇽
NOTHING better then finishing hay season.
How about finishing fall tillage before the ground. Freezes?
Great video and sometimes when you have problems like your clutch it can be something simple so you got lucky on that one.
I enjoy watching haying season and the crops coming off the fields as it brings back old memories working on the farm as a young lad on school summer holidays.
Thanks Wayne! I hope you are ready to watch harvest videos because they are coming!
Ha ha, that ain't the hard way. The hard way is when the bailer just drops the bails in place, then you come along with a wagon later and heave 'em from the ground up onto the wagon--higher and higher, of course. Hard as it is, those are some of my best childhood memories. Man, I can smell the hay when I watch this video. Thanks for it.
I had to do it that way once all by myself and I’ll never do it again. I couldn’t find anyone to help me so I baled it all and then picked them up myself as well. It was the worst 🥵
Enjoy your videos, brings back a lot of memories. Baled a lot of hay and straw as a teenager working for a local Farmer. One time, my brother and I (14 and 16 YO) were loading wagons with square bales. On the third wagon. the bales seemed to be getting heavier and heavier till it took us both to lift them. We yelled to the Farmer to stop and he seemed rather perturbed but stopped anyway. We told him what was happening and he cussed at us a little, then came up and tried to lift the bale and immediately threw his back out big time! For some reason the baler was packing bales as tight and heavy as it could. End of baling that day. He fixed the baler a few days later and said the bales were over 150 lbs. Don't know if that was there true weight, but those last dozen or so bales were really heavy.
Wow that’s a mans bale!!! Ours are only about 40 pounds. Our older horse and pony customers like them that size.
This video brought back a LOT of great memories! Thanks for sharing your hard word with us! (My choice was almost always to work on the wagon. We'd have contests to see who could stack the most layers on the wagons. (That's when we were 18 years old, and there was a lot of testosterone flowing!) We had the old wooden wagons with no sides on 'em, so we had to "tie them in" - criss-crossing the bales, layer to layer.) I remember a few bales with a snake bailed along with the hay. Another time, we hit a nest of bumble bees! NOT fun!! ;-)
Yikes! Bees and snakes make things interesting 😂
Good for you on figuring that clutch out your self.
It works great now!
This video brings me memories(or nightmares) of me younger picking up small square bales behind a JD 336 baler!My uncle often had problems with the knotters from the time he bought it brand new until he sold it!We would had plate-form wagons behind the baler until my uncle decided to install (or fit) a kicker behind the baler ;this eliminates one or two guys work but it s the problem of emptying the wagons after...lucky my i ve got a hand hook tool that did the job!
Man those bales can be a real mess with a kicker throwing them into the wagon. I’ve been pretty happy with the knotters on this old girl. We had a 24T that was pretty fussy.
so glad I subed to another Iowan :) I may not be a farmer but I can appreciate the hard work and the service you provide the the community :) Thanks for the video
Thanks!
G'day Carl, glad you got the clutch sorted. I only make large square or round bales, that was until a horse stud asked for small square, they supplied the baler and bale bandit though :)
Man I want a bale bandit so bad!!!
Good job figuring out the clutch issue... valuable information there!
Thanks Curt!
When I was gr
owing up these square bales were all we had, also used string. Thank you for sharing
Same here. I remember when we first hired a guy to make some round bales. Game changer!
@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206 I would say so
Great job, hay looked great
Thanks! It was nice hay!
That round bail trailer is SWEET!
Yes it is!
Cool fix with the clutch pedal swing arm. Remember, we all need "a good doctor, a good lawyer, and a good mechanic."
Thanks. Very true!
Very nice video! Thank you for sharing! Stay safe and healthy :-)
Thanks a lot!
Why are Ford guys good mechanics? Practice. :) Thanks for the video, Dodge! Glad you guys had a good hay season.
Haha classic truck burn!
Booooo lol
Hay season being over is a great relief! You probably saved some farmers alot of money when problem solving that clutch.
It sure is a relief! Now we get ready for corn harvest 👏👏
You’re posts are always informative. Really great stuff!
Thanks!
Hi. What determines WHERE GRASSES N WHAT TYPE is planted vs some other crop? Glad you still had the mechanic friend to back up your diagnosis for your truck. Glad you LISTEN to your equipment 's needs. Peace to you and yours
Well the hay that we are making is on ground that already has had grasses established for many years. If seeding new in would go with a blend of cool and warm season grasses.
Figured you were busy this week. It has been dry here (Illinois) too and now that the hay is in, can we have some rain? How many square bales do you sell each year? When we would buy bales of straw I never could figure how the machine tied the baling twine so well. How does it do that? I too am a fixer and try to figure out stuff how to fix something before ditching it. Frankly though it is a gift not everyone has. You are well blessed to have the gift and you use it well. Have a great week.
I could tell you how the baler works but then I’d have to kill you 😂😂 We made about 1,000 square bales this year. Thanks for watching!
Enjoyed your video. Richard from picayune Mississippi
Just found your channel, so far I like it.
That machine is paid for long ago.
If that's the old way..
You're out of DEBT.
I would say you have one of the prettiest square baler operators
Yeah she is a keeper 👍
Good advice. Figure out how it works. Once you figure how then look at why it ain't working. Great video.
Exactly! Thanks for watching 👍
Love seeing the Oliver on the baler! Looks like you do it just like us, only difference is we use a New Holland instead of a Deere baler.
I've been lacking on TH-cam time lately, did you ever put up any of the drone footage you got of your boss's Oil Pull on the baker fan from the Brown Farm Pioneer Days?
We had a New Holland bailer, too. The square bales have less waste/spoilage. I hated to see the big bales become the norm. But, those round bales are much less labor-intense - and save a lot of money farmers otherwise had to pay - 3 cents, and up to 5 cents per bail.
I grew up behind a 268 new holland. Good Baler! It had a tendency to make banana shaped bales of you didn’t have a big enough windrow because of the way the hay got fed into the plunger.
Hey sorry I haven’t posted any of that yet. I need to get onto that!
always enjoy your videos , real life !
Thanks! It would be too much work to make something up every time
I still bale small squares for horse hay. Nothing like baling small squares to remind you 'you're not 18 years old anymore'. Still is 'fun and a great workout.
I really enjoy it 👍
"Are you excited about bailing hay?" A question no ever seriously asked. The only good part is the cold beer at the end of the day.
I think making hay is pretty fun as long as everything works OK!
Great video! Hope you ended up with enough hay for everyone.
We got all the orders filled and I think we have enough for ourselves for winter. Depends on the weather...
Best Way To Handle Hay,Nothing Is Hard About That In Less A Person Is Afraid Of Work JS
It keeps you young!
@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206 63 And Still Baleing Hay Every Year
you need a hay hook look up on old farm equipment
Right! I'd almost forgotten how we'd use hay hooks to pull the bales out of/off the chute from the baler, and it helped us hoist the bales higher when stacking.
They sell them at Fleet Farm for 5 or 10 bucks. Also raise up the chute and let the bale come up farther before grabbing it.
I’ve tried to use a hay hook before. I just don’t get as much done with a hook. It’s nice for pulling the bales off the baler but then I don’t know what to do with it once I have the bale on the wagon and i need to hoist it up on the stack. Dad never used one either so that’s probably why I never learned how.
I really enjoyed your video
Thanks Jim!
You would literally kill me not lifting the end of the hay chute up off the back of the baler with chains and having to reach over the cross beams on the trailer. Jemminy Crickets.
Actually, if I put the chute up any higher it will curve the bale on its way around the corner. Gotta have nice bales to sell!
Great video. What is your favorite brand of hay wagons? Mine is Meyers. It seems like you can get a lot more on them. Nice feature on the hay rake. Nice hay trailer. Glad it was a easy fix on the truck.
Hey I also like the Meyers wagons. Ours are John Deere’s. I’ve used a neighbors H&S wagons before too and they were nice.
Bailing hay this way is a lot more work than that sweet stacker you showed us earlier. Probably worth investing in one. Thanks for another great video, Carl.
I’d love to. Maybe some day we will. We only made 1,000 small square bales this year so it’s still not quite justifiable.
The best part of bailing hay was the cold Mountain Dew and Butterfinger when we were done
We always had Diet Pepsi and Swiss cake rolls 😂
In Quebec, we'd have a cold Pepsi and a May West!
This is not a hard way to make hay. It's easy mainly because of the weather. No tedding needed. I love the rake. So simply and effective. Lovely video. Thanks.
Yeah we have had some bad hay making years. Tedded the same hay 3-4 times 😂
In Ireland we tedd all the hay three or four times. Lucky to get really good hay weather every third year. 🌞
You are a smart man!!
And you are a smart man for noticing 😅
A hay hook makes stacking a lot easier 😁
I have a hard time using one. I always feel like it’s in the way and I’m going to stab my self in the leg. 😂
Get er done👍👍
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great video. remind me never to arm wrestle ya. so did you have enough bales or are you going to buy some?
We had just enough. Now it’s going to depend on Mother Nature if we have saved back enough for our cows for winter.
I grew up on a farm 50 miles west of Minneapolis. We always had 3 crops of alfalfa. With Iowa's longer growing season it seems strange you only get two.
Oh the alfalfa guys here get 3 to 4 cuttings. We make grass and two cuttings is just right.
@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206 I wasn't paying attention. Understand it now.
The UK wheat harvest has been one of the worst ever. Floods and drought in all the wrong places so the price of bread is due to rise.
Man we have been pretty dry here too. Some of the corn just west of us is completely dead.
Subscribed! First video ever just now
Thanks Brian! Let me know what you like and what you’d like to see more of. Welcome to the family.
I like to see just exactly what you have been doing already. The natural order of farming and the life of an American farmer. The everyday things that a farmer does,and why they do these things. You have done a great job of that and I’m glad I found your Chanel and subscribed to it. Keep it up guys!
Square baling is hard work but your way I'd alot easier than what I was used to. No hillsides, and mine are all on the ground. Handle them a couple times. Lol
Boy I’ve done that before and I’ll never do it again. I baled a load onto the ground once and then I pulled the wagon around and picked them all up by myself. That was the worst.
Just noticed the rubber on the clutch pedal shows more wear than the brake. Are you driving with your foot resting on the clutch pedal?
Nope, it just gets pushed 10 times as often as the brake. Who needs brakes anyway? 😂
Excellant video how about grain harvest?.
Thanks! There are a few harvest videos from each year on my channel. Just posted another one last week.
have you checked tow-in on front axle
I have not
What is the equipment you own between you and your brother
We actually own very little. We own the skidloader, the truck, the small square Baler, and 2/3 of the rake. The oliver, the i international, the mower are dads. All the newer fancier equipment belongs to my boss.
baled this way for 30 years it's good for ya :P
Loading bales like that will put hair on your ass for sure! If you came up short on hay, mow and bale the ditches and along the crick🏆
Boy I wish we could!
i would love to do work like this
Hay making is the best!
the slave should be no travel but should be able to push it back in and bottom out then it should push right back out
Yeah the slave wouldn’t go back in before. It was rock hard.
Heres a solution for your truck worries.......DODGE 😎
In terms of diesel engines I would have to agree with you. I would love to have a Cummins diesel, especially a 12 valve. As for the rest of the truck I would have to disagree. 🤣
What model Oliver was that running the baler
That’s a 1550 gas
hi good vid
Thanks
Try t he bales out I f mud lake idaho...those sob will put the hair on your chest. Or take it off....2 wire bales that bend 5 feet from the middle...billy brown
Just getter done
how many round bales did you put up total this year?
Somewhere around 300
Why do you use the clutch to shift
I never clutch to shift a diesel, but the synchros are a bit weak on this old gas guzzler and it shifts a lot better if you clutch.
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hard way = Amish..all else islazy
You're thankless mechanics and parts store fixed you wagon .. give credit where credit is due.
Yeah I spent a lot of time on the phone with the guy who originally worked on it and a couple other mechanic friends. Nobody had ever seen this problem before. It’s good to know the right people.