When we were kids we had to lift the bales of hay on to the trailer and I think they were wrapped with wire then rope later. The hay never made it to the lofts because the barn pulley didn’t work. Watching this brought back so many memories…thanks for sharing you hard work. We are in our 70’s now enjoying the memories of a rural childhood. The home and wonderful property we lived on is now full of McMansions. 🤮. We enjoy your videos all of the time. Thank you. 🌻😻
We had small fields of hay, that were cut and baled, when I was a kid. These were used for our cow. Some of the process involved neighbor help because we didn't have baling equipment. I appreciate the concern over weather and equipment breaking or neighbors not being able to bale when it was time. I give farmers, ranchers and their workers a whole lot of credit. It's tough work. Well done to Clay and yourself.
I did a lot of haying in the past.I always thought stacking it in the hayloft was the worst part of the job.Those old New England barns really get hot!
I must admit that I prefer the smaller bales and loathe the ugly.round ones wrapped in plastic. It was great to watch the mechanics of it all. I would have suggested moving to a more temperate country like Britain but I cannot say that now because it has been so hot. It is currently midnight and the outside temperature is close to 80 degrees with tomorrow being the hottest day ever (today, we were hotter than California and tomorrow we will be as hot as the Sahara Desert).
I live on the Isle of Wight and it's too hot for me even to drive the 12 mins in an air con car to the beach! I may go after 6pm today when many of the visitors have gone back for tea. Phew it's blisteringly hot, isn't it?
@@coffeefetcher it is blisteringly hot. I havent been able to open any windows because there has been a fire in the woods near my house and we have been told to keep our windows and doors closed. I have a fan which helps. I havent liked the hot nights either at midnight last night it was still 80°F.
@@denisemeredith2436 gosh, that's grim awful for you! I hope that fire is soon put out and the air clears. Sleeping here is just laying on the bed starkers and thanking God for my bed being under the windows! But still so hot that all I do is drink, wee, drink and sit inside with the ceiling fan on. my poor cat is all black and today even he admitted defeat and has stayed inside! x
Ariel, this will be one of my favorites of all of your videos. I was reliving memories of riding on tractors with my dad as he was baling hay and straw. Trying to find safe spots to ride just like Burley and feeling so drowsy because of the heat, sway of the tractor and easy pace of the ride. Thanks for this video. I loved being with my dad and loved growing up on the farm.
Watching Clay do that with the twine reminds me of going over the Teton Pass one morning from the night shift at St John hospital to my home in Victor. It was August and a major snow storm hit. Stuck on the top of the pass, my alternator snapped off in my VW. I had a wool glove in my glove box. I had to unravel it and tie on my alternator enough to make it over the pass. Good times!💕
Being from a fishing family from Yorkshire that was very interesting viewing .You have always said you like a cold climate as long as i have watched you . Burley is and has always been a fantastic dog .I remember Grizz and the tears when you had to let him go .
I was hoping we'd see a haymaking video this year! What a lovely story, especially here where it's icy winter. I'm so sorry you have a hard time coping with it all. Your work is certainly valuable.
We lived across the road from a farm and haying season was rough on us with the dust and dirt. All of us were allergic and just about lived on Benadryl. Loved that farm! When I was older I helped a friend with horses move bales of hay from someone's loft dropping it down into her pick up. Those bales weighed more than me! I, too, could do with a cooler climate. Minnesota is getting a little too warm for me! Stay safe and blessings on your endeavors!
I spent several summers bailing hay when I was growing up. That was over 50 years ago. We had to load it on a wagon then onto a elevator at the barn and then stack it in the barn. By the end of the summer you got pretty stout.
Ariel, I think you and Clay make a great team. I love to see the farm wives out driving the tractors to rake or bale the hay, and I have so much respect for you all! Also love seeing the baler spit out the bales of hay. I have helped our neighbors hay a few times, and it sure is hot, dusty, itchy work, but so satisfying to get the hay in for the animals for the winter. Thanks for sharing the process with us.
I’ve never seen the whole process…Who woulda thought it was so technical…..You two are Jacks of all trades as we would call you here 😁…Hope Hay time goes quickly for you…..…I’ve ridden in one of those for a short time and yes I can understand how it could wear you out by the end of the day. I knew someone who did this and it just consumed his life for a time in the summer. I’m with you where the heat is concerned…I’m hibernating now and I’m only in norther New Jersey…it hasn’t even been that warm so far…every year I just count the days till Fall!
Yes! That's what I'm doing here in northern Utah. On Sunday we got up to 101⁰! Tooooo hot and we're having issues with out electricity in our house and can't run the a/c. It's been 84⁰ in the house and I'm packed out in ice packs. It helps, but not enough. It'll start cooling off in around 45 days. Will we make it? Will our electric issue be fixed long before that? We need heat to live here too because it can often get below 0⁰ in the Winter. Winter is much longer than Summer. Good luck to all of us!🍀🍀🍀
Oh my goodness your video brought back memories for me as a child helping my father at hay making time. 65- 70 years ago! And we had an old New Holland baler also. I would be stationed in a little seat by the back where the bales came out. My job was to observe if the string tying mechanism was working. If bales started breaking I had to jump off and run fast to my father on the tractor and let him know. This would prevent too many broken bales. So then he had to rethread the twine - a jute type rope, no polyester string in those days. I remember the heat, getting very sunburnt, and thirsty. But I felt very important to be able to help.
I completely understand the whole hay making process! I was raised on a farm plus my husband & I have always had horses(46 years). You explained it perfectly! I do think it might be a little more tolerable for you to have a cab on your tractor! 😉
Congratulations another hay season is in the bucket. The two of you as usual are a great team, and it’s hard hot and dusty work thankfully behind you for this year.
I'm feeling for you Ariel! 1/2 of the electric has gone out in the old house that we rent and when then breaker blew, it took out our a/c unit. The landlord has given us a generator to use to run another unit we have, but it costs so much to run that we can't afford to use it for many hours. My daughter and I have autoimmune issues that are exasperated with heat. It's been up to 82⁰ in our house and I'm going to tell you - that's too hot. The neuropathy pain is nearly out of control and of course it'll be weeks before any electrician can come fix it. The bids for that are between $6500.00 and $8000.00 to fix it. We have rented this house for 10+ years and never even been late once with our payment. We told them over a year ago that the electric in the house was having issues and they decided to put it off. So yeah - uncomfortable is an understatement as to how I'm feeling. You must truly be in love since you wouldn't do this for the money! I'm glad you're out of the fields and back at the homestead. Thanks for the update!
Ariel I'm curious, you once showed us how you do your laundry, and it wasn't so bad for one person, but now that you have a husband and you have to do laundry for two people, do you still do it the same way in that little spin thing? 💗⚘
I RECOGNIZE the Farm Machinery, # NEW HOLLAND. #Living out West now, but born & Lived in PENNSYLVANIA for a number of years. My Grandpa had a farm in NY and he grew and baled his own hay, with a Tractor and Big Clydesdale Horses : ) GREAT MEMORIES of watching my Grandpa, Father, & Brothers picking up Hay Bales & throwing them up onto the wagon; which the Horses pulled to the Barn.
Thanks for sharing -- it brought back memories from 70+ years ago when I was driving the tractor during hay baling season and yes, hot and definitely sticky ! Enjoy your videos.
You guys are amazing- what a team- and Burley riding shotgun💝💝💝💝cannot imagine the dust you inhale and the heat- you are so fair skinned- such hard work- and the allergies- wow- you rock😔💝- I hate hot weather too- act of love for sure 💝so happy you two found each other 💝
My dad and I used to take turns driving the tractor and riding the skid when we make small skid piles on the skid and then when we had the pile made we took a bar and pushed it off so there'd be little tiny Haystacks all over the field and my father had a thing that went in place of the scoop on the tractor loader and it squeezed the little bales of hay and stacked them in a big big haystacks that we used off of in the winter time
Sitting here laughing because it kinda looks like that hay baler is sh***ing bricks, because, well, it's going along, and plop, out of its backside, here comes a brick! With that said...thank you for sharing these videos. These are things most people don't have any experience with, so it's fascinating to get to see what it's really like, and not smoothly filmed Hollywood-like.
Worked for a ranch one year. Haying season came and I ran the rake. Hard work even when I was a teenager. I had no cab and man was I every sunburned even with a hat and long sleeves. Lifting and stacking hay was far harder than riding the tractor! One hard summer of work but I loved being outdoors. Thanks for raking up some fond memories! 😉
I watch My Wyoming Life which is a channel about a small cattle rancher. I just got done watching his haying process and he had many of the same repairs.
Seems like repairs are needed every season. That's why you will see farmers with lots of tools and bins of all kinds of metal parts and pieces. Time is important to farmers/ranchers and the last thing any would want to do is stop their work to go to town for parts or repairs. Mother would send me out to the fields with sandwiches and cold ginger water for dad so he didn't have to stop work to eat.
Couple of hay fields around here cut probably 2 or 3 times a year and it's always the big round bales. Welcome to our world of heat. Thanks for sharing. Keep cool.
Yep, I’ve done hay. All the troubles of hay season are so true. It lasts only a short season. If you have good hay, it’s very valuable, worth the trouble and expense…maybe. Big land, animals, means feed, means equipment, work, stress. Sheesh. I sure get it. A farm means WORK, something of which you guys are not afraid. Reminded me of a time long ago. Love what you guys are doing. Kentucky
Re: allergies: an N-95 mask might actually be useful in this situation. (Assuming the extra hot air to breathe is less bad than the allergy relief.) I wear a mask when I clay-spray my apples, or if sawdust is intense.
Watching you2 i can smell the hay...did a lot for my ponys until it was cheaper to buy bales from the farmers... Now i have small rolles.. But it was fun
Yep I enjoyed the video and I'll be back for more videos. I been so busy at my new homestead that I'm behind on many videos. I live in NW FL and I agree with you on the heat and here the humidity is very unpleasant too. I look forward to fall and winter here. I like gardening better in fall and winter here, although spring can be nice too but I wish I could leave during the summer. I always wanted to be able to leave during summer and have a nice little get a way in the mountains someplace during summer months.
I have many allergies to molds and grasses too. But one of my favorite things is the smell of drying alfalfa. Especially when the rows are thick and need turning over the next day. Sitting in the farmyard watching fireflies and smelling the heavy hay smell in the evening dampness is full of precious memories for me.
I live on what you'd think of as a tiny island in the UK (Isle of Wight) and my village is surrounded by agricultural land, with sheep and crops locally. So I enjoy the seasons and seeing various crops being planted, growing, harvested etc. I love hearing the sheep in their fields and the colours of the hills. But your mountains are spectacular! I so enjoy your videos which manage to be both informative and engaging. You have such a simple, clean and honest approach to life and to your videos. Thank you! BTW my village is a 12 minute drive to a beach and that is a huge bonus!
Well at least you have a beautiful view while haying. here in Mn. It's flat and boring in the farm country. Also we get the high humidity with the heat. Like you, I don't like the summer weather.
"Make hay while the sun shines".. Nice video even through your misery 😀 I laughed at Antartica, I expected Alaska. You're a good sport for your husband though.
Thanks I really enjoyed it, more so coming from a heavy equipment underground mining background. If it's mobile operated equipment I am interested in it's operation!
Yup. She said it did bother her and that she wouldn't do it for the money but that she does it for Clay because she loves him. She's a very devoted woman.
The barns are the worst! But I found not a lot of people who grew up on or around farms are allergic to the grass dust since you're exposed to it so much as a child. You can wear a dust mask or a bandana, but especially when you're putting it up in the barn it gets so hot that no one does and instead just suffer through it!
Most of our fields here have been burnt to a crisp by weeks of 100°+ heat. May not even get one cutting from some fields. Square bales are being offered @ $100/bale 🥵😱
WOW! Will that mean an increased sale of animals because it will too expensive to feed them? Dad used to pay me $1.00 per bale from the baling to loading the loft each summer.
@@lindaleal809 it sure will. Our Farm to Fork store has been having sales on ground beef almost every week. I've been stocking up and canning as much as I can. Taco meat, regular ground beef with broth and meat loaf. Not gonna get me to eat bugs !!
@@ladyinthemountains2527 That's why we pay attention. Great that you are planning ahead. Some folks don't realize that a few home canned products will last up to 2 years if kept cool and out of the light.
Was called "tedding" where & when I grew up on the farm in NZ . This involved our entire family of 7 kids & Dad & Mum. The babies were looked after by the next age group while mother drove a tractor or truck or supervised the stacking of bales when they were individual oblong tied with string or baling twine bales. Exactly what you said ... we made hay while the sun shone ..and that was only a day or 2 in a row usually , so hard work was required to get the hay paddocks cut, tedded, baled and stacked on to the truck then into a hay shed. A lot of work involved. My disabled back is believed to have stemmed from this work and the amount I back carried into the snow bound sheep in my future employment as a farm hand after I left school.
i just saw a video by a farmer here on the east coast of the USA and they were tedding their hay with what looked like a couple of twirling whisks on an arm behind a tractor; I wonder if it is more typical in wetter climates?
Yes ( I’m also New Zealand) we used the term tedding to turn the rows of cut hay sometimes twice, then the Tedder settings were altered to do the winrowing to combine two rows together ready for baling. Hot dusty work!
Play interesting video Ariel thank you, if I may ask a question please when you said the field was not cultivated is that the same concept as no till? I just recently learned that concept on a TH-cam about soil. Anyway it sounds like it might be the same thing. Thank you for sharing and thank you for a great video
That was so interesting. The music was nice too!!. I was thinking about how much work goes into farming. I remember when Michael Bloomberg was running for Pres. a few years ago. He said "there's not much to farming. You just put the seed in the ground and it grows." Spoken like a man who always lived in the city and never went to a farm or even cared enough to find out about it. If the hay isn't the right temperature or dryness, what do you do to make it right?
Too wet, then you wait before loading into the hay loft. Wet hay can make animals sick and hay can be ruined by mold. That's why listening to weather reports daily and hourly is important to farmers. My dad and mother were always light sleepers on nights after the hay was put in the hay loft. Too much moisture and hay combusts and the risk of losing the whole barn and maybe animals is real.
@@lindaleal809 I understand that but when he measured the moisture out in the field......if it's too damp then, do they just leave it there and hope for it to dry out? Maybe that's doesn't happen since they wait until 10 dys of predicted dry weather. I just think of the "olden" days before all the technology. Amazing how much better farming is today although still so much work.
@@terryoconnell9773 Yes, they would leave the bales to dry more. This is usually the hottest part of the summer. Some farmers stack the bales in the field and cover with tarp or store bales in a shed with open sides and metal roof. Farmers like my Dad would be learning from earliest childhood like opening fences or unhitching wagons and listening all the time for wisdom from their parents. Every day was an education and a chance for the child to become confident because of learning by doing.
I never knew the complete operation of cutting and bailing hay before. What a job it is. But I'm confused how too much moisture in the hay would cause it to combust. Would think it might mold but I don't see the connection between moisture and combustion.
The process of decomposition when the hay is damp, works like hot composting. Thermophilic microbes multiply and digest moist material, giving off heat and gases, one of which I guess is methane. Eventually this process can get so hot that it spontaneously combusts.
@@dorothydemaree7544 You always do a test bale for each new field you hay. Make for darn sure that you don’t need to let it lay another few hours. 14-16% moisture is pretty good. Any higher than 20 and someone is going to be in trouble!
@@dorothydemaree7544 Here in Tasmania, where we are much more likely to get summer rains than Wyoming does, hay bales are often left in the paddock for a few days to continue curing in the sun and breeze. Sometimes they will be turned over to expose the underside.
Watching this, I was wondering if you have allergies and you do. That is tough. . I have heinous grass allergies. Doing this would probably finish me off.
lol.....Its quite obvious you don't enjoy this part of life, considering your health limitations. But, it's also quite obvious you are willing to endure these limitations to enhance your lifestyle and assist in your your husbands (less stress level) as well. Well done sweetie, well done!
Fascinating Ariel! Just wondering what the temperature was? We’ve had some 90+ temps here in north west North Carolina. Such a beautiful area you live in. Thanks for sharing!
A very interesting video
My nose is running and my throat is closing up just watching this video.
You have a great deal of grit, Ariel. I admire your willingness to be uncomfortable to help Clay, and complete this important work. 👍☺️
When we were kids we had to lift the bales of hay on to the trailer and I think they were wrapped with wire then rope later. The hay never made it to the lofts because the barn pulley didn’t work. Watching this brought back so many memories…thanks for sharing you hard work. We are in our 70’s now enjoying the memories of a rural childhood. The home and wonderful property we lived on is now full of McMansions. 🤮. We enjoy your videos all of the time. Thank you. 🌻😻
We had small fields of hay, that were cut and baled, when I was a kid. These were used for our cow. Some of the process involved neighbor help because we didn't have baling equipment. I appreciate the concern over weather and equipment breaking or neighbors not being able to bale when it was time. I give farmers, ranchers and their workers a whole lot of credit. It's tough work. Well done to Clay and yourself.
Wish I had been there to help with animals and other responsibilities
Makes my eyes itchy just watching this.
Loved your video --- thank you!!
I did a lot of haying in the past.I always thought stacking it in the hayloft was the worst part of the job.Those old New England barns really get hot!
I just HATED when my dad told us it was time to put the bales up - looking back I miss it, hay rash and all.
@@leviadams6230 -Sometimes when I see people haying I'll miss it,then wake up and wonder what was I thinking?
I always got stuck in the top of the loft cause I was the smallest🤨- my clothes would be so wet, it felt like I jumped in the creek
I'm amazed at the amount of grass it takes to make a bale! It's a lot. And as usual seeing Burley so happy makes my day. Beautiful beautiful video.
So beautiful there! That is hard work!! You have a good man there!!!
The tedious work for those of us that work the land!
I must admit that I prefer the smaller bales and loathe the ugly.round ones wrapped in plastic. It was great to watch the mechanics of it all.
I would have suggested moving to a more temperate country like Britain but I cannot say that now because it has been so hot. It is currently midnight and the outside temperature is close to 80 degrees with tomorrow being the hottest day ever (today, we were hotter than California and tomorrow we will be as hot as the Sahara Desert).
I live on the Isle of Wight and it's too hot for me even to drive the 12 mins in an air con car to the beach! I may go after 6pm today when many of the visitors have gone back for tea. Phew it's blisteringly hot, isn't it?
@@coffeefetcher it is blisteringly hot. I havent been able to open any windows because there has been a fire in the woods near my house and we have been told to keep our windows and doors closed. I have a fan which helps. I havent liked the hot nights either at midnight last night it was still 80°F.
@@denisemeredith2436 gosh, that's grim awful for you! I hope that fire is soon put out and the air clears. Sleeping here is just laying on the bed starkers and thanking God for my bed being under the windows! But still so hot that all I do is drink, wee, drink and sit inside with the ceiling fan on. my poor cat is all black and today even he admitted defeat and has stayed inside! x
Hard work, the scenery is beautifull.
Ariel, this will be one of my favorites of all of your videos. I was reliving memories of riding on tractors with my dad as he was baling hay and straw. Trying to find safe spots to ride just like Burley and feeling so drowsy because of the heat, sway of the tractor and easy pace of the ride. Thanks for this video. I loved being with my dad and loved growing up on the farm.
So cool seeing the whole process. A lot of hard work. Thanks for sharing this with us ❤️❤️
Thanks for sharing!
Interesting as always,
Kari🌞
You two make a great team Ariel! The animals it feeds will appreciate it.
Thanks Ariel very interesting
Watching Clay do that with the twine reminds me of going over the Teton Pass one morning from the night shift at St John hospital to my home in Victor. It was August and a major snow storm hit. Stuck on the top of the pass, my alternator snapped off in my VW. I had a wool glove in my glove box. I had to unravel it and tie on my alternator enough to make it over the pass. Good times!💕
love that its natural grasses
I like the scenery where you work. 👍
So much more to it than meets the eye! 👍🇨🇦😎🌾
THANK YOU for Sharing the NITTY GRITTY Details of Haying. YIKES !!
I was sneezing just watching this, so I can relate to your discomfort.
What good helpmates can accomplish together. I can smell the hay now.👏👏
Being from a fishing family from Yorkshire that was very interesting viewing .You have always said you like a cold climate as long as i have watched you .
Burley is and has always been a fantastic dog .I remember Grizz and the tears when you had to let him go .
Yes. But better things happened when she least expected it and Burley is a dear.
What a beautiful life!
Appreciate the filming and the process. Thank you for sharing.
I was hoping we'd see a haymaking video this year! What a lovely story, especially here where it's icy winter.
I'm so sorry you have a hard time coping with it all. Your work is certainly valuable.
Bailey riding along warmed my heart...gorgeous landscape, spectacular views...thanks for sharing one more element of your life with Clay
Looks good. Yes...a bit rough!! 😊 I'm thinking of how it was done long ago.
I am so happy for you! You have found a partner in life for sure! Can't ask for anything more really!
This is so cool! Thank you for sharing!
Nice ! So the couple that hays together stays together! :)
Very nice , relaxing. 👍👍😊
That is just such a gorgeous part of this country! Great tutorial, too, thanks!
We lived across the road from a farm and haying season was rough on us with the dust and dirt. All of us were allergic and just about lived on Benadryl. Loved that farm! When I was older I helped a friend with horses move bales of hay from someone's loft dropping it down into her pick up. Those bales weighed more than me! I, too, could do with a cooler climate. Minnesota is getting a little too warm for me! Stay safe and blessings on your endeavors!
But aren't the Winter's there crazy cold?
It's hard to find a place that is 65 - 70⁰ year 'round.
Wouldn't that be amazing though!
I spent several summers bailing hay when I was growing up. That was over 50 years ago. We had to load it on a wagon then onto a elevator at the barn and then stack it in the barn. By the end of the summer you got pretty stout.
Purple mountains majesty. The work looks monotonous but that backdrop!
So interesting to see this process! All the best Ariel and Clay!
Ariel, I think you and Clay make a great team. I love to see the farm wives out driving the tractors to rake or bale the hay, and I have so much respect for you all! Also love seeing the baler spit out the bales of hay. I have helped our neighbors hay a few times, and it sure is hot, dusty, itchy work, but so satisfying to get the hay in for the animals for the winter. Thanks for sharing the process with us.
I’ve never seen the whole process…Who woulda thought it was so technical…..You two are Jacks of all trades as we would call you here 😁…Hope Hay time goes quickly for you…..…I’ve ridden in one of those for a short time and yes I can understand how it could wear you out by the end of the day. I knew someone who did this and it just consumed his life for a time in the summer. I’m with you where the heat is concerned…I’m hibernating now and I’m only in norther New Jersey…it hasn’t even been that warm so far…every year I just count the days till Fall!
Yes! That's what I'm doing here in northern Utah.
On Sunday we got up to 101⁰!
Tooooo hot and we're having issues with out electricity in our house and can't run the a/c.
It's been 84⁰ in the house and I'm packed out in ice packs.
It helps, but not enough.
It'll start cooling off in around 45 days.
Will we make it?
Will our electric issue be fixed long before that?
We need heat to live here too because it can often get below 0⁰ in the Winter.
Winter is much longer than Summer.
Good luck to all of us!🍀🍀🍀
Enjoyed this video. Beautiful scenery. Thank you for sharing🌻🦋
That is so cool, beats a desk job anyway! Btw I’ve been meaning to tell you Ariel, I love your music selections.
Oh my goodness your video brought back memories for me as a child helping my father at hay making time. 65- 70 years ago! And we had an old New Holland baler also. I would be stationed in a little seat by the back where the bales came out. My job was to observe if the string tying mechanism was working. If bales started breaking I had to jump off and run fast to my father on the tractor and let him know. This would prevent too many broken bales. So then he had to rethread the twine - a jute type rope, no polyester string in those days.
I remember the heat, getting very sunburnt, and thirsty. But I felt very important to be able to help.
Knowing how much you LOOOOOve hay season ;) I'm so glad for you both that all is done and well. You'll be able to go back to stuff you love!
THIS is Beautiful, Pastoral, & Peaceful : ) I LOVE THIS Video!! THANK YOU For Sharing it : ) : )
I completely understand the whole hay making process! I was raised on a farm plus my husband & I have always had horses(46 years). You explained it perfectly! I do think it might be a little more tolerable for you to have a cab on your tractor! 😉
Boy, I can sure see THAT benefit!
I bet a sparkly new air con and hydraulic suspension seat tractor would be wonderful and also cost a small fortune!
I'm really enjoying your channel. Its productive and calming all at once.
Congratulations another hay season is in the bucket. The two of you as usual are a great team, and it’s hard hot and dusty work thankfully behind you for this year.
I'm feeling for you Ariel!
1/2 of the electric has gone out in the old house that we rent and when then breaker blew, it took out our a/c unit.
The landlord has given us a generator to use to run another unit we have, but it costs so much to run that we can't afford to use it for many hours.
My daughter and I have autoimmune issues that are exasperated with heat.
It's been up to 82⁰ in our house and I'm going to tell you - that's too hot.
The neuropathy pain is nearly out of control and of course it'll be weeks before any electrician can come fix it.
The bids for that are between $6500.00 and $8000.00 to fix it.
We have rented this house for 10+ years and never even been late once with our payment.
We told them over a year ago that the electric in the house was having issues and they decided to put it off.
So yeah - uncomfortable is an understatement as to how I'm feeling.
You must truly be in love since you wouldn't do this for the money!
I'm glad you're out of the fields and back at the homestead.
Thanks for the update!
Ariel I'm curious, you once showed us how you do your laundry, and it wasn't so bad for one person, but now that you have a husband and you have to do laundry for two people, do you still do it the same way in that little spin thing? 💗⚘
I RECOGNIZE the Farm Machinery, # NEW HOLLAND. #Living out West now, but born & Lived in PENNSYLVANIA for a number of years. My Grandpa had a farm in NY and he grew and baled his own hay, with a Tractor and Big Clydesdale Horses : ) GREAT MEMORIES of watching my Grandpa, Father, & Brothers picking up Hay Bales & throwing them up onto the wagon; which the Horses pulled to the Barn.
Glad I'm a city boy now. That type of work would drive me crazy.
Thanks for sharing -- it brought back memories from 70+ years ago when
I was driving the tractor during hay baling season and yes, hot and definitely sticky ! Enjoy your videos.
You guys are amazing- what a team- and Burley riding shotgun💝💝💝💝cannot imagine the dust you inhale and the heat- you are so fair skinned- such hard work- and the allergies- wow- you rock😔💝- I hate hot weather too- act of love for sure 💝so happy you two found each other 💝
Mechanicing. I love it. That is such a Wyoming - Idaho word. Really enjoyed this video.
My dad and I used to take turns driving the tractor and riding the skid when we make small skid piles on the skid and then when we had the pile made we took a bar and pushed it off so there'd be little tiny Haystacks all over the field and my father had a thing that went in place of the scoop on the tractor loader and it squeezed the little bales of hay and stacked them in a big big haystacks that we used off of in the winter time
Your videos are always so interesting. Glad your hay baling season is over, but my, my, my .... what beautiful country!! Thanks for sharing!
This is so cool. Thank you for showing us.
Sitting here laughing because it kinda looks like that hay baler is sh***ing bricks, because, well, it's going along, and plop, out of its backside, here comes a brick! With that said...thank you for sharing these videos. These are things most people don't have any experience with, so it's fascinating to get to see what it's really like, and not smoothly filmed Hollywood-like.
Fascinating video, thanks for taking the time to put this together! You are very talented Ariel!!!
Worked for a ranch one year. Haying season came and I ran the rake. Hard work even when I was a teenager. I had no cab and man was I every sunburned even with a hat and long sleeves. Lifting and stacking hay was far harder than riding the tractor! One hard summer of work but I loved being outdoors. Thanks for raking up some fond memories! 😉
I watch My Wyoming Life which is a channel about a small cattle rancher. I just got done watching his haying process and he had many of the same repairs.
Seems like repairs are needed every season. That's why you will see farmers with lots of tools and bins of all kinds of metal parts and pieces. Time is important to farmers/ranchers and the last thing any would want to do is stop their work to go to town for parts or repairs. Mother would send me out to the fields with sandwiches and cold ginger water for dad so he didn't have to stop work to eat.
Couple of hay fields around here cut probably 2 or 3 times a year and it's always the big round bales. Welcome to our world of heat. Thanks for sharing. Keep cool.
Very cool to watch how hay is made...never seen it before
Very interesting! Thank you for explaining the process.
Yep, I’ve done hay. All the troubles of hay season are so true. It lasts only a short season. If you have good hay, it’s very valuable, worth the trouble and expense…maybe. Big land, animals, means feed, means equipment, work, stress. Sheesh. I sure get it. A farm means WORK, something of which you guys are not afraid. Reminded me of a time long ago. Love what you guys are doing. Kentucky
Re: allergies: an N-95 mask might actually be useful in this situation. (Assuming the extra hot air to breathe is less bad than the allergy relief.) I wear a mask when I clay-spray my apples, or if sawdust is intense.
Watching you2 i can smell the hay...did a lot for my ponys until it was cheaper to buy bales from the farmers...
Now i have small rolles..
But it was fun
I love hay, I just hate the stress and way too hard on my body with the stacking... thankfully I don't need much but yeah chronic pains doesn't help.
I lived on a farm, and haying was necessary but not fun. I enjoy your videos.
Yep I enjoyed the video and I'll be back for more videos. I been so busy at my new homestead that I'm behind on many videos. I live in NW FL and I agree with you on the heat and here the humidity is very unpleasant too. I look forward to fall and winter here. I like gardening better in fall and winter here, although spring can be nice too but I wish I could leave during the summer. I always wanted to be able to leave during summer and have a nice little get a way in the mountains someplace during summer months.
Awesome Video!! Need to grab some Haymakers Punch and enjoy!! Thanx for sharing!!
This is fascinating for someone who knows nothing about it.
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I have many allergies to molds and grasses too. But one of my favorite things is the smell of drying alfalfa. Especially when the rows are thick and need turning over the next day. Sitting in the farmyard watching fireflies and smelling the heavy hay smell in the evening dampness is full of precious memories for me.
I remember haying a few times with one Grampa and one Uncle plus a couple of cousins during my teens and early 20s. Darned hot, hard work.
Kudos!
I live on what you'd think of as a tiny island in the UK (Isle of Wight) and my village is surrounded by agricultural land, with sheep and crops locally. So I enjoy the seasons and seeing various crops being planted, growing, harvested etc. I love hearing the sheep in their fields and the colours of the hills. But your mountains are spectacular! I so enjoy your videos which manage to be both informative and engaging. You have such a simple, clean and honest approach to life and to your videos. Thank you! BTW my village is a 12 minute drive to a beach and that is a huge bonus!
Such hard work heaving and hauling hay - especially in the heat we have had
How do you transport your tractors to the job sites.
Drive them on the far right side of the road.
I have helped pack hay from the field. Not a big place, hard work. Can't imagine what you all are cutting/ baking!
And that's not baking. Your hay bales
Well at least you have a beautiful view while haying. here in Mn. It's flat and boring in the farm country. Also we get the high humidity with the heat. Like you, I don't like the summer weather.
Great vid thanks so much!!
"Make hay while the sun shines".. Nice video even through your misery 😀 I laughed at Antartica, I expected Alaska. You're a good sport for your husband though.
Makes my back hurt to watch that, picked a hell of a lot of them 55 years ago
Thanks I really enjoyed it, more so coming from a heavy equipment underground mining background. If it's mobile operated equipment I am interested in it's operation!
Looks like fun, I'm wondering if breathing all that hey dust disturbs your allergies?
Yup. She said it did bother her and that she wouldn't do it for the money but that she does it for Clay because she loves him.
She's a very devoted woman.
The barns are the worst! But I found not a lot of people who grew up on or around farms are allergic to the grass dust since you're exposed to it so much as a child. You can wear a dust mask or a bandana, but especially when you're putting it up in the barn it gets so hot that no one does and instead just suffer through it!
Most of our fields here have been burnt to a crisp by weeks of 100°+ heat. May not even get one cutting from some fields. Square bales are being offered @ $100/bale 🥵😱
WOW! Will that mean an increased sale of animals because it will too expensive to feed them? Dad used to pay me $1.00 per bale from the baling to loading the loft each summer.
@@lindaleal809 it sure will. Our Farm to Fork store has been having sales on ground beef almost every week. I've been stocking up and canning as much as I can. Taco meat, regular ground beef with broth and meat loaf. Not gonna get me to eat bugs !!
@@ladyinthemountains2527 That's why we pay attention. Great that you are planning ahead. Some folks don't realize that a few home canned products will last up to 2 years if kept cool and out of the light.
Was called "tedding" where & when I grew up on the farm in NZ . This involved our entire family of 7 kids & Dad & Mum. The babies were looked after by the next age group while mother drove a tractor or truck or supervised the stacking of bales when they were individual oblong tied with string or baling twine bales. Exactly what you said ... we made hay while the sun shone ..and that was only a day or 2 in a row usually , so hard work was required to get the hay paddocks cut, tedded, baled and stacked on to the truck then into a hay shed. A lot of work involved. My disabled back is believed to have stemmed from this work and the amount I back carried into the snow bound sheep in my future employment as a farm hand after I left school.
i just saw a video by a farmer here on the east coast of the USA and they were tedding their hay with what looked like a couple of twirling whisks on an arm behind a tractor; I wonder if it is more typical in wetter climates?
Yes ( I’m also New Zealand) we used the term tedding to turn the rows of cut hay sometimes twice, then the Tedder settings were altered to do the winrowing to combine two rows together ready for baling. Hot dusty work!
Thank you that was very educational. I thought all animals ate the same thing...grass. lol...what do I know...lol
Play interesting video Ariel thank you, if I may ask a question please when you said the field was not cultivated is that the same concept as no till? I just recently learned that concept on a TH-cam about soil. Anyway it sounds like it might be the same thing. Thank you for sharing and thank you for a great video
That was so interesting. The music was nice too!!. I was thinking about how much work goes into farming. I remember when Michael Bloomberg was running for Pres. a few years ago. He said "there's not much to farming. You just put the seed in the ground and it grows." Spoken like a man who always lived in the city and never went to a farm or even cared enough to find out about it. If the hay isn't the right temperature or dryness, what do you do to make it right?
Too wet, then you wait before loading into the hay loft. Wet hay can make animals sick and hay can be ruined by mold. That's why listening to weather reports daily and hourly is important to farmers. My dad and mother were always light sleepers on nights after the hay was put in the hay loft. Too much moisture and hay combusts and the risk of losing the whole barn and maybe animals is real.
@@lindaleal809 I understand that but when he measured the moisture out in the field......if it's too damp then, do they just leave it there and hope for it to dry out? Maybe that's doesn't happen since they wait until 10 dys of predicted dry weather. I just think of the "olden" days before all the technology. Amazing how much better farming is today although still so much work.
@@terryoconnell9773 Yes, they would leave the bales to dry more. This is usually the hottest part of the summer. Some farmers stack the bales in the field and cover with tarp or store bales in a shed with open sides and metal roof. Farmers like my Dad would be learning from earliest childhood like opening fences or unhitching wagons and listening all the time for wisdom from their parents. Every day was an education and a chance for the child to become confident because of learning by doing.
I never knew the complete operation of cutting and bailing hay before. What a job it is. But I'm confused how too much moisture in the hay would cause it to combust. Would think it might mold but I don't see the connection between moisture and combustion.
And if it’s off, how is it corrected after being bailed??
The process of decomposition when the hay is damp, works like hot composting. Thermophilic microbes multiply and digest moist material, giving off heat and gases, one of which I guess is methane. Eventually this process can get so hot that it spontaneously combusts.
@@dorothydemaree7544 You always do a test bale for each new field you hay. Make for darn sure that you don’t need to let it lay another few hours. 14-16% moisture is pretty good. Any higher than 20 and someone is going to be in trouble!
@@rubygray7749 Perfect explanation.
@@dorothydemaree7544 Here in Tasmania, where we are much more likely to get summer rains than Wyoming does, hay bales are often left in the paddock for a few days to continue curing in the sun and breeze. Sometimes they will be turned over to expose the underside.
How many fields do you and Clay do in a season?
Watching this, I was wondering if you have allergies and you do. That is tough. . I have heinous grass allergies. Doing this would probably finish me off.
lol.....Its quite obvious you don't enjoy this part of life, considering your health limitations. But, it's also quite obvious you are willing to endure these limitations to enhance your lifestyle and assist in your your husbands (less stress level) as well. Well done sweetie, well done!
Fascinating Ariel! Just wondering what the temperature was? We’ve had some 90+ temps here in north west North Carolina. Such a beautiful area you live in. Thanks for sharing!
Especially given how bumpy the field is shouldn't you have a safety harness?