Enjoyed the video. This brought back many memories of baling and picking up hay when I was much younger. Always worked into the night and the baler always seemed to break at the most inopportune moment.
That is great. Watched a video last week where a farmer was struggling to get hay done, it got dark and his neighbors kept stopping over to say he wad making too much noise. Great that your neighbors are so understanding and even helpful!
Great video, I always wondered what small scale hay baling looked like. That's quite an amazing little machine. And that is a whole lot of hay. Love your videos. Thanks for sharing your homestead with us, Jimmy
Reminds me of bailing hay with one of the old-timers in Michigan in the mid-80s. After he bailed we had to drive a tractor with a flatbed around the fields and stack all the hay before running it up into the barn. Good times...
Hard Work that's the life of a Farmer Right... Love it !! Not to many of us Hard workers still around my way, that stays in the Field till midnight.. 11:30 is midnight my way. lol But also loved it when i saw the rest of your Flock out there Grinding along with ya !! Now that is Life on the Farm!! Thanks My Friends..
Hay, that looks like a lot of work I remember being little driving the hay truck while my brothers and dad threw the bails on the truck always enjoyed the creek when it was over
Hello there! I am rather impressed with your content and humble you seem to be with your offering videos. I am enjoying seeing all your videos and I wanna thank you for being a great guy all around. I def appreciate your efforts. Thank you! P.S - you have such a wonderful family.
getting ready to cut down some of our hay also . most of our hay is alfalfa with some grass coming up in it (older fields) one the neighbors old world Bluestem pasture is creeping across the alfalfa but still very good hay . going to have to plant a new field of alfalfa this fall for next year tho. great vid and great days ahead . Have Fun from oklahoma
I will probably have some left in the winter that I can sell hopefully fr a decent price. I normally sell for $3 per bale but looks like it is already going for $5-$8 per bale
Hay! Thanks for sharing! Noting your comment on composting hay, I'd like to add a bit of my experience. I use hay to balance my compost, and as bedding in the chicken run. If you use hay and plan to compost it, running it through a shredder is a total game changer. I keep my shredder right in with the chickens, and everything that goes in their run goes through the shredder first, especially bedding hay and garden waste. This, a compost starter (2 beers, 1 sugary pop, 5-ish gallons of water, a healthy dose of urine), and twice weekly stirring is producing good, dark, high nitrogen compost for me in about 4 weeks time. My chipper/shredder was a craigslist find, I have less than $100 in it, including a new belt, tune up, oil, and the first can of gas. IMHO it's been worth every penny, and it is beyond me why more gardeners don't use them. I love the vids and the series. Really glad to see you're recovering well. PLEASE don't take your messages away from us by starting and operating that tractor while you're butt isn't in that seat, though! Accidents only take a second, please don't make the rest of the SSL family watch drone footage of you running yourself over with the tractor.
This is a great video! I LOVE your baler...so simple. Sorry you had trouble with it, but lookit all that food you have for your animals! God is GREAT! Thanks for taking us along. I thoroughly enjoyed it; I could smell the warm hay in the barn! Can't wait to get back to that life! Many blessings to you and your family from NE Missouri.
Glad to see that you're going to get enough, even with just 2 cuttings … we had to import some from far afield once when I was a kid … it got expensive!
Silly question.....How often do you have to reseed, rotate, fertilize etc., a hay field? Is it a crop that can be maintained in a particular field for decades with minimal inputs? Thanks for all you do.
if hay is planted correctly it can go for 6+ years with no fertilizer or needing to be replanted. Eventually you get weeds and other things encroaching and the mix of grasses and alfalfa get out of balance and it should then be replanted.
Tony Cadman UK The bang that broke the shear bolt was probably caused by the ram striking the safety latch entering the chamber to protect the needles from damagedue to them not being properly latched back after a knot has been tied. If it happens often you should investigate. You have a fine old baler there worthy of becoming an antique.
the bailer reminds me of my first job, needed money for shop classes in high school. i was 13 at the time, keep the job all thru high school. the farm boarded horses and i tuke care of the barn and horses. did not want to give it up.
Great video! Someone asked"what value to goats have on the farm?" I almost thumbed the comment down but didn't want to start anything. I'm annoyed I had to read that comment, I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they were joking. Still a great video, despite that comment.
Up until recently we were square baling with a similar rig as yours. I've still got my square baler in case I get the hankerin'. I'm 67 now so not sure that will happen but you never know.
Hey Dad...Glad to see the leg is good enough for you being able to climb in and out of the truck window like that!...I'd say 95% healed? Boy it feels good from going to being couch bound for weeks to doing things we take for granted each day, doesn't it? .....Been there done that..my "season" was from March '18-to the last month or so to where I'm about 98% back ...Boy did God grow me mightily on that one..... :-) Congrats on the recovery...................Question: Why no horse videos since the day you got them?....Blessings to the family.
Glad you are back up and at it again too Dan! No horse videos, well I guess I don't really have an excuse for that:) Nothing really to report on them I guess, I haven't had a chance to train them yet, I feed them a lot, and they are healthy, lol. I'll do something on them soon!
Yes, we do that sometimes also but it is faster for me to run the nailer non stop when I am in a hurry and then come back and collect with a few people.
We did round bales phew. Lots of work but we divided the labor spouse cut, I raked, he baked. I picked them up with my tractor. Wouldn’t trade farm life for anything.
Not to recommend more work for you but your Forest is encroaching on your hay field this year.. Edit: for the record, I can't speak for anyone else but I really enjoy the tractor videos from baling rototilling, bush hogging and even the repairs. I am trying to get out of the giant city of So Cal to move to greener pastures up north in a conservative state (with lower taxes and family values) and your videos among other people's are a TH-cam U degree
@@tarantulady8565 there is only a few good neighborhoods left in Southern California in my opinion (but all are way to expensive and to packed with people) San Clemente, Dana Point, Laguna (is way to liberal nowadays) Newport, Costa Mesa and Huntington Beach... I think I am about the same age as you guys (I am 40), I grew up in unincorporated Riverside, it used to be rule horse country with lots of dairy farms and wineries, today it is houses as far as the eyes can see. It is kind of depressing. I guess I now know how my father felt he grew up in Orange county when it was nothing but orange groves that his grandparents helped plant back in the late 1800s. I was actually thinking Central Idaho outside of either Moscow or Lewiston but nothing is off the table, about the only thing I will miss in southern California is the great weather and the ocean fishing oh and if you're familiar with it the Alberto's Mexican chain restaurants " super fry". I figure that southern California the way I remember it is gone and it isn't coming back in my lifetime so it's time, without going into too much detail I am currently buying all the stuff I need to have a small ranch or farm, it is actually your guys's Oliver Bailer that drew me to your channel and it was your values that have kept me coming back.
hey brother, hope all is well. as a question how big is that field you are pulling hey from. we have two 6A lots that we have hey on, just wondering if it would be worth it to envest in a bailer or not.
Hey Todd, you may want to consider downgrading to a silicone wedding ring :-) in all seriousness I work in the construction industry and cut into my finger pretty badly wearing a titanium wedding ring. Since you work on your farm equipment all the time you may want to consider, as long as your wife is okay with it, buying a inexpensive silicone wedding ring to save your finger from potential injury.
@@SSLFamilyDad I purchased a 3 pack on eBay for $10 or less thinking I would tear them up but I've been wearing the same one for six months now and there's not a scratch or tear on it.
lol, when this one breaks down beyond repair then I will get something new. And the cool thing about an avalanche is that the back window comes right out and can be easily replaced:)
@@SSLFamilyDad I cracked my windshield Saturday when I was changing my strut/shock. My abstention barely rub the bottom of the windshield and it cracked. The money I saved doing it myself now has to buy me a windshield. But that's my luck with working on my own vehicle.
I can't imagine there is to many 1970s anything left in a rust belt state. I have never been to Michigan but I've been to Illinois quite a few times and 2012 cars are already rusted out (a particular super duty comes to mind that is probably about 12 years old now and I have watched it go from a new truck to a really rusty one, here in California they still look new it's kind of strange).
Enjoyed the video. This brought back many memories of baling and picking up hay when I was much younger. Always worked into the night and the baler always seemed to break at the most inopportune moment.
Everything breaks at the worst time! Lol
You are really lucky to have such a beautiful and hard working family.
Great video,farms coming along fine!!!!🍒🍒
I enjoy watching you turn the mown hay as well and the cutting.
That is great. Watched a video last week where a farmer was struggling to get hay done, it got dark and his neighbors kept stopping over to say he wad making too much noise. Great that your neighbors are so understanding and even helpful!
Great video, I always wondered what small scale hay baling looked like. That's quite an amazing little machine. And that is a whole lot of hay. Love your videos.
Thanks for sharing your homestead with us,
Jimmy
Reminds me of bailing hay with one of the old-timers in Michigan in the mid-80s. After he bailed we had to drive a tractor with a flatbed around the fields and stack all the hay before running it up into the barn. Good times...
You made that pink 4 wheeler look good.
I like the smell of freshly cut hay!
You rock! Love your attitude
Omg. Looked like the 70s to start with. Awsome video.
Green acres is the place to be. Farm living is the life for me.
Haying is hard work any way you look at it. Thanks for sharing.
Hard Work that's the life of a Farmer Right... Love it !! Not to many of us Hard workers still around my way, that stays in the Field till midnight.. 11:30 is midnight my way. lol But also loved it when i saw the rest of your Flock out there Grinding along with ya !! Now that is Life on the Farm!! Thanks My Friends..
Thank you so very much for this video. I love these. :)
The old Oliver twine baler is very cool!
You sound tried. Thanks for taking the time and sharing.
I didn't realize the size of four wheeler at first until you jumped on it in the field. Haha so cute
Hay, that looks like a lot of work I remember being little driving the hay truck while my brothers and dad threw the bails on the truck always enjoyed the creek when it was over
Hello there! I am rather impressed with your content and humble you seem to be with your offering videos. I am enjoying seeing all your videos and I wanna thank you for being a great guy all around. I def appreciate your efforts. Thank you! P.S - you have such a wonderful family.
Making hay while the sun shines!😁👍
getting ready to cut down some of our hay also . most of our hay is alfalfa with some grass coming up in it (older fields) one the neighbors old world Bluestem pasture is creeping across the alfalfa but still very good hay . going to have to plant a new field of alfalfa this fall for next year tho. great vid and great days ahead . Have Fun from oklahoma
Much better than the hustle and bustle of the city.
I miss the countryside.
Love that comment it's better than eating hay directly excellent
Hay is going to be a very precious commodity this next winter with all the rain this spring/summer.
I will probably have some left in the winter that I can sell hopefully fr a decent price. I normally sell for $3 per bale but looks like it is already going for $5-$8 per bale
Hay! Thanks for sharing!
Noting your comment on composting hay, I'd like to add a bit of my experience. I use hay to balance my compost, and as bedding in the chicken run. If you use hay and plan to compost it, running it through a shredder is a total game changer. I keep my shredder right in with the chickens, and everything that goes in their run goes through the shredder first, especially bedding hay and garden waste. This, a compost starter (2 beers, 1 sugary pop, 5-ish gallons of water, a healthy dose of urine), and twice weekly stirring is producing good, dark, high nitrogen compost for me in about 4 weeks time.
My chipper/shredder was a craigslist find, I have less than $100 in it, including a new belt, tune up, oil, and the first can of gas. IMHO it's been worth every penny, and it is beyond me why more gardeners don't use them.
I love the vids and the series. Really glad to see you're recovering well. PLEASE don't take your messages away from us by starting and operating that tractor while you're butt isn't in that seat, though! Accidents only take a second, please don't make the rest of the SSL family watch drone footage of you running yourself over with the tractor.
It's a good day for hay.
thank you for sharing the video
This is a great video! I LOVE your baler...so simple. Sorry you had trouble with it, but lookit all that food you have for your animals! God is GREAT! Thanks for taking us along. I thoroughly enjoyed it; I could smell the warm hay in the barn! Can't wait to get back to that life! Many blessings to you and your family from NE Missouri.
wow) rest work watching you from Australia xxx
wow what a life you have! and you really do look handsome on that pink quad hahaha!
Glad to see that you're going to get enough, even with just 2 cuttings … we had to import some from far afield once when I was a kid … it got expensive!
I love hay season. Very cool.
Sweeeeet hay cam! I could watch all day! I know it's a ton of hard work, but way to provide for the whole farm!
Good to see the Oliver choochin and that you're getting your time money and effort out of it.
Eggh I popped off a little quick there it is what it is at least it generally works, it's retirement age and working harder than most kids ever have.
Silly question.....How often do you have to reseed, rotate, fertilize etc., a hay field? Is it a crop that can be maintained in a particular field for decades with minimal inputs?
Thanks for all you do.
if hay is planted correctly it can go for 6+ years with no fertilizer or needing to be replanted. Eventually you get weeds and other things encroaching and the mix of grasses and alfalfa get out of balance and it should then be replanted.
Tony Cadman UK
The bang that broke the shear bolt was probably caused by the ram striking the safety latch entering the chamber to protect the needles from damagedue to them not being properly latched back after a knot has been tied. If it happens often you should investigate. You have a fine old baler there worthy of becoming an antique.
You are exactly right, I had to move the needles all the way back manually and then once it ran a bale through it seemed fine after that.
Hay! Hey! Hay! I really enjoyed this!! Lol, Working on the farm can be a lot of work but looks so enjoyable . Till next time, God bless.
Thanks for sharing todd
the bailer reminds me of my first job, needed money for shop classes in high school. i was 13 at the time, keep the job all thru high school. the farm boarded horses and i tuke care of the barn and horses. did not want to give it up.
Stumbled upon you yesterday.... just subbed. Fantastic content! Thank you. I look forward to following long. ✌🏼
I would love to have a small farm
Another great video SSL Dad, I see that Ford is still staying strong lol.
Could you do a video cutting hay? Thanks, great videos
Looks like a broken tooth @2:47. Glad you were able to finish.
o lord i remember those days long and tiring late nights early morning wear gloves made that mistake once and only once lol
nice job, better than i got this year. just brush hoged my firlds off may hay second cutting if weather is good thanx for the videos.
Those are tough, hearty, beautiful girls you two are raising! Great job.
Great video! Someone asked"what value to goats have on the farm?" I almost thumbed the comment down but didn't want to start anything. I'm annoyed I had to read that comment, I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they were joking. Still a great video, despite that comment.
Up until recently we were square baling with a similar rig as yours. I've still got my square baler in case I get the hankerin'. I'm 67 now so not sure that will happen but you never know.
Oh the life 😁
I think you've finally transitioned from a suburbanite to a real farmer!!! Well done!!! #farmlife TY
I buy those shear pins by the box of 50. That lasts me one season lol.
Real men wear (ride) PINK! I remember riding hay wagon before we moved from farm to city when I was five.
Hey Dad...Glad to see the leg is good enough for you being able to climb in and out of the truck window like that!...I'd say 95% healed? Boy it feels good from going to being couch bound for weeks to doing things we take for granted each day, doesn't it? .....Been there done that..my "season" was from March '18-to the last month or so to where I'm about 98% back ...Boy did God grow me mightily on that one..... :-) Congrats on the recovery...................Question: Why no horse videos since the day you got them?....Blessings to the family.
Glad you are back up and at it again too Dan! No horse videos, well I guess I don't really have an excuse for that:) Nothing really to report on them I guess, I haven't had a chance to train them yet, I feed them a lot, and they are healthy, lol. I'll do something on them soon!
@@SSLFamilyDad lol...SPACE TAKERS!!!....You guys have a great heart taking them in. :-)
@Cheap Skate for sure. I was just joking in general about the cost to maintain horses vs what you get. You have to have a big heart for horses.
You should consider plowing your hay after second cut and re seeding
Is there a way you can tow that trailer behind the bailer? I know the big ones are set up for that,
Yes, we do that sometimes also but it is faster for me to run the nailer non stop when I am in a hurry and then come back and collect with a few people.
What broke on the Oliver baler??????
9:46
NASCAR style!
We did round bales phew. Lots of work but we divided the labor spouse cut, I raked, he baked. I picked them up with my tractor. Wouldn’t trade farm life for anything.
Not to recommend more work for you but your Forest is encroaching on your hay field this year..
Edit: for the record, I can't speak for anyone else but I really enjoy the tractor videos from baling rototilling, bush hogging and even the repairs.
I am trying to get out of the giant city of So Cal to move to greener pastures up north in a conservative state (with lower taxes and family values) and your videos among other people's are a TH-cam U degree
Yes, this is a constant battle on my property, too. Trimming branches every year, as we have no time to cut/process trees! 🤦🏻♀️
In response to your edit, that speaks for me as well.
Atomic Reverend Alexander in re: to the edit... I lived in Laguna/Newport area & am now in Michigan. Come on out - we’d love to have you!👍
@@tarantulady8565 there is only a few good neighborhoods left in Southern California in my opinion (but all are way to expensive and to packed with people) San Clemente, Dana Point, Laguna (is way to liberal nowadays) Newport, Costa Mesa and Huntington Beach...
I think I am about the same age as you guys (I am 40), I grew up in unincorporated Riverside, it used to be rule horse country with lots of dairy farms and wineries, today it is houses as far as the eyes can see.
It is kind of depressing. I guess I now know how my father felt he grew up in Orange county when it was nothing but orange groves that his grandparents helped plant back in the late 1800s.
I was actually thinking Central Idaho outside of either Moscow or Lewiston but nothing is off the table, about the only thing I will miss in southern California is the great weather and the ocean fishing oh and if you're familiar with it the Alberto's Mexican chain restaurants " super fry". I figure that southern California the way I remember it is gone and it isn't coming back in my lifetime so it's time, without going into too much detail I am currently buying all the stuff I need to have a small ranch or farm, it is actually your guys's Oliver Bailer that drew me to your channel and it was your values that have kept me coming back.
@@chaddesantis4191 where are you at?
I would like to know what’s the name of the hay you use
Done that many times in my life
How many bales per acre are you getting?
Your baler most likely got slightly over loaded and busted the sheer pin. They tend to do that
How many acres cut?
we have just over 9 acres total, this was about half so about 4 or 5 acres
@@SSLFamilyDad ohh wow.thats a lot of hay.. I'm looking to buy 15. Probably 12 in pasture... I'll probably hire out the bailing for a few years
hey brother, hope all is well. as a question how big is that field you are pulling hey from. we have two 6A lots that we have hey on, just wondering if it would be worth it to envest in a bailer or not.
the field you saw here is about 4 acres. Then I have another 5 acres around the trees there
How many acres do you bale?
It is about 9 acres of hay
@@SSLFamilyDad lotta hay from 9 acres. Great!!
A new drone???
Kind of, I traded a goat for it in February
6:58 That bumper is lower and lower with every video :D
lol, yeah I need to back into a tree in the other direction or something
Do another blackberry video and hey at least that tractors not desil 2:10
Hey Todd, you may want to consider downgrading to a silicone wedding ring :-) in all seriousness I work in the construction industry and cut into my finger pretty badly wearing a titanium wedding ring. Since you work on your farm equipment all the time you may want to consider, as long as your wife is okay with it, buying a inexpensive silicone wedding ring to save your finger from potential injury.
I have thought about that from time to time, probably right about that!
@@SSLFamilyDad I purchased a 3 pack on eBay for $10 or less thinking I would tear them up but I've been wearing the same one for six months now and there's not a scratch or tear on it.
I thought you was getting rid of the pigs
I am, little by little but it will take awhile to sell/raise out the rest and slaughter
Not being critical but my dad would have kicked my butt for that stacking job...lol.
Well, I had a little help with that:) Sorry @SSL Family Mom
@@SSLFamilyDad it's in the barn and that's the important thing. 👍
First
When are you going to get real farm truck. Like a 70s f250.
I keep expecting you to break that back window.
Run what ya brung ! Till the wheels fall off, lol.
lol, when this one breaks down beyond repair then I will get something new. And the cool thing about an avalanche is that the back window comes right out and can be easily replaced:)
@@SSLFamilyDad I cracked my windshield Saturday when I was changing my strut/shock. My abstention barely rub the bottom of the windshield and it cracked. The money I saved doing it myself now has to buy me a windshield. But that's my luck with working on my own vehicle.
I can't imagine there is to many 1970s anything left in a rust belt state. I have never been to Michigan but I've been to Illinois quite a few times and 2012 cars are already rusted out (a particular super duty comes to mind that is probably about 12 years old now and I have watched it go from a new truck to a really rusty one, here in California they still look new it's kind of strange).
@@AtomicReverend nope theres alot of ford and chevy trucks in the midwest form the 70s
Stumbled upon you yesterday.... just subbed. Fantastic content! Thank you. I look forward to following long. ✌🏼