Problem with that fine hay is that it just pack into a bale so much that there turns out to be way less bales than you figured... I used to bale a place on halvers with a guy I knew, it was almost all nice bahia grass... bahia is really fine grass with slender leaves and a "V" shaped seed head up top when it goes to seed. I'd go look at the pasture and it'd be knee deep in bahia grass so thick it was hard to walk through. Pull in with the Zweegers drum mower behind the Ford 5610S and go to cutting, which kinda sweeps the cut grass toward the center between the drums as it cuts and then tosses it out the back, and the cut swaths would be SO thick sometimes it was hard to see where I'd cut-- they'd spring open behind the mower so there was maybe a six-inch gap between the cut swath and the uncut grass... just enough room to sneak a tire in there. I'd finish the field and look out there and was like "MAN this is gonna make a lot of hay!!" Let it dry 24 hours in the 95+ Texas summer heat and come back the next day to rake... those huge swaths standing hip high were now flat as a flitter and looked about a foot or two wide... I'd rake the stuff up and make these huge windrows for the round baler, they'd be nearly waist high and 4 foot wide and look so heavy and thick like there was just tons and tons of hay... look across a 30 acre field of these windrows and you'd be like, "Man I'm gonna have 100 bales or more when I'm done!". Give it another 24 hours to dry in the windrow and come back the next day, since now it's down around 15-20% moisture and ready to bale. Those huge windrows had shrunk down to about maybe a foot high and 3 feet wide or so. You'd pull in and start baling and roll and roll and roll and roll, and finally make a bale, twine it and eject it and go again... big nice 5x5.5 foot bales, but it took forever to roll one! Time you finished off a field you'd look across and have maybe 30-35 bales or so... PLUS then the kicker was, the cows would eat the stuff pretty good... but one year I had some leftover soybean hay I'd made after we FINALLY got some rain after six months of drought and figured I couldn't plant sorghum-sudan haygrazer on the fields because I'd planted cotton out there and never got stand, just a shower or two that rotted the seed and we lost the crop that year. SO I needed something I could plant that would grow in soil treated with Trifluralin and Cotoran... a broadleaf crop. SO I planted soybeans figuring that they'd survive the broadleaf chemical just fine, which they did, and either 1) if they looked like they'd make a decent grain crop, I'd go on and let them mature and combine it for grain, sell it, and buy hay from somewhere, or 2) if it looked like they weren't gonna make much of a grain crop, I could cut the soybeans for hay... which is what I ended up doing. Didn't have a haybine so no conditioning, and there was some johnsongrass and crabgrass that came up in the field so it make a pretty nice hay anyway, just had trouble getting it to dry down and ended up with it a little wetter than it should have been when I baled it. Ended up a little moldy in the bales but the cows ate it just fine. SO I had a few of those bales left, I'd put bale bonnet plastic sleeves on them so they were in fairly decent condition, but they were 2 years old. Figured I'd better feed them out because they didn't look to last another season. SO when I started feeding hay I'd feed two of the nice bahia bales and an old soybean hay bale... Imagine my surprise when I'd unroll this beautiful still good green color perfectly cured fine bahiagrass bales and the cows would run over, but as soon as I unloaded and unrolled the soybean hay every cow on the place would leave this unrolled knee-deep windrow of beautiful fresh bahia hay and go running to feast on this 2 year old slightly moldy and a bit weathered soybean hay... I found that basically the cows prefer just about any other hay to bahia... bahia is also one of the toughest grasses to mow... you have to put brand new blades on the mower and by the time you do 60 acres and flip them halfway through, they're done and ready for the scrap bin... I can cut about 100 acres of common grass prairie hay on a set of blades and then usually resharpen them in the shop and go again for another 30-40 acres before they're shot... but bahia is just tough to cut for whatever reason. The stuff will grow where nothing else will, and it'll take a pasture over, it's prolific, but seems cows just prefer anything else over it... and cows can graze the stuff and be in belly-deep bahia and it never seems to fill them up or do a lot for them. For those reasons I prefer just about anything else to bahia... it sure ain't Johnsongrass or dallisgrass or even just good old prairie hay mixed native stands.....
Hey Jacob gotta quick question, how have you liked your GoPro 9? Just ordered a 9 myself and I just watched your video last night where you showed yours back in the winter.
Noticed your rake slowed down substantially when doing a 180. It's possible one of your dogs is not catching in one of the rake hubs. Engage the rake and spin the basket to listen if both hubs click. (next summer)
Speaking of windrows. I knew a guy that ran a 1206 narrow front on his round baler. Because it would flatten the windrow enough to fill the mouth of the baler.
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Amazing how much of that soft stuff will pack into a bale. Makes it look like there's so much more there than there really is.
I used to live off of that road on the other side of Rt.50.Fine Fescue makes a nice lawn.
At least the teaching gig=summers off for me. Plus I'm still available in the afternoons and weekends in a pinch 🤷♂️
Problem with that fine hay is that it just pack into a bale so much that there turns out to be way less bales than you figured...
I used to bale a place on halvers with a guy I knew, it was almost all nice bahia grass... bahia is really fine grass with slender leaves and a "V" shaped seed head up top when it goes to seed.
I'd go look at the pasture and it'd be knee deep in bahia grass so thick it was hard to walk through. Pull in with the Zweegers drum mower behind the Ford 5610S and go to cutting, which kinda sweeps the cut grass toward the center between the drums as it cuts and then tosses it out the back, and the cut swaths would be SO thick sometimes it was hard to see where I'd cut-- they'd spring open behind the mower so there was maybe a six-inch gap between the cut swath and the uncut grass... just enough room to sneak a tire in there. I'd finish the field and look out there and was like "MAN this is gonna make a lot of hay!!"
Let it dry 24 hours in the 95+ Texas summer heat and come back the next day to rake... those huge swaths standing hip high were now flat as a flitter and looked about a foot or two wide... I'd rake the stuff up and make these huge windrows for the round baler, they'd be nearly waist high and 4 foot wide and look so heavy and thick like there was just tons and tons of hay... look across a 30 acre field of these windrows and you'd be like, "Man I'm gonna have 100 bales or more when I'm done!".
Give it another 24 hours to dry in the windrow and come back the next day, since now it's down around 15-20% moisture and ready to bale. Those huge windrows had shrunk down to about maybe a foot high and 3 feet wide or so. You'd pull in and start baling and roll and roll and roll and roll, and finally make a bale, twine it and eject it and go again... big nice 5x5.5 foot bales, but it took forever to roll one! Time you finished off a field you'd look across and have maybe 30-35 bales or so...
PLUS then the kicker was, the cows would eat the stuff pretty good... but one year I had some leftover soybean hay I'd made after we FINALLY got some rain after six months of drought and figured I couldn't plant sorghum-sudan haygrazer on the fields because I'd planted cotton out there and never got stand, just a shower or two that rotted the seed and we lost the crop that year. SO I needed something I could plant that would grow in soil treated with Trifluralin and Cotoran... a broadleaf crop. SO I planted soybeans figuring that they'd survive the broadleaf chemical just fine, which they did, and either 1) if they looked like they'd make a decent grain crop, I'd go on and let them mature and combine it for grain, sell it, and buy hay from somewhere, or 2) if it looked like they weren't gonna make much of a grain crop, I could cut the soybeans for hay... which is what I ended up doing. Didn't have a haybine so no conditioning, and there was some johnsongrass and crabgrass that came up in the field so it make a pretty nice hay anyway, just had trouble getting it to dry down and ended up with it a little wetter than it should have been when I baled it. Ended up a little moldy in the bales but the cows ate it just fine.
SO I had a few of those bales left, I'd put bale bonnet plastic sleeves on them so they were in fairly decent condition, but they were 2 years old. Figured I'd better feed them out because they didn't look to last another season. SO when I started feeding hay I'd feed two of the nice bahia bales and an old soybean hay bale... Imagine my surprise when I'd unroll this beautiful still good green color perfectly cured fine bahiagrass bales and the cows would run over, but as soon as I unloaded and unrolled the soybean hay every cow on the place would leave this unrolled knee-deep windrow of beautiful fresh bahia hay and go running to feast on this 2 year old slightly moldy and a bit weathered soybean hay... I found that basically the cows prefer just about any other hay to bahia... bahia is also one of the toughest grasses to mow... you have to put brand new blades on the mower and by the time you do 60 acres and flip them halfway through, they're done and ready for the scrap bin... I can cut about 100 acres of common grass prairie hay on a set of blades and then usually resharpen them in the shop and go again for another 30-40 acres before they're shot... but bahia is just tough to cut for whatever reason. The stuff will grow where nothing else will, and it'll take a pasture over, it's prolific, but seems cows just prefer anything else over it... and cows can graze the stuff and be in belly-deep bahia and it never seems to fill them up or do a lot for them.
For those reasons I prefer just about anything else to bahia... it sure ain't Johnsongrass or dallisgrass or even just good old prairie hay mixed native stands.....
Hey Jacob gotta quick question, how have you liked your GoPro 9? Just ordered a 9 myself and I just watched your video last night where you showed yours back in the winter.
It's a fine camera with more bells and whistles than I use.
@@boehmfarm4276 oh ok sounds great 👍. It looks like it does a good job keeping the video still when your moving it around.
Great video Jacob,
i want more nick saga lol
Noticed your rake slowed down substantially when doing a 180. It's possible one of your dogs is not catching in one of the rake hubs. Engage the rake and spin the basket to listen if both hubs click. (next summer)
I keep breaking the bolts that hold the universals between the wheels.
Yep. A hard pin or bolt is needed. And New Holland wants a lot of money for one.@@boehmfarm4276
U'll make a fortune when U video a partridge in on of them trees
Is that a New Holland 565 square baler? If so I have one just like it, makes a great bale!
Yes, it does a good job.
Nice video
Good video.
Hello from goderich ontario Canada 🇨🇦
When are we going to see the tw25 on the round baler
Um, seems a little over powered
We need a bohem farms map in farming sim, and a how farms work map
Interesting
👍👌❤️🇨🇦,
Hi from. Goderich ontario Canada
Speaking of windrows. I knew a guy that ran a 1206 narrow front on his round baler. Because it would flatten the windrow enough to fill the mouth of the baler.
that's the old I H you commandeer from nick
No. That's Jacob's 1086.