Hay Stackin' 101
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ก.ค. 2024
- Dr. Bary Clower teaches star student, Brian B Barrett, the basics of stacking hay properly. The two discuss different issues that may not be obvious to those who have never seen a barn full of hay burn down!
Bary provides lots of practical and basic advice regarding hay.
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For someone stacking hay on trailers and in barns for the first time, I reccomend jeans, long sleeves if you don't sweat too much, leather or pig skin gloves, a fishing hat or cowboy hat, sunglasses and clear glasses for in the dark barns, AND most importantly, a 24 pack of light Beer and some waters.👍 Eating before also helps because after doing 1 or 2.... 80 to 100 square bales loading and stacking can make you very hungry. We usually do about 1,300 bales in two separate days but its more of a relaxed hangout bailing. I do this every year for a friend at work and It's more like a get-to-gather hang out job than a chore. 🤠
1300 bales in 3 to 4 hours with a 15 min break
My hay barn spontaneously combusted in August 2018, because the people who delivered it to my barn didn't know what they were doing and delivered me a wet load, I wasn't home at the time unfortunately and we lost the entire barn and all of it's contents! Thank you for addressing this in the beginning!!
Question..is spontaneous combustion as great a risk with loose hay?
@@janicebartmess2646 Yes, any time you store wet hay you run the risk of it spontaneously combusting.
Neighbors rented some acres and to hay and the man doing the cutting and baling was a real pain in the . . . . . and they told him that it was too wet to bale, but he knew better and they lost about 1000 bales and some of it did start on fire, but they were able to catch it in time.
Other neighbor lost their entire new barn that was maybe 2 years old to hay fire. . . . . .it was terrible to see. Any hay or wet grass can start on fire because the decomp makes it warm and then the hay around the bacteria that are in the area where the bacteria are making it really warm is a perfect flammable item. You'd rather throw it outside as compost than put a wet bale in your barn. Wet bale = NO!!!!
Last year we had our delivery guy unload some wet hay and it was wet in the middle and we knew it wouldn't dry in the sun so it was stacked outside and in the woods and throughout the woods and some just cut open for deer or any animal to get too, because we would not put them in our barn. Too risky. Some turned into compost and cover for around the garden and pumpkin plants. None of it went to the barn.
GREAT video! Did this as a youth and about to do it this weekend again..needed a handy reminder for buckin bales! Thank you!
I’ve got a 80 year old retired 4 star out of the Air Force neighbor that doesn’t get out of bed for nothing under 100 bales. That guy throws them just as good if not better than I do.
I am so glad I do it with the skid steer. This hand stacking would really be tough in our year round HOT weather.
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I stacked 20ish 3 wire bales this morning in 16F weather and it was Just the worst, good tips here. Thank you
Having grown up working on Farms and Ranches, I bucked my fair share of hay and alfalfa bails. We didn't have all the machines that do the work for you like now days! Unloading a semi flatbed with just two guys gives you a real good idea of what work is... These are great videos, Thanks for posting them and tell the "Doc" that we appreciate his work!
Oh shit we struggle with 4 people I cant imagine 2 yikes
What about hay hooks?
Thank you!!!❤️🐴
Man I miss bucking bay, I had to wear a mask cuz I got hay fever with all that dust. When covid hit I couldn’t find an n 95 mask anywhere.
I just stacked hay for the first time yesterday and holy shit was that hard
Oh fuck I just got a job to do that for this fall
You guys, true cowboys dont cuss. Now please dont call yourself a cowboy or even a hard worker with that language.
Amen, Jace Whetten! Yew sorry excuses fer cowboys don’t impress any of us with that talk. I did square bales fer 30 years. My father custom square-baled for everybody in our area for years. We hauled a lot of it too. Last thing we bought together was a round baler, and I hate it. Overall quality of hay is a lot worse.
@@scottypimpin4212 think of it this way: you get paid to get stronger. I was stacking the other day at my friends house and one of the girls that was helping us proclaimed it the Poor Hoe's Gym. Beat everybody at arm wrestling!
@@Sage-qd6tf I think the last few years of touching myself gave me the same workout
t been stacking hay and straw for over 30 years now
? for the DOC. I learned putting all the bales on edge. What is the advantage of putting layer2 and above flat?
What I learned is when we are putting them in the "hay stall" in the barn or to be readily available lots of people put them flat after the first layer as it's easy for a person to grab a bale by reaching the strings and go take it and use it. For any old school real baler or person who truly bales the hay and stacks it in their barn, especially right after baling I was taught to stack on ends because of the moisture factor. When you stack on ends any moisture runs out the bottom side of a bale and this is true even when stacked in criss cross ways so you can simply cut the end of a bale off and they stay dry longer. I live in a moist area far North of places like TX where we have many bodies of water. It's also how any person who is over 70 and deals with hay stacks where I live and if they see you stack on ends they will literally go "Oh, a farmer" and you magically have a good deal on hay vs if they see you stacking on sides they think of you as a fool.
Old school farmers/ranchers and especially those who know how to use hay hooks always stack on ends in more moist regions so entire flat side of the hay doesn't go bad (usually MOLD) and the hay is lined up for drainage of moisture to bugs to anything that would come out of the hay. We could not just stack it in an open shed/run in like he has in my climate as every day the hay would be subjected to moisture and mold would happen on flat sides. We know to stack on ends.
86 is rookie numbers
HEY!! it's hay!!
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They love giving each other a hard time
Any tips for someone really short like me? i can barely lift one bale of hay and I envy those who can throw it over their head like nothing. What can I do to be as fast and strong as them? I'm just worried my short height will put me at a major disadvantage.
Obviously, use your legs & knees, not your back, first of all. Second, get your trailer as close to your stack site as possible. As soon as I have my base layer down, I position the trailer right up to the base bales. I do a lot of bouncing and making a slide off the trailer after onto the base. I role a lot of them both long ways and sideways. Then I start stacking like he does in a staircase like fashion, so I can step up the stack carrying a bale or when I get tired I either slide it upwards or flip it upwards. When I have to move three strand bales, I sometimes maneuver them by standing them on end longways, hold them by the strings and "dance them" to where they need to be. Key is picking them up and carrying them the least amount as possible for us vertically challenged, girls who don't want have to bulk out. Like he says let the hay do the work. I'm 5'1" & weigh 110lbs when my hair is wet. Stay hydrated, so your joints don't stiffen up (if you're over 50 and don't want to die the next day). I'm working on configuring my barn so that I can use a grappler for when I'm 87, like my dad and my knees don't wanna move (I can barely keep up with him stacking still). Yesterday, I put up 45 bales of 3 strand we bought (we were short this winter). We usually stack 100 two strand bales a cut.
@@lilongge1304 wow! that's awesome! i'm only 18 lol, and I hate I have to carry it with both hands and take baby steps to the cart, i wish i could swing it over my head like some people can, I seen em do it! Thank you for these tips, any other farm work tips you could give?
Learn to use hay hooks (a pair in the right size for your hands) properly like they are simply an attachment of your arms and you will have a lot more ability to do more hay because your won't be using the energy to grab around the baling twine or wire AT ALL. Your hands won't tire out like they do in the method shown here. Still stack them super nice, but learn to use hay hooks!!!! Learn all of your farm tools and proper use and maintenance. Wheelbarrow - the wheel should be fully inflated or even filled and your arms should barely have a bend, if any at the elbows because just you standing with your legs and holding the handles should be enough to lift the wheelbarrow off the ground and roll it forward. DO NOT USE YOUR BACK. LIFT WITH YOUR LEGS. When mucking lift with your legs. When shoveling lift with your legs. Tip- switch arms, IDK why no one ever switches to their non dominant side, but you have two arms and two sides and the more you work on your non dominant side the more muscle and control you will build on that side so you can go twice as long before your arms get sore because the supportive hand vs the shoveling hand use different muscle groups - just switch them up so both sides are used. When you have a corner or certain area you can only do with that off side you will thank me even more. Remember how to eat an elephant when you look at a task - One bite at a time. Do not take too big of bites so that is hurts you or pushes you physically. Two trips that you can manage in small bites is more than one trip you took big bites and pushed yourself and now you hurt and can't do much more work. Learn what each tool does and what it is used for and how to use it - I assure you there is a youtube video on how to properly use the tool. Does it push, lift, scrape, scoop, etc? It will be uncomfortable to use the tool wrong and the job will be harder. Using the right tool for the job in the correct way will save your body so you can be doing it at 80.
how do you get up on 4th and fifth layers? I see hay stacked really high how does that work?
You keep laying the base so you have something to stand on to create the next layer. Then you keep layering up in a pyramid type fashion with steps of hay up to the highest layer. You can then stand on the steps to reach the highest layer and keep moving the base out and building the layers and steps as you go. Also you can move the hay cart next to the stack if you have room and with two people you pass the hay from the trailer to the person standing on the steps stacking.
@@sharonpatterson5445 Thanks, I appreciate the info.
Hooks are a big help.
Im 15 and i got my first job bailing hay what is the average pay for a job like this its a 50 acre field with 75 pound hay bales.
Depends, usually $20 for us out near Seattle.
@@austinmarshalldad dang i got paid 15 bucks an hour.
In nz i get pqid $20 an hour
Holy shit i got paid 8.50 an hour here in Texas.
@@btk41 damn bro its such hard work you definitely should have gotten more than that.
me doing 80 bales, it wouldn't take me more than say about 5 or 6 hours or so
86 hahha I’m stacking 400+ today
I'm stacking 100
Come up to PA where we stack thousands on hay farms
STRING BALES BTW
That’s a lot of farms...
You PA Pu…Wussies, wouldn’t last 10 minutes in Texas heat.
LOL.....yes sir, baling wire has saved many an exhaust systems from the trash heap. But using baling twine in its place??? That sh*t was funny. :D 3:45
Please dont use that language
Irenes....
No no no once you get a row of bale bounces down you can throw another twenty or thirty bales down there
Isaac Newton's.......gravity "stuff" lol
I have stacked near to 6000 bales this summer in uk. People say why not use a flat 8 grab, i say stop being a lazy bastard and get stacking.
Hahahaha i don't think the camara guy is a hay guy
Nice, but wear gloves
Sorry but he does a few things wrong...