Brings back a lot of memories for a 65 year old that hauled hay for 7 summers. From the 6th grade to year I graduated. There were 2 of us and we could put up 900-1,000 bales a day. When the barn was close.
That’s what is wrong now days everybody went automated and don’t put it up like we all grew up doing anymore. It was hard work but it was also one of the funniest times in my life and I always got to drive myself to the field before I had a drivers license 😂 proud as a peacock 💪 sure taught me a lot about life👍 god bless ya sir
What cool machine. I got replaced by one that kicked the hay up into a hay wagon with sides. Late 60’s-70’s. $165/hr. I was way too tuff to wear gloves, when I picked em up off the ground and slung em onto the wagon. Geez, alfalfa hay was heavy.
@@michaelcobaugh7287 Michael the first time I hauled hay I was a 6th grader. I had to buck hay millet. We weighed a load a the hay weighted 135 lbs per bale. The heaviest Jay I ever hauled in my life. I was raised in Osage County Okla Fairfax. I got paid 1 penny a bale. I think I made $8 to $12 that day. That was the summer of 1968 and all I remember is that stuff was heavy with no loader. Summer of 1970 I got paid 2 cents a bale with a pop-up. Then we used a lay down loader. That one was the best.
@@burtbrooks7731 Back breaking labor SHOULD be automated away. There’s no good reason to kill people if we don’t have to. It doesn’t “build character”, just leave people with lifelong injuries later on down the line.
I once watched a man drink beer all day bailing them, we hooked this up to the trailer and he put the truck in first gear hopped out, and run along side the truck to throw the bails in front of the shoot. In Texas in 100 degrees
I don't know Jacob but I've never heard of 155 lb bales of hay. You can't bale it that heavy. That is unless it's millet or some type of grain hay. You can't screw the bailer that tight to make hay that heavy. Not back in the 60 or 70s. The bailer just wouldn't bail that way.
@@romanfields7900 most I ever saw alfalfa was.aeound 120 to.130. That was when it still a little wet. AR least moist. Ever heard of 155 lb hay. I lived in the.Osage in OK and we had a lot of alfalfa back then.
I helped a farmer for several years. He drove the tractor which pulled a bailer that pulled a trailer. I stood on the trailer and caught the bales then tossed them to a guy that stacked them. We pulled the full trailers to a barn and reverse procedure. Toss onto conveyer. Someone caught the bales and tossed to a stacker. Good healthy workout on a hot summer day.
Exactly how my young childhood was spent baling. I hooked & dragged them back to the stacker. Till I got big enough to stack. By about 9 yo I got to drive the baby Allis Chalmers pulling full trailers back to the hay barn. Hot and hotter job! Great fun, looking back though😎😣🥴🥺
Luckily I live in Canada and no venomous snakes but yes brings back good memories, the barn was maybe a block away so one day I rode on top of the bails as soon as we pulled in I got a big shock from the overhead wire
I was 4, my brother was 5. We had a flat bed truck. We were both to small to work the pedals and drive. We took turns standing on the seat to steer the truck through the field with a hay loader on tge side while my Dad was on tge back of the truck staking bakes. Thanks for the memories
As old and simple as this piece of machinery is, it was still a luxury for us. Walkin behind the baler or gettin to the fields after the balin was was done didn't make no difference. We picked up each bale and threw them onto the trailer. It was always a competition to who could toss those baked to the highest tier. I miss those days.
Yeah I’ve never seen one of these cause if I had I would’ve been the proud owner of one😂 That’s awesome where has this been all my hay bailing life??👍👍
I remember using them on old flat bed truck. Also on an old wooden slip, dragged by a tractor using hay Hooks to grab the bails. 100deg weather, did it all summer during high school.
We called it "roadsiding hay". Every summer I worked for my dad on his ranch in San Joaquin Valley doing this. He taught me to drive his Freightliner truck & trailer when I was old enough, & we hauled hay to Montebello, Calif. Got in great shape doing that sh*t!
Used one of those back in late 70s. Three kids on tandem axel grain truck,hay draws everywhere between fields,old crazy farmer driving so fast bales would not stop on rest, you would have to catch them before they shot off other side of truck lol.
My old man always said , OFF YOUR ASS, ON YOUR FEET, OUTTA THE SHADE AND IN THE HEAT!!!😂😂😂 it ain’t gonna get no cooler and them bales won’t load themselves!! Haha!! Long live old school hay bale’n💪👊
Wish I had this growing up. Lol. But no had to walk along the side throw it up. Once had enough thrown up had to organize and stack nicely then continue walking along the side 😂😂 good times. Now that I’m older I miss those days actually. Lol
We had some of that along time ago. Maybe 1973. Thing works great self propelled. And we worked our butts off. Hauling hay on a 1953 Chevrolet truck. Sure hate to have to do it again.
Glad you found a labor saver sure beats bucken them off the ground .p.s. we took and stacked right from the baler on to the wagon about 75 or moe bales per wagon 5 high 😟
Where was this when I was on the farm?My best friend had a large family who put up a lot of hay all summer.Kept us busy and out of trouble.Decent money too .
My grandpa had us out in the field by age 7 throwing bales of hay. If I would have known such a thing was around, I would have bought one myself. Life was alot harder back then. Kids nowadays will never know how it was to grow up back then.
I prefer doing it by hand, seems to be quicker. Especially if your in really good shape, i could do it all day as im built for it, others not so much. Always enjoyed it even on those real hot days.
I’ve always used one we called a Ferris wheel, similar design but a big rotating wheel engages the ground, snags the bale and carries it around to the top
Worked with one similar. Remember the hay clawing arms wile stacking the bails in the barn and the sweat. Ha worked all weekend once doing that in August for $ 1 dollar ! Good memory tho
I couldn’t tell you how many tens of thousands of bales my buddies and I stacked using one of those. We could do 1500 bales on a good day and ran all summer long if it wasn’t raining for several years.
I used to have a similar type of machine in the 70's. It was made by 'Belcher' - somewhere in England. Takes a lot of the sweat out of loading single bales.
One we used was a slide so you could adjust the height of delivery. These pop up loaders were hard on bales. If they were not baled right end up busting a few. Many a summer loading hay on granddads farm and for others.
I worked with hay till I was 12 then grandparents sold the farm they had balers with the bale thrower on them and the catch wagons with high sides so baling and gathering was one step
I remember hauling hay for a guy and he was driving the truck and I was walking (almost jogging) beside the trailer trying to keep up as I threw hay on the trailer... got it all done and I was so happy...then ... I had to go stack it in the barn. Got paid 10 cents a bail. 👉😖💨
Maybe this what kids need today. Pickup square bales all day and see if you're on your phone all night. Huge breakfast and supper. Bologna sandwiches and ice tea for lunch. Tossing them bales up into the barn. Hoping that next bale don't have a snake or a yellow jacket nest in it.
We got paid $0.10 a bale. We had to buck ‘em to the trailer. No loader for us. Plus the old man we hauled for wanted it cut edge up in the barn. The trailer handled 200 bales a load. We’d put them thin the barn and go back to the field. While we were in the field the old man would go look at the barn and every damn bale that wasn’t right, he’d throw the damn things back out the door. The guy that stack the last layer in the barn got to fix his f’ up all by his self. Thankfully I never screwed up. This is in Oklahoma, on a 105* day. Sucked being up in that barn.
He said if the cut edge is up, it keep bugs and rats out of the hay. It kinda makes sense. The cut edge is just sticks poking out. There’s really not anything for the rats to hold on to to pull out. Oh yeah, his bales were super heavy, and had to be tight in the barn. I had a lot of respect for that old man. He wasn’t afraid to show you what he wanted done.
Straight Shooter right on. He wanted what we want when we hire help. A job well done. I don’t think it would’ve kept mice out though. There’s not a mice proof barn in the whole world that I know of. 🇺🇸
Some of the most under appreciated people, farmers an the truck drivers keep Americans eating. Remember that when your told don't waste water but you do an farmers are being told don't plant so many crops,because the drought.
Farmers get so many government subsidies it’s not even funny. And no they’re not feeding America bailing hay. They’re feeding America planting corn. They gets turned into ethanol for gasoline and corn syrup for soda. And it’s not even a profitable business if you plant anything else. So much government support to keep farms afloat
Well get to grabbin'em off of there. No time for filming. Get to stackin'.
Holy crap, I guess my dad does leave TH-cam comments
@@aamantium1 I ain't yer pappy. Well, I might be. Who's yer momma?
@@LeroyJGibbs I don't know. She left before I was born
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Go to bed
@@TheSinaloaCartel What is, "hit the hay"?----Ill take synonyms for more random-ass comments for 800, Alex.
Brings back a lot of memories for a 65 year old that hauled hay for 7 summers. From the 6th grade to year I graduated. There were 2 of us and we could put up 900-1,000 bales a day. When the barn was close.
That’s what is wrong now days everybody went automated and don’t put it up like we all grew up doing anymore. It was hard work but it was also one of the funniest times in my life and I always got to drive myself to the field before I had a drivers license 😂 proud as a peacock 💪 sure taught me a lot about life👍 god bless ya sir
What cool machine. I got replaced by one that kicked the hay up into a hay wagon with sides. Late 60’s-70’s. $165/hr. I was way too tuff to wear gloves, when I picked em up off the ground and slung em onto the wagon. Geez, alfalfa hay was heavy.
@@michaelcobaugh7287 Michael the first time I hauled hay I was a 6th grader. I had to buck hay millet. We weighed a load a the hay weighted 135 lbs per bale. The heaviest Jay I ever hauled in my life. I was raised in Osage County Okla Fairfax. I got paid 1 penny a bale. I think I made $8 to $12 that day. That was the summer of 1968 and all I remember is that stuff was heavy with no loader.
Summer of 1970 I got paid 2 cents a bale with a pop-up. Then we used a lay down loader. That one was the best.
@@burtbrooks7731 Back breaking labor SHOULD be automated away. There’s no good reason to kill people if we don’t have to. It doesn’t “build character”, just leave people with lifelong injuries later on down the line.
@@Yomom12388 Dead wrong. It does build character. Have you ever worked a hard day in your life?
I once watched a man drink beer all day bailing them, we hooked this up to the trailer and he put the truck in first gear hopped out, and run along side the truck to throw the bails in front of the shoot. In Texas in 100 degrees
It's a wonderful experience to be raised on a farm. I was lucky.
I don't know Jacob but I've never heard of 155 lb bales of hay. You can't bale it that heavy. That is unless it's millet or some type of grain hay. You can't screw the bailer that tight to make hay that heavy. Not back in the 60 or 70s. The bailer just wouldn't bail that way.
@@jeffirons9228 maybe alfalfa wired bales?
@@romanfields7900 most I ever saw alfalfa was.aeound 120 to.130. That was when it still a little wet. AR least moist. Ever heard of 155 lb hay. I lived in the.Osage in OK and we had a lot of alfalfa back then.
Ah the good old days.....
Hell I remember walking along beside the trailer picking them up and tossing them on the trailer. Wish I had one of these. Lol
Well shit, I still do that. Granted I’ve only got 8 acres of field.
No tellin WHAT I’d have done to have one of those. I was “over the top” when we switched to round bales !!!
Used one for many years. Sure is a back saver😊! They're antiques now days. Hardly anyone puts up small square bales anymore.
I helped a farmer for several years. He drove the tractor which pulled a bailer that pulled a trailer. I stood on the trailer and caught the bales then tossed them to a guy that stacked them. We pulled the full trailers to a barn and reverse procedure. Toss onto conveyer. Someone caught the bales and tossed to a stacker. Good healthy workout on a hot summer day.
Exactly how my young childhood was spent baling. I hooked & dragged them back to the stacker. Till I got big enough to stack. By about 9 yo I got to drive the baby Allis Chalmers pulling full trailers back to the hay barn. Hot and hotter job! Great fun, looking back though😎😣🥴🥺
That hay stackin in hard ass work!! Been there done that!
I'm a city boy but I bucked bales one summer. One of the hardest things I've ever done! Loved the farm!
I do not miss this part of my childhood. But I also feel every kid should do this a few times...
When I was a little kid I got to drive and catch the hay bales...man this brought back memories.
Funny how hard work brings back good memories.
Nothing like grabbing a bale with the hooks and having a copperhead bound up in it snapping at ya
@Nunya Binnis Haha exactly!
Thankfully that never happened to me when I used to work hay.
Luckily I live in Canada and no venomous snakes but yes brings back good memories, the barn was maybe a block away so one day I rode on top of the bails as soon as we pulled in I got a big shock from the overhead wire
It was either a snake, bees/wasps, lots of sweat n itching!!
I swear sometimes the most simple things are the best to watch this thing is *neat!*
Good to see we're not the only ones who still use these.
I’ve loaded tons of hay with one of these things!! Handy as hell👍🇺🇸
So simple but so fantastic. Nothing better than old machinery
That takes me back about 35 years. Ours was hooked to an old Massey Furgeson. Such fond memories.
I was 4, my brother was 5. We had a flat bed truck. We were both to small to work the pedals and drive. We took turns standing on the seat to steer the truck through the field with a hay loader on tge side while my Dad was on tge back of the truck staking bakes.
Thanks for the memories
As old and simple as this piece of machinery is, it was still a luxury for us. Walkin behind the baler or gettin to the fields after the balin was was done didn't make no difference. We picked up each bale and threw them onto the trailer. It was always a competition to who could toss those baked to the highest tier. I miss those days.
Boy my dad, brother, uncle and cousins would have loved this in the early 70's, they did it by hand.......
Dang wish had one of those while I was chucking bales some 16 years ago
Kids today need to spend a full hay season using one of those
Make them do it by hand 🤣
Heck no make them throw it on the wagon. It will do them some good
@@briscoesjug1026 yes we do 650 convention straw bales and we stack by hand and that is hard work
@@e.cfarmphotography1095 yes it is I've done it since I was old enough to pick up a bale . Good hard honest work emphasis on hard work
@@briscoesjug1026 yes I have been doing it since I was 10
I remember that same exact bail picker from my youth. Happy days.
I had one just like it but it said John Deere on it, labor saver ,we loaded semi trailers 600 bales pretty trouble free!
Yeah I’ve never seen one of these cause if I had I would’ve been the proud owner of one😂
That’s awesome where has this been all my hay bailing life??👍👍
I remember using them on old flat bed truck. Also on an old wooden slip, dragged by a tractor using hay Hooks to grab the bails. 100deg weather, did it all summer during high school.
We called it "roadsiding hay". Every summer I worked for my dad on his ranch in San Joaquin Valley doing this. He taught me to drive his Freightliner truck & trailer when I was old enough, & we hauled hay to Montebello, Calif. Got in great shape doing that sh*t!
Used one of those back in late 70s.
Three kids on tandem axel grain truck,hay draws everywhere between fields,old crazy farmer driving so fast bales would not stop on rest, you would have to catch them before they shot off other side of truck lol.
Never seen one, in all my year of tossing bails
We talking back in the day that 1 man that roll all day and not get tired
They were a great help. Used em for years but they are almost all gone.
I remember a preacher man one time picked up a square bale and chucked it all the way up and OVER the trailer. He nearly killed me. 😂 DUDE WAS A HOSS!
Awesome.
We had one when I was a kid. They work great...
That would have been nice to have when I was growing up.
That's what I was thinking..
We were smart enough to have a chute on the back of the baler, instead of shooting them on the ground
I hand picked off the ground. Tossed up to the truck. I am so jealous.
You must be 150 years old.....lol
Hell they had those when my grandfather was growing up!
I know what you mean though just bustin balls
I hauled 1000's using one of those back in biblical times
Biblical 🤣🤣
I was there when they started putting the first dirt down, we thought "well what will they think of next?"
😂😂😂😂👍
Better than the old school way we had to load it when it was 110 in the shade
Been there done that. Know to very well what you mean. Separated the men from the boys.
100% and thats why we love Henry
You got shade?
My old man always said , OFF YOUR ASS, ON YOUR FEET, OUTTA THE SHADE AND IN THE HEAT!!!😂😂😂 it ain’t gonna get no cooler and them bales won’t load themselves!! Haha!! Long live old school hay bale’n💪👊
Wish I had this growing up. Lol. But no had to walk along the side throw it up. Once had enough thrown up had to organize and stack nicely then continue walking along the side 😂😂 good times. Now that I’m older I miss those days actually. Lol
We had some of that along time ago. Maybe 1973. Thing works great self propelled. And we worked our butts off. Hauling hay on a 1953 Chevrolet truck. Sure hate to have to do it again.
Omg we had one of those on the farm!!! Only seen it used once though, awesome memories
Having hangover PTSD from high school. Thanks a lot.
Boy does this bring back nightmares.
Glad you found a labor saver sure beats bucken them off the ground .p.s. we took and stacked right from the baler on to the wagon about 75 or moe bales per wagon 5 high 😟
Great to see that old machine Working..........keep it up...well
Where was this when I was on the farm?My best friend had a large family who put up a lot of hay all summer.Kept us busy and out of trouble.Decent money too .
Stacked thousands of bales off of one of those when I was 14 or so. They're great!
My grandpa had us out in the field by age 7 throwing bales of hay. If I would have known such a thing was around, I would have bought one myself. Life was alot harder back then. Kids nowadays will never know how it was to grow up back then.
My grandpa called us kids the Henry’s lol
No what's pretty slick is the baler I worked with not too long ago. Cut the hay, bale it, and loaded it all in one machine.
We always just tossed them up to the stacker on the trailer. Never seen one of those before
I prefer doing it by hand, seems to be quicker. Especially if your in really good shape, i could do it all day as im built for it, others not so much. Always enjoyed it even on those real hot days.
I did it when I was a kid like it nothing, picked up same size bail at 45 years old and I think they're much heavier now 🤣
I’ve always used one we called a Ferris wheel, similar design but a big rotating wheel engages the ground, snags the bale and carries it around to the top
That's awesome I wish I had one on the farm back in the day lmao 🤣
Worked with one similar.
Remember the hay clawing arms wile stacking the bails in the barn and the sweat.
Ha worked all weekend once doing that in August for $ 1 dollar ! Good memory tho
Sitting in my back yard and its 40 Celcius. I feel like I'm with you on the back of that truck.
I’ve been the Henry my entire life
Cool. You could probably get it to dump the bales into a cage wagon. Pick up a few, stop and stack them, then take off again.
That thing should last a thousand years
I couldn’t tell you how many tens of thousands of bales my buddies and I stacked using one of those. We could do 1500 bales on a good day and ran all summer long if it wasn’t raining for several years.
We never had one we just walked beside and hand stacked em best we did was 1172 in a day with 3 of us one driving 2 throwing
What a funny gizmo! I like it 👌
I used to have a similar type of machine in the 70's. It was made by 'Belcher' - somewhere in England. Takes a lot of the sweat out of loading single bales.
That's pretty stinking cool! Farmer innovation!
This is dredging up some bad memories 😆
Love them old popup loaders we used a grange loader but you had to stop and crank it higher as th trailer got loaded
Looks ground driven...simple and genius. Sure i could biuld one. Love to get some more photos of its particulars
Nice, in poland we used tractors to do that & actually pick then up & stack em up by hand, pretty cool
This brings back memories I've hauled many a bail
Everybody should spend a summer buckin hay bales!
Looks a lot like a Kneib pop up bale loader we used back in the 60's.
"Kaboom....Pretty sliiiiick" I will say this from hence forth when I'm impressed.
I used to do that when I was a kid limo 67 now.used to put up about 1000 bales a day .all over western Mo and eastern Ks
We got one that's a big wheel pretty cool, mostly pick them up but nice when you can have 2 trailers
Looks like the second bail was about to go overboard.
Good luck with that.
One we used was a slide so you could adjust the height of delivery. These pop up loaders were hard on bales. If they were not baled right end up busting a few. Many a summer loading hay on granddads farm and for others.
Better than hand pitching!! Would have been nice to have one growing up, but I guess that's what I was for. Lol
At 16, I loaded bails by hand. This is very cool!
I like Henry. He’s a good bloke.
You're a GD genius...very well done sir! John Deere is very pissed right now
You think he invented the Henry? Lol.
Too many memories of a 1000 bales a day in the old barn n hated seeing old school bus around the pens or lots but it paid for college
He says it like its deadliest catch...
"here comes the first one"
Puff a cigg swig redbull 😂😇
R.i.p cpt phil
I just got a old John Deere conveyer.
It hasn't worked for years.
Just had my arms and feet and someone else on the wagon. Was fun.
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That's freakin awesome Workin smarter not harder👍
Wish I had known about this machine when I was younger...
Use to use one on the farm years ago. I was the one grabbing em off the Henry and check for snakes before the others stacked lol
I worked with hay till I was 12 then grandparents sold the farm they had balers with the bale thrower on them and the catch wagons with high sides so baling and gathering was one step
I love how some of these older farm implements work.
That Henry is hard core
Old but still works. Awesome.
That hay ain't gonna stack itself, mister
I remember hauling hay for a guy and he was driving the truck and I was walking (almost jogging) beside the trailer trying to keep up as I threw hay on the trailer... got it all done and I was so happy...then ... I had to go stack it in the barn. Got paid 10 cents a bail. 👉😖💨
We used to load a trailer in half the time back in the day and drink beer doing it
We loaded many trailer loads with one of those. I still have it. LOL It needs a chain and tires. I don't haul small squares anymore.
I used to have the exact same type bale popper, used it for years! Mine was painted tho.
This triggered my PTSD from my childhood
Now it needs to stack it on the trailer. This thing is sweet.
Maybe this what kids need today. Pickup square bales all day and see if you're on your phone all night.
Huge breakfast and supper. Bologna sandwiches and ice tea for lunch. Tossing them bales up into the barn.
Hoping that next bale don't have a snake or a yellow jacket nest in it.
4 of us on the wagon behind the baler. Two stackin 2 grabbin
Now invent something that makes picking rock suck less.
Rock bucket on a trackloader is pretty slick..
Most newer Shulte rock pickers are nice to run
I remember lifting bales up with a pick.
We used to make $100 a day at 5 cents per bale back in the 1980’s using one of these. That was a lot of hay.
We got paid $0.10 a bale. We had to buck ‘em to the trailer. No loader for us. Plus the old man we hauled for wanted it cut edge up in the barn. The trailer handled 200 bales a load. We’d put them thin the barn and go back to the field. While we were in the field the old man would go look at the barn and every damn bale that wasn’t right, he’d throw the damn things back out the door. The guy that stack the last layer in the barn got to fix his f’ up all by his self. Thankfully I never screwed up. This is in Oklahoma, on a 105* day. Sucked being up in that barn.
Straight Shooter why did he want the cut side up? More space?
He said if the cut edge is up, it keep bugs and rats out of the hay. It kinda makes sense. The cut edge is just sticks poking out. There’s really not anything for the rats to hold on to to pull out. Oh yeah, his bales were super heavy, and had to be tight in the barn. I had a lot of respect for that old man. He wasn’t afraid to show you what he wanted done.
Straight Shooter right on. He wanted what we want when we hire help. A job well done. I don’t think it would’ve kept mice out though. There’s not a mice proof barn in the whole world that I know of. 🇺🇸
This thing home built? Slick machine!
Some of the most under appreciated people, farmers an the truck drivers keep Americans eating. Remember that when your told don't waste water but you do an farmers are being told don't plant so many crops,because the drought.
Farmers get so many government subsidies it’s not even funny. And no they’re not feeding America bailing hay. They’re feeding America planting corn. They gets turned into ethanol for gasoline and corn syrup for soda. And it’s not even a profitable business if you plant anything else. So much government support to keep farms afloat