I miss the farm, and YES all that hard work, I'm 80 years old now, I see all the new style of equipment, of today's farming, the times, of the modern farming sure has improved, The old saying, you gotta have bad, to appreciate the good.
I really enjoy your videos. Love the square bailing process. I hauled hay one summer when I was 15 years old. My friend Ronny had an old truck with a wooden flatbed built onto it. We could load 50 bails onto the truck’s flat bed. . Each of us made got a penny a bail. The truck had a granny gear. We tied a rope to the steering wheel and put the truck in granny gear. We tossed bails until one of us had to start stacking. The person on the ground would adjust the steering wheel occasionally. We did hay hauling all summer. One day a farmer drove out in the hayfield to get us to help him get some alfalfa bails put up before they got rained on. He paid us two cents a bail each. We helped get his hay put up in the hay barn and then went back to our original field. It never did rain that day. Ronny sold his truck for $150 at the end of our summer break. The truck leaked water and was not licensed. The truck did not have doors on it, nor seat belts. Neither of us had a drivers license. We decided we had pushed our luck far enough driving the back roads. Plus, we did not want to haul any more hay after that hot summer.
Thanks for sharing. We had our hay baled in Franklin Massachusetts back in the 80s and I loved watching Mr. Phelan and Mr. Foley cut and bale the hay. We had 7 acres of Timothy, Alfalfa, and Clover. Usually would make around 500-600 bales. We would stack it up on trailers and put it up in the hay loft and it smelt so sweet! Brings back some great memories as a kid 👍
We put up about 65,000 small bales a year. We use to us an accumulator like what you got. We now use a New Holland self propelled bale wagon. With the bale wagon we sure get the hay off the field and in the stack a lot faster than we use to. We put up about double in 3x4's I hope to get a stack wagon for them one day. Thanks for your videos my family and I sure enjoy them.
Great video, I used to throw a lot of hay back in the 70s,.....in Ohio. I would always be the one guy ,...behind the baler ,....stacking the wagon ,.....six high ,...a tie ,...and the sky! I miss those times, I would love to go back and do it again , they would need an ambulance at the end of the field.
We always went four high with a tie, probably because we had some hills. Our wagons were just flat hay racks, nothing to stack against in the back of the wagon. I kinda miss those 1,000 bales a day days.
I used to do all my own hay from cutting to raking to baling for my own use with horses, cows and goats and sheep. The equipment I used was 'old'. Had 2 tractors, both International Harvesters both very old. One was a 40's something cub with a tricycle front end that we had the sickle bar hooked to for cutting and an H tricycle front end that we pulled the rake and baler with. The baler was an old John Deere 24T powered by a 2 cylinder air cooled Wisconsin Engine. It may have all seen more hay than a lot of folks can even imagine but all of it worked great and accomplished the job. I loved driving those old tractors. Don't have them any more and definitely miss doing hay every summer.
Great Video 👍 Brings back memories from my teens, the Bailer had a Sledge behind it with a fella making a 7 ‐ 9 stack on it then just gave it a nudge off, then loading the Trailers with a Pitch fork, certainly built your muscles up 💪
I haven't helped with hay for 16 years. Oh, the hot days and direct sun standing on a trailer towed behind the bailer and running bales to the back and stacking them 6? levels high. Then having to haul the hay cart to a barn and stack it all inside before the day was done so it wouldn't get any wetter. it was some dirty work and I have a grass allergy so I would break out from all the exposure. Miss it and don't miss it at the same time. The accumulator makes it looks so nice. I cannot wait to see how you get it all on the trailer and then put in the barn. thanks for the videos.
I feel your pain, Bud. That's the way I had to do it, as well..... Lifting and stacking bales of hay on a trailer, when it's 95° degrees outside with %100 humidity. Then I had to unload the trailer, stacking them all up in an even hotter barn..... For me, I don't miss those days one bit!!!! Lol.....
Ohh Paul ---oh my Lord l know how you feel .l did it for since l was 14 years old now l stopped at 49 I'm 65 as of 18 days ago and still doing it lol,lol hey Dad hey Dad l need help.
I enjoy watching your operation. I saw the old pull grader in the background, love it. I always put my foot on the middle roller bar with spring on it. I push back on it as I hook the belt. On my new Holland 7060 , I push the wrap button to put the net wrap on small bales or when I change the net wrap roll. Give that a try. We could have some good conversations on hay production and we do things a lot the same. Thanks for the great videos and pretty hay
Im retired but my last baler was a NH 310. I thought that was a good baler. Seeing this i see there have been a lot of upgrades on the New Holland balers. They are really Humming! ;)
Watching you bale brings back memories of when I was baling, I wasn''t out of HS yet, the tractor was a model 4010 JD, which was a new model then, a JD wire tie baler and a 4 wheel haywagon on the back with two guys picking the bales out of the baler as they came out. The backing of a 4 wheel wagon was no fun. We owned a JD model 60 two cylinder tractor, with a narrow front end, no power steering, and a hand clutch. Now THAT took some time!
Awesome video. I use to do this when I was on the farm. Baled hay every summer. It’s fun. Getting the twine tried together is an art so bales don’t break apart. How well do u do at that. Show us how u tie them together that’s hard to do. Can’t wait to see your wife baling hay. Thanks Ronald
Man you have some really nice thick looking windrows and bales Dennis. I wouldn't be surprised a bit if you made it way past 900 bales. It's also nice to see how technology has made it so much easier, so you don't need to have someone stacking the bales on wagons(something I remember doing so much of). By the way, that small gift will be in the mail within a couple of days.
Thank You! Yes it has gone well here in Wales this year. The only problem is that it has been much drier and warmer than normal so the crops are lighter but at least it hasn't rained every other day!! Best wishes with your hay operation.
I learnt to drive a grey Ferguson back in 1958 on my uncles market garden farm, left school spring 1960 and went to work on a dairy farm. Two brother had three farms between them and grew all there own cattle feed, silage, hay and grains with the straw baled for bedding. They had 13 tractors between them and new kid on the block me got the way old Fordson TVO/Petrol beast. My first job was to muck out the winter sheds, hand balling onto a tipper trailer, haul that to a field and dump it to weather out. Once I finished the small sheds, I was given a Fordson Major with a front fork loader, man I was in heaven no more hand blisters. Each day I practised backing the trailer faster and faster until I could do it flat out in high range. Now the trailers were Weeks Trailer with the axle right on the arse end, so easy to reverse, the did axle ones were a bit harder to get the swing just right. Once a week I would attend the Young Farmers Club and they asked for contestants for an up coming YFC show, one of the other tractor drivers put my arm up and I was picked. Well I won the trailer backing and came second in the plow mount and dismount competition. The two bosses were so pleased they got me drunk in the beer tent. So watching you bale the hay brought back lots of memories, our baling outfit was a Massey Ferguson 35 tractor, Massey Ferguson baler and a farm made skid. The bales were taken of the baler by hand, stacked on the skid 4 high, a scaffold tube with a 1ft point would be driven into the ground in front of the bale stack, held in place and as the skid pulled forward the stack would slide off. Hopefully Always good to see you guys getting the crops in, well done.
Good looking bales. That hay baler you've got there can really pump out the bales. Pretty impressive watching you back that hay train. If that was me, I'd have it jackknifed every direction but the right one. LOL Stay safe.
Great video angles! Congrats on your 1st and 2nd awards on the backing contests! I knew when I was watching you back up that it wasn't your first rodeo. Haha!
Love seeing that critter in the rear, that use to be me, 25 cents a bail to load it and put in the barn,, thought I was rich,, ha, Thxs for posting this, really worth watching, gb
I was finally able to get all my hay up here in eastern Kentucky (cut 6/14 and rolled 6/16) and off 11 acres I put up 48 5x5 rolls. I should have got it up a week earlier but I was gone to our state FFA convention. I was in FFA for four years and really enjoyed it. My junior year I placed first in the region for tractor driving I’m going to miss it next year.
What's an accumulator? How's it work? I've never seen one. We've used flat racks and kicker wagons with kicker balers. Dad always had first cutting chopped into haylage in mid to late May. The other three cuttings were baled into small square bales. This was Alfalfa for our dairy herd.
Great stuff Dennis !! Thank you for sharing with us !! I was seeing the baler tieing at one point every 5 seconds ! Very good !! Please be safe my friend and may God continue to bless you !!!!!! Eddy
Yeah I may have been going a little to fast at times. I like to get at least 10 strokes between ties. 15 makes a nicer bale but it takes a lot longer in thick hay like this.
Good stuff man. It's so dry and hot down here in southern nc. The crops down here are dry and smaller than usual. I think y'all get a little more rain than we do and I'm sure it's cooler. But hey at least they are paving roads lol. This dry heat is great for that.
Hi, could you please name the brand and model of your accumulator, please? It would be also nice if you show and explain the function in detail. Here in Germany this technique is almost unknown but I am searching for a way to harvest small bales totally mechanically.
I can do it all myself. I can’t bale and stack hay on a hay wagon by myself. With the accumulator I can stack it all on wagons with a tractor and unload it the same way
@@DLHFarms ahh just seems to me to be more work having to drive all around the field after the fact collecting the hay again, but then again if it works for your style then that's okay too
More tractor work yes but absolutely no manual labor. When you get to doing over a thousand bales a day by yourself you can’t do that by hand but you can with this system.
One fine setup ya got there. Gotta kick at the 18:00 min mark with the FFA back up championship story:) You did one helluva job backing this chain linked contraption...wonder how I would stack up
As a retired agricultural mechanic, i have a question for you about your bailer. Did you reset your PTO drive clutch on the bailer before starting the season? If not you have the potential of causing thousands of dollars of damage tp your bailer. I know it have fixed them after the damage was donne. Its easy and does not take much time with no special tools.Now you might want to do this with all your equipment that are equipped with PTO drive line clutches. Let me know if your interested and i will give you the procedure step by step.
Great Video Dennis, I believe everyone around here is behind on their hay this year, i know i am. ha. Boy i'd love to have an accumulator like that, thats a fine and handy piece of equipment. Godspeed my friend.
I'm from Groton/New London coastal Connecticut. The fair is over the State line in Massachusetts about 45 minutes from me. Eastern States Fair in New England known as the BIG E in Springfield. I've been watching your vids for awhile. Today i liked, subscribed and hit the bell. Keep the quality vids coming. Seasons Greetings!
love that Massey , i have a 431 Massey Ferguson it's around 55 horse power it does all i need and more on my family farm i live on but it's not farmed anymore but i have some fields i keep up and plant food plots for deer hunting and i have a one mile dirt driveway i keep up to and bush hog around edge of fields and land line paths or fourwheeler paths , i wish i could farm my place .
We always had that heavy clunking noise on all our balers too. You have a very heavy fly wheel and a big plunger on baler that make that noise... If u stop and leave tractor in neutral; you'll still get the bucking from the heavy weight of the fly wheel and plunger....
Nope it don't do it hooked to other tractors it also stops doing it when you push the clutch in. The dealer has the rear end torn down on the T5 right now too much play in the ring and pinion gear set
What'd they do to update the A/C in the Massey Ferguson to get it to cool better? My new tractor A/C doesn't cool good enough in this Florida sun. I think you talked about the dealer updating yours, is it cooling better now?
Mine already had the updates, but yes it has better a/c than my T5. what they do is put seals on all the duct work connection's in the cab they didn't seal them from the factory and a lot of the air leaks out into the roof of the cab. There may be an updated fan too I'm not sure on that.
I just read something about a different baler, and it says for their baler you need to cut the PTO shaft to fit each tractor. Is it possible your shaft is a bit to long or short for this tractor?
On your square bales what price have you set per bale? ALSO, Have you had experience with a Maxilator when it comes to removing square bales from the field? if so please share your thoughts. great video.
never have seen the piece of equipment being pulled behind the baler. Ive live my whole live around hay country, in Central Washington, and done baling with Freeman Balers, and we use New Holland Harrowbeds to pickup the bales. one farm I work at raise's over 5,000 tons of Timothy a year.
we used to have to pick up bails by hand and load on the trailer then stack it in the barn but i was a teen when i did that i don't think i could handle now but you have a nice set up there
The Big E, or Eastern States Exposition, that’s the State fair for all of New England. BTW- there are 6 states in New England, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.
Well I have to say: one of the best / better vids I've seen on Baler performance , for a long time....a good thick Swath - not the best but I've had to put up with thicker knotted / twisted swathes and used IH and deere balers. 9-11 slices per bale - you making ? I've managed to punch through with 4 - 5 slices to get a spongy bale so it dries better - our hay seldom gets dry enough to bale solid bales which don't go moldy. thanks for posting.
Short answer - Yes! - but few of our Customers want / request it... Even for treating moist feed grain ( PropRionic Acid). and from MY POV, the corrosion of the equipment - especially now that small SQ balers are so rare and expensive... Huh shouldav left it as SHORT Answr ! Looked into it further this teabreak - googling hay additives UK - poor first results - all geared towards Silage: BECAUSE our climate produces damp air and with dew by 6pm one could only have around 4 hours optimum time. But hay is a Cinderella Line of forage conservation - My Sq bales are small sacked outdoors for a week or two to dry out, but we have taken them indoors to dry over a ventilated floor ( grain drier ) Means of lot of handling but quality is there. Not a believer in Round bales Maybe for Straw but then have to be BIG - but that advantage is negated by transport restrictions - and is there now a 6' x 5' round baler on the UK market? If you're not into Mass baling with ROUND bales, you'll likely be involved with the Large Sq Bales. Such is the way farming has gone here.... ? Noted comment about hay TOOO DRY !! ? what's the problem there? Baled straw when tinder dry and loved it - brings up a polish on the bale chamber which DOES get quite HOT from the pressure - Deere 456 with auto pressure regulator.
I did notice that clunky pto noise, we have a couple of power command New Hollands that have a direct drive top gear which run off that same shaft that runs from the engine all the way to the pto and they do have a distinct whine when in that top gear. I think it just has to do with the shaft being so long but do keep an eye on it as on one of ours it striped the gear where it's splined onto the shaft
Question, how many acres are you baling? I just bought a massey ferguson and buying many attachments to start baling. I just need a to buy land like yours to make some decent cash. Thank you very much.
Hello from Bristol, hi Dennis. Wow. Looks like a bumper crop of straw ya got. The lime and fertilizer seems to help a lot. It’s good ya got some dry weather to get it up. I believe it’s rained 95% since February. Say, I bet ur new hay barn is almost up by now. Hope it’s gonna be big enough with all the hay you’re getting up. Lol 😂. I wished I was closer to ya, I’d sure like to give ya a hand with some of your chores. I guess the videos will have to be good enough. Awesome footage of everything as usual. I noticed the baler and such didn’t get away from ya like the mower did. Lol. Gonna be 90 + this weekend. Heat index around 100. Gonna be hot and dry till Monday the 2nd. Take her slow buddy and I’ll see ya one the next one. Warren
My father n law had a accumulater that was from Russia, I works the same as your but it isn’t high in the air. The bails push iron plates to the spot the bail needs to go, when it gets 8 bails the back door opens and closes with 8 bails ready to put in the barn
Our baler had a thower so at least did not have to stack on the wagon, only in the barn. 400+ comments at this point so I cannot go through to see if anyone brought up this subject. Not sure why in 2018 (when the video was posted) anyone is still using the small square baler verses the round baler?
Horse Hay, feeding inside of the barn etc.....he doesn't hand stack, that's why they have the bale accumulator (ex. 4, 8, 10, 15, 18 bales), he uses a grapple set up to pick the hay up in the bundles and stack it on the trailer/ barn. Typically feed round bales in the pasture. Higher end horse farms, usually do not feed bales in pasture, they only let the animals graze
Is this the same field your cutter tried to pass your tractor. Thats alot of square bales on 10 acres 1st cut around here is usually around 600 bales on 10 acres you and Bagwell farms been having a real good year so far hope it stays that way for yall
damn...i wish i could enjoy that Farm Life u living. But here in Germany there is no way to get that Feeling. You have to go to School again for 3 Years if u wanna Work in a Agriculture Company. I think in the US it would be alot easier to get a Job on a Farm without 3 years on a Schoolbench :D And btw....Great Video and perfect Camera Work out there. :)
look a nice bit of hay and plenty of it, im not sure i like how the pto makes the banging noise in heavy crop but it will last till somthing happen i guess,
Great Videos. Im currently making hay with a accumagrapple in central Pa and looking to upgrade to a kuhns. But am concerned with how it would perform on hills. Do you have any hills that you are running your kuhns on. Thanks
Your clutch can be fine tuned by someone that knows what thier doing. I had the dealer send me all the info on calibration of the transmission and learned how to do it myself so I can keep it smooth.
My high score on a farm was with an Aliss Chalmers 5050 tractor and a no.9 Massey baler :450 bales in an hour! It would take us 5 to 10 seconds only to change wagons and i was baling faster than the guys stacking in the barn!
In my opinion it might be something to do with the teeth or spline somewhere on the tractor side as the baler strokes it gives feedback in the shaft as more power is used to push the piston in the baler to make a wafer I'm not mechanically inclined at all so I could be peeling a banana from the wrong end here but that clunking noise must have something to do with the various splines and teeth around where the pto shaft and the main drive line connect behind the tranny if it is what I think the teeth could get some heavy damage and would be a pretty penny to repair I'd talk to NH about the feedback but maybe onelonelyfarmer here on TH-cam knows more it could also be in the baler too it's hard to see but it looks like every stroke slows the pto a bit but on video it's hard to tell with frame rate
Yeah it's definitely in the tractor, because it doesn't do it when hooked to my other tractors. There is a splined shaft or gear set somewhere that has to much play. Yes the baler slowing down and speeding up causes it because if you hook something to it with a constant load its quiet as a mouse.
DLH Farms that's right I forgot you said it only happens on that tractor if it was consistent power coming through the pto it may be slower but I think it would save wear and tear on the splines as opposed to the cycle of the baler. Depending on how well and beefy NH makes their splines and gears you may not have too much to worry about short term. luckily the baler doesn't require too much power to run as long as everything is lubed and oiled properly I can't foresee any big issues arising soon but if the clunking intensifies I'd have NH check it out to be on the safe side before any real costly damage occurs
I have considered an accumulator, but not sure if I can do enough bales in one day. How many bales have you baled, picked up from the field, and stacked inside in one day by yourself? My wife won't bale hay! lol
About 1000 bales if you have enough trailers or if your close to the barn. I've done it it's a hard day, but if you get caught by the rain it sucks because it will be baled sitting in the field.
I miss the farm, and YES all that hard work, I'm 80 years old now, I see all the new style of equipment, of today's farming, the times, of the modern farming sure has improved, The old saying, you gotta have bad, to appreciate the good.
Yes things have changed, some for good some for bad, but for the most part equipment has gotten better.
That brings back a lot of memories from the farm!!!
I really enjoy your videos. Love the square bailing process.
I hauled hay one summer when I was 15 years old. My friend Ronny had an old truck with a wooden flatbed built onto it. We could load 50 bails onto the truck’s flat bed. . Each of us made got a penny a bail. The truck had a granny gear. We tied a rope to the steering wheel and put the truck in granny gear. We tossed bails until one of us had to start stacking. The person on the ground would adjust the steering wheel occasionally. We did hay hauling all summer.
One day a farmer drove out in the hayfield to get us to help him get some alfalfa bails put up before they got rained on. He paid us two cents a bail each. We helped get his hay put up in the hay barn and then went back to our original field. It never did rain that day.
Ronny sold his truck for $150 at the end of our summer break. The truck leaked water and was not licensed. The truck did not have doors on it, nor seat belts. Neither of us had a drivers license. We decided we had pushed our luck far enough driving the back roads. Plus, we did not want to haul any more hay after that hot summer.
Good story
Thanks for sharing. We had our hay baled in Franklin Massachusetts back in the 80s and I loved watching Mr. Phelan and Mr. Foley cut and bale the hay. We had 7 acres of Timothy, Alfalfa, and Clover. Usually would make around 500-600 bales. We would stack it up on trailers and put it up in the hay loft and it smelt so sweet! Brings back some great memories as a kid 👍
Awesome! Glad I could help with the memories.
Good to see someone still making square bales!
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We put up about 65,000 small bales a year. We use to us an accumulator like what you got. We now use a New Holland self propelled bale wagon. With the bale wagon we sure get the hay off the field and in the stack a lot faster than we use to. We put up about double in 3x4's I hope to get a stack wagon for them one day. Thanks for your videos my family and I sure enjoy them.
Thanks for watching! That's a lot of bales I only make about 5000 a year.
Great video, I used to throw a lot of hay back in the 70s,.....in Ohio. I would always be the one guy ,...behind the baler ,....stacking the wagon ,.....six high ,...a tie ,...and the sky! I miss those times, I would love to go back and do it again , they would need an ambulance at the end of the field.
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We always went four high with a tie, probably because we had some hills. Our wagons were just flat hay racks, nothing to stack against in the back of the wagon. I kinda miss those 1,000 bales a day days.
Always was my fave time of the year, I used to bale small bales too and started out with New holland and progressed up to a Welger , great times.
Thanks for watching!
Nice job & really nice looking bales. Thanks for sharing all the different camera positions showing your equipment at work.
Thanks!
Yea I got my use out of it, my farming days are long gone so love watching your videos
Thank you for what you did
I used to do all my own hay from cutting to raking to baling for my own use with horses, cows and goats and sheep. The equipment I used was 'old'. Had 2 tractors, both International Harvesters both very old. One was a 40's something cub with a tricycle front end that we had the sickle bar hooked to for cutting and an H tricycle front end that we pulled the rake and baler with. The baler was an old John Deere 24T powered by a 2 cylinder air cooled Wisconsin Engine. It may have all seen more hay than a lot of folks can even imagine but all of it worked great and accomplished the job. I loved driving those old tractors. Don't have them any more and definitely miss doing hay every summer.
Thanks for the story Mary!
Great Video 👍
Brings back memories from my teens, the Bailer had a Sledge behind it with a fella making a 7 ‐ 9 stack on it then just gave it a nudge off, then loading the Trailers with a Pitch fork, certainly built your muscles up 💪
Nice one man! Love my BC5060, don’t care what anyone says, it’s a mighty fine baler. Looks like it munched them big windrows.
I think it does a fine job!
I haven't helped with hay for 16 years. Oh, the hot days and direct sun standing on a trailer towed behind the bailer and running bales to the back and stacking them 6? levels high. Then having to haul the hay cart to a barn and stack it all inside before the day was done so it wouldn't get any wetter. it was some dirty work and I have a grass allergy so I would break out from all the exposure. Miss it and don't miss it at the same time. The accumulator makes it looks so nice. I cannot wait to see how you get it all on the trailer and then put in the barn. thanks for the videos.
I show putting some on the trailer in the next video.
I feel your pain, Bud. That's the way I had to do it, as well..... Lifting and stacking bales of hay on a trailer, when it's 95° degrees outside with %100 humidity. Then I had to unload the trailer, stacking them all up in an even hotter barn..... For me, I don't miss those days one bit!!!! Lol.....
Ohh Paul ---oh my Lord l know how you feel .l did it for since l was 14 years old now l stopped at 49 I'm 65 as of 18 days ago and still doing it lol,lol hey Dad hey Dad l need help.
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I enjoy watching your operation. I saw the old pull grader in the background, love it. I always put my foot on the middle roller bar with spring on it. I push back on it as I hook the belt. On my new Holland 7060 , I push the wrap button to put the net wrap on small bales or when I change the net wrap roll. Give that a try. We could have some good conversations on hay production and we do things a lot the same. Thanks for the great videos and pretty hay
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I have to use one foot to stretch the spring too. But I’m not as big of a guy as Dennis.
That's a good idea on the belt hook up!
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Im retired but my last baler was a NH 310. I thought that was a good baler. Seeing this i see there have been a lot of upgrades on the New Holland balers. They are really Humming! ;)
Yes this is a high capacity with 93 strokes per minute
Watching you backup three axles was impressive! Not an easy task! Beautiful fields up there and, You’re really easy to listen too...
Haha thanks
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Watching you bale brings back memories of when I was baling, I wasn''t out of HS yet, the tractor was a model 4010 JD, which was a new model then, a JD wire tie baler and a 4 wheel haywagon on the back with two guys picking the bales out of the baler as they came out. The backing of a 4 wheel wagon was no fun. We owned a JD model 60 two cylinder tractor, with a narrow front end, no power steering, and a hand clutch. Now THAT took some time!
The good ol days!
Awesome video. I use to do this when I was on the farm. Baled hay every summer. It’s fun. Getting the twine tried together is an art so bales don’t break apart. How well do u do at that. Show us how u tie them together that’s hard to do.
Can’t wait to see your wife baling hay. Thanks Ronald
It's not to hard I just make a square knot.
Thank you for Farming!! Amazing how much you are doing solo.
Good looking hay, hope 2020 is treating you well. Thanks for the tour, that is some pretty country you are farming.
It’s going ok so far!
Hope your still hanging in there and have a great 2023 bale season!!!
I’m still kicking
Man you have some really nice thick looking windrows and bales Dennis. I wouldn't be surprised a bit if you made it way past 900 bales. It's also nice to see how technology has made it so much easier, so you don't need to have someone stacking the bales on wagons(something I remember doing so much of). By the way, that small gift will be in the mail within a couple of days.
Thanks! And thanks for the steering gift!!
excellent work well explained and good camera work. .thank you from Ireland
Thanks for watching!
Wonderful - I felt that I could smell the hay - lovely colour.
Thanks! It does smell great.
Great video and lovely hay. Greetings from the UK where we have been doing the exact same job during the last few weeks!
Awesome hope it's going well for you!
Thank You! Yes it has gone well here in Wales this year. The only problem is that it has been much drier and warmer than normal so the crops are lighter but at least it hasn't rained every other day!! Best wishes with your hay operation.
I learnt to drive a grey Ferguson back in 1958 on my uncles market garden farm, left school spring 1960 and went to work on a dairy farm. Two brother had three farms between them and grew all there own cattle feed, silage, hay and grains with the straw baled for bedding. They had 13 tractors between them and new kid on the block me got the way old Fordson TVO/Petrol beast. My first job was to muck out the winter sheds, hand balling onto a tipper trailer, haul that to a field and dump it to weather out. Once I finished the small sheds, I was given a Fordson Major with a front fork loader, man I was in heaven no more hand blisters. Each day I practised backing the trailer faster and faster until I could do it flat out in high range. Now the trailers were Weeks Trailer with the axle right on the arse end, so easy to reverse, the did axle ones were a bit harder to get the swing just right.
Once a week I would attend the Young Farmers Club and they asked for contestants for an up coming YFC show, one of the other tractor drivers put my arm up and I was picked. Well I won the trailer backing and came second in the plow mount and dismount competition. The two bosses were so pleased they got me drunk in the beer tent.
So watching you bale the hay brought back lots of memories, our baling outfit was a Massey Ferguson 35 tractor, Massey Ferguson baler and a farm made skid. The bales were taken of the baler by hand, stacked on the skid 4 high, a scaffold tube with a 1ft point would be driven into the ground in front of the bale stack, held in place and as the skid pulled forward the stack would slide off. Hopefully
Always good to see you guys getting the crops in, well done.
Thanks for the interesting story! Nice to hear how other people do things or did things.
Good Moaning Vietnam, whow!😳 Thats a pretty cool story, must have taken you forever.
Ummmmmmmmmm is this a book or what
Jill Potts, no i dont think so
Good looking bales. That hay baler you've got there can really pump out the bales. Pretty impressive watching you back that hay train. If that was me, I'd have it jackknifed every direction but the right one. LOL Stay safe.
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Great video angles! Congrats on your 1st and 2nd awards on the backing contests! I knew when I was watching you back up that it wasn't your first rodeo. Haha!
Thanks glad you enjoyed the video.
That’s an amazing machine! I’d like to see the inner-workings of it and how it bales.
Great camerawork!
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To know the inner workings you must become the machine
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i had one-made 80 lb.bales-nice to run-sold it to a guy in cache creek b.c. 7 years ago
Love seeing that critter in the rear, that use to be me, 25 cents a bail to load it and put in the barn,, thought I was rich,, ha, Thxs for posting this, really worth watching, gb
Haha that's pretty good money
I was finally able to get all my hay up here in eastern Kentucky (cut 6/14 and rolled 6/16) and off 11 acres I put up 48 5x5 rolls. I should have got it up a week earlier but I was gone to our state FFA convention. I was in FFA for four years and really enjoyed it. My junior year I placed first in the region for tractor driving I’m going to miss it next year.
I've got 20 more acres to go I've got up about 80 acres
Is that junk when the plunger compresses the hay that takes power to do that
What's an accumulator? How's it work?
I've never seen one.
We've used flat racks and kicker wagons with kicker balers.
Dad always had first cutting chopped into haylage in mid to late May.
The other three cuttings were baled into small square bales.
This was Alfalfa for our dairy herd.
Keep watching my older videos and you will see how it works.
Great stuff Dennis !! Thank you for sharing with us !! I was seeing the baler tieing at one point every 5 seconds ! Very good !! Please be safe my friend and may God continue to bless you !!!!!! Eddy
Yeah I may have been going a little to fast at times. I like to get at least 10 strokes between ties. 15 makes a nicer bale but it takes a lot longer in thick hay like this.
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Good stuff man. It's so dry and hot down here in southern nc. The crops down here are dry and smaller than usual. I think y'all get a little more rain than we do and I'm sure it's cooler. But hey at least they are paving roads lol. This dry heat is great for that.
We are supper wet, it's hard to get any hay dry up here.
B Jenkins it's crazy eastern nc is to wet to cut hay we have about 100 acres have only got half of it cut .
Oh no! I bet it's really ripe by now too.
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Hi, could you please name the brand and model of your accumulator, please? It would be also nice if you show and explain the function in detail. Here in Germany this technique is almost unknown but I am searching for a way to harvest small bales totally mechanically.
It's a Kuhns Mfg accumulator they are made is Ohio USA, I believe they have a website.
What's the advantages of using an accumulator versus a hay wagon ?
I can do it all myself. I can’t bale and stack hay on a hay wagon by myself. With the accumulator I can stack it all on wagons with a tractor and unload it the same way
@@DLHFarms ahh just seems to me to be more work having to drive all around the field after the fact collecting the hay again, but then again if it works for your style then that's okay too
More tractor work yes but absolutely no manual labor. When you get to doing over a thousand bales a day by yourself you can’t do that by hand but you can with this system.
@@DLHFarms im used to the other is all
But are you doing it completely by yourself? I don’t have help to do it and can’t find any. I can’t bale and stack at the same time.
One fine setup ya got there. Gotta kick at the 18:00 min mark with the FFA back up championship story:) You did one helluva job backing this chain linked contraption...wonder how I would stack up
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Baled many acres with a MF 165 and a 276 hay liner, great package together, loved those two together
Good equipment in it's day
As a retired agricultural mechanic, i have a question for you about your bailer. Did you reset your PTO drive clutch on the bailer before starting the season? If not you have the potential of causing thousands of dollars of damage tp your bailer. I know it have fixed them after the damage was donne. Its easy and does not take much time with no special tools.Now you might want to do this with all your equipment that are equipped with PTO drive line clutches. Let me know if your interested and i will give you the procedure step by step.
Great Video Dennis, I believe everyone around here is behind on their hay this year, i know i am. ha. Boy i'd love to have an accumulator like that, thats a fine and handy piece of equipment. Godspeed my friend.
I'm down to 20 acres of hay left I can get it if it will turn dry for 3 more days.
J U Dyrssen Farming, what a life.I moved from 60 acres i Germany to 6000 acres in Australia,having a fantastic time there and at 82 still on a farm
Wow that's a lot of ground! Enjoy!
that was in the central west of NSW
Good looking hay wish I was set up like you guys I would square bale all my hay like it better than round bales.
It's only money. Lol
If it’s not sheering pins its fine
Great video, that is one productive equipment setup you have!
Thanks!
I'm from Groton/New London coastal Connecticut. The fair is over the State line in Massachusetts about 45 minutes from me. Eastern States Fair in New England known as the BIG E in Springfield. I've been watching your vids for awhile. Today i liked, subscribed and hit the bell. Keep the quality vids coming. Seasons Greetings!
Thanks Ronald! Glad to have you on board. Yes the BIG E that's what I was trying to think of!
Nice backing job on the sharp point.
love that Massey , i have a 431 Massey Ferguson it's around 55 horse power it does all i need and more on my family farm i live on but it's not farmed anymore but i have some fields i keep up and plant food plots for deer hunting and i have a one mile dirt driveway i keep up to and bush hog around edge of fields and land line paths or fourwheeler paths , i wish i could farm my place .
I really like my Massey it's the first red tractor I've owned
Interesting watching how its done across the pond.. the plunger is noisy is it because it is pushing 4 bales uphill... I am in Mid Wales UK
No the noise is coming from the tractor PTO/ transmission unfortunately.
Looks good I am south of you and it is June 24th and I am still trying to get the last of first cutting cut.
Yeah I am too, got 20 more acres one more good weather stretch and I can get mine done.
The forecast is looking pretty good toward the end of this week. I too have about 20 acres to cut and it is hurting.
Yep that's what I was just looking at was the end of the week. Yeah mines getting ripe.
We always had that heavy clunking noise on all our balers too. You have a very heavy fly wheel and a big plunger on baler that make that noise... If u stop and leave tractor in neutral; you'll still get the bucking from the heavy weight of the fly wheel and plunger....
Nope it don't do it hooked to other tractors it also stops doing it when you push the clutch in. The dealer has the rear end torn down on the T5 right now too much play in the ring and pinion gear set
@@DLHFarms glad u found it. Hope it covered by dealer!
Its covered, took it to the dealer 1 week before the warranty went out.
@@DLHFarms wow. Good timing
What'd they do to update the A/C in the Massey Ferguson to get it to cool better? My new tractor A/C doesn't cool good enough in this Florida sun. I think you talked about the dealer updating yours, is it cooling better now?
Mine already had the updates, but yes it has better a/c than my T5. what they do is put seals on all the duct work connection's in the cab they didn't seal them from the factory and a lot of the air leaks out into the roof of the cab. There may be an updated fan too I'm not sure on that.
I just read something about a different baler, and it says for their baler you need to cut the PTO shaft to fit each tractor. Is it possible your shaft is a bit to long or short for this tractor?
No it’s not to long. It is common to have to cut pto shafts on new equipment.
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Man , I don’t miss square baling at all !!! 😆
Oh come on you loved it.
On your square bales what price have you set per bale? ALSO, Have you had experience with a Maxilator when it comes to removing square bales from the field? if so please share your thoughts. great video.
$5 to $6 is the price. No I don't have a maxilator, but check out Bagwell Farms channel he has one.
You can back up really well. We use to back up our wagons up the barn hill into the barn before we bought a elevator.
Backing up is so fun
never have seen the piece of equipment being pulled behind the baler. Ive live my whole live around hay country, in Central Washington, and done baling with Freeman Balers, and we use New Holland Harrowbeds to pickup the bales. one farm I work at raise's over 5,000 tons of Timothy a year.
For a small operation like mine this method works really good.
Nice baler. Do you store and sell all that hay? Is that how you pay off the rquipment? Thank you for uploading
Yes that’s exactly what I do to pay for my equipment.
I miss baleing hay sometimes but good to see it's going good for you.
So far so good. Baled another 1600 hay bales and 2500 straw bales since this.
So 1600 bales on ten acres not bad at all
No no no to that's total since I made this video
We still use a hayrack and an old JD baler getting pulled around with an old Minneapolis Moline 670...
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we used to have to pick up bails by hand and load on the trailer then stack it in the barn but i was a teen when i did that i don't think i could handle now but you have a nice set up there
Yep been there done that also.
Is that field on the Blue Ridge Parkway? Just looks awfully familiar.
No it's on Dairy road but not far from the BRP
Hi Darrel , where do you live, it looks good ground about the same as here in Tasmania Australia great vids we really enjoy them, so natural to watch
I live in the mountains of Virginia. The names Dennis by the way 👍
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The Big E, or Eastern States Exposition, that’s the State fair for all of New England. BTW- there are 6 states in New England, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.
Thanks 👍 that's where I went but the name slipped my mind.
Well I have to say: one of the best / better vids I've seen on Baler performance , for a long time....a good thick Swath - not the best but I've had to put up with thicker knotted / twisted swathes and used IH and deere balers. 9-11 slices per bale - you making ? I've managed to punch through with 4 - 5 slices to get a spongy bale so it dries better - our hay seldom gets dry enough to bale solid bales which don't go moldy. thanks for posting.
Have you ever thought about using presevatives to help with baling high moisture hay?
Short answer - Yes! - but few of our Customers want / request it... Even for treating moist feed grain ( PropRionic Acid). and from MY POV, the corrosion of the equipment - especially now that small SQ balers are so rare and expensive...
Huh shouldav left it as SHORT Answr ! Looked into it further this teabreak - googling hay additives UK - poor first results - all geared towards Silage: BECAUSE our climate produces damp air and with dew by 6pm one could only have around 4 hours optimum time. But hay is a Cinderella Line of forage conservation - My Sq bales are small sacked outdoors for a week or two to dry out, but we have taken them indoors to dry over a ventilated floor ( grain drier ) Means of lot of handling but quality is there. Not a believer in Round bales Maybe for Straw but then have to be BIG - but that advantage is negated by transport restrictions - and is there now a 6' x 5' round baler on the UK market? If you're not into Mass baling with ROUND bales, you'll likely be involved with the Large Sq Bales. Such is the way farming has gone here.... ?
Noted comment about hay TOOO DRY !! ? what's the problem there? Baled straw when tinder dry and loved it - brings up a polish on the bale chamber which DOES get quite HOT from the pressure - Deere 456 with auto pressure regulator.
How many bales does your accumulater hold
10
I can't believe how nice those bales look when you're only getting 10-12 strokes per bale. But I'm used to running an old 315 model, lol.
It does a really good job. I like to get 14 or 15 strokes but it don’t always happen
Beautiful country and hay
Thanks 😊
I did notice that clunky pto noise, we have a couple of power command New Hollands that have a direct drive top gear which run off that same shaft that runs from the engine all the way to the pto and they do have a distinct whine when in that top gear. I think it just has to do with the shaft being so long but do keep an eye on it as on one of ours it striped the gear where it's splined onto the shaft
That's what I think is wrong is to much play in a splined shaft somewhere, it will probably fail eventually.
DLH Farms hopefully when it's still under warranty!
Only 5 months left.
Question, how many acres are you baling? I just bought a massey ferguson and buying many attachments to start baling. I just need a to buy land like yours to make some decent cash. Thank you very much.
I’m doing about 200 acres now.
Hello from Bristol, hi Dennis. Wow. Looks like a bumper crop of straw ya got. The lime and fertilizer seems to help a lot. It’s good ya got some dry weather to get it up. I believe it’s rained 95% since February. Say, I bet ur new hay barn is almost up by now. Hope it’s gonna be big enough with all the hay you’re getting up. Lol 😂. I wished I was closer to ya, I’d sure like to give ya a hand with some of your chores. I guess the videos will have to be good enough. Awesome footage of everything as usual. I noticed the baler and such didn’t get away from ya like the mower did. Lol. Gonna be 90 + this weekend. Heat index around 100. Gonna be hot and dry till Monday the 2nd. Take her slow buddy and I’ll see ya one the next one. Warren
Thanks Warren, I don't have that building up yet unfortunately, but the pad is almost done. Every time I work on it, it starts raining.
My father n law had a accumulater that was from Russia, I works the same as your but it isn’t high in the air.
The bails push iron plates to the spot the bail needs to go, when it gets 8 bails the back door opens and closes with 8 bails ready to put in the barn
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"Everyone is getten up hay....it's crazy" 😂
That New Holland baler can sure handle some big windrows. Great job with all the camera angles too.
It's a hay eating machine!
Our baler had a thower so at least did not have to stack on the wagon, only in the barn. 400+ comments at this point so I cannot go through to see if anyone brought up this subject. Not sure why in 2018 (when the video was posted) anyone is still using the small square baler verses the round baler?
Horse Hay, feeding inside of the barn etc.....he doesn't hand stack, that's why they have the bale accumulator (ex. 4, 8, 10, 15, 18 bales), he uses a grapple set up to pick the hay up in the bundles and stack it on the trailer/ barn. Typically feed round bales in the pasture. Higher end horse farms, usually do not feed bales in pasture, they only let the animals graze
Thanks for taking care of that for me Josh
Good video. You had some healthy windrows right there. Was the hay dry enough to not need preservatives?
Yeah it was just right no presevatives needed
I enjoy the videos keep up the good work
Thanks!
Is this the same field your cutter tried to pass your tractor. Thats alot of square bales on 10 acres 1st cut around here is usually around 600 bales on 10 acres you and Bagwell farms been having a real good year so far hope it stays that way for yall
Yep this is that field, I've been so busy I'm running behind getting my videos up.
damn...i wish i could enjoy that Farm Life u living. But here in Germany there is no way to get that Feeling. You have to go to School again for 3 Years if u wanna Work in a Agriculture Company.
I think in the US it would be alot easier to get a Job on a Farm without 3 years on a Schoolbench :D
And btw....Great Video and perfect Camera Work out there. :)
Thanks Dee! Wow sounds like farming there is like being a Doctor here.
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Haha I got a krone baler ad before the video....what RPM do you like to bale at? If a bale doesn’t tie does it mess up the accumulator?
I run the PTO at 540rpm. Yeah if you have a busted bale you have to go clean it out of the accumulator
Everything seems to be going smooth.....something you will never here me say, or think while I’m baleing. Lol
Lol that's not good
Good looking hay, first time in my life i hired someone to bail my hay my tractor is broke down i think it might be cheaper in the long run.
It probably is cheaper if you can get them there when you need them
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How many bales did it make
Hey Dennis just wondering if u know anything about massy 2606h series tractors?
Nope I sure don’t. Maybe watch Vahrenburg implement on TH-cam.
look a nice bit of hay and plenty of it, im not sure i like how the pto makes the banging noise in heavy crop but it will last till somthing happen i guess,
Yeah I don't like it either. It only does it with the square baler. There is excessive play in the transmission some where.
Question is this alfalfa and grass? If so don't you worry about knocking off all the leaves off and waste that quality hay?
Not to concerned about it for feeding horses. But I do only Tedd it when its wet in the mornings.
the baler is knocking hard ..is the blade sharp
Yes, its a tractor problem. They have worked on it won't know if it's fixed until hay season
Love your videos. That was smooth mine is broken. What kind of tractor do you have???
The tractor in this video is a New Holland T5.120 but I traded it for a John Deere 6110R it's much better.
The other day i got 1036 bales from a 2 hectare field (about 5 acres) those were the biggest windrows i have ever seen 🚜💨 Greetings from Belgium!
Yeah that's getting it done.
Great Videos. Im currently making hay with a accumagrapple in central Pa and looking to upgrade to a kuhns. But am concerned with how it would perform on hills. Do you have any hills that you are running your kuhns on. Thanks
All I run on is hills you will have issues but nothing that should keep you from buying one.
Your good at back in that mess up that's for sure good job
Lol thanks!
I bought a T.5 last year and I am not impressed running the small baler. My T.6050 operates it very well.
Does yours clunk like mine?
DLH Farms hard to tell if it’s as much, but definitely runs clunky and labored. Clutch is also way to jumpy.
Your clutch can be fine tuned by someone that knows what thier doing. I had the dealer send me all the info on calibration of the transmission and learned how to do it myself so I can keep it smooth.
My high score on a farm was with an Aliss Chalmers 5050 tractor and a no.9 Massey baler :450 bales in an hour! It would take us 5 to 10 seconds only to change wagons and i was baling faster than the guys stacking in the barn!
Cool deal!
I am new at square balling.can anyone tell me at what pto speed should be. thanks
I run mine at 540 PTO rpm. If you have an older baler some of those needed to be run a little slower than that.
In my opinion it might be something to do with the teeth or spline somewhere on the tractor side as the baler strokes it gives feedback in the shaft as more power is used to push the piston in the baler to make a wafer I'm not mechanically inclined at all so I could be peeling a banana from the wrong end here but that clunking noise must have something to do with the various splines and teeth around where the pto shaft and the main drive line connect behind the tranny if it is what I think the teeth could get some heavy damage and would be a pretty penny to repair I'd talk to NH about the feedback but maybe onelonelyfarmer here on TH-cam knows more it could also be in the baler too it's hard to see but it looks like every stroke slows the pto a bit but on video it's hard to tell with frame rate
Yeah it's definitely in the tractor, because it doesn't do it when hooked to my other tractors. There is a splined shaft or gear set somewhere that has to much play. Yes the baler slowing down and speeding up causes it because if you hook something to it with a constant load its quiet as a mouse.
DLH Farms that's right I forgot you said it only happens on that tractor if it was consistent power coming through the pto it may be slower but I think it would save wear and tear on the splines as opposed to the cycle of the baler. Depending on how well and beefy NH makes their splines and gears you may not have too much to worry about short term. luckily the baler doesn't require too much power to run as long as everything is lubed and oiled properly I can't foresee any big issues arising soon but if the clunking intensifies I'd have NH check it out to be on the safe side before any real costly damage occurs
I'm already trying to get my dealer to check into it more closely.
I have considered an accumulator, but not sure if I can do enough bales in one day. How many bales have you baled, picked up from the field, and stacked inside in one day by yourself? My wife won't bale hay! lol
About 1000 bales if you have enough trailers or if your close to the barn. I've done it it's a hard day, but if you get caught by the rain it sucks because it will be baled sitting in the field.
THE Massey, THE wife, THE hay
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