I’ve noticed that the comments have all been very positive about your hay crop. Everyone wants you to succeed with the farm. We enjoy it about as much as you & we enjoy your enjoyment. Thank you Sir. Keep up the good work.
Don't think I've ever seen anyone more proud of their hay field. It turned out great because all the hard work you put into preparing the field. Should yield well once you get the permanent grass planted. Edit: Forgot to mention how I think it's awesome that you bartered with your neighbor to work your hay field in exchange for you doing some work for him. It's always a good thing when neighbors are helping neighbors.
Yeah, but the IRS considers it taxable. The black-market where tradesman exchange services is estimated in the billions. That is significant money they want taxed.
Looks like a good hay and a good yield. Had a small place back in the day with a few horses and plenty of pasture to grow our own hay. It's a fine feeling when you see your animals eating what you've grown. There was a big difference though. I used a sickle mower and a square bailer, a large barn and long conveyor to put the hay into the loft. But the neighbor kids made some money, got a work out, and a large cookout/ picnic when we were done. Good times, hard work and lots of laughs. Thanks for the walk thru the past.
Absolutely love your excitement in this video! We are a first generation farm, and understand what it's like to have these small victories after putting a lot of time and effort into something 🙂
My son lives in Wisconsin and his boss has acreage a mile from my son's house. His boss rents out about 10 acres to a dairy farmer that plants corn for the milk cows. I was lucky enough to be there one day when it was being cut, chopped , loaded and stored for the cows. It was awesome to watch and this video reminds me of the fun it was to ride alongside, like you were. Thanks for the memories@letsdig18.❤️
You b.....y little ripper - as we Aussie's say. So happy for you and the animals LetsDig18. The farm continues to produce, pay for itself and give huge joy to all involved. Loved it - farm life is the best.
If you want the full effect of putting up hay bail it into square bales then go buck every bail onto the wagon and stack it in a hot hay barn with a hot tin roof. We made .50 cents a hour doing this. I got smart and started running the bailer!
no one wants to make small squares anymore, but they still sell for a premium because they are easier to handle for some (although horse people are known for not paying their hay bill haha)
I'm glad to see folks wearing hearing protection much more now than we did when I was growing up the farm in the 80s. I'm 51 now, and need to set up an appointment with an audiologist. Can't stop the ringing. Earplugs were "so uncool" back in the day. Now, I'd love to go back to my teenage self and tell him to wear the damn things.
We were all "bullet proof" in our 20s. Should have listened to the old timers when they said "jumping off trucks will hurt your knees" etc. YOUNG PEOPLE......LISTEN UP!
Not me to say but the rakes with the prong rake wheels and have 3-6 rakes at least 99% better than the PTO driven rakes and they don’t clog up either! I had to use the mechanical rake for the first time I did it and the hay was so thick that I spent most of the day unclogging the rakes! The prong wheels, you can just run through it and it doesn’t matter how thick it is my friend! Just saying, with the new rake we yielded more hey! The mechanical rake got put to pasture! lol 😂 That thing was a job! It’s looking good brother, thanks for sharing Chris! Kirk from Louisiana, not a farmer but I was working for them at the age of 13 until 18! Loved it but no money, welded every since! Retired now! Those rolls are probably 1500 lbs, I’m thinking! I think those look like the medium bales, large ones get a percentage wasted!
I'm very impressed! Your farm is really turned into a great investment for you! I wonder if you will give us a full tour to show your vegetable gardens and other things you're growing? Are you growing any fruit trees? How about bees for honey? Now that's an amazing thing to do there and they have these cool beehives with "taps" on them and you can harvest honey direct from the hive without interrupting the bees and needing to smoke them and grab their combs, etc. Anyway, there's so much you can and no doubt ARE doing! Great Job young man!
Your farm is doing so well. Even though they were the old brick bales & not the round ones, this brought back so many memories of my uncle's farm and haying. It's been 55+ years since the last time I hayed with him, but the heat, itchiness, and that wonderful smell are as fresh as if it happened yesterday. Happy that the experiment worked, happy for your yield, just plain happy for you. Thank you for sharing this, Chris.
Smiles .... when i was a young feller (big testicles but no brains, right?) I unloaded haybales off a trailer into an enclosed barn and had such a bad allergy reaction .... I mean snot was everywhere! My Face? Covered! I mean how can a nose make so much snot? I mean who knows how a hankie can absorb so much snot and put it back in a chaps pocket? Tests, you ask? A Gallon? Really? I mean, can a snotter a put a gallon of the stuff into you trousers without you noticing? We're talking a gallon of snot, here.
#LetsDig18 Thank you for showing the process of processing hay bales. From cultivating the land to the finished product. I never knew how they were processed. As a kid, I'd see them but never knew how they became bales. City Boy life👍👍 thank you again and its great video.
@Jeff Wisemiller I'm sowweee mr,spwelling bees finals majoors. MI awtocuhwect isint ahn. So sowweee fur tha incahnvenience. Maaibee yuu Kan chek MI gwammahr tuu? Dank yuu sooper shmort goi 👍👍
I love the smell of new mowed hay ,It was the job I liked the most on the farm ,cutting and bailing this brings back fond old memories as much as Chris likes dozer work ,I liked cutting and bailing Hay, This took me back to my teenage years and that was a long time ago
Fantastic crop.... congratulations 🎉 Always have to check moisture content, as many hay sheds have gone up in smoke, with stacking damp hay.. The heat in damp hay, is incredible.
congrats Chris. nice first time hay. I know you are happy. I remember riding on a hay wagon as our landlord bailed the hay on the 120 acres where we lived back in the mid to late 60s to early 70s. for his cattle. stay safe.
I hate to be the one to point this out Chris, but your friends rake isn’t doing a very clean job but i am not sure if it just needs a simple adjustment or possibly new rake teeth or maybe just take a narrower first pass when starting the first side of the row. I grew up farming and my grandfather was as particular about a clean field after raking and baling as you are about not scratching the counter weight on your excavator
Hi Chris, When you first bought your property, you called it a farm, but it was really rough. You have made it a beautiful farm now. Getting your own hay is a great step for you, and I'm proud of you for all the hard work you put into this farm. Thank you for sharing all of your videos with me. I really appreciate you for taking the time to do all of this. Congratulations, and have a great night.
That will be some good hay for your cattle when the snow is flying. It isn’t the best hay but like I was always told, it’s better than a snowball. We had an upright silo so we would chop it and make haylage. It was a good mid spring crop to get us through until our corn silage was ready to harvest. We would put up a good bit of small square bails every year too. You don’t see many farmers bailing small square bails anymore.
Its too labor intensive. There aren’t enough young men(and some women) willing (or physically able!) to get out in the fields and pick up and stack the bales.
@@cathiwim Even worse when a contractor friend does some small squares for you that top out at around 60 or 70 pounds per bale. Makes them a right sod to throw on to the trailer. 😃
Chris you did awesome flying & filming. Nice Piloting Bud. I love a drone view. Just 10 minute into the watch, on the the rest.. Looks like a good yield.
I'd plant a mix of cool weather grasses like orchard, timothy, perennial rye, NOVEL endophyte fescue and a mix of perennial legumes to capture nitrogen without fertilizing. I'd also inoculate the soil with fungus and bacteria.
Chris, you are one of the best examples of what hard work can get a man that I know of anywhere. I have been watching you since wayyy back just before you had long reach cleaning all the weeds out of that canal or whatever it was the first time. I think I remember you went back again? I forget. Anyway, a long time and I've never regretted it. A lot of good channels have gotten a lot of likes from me but if I had to say, considering how long it's been, you probably have more likes from me than any other single channel on TH-cam and I've been here since 2006. I've watched you pretty much grow into manhood and this old man is right proud of you, Chris. You're doing okay just take care of yourself.
That's a good stand of rye for sure. On our farm, we have a New Holland H7220 9ft disc bine. The conditioner rollers do a great job of squeezing out the moisture. With our current fertilize and spray program, we usually average between 8-10 4x5 bales to the acre of fescue hay.
Loved hay work on the farm the owner supplied home made lemon tea, oranges for the young folk ,adults making dens with bails for us young kids to play safely ,mum did the meat stuff,at the end a barbecue for workers and family..X late father we had a small holding with pigs,so we had cash not much ,but we had great health ..
The New England Farmer I worked as a kid, cut the 3ft rye and bailed it moments later in a two tractor and flatbed truck parade. I was two years a stacker on the truck and two years a bail thrower. Great Times 1960's
Chris, we can hear the smile in your voice! Congratulations! I love how you and your neighbors pitch in to help each other out! 🌾🌾🌾🚜🌾🌾🌾
Absolutely correct, damn fine outcome.
I’ve noticed that the comments have all been very positive about your hay crop. Everyone wants you to succeed with the farm.
We enjoy it about as much as you & we enjoy your enjoyment.
Thank you Sir. Keep up the good work.
Don't think I've ever seen anyone more proud of their hay field. It turned out great because all the hard work you put into preparing the field. Should yield well once you get the permanent grass planted.
Edit: Forgot to mention how I think it's awesome that you bartered with your neighbor to work your hay field in exchange for you doing some work for him. It's always a good thing when neighbors are helping neighbors.
Bartering is a very efficient way of reducing taxes as well ... just saying😉
Yeah, but the IRS considers it taxable. The black-market where tradesman exchange services is estimated in the billions. That is significant money they want taxed.
Excellent yield for a first-time Rye planting-you should have zero issues growing everything you need!
Chris, you seem as excited about the hay crop, as a kid with a new toy !! LOL 😁 Hard work pays off at last !
Looks like a good hay and a good yield. Had a small place back in the day with a few horses and plenty of pasture to grow our own hay. It's a fine feeling when you see your animals eating what you've grown. There was a big difference though. I used a sickle mower and a square bailer, a large barn and long conveyor to put the hay into the loft. But the neighbor kids made some money, got a work out, and a large cookout/ picnic when we were done. Good times, hard work and lots of laughs. Thanks for the walk thru the past.
..and always during the hottest times of the year. We didn’t have a conveyor for the longest time. Heave those bales up and over.
Absolutely love your excitement in this video! We are a first generation farm, and understand what it's like to have these small victories after putting a lot of time and effort into something 🙂
Love it! $10 bucks says Chris has his own "hay toys" next year :)
My son lives in Wisconsin and his boss has acreage a mile from my son's house. His boss rents out about 10 acres to a dairy farmer that plants corn for the milk cows. I was lucky enough to be there one day when it was being cut, chopped , loaded and stored for the cows. It was awesome to watch and this video reminds me of the fun it was to ride alongside, like you were. Thanks for the memories@letsdig18.❤️
Crazy how far all of this has came!! I remember when you first introduced the house to all of us!!
Just shows us what you can achieve when you believe yourself and don't give up
@@Rbnqss when you "work hard" is what you mean. 😉🖖
I miss the Mobile Mansion! haha
Good neighbors are everything 👍🏼
I like the gray and black on your truck. It looks more unique the more I look at it. Nice truck
You b.....y little ripper - as we Aussie's say. So happy for you and the animals LetsDig18. The farm continues to produce, pay for itself and give huge joy to all involved. Loved it - farm life is the best.
Now it's time to plant El felfa and clover for high quality feed over the Winter.
What a transformation on that piece of property! Great looking hay; congratulations and best wishes.
If you want the full effect of putting up hay bail it into square bales then go buck every bail onto the wagon and stack it in a hot hay barn with a hot tin roof. We made .50 cents a hour doing this. I got smart and started running the bailer!
no one wants to make small squares anymore, but they still sell for a premium because they are easier to handle for some (although horse people are known for not paying their hay bill haha)
I'm glad to see folks wearing hearing protection much more now than we did when I was growing up the farm in the 80s. I'm 51 now, and need to set up an appointment with an audiologist. Can't stop the ringing. Earplugs were "so uncool" back in the day. Now, I'd love to go back to my teenage self and tell him to wear the damn things.
I'm with you, I'm 66 and my hearing is not good from all the machine noise. I didn't know it would be like this back in the day
We were all "bullet proof" in our 20s. Should have listened to the old timers when they said "jumping off trucks will hurt your knees" etc. YOUNG PEOPLE......LISTEN UP!
Most beautiful, peaceful and then some. Very rewarding. Watching this is time well spent.
The smell must be AWES0OME. brings back memories of 70 yrs ago on grandparents farm. thank you..............
I knew as soon as you injected the grass it was going to take off.. should make SEVERAL Bails....😊❤
Those are going to be some happy happy cows!
Not me to say but the rakes with the prong rake wheels and have 3-6 rakes at least 99% better than the PTO driven rakes and they don’t clog up either! I had to use the mechanical rake for the first time I did it and the hay was so thick that I spent most of the day unclogging the rakes! The prong wheels, you can just run through it and it doesn’t matter how thick it is my friend! Just saying, with the new rake we yielded more hey! The mechanical rake got put to pasture! lol 😂 That thing was a job! It’s looking good brother, thanks for sharing Chris! Kirk from Louisiana, not a farmer but I was working for them at the age of 13 until 18! Loved it but no money, welded every since! Retired now! Those rolls are probably 1500 lbs, I’m thinking! I think those look like the medium bales, large ones get a percentage wasted!
Whoooo Hooooo!!! Fruits of your labor,,,SOOO COOL to exchange labor ,for mutual respect 🙏 and friends,! SOOO Smart
I love the background music starting about 4:45.
You’re Smart to have someone else provide the Equipment and Complete the Work because GOD knows the Equipment and Maintenance is Expensive. 👍🙏
Can’t beat the smell of hay
I'm very impressed! Your farm is really turned into a great investment for you! I wonder if you will give us a full tour to show your vegetable gardens and other things you're growing? Are you growing any fruit trees? How about bees for honey? Now that's an amazing thing to do there and they have these cool beehives with "taps" on them and you can harvest honey direct from the hive without interrupting the bees and needing to smoke them and grab their combs, etc. Anyway, there's so much you can and no doubt ARE doing! Great Job young man!
Happy farmer Chris! 😁
Your farm is doing so well. Even though they were the old brick bales & not the round ones, this brought back so many memories of my uncle's farm and haying. It's been 55+ years since the last time I hayed with him, but the heat, itchiness, and that wonderful smell are as fresh as if it happened yesterday. Happy that the experiment worked, happy for your yield, just plain happy for you. Thank you for sharing this, Chris.
Smiles .... when i was a young feller (big testicles but no brains, right?) I unloaded haybales off a trailer into an enclosed barn and had such a bad allergy reaction .... I mean snot was everywhere! My Face? Covered! I mean how can a nose make so much snot? I mean who knows how a hankie can absorb so much snot and put it back in a chaps pocket? Tests, you ask? A Gallon? Really? I mean, can a snotter a put a gallon of the stuff into you trousers without you noticing? We're talking a gallon of snot, here.
Vickie, if you hunt among the 500 replies, I typed my story of putting up bales of hay for our ponies.
Congratulations. Looks like a good healthy crop.
Thanks Chris,peace brother…
#LetsDig18 Thank you for showing the process of processing hay bales. From cultivating the land to the finished product. I never knew how they were processed. As a kid, I'd see them but never knew how they became bales. City Boy life👍👍 thank you again and its great video.
bales, bails for jails.
@Jeff Wisemiller I'm sowweee mr,spwelling bees finals majoors. MI awtocuhwect isint ahn. So sowweee fur tha incahnvenience. Maaibee yuu Kan chek MI gwammahr tuu? Dank yuu sooper shmort goi 👍👍
I love the smell of new mowed hay ,It was the job I liked the most on the farm ,cutting and bailing this brings back fond old memories as much as Chris likes dozer work ,I liked cutting and bailing Hay, This took me back to my teenage years and that was a long time ago
Fantastic crop.... congratulations 🎉
Always have to check moisture content, as many hay sheds have gone up in smoke, with stacking damp hay..
The heat in damp hay, is incredible.
congrats Chris. nice first time hay. I know you are happy. I remember riding on a hay wagon as our landlord bailed the hay on the 120 acres where we lived back in the mid to late 60s to early 70s. for his cattle. stay safe.
I bet that field smells fabulous!
I hate to be the one to point this out Chris, but your friends rake isn’t doing a very clean job but i am not sure if it just needs a simple adjustment or possibly new rake teeth or maybe just take a narrower first pass when starting the first side of the row. I grew up farming and my grandfather was as particular about a clean field after raking and baling as you are about not scratching the counter weight on your excavator
Pretty cool. I watched you clear, clean up, plant, and now bale the field. Nice set of videos!
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Many many circles I have made, weights, moisture, many years - have fun with it :)
Looks very good, I always love the aroma of new mown hay. In Switzerland they stuff pillows with new mown hay, and sell them at a premium.
Great field of hay Chris , but FFS half of it is left on the ground gone to waste
Good morning all
hayy!! lol
@Aqua Peet Haylow, have a great night
Wow, hay already!!
Wow Chris that is beautiful cut and the animals are going to have very good nutrition out this hay going to make them strong 👍😎🇺🇸NY
AWSOME AGAIN my friend,,!,Thank you ❤️
Congratulations on your first yield. So happy for you.
Hi Chris, When you first bought your property, you called it a farm, but it was really rough. You have made it a beautiful farm now. Getting your own hay is a great step for you, and I'm proud of you for all the hard work you put into this farm. Thank you for sharing all of your videos with me. I really appreciate you for taking the time to do all of this. Congratulations, and have a great night.
Congrats on your first Hay crop.
Awesome!!! Nice to know where your hay came from and how it was grown. Nice and clean for your animals. Great first yield!
One very very satisfying crop first time something you will not forget congratulations. 👍👍
That will be some good hay for your cattle when the snow is flying. It isn’t the best hay but like I was always told, it’s better than a snowball. We had an upright silo so we would chop it and make haylage. It was a good mid spring crop to get us through until our corn silage was ready to harvest. We would put up a good bit of small square bails every year too. You don’t see many farmers bailing small square bails anymore.
Its too labor intensive. There aren’t enough young men(and some women) willing (or physically able!) to get out in the fields and pick up and stack the bales.
@@cathiwim Even worse when a contractor friend does some small squares for you that top out at around 60 or 70 pounds per bale. Makes them a right sod to throw on to the trailer. 😃
I'm glad your excited with a great crop.
Well done Chris, great result. Loved the drone footage as well😊
Happy Sunday Chris
Looks good
Thanks for sharing
You going to have a nice hay field in the end! Great job! Beautiful!
Very happy for you, Chris. Nice bail yield for the first cut.👍🙂
That amount of BAIL should get anyone outta JAIL! But I'm sure the cows appreciate the BALES a LOT more! 🤣
@@RRRIBEYE got me🙄😂
Hayins always fun nice crop mister!
I will guarantee you this will heat up. Ryegrass has burned more barns than any other type of grass.
Wow, out here in the Rocky Mountains West, we are just now losing our winter snow, and here you are cutting and bailing hay.
That's a beautiful crop of rye grass!!
Chris you did awesome flying & filming. Nice Piloting Bud. I love a drone view.
Just 10 minute into the watch, on the the rest.. Looks like a good yield.
Nice to see success. Thanks for sharing.
Congratulations Chris on your first bailing hay. It sure looks nice , that has to be a good feeling. 👍👍😎
Very nice,glad it worked out for you 👍👍👍😎😎😎
I only get 2-3 bales an acre with my finest North Carolina weed mix.
yea but you can play 18 holes of golf on it as well
Yay !!! Hesston round baler. My father worked for Hesston UK back in the '70s as Demonstrator / Fitter
Great crop of rye hay great video thanks Chris
Brilliant video, first crop !!!! Really good 👍
Very nice looking hay....
Putting up hay has got alot easier that when I was a kid, putting up hay for $1 an hour.
Great looking hay.
I'd plant a mix of cool weather grasses like orchard, timothy, perennial rye, NOVEL endophyte fescue and a mix of perennial legumes to capture nitrogen without fertilizing. I'd also inoculate the soil with fungus and bacteria.
Congratulations! This is SO great!! And now we all get to learn cool stuff about farming!
👍👏🚜👏👍
Chris, you are one of the best examples of what hard work can get a man that I know of anywhere. I have been watching you since wayyy back just before you had long reach cleaning all the weeds out of that canal or whatever it was the first time. I think I remember you went back again? I forget. Anyway, a long time and I've never regretted it. A lot of good channels have gotten a lot of likes from me but if I had to say, considering how long it's been, you probably have more likes from me than any other single channel on TH-cam and I've been here since 2006.
I've watched you pretty much grow into manhood and this old man is right proud of you, Chris. You're doing okay just take care of yourself.
Congratulations, Chris! So happy and proud for your success and happiness! Good look.!....beautiful new truck hauling in your first hay bails!!!
Awesome! Sure is nice to get your first cut on the new farm. Congratulations on the first yield! Take care and God Bless!!!😊
Awesome ,, must be gratifying 👍😎
Nice! Loved the drone shots 😊
That guy is the "Letsdigit" of hay!!!...🙂👍🇮🇪
I enjoyed watching that. It's quite a process!!
Great looking crop of hay! Your friend lays a nice straight wind row.❤
Congratulations on your success.
Great making hay why the sun shines ✨️
Beutifully done!
That's a good stand of rye for sure. On our farm, we have a New Holland H7220 9ft disc bine. The conditioner rollers do a great job of squeezing out the moisture. With our current fertilize and spray program, we usually average between 8-10 4x5 bales to the acre of fescue hay.
fantastic result for the hay crop, love the music and your drone footage. your farm is looking amazing, well done!
I really enjoyed watching. You worked hard for that❤❤❤❤
Cool procedure. Nice yield.
Congratulations Chris👍
Congrats on first crop👍👍👍👍
Fantastic video on something I don't ever recall watching being performed. Very cool. Thanks for another awesome video.
Best video of 2023!! Nice load of hay.👍👏❤️
This video was very cathartic. Great feeling to see this coming to fruition.
Nice to see all of hard work went into bailing hay, I picked up many of square bails when I was younger. Awesome to see you so excited
Never actually seen this process start to finish before. Thanks for sharing Chris!
Wow foe rye that's great ! Looks like some nice stuff those moo mom's should love it lol!
Chris great yeald! Thanks for sharing! Kevin
Loved hay work on the farm the owner supplied home made lemon tea, oranges for the young folk ,adults making dens with bails for us young kids to play safely ,mum did the meat stuff,at the end a barbecue for workers and family..X late father we had a small holding with pigs,so we had cash not much ,but we had great health ..
The New England Farmer I worked as a kid, cut the 3ft rye and bailed it moments later in a two tractor and flatbed truck parade. I was two years a stacker on the truck and two years a bail thrower. Great Times 1960's