Welcome to Trinity Dairy! We milk 33 cows in East-Central Minnesota. Alan bought the farm from his Grandparents when he was just 16 with the hope of one day milking his own cows on the farm. That dream came true in 2006 when he bought his first 10 cows. It's now 2021 and we are milking 33 cows, almost one of every breed, with another 30 head of young stock. We now have 5 children who get to share in this adventure with us, or perhaps we are sharing it with them. Either way we are loving every minute raising our family on a small Dairy Farm. Join us on our day to day adventures, mishaps, and discoveries.
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@@trinitydairy I don't know nothing about round balers and I was watching a different video and there is like yours but it's electric he mentioned the hydraulic kind just wondering how yours worked because the one I'm looking at is hydraulic like yours it is really reasonable looks like it's in decent shape
Hey Al and Family -- why did you not play the old Song ""you spin me right round "" for a short time when you Show us the wrapping machine at work . That us the right way .with your simple wrapping machine .!! A contracting Company who works for a Farmer .take per roundbale 10 Dollar for the work with the roundbaler machine with 14.knifes who cut the hay . And they take 10 Dollar for wrapping the bale . I mean the plastic cost alone 7 Dollar per bale in Germany . Best greetings from North West Germany from Bert !
Way to go Justin!! You could tell he is in good shape from forking-out the calf pens and wrestling hay bales. I hope that he continues to gain lots of farming knowledge and can continue in his dad's footsteps.
I thought of an idea for weights on the skidsteer.. You could drill inch holes into the back frames either side of the engine door and weld in some inch steel bar..Use a cotter pin or r clip then at the end That way you could either hang old gym weights or diy concrete weights onto them and slide them on or off to suit or to gain access to the door again.. Another way to do it would be weld 2 bars one above the other and use flat plate steel as the weights with the 2 holes lined up to slide on the ones welded to the frame..
Good year for making grass! On the skid steer what if you used a tractor suitcase weight on the side of the loader frame behind the wheel. One weight on each side would add 200 lb but you'd only add an inch and a half of thickness to that side of the machine Yeah we learned the hard way you have to wrap immediately because that flat spot will toss the bail off of the wrapper For quality of feed we chase the baler So within a couple hours that bale is wrapped already. Everything got so expensive I could probably sell mine for the same money I paid for it if not more
Before you fill in the wash out Put square bales in about every 10 feet. It works. Just lay them in and cover them up. Especially for places that are pron to washing out
I rotate them as much as I can, we don't have a lot of pasture. The cows go out at night in the spring, summer and fall, but stay in at night in the winter.
I know that's what you have and that's fine. But if you ever replace your baler, I'd look at a 4 footer. I have a four foot baler and I think they work really well . Make most of mine 4×5.
At 21:50 there is a sign "102" in the background. Is that an underground pipeline marker and if so where does it go to, Duluth maybe? Any idea what's in the pipe...Natural gas, crude oil, refined oil?
My first wrapper was w Elho individual wrapper, much like this one. I bought it on an auction sale for $1,000.00. And at the same auction I also bought the bale grabber attachment for the loader tractor for $500.00. My wife wrapped the bales, when she got home from work, and I had them all hauled into the yard and waiting. I put the bale on the wrapper, she wrapped them and I stacked them away. Worked well until we got up to 500 bales per year. Then I was facing a mutiny. So I upgraded to an Anderson in-line wrapper, and did it all by myself, wife was much happier, lol. The last year I milked cows,2022, I wrapped 2600 bales. Inline uses half the amount of plastic
Baled hay myself today. Mine should of been wrapped, but if they spoil i guess they will make bedding. Now im watching you put your hay up. Hope you all have a great crop.
How do you like the bale baskets? And do you see a difference in weight when your almost loaded with them pushing on each other at the top of the basket?
Mowed hay all day and now here I sit watching Alan wrap hay lol. Did the same thing with our New Holland skid steer, chemical totes were the main reason but makes it nice for hay too
Allen do you remember the rectangle shaped weights the 4010 and 4020 tractors had? That maybe the weights to use if the round ones make your skid steer run hot.(front end weights)
Thanks for a very interesting video. Here where I live in Ontario Canada Government took away all plastic shopping free bags from all stores. Everyone has to buy reusable plastic shopping bags or bins because it was wasting and causing pollution, well that is all BS it is only to make everyone spend more money. The plastic that you used to wrap your bales would make many hundreds or more of plastic shopping bags LOL. Thanks always for your posting video and best of luck with your crops.
The long cut hay is better for the rumen. I worked on a dairy farm back in the 70's that fed a lot of haylage out of a harvestore. Out of a herd of about 135 we had 2 or 3 cases of displaced rumens (twisted stomach) every year. Feeding long cut baled hay fixed that.
@@markenge9348 I am 66 years old, have farmed most of my life. My dad made haylage when I was a child. I feed haylage and corn silage to our cows for years with a small amount of dry hay. Now most people feed a small amount of ground straw to help rumen activity. Two or 3 twisted stomachs isn't bad out of 135 cows per year..
