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Great video Mike i love the drone shots . What brand of alfalfa is that if you don't mind me asking it looks like garst from Canada I used it . I liked it a lot of leaves
Nice vid sir.. glad your back to your system of work with the tractors in the right places 😊.. You lost some weight? Might of been just sweating it off... 😊.. bet you were tempted to bale and wrap it.. stay safe 🏴
Luckily for you , you are of a slim build , having to squeeze between the tractor rear wheels otherwise it would be dangerous climbing over PTO shafts. You are making excellent videos as always, even after the family changes. Thank for being so committed.
Hey Mike. Good video. I really like the chopping videos. Hope yall got some rain. We are dry as a powder house in N. Alabama. We need several days of good slow steady rain. Plus it's gonna be triple digits here the next few days to boot. Take care buddy👍
Thanks Kevin. Its been really dry here too. We got a little rain but not much which I'm not complaining about because north of us got hammered with bad flooding. We have some more rain in the forecast this week so the crops can get a drink
Getting some help from farm kids is a great thing it just dawned on me that silage is kind of like sauerkraut. Not as wet and on a larger scale. No wonder cattle love it!
Nice to get back to normal. We had a lot of first cutting that went all in to the barn as square bales. We made 52 round bales trying that out . I think were going to put 2500 small squares of second cutting into the haymow and then all the rest goes in the silo. That worked out pretty good for us last year so were doing it that way again. You said your brother is off the farm now. But if in a pinch when a rain is coming does he have time to help a little? Gotta say by the end of the day you looked beat. (No offense).
How in the world can you afford to spend that much on AC?most farmers i know can't afford that luxury. My brother has that same exact tractor along with a 4430,4040 and none of them have working AC.he just opens all windows and a electric fan doing a of his haying.
@sodbuster518able So how does he knownthe AC is broke in his tractors if he didn't try running it. Basically he ran AC until it crapped out and he didnt want to fix it. To each their own. If you feel that way, then you don't have to run AC in your tractor or get it fixed if it breaks. You say most farmers you know can't afford that luxury. Most farmers I know that have cab tractors run AC and don't make a big deal about using it
@@mikep7810 nine of the AC systems will hold Freon,he at one time had a HVAC tech to add charge to his Milk bulk tank which is a Mandatory repair at same time put freon in one of his JD sound guard body tractors and it only lasted a few days.Dairy farmers have it tougher than you think.Only Row crop farmers have enough money to have luxury of AC.I would bet greater than 60%all 30,40,50 ,55 series have a non working AC system in them.Lets face it 70,s and 80,s R22 systems are Dead by now in all these John Deere Sound guard body's, nobody can afford to upgrade to R134a.
@sodbuster518able Do you know what channel you are commenting on? Do some research. We are a small family dairy farm. The other farms I was saying that also run ac are also dairy farms. Like I said before if it's not feasible for you then don't run it. We basically run 5 tractors, oldest is a 1980 and newest is a 1992. 4040, 2940, 4250, 4055, & and 4555 all have working ac. My brother in law runs 50 series, all his work, my buddy has 40 series and they work, I have an buddy that runs case tractors and they all work.
Even though it creates a lot of extra work more Hay is always better then not enough Hay! As always a great video and thanks for taking the time to post a video during the very busy hay season!! 👍😎
Great Video Mike, Interesting to see how you handle your bales, Thanks for sharing, as promised heres the 1st of the dairy farms I follow it's a very large dairy farm in Canterbury New Zealand let my know what you think @SingleTreeDairiesNZ www.youtube.com/@SingleTreeDairiesNZ
Not a bad idea, I don't have any black plastic though. I got a pallet of the plastic you see in the video. I'm just putting the baleage in one area and the wrapped dry hay in another area
Hey keep up the good work Mike I enjoy the videos. I’m still in the old days using John Deere 420 , 530 and John Deere 301 Tractors but they keep on going and I love it
3010 for the win! My favorite tractor of yours, I believe. The canopy makes it cool. I’m not criticizing at all, but did those bales look a bit squishy when you grabbed them with the grabber?
The squeaking loader seat made me laugh… every time I borrow my brother’s loader (Volvo model of yours) the seat is always squeaking and I fix it for him because eventually it makes you crazy! Nice bales you put up .
Very nice Mike. Kinda makes you feel good when a job is done for the time being. I say if you don’t have storage for dry hay wrapping is a great idea too. Be careful in this heat.
3010 did its job. I actually put the 4000 on the wrapper this year, runs it about the same as the 3020, but picks up the wrapper better with the added weight up front I thought, and the side console is a little more user friendly. I finally counted yesterday, wrapped 36 bales the other night. Not a record for either one of us 😂 but it was a lot of work
We use Flavor Seal which is a 1.0 mil. I demoed wrappers at the end of last season, this is the first year we really have wrapped everything. I really have only used this wrap. My neighbor sells it so I just get it from him. I have nothing to compare it to
