I'm a scientist, a classic automotive restoration enthusiast, and a hay farmer! The primary focus of this channel is how-to videos and descriptions of hay farming equipment, footage, and techniques, with occasional how-to videos on automotive restoration techniques, primarily in paint and body and classic Mustangs.
Started doing this on the farm when I was 6 with my 13 year old cousin. 20 years of doing this and I still miss it. Gotta feed them horses. God Bless Farmers!
Appreciate seeing this! Always curious to learn more about the NH knotters - surprises me how many differences there are from the older Masseys. Now I’m curious to look even closer at mine.
I bale got a guy that has a 19’ windrower. It will not dry underneath, so tedding is the only option. I try to tedd as soon as I can behind him mowing.
I think you’ll find you might get better drying and less discoloring if you wait a day and then ted. The hay will spread out better when it’s had a day to dry on the top.
Yea tean! Hated the farm work cutting trees and so on , but now that I am older I really miss it and comradery . Hope you can enjoy a couple cold beers after and some great conversation
Boy some of you guy’s were really making the money. 5¢ a bale and someone making $10 a day. In my hay day (pun intended) our elderly neighboring farmer paid my brother and I $2 a day plus his wife always made beef stew. As much as we could eat. We never cared about the money, we weren’t gonna get rich on those wages. We were 14 and 15 and our mother told us to go help him out and don’t ask for any money. We weren’t gonna ask, we just went to help him out. Plus the lunch of beef stew was a surprise. Every time he baled hay or straw we helped and his wife made beef stew. Best stew I ever ate hands down. None I ever tasted could beat it. Large chunks of beef browned on the outside and tender inside. Fork sized pieces of potatoes and carrots. Parsnips and maybe smaller pieces of turnips onions celery and peas. And thick. Your spoon could straight up in a bowl of that stew about 5 seconds before it fell over. And oh my was it delicious. But you probably know those old farm wives. Once they had a recipe that everyone loved, nobody was getting it. Not even her daughters. And they didn’t.
I have a bx 23s and I bailed with it this year and it worked great you can set the button for cruise and don't have to tuch nothing but t steering wheel and i was pulling a bailer and 100 bail of hay work s great for raking kay to
I hope you let those bales sit and dry for a spell before you stack them in the barn ! I have never seen them loaded directly from the baler before. We used to bale them and let them sit in the field for a few days before hauling them to the barn. A certain amount of moisture in the bale is necessary, but too much moisture will cause spontaneous combustion! I have seen some hellacious barn fires in my days….just saying 😊
LOL. Bales at 8-10% absolutely do not need to sit outside. They’re going straight in the barn. Spontaneous combustion comes from excessive stem moisture and needs to be at least 30%.
Barn fires from square bales happens when the hay maker doesn't know what he's doing and bales way to wet. A bale that will start on fire in a barn is gonna get moldy no matter how long it sits outside.
Thin poly twine murders your hands enough even with gloves on. I make them wear gloves because they’re no good to me if their hands are sore and blistered the next day. On this day we stacked 800 bales, the day before 650 and the day after 700.
@TheScientistHayFarmer . I've never used plastic twine. Doesn't seem like the best idea. I'm not taking anything away from you and all the work. It's hard work. Been doing it for 28 years. I've always used 9000 ciecle twine. It doesn't kill your hands. God bless what your doing. Not many people can handle it.
There’s a lot of reasons we only stack 5 high. The first is we don’t need to because a wagon is getting emptied while this wagon is getting filled. So there’s always a fresh wagon that gets brought out to us. We send the wagons back 100 bales at a time. The second reason is it takes them longer to get the higher stacks so the hay makes a log jam and I have to slow down. It’s not as efficient for me then. The third reason is it tires them out faster to stack higher and people that are passing out from heat exhaustion are no good to me.
Wow I remember those days, prayed for sunshine and dry hot days. The heat never stopped us, I stacked on the wagon till wagons were full spent the rest of the day in hay mow till we were done, just to do it again tomorrow. I disliked the kicker bales, I didn't get a break just stacked yay in mow all day, that was hot
