How can anybody give these farmers a thumbs down? This young man was up before the sun milking cows and he's still working around 1am. How many people who gave a thumbs down put in a 20 hour workday? Amazing.
Up at 4:45am and still working at 1:00am the next morning. I wish everyone had that kind of work ethic. You and your family are an American Icon along with the rest of the family farmers. Great video and let us know the results from the cutting with the two different rakes. God Bless.
Your custom guys seem like a well oiled machine. Helps that they were probably motivated to get home at 1am too, but still they really seem well coordinated and efficient.
Eric have I told you lately how much I appreciate you and dad for all your hard work for feeding us well I do I hope you had a good vacation with your family I think dad missed you when you were gone
I don't think I've ever heard you complain about the work that needs to be done. Many other channels complain about their work load or what tasks they need to do... you just get shit done. Much respect my friend
You are braver than I am, there would be no way I could have climbed the silo because height and me do not get along well. I have always wanted to see inside a HARVESTORE silo. In my area, HARVESTORE silos are the top of the line over regular silos and well worth the cost. It was nice to see the Jaguar forge harvesters in action. Keep up there good work, as always you're the videos are excellent.
You definitely hayed some good mow. Are you going to hay some bales or silage some blow? We are bales some round now. The growing is corned. Oh well.... its time I cowed the milk and penned the scrape. Great a have day !
The smell of fresh cut alfalfa on the 15th of June....... It's been over 30 years, yet I can smell it even now, watching someone cut hay, like it was yesterday.
Glad you are back home. Your dad did a great job while you were gone. Glad everything went well today Alfalfa Harvest. Hope your wife and little girl ,and mom are doing well. See you later and a big thank you for everything tht you do for us.
Having used the Claas before I can say it’s a great bit of kit and packs up quite small too as you can remove the arms really easily. I haven’t used the wheel rake (we call them acrobat’s here in the UK) but I’m guessing at the very least they’re more efficient in terms of fuel as you don’t have to run the PTO as Eric mentioned
Awesome sunrises and sunsets, but, dang, that was a long day. Terrific view from on top of the silo. You are a brave man to go up there to fix the pin hole. And then to go back up in the dark. Please stay safe so we can see you in the next video!
Your alfalfa looks fantastic! Nothing like the small of fresh cut hay. I am expressed with your work ethic and willingness to keep farming when many are moving on.
Did you say "let's go hay some mow!" ? Love your stuff, thanks for sharing! As always we're all grateful for what people like you produce for the rest of us. God bless.
This was a great video!! Love that alfalfa field!!!! 2nd cutting was awesome. Hope your family vacation was wonderful temp wise !! Always good being with family 💗😊🙋♀️
Well I’m jealous. I cut about 400 acres a crop and none of it looks that heavy a crop. We are about two weeks to go for second. We have to water everything to get a crop. We haven’t had a good rain in three months. The dry farm crops are burning up. Some won’t make grain. The grains that will make grain will produce a quarter to half of normal. Normal dry farm wheat runs about 30 Bushel per acre. So be thankful you have gotten enough rain to produce the crops you have. If I didn’t irrigate my hay it would look like a barren waste land. We rely on mountain snow to carry us through the summer. We only got about 60% of normal mountain snow pack. To make matters worse our last frost was about a week ago. Didn’t do a lot of damage but we have been colder than normal and the alfalfa would freeze and stop growing and then it would get hot for a couple of days and then freeze again. Our first crop hay is about half of normal. So I feel I have the right to be jealous. Lolo
Welcome back - hope you had a good break - watch that weather this evening - lots of rain and some pretty harsh storms embedded - be safe & be well 👍🙏🏻🇺🇸✊
I can hear your dads voice or dialect coming out in you. Your dads is much stronger in the Mid East PA dialect. Spent some time in Litiz and Manheim areas.
Great video today! I learned a little more about how your milk is tested and what alfalfa is supposed to look like. Its amazing how green your grass is up there right now!
0:28 Lest go hay some mow? Good one, replayed that 5 times,,,,,,, just to make sure that I heard you right the first time, the other 4 times were just to have a good laugh. Hope that you and your family had a great time while you were away. Nice to have you back. And now on with the rest of your video. " ACTION "
you could put a flex seal or another type of rubber uv resistant paint on membrane on that whole top of the silo and eliminate any of those pinholes for years to come. would save you the trips outside that safety fence.
great job hard work makes life, I would love to help you everything in Farmer but I never live in farmer know nothing about it, hard work makes life, take care yourself...
Every time I see you guys milk cows it brings back old memories from like 6 years ago i am 14 know then i was probably 8 man i just released how little i was when we quit feels like a month ago. Man time flys. I still remember when she came and did the milk tests she used pretty much the same stuff who you hade come and do it. We milked cows for Maryland and Virginia. The only difference with or parlor was it milked 20 cows at a time 10 on boths side and a milker at each section in stead of ones that flip around. it worked great until you hade that stupid slow cow. Or one neighbor has a tringle 12 cow milker that thing probably takes the same speed as the one we hade. We milk for him every time he goes on vacation about twice a year then he comes and takes care of are animals when we go on vacation.
Hey Eric - Whoever ran the Claas Liner ran it way too fast. Needs lower RPM to stop threshing the hay so much. Cheers, hopw you had some relaxing holiday.
I didn’t think they normally use that attachment, they normally use that V attachment that just turns it over. They don’t use that liner attachment on a regular basis because its probably tearing the hay up.
@@stubbi….I don’t actually know, I was just assuming it’s tearing the hay up; I was guessing. I don’t actually know what i’m talking about with farm equipment. I always see the V attachment, I always assumed it was the popular choice but didn’t know why.
So the Liner rake is usually run at 540rpm and while obviously there’s no in-cab view, I’d say it was running about that having used one before. Also, I’m not sure why you think it would be damaging the crop more than the wheel rake would do. Yes, the tines move a bit quicker but the wheel rake handles at least some of the crop way more. The wheel rake has 9 wheels on each side and while the back wheels only move the crop a small amount, the crop that gets gathered up from the front ones get turned over 7 or 8 times
Nice job, Eric. You have a lot of work to do in one day. Silage for the future. Let's see the new barn layout. Curious have it will be set up. Looks like one side is open. Seems strange in an area where you have winter snow and cold. Nice vid, thanks.
