We have our 1st big outing of the year! We got through most of what we call the "south farm". We had high, lows and everything in between. The joys of putting up quality hay!
Back in the day of custom haying with Dad in 1968 we put up wire tie bales of alfalfa at 125 pounds per bale from three John Deere 214 WS balers on a 1000 acre ranch four cuttings a year of pure alfalfa. We sold to dairiess in Western Washington State and British Columbia. We picked up everything with a Haro bed. I could stack 4000 bales a day. Sister ran the Swather (John Deere 880) and knock down a 100 acres a day. Mom , brother and Dad bales with dew on in middle of night and I stacked the next day it was a full on family operation.. Thanks for your video.
Have to say its astonishing to see you guys make nearly what we do in a year in a matter of a few days, definitely the most impressive operation ive ever seen! And happy birthday Justin!
My family had a successful dairy farm in SE Minnesota. About 500 acres and typically 175 cows to milk 2x a day. We bought a New Holland automatic bale wagon in the late 1970’s which saved our backs from stacking onto a wagon. I got to run it several times. My parents divorced and sold the farm in 1981 when I was 14. I miss the farm so much and like to tinker and fix my own vehicles enough that I’ve been renting pole barn storage for 22 years. The last 21 years on the same property. I’d go insane if I was stuck in the house all day with my mom.
As someone from the outside looking it, I always thought it wa a just cut it, dry it, bale it and move on. But this video showed me that there is a ton more into it than that! Thanks for sharing!
You got it right for the small operator. Balers are about 35,000 each minimum. I dont know how much the stackers are, but say 30,000, Those tractors are in the 75,000 range. Kuhn cutters are about 10,000 each for a tractor that size, those rakes I'm going to guess at 8,000. Tenders in the 5,000. Plus he has the big extendable boom loader maybe 100,000. Some has maybe around $850,000 in equipment, plus fuel, twine, oil and labor cost. How can you make any money with that overhead? I put up about a 1000 small squares a year. I manually adjust my bale tension for a 40-45 lb bale. It messes up, my old John Deere stays running so I can make knotter adjustments. In the end, my hay costs about $3.50 per bale, to grow, bale, and put it in the barn. It is hot, hard and dirty work. I don't know how these guys buy all new equipment to bale hay.
I always wanted to become a farmer when I was young, I was truly beyond passionate but I learned the hard way that I couldn't really be the farmer I wanted to be due to not being born into a farming family or having the good people around me at the correct time to eventually put me under their wings, with your videos I can cope with my situation, thank you boss !
Nothing is impossible son! There's plenty of RU-vid videos with all the information you need to become a farmer. Buy some land or farm and talk to farmer in the local community, start small and build your way up. Never quit on your dreams, I don't know your situation but I'm rooting for you!
@@arnljot9030 i dont know how profitable it is in usa but here where i live land is extremely expensive and you need 100+ hectares to get some decent money. other than that you need big loans to grow as a farmer
@@arnljot9030 man, loved your words. I just see great human beings here :) i started a farm with 10 hectares, just 2 are mine, people borrowed and i payed for a few of them. Its really hard, but im loving everyday, never learned so much in my life. I'm 22, got a 35hp 1970 leyland, a few implements and a some borrowed ones, last year i made total of one salary just for the business. Gonna buy a little john deere 5075e soon! Life is great, even with not much money :D if it was easy anyone would do it
You can do it! I'm thinking of buying some land now to start a farming operation. I don't come from money but the more I research the more I see it is possible. Agricultural loans are very forgiving and they work with you
That's a great farm organization you have going there! We use to do 15 to 20 thousand small squares a year, that we would send to Florida. We were doing them by hand though.... It's got too hard to get the help and our market dried up a bit, so we've moved out of the haying business. Which this year we were happy for as we could just NOT get the weather for taking good hay off this year!
its cool to see that other countries do little bales too, here in germany we use those too, i got a Welger AP 42 baler with a bale shooter it does a amazing job but we dont put them down direct on the field we shoot them directly on to a trailer with a extension so you dont need a guy for packing
Andy from Farming, Fixing & Fabricating puts a pail & toolbox on seat of chopper so he can get out of cab to diagnose issues & keep part of machine running. He has even come up with pigtails that allows him to temporarily have the feeder chamber open to listen for strange noises
In my early 20's, we would put up 10k small square bales each year. I stacked behind a thrower baler, and I was usually the one putting them on the elevator into the barn, so I touched them twice before anyone else. Would put up 80# alfalfa, and 50# straw bales. We used em for our Dairy, so I wanted as much in each bale as possible. I was in the best shape of my life then, and ate as much of anything I wanted. My 6 pack abs are now a keg😮 Great video!
What amazes me farmers have been putting up hay for centuries without all this electronic gizmo c***, but yet all of a sudden, we'd need it to survive.
That’s a serious tedder. Or, rather, a serious rake. When I grew up, we kids walked along, threw the bales onto a hay rack, and stacked by hand. But we didn’t make 14,000 bales. That’s some nice looking hay. Tall and thick.
There is a procedure that, if followed, will allow you to run the PTO on your Massey while not in the tractor seat. My dealer shared that info with me. The procedure varies by model. Great videos, great looking hay and haying process.
NIce family operation. I’ve got a massy Ferguson 5711. Love the dyna 4 transmission you could use that programmable rpm button set your rpm to the speed you want. Just hit the button and tractor revs up to the rpm you set. Lots of nice features on theses Masseys I can almost smell your hay. 👍🇨🇦
Back in the 80’s in my preteen/teen years on average per day a few of us would load around 2000 bales per day on trucks then pack in barns. With todays machinery putting out 14000 bales is amazing.
Last year they moved the rain up a day on me, I had 4700 bales on the ground and I got them all out of the field overnight just me and dad by hand after baling all day. He's 70 and drove the truck I stacked and our tag along elevator pitched them onto the wagon. Worst night of my life, oh and I also had Covid and was running a 104 degree fever the whole time. Still fighting covid lung a year later.
@@nwhittemore078855 I know that feeling, acres upon acres mowed, dried and ready... And then there's a shift in the feeling of the wind and black clouds appear. You just know you will work a year's worth of wear on your body in the next hours😂
@rolsen1304 I'm just glad we had enough trailers that I only had to unload 1 semi worth in the barn to get them all. Between 2 semi trailers,2 30 foot cotton wagons and 2 30+5 foot goosenecks we got them all. I slept on the ground for a few hours, didn't have the will or want to even drive the 1/2 mile home. Woke up at 10am to a major thunderstorm in a puddle of mud lol.
There is a learning curve/experience with any type of farming, it is an art. You might invest in a tedder to get a quicker turnaround and to help with mown grass that has been rained on. Putting up hay that has a higher moisture does increase the risk of fire. Good luck with the process, you are looking good for a first time using the equipment.
Cool bailing video, o those days picking the many bails up throwing them (well you start throwing sort of goes into a heaving up after few hundred😂 ) onto a trailer in hot sun with usually a cider at the end with everyone 😅 good fun great fitness great memories 👍
can you show us detail data how many bales you made how you gotfrom them profit loss cost ....its fun to count this thing and very satisfying and ralxing watching such farming videos
I've never run a Massey but every other tractor I've ever seen has a way to keep the PTO on when you get off the seat. Usually it's another button near the PTO switch. There's plenty of PTO work where the tractor us unmanned.
I think after 2022 if you go to get a CDL at the DMV you can only get a automatic endorsement on or CDL. If you had one before that you are grandfathered in and can drive both automatic and standard transmission.
You mentioned not running self propelled mower conditioners. Why do you prefer pull type? We run a pull type as well and upgrading it or moving to a self propelled.
my dad had the weirdest career shift in his 50s... it kinda makes sense since he used to farm but he was like an engineer at the top of his game then all of us his kids graduates suddenly he got tired of the city life. leaves the city with mom and she was on board she got tired of the city too, and starts a farm life. all of us were confused cuz us their kids never grew up in a farm I mean both our gramps had one we like playing and staying there but farming was something that never clicked to us... but I like watching people work on it. but now I kinda dig it except I don't wanna dive into an industry I have no idea about and I'm already good at where I am.
That’s some thick hay. I baled some first cutting OG and I was going 1.8mph and was almost overloading the 575. Should have slowed 1.4mph. Made 118 bales/acre. 55# bales.
How does the size of the combined bales compare to what a Krone Big Pack baler would put out? Have you tried that kind of baler on a large baling operation like this?
Seems like their customers probably can't handle the big bales, and prefer the small ones. They can bundle and load them, and the customer can cut the bundles and handle the small bales.
Really makes a guy think. My old setup I was lucky to get 6-800 bales a day. Reliability was so bad about all the equipment I didn't dare cut more than I can bale a day for fear something would break down and I'd loose a bunch to rain. I so, so wanted to get modern equipment.
If you have 5 tractors and balers running, you are not as worried about break downs. How's does someone put about $850,000 of equipment on a hay field, plus string, fuel, oil and labor, and make any money on a bale of hay?
@@chickm14 There’s probably around $140,000 worth of hay put up this cutting. Approximately. They do many more acres to do with the same equipment. Having good soil helps with yields.
Silly, here in Europe (The Netherlands) the basics of learning to drive is with stick shift aka manual and automatic is optional for those who aren't able (well 'eh) to grab the basics it.. LOL
