Baling Hay bales without a tractor or any equipment! 

Very cool. The box idea is the simplest idea I've seen.

LMAO!!! YEA SHES A KEEPER

Yes and hard work

nice! I hope to get to the point where a small tractor and bailer will be necessary, we have alot of work clearing and planting new pastures first, in the meantime this is great for a goat or two.

Fermer taguel couchon

Handy Keppy Plus generally hay cutting equipment use a one cut sicial bar style cutter. A lawn mower makes many cuts basicly destroying most the moisture content. Live stock need a certain moisture continue from the vegetation for digestion.

+Jason Buis They ALSO NEED PROTEIN as in leaves lol

I like it... Vacuum packed...

The cardboard box is great idea.

spence spencer I see what you did there.

@GlennSan check out Empacadoro manual de heyno it's a video where two kids make two really nice bales in under 3 minutes with a manual baler. Their system really works well and they had it down to a science. I've also seen people mount that style on wheels so they can move them around the field but if you have a landscape trailer or something like that you could haul it and your bales on that and just pull it with a car, truck, minivan, atv, or lawn tractor.

Agreed, very cool.

Dustin Huser Modern machines are the ingenuity. This is how it was done before the machines were invented.

I also agree, this is alot of work!

overtoke ,and the only thing you do is run your mouth.

overtoke tosser

Try cutting the grass, because mowing destroys the fibers și hay from mowed lowns și hot have șo much nutrițional value

Bill Rayvan yes she is working hard. I made homemade hay bales without machines and it is alot of work to make hay bales without machines.

possibly, im not sure though, I believe they spray the haylage with some sort of preservative before putting it into the 'bags'. I can ask around.

The preservative is sprayed on as the hay enters the baler during pickup. It was/is mostly used on high dollar forage, like alfalfa, to prevent it from molding and/or rotting, and enables the producer to bale the crop without it being fully dry/cured (20% + moisture content, I think). Better enables you to get it in the string quicker without damaging exposure to rain, compacts tighter with no mold problems, and requires no further "processing" (wrapping)--just dry storage. Haylage is basically fermentation of the crop, just like silage, hence the name. You can use a much higher moisture content hay (about 40%+, IIRC), and process the hay very soon after cutting. The only things: the tighter packed the better, and absolute air tightness in the wrapping is critical. Any air that gets to it will cause rot. Dead packing in storage helps with the process, also. DO NOT use rain damaged hay -- first quality is best. (Also, it would be better to "clip" the grass rather than mowing with a lawn mower, as the mower chops up the grass and allows nutrient leaching. But, with haylage, at least it won't have to lay out so long, which will reduce the opportunity to leach out. But either way, go with what ya got, if that's all ya got.) I experimented with my sweet corn stalks after harvesting the corn. After baling, which, with conventional square balers is really hard to do (not so in your case), I put each bale, nine I think it was, into plastic bags, tightly secured, and dead pack stacked it in my basement. I fed it a little early because of the heat it was generating -- I got a little scared -- so it was not fully ensiled. It was so hot, when I fed it, the cows had to wait a bit for it to cool enough to be eaten. They absolutely loved it and cleaned up every bit. The higher the sugar content of the forage, the more heat will be generated in the ensiling process. All grasses have some, but some more than others. But all are made more palatable for the livestock. Some say more nutritious, too, but not really sure how, if true. If you can't "pack" it while baling, stack it on itself as much as possible in the barn and throw a sheet of plywood over it and some weight on that--while it ensiles. If you want to experiment first, just use one bale, and weight the dickens out of it for best results. Thanks again for the video, and for the response. You seem to be much like myself: always looking for a different way of doing things and always experimenting. Keep up the good work. Your successes will always win out over any not so successful endeavors. And you'll never learn what works and what doesn't work unless you do a little experimenting. That said, I think you've hit upon a winner here.

very cool, thanks for the info!

Tab Lature Thanks so much for all your excellent info. It was really useful thank you.

And a pretty cute little chick.

@Hammerschlägen M Can you go fuck yourself or do you need help with that like you do opening a pickle jar ?

our favorite part as well

Always looking for copyright free music if you have anything recorded!

Ain't any need to try to bale it. Just stack it up. Rabbits won't know the difference and its easier on you

Thanks, and hello!

Nikki BonBon Es bebi!

We do agree, and are looking at picking up a sythe in the spring at one of the auctions around, bailing hay without any equipment round 2 hopefully coming this summer!

BALING please!

A string trimmer works good too.

Good idea, you go scythe 100acres lol

Seguin Farms

Thank you, I will soon

Good Day Far in the future of our barbados not the

Barbados nation