Cutting the Hay Field for the First Time. But I got hurt afterwards. 

We're getting quite a kick out of watching you use the type of equipment we used 60yrs ago. Never imagined in my wildest dreams I see drone footage of old time haying. Cheers =^··^=

Well done on showing the reality of a farming life. Most 'city slickers' just don't realise that regardless of how poorly you may be feeling, the farm life goes on - animals must be fed and cared for, chores must be done and next season prepared for by making hay, tending gardens etc. Hang in there Evan - you are an inspiration!

Sorry you are hurt. That is a perfect stand of alfalfa. Don't hesitate to call your neighbor for help. Ask him and your friends and neighbors who you can call to put your hay and haul it for you if necessary. They might do it on shares? You are hurt don't make it worse. Tomorrow start getting your help lined out, don't wait until the last minute because they need time to make their plans. That is very good hay you don't want to waste it if it gets wet.

Really fine people have extended a helping hand. Don’t be a hardhead take the helping hand with gratitude. You can always pay it forward. I really enjoy your channel and wish you success.

If I lived close I would be there to help do what ever you needed...68 years old but hard work is what I like I wished I was closer I would be there every day as long as you needed...you are a good person and a hard worker

Prayers for you. I am retired but was raised on a working farm/ ranch. If it would help I can come down and take your hay so it can dry. We live just up the road from you.

Sorry to see your not good, hope you heal quickly, and take up the offer of help from your retired neighbour its what good people do for each other in need, God Bless.

Back pain is one of the worst pains. Here’s wishing you a speedy recovery so you can finish the hay. Thanks for sharing.

Disc mowers are the answer. Beautiful crop of grass

Sorry about your injury, back pain is the WORST. I hope you feel better soon. The hay does look wonderful! I have faith someone will help you get it turned and baled and put away.

I’m so sorry you were injured. You did a great job despite the circumstances. 👍👍👍🌟

When you rake, pick the straightest/longest side and start doing rows, then do the “headlands” last in circles. This keeps you from running over windrows when turning around, and baling rows is better than circles.

Praying for a fast recovery for you and that God will send the right people to help you with all the work during your recovery! Amen!

great grass cutting, the last adjustment you made solved the hang-up problem, now you have to wait for it to dry & rake then bale, eazzy-pezzy.

The Hay looks Lush. Beautiful.

I hope you heal quickly evan.

Sorry you hurt your back. Hope it get better but I know Rebecca will take good care of you. Take it easy until you feel better. The hay will be 👌 until you can finish. Here’s wishing you a speedy recovery. Take care.

so sorry you are hurt,hope you heal quickly

Really sorry u was hurt I am praying for u and family God bless u all

I could see the pain in your eyes I really hope it starts feeling better soon.

I hope God blesses you with healing

Wishing you a speedy recovery

You learn as you go😎

Very hard work with a great patience

Wow speedy recovery don't beat yourself you live & learn 👍

Rest and get better soon!

I hope you have a speedy recovery

This is when you call the family to come and help you. That's what farming is all about.

Love to see Rebecca learn how to bale hay - your star helper would be entertaining.

Looks great for a first timer.

I have roughly 100 hours of mowing experience, from what I have learnt is that you want to start with your tractor on the edge of the field and the mower in the field, mow the whole field and do the furthest headland last because there is going to be the most rocks and sticks in closest to the trees that can damage the mower so badly that you could spend all day repairing the mower and not be able to cut it all in the day.

Get well and take it easy praying for you

actually amazing to watch. looks great

Sorry for your trouble. Pulling for you folks.

The smell of fresh cut hay MMMMMMMM !!!!

Be well Evan🌹

My dad was a farmer. He got hurt bad once...run over by his tractor. Survived with a broken collar bone, little pinky broken, and tire tracks up his back. A few days in the hospital and he was back doing chores on the farm! Farming can be dangerous. God bless and keep you.

Get well soon!

ICE!! Apply ice, 15 min. on, 15 min off. When I fell and hurt my back the ER Doc said to apply heat, I did and if anything it got worse. When I saw my chiropractor he told me NO heat, do ICE. That's when it started to improve. NICE looking hay, by the way!

That’s awesome stand of hay

Welcome to the hazards of farm life ! I think when you get the mower "Fine Tuned" you will be able to mow lots faster. We used Farmall tractors to mow and always mowed in Foutth gear which depending on which tractor, was between 5 and 7 MPH. Best combination was A Farmall 400 in fourth gear at 7 MPH . You have a great looking hay crop. I just hope you can get help to get it bailed and stored. Good luck on thet back recuperation. Hope you don't have any permenant damage .

As a kid we had an IH 300 and the speed was dependent on how heavy the crop was but you ran the motor at PTO speed and normally 3 gear around 4 1/2 mph in a normal crop. Heavy materials you just slowed ground speed until you were cutting it all with out tear out. The bar needs to be pitched forward just a little and the lower you can cut the easier time you will have. The sweep on the end just needs to move the material in enough to clear room for the mower gearbox. The closer to the root of the plant the less it can lay over. Wore many a blister on my butt from those old seats in the hot Sun 😁 Enjoyed the content 👍👍. We all rush make mistakes only experience can teach some things. Be safe.

I hope your back gets feeling better.

Hope you feel better my family will pray for you.😎

I have cut a lot of hay with a sickle mower. The first pass around the field needs to be in a clockwise direction. That will give you an indication of what is in the field and where to run the tractor on the next pass. After getting the first pass finished, turn around and go counter clockwise to mow out your tracks, then turn back around and do the third and following passes.

Praying for you and a fast recovery. God Bless you Both.

Feel better soon. 👍

Awesome job with your equipment

Get well soon.

Sorry to see you got hurt..I could tell you were in pain. Take care.

Round up is the gift that keeps on giving. I saw another u tuber use horse manure that had been sitting for two or more years only to kill everything because the horses had eaten hay that had been contaminated and that nasty stuff survived digestion and sitting and killed his garden.

Welcome to farming, hope you have some good neighbors like we had growing up. In 2000. My little brother got killed on a motorcycle and the neighborhood came and cut and houses 15 acres of tobacco. It was a blessing 🙏. We tried to do the same when was needed. Good neighbors is hard to beat.. you'll figure everything out with your equipment. God speed

God Bless you i hope you feel better soon let some one help you you can always help them

Dad 2as bucked off a horse and broke his back. 7 surgeries through his life, but he still farmed.As he aged my brother and I did the farming. Instead of making those sharp turns and slowing down, cut past the end of the crop and do a circle or loop turn back to your left. Raise your bar to clear the cut hay. You make this loop at speed so make the loop big enough to manage the turn at speed. Come back into the uncut hay at speed with a clean bar. You will have even less clogging. No one says you have to fill the sickle. Take 3/4 or 1/2 swathes if you need to. Many of us smiled watching you run the machinery. We were doing this as kids. Thanks for a great video!

Praying for fast recovery!

Great video, I do love watching old time machinery working again

Farm accidents happen so easily Evan and that is why you should always have someone else around when using farm machinery. An injured back is a real downer for a farmer so you have my sincere sympathies. Hope it gets better soon. Don't let the hay lie unturned as it will rot and then it's a real bummer to get rid off. 👍👍👍

Speedy recovery!!

Great thing about the farming community is we are still communal and willing to help each other regardless of what's going on in the world. I'm in Texas, but if nobody is closer and can help out let me know!!

Hell of a first cut that Evan 👍

You have a beautiful farm

Hey Evan, I hope you have a speedy recovery. Back pain sucks and I would never wish it upon anyone. 2 herniated dics here and wouldn't want to go back to that kind of pain.

Evan, Just a thought, love to watch those grass/alfalfa fall in neat rows. Nothing like the "cut" an old sickle-bar mower gives! Your candor and humility (learning the job...) are refreshing! You may explore a "haybine" someday as they have an intake rake and a crimper behind which speeds curing. Enjoy your videos. Sorry 'bout yer back! (I know the feeling...)

If you start cutting so you are driving over your back swath you can watch for objects in the back swath. We make 3-4 passes around then go back to cut the back swath. The back swath is almost always the worse grass to cut because of sticks and over hanging branches.

Beautiful stand of hay. Hope your better

get well soon

So sorry...hope you feel better. Maybe someone near you can help out. Good luck🍀

I hope you get feeling better

Sorry to hear about your fall.

Sorry to hear about your accident Evan. Godspeed on your recovery.

I hurt my back in april using a tiller in hard ground. suffered for a few weeks but better now. I am 78 years old and still try to do things my way....lol. Evan, you may need Rebecca to take a crash course in tractor driving. I know she can do it.

Great drone filming

Yeaa. Love your vids Evan. Keep up the good work.

Back pain is the worst. I could tell you were uncomfortable. I wish you the best and so wish I was closer to help you out. Take care.

Awesome work

You got it figured out good job good video also

Well done you can be very proud of your first time that’s wonderful looking hay 👍🇬🇧💐🎉👍

DLH farms is a hay farmer amongst other things. Good channel for info....

Praying for you and hope you have a fast recovery. Ask for help.....

Get well soon. Rest up and let your friends and neighbors pitch in and help. ❤️🌸

You have done a great job, sickle mowers make hard work of hay making, save your money and get a haybine ,took me a few years to get a haybine, was the best thing i ever did.

I've cut thousands of acres of hay in my life, when you start a new piece go clock wise like that if there's anything in the grass along the trees the tractor will run over it, also if you hit something on the outside pass and break something the rest of your hay is already cut

Those mowers work better after the rust gets wore off. When finished oil the sickle bar with old motor oil to keep rust at bay.

Hey I'm very sorry to hear about your injury, I have degenerative disc disease so I understand the agony of back pain. Three acres of hay is not worth risking further injury to your back. I will be praying for you and your fast recovery. If it's any consolation you did a great job the hey looks great, Jimmy

when you set the mower on the back of your tractor go to the left hand side an look along the cutter bar , the far end of the bar needs to be forward , see if theres an adjustment to pull the whole bar fowards so the far end cuts 1st , or it runs ahead , if its square with the tractor it will make it hard work for the machine , we used to use horse drawn mowers in Guernsey & if the tip of the knife wasnt forward a touch is really was hard work , an when i had to sit on the back if it jammed it would chuck you of the seat !!! have fun , love your videos , regards to you

don't you just love it when a plan comes together. bush hogging and mowing hay was my favorite farm job .

Oh Bud, Back pain is no fun, I been living with it for over 10 years. Hopefully you just bruised and are going to heal real fast. Hopefully you have some friends that will step up and get your hay taken care of. Thank you for sharing your adventures with us.

Hope you're feeling better

Hi Evan sorry to hear u hurt yourself. Wishing you a speedy recovery. Would love to help u but I’m a bit far away here in Ireland 🇮🇪 From what I remember when using the sickle mower . The First pass the tractor is next to the hedge then make the hedge row ur last so u don’t damage your mower on branches. We cut the first few rows around the headlands and then straight line up and down the longest stretch of the field makes it easier for everything turning afterwards. If u have to do corners go straight of the end lifting the mower and drive a loop to left and come back around straight to the hay dropping it before cutting. That goes for lawnmowers too 😁. Also we had a wood board on the end of the mower for hay cutting ? Urs might be different. It was to throw the hay out of the way for the next pass .To unblock the mowers just lift it up while reversing keeping the mower running. Most times it would shake the hay off the bar .Hope some of the above helps 🤗 . Best of luck with ur hay making and ur farm life . Loved mine ! Ps enjoying ur channel and video/drone footage.

Wishing you a speedy recovery! If you want perfectly squared bails let Rebecca do the raking and bailing. Women can do anything a man can do.

Hope you feel better soon. If we weren’t half way cross the country from ya we would lend you a hand! It will all be good.

So so sorry,I am so happy you didn’t show us you getting hurt. I am praying for a fast recover for you. I am in Florida not close to you,if I was I would do everything I could to help you . I will continue asking the Lord for your healing.God bless you and Rebecca .

Frustrating for you but beautiful for those of us who envy the farming life.

Praying for you

Time for Rebecca to learn to bale hay' She can do it . All my female cousins did.

I love that you are pretty much wingin it. It really motivating. God Bless!

i am retired but still raise 20a of alfalfa/grass hay for a few cattle, and i now have my hay custom cut and baled in round bales. However, when i was a lot younger, i cut my hay with a 7 foot sickle NH mower, and later on used a 9 foot NH sickle mower. I baled square bales back then, with my late wife as the tractor/baler operator, with me stacking bales on the hay wagon following the baler. Anyway, always be sure to have sharp sickle blades, and if possible, remove the sickle blade bar after cutting, and keep the blade bar oiled and under cover until you need it for the next cutting. Also try to keep the mower bar clean and paint any exposed metal. I always enjoyed cutting, raking and baling hay with small square bales when i was young, but now all i can do is watch someone else cut my hay with a self propelled rotary mower conditioner, which cuts the field so very fast, compared to my old sickle mowers, and bale my hay into large round bales. Thank God i am still able to feed my cattle with the round bales. When i was in high school, late 60's early 70's, i worked for my farmer neighbors during the summer helping them to bale their hay, all square back then, no big round that i knew of yet. Watching your videos of you cutting your hay with a sickle mower, and raking and then baling your hay into small square bales, brought back many fond memories of my cutting and baling days, so thank you

Poor Guy. Hope you get better soon.

Looks like your first cut was pretty successful given it was all new to you. Sorry to hear about your fall. Hope you can get to raking and bailing in spite of your pain. Remember that your health is more important than the hay.

nice-looking crop