HARVESTING HAY BALES 

The music is the engines at work 😁👍

I was once a square bale handler myself.

We put up about 40,000 bales a year all by hand. Made us strong $2.50 a hour.

@@jefferyashmore6477 Better pay than we had. Worked the summer during HS on family dairy farm. Maybe 50 bucks for summer back in early 1970s . Had to farm between milking cows but do remember putting up 12k bails of oat hay in a two week period . And wire bails at that. Didn’t kill anybody but sure was to tired for any fooling around lol

@@donaldmckie5960 you are tough people!! Would have lived to worked with you. We live in central Illinois had beef cattle. Worked on many baling crews.

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Our farm was in lynden wa. I do miss the haying!

We are an all New Holland farm when it comes to hay production. We raise 3 cuttings per year and bale around 60 acres both round and square bales. The main tractor for mowing and round baling is a New Holland T5-120. The discbine is a 7230 and the round baler is a 450 silage special. The 5070 square baler is ran by a New Holland 5060. The Tedder is a 3417 and the rakes are a 258 and 260. They are pulled by a New Holland 3430. All tractors are MFWD due to the hills we have in southwestern PA. If time allows and the weather forecast isn’t pushing I bring out my 1954 Super H to stretch its legs and do some raking. Great video !!

@@davemyers2615 Are you still working on that farm now?

@@tony98discovery Yes. 6th generation

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Just swapped 2 older 5 series tractors for a 5100E. Much more efficient.

mieten ibIBM - 😢

We did all the picking/stacking by hand when I was a young man. We finally got a "pop up". Bolted to the side of our flatbed truck, ground driven, would grab the bale and lift it to about chest high. Thought we died and went to heaven.

It’s goofy is what it is. They got three tractors tied up doing a job that a single smaller tractor could do faster with a better baler.

​@@colamity_5000 Yes, but that was clearly explained in the video 💰 Feel free though to purchase this farm a 3038E and an s200 if it bothers you so much 😂

My first job at the age of 12 was stacking hay from rack wagons filled by John Deere 346 baler with a kicker. I asked the farmer if he ever thought about getting an automatic bale wagon. He said if I got one of those you would be out of a job 😁

Same for me. I was the swather operator, rake operator, baler operator, and hay hauler. I’d bale the alfalfa hay from about 2am till 8am when the sun came up over the mountains. And I’d spend the heat of the day hauling hay by hand and stacking it in huge stacks to be sold throughout the year. 100 acres of hay was my job and my FFA project for 5 years during the 70’s. I did lots of custom hay work as well. It helped to pay for college. I miss farming and cattle but it just wasn’t a tenable career for me.

My first job was unloading and sticking hay from kick bale wagons filled by a John Deere 346 kick baler. I enjoyed every minute of it.

You mean balers

I rase hay I run a John deer 336 square baler a Heston 530 round baler and a new Holland 850 round baler

@@dylanhockaday9878... You mean raise

@@bigtractorpower تق🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶

Have you raised cattle before?

Ice cold milk right from the bulk tank at the barn 🥛😋

we removed the ties and threw them onto the nearest windrow

The silver pill Bell wagon is one of my favorite farm machines. They are really need to watch.

Do you still live on that cattle ranch now?

@@tony98discovery I live on a 600 acre farm now... I had 200 head of cattle for years and now I'm down to 60..

A 2355 is a good sized baling tractor. 👍👍

Generally, with 36” bales such as these, you should tie a bale every 12 hits of the plunger. The combination of travel speed and windrow weight should produce about a 3” compression slice. I counted on average 20 plunges per bale here, they could go almost twice as fast as they are here.

Are there any of them left anymore

You couldn’t find enough high school boys, that want to work , to make a hay crew.

@@kennethheern4896 maybe they sure can find illegals though

Make round bales now and ensilage

They definitely have lots of functions to watch. I would be nervous backing up to the stack and unloading.

@@bigtractorpower My boss warned me to be careful to make sure the push-off feet were retracted before lowering the bed, or it would bend them straight up, LOL. I never forgot.

Absolutely correct my friend. I used to stack 4000 bales a day back in 1968.

Thank you for sharing. How do you put up your bales in the field? Where I grew up in NY kick bakers were very popular for filling wagons until the 90’s when most farms switched to New Holland 1069s like the ones in this video.

Have you lived on a farm before?

YES, why?

Thank you for watching. Growing up in WNY this was a common sight. If you have allot of hay to cover several times a year at 1.4 mph it’s nice to have a comfortable ride. You are looking at $200,000 for a tractor that would be in the pto range to just run a baler. To me it makes sense to maximize 10 to 20 year old tractors that are paid for and can run in every season.

Just because I gotta say it... We ran a 766 on a New Holland 320 baler with a kicker wagon, faster than those green machines 😁😁 and because I'm a fair person we mostly used our 1066 black stripe but Red power just hits different no matter the numbers 😁😎

@@bigtractorpower 1.4 mph is really slow, why do they operate at such a low speed? I was thinking it had to do with the pickup head getting plugged from material being forcefully jammed into it at higher ground speeds, so by operating at this really slow speed, plugging up the baler is a non-issue, saving you from having to shut the baler down, getting out of the tractor, manually shoveling out the excess material causing the blockage with a pitchfork, getting back in the tractor seat, restarting the baler, then stopping it again and repeating the process if the blockage is still there and not fully cleared out all the way. I know on the larger square balers that make much bigger (and significantly heavier) square bales, there’s two options for busting blockages in the system, either hydraulically dropping the floor with a pair of large hydraulic cylinders and the blockage falls out via gravity, or forcing the pickup head to temporarily run backwards to spit the blockage back out the way it tried to go in.

@@countryboyakmc we had a 786 and a 4010 on new holland balers. Did fine in all conditions. I wonder when they’ll reach a $200,000 price tag!??😜😬😬🤣 Im

@@noahater5785 I'm biased but I can say we baled circles around our neighbor who had a John Deere. The Deere's made a better looking bale but didn't touch the speed of our New Hollands. My grandfather used to work on all brands of knotters back in the day and said it all had to do with the feed style.

I have seen the pyramid stacks in all over early the early 80’s in Ontario. New Holland bale wagons make square bales easy. I hope to film a pull type one this year.

They are one of my all time favorite farm Machines.

DEF delete on the newer tractor...keeping them at near idle they don't use much diesel... premium creature comforts. I totally get why they don't buy 3 5M-Series tractors when they still need the +200hp.

@@tf7274 thanks for the response. I get that point, but it still doesn't account for the depreciation and higher cost of repairs (and still more fuel, even if not as much as will older engines). I've seen a depreciation of about $20/hours for those tractors, so depending on how many hours you use them for lighter tasks, the extra cost may be significant. Just wondering if anyone has done the calculation (I imagine who runs that operation has) .

@@gggbon doubt depreciation is a huge factor, that new holland bale stacked is from the 70s, and the 8130 is somewhere around 2005-2009. So at this point they’re likely high hours either way.

He’s talking about the depreciation on the fancy high horsepower tractors not the old bale wagons. Not depreciation from a tax stand point, depreciation as the actual value that’s the tractors are losing from the added hours

It helps to be smooth when you are running at 5-7 mph picking up hay. That way you are not bumping around in the cab.

Thank you for watching. It’s a neat harvesting process.

@@bigtractorpower oh yes awesome process

They are neat machines 👍👍

Thank you for watching.

They are one of my favorite farm machines.

@@bigtractorpower looks like it’d be fun to drive it.

Not everyboy today knows how to keep the twister assemblies adjusted on John Deere. I grew up on Dad's three.

@@Snowtruckdriver It's unfortunate that so few know how to adjust twisters & knotters. There really isn't much to them. I think it's the assumed complexity that makes it difficult for some & lack of time or concern for others. Worn parts & poor adjustment can make any baler look bad & they are quite easy to keep after. Regards!

They are proven and long lasting. .

They are my favorite farm machine of all time.

I had a N.H. 1034 pull type Stackliner that also could retrieve the stack from the hay shed. Sure is handy to transport the stack to the barn in winter time.

They are one of my all time favorite farm machines.

Thank you for watching.

We pulled wagon behind baler with 2 hands on it. 1000 to 1500 bales a day. Usually 1000. 1 tractor cut and same tractor raked. 3rd tractor pulled racks to barn.

Capacity? I'm certainly not expert and most folk posting comments here are vastly more experienced than me, but that sure seems like those guys have a big, heavy crop of hay. I grew up on an average-to-small-sized farm in the Midwest and if we ever had a hay crop that good I don't remember it. We planted our most productive fields in cash crops like wheat or soybeans with some in corn for feed, while a few small hill-side acres of not-so-good clay soil were used for hay. Look how big those windrows are going into the baler and how fast the baler is spiting out bales, and how close they are in the field.

@@dB-hy6lh Agreed. Those are enormous windrows of material and it's a grass mix to boot which is a harder crop to process.

Thank you for watching. Always great to have viewers in Australia. 😁👍

an old farmall could do the job😛

The best music is the sound of a diesel engine at work.