And so the end of the farming year makes way to another one, nearly. Hope it's been a good year, Tom, Mrs Tom and team. All the best for the next farming year (once the harvest is in obvs).
What a fantastic video, Tom was great watching to watch it. It takes me back a few years, especially with the flat 8 system. Just watching this brings back the sm3ll of the harvest and long hours, but great times first class to you
Like it. I now see that that big square bailer makes big square bails. The ones I remember are those much smaller ones that the small basiler made and were grouped into the small stacks with the front loader. All great to see. Thanks for making and sharing!!
Thanks Tom for this epic video! We in Switzerland already harvested our main crops. (w. w. ,s. b. and canola) At the excat moment that I'm this coment, I'm sitting on our MF 5S tractor drilling canola for next year...! Isn't that amazing that I can watch your videos, a I'm sitting on a MF tractor aswell? Thanks to GPS I only need to realy pay attention while turning on the headland! Greetings from Wyssachen, canton bern Switzerland.
From what I've heard, squares are more space efficient for transporting and storing undercover. They can also be broken up into small "biscuits" to feed out little bits at a time, which is much harder with round bales. Round bales can cope with being stored outside in the rain better due to the orientation of the stalks effectively forming a thatched roof. Square bales leave the end of stalks exposed and allow water to get in more easily. One way around this I have seen is to stack many square bales into a wall then place a plastic sheet / dome on top to move the water away. Round balers often use net wrap instead of baling twine and knotters, which makes them significantly simpler mechanically. I hear the net wrap also helps somewhat with waterproofing, but twine is much easier to repurpose later on :). The big factor is what equipment is available to make, transport, store and dispense the bails (baler, size of tractor and forks relative to the bales, shape and design of hay rings,size of herd and amount to feed out at once). If we are making our own hay then we tend to do round bales as that is what the equipment we have can do, whilst the neighbours making hay to sell tend to make large square bales. Small square bales tend to be higher quality stuff for situations and people looking after a small number of animals at a time (a sick cow in a yard or a hobby farmer with only a couple of animals for example).
First class video young man! That was like a professionally produced advertisement absolutely superb well done whoever put the work into filming and producing that video. And to be fair, I cannot stand music in videos, but I watched the whole lot.
Just got in from cutting my lawn and I sit down and watch this. Boy I am jealous, you get to play with some seriously big toys. Thanks for sharing, I am off to get a bigger mower. .
Wish our barley was coming off this early. We've got pheasants that are just starting to get a bit wandery and the barley up our way won't be off until well into September. ...Dogging-in is gonna be a nightmare.
Epic video. Thank you for sharing it with us. Be interested to hear how do you stay connected on the technology. Some very nice machines... amazing productivity.
Great video Tom. Are you giving your combines a rest? I hope you got my reply about the oil pump systems for the workshop. Fingers crossed the weather stays good for any field work Tom.
Hey man, great vid, lovely shots. How do you decide to harvest /plant? Is there a pattern per field? Do you start one bit then base the rest around that? Do you coordinate much with the second harvester? Clarkson's farm and you i have so many questions!
Great video tom. Here's a question though. Why can't you tow the bailer directly behind the combine? Seems like you'd save a man and a machine that way. Originally I thought it was because you need a few days in between to dry or something, but here you're doing both tasks simultaneously
@Tomlamb980 so could you run like a train? Combine towing the bailer directly behind? Maybe even have that stacker/organiser trailer directly behind it too.
Another wonderful video thank you. Quick question, how does it work with the combine harvesters, do you own your own, or do you hire in from other farmers or from a company?
Is that a Ron Knight made bale sledge Tom.. back in the 1960’s he made some similar to the cooks sledge which stacked the eight bales two high. (4x2). Great fleet of MF equipment. Where’s the two Fergie combines?
@@Tomlamb980 that’s what I asked. Did Ron make the bale sledge. It doesn’t surprise me that you have one he made. I think every farmer in the area will have had one off him at some point in time. What other bits have you got that he made. ?
think we could get a video that features the plough? why does it need turning either end of the field? plough vs subsoiler vs cultivator? dont really know the difference
The plough turns so that the furrows are all in the same direction. One side turns the furrows to the left, the other to the right. When you turn the tractor you need to turn the plough too so that all the furrows roll in the same direction.
Great drone footage ! (Again !) Lots of cutting, combining, baling here too down in Dorset - sun and no rain for once, 29C, means a small window (between 11:43am and 11:45am 😊) for decent moisture content for the grain. We have possibility of thunderstorms forecast late Wednesday or Thursday so the boys and girls of the land are under pressure. I wish them all well and work safely.
