i dont understand why i find this so enjoyable to watch i dont farm i havent ever farmed i know a fair bit about it though but its just enjoyable to watch this and i cant figure out what exactly about it lol. Thanks for the great videos to entertain me and educate me and sharing your journey. Hope it continues to go well for you!
I think it’s because he’s loving it. He’s full of hope and not being really negative. He’s a young guy giving it a go and has passion for his land. Also he’s using small older equipment which has a very quaint and innocent feel to them. Out with nature and the elements. Not the huge new tractors that would do that in about 20 minutes.
@@Memalario69 Oats is mainly a cover crop to help the alfalfa grow. It depends on how good the oats are if they look like they are going to be good yielding you could combine them. However, if they don't look the best it's a better idea to put it up for hay. Sometimes it doesn't matter how good they look people will still put it up for hay because it's less work.
very good video, I run a 16000 acre cattle station in Australia and these videos have helped me transform 100 of those acres into small scale hay farming. keep it up!
Great video. The 4020s are great hay tractors. Tips from us baling all these years. Look to get a discbine. The disc will mow anything and not plug and get rubber rolls that will break the stems and make it dry faster. Stay away from mowers that have impellers they have always been problems for us. Also if your looking at different rakes we ran a wheel rake for years but have since switched to a rotary rake and it does a way nice job for making a fluffy windrow that will help dry. Keep it up the hard work. Baling season is always my favorite season
I live on a coffee farm in California and Your videos are entertaining to me because I’ve never experienced that type of farming and it’s fascinating to me.
Nice to see a young guy interested in farming. I'm retired now from a work accident and 81, Did a lot of baling I personally like using a swather conditioner to mow with making small squares I would have an accumulator,grapple loader and anything else to cut down on handling..
Without good neighbours farming can be difficult for a single person. We borrow equipment from neighboring farms and they borrow ours when needed to it saves the season when someone has something that you have broken and no time to fix it
I like watching you guys get it done with the equipment you have at hand. Some other channels, which are also entertaining, use millions of dollars worth of gear. This channel gives an alternative perspective.
I'm new at learning farming and have learned a good bit from watching your videos, from my friend, and playing a ton of farm sim and I would like to say I have a lot of respect for what yall do and I always enjoy watching.
This is my first favorite season of the year I love to bale hay and my first favorite thing about farming it when we chop corn I love your vids keep it up great video
Wonderful video, great to see the support you all give each other. Watching the fellers on the trailer stack bails reminded me of my younger years, I used to do that for some extra $$. The only difference was back then the bails were on the ground and we had to run along pick em up and heave them up to someone on the trailer or truck. I still remember the first time, I had sore muscles that I didn’t even know I had! 😅
The truck came back hallelujah. Your knee is better Your happy and fit grant and Josie were helping with everything. All is well. My prayers were heard.
Great to see you have wonderful neighbors to assist with your hay harvest. You might like to consider a hay conditioner, it will assist with the dry down of your hay.
It's definitely a great idea to re-seed the 2 fields with more seed and next yr first cut you should triple your bale count. Disc binds are awesome to cut with and will cut anything in its path and your baler is still worth every penny you payed for it hope your knee is getting better it's hard to get around and do stuff when you are down and out
It’s great to see you guys got another 4020! I would definitely look into an upgrading your mower and rake for next year in my opinion! Kind of like the ones you guys got to borrow from the neighbors!
I really like watching your videos it’s always nice to see how farming in other parts of the world works. I hope your leg will be good soon! Greetings from Germany.
We ran a 10ft disc mower on a 4020 powershift very comfortably. Krone 323s was a tough built mower, they’re relatively affordable for a mower. Krone also makes the toughest built tedder on the market. If you consider buying a rake, I’d really recommend a Kuhn speed rake, we have a 108 8wheel now and it does great work with plenty of room for adjustments. Great video!
I know you would like that mower lol. It's nice for thick place. And they're affordable. Same with them high carts wheel rakes. Really helps speed up the process.
Spencer, great to hear that your knee is recovering after surgery. For next year, get yourself a discmower and for hay, you need a little more time to dry down in most cases.
You should buy one of them disc mowers! Better quality, if u hit a rock or a stump it would be less damage than on the mower you have right now. We have krone mowers and as I said, there good quality. The only thing about them is that there heavy... But reliable. Anyways good video! Keep doing this kind of content!
Your brother's 4020 looked like a boss out there in those fields and that 235 mower was way better than the bar mower. Keep making the awesome content.
This can be a sustainable and profitable venture, especially with your relationship with neighbors (they probably give you some great beef products in return for the hay). Would running some of their livestock on your land for a week or so just to reenergize the soil with nutrients be beneficial? Or are the cover/nurse crops enough to keep the soil healthy? This whole rengenerative farming thing is kinda new to me.
Great skyline shot right there at the end, makes me really hate my office lol. Also, i have a huge man crush on JD4955s like your neighbor had for round bailing. Cant explain it, I just love that effin tractor.
Awesome, need a Hilbert brother equipment tour some time. Also seeing that disk mower in action, John deere use to have Kuhn build there disk mower so if your ever looking for one, keep that in mind.
I was surprised when I heard grant got a new tractor and hasn’t made a video on it yet I thought he did before you said something but a still surprised
Invest in a side pull haybine in the future, it will help alot easier than a sickle mower on some of spots it was having a hard time, I recommend a JD 1209 and you don't need alot of horsepower cause my uncle ran one on his 4020.
Great baler, it will last many years. Keep those knotters clean, greased, and out of weather. End of season, unload bale chamber. Count number of turns to relieve spring pressure and write it on the cross bar with paint pen.
We put up some oats for hay every year in south central Nebraska. Oats are usually best when they are cut as soon as the seed itself can be squeezed and a milk like liquid comes out. We have found that then it is the best hay.
Get a haybine,, crimping alfalfa is important. Raking over and over will not help it dry. The knotters on your baler need new knives. You actually found the secret...get your neighbor to do it. Good luck, best regards from Indiana.
You need a crimper of sorts if your sticking to sickle mowing. We use to sickle mow and took forever to dry our grass down to rake and bale. I use to get so frustrated over it. One day i found an old crappy haybine for $500. Put $300 into it with sections, rockguards, oil and pto bearing and been doing it that way ever since. What use to take 7 days to dry down, im now down to 3 days. Oh and we got a tedder which helps even more. Keep going, it lets me know im not the only crazy one out their playing with hay and its one hell of a learning curve.
Try to find a used hay conditioner in good shape. It will save you a lot of time and headache. Helps with drying the hay quicker and puts it into easily rakeable rows. And for balers get one that can apply acid to the hay. You can bale at higher moisture content and the acid will preaerve the hay and keep it green and mold free even with the higher moisture content.
I really enjoy your videos explaining how to farm corn and hay and the economics. How many acres do you need to operate a farm that actually earns a cash profit and could be a family's livelihood? Is 100 tillable acres enough? I see people operating small "farms" but they are really a combination of hay, farmers market sweet corn, selling firewood, brush cutting jobs, etc. and not producing a cash income.
The squad and spencer tv!!! Man i havent seen you guys in years, growing up i watched both your channels! Back in the good old days of the squad, spencer tv and gorilla man!! Kind of back in the day now for me!😅 Its so cool seeing you guys go from playing farming simulator, to farming in real life! Good for you guys!! This is awesome!!! I wish you all the luck brother!!👍 So cool how your video popped up after watching welker farms harvest! Take care, godbless!!!
I grew up on a dairy farm and baled 1,000's of square bales. Dad always said, don't be in a hury while baling. The machine was designed to run at a certain RPM and produce bales at that rate. Go slower and the break downs go away. We used the same baler😄
Those 6.0 duallys are made to be farm trucks we used ours which is like yours but a king ranch and we hauled 26 round bales 18 hours from northeast Florida to central Texas only problem we had was a tire catching on fire but luckily we put it out and got a new tire put on the gooseneck was a long trip
The value of good neighbors in beyond valuing. Grant: figure out how to integrate that into your video game, lol. Spencer: I don't think there's any tougher crop to farm than forage... or more satisfying. One thing you'll learn to appreciate, you can't push hay.
What would really help you is a mowing conditioner haybines work great and they really help you get those stems dry, not to mention they are cheap since nobody wants them anymore
Spencer I Don’t care what your gunna buy next buy a 8312 case IH discbine you need to crunch the stem to help they hay dry and find one in good condition they are also easy To find parts for
I know it will cost more but if you were able to find like a 12’-14’ hydroswing swather with a conditioner, it would help to dry the hay out a lot and still be small enough to run off of the 4020.
