How Us Poor People Move Hay Without A Tractor! 

You may not be rich is $$$, I'll have to take you at your word but you are rich in knowledge and personality. Keep up the bad work Brother D.

Improvise, adapt, and overcome

I'm sure it helps that you're build like a darn linebacker.

Smart man! And here I was hooking up a trailer and rolling them up on it... I get tractor envy from time to time, but I prefer getting out of debt. 😉

Very cool idea for us mortals without tractors.

I just get the wife and kids to help push! HA!

Once the hay has been sitting there for a while and it gets flat on the bottom sure makes it harder to roll out doesn't it. We have use a long rope looped around the hay tied to a tractor or you can use the bumper of the truck to pull it out. You know the old saying Where there will there a way. I like the way you think.

Great idea. Doesn't have to be fancy to work!

Before I got my bale spear, I used to throw a rope over the bale and tie a hay hook on the end and jab it in down low on the backside of the bale so when I'd pull away with the tractor it would roll the bale out of the rut. I'm not a he-man like you with muscles. LOL. The rest was done with smoke and mirrors, but having a bale spear is so much easier.

Way to go Dutch...You just invented the Truck Tractor ;-)

I just watched the video of your bale mover prototype from a couple years before this video and I just wanted to say THANK YOU for sharing your ideas. I can’t afford a tractor, but I also can’t afford enough small bales to keep my horses fed. This is a game changer and I think I’m going to get a panel right now!

Farm truck, work truck, family truck....same thing...for us "po folk!"

That's genius, using what you got to get the job done!! 😉

Creative! Keeping things simple!!!❤️❤️❤️

Interesting. Hadn't thought to use a cattle panel as a sled. How are you attaching the sled to the hitch? Chain, rope, etc? Any kind of bracing or anything as the pressure I would think would pull apart the cattle panel welds.

Shoot Yeah, adapt and overcome! You'll get that tractor soon.

You certainly don't seem " poor" to me, congrats excellent video, i appreciate learning about farming life.

Good idea! Consider it used at my ranch! I will be dragging hay rounds all over my property now! Thanks!

You are fabulous!!! I have 2 old hay rounds in my pasture that I have been wanting to remove without a tractor. They are falling apart and making one heck of a mess in my field and now using your method and my truck I will be able to move them out of my pasture and out into the woods to rot all they want. Thank you so much

Great idea.....have an awesome day. 👍👍👍👍

Like to see in daylight please. How long does round last for how many sheep? Can it get wet? Rainy season is here. From Washington.

I just came across thuis amazing video. This is what I need to also do. You said these round bales are smaller than usual What is the size? Thank you!

So I do most of my barn chores. I’m still trying to figure out how to get my new hay ring in the round bale for the horses. 😉

Awesome video! Even a 5'4 woman can do this ;-)

No 🚜 use your 40ths plus 🚚 works great.

Brilliant simple but effective idea

Cool way to move a huge bale of hay. Sometimes you just have to improvise. :)

Whatever works! 💖

he cute. is he gay? single? i hope.

That is a great solution as a feeder! Good man!

That certainly looks like a lot easier way to move hay than it was when I was a kid. Summers I would work on a 150 head dairy. Bucking hay, setting irrigation pipe, and milking cows was tough work for a 105 pound kid :>

Dutch you have to mutch Hay Hay bayls.

Hey there bud that is very cool good job

I loved how it was making sheep sounds while you pulled it.....wait....what? :) I also loved the jumping sheep in the beginning - or was that a goat? Your videos are always such fun to watch!

lol I have baled (or better said rebaled) many a bale

Pretty slick

Good job Dutch

GREAT SUGGESTIONS!!

Love the natural sounds, so peaceful

Very clever! Thanks!

This was such a cool idea. Necessity is the mother of invention. 😃 I love this, I'll try it myself. Good job Dutch.

Dude, awesome tips!

Genius!!!

It's not always depending on brute strength and strong of body but using your brain skills that works For many years I moved around commercial refrigeration equipment by myself many times amazing others of how I could do it and really it was simple

What about pushing a long pipe/bar through the center... Then attach ropes or chains to the ends... And using a 4-wheeler or your truck to pull-roll it out to where you need it? Just a thought :)

Anything that gets it done!

Lambo was doing a sweet jump! He knew it would make YT!

I know the feeling of no tractor... My wife and I have the big rolls. we roll one out from the stack and turn it over on a pallet. then cut the strapping 1/3 down. pull off what's needed for our horses and tarp...saves a lot compared to bales. if I had a tractor I could put the roll in the corral with a feed ring... Maybe next year...lol

Simple and effective

Looked like you where mowing your grass and what about making a tiller with it. LOL🙀👍🏼

Poor people lol your so funny 😱 great idea you have there Dutch lol. 😃 works great .

Just saw this cause I never needed to move a round bale of hay before. Now I own 7 acres of land and 5 goats. What a great idea to move them bales. I know how to move the 2 bales we have and how to make a feeder.👍🏻👍🏻

For a second when you went to roll that bale I was thinking Florida, OH NO! LOL lots of snakes down here. See ya on the next one. Later Okie

Gabe could have helped

Man at least you got space to drive through in a truck! Lol we get the square bales and see me hoist that darn thing on one shoulder and march to the pens with it. Have done since my teens. Sacks of feed too. Dad always remarked it gave me big arms lol.

If they chew through the rope, that panel will slap em down...Lol

I'm in the process of getting all mine in from the fields - they're the larger 1200 lb ones. I'm using a metal pole through the center of the bale (like an axle) and hooking up tow straps to pull it. Tedious sledgehammer work to drive the pole through but it works! Your way is pretty quick!

Now, THAT is one clever and awesome fix for no tractor! HOO AHH HAWK6

Now you tell me after i wasted all that money on a tractor.

Pretty creative.

Great stuff. Putting a pallet under it helps keep mold down. Also placing plywood or cheap corrugated metal on top protects it from rain a little better.

Awesome video!!

Also if I may add I can't take credit alone but learned and watched from older masters and passed on those said skills to younger ones in The trades

dutch i do the same thing for my goats but i have my hay on pallets that i pull keeps it off the ground less waste

#askdutch Dont you use that to clean up your gravel driveway?

Hey you guys in the bunker it looks nasty over that way.

for a second there i thought oh no dutch is going to wind his leg into that bale wire. that would have been funny/lol

Looks good. This could work with regular little bales too, to move them that way

Most people roll the bale over on its side to help keep the rain from entering the end of the bale. Just curious why you leave the end up for the rain to enter it?

I heard a lot of good things about dorper sheep meat so good

I actually have seen both your videos about how to do this. I’m an OG subscriber! 😎. Good video, I’m super happy for you and the success of your channel! You’re doin an awesome job, man!

I remember those their very heavy.. But the horse.. Sure did love them💗 have a bless day

that is a slick idea did you show that to Daniel yet

that is a cool way to move bails and great to see gabby

yet another use for cattle panels. :) great tip

You might think about hiring Daniel as your agent ... greenhouse and now a tractor with attachments ... just a thought. All the best!

You call it a cattle panel, my first thought was it was concrete reinforcing. Cattle panel more durable?

snap carabiners work well also.

I remember someone having a tractor for sale!!! ????

You are one smart dude, i dig it

You got to get a sled.

That's a great idea!!

I have a question, please. Could one curry or brush the older sheep to help them shed out? Or, perhaps, does the new winter growth ( evident by the color changes on the younger ones) push the rest out?

Love the videos.

AWESOME!!!

Very educational good job.

Pretty clever! Do the sheep ever eat the rope?