I watch other people using their horses, and I know you take great care for all your horses. You know each one of them and you know they know you. I will say something farmers never said when I was a kid, that they loved their horses, they were for work. Well I see a lot of love and care from you both. With out them nothing would get done. You care so much about their health and comfort. I watch you every time you have a new video. I watch the old ones too. I love learning from you. Your pace in your work is most efficient and saves time by knowing where and what you are going to do. It's hard to teach and be working at the same time. Bless you both for all you do. Susie
I recommend your channel to people in countries that don't think highly of us. We may have problems, but then there are folks like you. You're very inspiring! What a beautiful life.
Tedding those windrows back out over the wet areas this year might make the area a little better and less wet next year; even if it doesn't, as you said, you still are returning the nutrients to the soil. lol you know, I think stuff like this is why old-fashioned farmers are essentially philosophers. Thank you for the hayfield time; it's better than therapy!
As a beekeeper, the raking of hay means the end of the nectar flow. The old saying is, "No hay, no honey." A sign that the seasons keep moving on whether we are ready or not.
I worked for a farmer who had bee hives also, he alternated his cuts so he always had flowers for his bees, he had some of the best fields I have every seen, and the honey combs all over the place oozing.. ah ha.😄 Bless u Ronnie
so glad to see you cut off those bolts. Years ago we lost a colt because he hit his head on a bolt. The hay baler is fun to watch. I counted a new bale coming out every 6 to 7 seconds! Bless you guys.
I used to rake the hay out of the wet places when I was able too then bale it slower can Jim go thru with the horses rolled it out few times on dryer ground, So peaceful haying always loved doing that we've Stooked for decades kids need to get a taste of that to get supper and game boys lol
As always another super video.Jims working so hard in that heat and those dam flys Arrrrr Thankyou Brenda for this lovely filmin,you do such a wonderful job ❤ All the fery best Joyce.
PG here, Thank You. Brenda Jim keeps you busy going from field to field. Seems well worth it. I'm so excited for you to get a really good Sunny day to get bales of Hay made and Back to the barn. Jim the gate looks great.
Beau travail. Un commentateur depuis la France qui vous regarde avec admiration. Cette année nous faisons le foin a la faulx( faux). Nous avons pas encore de si beau matériel a attelé derrière nos âne de travail. Tout et très grand chez vous, c'est très beau. 🇺🇲🇺🇸
Jim we ad fly spray concentrate to regular fly spray to make it stronger also 1 or 2 Oz of vanilla helps. We ad 2oz of concentrate per qt. Hope that helps it works on our horse flies.
Hey Jim and Brenda, so good that you got some good dry hay weather. I have read an article, that if you paint your horse like a zebra, then no horse flys will attack them anymore. 😆 Wish you a wonderful week, greetings to Eli! -Chris
Yes, Jim with those cut bolts in his hand was a good sight, I have seen folks put a tennis ball over those protrusions also , good idea. Also glad Jim taking that bolt off the concrete wall, the horse had Brenda up by that wall. I had a great Uncle pinned up against a wall with a horse. I also looking in my shop for these hazards as my work area gets dangerous too. Well said.
That tall wagon is working a treat. Nice to see it all coming together. Your method of baling is so different to ours in Oz. Such a pity to waste that beautiful hay. Can it be racked further across the field to the harder land? Or forked by hand for loose feed? It's all so nicely winnowed to make it easy to fork up into a wagon. But I guess if you are so busy, there just isn't time to do any hand work. Bree is booming. She knows she has to start spending time alone now. But her mother comes back within an hour or so. So she doesn't bung on a big turn and scream the barn down! Always lovely to see your videos. Jim does the hard manual work and most of the horse work, Brenda does the filming and the garden and helps where she can. Always good to see you two working so well together. 😃
Your tractors are smart enough to figure out those chains A 4x8 block with a dent in it where the gate will rest at closed is a good idea either way. I overbuild and I want bigger washers or plates on the nut end of the bolts XD
Hi, Jim, Brenda, Great video, I enjoy all your videos!! Beautiful day to be on your farm working the hay! Jim, i like your tractor, I keep forgetting you own a tractor, the horses come first, Hi to Miss Trudy, & Abby, Jim, Nova Scotia, Canada. STAY SAFE, & COOL
Good morning Brenda and Jim! The fresh cut hay looks great, and lots of it too! Hey Jim, did you by chance find the lost bottle of fly spray as you raked and baled? It was so cute when Lady was finished working to catch Bree laying down napping! She got all tuckered out waiting for her mama to get off work!🥰
I have never worked with horse's but I sure love watching you work with them brings back memories of taking my dad to horse pulls he grew up with horse's but said they never had a team that worked together 😊together
You mentioned in the previous video how you guys have improved the pasture over the years. Can you speak on your process for a pasture and how that’s different from your hayfields?
when i was 14, i worked on a dairy farm. we always had to load hay like that on a wagon and haul it up to the baler and then fork it into the baler and make the bales, back then they wasted nothing, and i mean nothing..
I was thinking you could bail with the horses. However, the bailer looks too heavy for horses to pull. Stratch that thought. LOL❤ I hope you get to spread the hay out with the horses. That is cool the way you work with the horses. They are great animals as well as your friends. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I know that there is a lot of work on a farm,but does Jim ever slow down? Both of you guys ,you also have the best bunch of horses I have ever seen, I picked up a lot of hay when I was younger, I know how much work it is, your videos teach more than any other videos that I have seen , keep up the great work and God bless you and your family, be well ,
That would make a great picture for a t-shirt all the stalls filled with the horses. I know it's the southend of the horse but still a great picture. I used to have a big poster of just the backend of a horse. On the bottom it said... There's one in every crowd 😅
Thank you for bringing us along. Brenda, when you were in the field where Jim was racking hay, it was so peaceful and I could smell the hay. Thank you for showing us Bree, she is growing so fast.
I found it’s handy with big horses or any horses to buy a concentrated fly spray and put it in a weed sprayer and then you can spray them all over quickly instead of those little hand pumps
Avon’s Skin So Soft. This is the holy grail of fly spray ingredients for the do-it-yourself-er. This is a product designed as a mineral oil-based moisturizer for humans, and it does contain chemical ingredients. The entire line of Skin so Soft products includes some specific bug-repelling lotions, as well.
Glad you cut the bolts off they looked like an accident waiting to happen. Jim and Brenda you both work so hard and I don't know how you both keep doingthis . I am so glad that you do because the videos are great. May the good Lord bless you both and keep safe
Brenda, you are recording history with your excellent videos. It takes some hazardous maneuvers to get some of those shots. You put in more miles than the horses.
Step over gate right at hinges won't hurt nothing. And the rubber feet you put on bottom stool chair legs to not mark the floor work great on the hinge that sticks out a little from the post.
On the bolts you're cutting off. If you can leave them just a little sticking out. Get 2 golf balls and drill a hole in them and glue/caulk them onto the bolts.
Judging by what I see on the Weather Channel about rain in your area, Jim, you also must be a master in timing your haying. Under the circumstances you have to deal with, I think, it's pretty hard to avoid some hay getting rained at. We were lucky, got our first hay in with out any rain, but ever since it would have been rather hard.
Hi Jim and Brinda, when I was a kid, I learned to use Credos Dip and water for Fly dope / spray. I'm glad they have cratered other more effective Fly Sprays that work much better. I unto buy some stuff that was pink that I put in my Horses ears. seemed to work but most people out her didn't loke the Color.
"Make 'shine while the hay suns." - no wait that's from Tennessee where they changed the old saying for their locality. Dunno if you've already got the message but the guy from Homestead Horsemanship has got a Clydesdale that he wants to train for working and he would like to connect with you for help getting started.
Is it your first cut of hay? End of july seems to be quite late. In Germany we start making hay in the lower fields in the end of may until end of june. Only in the mountains the time to make hay begins in the end of july until the middle of august. If the ground is wet it is a good idea to make a "swath". so only part of the hay gets wet again in the night and it´s drying faster... Wish you good luck, dry weather and healthy horses!
Great videos Jim , keep them coming. I was wondering did you get to breed lady back to Barron ? Great job on your training with Bri , she's growing so fast. Let's not forget that the videos are great because of that awesome camera woman, she makes sure she gets all them great angles. You all make a great team. God bless you all stay safe.
Thank you for sharing all your farm workings . The horse are wonderful to watch working , being a mom , and enjoying the fields . Can't use wet hay for horses . hopefully it will be good mulch . Take care .
Thanks for all your hard work Brenda. You certainly get plenty of exercise. I have an adult size mini bike that you could make good use of around the farm.
Happened to me a few times. Those few rows he didn't bale because of ground wet. I would rake the rows to where you baled already. Great job 👍 with baling up what was ready. Before any rain.
I’ve had real good luck with sulfur salt the yellow block I kept a block so they would have access to it year round once it in their system they sweat it out horseflies and deerflies hate it they just light and gone wouldn’t hurt to try good luck
great segment. how many bales do you normally go through during the winter. Hay season in eastern Rensselaer County NY was hard work. you'd normally get all your hay up in a weekend or two. we had a small subsistence farm and only put up about 600 bales for our cows, horse, mule and donkey. i was in my late teens and i always got to get in the loft and pile it in there. thanks for sharing.
If you spread the hay onto the wet ground, Won't it just make it wetter? It seems to me that if the ground is useless, it is a good place for a dam to help with the drainage.
