We still make small square hay bales for Rolling Hills Farm to feed horses and cows using the same methods and equipment used by American farmers for over 60 years. #farming, #familyfarm, #farmlife, #farm,
@@pinesedgefarm1155 Yeah I should have fact checked. We bought it in the mid 90’s from a dealer who said it was pretty new but I never really researched it. We traded a NH 68. It was NOT pretty new.😅
Great wee episode, yeah id be finding a high volume grain bin fan for that loft to move air, where i grew up in some fields you could gather all the bales just by letting them roll to the end if there was a rise at the other side
You are moving right along with haying!! I can't help but think that Dawn turns the wheel just a little bit, to aim for whoever is in the wagon.🤔🤫🤣😂 Good explanation of how the baler works!! Problem with small bales, all the and work... and God knows we aren't getting any younger.. but keeping active helps.
Glad to see you got some hay put up. Back in the ‘80s I put 5,000 bales in my dairy barn every year. A friend of mine with a larger herd made 10,000 every year back then. We must have been crazy.
Also did around 10,000 bales per year. A lot younger 40 years ago. Not so bad if the weather allowed for keeping it under 500 per day. Some days we did close to 1,000. That was long day to put up that much between the milkings.
It is always fun to see americans making hay with typical american equipment. 20 years ago we made on one day 500 idiot bales for windy days on the farm and the calfs. It was always fun with a lot of people helping.
I bet driving the tractor with ac when someone is on the hayrack makes. Just kidding. Actually riding the rack is the easy way to deal with squares. Drop them on the ground and pick them up by hand is hard work. Great to see you’re able to bale, and it’s ton-ing out good.
We could but this time of year nobody wants hay because they have grass. You can’t bale chaff either because it’s too fine. Makes good fertilizer on the field.
I was taught that way by an old farmer where I worked as a kid. The edge is the cut side, more symmetrical and holds more weight without sagging. Back then we stacked our bales to the roof of the barn and had to stand and walk on that stack. Edge stacking was far more stable. He felt the edge allowed better evaporation to dry the hay reducing the chance of mid-winter combustion. His barn is still standing, BTW while both neighbors, less careful, lost theirs to tragic hay fires…
