The video many have been waiting for! An in-depth look at our rebaling system for the 2022-2023 winter season. Enjoy! Video clip taken from Universal Picture's 2000 film "How the Grinch Stole Christmas"
The haters are miserable and want everyone else miserable. Your channel is definitely my favorite and I look forward to every new video. Your previous videos are even great to go back again and view. LOVE YOUR VIDEOS!!! THANK YOU
Great video with a good explanation. You asked about the excess twine…crafters that weave hats, mats, baskets, etc, would love it for their projects, as the pieces are decent sized. The excess chaff on the floor…animal bedding that you could offer for free to those willing to pick it up. Small homesteads would benefit from this for sure. Keep up the good work.
Great video. Thanks for sharing. I grew up with a Deere 24T thrower baler which was horrible. We traded for a Deere 336 which in 1975 was a dream come true. I used to think 20,000 kicker bales stacked by hand in a loft was a stroke of business. Watching this really shows how much technology has come in 50 years and how small we were. I love your business and what you're doing.
Awesome video! Wondered how the retailing process worked and now I know. Thanks for all the details of the whole operation which made sense of the whole process. Beef cattle would love that waste while it is still dry and not fermented in the compost pile. Great job!
I watched this video and you never explained why you didn’t make small bales to begin with. I appreciate your videos and explanations. Keep up the good work.
Really nice to see all the thought and innovation that goes into an operation of this magnitude. Thanks for sharing. Smart people to build that organization and make it profitable
Great explaining for new ppl!! Thank you! 'waste' could be good bedding, just have to bag it up n be able to sell that or if they could come get in something could just load!! Just a thought from farmer at heart! Keep up the great content
We've been rebaling hay for 12 years and I'm impressed with the setup you've come up with in 2-3 years. Looks like you get pretty good production out of it. I looked at the messicks system when they first came out and didn't think it was fast enough but it looks like its doing well for you when you're running good hay.
That’s not a bad idea to maybe get a decibel reading to make sure it is safe levels, but personally I think the camera made it seem way louder than it actually is. You can have a normal volume conversation right next to the set up. Thank you for kind words
I enjoy you videos, you really do a great job producing these videos. I grow hay in western Indiana, and sell small square bales as well. Keep up the good work. I'd love to come visit your farm one day. I'm always up to learning new things. And sharing my experiences.
Thanks for another great video explaining the whole process. It must of been last year, I remember you guys setting the re-baler up like this as well for the first time. Not sure if you had the Barron then? And it's clearly been effective in limiting the dust. Keep up the awesome work and thanks again for bringing the world along with you. God Bless from Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
I Really enjoy your videos, keep them coming. All the haters out there, laugh at them all the way to the bank! In 2018 I set up a permanent rebailing setup , in my opinion the only place for a small baler is in the barn.
Just for me to understand: you are making big square bales and then make them again into small square bales. This allows you to use your big machinery and become efficient and fast and scale up (80,000 bales is not a small operation). You do not have lift a single square bale by hand which is nice :-) But then you depend on big (expensive) machinery, infrastructure (big buildings,..) which has its challenges as well. Thanks for the video it was very interesting and you explained it well. I loved that you pointed out that you hate throwing the white twine away and I hope you can find somebody that can use it. Also with the fine/dusty hay that gets thrown out- I am sure that could be put to good use for something (I would take it al if I could l :-))
Miller Farms, great videos! I enjoy them all, especially the rebaling videos. With all the line of equipment for reballing, what do you figure you have in total feet, from the destroyer to the Bale Baron?
Might be worth having Carl see if he can find a tractor motor and transmission that would be big enough to run everything and then be able to put hours on a cheaper motor setup
We actually have looked at some motors and we have a buddy that wants $7500 for one that just needs a little work. I think it’s an excellent idea to pursue in the future. Lord knows these tractor hours aren’t cheap
You're awesome mate, your video endings are very abrupt. Lol And look it's not easy carrying a camera around. Keep up the great work mate from New Zealand. And it's obvious to those of us who know what the weather and hay juggling, big square can gobble it up when rain is coming.
Awesome set up! 250 / hour is pretty awesome. I'm sure thats a hell of a step from when you guys were using the Chainless Hustler unroller! I would be curious about round bale conversion rate (like @HayMap operation). I really do like the Steffen grapple handling both bundles and big squares. Especially when it comes to grappling 63 bales in the 3 bundles! Those barons sure do some work! Plan on selling the Arcusins? Always got to show the crew and you in these films, thats one of the biggest parts of storytelling!
We rebale hay full time with a machine we built that does both big squares and rounds. We spit out a bundle about every 3 minutes doing big squares and every 4 minutes with rounds. We are working on a new piece for our system that will hopefully speed up the round bale process..
Yes sir, the Arcusins are for sale. We may keep one because they really do have a purpose. Be it bundling other people’s less consistent hay or working with higher moisture hay
Great explanation! Now I get it! And don't let the bastards get you down! The only part I don't get is why you are in the position to have to rebale in the first place? It is a very intensive process and uses a ton of resources. Creates a lot of waste of both hay and twine. Why not just make more bundles in the field? Who is buying your large squares to begin with? Keep up the great work!
It is the time constraint and people constraint during harvest , When the hay is ready you can't bale that quickly with small bales. So you have a small window to bale. Large squares bale quickly. Go watch the other videos of them getting it from the field in small square. A small square is around 20kg, large goes for about 350 to 500kg. so that is 17 to 20 times less binding. Handling is easier to because you don't need a stacker, you can run a single telehandler to run the same amount of hay off the field. Efficiency of single person working is so much higher. But small squares still make more money.
I absolutely love your videos. We make a little hay here in Central Minnesota. You said your hay is a mixture of Timothy and light Orchard Grass. Is Light the variety? What kind of Timothy do you plant? Timfor?
Thanks for the kind words Curt! I just mean light as in low ratio of orchard to the Timothy. I think our most recent round of planting we planted warrior 2 orchard grass and I can’t for the life of me remember the Timothy variety but it was the longest season maturity offered
@@FarmingInsider Don't mean to be a pest here but what ratio would you say? Like one third Orchard to two thirds Timothy? If you are not planting alfalfa but just grass hay is that all you plant? Ever plant Birdsfoot Trefoil? Thank you so much for your reply!
You’re not a pest! I think we were 12 lbs Timothy and 8 lbs orchard in this particular field. Yes, those are the only grasses we ever plant. We will start to naturally get blue grass varieties as the fields get older
Watching from across Lake Erie in southern Ontario. 1. Do you think there is a advantage rebaling large squares vs round bales other than capacity and handling? 2. I’ve heard with rebaling the final product doesn’t have a nice solid “flake” to it compared to out of the field?
What do you find that this increases how much a tonne you can get for your hay? Customers will obviously pay more for small bales that are easier to handle for someone not equipped to move big bales but i am wondering what the actual difference in price per tonne is.
Great operation there. I may have missed it and obviously there is a good reason, but can you tell me why the hay isn't just small baled in the field instead of large baled then made into small bales later. Is it a time thing?
250 bales/hour sounds slow to me, our record stationary baling is st around 30.000lbs/hour (limited by feeder), should be 750bales/hour with your weight, normaly we are around 20.000lbs/hour (often limited by crew). But great view on your chain, nice and clean setup! Tractors outside is very nice for them.
They both have their place. The baron has better capacity, but as far as rebaling goes the arcusin never halted production for a bale being too long. Pros and cons to both truthfully
I probably missed the answer why do you bale large squares rather than small squares in the field. I’m assuming you are doing it this way because you can bale the field faster and end up with more consistent small squares after reprocessing. You probably wouldn’t want to do this with alfalfa due to the loss of leaves.
Basically your operation is very simular to ours except you do big squares and we do 4x5 rounds.......Want to make that ramp slippery glue linoeum on it....
@@hammerhayllc Today 1/7/23 we converted about 80 4x5 rounds into 75- 21 bale bundles,,,for a total bale count of 1575 in 5 hrs which comes to 315 bales per hour everything clicked
I was once told if your gonna be in the hay business part of the business model was to keep a small herd of beef cows for the “oh well we tried” hay days love seeing the baron work, made just a half hour away from me
