With the price of everything going up I had to figure out how to have hay for my goats without equipment. It's just me but got enough put up for winter with a scythe... a person can make do if you want to bad enough.
this is better than a $200 session with a therapist i will be re-listening to this love the reminder of reducing things down to the essentials & to what’s important
I'm doing this to about half an acre. I brush hogged it and it cut so well I decided to rake it up and now I think I'm going to seal up my ole horse trailer and shove it loose in there. 🙌🏻
My great grandmothers barn in Iowa was specifically built to store loose hay I'm sorry to have not ever knowing her she died about twenty years before I was born. Her husband my great grandfather died as a young man on their home stead in south central Nebraska in the 1890's and my grandmothers father moved her back to southeast Iowa and gave her a house and 40 acres to her and the grandkids my grandmother being one of them. I had a great uncle who farmed and lived on the place he died about 1960 I was about 4 years old. The barn had a center hay storage area and had feed mangers and eaves built on the sides for livestock horses and cattle/sheep.
I used to help my neighbor put up hay like this. Only he used horses to cut and rake it. Crazy thing is he had a tractor and I hay baler. He just like the Amish so much he try to do everything just like them. Plus he raised and broke work horses and putting hay in like this was part of it. He had 2 or 3 teams to take to the Amish country and sale every year.
That’s great! I was Amish for 3 years...... so I know that way of life we’ll..... now I basically just use what I’ve got and improvise. Thanks to the Amish for teaching me how to improvise!
Interesting idea. I'll be bushhoggin about 4-5 ac and using a DIY pallet fork sweep then stacking near the point of use. I've seen someone using cattle panels with the ends tied together and making "hay muffins" that I might try too.
Micah you sure have some hard working boys ! Hard working family. I love that you all work together to accomplish the farm chores. Stay happy, healthy and safe. God bless
We done that on our farm ...the first year we cut the fields..the next year we scrapped enough money together to buy an old new Holland baler..only thing wrong with that baler , the left side knotter..would bust a shear pin on every third bale...never could find out why it kept doing that..took it in several times..but no luck..just had to stop and tie that outside string.....and replace the shear pin...
@@McGieHomesteadAdventures we always got a new box of shear pins just before hay time..done this for many years...most of our equipment was actually intended for horse drawn, but we had it all modified for the pto....at the back of our tractor...our wind rower was enormous, but boy did it lift those rows of hay up into the air ...really got them fluffy, dried much faster also....once we started to bale it those bales never touched the ground...we rigged up a shoot to shuttle them right onto the hay wagon..then the kids would stack them..and when one wagon was full, I brought another empty wagon and we switched them I brought the full one back and used our electric hay lift to load it up in the barn..done this for almost a week...but we got it done. Hubby, me and our four young children...loved our 350 acre farm....
This was such a awesome video ! We done this a few times but not that much . We got it for mulch in the garden most of the time . I hope you had a nice cold beer after you was done . I would start going to some auctions and trying to find a deal on hay equipment when you get a little spare money .
Either lifting light forkfuls or heavy 75 pound bales. I think the fork way is easier. I did this in my youth. Plus, it would be a chore stealing hay from your barn.
Ole Frank prolly outworked all of y'all hahaha! The boys did great man....awesome to watch! Maybe your RU-vid ad money will buy ya a new baler one day :-)
As someone who makes quite a few bales each year, let me say that this looks very slow and frustrating. I admire your patience. :) I'd say start watching craigslist for an old NH 286 or 310. They are great balers and parts are plentiful.
We hauled hay loose and bales when I was a kid, not only for ourselves but we hired out for neighboring farms. If I recall correctly we got $.25/bale, and the total was divided by the number of helpers. My dad didn’t care if you were male or female, everyone did all work, indoors and outdoors.
