Your vids always make me smile and leave me a lil bit smarter having learned something new about farming, being a city kid in a farm heavy environment Gave me a huge interest in the goings on on all those farms we passed everyday growing up ( Central Valley California ) dairy’s and rice farming right around us. Your channel is fun and informative and leaves me a happy chap every time I watch a vid! Thanks dude! Keep up the great work!!
Came across your videos one day,,,and it took me a sec until i realized who you were....tell your dad Hi...I went to High School with him....grew up on farm as well....moved to Dallas Texas when I was 21 and have been here since.....still a farm boy at heart!!....My dad still lives on the farm and now my Grand kids enjoy going back to iowa every summer to drive Great Grandpas old tractor and running on the farm....lived on the Brandon dia on the corner just North of Mick and Janets.... your videos bring back great memories......luv'ed bailing hay!!!...not so much picking up rock!!! Thanks Carl!!
Wow hello Mike! Your dad is a real great guy. I stopped in to grab some sweet corn one time and we must have talked to a couple hours. Mick was like a grandpa to me. He got me fired up about Massey Harris tractors. I’ll certainly show your comment to dad tomorrow. He might send you a message too! Thanks for dropping in and I hope you continue to enjoy the videos. You can go back and watch the previous ones when you get bored 😂
Never thought I’d miss baling hay... but after watching this I do. It’s good to see kids running the equipment. Dad had me driving around 7 running the rake and then the baler. Great video thank you.
Carl, you are an awesome videographer. You give us the information but also really show us what is going on. I really enjoy your channel. I feel like I am out there with you in the fields. Thanks! Blessings and prayers to you and your family.
I love small square bales, I can’t pick up them round bales and the square bales fill my loft better! I remember when I was twelve working on the farm was a joy and I love seeing that young man working in the field! And doing a fine job. I hope you get stuck more often if it means we get to see your Dad more, I lost my Dad when I was a little boy and it just makes me happy seeing you working with your Dad! Thank you Carl for always welcoming me down your road! Stay safe and God bless y’all!
Thanks Michael! It’s really something to be able to work with your dad. I have to remember not to take it for granted. He lost his dad pretty young, so he didn’t get that chance for long.
As far as I’m concerned you should never apologize for being busy on a farm, sometimes it seems like the work never ends and I’m amazed that you find the time to take us along! I wish I could be your farm hand if just for a day.
It is. It is. Also having and being a good neighbor. Look how fast he borrowed that truck from Marcus. Never trash talk your neighbors or you'll be out of business before you know it.
Marsh, you are so right! He was there in the field right after my truck broke down and he offered his immediately. This is pretty much how things work in rural America. Everyone helps. It’s great!
Holy flashback! Stacking bales in the wagon when I was 10 yrs old. Much nicer the way you do it, old man Davenport's baler LAUNCHED those suckers at me, lol.
Great video!! I didn't growup on a farm, from the time I was 9 till I was 20... I baled a lot hay... and straw... I remember, very well, on those days when we got interrupted by a shower... going up in the mow and laying on the bales of that sweet smellin' hay... and listening to the rain on the roof... and going to sleep... Wonderful times...
Thanks Herb! Working in the hay mow used to be a common thing for young people to do, but sadly many of the old barns are disappearing and most kids never get to do that now.
I just found your channel here and had a great time with you 'riding along" with you! That hay looked wonderful to me, should make a lot of cows very happy when the time comes to eat it. It was nice to see a family working together as yours did, America needs more lke you guys for sure...Wishing God's Blessings on you all and your family and farm.
I just came across this channel its great that the whole family is involved and I am impressed by people that work hard I have always wanted to visit or maybe do some work on a farm like this keep up the videos John Dodge
Great stuff....new sub....really pretty crop....i love it....was a union laborer 22 years...been farming full time 5 years...i love cows...but making good hay is the most fulfilling thing ive ever done...makes me feel worth something
1958, Boise, I’d farm bucking 100lb Alfalfa on to a 40” trailer. Last time I got to do it. Moved to California became a city boy. You are really doing great work!
WOW memories when I was 12 summer of 1974 helping my uncle out on his Hay Farm in Southwest Michigan. Very Hard work square bales , Would not have changed that summer for anything especially driving his old narrow frame Tractor. WHAT A BLAST
What a nice video. As usual, I learned a lot. That Red Rhion trailer is the "Cat's Meow". Such neat design work, no wasted metal or structure either, and one-man unloading. Thanks for sharing.
Our hay wagons are 18 and 20 feet long. That’s a pretty good distance to get a bale carried back and stacked and then get back to the Baler before another one comes out 😅
I love modern tech, however it is good to see you Guys getting it done without a sat-nav in sight. Keep up the good work. Keeps you fit riding that bale sled. A lot of people in the modern world will never sample the gentle aroma of new mown hay, if you could put that in a can you would make a fortune. All the best from the U.K.
Love y’all’s dump hay trailer and they are nice and my father in law dose lawn care and has hay and cows so I help him and has one of them trailers and makes it so nice
Not sure I knew you buys had an Oliver! Yay! I owned three once upon a time--1600, 1655, and 1555. I sold them all to my cousin, who I help make hay every spring. I that a 1550 you've got? Another great clip, Karl; you're so good at this medium, and I really look forward to you posts. Thanks!
Ash it is indeed a 1550! This one has been on dads farm since I was about 5 years old. He also had a 1650 that was the first tractor I ever drove. If you go back to my videos this winter I did a whole bunch of work to it. Thanks a lot for the kindness here!
@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206 You are most welcome. Not everyone on RU-vid has the natural understanding of narrative that you have, so their posts are not really the kind of neatly structured little stories that yours uniformly are. Also, for me, any time you feature the Oliver your dad has is a nice bonus; that brand, and particularly the sounds of the Waukesha straight 6 diesel and the (unsynchronized) spur gear transmissions in the early Olivers (and continued in the 1550 and 1555) were imprinted on me when I first drove my Uncle Theodore's 880, about 1959, I think. I once pulled a cultipacker and drag harrow late into the night with that 880. She had a tall straight pipe on her and her pump had been turned up to pull our 2-row Fox silage chopper, so once it got dark you could see a flame coming out that pipe, and watch the incineration of any insect unfortunate enough to stay into that exhaust plume. Of course, when we chopped silage with that 880, the sky around her turned coal black. I guess it's a good thing I didn't spend too much time on that 880; I'd probably have a serious hearing deficit. Thanks again, Karl, for posting your neatly constructed stories for us to enjoy.
I hauled hay the summer I was fifteen. My friend, Romney. had an old 1/2 ton truck with a wooden flat bed. It weeped water out of the water pump. We could haul 55 bales per truck load. He turned 16 at the end of that summer and got his drivers license. He sold the truck and bought a ‘53 Ford car. We never hauled hay again, once he could legally drive a car on the main roads.
I've seen those hay carts for years, well since I was a kid on a dairy farm. But I've never seen one unloaded. that was cool. We always did small square bails, I'm thankful we had a kicker on the bailer.
Another fantastic video. The hay rake tractor, that's a real man's tractor. An open cab so you can enjoy the smell of farming (which includes diesel exhaust). You get a great tan working on a tractor like that. Not fun in the winter. Thanks.
Haha yeah I definitely have not so fond memories of that tractor in the winter time. Putting out bales for dads cows when I was a kid and hauling manure with open cab tractors was not particularly fun 🥶
This is my first time watching your channel I liked what I saw I can relate to putting up hay just in a smaller scale we have been kinda fighting the weather here in Tennessee it's been hard to get enough dry days in a row to get the hay up like we want to I enjoyed watching I will definitely watch more often
Thanks Ronnie! You should go back in my videos to about a year ago and watch the video called “hay making disaster”. I think you could probably relate! I’m glad to have you here and I hope you will subscribe and continue to visit with me through the comment section and share your thoughts and questions!
Nice to see a couple days of baling in 14 min. I noticed the square baler going at a pretty good clip and not a lot of dust so I figured you had some good, dry 1st cutting hay. It's nice when the weather and the job all comes together. I know it's not like that every time.
I don’t know if anyone else said it yet, but holy crap. Never work on your truck without jack stands. Saw you had it on the hydraulic jack only. Very bad idea. Always put stands underneath, no matter what your doing. If you don’t have stands, use your tire rim. It’ll save your bacon should the jack give out without notice.
Yeah you make a good point. In this video I just pulled the wheel off to see what I could see. I would never put any parts of my body under a vehicle that was being held up by a jack alone.
I don't know Carl if I wanted to ride with you or not. If you are not running out of gas or getting stuck or breaking down. If I was ever work with you I'm driving. LOL 😂 I'm just picking on you. I am also in the commercial beekeeping. I get stuck to curl and I break down. But one thing I don't run out of gas. Hehehe
Haha yeah I bet! I’ve always had a healthy respect for beekeepers! I think it would be cool but I’m pretty afraid of getting stung so I wouldn’t be much good at it.
Wonderful when you can get hay up that is good enough to satisfy horse people. I managed it a few times but more often that not it didn't quite make their grade of satisfaction.
Wow Carl, working 2 farms, that's alot of work! We have a NH 316 square baler with a NH 75 pan kicker (bale ejecter) on it. It's so old they have stopped making some parts for it but it beats stacking hay in a wagon. Stacking hay in the mow is enough for me. We also run a 8 ft rotory rake but your ground drive rake covers way more area. We used to use them, bound drive rake, years ago. Do you have an auto fly drone or is someone flying it for you? Lotta time and work to do what you do man. Hats off to you. Stay safe.
Thanks Jacob! We had a new Holland baler when I was a kid. It worked great. I’ve used a big dual rotor krone rake before and it was really cool but I don’t think it would work very good on really uneven terrain. I have auto flight modes on the drone, but sometimes I like to fly it myself. This video had footage from both auto and manual flight. Can you tell the difference?
@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206 hey carl, I couldn't really tell the difference with the different drone modes. it all seemed pretty good. I really like the kuhn double rotary rakes. been looking at them for year cause this small 8' rake takes a long time. we have about 300 acres but maybe 100 acres of hay ground all together.
So great that you had good weather for the hay. How many acres of water ways would you say you made hay on? Thanks for posting and that side unload bale trailer sure is neat.
Yes I love that trailer! We made 75 acres of hay and just about half of it was waterways. I’ve got another 15 acres of waterways to mow next week sometime.
Usually we only make about 40-45 pound bales. A lot of our customers are retired folks with horses or ponies and they don’t want to handle really heavy bales.
Watching that guy stack hay bales on the wagon brought back memories when I was 7 I weighed 70lbs I would pick up a bales that weighed 70lbs and carry it to the wagon I didn't want to look like a wuss so I would go with it now people pay good money at a gym to get half the exorcize.
Great video. We have been trying to get some hay in between the rain. We had a frost in May here in Pa. It has really affected the brome and orchard grass hay. It is only yielding about ½ the bales that was made on those fields that we done so far. We fertilized the fields. But the frost really stunted the hay and alfalfa growing. Our windrows are not even that thick. You have some very nice windrows. Have you ever ran a pto driven rotary rake? I sure do like them over a ground driven New Holland 256 rake. I have never ran those v wheel rakes but from what I just seen if you have a good baler that will eat through a windrows like that with no problems you are definitely doing something right. I know all rakes are good for each type of application. Maybe you can help me out with this question? What is the purpose of those old and new style hay mergers? How is it any different from a hay rake? I seen some at some local farm sales and consignment auctions. I should have brought home the rotary rake some german brand name orange in color and the Vicon 4 star hay tedder. Both went for $2500 each at auction on Thursday. Hope the bill to fix the truck isn't to expensive. I have learned from past experiences that If dad and I try to do any work on Sunday other than feed the animals and go to church. We will have break downs for 2 weeks straight and they are not simple fixes either. It has cost us anywhere from $500 to $1500+ in repairs. I understand the filming and editing situation completely. Just get the videos out when you are able to because when the sun is shining and the fields are ready to be harvested or other field work it must be done. Again great video and really enjoying this channel. Thank you
Hey David I think you found the cause of my truck problem. Dad mowed some of that hay on Sunday. I don’t have any experience with mergers but I have seen some in action. I have run a PTO rotary rake before and it was great! I don’t think they would work very well on really uneven terrain though.
@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206 The alternator on my Kioti DK55 just started squealing. Bearing was getting dry. The alternator is getting new bearings and brushes now. We had a tree come down across the road yesterday. Since the Kioti was out of commission I had to roll the pieces by hand. Also got a seal to replace on the brush hog. At least it is not the bottom seal. The truck rear end pinion gear came loose due to the nut on it. Luckily it didn't ruin anything. All of this was due to work on Sunday 3 weeks ago.
Such a great neighborhood. Everyone works together. My idea of how it should be. Questions-What exactly is "hay"? How is it different from straw? Everyone is saying that is great hay but what constitutes great hay? I ride out in the country on my bike sometimes and I smell the new hay and it has a great aroma. Sometimes my lawn grass gets so long I think I should bail it when I cut it.
Good question here! Hay is all about nutrition. There is a lab test that can be performed for “relative feed value” that allows you to figure out how much energy and protein the hay contains. Many people judge hay quality solely on color and smell. Green hay with a pleasant smell is often considered good hay. Straw is the waste product after harvesting a grain crop. After you harvest oats you are left with oat straw. Same with wheat or soybeans. Straw has very little feed value and is mainly used for bedding.
@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206 FYI, my sons are now hooked on the channel! I knew it when he mentioned singulation last night. So hay is not a specific plant but a variety of plants harvested. How green are they when harvested? What keeps them from decomposing as my grass clippings do in my compost pile? Moving bales by hand so looks to be the most physical jpb you do on the farm. Everything else is hydraulics or electric?
Hi. Great videoing Kaylee !! Love the overhead shots of the total having thing. From mom's to growing young men, it seems all hands on deck if needed. Okay, QUESTION please. What type of plant did you cut, rake n bale? At least I think I got all the terminology right. Do you seed the soil or does it grow n replant itself naturally in those spaces year after year? Do you spray your hay; when & why? Deep South Homestead had a concern bout feeding sprayed hay to his cows n using end product from the cow in his garden beds after letting the poop decompose some. Leaf curling of tomatoes n the tomatoes themselves seemed a little deformed. He feels it affects his plants n will take longer to get out of the cow poo ( nearly 2yrs ) before it would be safe to use on his garden. He has switched to only organically grown hay to feed his cattle. No judgement on my part, just curious how hay can affect garden to table. Peace to you and yours
Ours is mainly brome grass with some Timothy and clover mixed in. Once seeded, this comes back year after year. We don’t spray our hay because we don’t want to kill the clover. There are basically two types of herbicides. Grass killers and broadleaf killers. We can’t use either of them if we want to keep the grass and the clover. We do fertilize it with urea and map and potash so unfortunately the way the rules are we can’t certify it as organic.
Hey, Carl, (no pun intended) Not being a farmer, I'm very curious about the hay operation and have several questions: Why the square bales? How does the operator know when the round bales are done, especially the smaller ones? It is easy to see how the rakes work but will you show us how the balers work? And perhaps a tougher question for a video, how do you judge the quality of the hay? I always look forward to your videos. Thanks!
Yeh I should talk about hay quality in a future video. Let me bounce through the questions here: We make the small square bales for some customers that just have a few horses and don’t want to use a tractor to feed. Also if you leave a round bale out in the feeder for weeks it gets kind of off from getting rained on. The round baler has a monitor that tells you when you have reached the desired bale size that you preset it for. It determines this based off of how far the belt tensioners are pulled. See the belts have to “get longer” as the bale gets bigger so it’s pretty easy for the baler to tell how big the bale is. Sometime I could try to show a Baler up close. Sadly I was too busy raking and stacking hay to film the baler. Our small square bales weigh about 45 pounds, to small rounds are about 800 and the big rounds are 1350-1450
@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206 Thanks for scratching my curiosity bump! That also ought to make it fairly easy to figure out the square baler too, since it obviously has to push the hay against the already forming bale so that when it gets to a certain point the machine "knows" it is full, I would think. I'll look forward to the hay quality discussion. My only other question is how do they tie the bales up? Great videos! Thanks.
G'day Carl, do you own that small square baler and if so do you get it serviced each year?. Reason i ask is a neighbor has one and told me the cost of each service, nearly fell over. I could tell you a funny story about balers but i will save it. You all did a great job, keep up the good work :)
Thanks John! Yeah we one the square baler. We service it ourselves though. Checking the knife clearance, spring tensions, twine tension and all that is pretty easy.
@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206 1086 was a good tractor. It was a work horse. We ran 125 hp. Would run a 2 row chopper with it no problem. Worked lots of acres with equipment. And we had a lot of hills. On one of my old jobs we had a 186 hydro worked great for cutting hay. It was the only job that tractor had. Take that back it would anchor the irrigation gun also. Loved it too.
I lived in Kentucky for 6 or 7 years before I moved back north , one of the guys I worked with down there told me about the time he was doing square bales on his dads farm when he went to pick one up there was a P****d off rattail snake mixed in with the hay .he said he threw the thing off and left it for a few days and when they came back for it it was gone . Ever have some thing like that happen to you ?
