Small Square Baling Hay - John Deere 4230, 4020 

Of course forty years ago, we did more of the process manually in hot, sweaty, and itchy as hell conditions, and I like your method better, but I would love to be back on the farm with the cows, the dogs, the chickens, the ducks, and my horse. The creek and the woods were my little piece of heaven. I even miss some of the smells except those from cleaning the barn or the chicken houses. I don't miss those smells at all. I loved seeing things grow and harvesting.

That’s satisfying how the bales fly out into the cart

Back in 1973 my Ole Man bought a brand new 4230 with a loader on it.I miss the 102 h.p. and the good times me and my girl friend had in it back then in the SoundGuard cab.

Thanks for showing us how the square baler works

Very cool, The old 4230 does a good job, its a lot like the 4040 That l use from my neighbor from time to time.

I had no idea how this modern farm equipment worked. Thanks.

brings back memories of summers of my youth. I still have the callouses on my hands. My dad didn't use kickers.....my brother and I loaded the bales.

Brings back memories of life on the farm!

Cool! Reasons like this are the very reason that I make these videos! Thanks!

Everybody seems to think there is no work involved. You need to make a video of you getting them into the mow. Bet they would change their minds real quick.

Great videos on your channel. I show them in my class for children that have never been on a farm before. You are very detailed and the students ask a lot of questions after! Thanks for taking the time to make them!

combine auger extend/retract button (?) looks like. love the videos, Sir!!! Videos like this show your dedication to keeping more human-scale technologies alive, which often happen to represent and earlier time. Small square baling is really part of that. It's really good peace of mind therapy to spend so much time outdoors through your videos! It's rejuvenating! So thanks again, Ryan!

Thank you for all your hard work there on the farm!

That is really neat how you bale square Bale's of hay. I have bought square Bale's for a long time. But never seen them bale it before. I really liked how the baling machine just throws it in the trailer. You learn something new everyday. Keep happy and keep up the good work you all do.

i loved watching the bales fly into the wagon best part of the video XD

Handled a lot of bales when I was younger either in the barn or on the rack did run the baler a few times I do miss working on the farm at times

In new zealand we do square bales alot of the time. except our bailer drops the bail back onto the pasture and we then work in teams picking them up stacking up to 12 high on a trailer then stacking again at the haybarn. on our farm we have round bails for the big herde in the muddy season and Rectanglular bails for feeding the calves and sick cows etc. just over halfway through calving season milking about 270 cows at the end. Thanks for sharing the vid with me.

Cool video. You got some good footage.

That is just awesome. I love watching videos like this. It's amazing to actually see these things in action as well as being informative for those that do not realize what it takes to do this kind of work. Is some beautiful land in the video as well. I would LOVE to have some wide open land like that around my area.

You farmers are the best! I keep seeing the rolls of hay around here in upstate NY and wonder what happened to the square bales. Well, as you said, it's rare these days. Bless you guys who still farm. We may end up back to farming to get by soon. Who knows. Thanks for sharing.

Good job. A lot of people today just "drive by" farms and have absolutely no idea what it takes to get the job done. I have lifted bails of hay and thrown them up into a loft when I was young and it is indeed a lot of work. Looks like you all work together pretty well.

I believe they are 1x2x3. That is a very rough guess though. I'd have to get out and measure one haha. No two bales are ever the same, though. Some are severely shorter while others are long.

Very impressing!

Then the fun part, stacking the bales in the barn :p

You are the best at farmingJohn deer

Nice job, love the videos!

Nice video! Many farmers today are moving to round bales, but it is cool to see some are still baling square bales. By the way nice tractors.

Wow! that hay bale really flies!

Just came across this older video today, a lot has changed over six and half years, especially Ryan and his video skills and the presentation, still found interesting though. 1/19/2019.

Looks good. I put up 850 Memorial Day weekend. Then no rain, the drought of 2012. Your right it a rare sight anymore. We are even rarer, no thrower. Right out of the back of the baler and stack by hand. Makes a better bale, don't get as many jacked up, broken bales. Most of my buyers don't want thrower bales. But it is faster, I'll say that with a thrower!

We run Ford 3000-5000 tractors on our farm. We make small squares and some round. We'll go around cut and rake come back and bale. We have around 4-5 guys on every field. Its all family and only about 8 of us come and bale hay. We by hand pick it up onto the wagon and stack it, ride the wagin back down to the barn and restack it. Hot and sweaty work but I love it

Nice operation!

Great Video.. wish I could work on an American farm I love how much classic machinery you use and the countryside is fantastic totally different to Ireland over here.

you forgot to show the guys in the haymow sweating their asses off.

Ah... the memories... My Uncle and Grandfather owned farms. :) Cool Video.

never really thought about how bailing was done. I am an older city/ suburban person and the only farm I was on was my uncles chicken farm back in the sixties. Duh to me, I figured that was done by hand. I love machinery and the people who invent. Loved seeing the bails flying to the cart. Cool video

That's cool! I'm in Northern Ontario, and most people here, do hay in the big circles. The Mennonites do it "old school", with the pitchfork and piles. I think there's only maybe, one farm that I know of,that makes the rectangular bales anymore.

The reason you have long and short bales is because of your speed. If you slow down to around 15 strokes per bale then each bale would be much more consistent. The more strokes per bale the more consistent. Thanks for posting the video. Always fun to see what others are running.

nice job on the video - always wondered how it was done - pretty cool process

Being a city girl, I had no idea how bales were made till just this minute! LOL Started using them last fall now that I have hungy alpacas, thanks for the info!

nice video cool to see how the machine works

At 3:15 Dad is kicking bales in the wagon the right way!Like my uncle was doing,he puts the bales in a pile in the middle of the wagon and then fill it with the bales kicked over the pile!Some other farmers that i ve seen are starting by kicking bales at the back of the wagon ;that makes the twin hit and be cut by the back cage of the wagon!

1-2 bales/day. It is recommended that you feed more than just hay square bales. We mix ours with a bit of silage as well. We only feed squares in the barn during the winter.

We still bale those size around here - good video, Ryan!

Love it!

Spent many a summer doing this! Good exercise, and it's good for the appetite. Our bales were longer, though- and heavier... The worst was putting up hay for a guy who used wire ties, and picked up and delivered them to the barn with a self propelled stacker. They were for sale, and he packed them hard as wood. Those bastards were HEAVY! You had to watch him close when he brought a fresh load- he liked to toss M-80's out the far window to scare the shit out of you! Man, I miss those days!

that is actually pretty cool, i love technology!

We have a small square baler like that but newer and instead of the launcher, we have a bale sledge that puts them into groups so they're easier to grab with the manitou

cool video!

Exelant vids keep up the good work

Those bales look light we stack 60 to 100 pound bales on a hay rack all summer long its hot and the days get long but I love it

Thanks I enjoyed watching...

Greetings from the UK Pity we don't have the bale slingers over here. Excellent video, well done.

Very nice video :D

And once you've worked a crew for hay or straw, your name gets around and pretty soon you have all of the business you can handle. We baled a few rabbits but no one ever got hurt. Baling straw after doing heavy hay makes you feel a lot stronger. You can pick up more straw and sling it pretty high. We worked from "can't to can't." From when you can't see the sun in the morning until you can't see the sun at night. Long days, good sleep. Get up and do it again.

This is really cool, I had no idea that this was how it worked. ^-^

Cool vid

Hard working America ! I love it

Good Video.

We have a johne deere 346 square baler with a 340 kicker. Works great.

Oh, Wow...Cool.

Nice Work!! I launching shoot, sweet! We use to (back in the late 70's early 80's) have to ride along on a flt bed and pick the bales up by hand and start stacking! LOL. Dad said it was good for me. He was right.

Interesting. Thank you.

pretty cool

I always thought an auger on a baler looked weird, but I see they use a finger also. I think we had an old Massey which had two sets of fingers and no auger. Also no thrower either, that was the job of the guys on the wagon. ;)

cool I like the baler

Interesting. Good video :-)

yes, the video was pretty awesome! How many bails have you bailed so far this year? Do, you have a lot of livestock, Cows and Horses, on your farm? Kendra Hope!!!

lived first in the suburbs, now in the mountains. love the country. as toby kieth says, I shoulda been a cowboy

I think I built your Pole Barn with a crew that has all your equipment in

looks like fun :D

Damn Ryan you look young as hell

cool we do really big round bales for our cattle i think 6x6 but not sure have fun in the fields!! ;D

ahh nothing like square baling in on a wisconsin farm.. esp on a Hot summers day..been there done that.

we need some of that hay down here! The drought killed all of ours - I heard that people around here (southwest Indiana) are paying around $8 a bale for hay brought in from up north. Ouch! Not gonna be able to feed my old horse at that price!

Where I come from there is one person that bales with the big square balers all the rest are small square and round. I also like that kicker, beats have to pick each one up by hand.

thanks for sharing. amazing. I thought hay bales grew naturally or were made by elves.

Years ago we used to bale hay. Load the hay wagon and ride the wagon down to the barn to unload. Hot sweaty, itchy work. Now we just chop hay much easier .

First video I ever saw of Ryans

awsome

Next month is combine or round baler

How many bales dose that wagon hold.I seen one online that would hold 400 bales

We have John Deere's to, but we go from a 1964 4020 into 6320, 6430, 6530 and a 6930

Hand stacking on the rack makes nicer bales but that way is faster. We usualy do 3 or 4 loads of small squares then all the rest are big rounds. If we ever have extra hay we have it custom big squared to ship.

Thanks Ryan =) Very interesting ty. What state are you in?

thats cool

I love farmin

yep, done it too, we picked them up and loaded on a wagon where another guy would stack em

Do you ever make little bales anymore Ryan?

JD balers are the only way to go!

Baled nothin but square in my day. Question is what ties the knots on the bales? Never could figure it out.

Growing up on my grandparents farm, he had a case baler, then a new holland, before he got his jd

On our small baler we have a conveyor belt that shoots it into the wagon

We bale small squares but we let em come out on the ground and we pick em up with a New Holland 1034 stackwagon.And i was just wondering What you do if you get a bale that dont tie right and it comes out busted. does that kicker sling flakes every where and you end up having a mess or what?

hi enjoyed the vid being from farming backround i have been envolved in many bailing sessions myself, i have never seen this cart method used before could you tell me why? say in stead of a plain accumolator and trailer loading them?

I miss small baling hay, not handling the bales but running the baler.

Interesting.... I lived in LaCrosse for a few years...but I am a native New Yorker

The Colored twine I believe is less bio-degradable. I really enjoyed the video, brought back lots of memories. In my day we used to stand behind the bailer and grab & stack. Have you checked my videos called "Lazy Loft"? Will you boys stay safe around that farm machinery, Happy Hunting, Gary H.

great video I would like to see the chopper

good ol' kicker bailers