That brings back some memories from bailing at Grandpa's farm. 80 bails a wagon. First time I drove the tractor for grandpa I tipped over the wagon of bales going around a corner to fast. My uncle said that was ok but made me pick up every bale, I was only 10 so that was a very long day. Taught me a good lesson for life. Slow down and do it right the first time. Thanks for posting.
I had a similar first tractor driving experience. My uncle said “whatever you do don’t press that pedal” (the clutch) I was barely tall enough to reach it. So what did I do at the end of a row? Instead of turning into the next row I pushed in on the clutch to stop.. only prob was I had never been taught how to release a clutch. I was relieved of my tractor driving duties shortly thereafter.
It takes a real man to bale hay in shorts. Even in jeans my legs would get cut up. Great video as always Eric. I just love how calm your cows are. It shows great animal husbandry skills. Well done.
@SamSpade Eric's dad several videos back was wearing crocs while walking around in manure😆 alot of peopl commented on that video about the choice shoes to wear
I am glad to see that water way is giving back to the farm. I remember just a short time ago you digging it out laying down top soil and that fabric that the pup was helping you guys roll-out. Today you harvest your first hay...that's success in my book. Thanks again Eric, Aloha🤙
Dutches made me laugh out loud with her “broom attack mode”. And it brought back memories of a dog that I had on my farm years ago that hated booms with a passion too. Great video as always! And thanks for letting me ride along.
Hi Eric, great video, great watching bailing "old school". Helped unload many wagon load when younger, spent all summer on dairy farm in Perry county. Great times and memories!!
Brings back memories of me stacking wagons with hay when I was 10 years old. My uncle used to say stacking hay makes a man out of you. Lol I still remember the blisters and sore arms.
😂the way the bales were shooting out of the baler shute. They must be pretty light. Most of the small bales we use to make just plopped off the end they were so heavy. Sometimes it took 2 to lift them. Small bales still have a place on farm. Great for propping up and feeding sick cows, feed horses, garden, feed to calves, seats to sit on, nesting material for chickens.
I worked on a small dairy farm in the summer time. Loved it and the animals. when changing water pipes to next area I had to watch Mrs. friendly would try and get me bent over so she could knock me down. she thought that was fun. I loved all the animals I worked with. thanks for sharing you life with us. God bless.
Your getting close to the 500 thousandth sub!!! So cool to watch your channel grow from that boom of subs you got a couple years ago. So crazy to think by fall this will be the 3rd harvest I have watched.
brings back fond memories of halloween hayrides from one small farm town to another etc in southern ILL and hayloft parties in my teens. Also manually stacking small square bales while in high school in the 70s
Great video! Dad does a nice job as a stunt man. Hope you get the robots working for you. Always impressed with the cleanliness of your facilities. Thanks for the video Eric!
"semi friendly" every cow you own is friendlier than any cow on our 400 head commercial beef herd lol, ours are tame for commercials, meaning none wanna eat you
Love the segment featuring the "small bale". That was our method for all our haying on our small family dairy farm in eastern Oregon. The rake, the baler, the flatbed wagon... yep that was all we had. Didn't love it as a teenager early 1970s, but it was our family's life... dad and 5 sons did it all. We eventually acquired a bale wagon to make the job a wee bit easier... that was about the time I went off to college. Oh the memories, as I watch your videos. Quite an evolution of everything in the past 50 years.
Only thing missing is the tobacco harvesting and you'd have how I spent my summers in the early '60's as a kid from the inner city working on a dairy/tobacco farm in East Earl! The tobacco plants were hand cut, then speared onto wooden slats (think fencing used at beaches) and finally loaded onto flat trailers with hangers installed where the tobacco would hang upside down while being transported to the barn. Nothing has changed very much (with the exception of AC in the tractor cabins) in the 50 years since my stint on that farm. Hay was raked and baled the same way, but we towed a flatbed behind the baler instead of picking up the bales off the ground. Stacked them bales pretty darn high too! Hard work for a kid, but it was fulfilling as I think back to my youth. Thanks for showcasing what you do Eric! 👍
Bailing machines are fascinating. The farm machinery in general is amazing. combined harvesters for me are just slightly behind bailers. then probably seeders.. all amazing. Thanks Eric for uploading. and thanks 'dad' (name?) also.
When I was 14 I spent the Summer walking hwys picking up bales like that and stacking them on a trailer, then restacking on the ground. Hard, hot work, but I am glad I did it. Damn hard work, really low pay, room, board, great food and beer on Friday nights. It was a different time.
i too had memories brought back. wow its bin a while. im 65 now. was around 5 and not strong enough to buck bails yet so i drove the truck. always was tall for my age so no problem reaching the pedals. by 10 i was stacking on the bed and my sister was driving. thanks for the video it really enjoyed it.
Back in 1970 I started using a 24T John Deere baler, behind a 820 John Deere tractor. Some of the fondest memories now, not so much back then, but it sure did teach me a lot, do mostly big rounds now. I enjoy watching you guys work, you keep busy and get the job done, no time to mess around, I like that. Keep up the hard work, thanks for sharing, have a wonderful remainder of the week.
This channel was a good find. Let's hope Eric keeps his style with a growing number of subscribers and not start fixing what's not broken. And freaking thank you for not adding a background music. It's an annoying and unnecessary trend plaguing the majority of video content. My only suggestion is to consider uploading in higher resolution. 4k would be nice. Cheers from Israel
When I was about 5 (almost 70 years ago) I watched my grandfather drive the wagon and my dad and uncle load the bails by hand. I still remember thinking this is hard work!
It amazes me how much you have to remember about whatever piece of equipment your using. For instance the shaft that can be flipped to give more or less rpm’s. I’d be walking around with the user’s manual all the time. But them I’m old and can’t remember what I had for dinner last night! Always enjoy your videos. Keep up the good work.
I can sure remember the square bales ,on the dairy farm that I worked had the power conveyor that shot them into a automated wagon that had conveyors only time we touched the bales was to put on the conveyor to the barn then stack in the mow. But when I helped the other neighbor bale it was a very different story all by hand all 140,000 bales each cutting
After we got our Case swather, we did not do a lot of raking hay, more so with straw because the combine left the straw in a rather wide windrow. I see they improved the jack stand you yours, ours had this crazy spring loaded one that would spring to full length when you pulled away. To hook it up to the draw bar, you had to have someone jump up and down on the hitch end to get the spring stand to retract down enough to draw bar height.
Hey that's great video hey Dad you ought to become a videographer for you were getting some good shots and them bails coming out of that machine remind me when I helped on the farms great shot man keep up the good work and all of you stay safe down there my friends in Pennsylvania God bless 👍👍🇺🇲🇺🇲✌️
As a teen I worked on my uncles farm here in Texas. We did custom baling mostly alfalfa, 75lb bales. We trailered all bales never dropped them. I thought it was fun back then.
Eric, I love how you give your cows a chance to make a comeback, that’s awesome. A lot of the dairies by me just get rid of them like an old pair of shoes. Not what God intended. “ I check the hydraulic fluid level… now and then…” lol… that’s like writing on the filter, changed sometime last year… I needed that laugh, thank you so much!
That's the bailing I remeber!! Then tossing it on the wagon, then stacking it, then off onto a conveyor that took it up and dropped it where we stacked it again!!! That was a ton of work.. only to repeat it dormant days!!
Man I just realized I've been watching your channel for a couple of years!! I feel like a farmer!! Thanks bro for always inviting us into your world definitely 💯
This brought back memories of when we had our horses and we fed them them square bales along with their regular grain. We didn’t grow our own hay but we went to someone else’s farm and picked it up out of the field. So I did my share of hauling hay every summer.
Beautiful happy Momma Cows and a bit spoiled. :) You and Dad do an amazing job and the farm is always so immaculately groomed. Crops looking great too. God Bless your Family.
So for the last 2 years I've only watched Cole the Cornstar and after finding you it's good to see the other side of farming where does strictly corn and soybeans and you do dairy cows. It's a very cool line of work.
We still make a few little bales in a couple of fields close to the river where we can’t get the big gear down there. Back in the 80’s we were making thousands of the buggers. Long, tough but awesome days as a young kid!
Summer job memories from a long time ago. Dad's little friend is a good worker. I think her name's Stella? Little Jack must be growing too. Busy hands makes life beautiful. Cheers 🇨🇦
Where do you get all of your energy young man? You just keep going, whatever needs to be done, you do it. With NO complaining. ( I hope you don't go home and complain to your wife1 ha ha) What a great example. You better plan a big celebration when you reach 400K viewers...it is coming soon. Love to see the older machines come out...I remember using them. And great video work. I know that takes a lot of extra time. Great work in every way. God's peace be with you and your family.
Eric that is soo funny!!! This is cow 882 she is Semi friendly 😂😂😂. I know some people like that ; didn’t know cows were like that 😆 I rather deal with a semi friendly cow than person. Great Video thanks 🙋♀️
this gave me flashback 2 baling hay with grandfather, stacking n hay loft while fighting black & red wasp ... GOOD TIMES ... wouldn't trade the memories for anything !!!
I remember taking up hay when I was a kid at my uncles diary farm. Some bails would be heavy as hell, the others light. The hard part wasn't the fields, it was throwing the bails up in the hay barn. I'd be up on that stack in the barn and it would be 120+. I was 13-14 at the time and it turned my into a young buck quick.
When we got an electric chain driven bale conveyor to carry the bales from the hayrack up into the haymow, my uncles worried that such an 'extravagant luxury' would prevent us farm boys from becoming men! They shut up quick when we suggested that they come and show us how 'real men' tossed bales. We had a long haymow with a big door at each end. If you were lucky and there was a bit of a breeze, you could open both doors and get some ventilation -- that kept the temp only about 100 or so. If you filled it right, you could leave a middle aisle open for a breeze until late in the season, when it was nearly fall anyway and not so hot.
