Thank you for sharing Dennis. Great job for training a young family member in a decade or less when he gets big enough to help dad in the field. Reminds me of the video games from the 1970s, LOL.
Great video Dennis. Never seen one of those before. Would have saved me a lot of time long ago. Thanks again for sharing your life with us. God bless you and your family. Until next time, have a good one.
It's nice to see the advances that are made to make it much easier for the work that goes into baling hay and straw. That looks to be a good time saver Dennis.
It sure goes a LOT quicker with the skid steer! I built my own accumulator/grapple attachment and it's totally changed my life. I did a video series on the build if anyone is interested. Having an accumulator on the back of a baler and a grapple is ultimately the way to go though. Thanks for the video man!
Good to see that works good for u. I was thinking of building one with the grapple part too. Similar to the maxilator grapple. Denny’s country life built one too. Great video!
Hello from Bristol, hey Dennis that looks like fun gathering the bales I’m envious 😹 also on ur practicality video it seems like ur right where ya need to be as far as acres and all work that goes into them. Any more and you’d never get home I know ya work a lot and work hard but like ya said “any bigger and you couldn’t get it done”. Enjoy the dry weather. Rain coming in sat the 21st and staying till wed Great video and I’ll see ya on the next one buddy. Warren
This is interesting. I grew up on a farm and when we bailed hey we had a waggon connected to the hey Baylor and one person drove the tractor and one person stack the hay. This would’ve been really handy.
Now that's much better than doing this operation by hand. Sitting in A\C picking up bales of straw. Life is so much better than when I helped on a farm in the 60's!
Though a combo accumulator / grapple would be the most cost effective, I would think you would get better results with a separate grapple. You would have the ability to "nudge" the group of bales together to tighten it up before grapplling, reducing the gaps between bales and the loose stacks on the wagon.
Thanks so much for your videos, I always enjoy riding along with you. Assuming the ground is dry, would it be appropriate as a starter machine for making horse hay? You don’t pick up much crap pushing the bales around the sod? I also use plastic twine - no issues that you are aware of there? Again thank you so much for your videos!
@@DLHFarms you just made a sale for WR Long:-). Again thanks for all of your videos. We have crazy strict CoVID restrictions here... even have curfews... I’m stuck in my city house and working through all of your videos pretty fast:-)
No but we really have to have both. You can't Justify bringing a round bale blower out when you only need 2 square bales to cover your work area. We also sell some of the squares to the public.
No they don't work good where I live. It would work where I'm at in this video other than the barn is 30 miles from this field. I live in the mountains and all my land is very steep.
Considering that the majority is already built, would it really take that much more work to add the claws on a rocker shaft and then you could just grab and go stack on the trailer or wagon without changing to the grapple after all the packs are made?
Nice little set up but ill admit, I prefer the UK versions. I've a cooks 8 bale sledge and grab. Cost £500 for both to get me going. I'm looking at a 10 bale set up now though 😕
If you had the scrap steel, parts and most importantly time, you could probably mount those arms on a set of cams and mount a rotary actuator or something like that on there to run it and turn it into a bale squeeze type of contraption and save yourself an extra step.
The great thing about this device is it's a one person show. Don't have to worry about gathering a bunch of labor to do it. Back it the day picking up hay was about only way a rural kid could make money in the summer. Now days they don't want any part of it. Are you located in Virginia?
lot better 7 quicker than getting one a time, wouldnt take much to make a set of hooks and a ram so you could pick them up and load them with it when you got 10 bales
If you get a chance go check out the channel called "North Texas Hay" . He has some one man hay machines so he can do it all at once. Before watching his stuff Is never thought of doing hay that way. Thanks for sharing your video.