TRAILING SMOKE | How Baler Fires Start 

Fastest I've seen Travis move in a while. Glad nothing serious was burned up and was able to get back up and going in a couple hours. Yes, I understand, a burn out bearing is a bad deal, but no crop or people was hurt and Travis was back up and running in a few hours. Nice video Ryan.....

Kudos to Travis for catching it before it becomes a major problem.

Great video Ryan and big thanks to your mom and Travis for getting the job done. That's real farming family right there.

I have a small farm with a few hay feilds and my neighbor would do all our haying because half of the equipment was ours and he used it for his farm so that was our payment through the years which worked out great! Well in the later years before he passed away he was pretty out of it but wouldn't stop farming ofcoarse, one day I came home from school and pulled into the field to see how it was going and man I bet you he had a solid smoke stack coming out of the baler over 150 feet in the air! I ran out there screaming at him to drop the bale and get to the water hydrant. By luck the bale we dropped didn't catch and I was able to out out the fire with a small extinguisher and a hose. But it was same problem i have seen it happen to many farmers alike that bearing gives out and starts a fire, especially when that access door/panel fills up with shit. It's definitely something a guy has to keep his eye one because once that bale starts on fire and the belts catch there's no stopping it. That old man was like family to us and bless his heart he kept going until he got called home, I have many stories like that about him that I can remember back on and get a good laugh for the day. Couldn't ever ask for a better neighbor however he was more family than a neighbor. Now days having a good neighbor is getting pretty rare.

Wow you got super lucky on that baler. My JD 458 bearing went out and the baler did catch on fire. Stay safe and keep farming!

We have fire extinguishers on all tractors, combines and balers. I recommend it.

We do lots of baling alfalfa and straw. I was running our New Holland BC5070 little square baler on our John Deere 7600 baling alfalfa at a small 20 acre field. The swaths were very thick and tough and got caught in the teeth got hot and caught on fire twice. Thankfully all that was needed was a half filled bottle of water to put out the fire so everything was ok.

Great video & very great family support to help get the job done. That's one of the reasons I so enjoy watching How Farms Work &The rest of the story because of the closeness of your family. i know that really contributes to making your farms successful operations. Thanks Ryan for taking the time to do these videos on farming. You and Travis imho are doing a very awesome job of putting the information out there on what it's really like to be a farmers.Take care till next time.

I saw the video Travis posted about the bearing... we had a similar instance but it actually caught fire. Luckily no wind and a few coolers of water / ice saved all! I really enjoy y'all's videos. Keep up the great work and take care!

Enjoy the videos and how family works together.

Great example of all hands at the farm pull together to make " Farms Work "

its great how you and travis complement each others channel (as seen in this case with your link to travis´s video about the process of fixing the bearing)

As usual an informative and interesting subject video. Still trying to get through all of the older ones!!

Another awesome video and it's a good thing you have brother Travis with you and knows how to fix those things pretty quick he's a pretty smart young man and mechanically inclined of course you have to be when you're running your own equipment that overall good video can't wait to see you rapping those bales

Well had gotten warm it had turn blue that some more heat on the bearing nice Travis had repaired the baler nice video.

Shout out to mom. 👏👏👏

That jcb really saves time with that boom

Im sure you'll repay the favor to your mom and Travis many times over. You have a great family.

Ahh...The real farming life! Mixing Everyday issues with other obligations.

Nice cinematography and editing again! can't wait for your potential future project you've talked about in the past (music video?) I'm sure it'll be amazing. Glad the Baler issue wasn't any worse than it was, and Travis was able to fix it quickly!

That’s one advantage of that JCB teleskid you can reach across a wagon or trailer. My Newholland L150 I have trouble reaching bales on the far side especially where the wheels are. Looks a lot more stable too. Bearings are the biggest cause of implement fires usually combine fires too. Pays to have a good extinguisher on hand.

Another Great Video...Keep on making great content and feeding America

Good video. Things don't always go as planned, so it's good to have family willing and able to help when time is of the essence. That's awesome that you were able to make it to your speaking engagement in Baraboo. Looking forward to the wrapping video next week.

The same can be said for some combine fires as well... dry material and hot metal don't mix. Easiest thing to hopefully mitigate and catch failing bearings is use a good grease and check temps on bearings periodically. Keeping debris buildup off helps too.

Thanks Ryan, you opened the door for farming videos.

Thanks Travis and Farmer Mom. Getner done. :)

Hi Ryan. I have no idea how you would go about it, but one of these times you should do a video on "Farm Moms/Wives" and the epic amounts they contribute to a farm's success or failure. Perhaps a winter project when you have a little more free time. Grew up dairy/mixed crop farming in Southern Ontario, so I have some idea about how true this is. Whether they work off the farm to help even out cash flow for the day to day or are fulltime on the farm. , I'd be willing to bet the non-farmers who watch your channel can't really appreciate just how absolutely crucial their contribution is. Farming was probably the first industry where "equal rights" was a thing. Because one doesn't have a choice. Everyone contributes in any area of work where they can. * Thought triggered by " Mom and Travis got 60 bales done" * paraphrasing a little because I'm too lazy to go back and get the exact quote. :)

Awesome video 👍👍👍👍 you and your family have a great weekend

You should get a refillable water extinguisher on that bailer. Way better.

Hey Ryan, one of the main reasons I came to your channel was because I was interested to know what it would be like to be a farmer. Your channel really helped and I learned a lot! If it wasn't for you, I wouldn't know 1 thing about farming. Keep up the great work.

Travis, the baling man. Keep up the good work Travis.

Awesome video Ryan!!

Nothing like a good ole fashion bearing going out

Wrapping bales is fun. Lift bale set on wrapping machine, watch bale tumble around like it'e drunk. Lift wrapped bale off and set it in the pile. Unless you are using an inline, then you just keep feeding bales as it makes a snake..

A few months ago I help put out a hay baler that was on fire along with a few bales of hay. Great video and very informational keep it up

Great video Ryan

Wrapping is fun. You will save more feed and the cows will love it.

Mose Schrute sighting at 2:41. lol

Good Job on the Video!!

Love the quality of your videos!!! The bale closeups look so good on 1440p :D

Good video Ryan love your channel

Great video Ryan I hope you get that round baler fixed and get the rest of them bales made

Another great vid, Keep it up!!🙂

Thanks for the vid Ryan..

Another great video of that extension, JCB. Reach over and get the bales on the other side.

Mom and Travis needs a bonus... ;)

I was planning on seeing you in Baraboo. Something came up that I could not make it. Thanks for what you do. I live just north of you near LaValle. Still living on our family farm but not working it anymore.

I love your videos and just how you like your truck still

Great camera angles.

Great video.....

Mom come through again....on the farm or in the home👍

I have a 2 litre squirty pump bottle on my wood chipper that I operate for work, that I have used a few times to put fires out that start around the engine.

You guys are awesome :) Keep it up :) 👍

The extension boom on the JCB could do with some grease. 60 bales is a terrible yield. Here in Ireland we’d easily get 10 to 12 bales to the acre of silage.

Nice vid!

I thought you were going to say on the next video “ watch me present the check to Travis and my Mom” Joking of course!

I was at the Sauk county fair on Friday but had to leave before you got there to do chores😢

That is a shame,, You have great team around you... 60 bales,, good farming

You should always use Mountain Dew to put out baler fires, not Sprite LOL:) Seriously, baler parts getting smoking hot or catching fire and possibly catching the field on fire is NEVER fun... Glad to see no real damage was done that wasn't easily reparable. Neighbor of ours had his Vermeer catch fire a few years back, he decided to jump up into the bale chamber with the rear door open to kick out all the flaming duff and loose hay inside the belts before it burned the baler-- he saved the baler but ended up with a bunch of bad second and third degree burns and was in the hospital and rehab for MONTHS-- would have been cheaper to let the baler (and tractor if necessary) burn and just take the insurance and cost hit and replace them, compared to hospital and rehab bills, plus the pain and suffering he went through. Nothing to mess around with! I've had a baler bearing go, usually on the roller at the bottom of the door the bale rides on, it seems to take the worst of it... got hot and was dropping bits of burning duff across the field and starting little fires here and there. Luckily the guy I was baling for just got home from work and came out to the field to see how things were going, and he flagged me down and I dropped the bale, left the door open and the baler running to keep the belts from sitting on one spot on the belt on the hot roller, and drove in road gear up to his house and hosed the baler door down to cool the steel. He drove over the smoldering spots in his pickup to make sure they were all put out. Fixed the baler and got back to it the next day. Closest call I had with fire was actually sitting still... I was dieseling up the old 5200 Ford row crop tractor by the farm shop, and suddenly smoke started POURING out from under the hood, out of the back of the generator. The charging wire from the battery had shorted in the generator or harness and it instantly set the wire glowing white hot, burned up the wiring harness and generator, and caught the oil on the side of the block on fire... I didn't have a hose handy, and fueling the tractor really made things urgent, as it needed to be put out RIGHT NOW. I shut off the diesel tank and grabbed the first thing I came to, a shovel, and started shoveling dirt from the drive up onto the side of the block until I put the fire out, which didn't take but 2-3 shovel fulls of loose dirt. What ticked me off was, I had just replaced that generator the previous year, and installed a new tachometer on that tractor, which was driven off a worm gear and cable on the back of the generator. I pulled the wiring harness, cut the wrap off it, repaired the damaged wires, and re-wrapped it in electrical tape, and reinstalled it on the tractor. I decided to switch to a Chevy alternator, which would not only be much cheaper than the generator but also provide a lot more power, and all they need is a heavy charging wire running to the battery cable connection at the starter, from the back of the alternator, and a red jumper wire to the field terminal plug on the side of the alternator, plus a brown exciter wire running to the key switch "hot in run" to sense the voltage and power up the alternator when you crank the tractor up. That was easy enough to do. TO continue to operate the new tachometer, I pulled the generator off, gutted all the wiring and stuff out of it, repacked the bearings with good grease, and reinstalled it as a "blank", basically just spinning to turn the worm gear and cable running to the tach, with no other function electrical or otherwise. I installed the Chevy alternator above it, and had to measure and buy a new, longer belt to spin both the old blank generator pulley and the Chevy alternator above it. Worked like a champ. Later on we traded off the old tractor (it was a 68 model) on a new tractor, and I was surprised after it went through the dealer shop, they left the entire system on it just like I had redone it... Later! OL J R : )

Hey Ryan, I love your videos and the way you show the farming community. I was just curious why you guys chose to cut and bale your oats vs. combining them?

Nice video.

Super as normal

Great video! Good thing y’all caught the bearing in time! How many bales do y’all go through per day during winter?

Made some oat hay like that 3 years ago, it was wonderful feed but I’ve never seen so many mice in my life, it was apocalyptic. Feed it up fast

Great video Ryan! I've never seen Travis run so fast😂😂 I love all your family members personality. How many hours have you put on the jcb and how many are on it total?

This was a pretty fair video

WHEW! 😱 that’s was close shave😬

Just wondering if you have fire extinguishers in your tractors. It would be important to have them. I had a very exciting event and I decided to put them in just in case. Love the videos.

Really sorry you have to go through that that is the main reason we don't have our own baler.

Same thing happened to me last year on my 566

Yup bearings and balers will get ya everytime. I carry a laser temp gun with me for checking them about every 30 to 40 minutes.

Now we will have to wait and see how many 2 crop make hope its enough

Same bearing i just had go out came darn close to losing the baler

Well there goes your pop

Can you do a video of how to run and operate a skid loader?

Is there any plans to get a flat bed trailer like a low boy to use behind your semi truck to haul bails as well as equipment or whatever needs to be hauled?

Hey Ryan!! Title of next video- Wrapping with Ryan???

The same thing happened to us on a 469Premium

Could you guys do collabs with other farmers with different farm equipment in your atea?

Using oats for hay is not something we see in Denmark. Here oats are used for cereal products. Why or when are oats used for hay? Wouldn't grass give a higher yield? Is oats the best cereal crop for hay or is that dependent on the location? Being a non-farming son of an old barley, hog and potato farmer I love learning about farming in other countries and enjoy very much that you take time to explain things.

Good catch Travis. Did they buy the JCB?

Are you wrapping them for storage or to make silage

Work hard and get stuff done.

How did u guys handle all the storms from the 19th and 20th

JCB is quieter and has A/C, plus you can unload from one side. Ryan is like all little brothers when something breaks he finds somewhere else to be! LOL Just kidding! Maybe

RYAN!!!

Do you scoop and not stab the bales because there pallets forks or because your wrapping or is there another reason

I know it all went down quick, but it looked like Travis ran to the pickup to get a can of soft drink to douse the bearing. And, it looked like a fire extinguisher strapped to the front of the baler. So, a can of soft drink trumps a fire extinguisher.... We did not see enough of what was really happening with the bearing, so maybe a soft drink was the best remedy, ... don't know.

does that boat in your shed run

Look at all that dust

At least you didn't have NASA set your hay on fire! LOL:) True story-- A few years ago, NASA was testing out a new automated lander technology demonstrator they called "Mobius" (IIRC). We saw it when I attended a model rocket launch at NASA Johnson Space Center south of Houston a few weeks or month or so before. NASA-JSC is located on about 600 acres of land that was donated to Rice University in the late 50's which then passed to the Federal gubmint to build the space center in the early 60's... The actual space center itself consists of a small university-size campus in the middle/southern part of the grounds with a number of multi-story buildings, various facilities and such, accounting for about maybe 100 acres worth or so of the property. The rest inside the razor-wire topped storm fence is just basically native pasture grass that will grow 4-5 feet tall or so if left alone, so NASA rents the grounds to some local hay farmer who cuts and bales it periodically just to keep the grass down to manageable heights, and gets some income off it on the side selling hay. SO, NASA has their little baby lunar lander hanging from a bungee cable suspended from a big crane, so it can lift off and "fly" without risk of crashing if the engine or guidance system should happen to fail... Of course they're flying off an old concrete runway that cuts across the grounds out in the middle of what is now hay pasture... The engineers figured flying a rocket-engine powered vehicle off of concrete won't be an issue, after all they'd had the grass cut and land cleared back 50-100 feet on either side of the runway surrounding their test area where the lander would take off and land back on the runway... The problem was, that concrete and sustained high-temperature flame DO NOT MIX... when the rocket engine fired up and built up to thrust, the searing rocket jet blasting down onto the concrete caused the concrete to spall, that is, the concrete expands suddenly on the surface due to the heat, but concrete is actually a good insulator, so heat doesn't transfer down fast enough into it, and being brittle, the hot surface concrete expands faster than the cooler concrete below it, causing the surface to crack and pop off like popcorn, which is called spalling... The spalled bits of concrete are red hot and fly off a long distance, propelled by the force of their popping off the concrete surface itself and helped along by the considerable rocket jet blast... SO basically red-hot bits of concrete are flying for dozens of yards in every direction, and land in the dry grass beyond the cleared area, and start a grass fire in the hottest, driest part of the year on the Texas Coast... The fire rapidly spread to consume most of the fields of grass on the NASA grounds, and even spread under the chain link storm fence to menace surrounding neighborhoods and businesses built next to the NASA property. Of course it also set several hundred bales of hay alight and once the fire departments had kept the fires from getting into neighborhoods and businesses and burning down Mission Control and the other buildings of NASA proper, they started trying to extinguish the flaming hay bales... of course they were hitting them with the high-pressure water jet from the fire hose nozzles, which were blowing the bales apart from the force of the water impact, and the scalding hot hay would INSTANTLY burst into flame as it was exposed to the oxygen of the air... It was rather amusing to watch on TV, except of course for the poor farmer who'd just lost all his hay. Putting out a burning round bale is about like extinguishing a burning cotton bale-- next to impossible. They had a semi-load of cotton bales catch fire one time next county over, trucker stopped and uncoupled his truck from the trailer and later the fire department came and hosed and hosed it down til they ran out of water, and then they brought in a loader to shove the burning bales off the remains of the trailer, and even pushed some of the bales down into a creek, where they continued to burn UNDERWATER!! I burned a couple old junk round bales one time on some freshly-worked ground where the county put in a new culvert in the pasture one time, just to add nutrients to the bare subsoil they'd dug up, to help get grass growing over it again... Those bales sat there and smoldered all night-- people were driving by on the road and stopping because they looked like two enormous lumps of red-hot lava sitting there, smoldering underneath the outer layer of ash on the outside of the bales... by morning they were gone and just the ash remained... Later! OL J R :)

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Out ofcuriosity, you had 1 bearing go bad on 1 side. It would lead me to believe the bearing on the other side should be changed also?

What gear do you bail in?

Is it because you dont ha e bale spears that you dont 'stab' the bales but grab under them or is it to not tear the bale apart?

Cheap smoke detector in the baler? Probably crazy idea.

My dad have a bearing caech fire

You are the best at farming

My prediction for the next vidoe tilte is How Ryan RAPS. Lol.

On average how heavy is a roll of Hay / oats?