That 67 sure makes a nice bale and the baler seems to be pretty smooth. Amazing how much we miss a hay hook when we don't have one. It's a third hand for me.
Great video Jake, thank's for the shot of Alabama really enjoyed it. Those super sweep balers handle the crop gentle but will make a bowed bale in light windrows. Try doubling the lighter rows and see if you get a better result. Send some of that rain to mid- Michigan as we have not seen any in three weeks. Thanks, see you next post.
Thanks Scott! I thought those songs went well with the video. Those were doubled windrows haha. For 3rd cutting we will have the 310 back. If I could I would I know Jeff wants some rain too
Can't tell you how many hay racks I road behind a NH compact 65. We bailed about 60 acres on our farm and another 100 or so we leased for the dairy we had and then custom bailed for several neighbors. Got 6 cents a bail for bailing and a penny a bail for loading it on the racks. They had to unload them. Used to run about 1200 bails a day thru the baler. Just kids back in the 60's when we did most of that. Got a bail thrower in the early 80's then round baler in the late 90's. Just have a small place now and raise a few calves for beef. Trying to find a good used square baler for my use. Lots less waste with them.
Enjoyed the video! Spent a lot of time baling with a New Holland 66 baler. As a kid my job was driving the tractor on the baler before I was big enough to handle stacking. bales. You had to be quick to hit the clutch in a heavy spot or you would plug the baler or break a shear bolt. The 273 Dad bought in 1977 had a lot more capacity! .
You load bales differently than we used to. Our wagons were wider, and the land was hilly. We had to load the bales tight on the wagon to keep from losing part of the load on the way back to the barn. The balers that were used were Case 200 series. They weren't a high capacity balers, but they would make good bales in heavy or light wind rows.
That looks like a great way to do that. Here in Colorado we just drop it then a stack wagon comes and picks it up. When I was a kid we would sled it . We would stack in piles of 14 bales than stab a bar in the slot between the planks. Then you use a loader to put them on the stack . Here we stack mostly out side and cover it with tarps.
Don't know if you will see this comment Jake, since this is an older video. But it was great to see the NH in action. If I get to do hay when I start my retirement farming project I am going to look for an NH 60-series baler. I'm told they are the best ones for operating with low horsepower. Yours looks to be in great shape!
defuse56 yep sometimes it notifies me. It is a good baler as long as the windrow size doesn't very to much and never be scared to go up a gear to keep it full so it makes a better bale. Thanks for watching
Thanks for the advice! I doubted you'd even see it. I'll keep the ground speed up if it's not feeding enough volume. Actually, I used to bale with an ancient IH that had that same issue. Man, they don't make songs like "40-hour Week" about professors, do they? Lol :-)
We don't deserve a song . But you sure do! Our baler had a problem with the belts loosening up; if you didn't tighten 'em just right, the baler would get out of time, which I'm sure you know is a regular nightmare.
defuse56 oh wow never seen a belt timed baler these NHs use chains but it is still a pain when the get out of time. Balers are bout the most fickle piece of equipment on the farm
Great video man! Love the haying, that's a beautiful setup there, 880,67 hayliner can't get better than that! Very nice 2nd cut that ol 67 is punching out nice bales oh yeah I like your hay hook! Lol
sweet way to do hay. until watching a couple videos recently, i had never seen someone pull a trailer behind the baler. Glad you didn't get rained on. Can't believe you are starting wheat already. how many acres do you have of that?
Thanks joe. That's how every body does it here but from what I've heard not many people do it else where. We got 27 acres. Prolly cut it tomorrow if it's dry enough
Looking forward to wheat harvest videos. Everyone out here in Eastern Washington where I used to farm used 2 ton flatbeds primarily and then probably in the 1990's people starting using flatbed trailers pulled behind pickups, which is so much nicer. I kind of like the do it all at once deal though
Done this before. Mostly on days when it was screaming hot, and the sun was beating down on you. Man, was I glad when the guy I worked for got a kicker for the baler. Cut the work in half!
Can't beat a NH square bale, we used to have a super 68 and just sold it last year when my grandpa sold his farm and aslong as you set it right and kept a decent windrow it'd bale all day with no problems.
+Jake Ziegler Yeh we was just a small operation 120ac cattle & hay in eastern Ohio, and not making hay the last 2 summers has been strange since that's all I've known lol, but now I'm in ky with my mom and we got abt 5 head on leased ground trying to start up again
+Johnathon Sheehan oh ok I still hate to see farm sell out. Glad ur tryin to make a go of it again. I've got 5 head of feeders. Are u selling for freezer beef?
Did you get any rain? I was working in your area, and there hadn't been any rain yesterday there. At my house, I had .8", with more to the South of us about a mile.
Great looking hay, you talking about working on Sunday my mother in law would tell me you work on Sunday you tare up something most of the time she was right, she would say see I told you so, but you got to sometime.
Nice video, I run a NH 66 baler it works alright. Just found your channel its a lot like mine, so I subscribed. And does your Ford have a Cummins in it, I have an 01 F250 as well.
Cool, in the middle of rebuilding the engine in my F250, its the 5.4 V8. I wish I could have put a 12v in it, but the emissions people here in Maryland wont allow you to put an engine in your vehicle that is older than your vehicle.
we bale with the same and we are having problems with the knotters was making banana bales till we replaced the wood pieces around the plunger and now the knotters are acting up any ideas
+Paul Colborne no problem. And it has wood blocks. Now that I think about it. We did take one of the springs off the feed forks. I think the far right one because it was dragging hay back out of the bale chamber
Jake you did well and did not have a choice when to bale hay when it's about to rain and change good into had hay fast and like the songs also not bad bale count from the hay field.
Jake It's better to bale then not that's a call everyone whose a farms has to make or have made such a call better to act then wait to see if the rain goes around it was a good decision.
