Hay in a Day - Part 2
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- Опубликовано: 30 июн 2012
- Building a rack of loose hay -- demonstrated by Faye Vido. The grass that was mown in the morning, spread and raked over to dry during the day, and consolidated before the evening dew. The hay usually stays on this rack only long enough to finish the curing process, before the hay is moved into the barn for storage, although we sometimes leave them in the field all season.
Video shot on our farm in New Brunswick, Canada. For more information, see scytheconnection.com/handcraft...
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God bless this hard working woman. She is no stranger to work. She knows what she is doing.
This brings back a lot of memories of my neighbor and his family. I used to help when I could. No expensive equipment. No fuel costs. No grease and oil. No maintenance or replacement parts to buy. No depreciation. No noise..... Some hard work, but gratifying. A good way to live off the land....
Herb Houston no maintenance? Pfft try using a full scythe. Most get honed 5-10 times PER HOUR of use.
Pfft! If you think that that's 'maintenance' you really haven't a clue mate
Never b beaten
Lovely fresh Hay they must b leavin in field for a term seein they use sticks lovely to hear DONKEY .THE WORLD OWES AN AWFUL LOT TO THE DONKEY FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS
A couple people asked about the point of the rack. This hay has cured only one day rather than the typical 3. If put directly into the barn it could rot and cause a fire. You can see as she stacks she is carefully keeping the bottom rows from touching the ground, and at the end she shows off the hollow beneath. This air circulation allows the hay to continue drying on the rack, while the shape of the heap protects the under layers from the sunlight and rain damage it would get while spread out on the field.
If I had a lady like that I be a rich man
Sounds like you may have read "The Ploughman's Folly" Denise.
Excellent! I started making my own hay using a European scythe, home made hay rake, and hay racks several years ago when hay prices here in central Virginia reached $10 a bale. I figure if my animals can eat it fresh during the growing season, then they can eat it during the in between times as well. Saves me a bunch of money, and I get a lot of good exercise and fresh air to boot. I can cut, ted, and stack a half acre a day by myself.
Great back to basics. Healthy workout, no chemicals, eating well, sleep through the night. Thanks for posting.
Huge respect for this lady,she works hard and I'll bet she sleeps good at night.very nice woman.
Just started on my 3/4 acre farmstead can hardly wait for warmer weather, so much to do in this first yr. this is how you should make hay for your livestock or garden for mulch. no power, no fossel fuel, just you and God, and the work that needs to be done. God Bless
In places where kangaroos wander, fresh is better. However, here in NB, Canada, domesticated animals need hay or silage for the 5-7 months where grazing in the field is not possible, due to frost and snow. So we make the winter's food for our animals during the summer months while the grass is growing.
Appreciate your curiosity. Cheers!
Do you guys still live on the farm?
Where are u my friend...?
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YA GREAT TO C THIS FINE WOMAN WORKIN AT THE HAY AND HEAR THE HAY CRACKLIN WE EVER USED THE STICKS . WE BUILT THEM AND MADE A SUGAUN A ROPE MADE FROM HAY AND TIED IT DOWN BEST WISHES FROM WEST OF IRELAND
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! It's so nice to finally find a video that just shows me what you're doing without all of the "fancy" cutting, pasting, editing, and voice-overs! Fantastic videos! :) I'm looking forward to making an attempt at putting up our own hay next season. We've only been on our farm for a little over a year. Thanks again!
That is a perfect bit of information to use in Ruth Stout's mulch garden method. That rack is of interest; is it about 2 or 3 feet wide? And it is all done in one day. That is great. I've cut hay with a Scythe but never stood it up like that.
Thank you so much for this video. It's a good one for some of us trying to raise livestock on a budget (can't afford machinery right now).
your films are so unique and beautiful, thank you !
Lol most people in the comments are so out of place here - this is how it's been done for centuries! Why would you even need shoes or sleeves? You're stepping on fresh ground and it's not like the hay's gonna hurt you lol, bunch of city rats I suppose? Reminds me of my childhood, both part 1 and part 2, this was always lots of fun, though we would let the hay dry on the ground for two or three days, rather than doing it all in one day. Playing in the piles of hay or having sleepovers in the barn on the fresh hay was always great fun too. Farming is a hard job, but (especially done oldschool like here) one of the most rewarding and stressfree ones!
YamiKisara depends on the largely on the type of grass used, some varieties have hard stems that hurt like a SOB to step on. Others are softer making bare footing it easier, also depends on when it was cut for some varieties.
You put it so beautifully there's nothing to ad other than most city sleekers, but especially feminist, wouldn't know what real life is about...
I've been around hay for 30 years making it and feeding it and I still to this day get rashes on my arms from it and would not have no shoes on making hay no way . I'm certainly no city rat. I am a women and do it on my own and manage perfectly well thanks . The women is the video does great but I don't know how she isn't itchy after all that
@@me-ps3vb I guess she's not allergic to hay. I'd be itchy just like you if I was doing that
Among many, the United States of America! I put up several tons of hay by hand every year. I'm making it in small, irregularly shaped areas where a conventional mower and baler can't be brought in, so it's cut and raked by hand. Works like a charm!
Amazing, wonderful, a needful to get back to this work ethic. I would like to see how the rack was made. Thanks for sharing this.
Thank you for such great videos. I hope all is well with your family.
AMEN GOD BLESS YOU AND ALL OF YOUR WORK WHICH TAKES A LOT OF TIME AND LABOR
this hay was cut perhaps before the seed heads could make pollen, if in fact they let seed heads grow. Seed heads grow on stems which are difficult to cut with a sythe. Also, stems are the devil to walk on bare foot, so I suspect that these folks sythe the grass before stems form. So, in other videos one can see that the men are cutting blades of grass, therefore pollen is minimal and the grassy hay dries more quickly than stemmy hay. MMM smells good too. Good work!
Much of the nutritive value of the hay is lost if allowed to go to seed. Also, lower digestibility once the seed head/stalk hardens off. Much wiser to garner several higher-quality harvests than just waiting for "bulk" to form. I understand that sometimes you can't "get to it" in time---other jobs sometimes prevent the timely cutting of the hay....but by then it's no longer "hay" just "straw." (and yes, there IS a difference---which explains the use of separate terms...) But then, the "Round Toit" is the rarest form of currency on most farms....pls don't ask how I know....
...and at the end she's still having fun with it!
Grew up in a tiny village in the countryside...always loved the smell of fresh hay
That hard working woman. Before we had a used hay bailer we used this method of hay storage. We called them hay stadles. Lots of work, however it worked. Great video. :-) :-) :-)
thank you for sharing these videos, I shall build a rack from my coppiced hazel from the hedgerow, I too use a scythe for my mowing, and I loved the ending
I don't get to this site too often and still can't understand how this family could appear to be affluent making hay with so much intensive labor. I suspect they have oitside jobs and do this type of work for exercise and pleasure. Good for them.
Putting up hay is hard with a tractor, mower, rake and a baler. These people are amazing; the work involved is tremendous.000000000000
nice watching the foundations of how this country was built, but thank you for New Holland
Ohh, I remember so well the scent of drying hay. 😘
Great videos, thank you for the inspiration!
So neatly and elegantly done! Makes me want to be a little piggy living in that house of straw. (At least, until the wolf comes.)
This is contemplative, informative, and beautiful. Now I know how.
Thank you for sharing it (#1 and #2)!
I would very much like to meet the woman shown here :)
I remember hiding in haystacks as a kid, always loved the smell of it. Never found a needle though. :)
Loved seeing the Lady craw thru
.. Hugs & Kisses to these wonderful hard-working ladies .. God-Bless you both .. I have never watched this By-Hand Hay Cutting & Drying Process .. Lots of Love for Mother-Nature in this video .. Terrific Entertaining Ending ..
Loving the work shoes 😊 as in lack of them. 👍👍
On a very small scale hand harvesting is economical. Even if I was mechanically inclined enough to fix up old used equipment, I'd need 3 grand or so, and then there is a lot of maintenance and parts that will go into that. If I want to buy new baling equipment, I would spend 5 digits easily. The loose hay if done properly also suffers less leaf shatter then baled and can have a higher feed value. Give your animals a taste test, they generally will prefer loose hay to baled. A good resource for learning about loose hay is "Haying With Horses" Lots of good info there about hay in general, not matter what equipment you use to get the job done.
Silage is hay baled before it is dry and allowed to ferment with little oxygen present. I was not referring to silage. Silage is very difficult to do on a small scale.
Every time dry hay is handled, there is some leaf breaking. The leaves can shatter and fall off. The leaves are more nutritious than stems Hand raking is more gentle than ground driven rakes, which is more gentle than pto rakes. Loose hay doesn't get crushed in a baler, another place your leaves can turn into hay dust.
Just try the taste test or analyze samples. Don't take my word for it if my word doesn't make sense to you. "Haying With Horses" goes into more detail on the subject if you want more info.
Peter Šori You smash the leaves with the baler, so they turn to dust.
Another source of info on this topic is Friend Sykes' "Humus and the Farmer" out of print but available. Friend Sykes (a Quaker) claims invention of this type of hay rykke (he calls his invention a "hay stand") which was an improvement over the customary technique of piling hay around a pole planted in the ground (which, while it immobilized the "stack" did not provide any cross-ventilation like his invention did) "Loose" hay is definitely superior to baled or rolled hay---it not only retains more of the leaf-area but it (probably) hasn't been left out over several damp nights collecting dew. Nor has it been "beat to near-death" by a high-speed "circle-cutter" much less "crimped" by a "hay conditioner" (called a "mangle" for good reason...), raked violently-and-at-high-speed by a wheel or side-delivery rake or "teddered" ALL of which are necessary with mechanical haying methods. All of the above are hard on your hay! Quick, "efficient" perhaps, but careless since most hay producers are just going for weight/size/bulk and not feeding their own animals. One commenter mentioned "3 thousand dollars" as a cost of equipping for haying---the actual figure is well over $20,000 (even buying used equipment at auction---from someone else who has already decided "this ain't worth it!") 3k won't even get a single low-power tractor, and a decent 50h.p. tractor that'll run a baler is upwards of $15k very used! There are several multi-thousand-dollar implements required to hay the "modern" way. Something the finance companies learned several generations ago.....play it if you like it---I have (and discovered I didn't, after all) Just KNOW that if yer gonna "play" you're gonna PAY! (and so's your hay...)
I wanna live in good old day like this..when we still honour the nature and love each other..
Then do it. A couple acres and you can do it.
@@claytoncampbell3777 its complicated...but i believe somehow, somewhere...i can feel the clean air and lay down on fresh green grass again...take care what you believe..
Where are these WONDERFUL, MYTHICAL people??!!! Such lovely, great women
Wow, that was so education. Thanks
Amazing work. I imagine she is either an unmarried daughter and also caring for her parents or else she is a farmer's wife and still has her household tasks to complete as well. This could easily be in any European country on a small acreage. I've seen hay handled this way in Norway also due to small irregular parcels of land too small for equipment.
I love this video! for those with hay fever wear a mask and ichy? showers fix that lol. Come on people! She completed the stack in under 10 min. It takes longer to pick up the machine made bales and throw on a trailer oh and more sweat and sore muscles then still have to haul those 60-100lb bales into barn. Dont know about you but when Im done im still sneezing and ichy in need of shower lol so why not use the 10 minute version for small field. It takes that long to set up equipment to bale already prepared hay in a field. Also equipment isnt cost effective for a small homestead farm. No farmer is scared of hard work. So weather you are a farmer with large amounts of land that requires equipment to make your farm cost effective or a small Homestead farmer who chooses 2 hand Farm to make there Farm cost effective it's no less no more physically demanding to do either way. I love farming and the more I do for myself the better I feel. adding equipment has caused more stress with the repairs and upkeep on my small farm so I prefer this ladies video as an alternative. but that's just me.
She must have feet like leather. Having done a lot of haying, after the cut, the stubble is like sharp spikes.
.. God-Bless this wonderful woman .. Such an inspiring example of dedication and hard-work ..
What gorgeous hay
I am visitor 29,666 and I love the ending! Beautiful video!
Her children shall rise up and call her blessed the, Proverbs Woman
Poor that this channel stopped and no new films....
Agreed part 1 of this video was awesome haven't finished part two yet
Hehe!! Love the end. You remind me of my duck mama. ❤️
Perfect haystack.
What an amazing woman !
Looks and sounds dry enough to put in the loft. Days in New Brunswick are longer in summer..
Where helpful and charming, love it.
beautiful
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What size area did you hand cut to be able to do all that in one day? 1/4, 1/2 acre?
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Beautiful................!
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Ideal clothing for keeping cool...
Hey I don’t know much about hay, but what is the best season to plant hay? How long it take to be ready for harvest? What are the best hay brand? I live in the tropical area,(central America) we only have two seasons winter, which is rain for 6 moths, and Sumer another 6 month with little rain and hot.
wow :) I love those muscled arms! wonderful job
we bundled ours and shocked them, looking like great big mushrooms
This is an excellent video, thank you so much! Can you please explain how you would store it in the barn after it is done drying outside?
In the old days they stored it just in stacks outside...
There's no need to move this hay (again...) into a barn. A properly constructed rykke naturally sheds rain, preventing spoilage. Did you notice that she put the "sweepings" on top? The only part of the process I didn't notice was the final downward sweeping of the exterior of the pile to aid in the shedding of winter's rain. Also, while "cute" her passage through the structure served the valuable purpose of ensuring that the air passageway through the pile was open for ventilation. The rykke is customarily oriented to present this pass-thru to the prevailing winds. Like another commenter noted, this lady knows what she's about!
I just watched these two videos and I loved them. So peaceful with only the birds and the sounds of the hay being put up! I was wondering though, how long does the hay stay on the racks? Won't it all blow away in a good thunderstorm? I'm sorry if these are dumb questions, but I've never put up hay before. Thanks!
Nope! Very little hay is lost using this method. That hay will be right there until the owner removes it and throws it over the fence to the animals. Sheep can be allowed access to it and they'll be "happy" to eat the nice fresh "taste of summer" right off the rykke! Cows, on the other hand will destroy the pile, rykke and all. It would take quite a wind to overturn this structure---a triangle is a rigid structure, and each rykke comprises four triangles. Notice how widely-spread the "feet" are. Besides, they sink into the ground a bit over time. A hayfield managed in this way is wonderfully productive...no heavy equipment has been driven over it compacting the soil and it may have never been plowed with a moldboard plow (which creates a "hardpan" underneath..) I'd wager good earthworm population there too. These folk 'r' doin' it right---there's much to be said for commitment (and youth!).....hat's off to ya'll.
I was wondering if you are putting that directly into the barn. It seems like a lot of work if you are just going to move it again. Can you explain? Thanks
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Here's a story about a city boy, raised on stories of the farm kids jumping into haystacks, seeing one for the first time when visiting a relative's farm for the summer.
aka, "how I got the scar on my forehead."
Do you leave it on the rack until you feed it?
My place used to be a commune of 10 in the '70s. Lasted about 10 years then they all got burned out and went to the big city. That's when I bought it.
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I love watching stuff like this, it shows how effective new farm equipment is.
How long will that hay last once it’s used as feed?
You're definitely not in the hot humid southern state of Arkansas. I would have to cut on day one, turn and dry for at minimum 2 days depending on humidity levels, and then I could start thinking of stacking.
Where are these people located. I’ve seen practices like this in Europe but none in the States.
unbelievable
Will there be any more videos uploaded
Holly cow. I thought a haystack was just a haystack. I had no idea there was that much work involved.
Why not get it in under cover? Looks like great feed.
Perfect Ending =)
I could make a thousand mini bales out of that! Eesh, my back aches just watching her work.
The video does not say where this farm is or what country this is taking place.?
New Brunswick , Canada
What aproximate area did this lady work? 1000 sq meters perhaps? Tipping my hat!
Mom and daughter wear us all out !
The video shows the work being done by one person. In order to have a reasonable production rate you had dozen of workers.
In this day and age you have to use machinery, in order to achieve reasonable productivity.
When I was a teenager I would do this work every day for hours in the good weather
Yeah, and you'd NEED a "reasonable production rate" to PAY FOR that "machinery!" It has been tried, folks! Machinery and purchased-input(s) cost(s) have driven many, no, MOST off of their land! Know what "compound interest" means Danny Boy?
I have made hay by the old fashioned way and with modern round bales. The old fashioned way used horses that needed to be fed year round, not just during haying time. The only way to get a decent amount of hay in before rain was with a dozen people with forks and rakes. The field that I worked so long ago are now planted with trees.
The old way is still fun for hobbyists and romantics.
Pleas update the video how she make a wooden stand.
I have to say, I am so impressed with her arms. All that hard work will definitely keep you in shape. How much can you do in one day? Maybe half an acre? Thanks for sharing. Janice
jksatte When I do this, we do 1/4 of an acre at a time, my hands blister on the rake if I do more at once.
Denise Skidmore
That has got to be the best exercise. After you cut it do you leave it on the ground to dry before you put it on the rack or is the ground drying just for machines to pick up. This is so interesting to me. I have to admit, I am city lazy but I would be so proud of myself for doing this to provide for my animals, when I get them. How long does it take to do a quarter acre, how long of a break do you need to prevent blistering? Janice
Yes, we dry it on the ground. We have strong winds at our place so we make hay in about 2.5 days. Most days we have only an hour or two to work between day jobs and nightfall. Day one: cut grass, Day 2, turn grass over, Day 3 turn grass over again, and let it dry as long as possible, pick up before evening dew sets in. When you pick it up off the ground and put it in a pile you decrease the surface area and it takes longer to dry, usually long enough for mold or rot to set in. If you picked it off the ground and put it thinly enough on a rack you could do so right away. The rack stacking in the video is about halfway between those two methods. It's too dense for fresh cut, but airy enough for partially dried hay. I want to try this rack method this year to extend the number of viable hay days. With the rack I could hay any sunny Saturday, cut in the morning rake at noon, and rack in early evening.
Denise Skidmore
I wonder how much you need for animals. I guess you would measure it in acres. Janice
That depends on your climate and how often you want to cut. Lots of variables. Check your local extension office to find out what average carrying capacity for pasture is in your area. Hay yield will be similar, you're just doing the harvesting instead of the critters. Most of our feed came from the hay contractor that did the larger areas, but the hand cut stuff was very nice quality and slightly extended the season before we had to break open bales. You could pretty easily harvest by hand enough to give poultry some winter greens and fresh nests, but you might want a backup plan for larger livestock that depend primarily on hay.
guess the rack is just to keep it dry off the ground till it hits the barn .. few hay wagons or drying spot . dry green hay in stacks on few wagons to cover so much ground at once or a wagon a day . haha. the future .. light work if broken up and breaks . machinery get heavy and wrk the body to hard and heavy keeping up with equipment .
In what country is being fit so expensive that people can afford to make muscles inside gyms and pilates studios?!
Indah sekali...
So laborious
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Ain't nothing more beautiful than a country girl..
She is proof of that.
Are u guys alright, its been 7 years of inactive youtubing?
In my area, long-sleeves, gloves and shoes are necessary for the naturally occurring thorns & burrs. (I wouldn't dream of using poisons on potential feed for my critters).
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all while wearing a dress....amazing!!!
Farming this way wore out many people, like my two grandfathers and great grand father...there a reason they invented mowers and balers......
bodies were made to move, not sit behind the wheel of self-driving machinery. with all do respect, have you noted the size of the average farmer today vice our grandfathers day? Not to mention all the related health problems that come along with sedentary lifestyle that most farmers have today. gas guzzling machines have their place, but sometimes it's just less cost effective for the task at hand.
Dylan Pash All that hand work might work for a young small family farmer but theres no money in that the farmer had to go big or get out and most got out and sold to the corporate farms economics....
unfortunately true. and now our lives are governed by the whims of big agri-business. This method is used for survival (which is what was the purpose of small farms ), which helps individuals have freedom from reliance on big box business. Alanzo Wilder's (Farmer Boy) called this true freedom; not having to rely on someone else for your survival.
My Grandfather was 6 foot 4 in and weighed 240 lbs, was not fat and he farmed over a 1,000 acres in North Dakota from the 1880's to 1925, when the drought and hard work got him...wore him out.....Finnigan township Rollette County North Dakota.....
thanks for sharing your family history. I bet he wasn't fat. (my fat mention was of today's farmers who sit in a self-driven tractor). I wouldn't mind wearing out this way after 50 years! kudos to your gpa. today we now pay the gym to keep ourselves in this kind of shape, this way gives that to you for free. I just like enjoying the outdoors. Thanks for you posts.
Well that looks like a whole bunch of work. This proves that there are still ambitious people out there. The Amish are so modernized compared to this. How many goats will one of those piles feed.
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Did anyone else feel a sneeze coming on while watching this? And your skin start to itch? Hay fever suffers know what I'm taking about.
W Kanger skin itch yes, sneeze no. I've never had hay allergy issues and this hasn't sat long enough for enough dust to bug me. LOL.
Coming back real soon - World Made By Hand. There will be no choice. Work for your daily bread, or die.
Or I could be a raider and just take your daily bread. If God didn't want them shorn he shouldn't have made them sheep.
after some extinction level event world will chose to steal and die, because 99% of humans don't know how to grow their own food.
@@moofymoo Most of the modern urbanites cannot even make their own bread.
Its Primitive Technologies mother!!
so tiny 'rack'?!
back in my days those were 2 - 3 meters and took serious skill to make them rain and wind proof.
if you watched part 1 the field was pretty small, no reason to bring a big rack for that
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