I feel for your start and that your “mishaps” are done in front of a really big audience, don’t beat yourself up… and that you always fess up is an endearing part of your videos…. Just makes our own goofs easier to handle… 👍👍👍
We tedder hay after cutting without much time to dry at all so the leaves stay on. it does lift the hay off the ground, especially where driven over top of it and allows more air flow under it and less wicking from any moisture from the ground or live hay underneath. Also, spreads it out evenly so more surface area is drying.
I think we’ve all made these errors. The trick is how you respond to it. It’s just as easy to take note of your lesson learned and smile. As my sweet wife says “In a world of problems, we have none.”
Looks like some nice hay there to bale up. As heavy as that clover field looks, you might want to run the tedder over it. Just go out early in the morning while there's still some dew on it & run at a lower RPM. Just suggesting. Keep up the good work there. Take care.
Great job. You and Rebecca have brought the property to new horizons. Really enjoy the content and the frequency of vids. Thank you guys. Now for the spray folks and those that criticize are just that….folks all have arm pits and butt holes some smell worse than others. This is your place which you choose to share for your audience and for the negative comments just ask them to find another channel. You guys are on point because it is your choices for your farm/homestead not theirs. God bless and keep them coming no need to explain yourself. That is what makes you and Rebecca a joy to watch.
good luck on the clover getting it dry in 5 days without tedding ....will be waiting to see how that goes ....i hate trying to get clover hay done....looks ugly after a few days too
You did a really good job on that a man off your experience really you should not be doing this mate but we are human hopefully you are all doing great José from Scunthorpe England Great Britain. Love watching your work. That’s a good idea then you can look back and I have done that once before Ha!Ha!
JudithB I imagine anyone who has pulled a trailer has had a blooper. I have pulled various trailers for more then 50 yrs and only remember 2!! I left the stand down on the flatbed while pulling down the driveway and put a hole in the culvert, and hit a bump several miles from the house with the popup and it jumped off the ball, slid under the truck as I slowed down. All I saw was the propane tank coming toward the truck---scary!! I had to pull by the chains until it was off the road, disconnect the chains, and go get my son to lift it back onto the truck. Ever since, I hook it up and lift the front of the trailer to make sure it is locked to the ball. I need to put a new stand on the enclosed trailer and prefer the wheeled kind since they are easier to hook up for me!!! LOL
You crack me. I always cringe when you say, "I need to be careful." We have woods on one side of a hay pasture. About a week before first cutting we take an after dinner evening stroll along woods picking up fallen twigs and limbs. It's easy to not see them when cutting the hay. Your cut hay looks like a good crop. Fresh cut fields are a beautiful gift from mom-nature.
Can't fault yourself for the jack bend. It happens as you cut some really good hay. It's the Sign of a good farmer not cursing but keeping the jack as a souvenir.
Evan...."You need to make-up a checklist for each farm task you complete and go through it prior to starting. Just put it in plastic on the equipment or the tractor cab to protect it and have readily available.
The time at work where I was driving a forklift, coming into the paint booth picking up big wheel flanges for a mining truck, hit the water line for the fire system. The water went out the door and across the isle down through the shop an into receiving dept. My foreman got everyone in that area and had painted part of the pipe gold to present to me, so everybody got a good laugh. My Dad and his brother in law were going fishing one early morning, so my Dad was waiting close to the curb with his stuff, when all of a sudden he hears a loud noise. It was my uncle coming down the road pulling his trailer and his jack with the wheel was dragging in the down position, totally destroying the wheel.
It doesn’t hurt if you make mistake sometimes, then you will not make same one.. BTW, I had memories to work on hay. Hauling hay all day from ground to barn.. 🚜🇺🇸🚜🇺🇸🚜🇺🇸
Second field is some pretty hay Evan. A couple things for you to consider; 1) to help preserve the hay bind during winter storage take a garden sprayer and WD-40 and coat all surfaces 2) cover it with a tarp. Just a suggestion of coarse. The hydraulic spring spacer/collars are quite common and handy also. Murfreesboro TN
If you tedder the hay right after you cut it while it's still green you won't loose any leaves. We always had someone running tedder as soon as the person mowing got the outside rounds cut on the field we could have square bales made in two days
Dad bought one of those new in 1977, to be pulled by an Allis Chalmers WD45 at the start. Replacing seperate Allis hay mower and conditioner. Traded in 1998 for used New Holland 411 discbine which was a big upgrade for non-stop, plug-free heavy hay cutting. Then in 2022 obtained used NH H7230 discbine with swiveling hitch drive for super-sharp turning.
The bend in the jack looks as if it might be just in the outer tube, above the top of the inner tube. If so, you might be able to bend the outer tube straight and save the jack. You might want to look into whether leaving butterweed in hay is a good idea. I think it might be a problem for feeding cattle.
Can't say you're the only one. I bought some hay from someone that was 12 miles away from me, and didn't find out I left the jack stand down until I left a nice groove in his hay field.
🌱👏✨ "Evan, the transformation in the pastures is truly remarkable! The effort you put into increasing the yield has paid off, and it's evident in the lush and vibrant fields. Your dedication and hard work shine through. Keep up the great work, and here's to more successful hay cutting without any more mistakes! 🙌🚜🌾"
i just walked in the door and sat down from hooking up our disk mower Getting Reddy To Start Mowing Hay in the Morning & pulled up YT & the First video i See Was You Mowing Hay..lol. !I Dont Know About You All But We Desperately Need Rain Here! Alredy Ben Halfing To Dip/Pump & Haul Water From The Pond Just To Keep The Garden From Dying Out ! we have had less that probably 2-2.5 inches sense February/March Then The Same Last Year..
That Hesston PT-10 brings back some old memories, my brother ran one for 4 or 5 years back in 1970. I did run it some, but my job was to run the baler. If memory serves me right, we had a quite a bi of trouble with the roller bearings and flanges, but it did a good job when it ran. Good luck on getting your hay up, hope it all goes well. Thanks and have a good week.
Hey there. Pasture looks good. But you need to tedder. Otherwise you'll get rot underneath. Because damp wil pull off the ground. Because its a closed layer now
Nicely done, quite an improvement on the old sickle mower. Find that motor cycle chain oil seems to last better, the same with a good type of synthetic grease. Only people that never make mistakes is the people that don’t do anything, cheers my friend
Great video, thanks! I highly recommend Webb Cutting Components for your knives. I have a sickle bar mower and was very happy with my last blades I bought from them.
Your fields look amazing. I'm jealous. We Ted right after we cut it. Cuts our seeing time down a day. It's been so dry in pa we cut, Ted one day and take and bale the next.
Seeing you cut with the Heston PT-10 brings back a lot of memories. I am few months from turning 70 and have been working hay my who life and still making hay today. The proudest days of my farming were when I bought my own first (used) cutter which was a Hesston PT-10 and the second proudest day was when I got rid of the Hesston PT-10. I cut a lot of hay with it but I also worked on it a lot. The mistakes are just part of farming. I bet from now on when you hookup the cutter you will always check the jack!👍😁
Yep we all make mistakes. This weekend I hooked up my top link pin for my tiller, phone rang, talked for a while then got on tractor and started tilling, after about 5 minutes, top link fell, tiller rotated backwards off and pto shaft came apart. Then I realize I forgot to put the clip onto the top link pin to hold it in. The pto shaft tubing got bent slightly, so now I have to replace it.
Hey Evan, I know your hands are on many projects around the farm. But I just wanted to ask about the firewood shed. You did a lot of work on cleaning up the area around it and we haven't seen anything else about it. Just wanted an update on that project if you have a minute to throw that into a video or even a short. Thanks and keep plugging away at the farm. You've come a long way!👍
I enjoy seeing all that you do! You and Rebekah are Truely an inspiration. Maybe I have missed something but always enjoyed your drone footage on the big fields. Maybe you can get somemore shots that way. Really allows, at least me, us to see the entire field and how you have to maneuver around the field. Great Video's as they are though!!!
Hey Evan, you are very much correct. We ted clover hay only just after its been cut to spread it out, but afterwards not so much anymore. The day you bale it, swath it in the morning when its slightly moist and then leave the swath to dry over day. It will be much better quality as you dont loose as many leafes.
don't beat yourself up over it, I've torn the kickstand off my landscape rake at least 4 times! I've finally just quit fixing it and rest the rake on 2 concrete blocks that do NOT attach to the rake. Problem solved.
Looking more productive and also love the proper mature field boundary lines. Trees are a vital part of a farm as are the hedgerows which are being re grown here in the UK. Small farms are possibly on the return but economics always rules unfortunately and many youngsters are not wanting to take over from their parents. Thank you for your posts.
That is some of the best looking clover hay I've seen in many years, Evan. That should make a lot of really nice bales. I hope the weather cooperates for you. Good job so far... except for the jack. Lol
Good job and don’t worry about bendin a jack lol my granddad says they make parts everyday I like the idea about saving parts for a memory board lol 😊😊
Sorry, no drone footage in this video. My drone is broke right now. Hopefully, it will be fixed soon.
Hmmmm , wonder who broke the drone Evan 🤷♂️
I always say that people that have never screwed something up have never done anything to begin with.
or never acknowledge it.
I always say that if you didn’t make a mistake at work that you sat home on the couch and watched TV all day.
Hey we all make mistakes don’t sweat it
Was about to say the same, if I had a dollar for each thing I’ve broken or busted from forgetting… I’d be living the dream 😅
oh come on you missed the opportunity "Hay" we all make mistakes 😂😂😂
No one but Jesus is perfect! We are only human! Great video my friend! loved it
Two pieces of angle iron on each side of cylinder with two clamps will work , that's what I did. Thanks
Evan, you've been cranking out the video's reasently keep up the good work.
I feel for your start and that your “mishaps” are done in front of a really big audience, don’t beat yourself up… and that you always fess up is an endearing part of your videos…. Just makes our own goofs easier to handle… 👍👍👍
Now that jack is customized for lifting around corners. Well…. IT happens!!!!
The pastures look so much better Evan. The work you did to increase the yield shows. Well done.
The camera work is fantastic. Great production.
Lay a piece of angle iron over the hoist and use your press to straighten!
the wall of shame gets an addition
I’m 73 years old and I still have these moments.
Keep the faith!!!
Needs more rest🤗
We tedder hay after cutting without much time to dry at all so the leaves stay on. it does lift the hay off the ground, especially where driven over top of it and allows more air flow under it and less wicking from any moisture from the ground or live hay underneath. Also, spreads it out evenly so more surface area is drying.
WOW that went very well Evan, just one Jack! Always Love watching!
Back-up jack time !
Beautiful red clover.
I think we’ve all made these errors. The trick is how you respond to it. It’s just as easy to take note of your lesson learned and smile.
As my sweet wife says “In a world of problems, we have none.”
My friends have a wall in the shop called the Wall of Shame holding all the broken parts from the past. Its a big wall.
How much of the fence is up?
Looks like some nice hay there to bale up. As heavy as that clover field looks, you might want to run the tedder over it. Just go out early in the morning while there's still some dew on it & run at a lower RPM. Just suggesting. Keep up the good work there. Take care.
Great job. You and Rebecca have brought the property to new horizons. Really enjoy the content and the frequency of vids. Thank you guys. Now for the spray folks and those that criticize are just that….folks all have arm pits and butt holes some smell worse than others. This is your place which you choose to share for your audience and for the negative comments just ask them to find another channel. You guys are on point because it is your choices for your farm/homestead not theirs. God bless and keep them coming no need to explain yourself. That is what makes you and Rebecca a joy to watch.
Awesome clover field. We all screw up at times. Your man enough to put it out there. Great job!
You live....you learn!
good luck on the clover getting it dry in 5 days without tedding ....will be waiting to see how that goes ....i hate trying to get clover hay done....looks ugly after a few days too
we have been there - don't be too hard on yourself. you get a lot accomplished
You did a really good job on that a man off your experience really you should not be doing this mate but we are human hopefully you are all doing great José from Scunthorpe England Great Britain. Love watching your work. That’s a good idea then you can look back and I have done that once before Ha!Ha!
Evan you always make me laugh, you are very tallented, knowledgeablee, and extremely dirven and hared worker. But you will neeed a bigger Wall. LOL
👍👍 that old mower runs sweet
Happy to see you got all of your hay cut. Sorry about your jack.
I laugh always when I watch you
Hi Evan,i worked for a dairy farmer here in Vermont that had a Hesston PT-10 haybine,also a 1070 and a 1071
looks awesome
It looks like that old machine does pretty well for you .
Jack aside, that went very well,
I remember your frustration with the sickle mower. So Happy days 👏
I enjoy how you research everything before you start a new project and you don’t take shortcuts to get the job done.
Those who do not screw something up are the ones who do nothing. Keep up the great videos and we will be with you.
You are always positive. No matter. Fix it and go on. Enjoyed watching❤❤❤❤
JudithB I imagine anyone who has pulled a trailer has had a blooper. I have pulled various trailers for more then 50 yrs and only remember 2!! I left the stand down on the flatbed while pulling down the driveway and put a hole in the culvert, and hit a bump several miles from the house with the popup and it jumped off the ball, slid under the truck as I slowed down. All I saw was the propane tank coming toward the truck---scary!! I had to pull by the chains until it was off the road, disconnect the chains, and go get my son to lift it back onto the truck. Ever since, I hook it up and lift the front of the trailer to make sure it is locked to the ball. I need to put a new stand on the enclosed trailer and prefer the wheeled kind since they are easier to hook up for me!!! LOL
You crack me. I always cringe when you say, "I need to be careful." We have woods on one side of a hay pasture. About a week before first cutting we take an after dinner evening stroll along woods picking up fallen twigs and limbs. It's easy to not see them when cutting the hay. Your cut hay looks like a good crop. Fresh cut fields are a beautiful gift from mom-nature.
If you don't occasionally break something your not doing enough work!
Great work. Looks like it should make some good hay. Keep up the good work
Good Job...sure enjoyed watching...see you soon and be careful out there !!!!
Nice job Evan. Good looking hay for the steers and dairy cows. Thanks for sharing.
I feel your pain bud!! That's just the way it goes sometimes.
Can't fault yourself for the jack bend. It happens as you cut some really good hay. It's the Sign of a good farmer not cursing but keeping the jack as a souvenir.
haha....the miracle of editing!
Evan...."You need to make-up a checklist for each farm task you complete and go through it prior to starting. Just put it in plastic on the equipment or the tractor cab to protect it and have readily available.
Good idea... you can call it The Wall of Shame... and it will be a constant reminder to take just a little bit of extra time and effort with stuff...
Yes we all make mistakes. You should be able to find some hydraulic stops that will clip on instead of bolting them on.
The time at work where I was driving a forklift, coming into the paint booth picking up big wheel flanges for a mining truck, hit the water line for the fire system. The water went out the door and across the isle down through the shop an into receiving dept. My foreman got everyone in that area and had painted part of the pipe gold to present to me, so everybody got a good laugh. My Dad and his brother in law were going fishing one early morning, so my Dad was waiting close to the curb with his stuff, when all of a sudden he hears a loud noise. It was my uncle coming down the road pulling his trailer and his jack with the wheel was dragging in the down position, totally destroying the wheel.
It doesn’t hurt if you make mistake sometimes, then you will not make same one.. BTW, I had memories to work on hay. Hauling hay all day from ground to barn.. 🚜🇺🇸🚜🇺🇸🚜🇺🇸
Thank you for sharing.
Keep cutter blades fixed
Maybe you can fertilize after baling and pray for rain. Have a good 2nd cutting.
Second field is some pretty hay Evan. A couple things for you to consider; 1) to help preserve the hay bind during winter storage take a garden sprayer and WD-40 and coat all surfaces 2) cover it with a tarp. Just a suggestion of coarse. The hydraulic spring spacer/collars are quite common and handy also. Murfreesboro TN
If you tedder the hay right after you cut it while it's still green you won't loose any leaves. We always had someone running tedder as soon as the person mowing got the outside rounds cut on the field we could have square bales made in two days
When you pulled away with the haybine I thought what is that noise?? Glad that was the only issue, not too bad! By the way I’ve done that too
Dad bought one of those new in 1977, to be pulled by an Allis Chalmers WD45 at the start. Replacing seperate Allis hay mower and conditioner. Traded in 1998 for used New Holland 411 discbine which was a big upgrade for non-stop, plug-free heavy hay cutting. Then in 2022 obtained used NH H7230 discbine with swiveling hitch drive for super-sharp turning.
You make me feel like I'm not alone with the mistakes! 😊 I Appreciate you sir!
Very nice video, greets from Holland
at 3:27..........I always used stop collars on my cylinders.
So convenient they snap on.
Easy on
Easy off
The bend in the jack looks as if it might be just in the outer tube, above the top of the inner tube. If so, you might be able to bend the outer tube straight and save the jack.
You might want to look into whether leaving butterweed in hay is a good idea. I think it might be a problem for feeding cattle.
Can't say you're the only one. I bought some hay from someone that was 12 miles away from me, and didn't find out I left the jack stand down until I left a nice groove in his hay field.
Sorry Evan .smile .
When we worked our fields, after the first row, we'd go to the middle next, then next to the first row and again next to the middle and so on
🌱👏✨ "Evan, the transformation in the pastures is truly remarkable! The effort you put into increasing the yield has paid off, and it's evident in the lush and vibrant fields. Your dedication and hard work shine through. Keep up the great work, and here's to more successful hay cutting without any more mistakes! 🙌🚜🌾"
i just walked in the door and sat down from hooking up our disk mower Getting Reddy To Start Mowing Hay in the Morning & pulled up YT & the First video i See Was You Mowing Hay..lol. !I Dont Know About You All But We Desperately Need Rain Here! Alredy Ben Halfing To Dip/Pump & Haul Water From The Pond Just To Keep The Garden From Dying Out ! we have had less that probably 2-2.5 inches sense February/March Then The Same Last Year..
That Hesston PT-10 brings back some old memories, my brother ran one for 4 or 5 years back in 1970. I did run it some, but my job was to run the baler. If memory serves me right, we had a quite a bi of trouble with the roller bearings and flanges, but it did a good job when it ran. Good luck on getting your hay up, hope it all goes well. Thanks and have a good week.
Hey there. Pasture looks good. But you need to tedder. Otherwise you'll get rot underneath. Because damp wil pull off the ground. Because its a closed layer now
Farming isn’t how fast you do something but how well you do them
Awesome video I love the old farm equipment
Lol I am Wright there with you brother.
Hesston, greased-up, aired-up, oiled-up, but you forgot jacked-up. 😀
The wall off shame is a learning act, btw I love the red clover but didn’t see any dandelion, why?
Nice fields, Evan. Sorry about the little mistake you made, it's all good.
The fields looks beautiful. I can imagen what it smells like.❤
Evan, field chores first, no excuses, weather waits for no one. Sorry Rebecca.
Best wishes from the far North.
Nicely done, quite an improvement on the old sickle mower. Find that motor cycle chain oil seems to last better, the same with a good type of synthetic grease. Only people that never make mistakes is the people that don’t do anything, cheers my friend
Looks like that second field will take some drying. Great video. All the best 🇬🇧.
Great video, thanks! I highly recommend Webb Cutting Components for your knives. I have a sickle bar mower and was very happy with my last blades I bought from them.
The cat survived....that was a win!
you don’t need a wall….you got video action😊
Your fields look amazing. I'm jealous. We Ted right after we cut it. Cuts our seeing time down a day. It's been so dry in pa we cut, Ted one day and take and bale the next.
If you have a scrap piece of pipe and a scrap piece of flat stock steel! Weld them together to make a jack for your haybine
Love it when your hay cutting videos come around!
Keep up the good work mate. We have a hay farm in qld australia and still using the older hay equipment
OUCH! Oh, Well. Honest mistake for sure
Seeing you cut with the Heston PT-10 brings back a lot of memories. I am few months from turning 70 and have been working hay my who life and still making hay today. The proudest days of my farming were when I bought my own first (used) cutter which was a Hesston PT-10 and the second proudest day was when I got rid of the Hesston PT-10. I cut a lot of hay with it but I also worked on it a lot.
The mistakes are just part of farming. I bet from now on when you hookup the cutter you will always check the jack!👍😁
A little paint & the jack will be like new. Lol
Yep we all make mistakes. This weekend I hooked up my top link pin for my tiller, phone rang, talked for a while then got on tractor and started tilling, after about 5 minutes, top link fell, tiller rotated backwards off and pto shaft came apart. Then I realize I forgot to put the clip onto the top link pin to hold it in. The pto shaft tubing got bent slightly, so now I have to replace it.
Hey Evan, I know your hands are on many projects around the farm. But I just wanted to ask about the firewood shed. You did a lot of work on cleaning up the area around it and we haven't seen anything else about it. Just wanted an update on that project if you have a minute to throw that into a video or even a short. Thanks and keep plugging away at the farm. You've come a long way!👍
I like that idea of keeping trophies of your mistakes. But in all honesty, I think you are doing great.
I think if you don’t Ted it, it will mold and maybe a total loss for you. But you know your area much better than me. Love your videos.
I enjoy seeing all that you do! You and Rebekah are Truely an inspiration. Maybe I have missed something but always enjoyed your drone footage on the big fields. Maybe you can get somemore shots that way. Really allows, at least me, us to see the entire field and how you have to maneuver around the field. Great Video's as they are though!!!
Thanks Evan
Hey Evan, you are very much correct. We ted clover hay only just after its been cut to spread it out, but afterwards not so much anymore. The day you bale it, swath it in the morning when its slightly moist and then leave the swath to dry over day. It will be much better quality as you dont loose as many leafes.
don't beat yourself up over it, I've torn the kickstand off my landscape rake at least 4 times! I've finally just quit fixing it and rest the rake on 2 concrete blocks that do NOT attach to the rake. Problem solved.
dude....bending and breaking stuff is just what we do lol.....always breaking things
Your hay fields are looking better and better each year keep up the good work
Great 👍job!!!
Looking more productive and also love the proper mature field boundary lines. Trees are a vital part of a farm as are the hedgerows which are being re grown here in the UK. Small farms are possibly on the return but economics always rules unfortunately and many youngsters are not wanting to take over from their parents. Thank you for your posts.
That is some of the best looking clover hay I've seen in many years, Evan. That should make a lot of really nice bales. I hope the weather cooperates for you. Good job so far... except for the jack. Lol
Nice one Evan but experience learned we all do it. On to the next have a good day.
Good job and don’t worry about bendin a jack lol my granddad says they make parts everyday I like the idea about saving parts for a memory board lol 😊😊
Hay is looking good🙂
LOL just know that your not the only one that has bent a tongue jacks. I think I may hold the world wrecker for bent jacks lol