Mowed hay all day and now here I sit watching Alan wrap hay lol. Did the same thing with our New Holland skid steer, chemical totes were the main reason but makes it nice for hay too
My first wrapper was w Elho individual wrapper, much like this one. I bought it on an auction sale for $1,000.00. And at the same auction I also bought the bale grabber attachment for the loader tractor for $500.00. My wife wrapped the bales, when she got home from work, and I had them all hauled into the yard and waiting. I put the bale on the wrapper, she wrapped them and I stacked them away. Worked well until we got up to 500 bales per year. Then I was facing a mutiny. So I upgraded to an Anderson in-line wrapper, and did it all by myself, wife was much happier, lol. The last year I milked cows,2022, I wrapped 2600 bales. Inline uses half the amount of plastic
Baled hay myself today. Mine should of been wrapped, but if they spoil i guess they will make bedding. Now im watching you put your hay up. Hope you all have a great crop.
Thanks for a very interesting video. Here where I live in Ontario Canada Government took away all plastic shopping free bags from all stores. Everyone has to buy reusable plastic shopping bags or bins because it was wasting and causing pollution, well that is all BS it is only to make everyone spend more money. The plastic that you used to wrap your bales would make many hundreds or more of plastic shopping bags LOL. Thanks always for your posting video and best of luck with your crops.
Good year for making grass! On the skid steer what if you used a tractor suitcase weight on the side of the loader frame behind the wheel. One weight on each side would add 200 lb but you'd only add an inch and a half of thickness to that side of the machine Yeah we learned the hard way you have to wrap immediately because that flat spot will toss the bail off of the wrapper For quality of feed we chase the baler So within a couple hours that bale is wrapped already. Everything got so expensive I could probably sell mine for the same money I paid for it if not more
I thought of an idea for weights on the skidsteer.. You could drill inch holes into the back frames either side of the engine door and weld in some inch steel bar..Use a cotter pin or r clip then at the end That way you could either hang old gym weights or diy concrete weights onto them and slide them on or off to suit or to gain access to the door again.. Another way to do it would be weld 2 bars one above the other and use flat plate steel as the weights with the 2 holes lined up to slide on the ones welded to the frame..
Hey Al and Family -- why did you not play the old Song ""you spin me right round "" for a short time when you Show us the wrapping machine at work . That us the right way .with your simple wrapping machine .!! A contracting Company who works for a Farmer .take per roundbale 10 Dollar for the work with the roundbaler machine with 14.knifes who cut the hay . And they take 10 Dollar for wrapping the bale . I mean the plastic cost alone 7 Dollar per bale in Germany . Best greetings from North West Germany from Bert !
Allen do you remember the rectangle shaped weights the 4010 and 4020 tractors had? That maybe the weights to use if the round ones make your skid steer run hot.(front end weights)
I know that's what you have and that's fine. But if you ever replace your baler, I'd look at a 4 footer. I have a four foot baler and I think they work really well . Make most of mine 4×5.
At 21:50 there is a sign "102" in the background. Is that an underground pipeline marker and if so where does it go to, Duluth maybe? Any idea what's in the pipe...Natural gas, crude oil, refined oil?
thanks for the video, i've never wrapped bales and found a wrapper like this coming at auction next week We've always stored in a pole barn or in a pyramid stack on pallets under a large tarp. Does this preserve the hay or create sileage or just keep rain off? Thanks
I would say price is the biggest benefit, we already had a baler, and I don't need a squeezer to move these, I can put them where I want, when I wrap them.
The only issue I've had with the 5ft wide bales, is when dumping the wrapped bales they would roll over the knife that cuts the wrap,and it would poke a hole in the wrap, so I took the knife assembly off, and just have someone around to cut the wrap.
I rotate them as much as I can, we don't have a lot of pasture. The cows go out at night in the spring, summer and fall, but stay in at night in the winter.
Yeah, I saw what he has, I've seen those before, and they are pretty neat, but I don't have a big enough tractor to use it, unless I took the one off the baler. I could bale with the 1066, but it doesn't have as good of visibility.
So approximately $4/bale cost. We store round bale dry hay outside, so I can see where wrapping would help with the loss we have from exposure to the elements.
The long cut hay is better for the rumen. I worked on a dairy farm back in the 70's that fed a lot of haylage out of a harvestore. Out of a herd of about 135 we had 2 or 3 cases of displaced rumens (twisted stomach) every year. Feeding long cut baled hay fixed that.
@@markenge9348 I am 66 years old, have farmed most of my life. My dad made haylage when I was a child. I feed haylage and corn silage to our cows for years with a small amount of dry hay. Now most people feed a small amount of ground straw to help rumen activity. Two or 3 twisted stomachs isn't bad out of 135 cows per year..
The wrapped stuff is baleage. We just have the individual wrapper. We'll do dry hay too, but the weather has been tricky to work around. The wrapper has been a lifesaver with all the rainy days we've had.
It's recommended that you have 6-8 layers of plastic. Depending on the size of the bale, that can be up to 24 revolutions. I know farmers that do 32 revolutions.
We always joked with our kids when we see bales individually wrapped like this. "There is the marshmallow farm!)
That 830 Case is surely the go to tractor
I hope you have a great harvest this year alan . GOD bless you and your family. Your videos always do my heart good.
That hay does look pretty nice. It's pretty neat what farmers can come up with to make something work.
You're a real wrap star....
Love the dedication to the Sacred Heart!
Ahhh I can smell that hay . Great video Al 👍 God Bless
Ought to be really good feed. Having an extra set of hands definitely adds to the efficiency.
If y’all get any rain please send some our way. Things kinda dry here in Southern Virginia.
Our gehl 4625 came with factory weights, supposed to lift 1500 pounds,we love our gehl skidsteers
Very nice job and God bless y'all
👍👌❤️🇨🇦, a little dosey doe on the bale wrapper
Great video
Mowed hay all day and now here I sit watching Alan wrap hay lol. Did the same thing with our New Holland skid steer, chemical totes were the main reason but makes it nice for hay too
good job folks
Load the back tires had to do it with mine to lift bales a world a difference
My first wrapper was w Elho individual wrapper, much like this one. I bought it on an auction sale for $1,000.00. And at the same auction I also bought the bale grabber attachment for the loader tractor for $500.00. My wife wrapped the bales, when she got home from work, and I had them all hauled into the yard and waiting. I put the bale on the wrapper, she wrapped them and I stacked them away. Worked well until we got up to 500 bales per year. Then I was facing a mutiny. So I upgraded to an Anderson in-line wrapper, and did it all by myself, wife was much happier, lol. The last year I milked cows,2022, I wrapped 2600 bales. Inline uses half the amount of plastic
Baled hay myself today. Mine should of been wrapped, but if they spoil i guess they will make bedding. Now im watching you put your hay up. Hope you all have a great crop.
The noise the plastic makes as it's being stretched out on the bale sounds like wrap music. Tru dat, yo.
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Another very interesting video Thank you
Good work 👍
Great video I learned a lot about this bailer
Thanks for a very interesting video. Here where I live in Ontario Canada Government took away all plastic shopping free bags from all stores.
Everyone has to buy reusable plastic shopping bags or bins because it was wasting and causing pollution, well that is all BS it is only to make everyone spend more money.
The plastic that you used to wrap your bales would make many hundreds or more of plastic shopping bags LOL. Thanks always for your posting video and best of luck with your crops.
Good year for making grass!
On the skid steer what if you used a tractor suitcase weight on the side of the loader frame behind the wheel. One weight on each side would add 200 lb but you'd only add an inch and a half of thickness to that side of the machine
Yeah we learned the hard way you have to wrap immediately because that flat spot will toss the bail off of the wrapper
For quality of feed we chase the baler So within a couple hours that bale is wrapped already.
Everything got so expensive I could probably sell mine for the same money I paid for it if not more
Got alot silage left in the ag bag 😊
I thought of an idea for weights on the skidsteer.. You could drill inch holes into the back frames either side of the engine door and weld in some inch steel bar..Use a cotter pin or r clip then at the end That way you could either hang old gym weights or diy concrete weights onto them and slide them on or off to suit or to gain access to the door again.. Another way to do it would be weld 2 bars one above the other and use flat plate steel as the weights with the 2 holes lined up to slide on the ones welded to the frame..
Hey Al and Family -- why did you not play the old Song ""you spin me right round "" for a short time when you Show us the wrapping machine at work .
That us the right way .with your simple wrapping machine .!!
A contracting Company who works for a Farmer .take per roundbale
10 Dollar for the work with the roundbaler machine with 14.knifes who cut the hay .
And they take 10 Dollar for wrapping the bale .
I mean the plastic cost alone 7 Dollar per bale in Germany .
Best greetings from North West Germany from Bert !
We made a short like that last year! Or maybe it was on Instagram.
awesome hey there should be good for the cows they should enjoy it
Allen do you remember the rectangle shaped weights the 4010 and 4020 tractors had? That maybe the weights to use if the round ones make your skid steer run hot.(front end weights)
Have you ever considered using foam filling your rear tires for skid steer counterweight?
I never have, I didn't think it was very heavy, but I've never dealt with it before.
I know that's what you have and that's fine. But if you ever replace your baler, I'd look at a 4 footer. I have a four foot baler and I think they work really well . Make most of mine 4×5.
Yeah I definitely would get a 4 foot wide baler.
At 21:50 there is a sign "102" in the background. Is that an underground pipeline marker and if so where does it go to, Duluth maybe? Any idea what's in the pipe...Natural gas, crude oil, refined oil?
I believe it's crude oil, I think Duluth, but I'm not sure.
I think it goes to Superior Wisconsin.
Have you put fluid in the tires for more weight? May not be a lot, but every little bit helps.
I thought about it, but I like to avoid using that stuff if I can.
How many days of feed do you get per round bale? Just wondering. Love your videos, God Bless.❤
I'm not sure, it all depends on how many cows are eating, probably a bale a day.
For someone who is uninformed, are you able to wrap greener/more moist hay because the wrap inhibits oxygen that could start a fire?
Yeah, and it allows the hay to ferment,into a silage.
thanks for the video, i've never wrapped bales and found a wrapper like this coming at auction next week
We've always stored in a pole barn or in a pyramid stack on pallets under a large tarp.
Does this preserve the hay or create sileage or just keep rain off?
Thanks
It's for silage, we tried it with dry hay,but seemed to have a lot of spoilage.
For weight on the skid loader have you thought about putting beet juice in the rear 2 tires ?
I don't know of any place around here that has that, I could use calcium chloride, but that stuff is so nasty.
Alan, what are models of your other Case tractors? Do you usually do lighter jobs with your Case tractors?
We have another 830, and a 530, they are used mainly for light jobs now, mostly because we've gotten bigger tractors for the heavy jobs.
What are the benefits of using individual balaer and wrapper instead of combined baler/wrapper?
I would say price is the biggest benefit, we already had a baler, and I don't need a squeezer to move these, I can put them where I want, when I wrap them.
Y do you wrap round bales? Is that so you can feed them during winter?
We wrap them so they can ferment, because they are baled at a higher moisture.
I have the same baler, I was looking into using a single wrapper similar to yours. Have you had any issues with the 5' wide bales on the wrapper?
The only issue I've had with the 5ft wide bales, is when dumping the wrapped bales they would roll over the knife that cuts the wrap,and it would poke a hole in the wrap, so I took the knife assembly off, and just have someone around to cut the wrap.
how much does it cost per bail for plastic
About 4 dollars per bale.
Look at them there marshmallows lol
Do you need to wrap it so many times?
Yes
It's recommended to have 6-8 layers of wrap.
Thanks for the reply.
Do you rotate your cows on the pasture,and do they stay out at night too?
I rotate them as much as I can, we don't have a lot of pasture. The cows go out at night in the spring, summer and fall, but stay in at night in the winter.
What a 3 point hitch bale spear like mad farmer has?? Just a thought
Not sure who that is. I don't think a 3 point bale mover would work like I need.
@@trinitydairy it has a cylinder on it and can put bales up high check out mad farmer
@@farmboy2246I think what they mean is a 3 point fork lift.
No go watch Mad Farmer 912
Yeah, I saw what he has, I've seen those before, and they are pretty neat, but I don't have a big enough tractor to use it, unless I took the one off the baler. I could bale with the 1066, but it doesn't have as good of visibility.
How much does roll of wrap cost?
Googled...starts about 125 a 30" x 5000' roll
This was a little over 100 dollars a roll.
So approximately $4/bale cost. We store round bale dry hay outside, so I can see where wrapping would help with the loss we have from exposure to the elements.
Why don't you chop haylage and put it in a bag? Then you could mix it with corn silage in your wagon in the winter.
The long cut hay is better for the rumen. I worked on a dairy farm back in the 70's that fed a lot of haylage out of a harvestore. Out of a herd of about 135 we had 2 or 3 cases of displaced rumens (twisted stomach) every year. Feeding long cut baled hay fixed that.
@@markenge9348 I am 66 years old, have farmed most of my life. My dad made haylage when I was a child. I feed haylage and corn silage to our cows for years with a small amount of dry hay. Now most people feed a small amount of ground straw to help rumen activity. Two or 3 twisted stomachs isn't bad out of 135 cows per year..
Tks for sharing. This is your Baleage crop? Your dry hay? You going to wrap those bales single or in tube bags?
The wrapped stuff is baleage. We just have the individual wrapper. We'll do dry hay too, but the weather has been tricky to work around. The wrapper has been a lifesaver with all the rainy days we've had.
Fill back tyres with water
That does look like nice hay. Do you test your hay?
We usually get it tested.
149 POUND'S A PIECE FOR THE IH WHEEL WEIGHTS
150 lbs a piece
Seems a bit too many wrap arounds per bale!
No, it's actually less than they recommend
That's a wrap 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Way to much wrapping
It's recommended that you have 6-8 layers of plastic. Depending on the size of the bale, that can be up to 24 revolutions. I know farmers that do 32 revolutions.
No it's not
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