i dont understand why i find this so enjoyable to watch i dont farm i havent ever farmed i know a fair bit about it though but its just enjoyable to watch this and i cant figure out what exactly about it lol. Thanks for the great videos to entertain me and educate me and sharing your journey. Hope it continues to go well for you!
I think it’s because he’s loving it. He’s full of hope and not being really negative. He’s a young guy giving it a go and has passion for his land. Also he’s using small older equipment which has a very quaint and innocent feel to them. Out with nature and the elements. Not the huge new tractors that would do that in about 20 minutes.
@@Memalario69 Oats is mainly a cover crop to help the alfalfa grow. It depends on how good the oats are if they look like they are going to be good yielding you could combine them. However, if they don't look the best it's a better idea to put it up for hay. Sometimes it doesn't matter how good they look people will still put it up for hay because it's less work.
very good video, I run a 16000 acre cattle station in Australia and these videos have helped me transform 100 of those acres into small scale hay farming. keep it up!
Great video. The 4020s are great hay tractors. Tips from us baling all these years. Look to get a discbine. The disc will mow anything and not plug and get rubber rolls that will break the stems and make it dry faster. Stay away from mowers that have impellers they have always been problems for us. Also if your looking at different rakes we ran a wheel rake for years but have since switched to a rotary rake and it does a way nice job for making a fluffy windrow that will help dry. Keep it up the hard work. Baling season is always my favorite season
I live on a coffee farm in California and Your videos are entertaining to me because I’ve never experienced that type of farming and it’s fascinating to me.
Nice to see a young guy interested in farming. I'm retired now from a work accident and 81, Did a lot of baling I personally like using a swather conditioner to mow with making small squares I would have an accumulator,grapple loader and anything else to cut down on handling..
alfalfa crop requires about 30 to 45 pounds per acre (lb/ac) phosphate (P2O5), 120 to 160 lb/ac potash (K2O) and 15 to 20 lb/ac sulphate-sulphur (S). So try that
I like watching you guys get it done with the equipment you have at hand. Some other channels, which are also entertaining, use millions of dollars worth of gear. This channel gives an alternative perspective.
The truck came back hallelujah. Your knee is better Your happy and fit grant and Josie were helping with everything. All is well. My prayers were heard.
Without good neighbours farming can be difficult for a single person. We borrow equipment from neighboring farms and they borrow ours when needed to it saves the season when someone has something that you have broken and no time to fix it
I'm new at learning farming and have learned a good bit from watching your videos, from my friend, and playing a ton of farm sim and I would like to say I have a lot of respect for what yall do and I always enjoy watching.
It's definitely a great idea to re-seed the 2 fields with more seed and next yr first cut you should triple your bale count. Disc binds are awesome to cut with and will cut anything in its path and your baler is still worth every penny you payed for it hope your knee is getting better it's hard to get around and do stuff when you are down and out
Great to see you have wonderful neighbors to assist with your hay harvest. You might like to consider a hay conditioner, it will assist with the dry down of your hay.
Wonderful video, great to see the support you all give each other. Watching the fellers on the trailer stack bails reminded me of my younger years, I used to do that for some extra $$. The only difference was back then the bails were on the ground and we had to run along pick em up and heave them up to someone on the trailer or truck. I still remember the first time, I had sore muscles that I didn’t even know I had! 😅
I know you would like that mower lol. It's nice for thick place. And they're affordable. Same with them high carts wheel rakes. Really helps speed up the process.
It’s great to see you guys got another 4020! I would definitely look into an upgrading your mower and rake for next year in my opinion! Kind of like the ones you guys got to borrow from the neighbors!
We ran a 10ft disc mower on a 4020 powershift very comfortably. Krone 323s was a tough built mower, they’re relatively affordable for a mower. Krone also makes the toughest built tedder on the market. If you consider buying a rake, I’d really recommend a Kuhn speed rake, we have a 108 8wheel now and it does great work with plenty of room for adjustments. Great video!
You should buy one of them disc mowers! Better quality, if u hit a rock or a stump it would be less damage than on the mower you have right now. We have krone mowers and as I said, there good quality. The only thing about them is that there heavy... But reliable. Anyways good video! Keep doing this kind of content!
This can be a sustainable and profitable venture, especially with your relationship with neighbors (they probably give you some great beef products in return for the hay). Would running some of their livestock on your land for a week or so just to reenergize the soil with nutrients be beneficial? Or are the cover/nurse crops enough to keep the soil healthy? This whole rengenerative farming thing is kinda new to me.
This is my first favorite season of the year I love to bale hay and my first favorite thing about farming it when we chop corn I love your vids keep it up great video
I really like watching your videos it’s always nice to see how farming in other parts of the world works. I hope your leg will be good soon! Greetings from Germany.
Get a haybine,, crimping alfalfa is important. Raking over and over will not help it dry. The knotters on your baler need new knives. You actually found the secret...get your neighbor to do it. Good luck, best regards from Indiana.
Spencer I Don’t care what your gunna buy next buy a 8312 case IH discbine you need to crunch the stem to help they hay dry and find one in good condition they are also easy To find parts for
Spencer, great to hear that your knee is recovering after surgery. For next year, get yourself a discmower and for hay, you need a little more time to dry down in most cases.
I was surprised when I heard grant got a new tractor and hasn’t made a video on it yet I thought he did before you said something but a still surprised
Invest in a side pull haybine in the future, it will help alot easier than a sickle mower on some of spots it was having a hard time, I recommend a JD 1209 and you don't need alot of horsepower cause my uncle ran one on his 4020.
We put up some oats for hay every year in south central Nebraska. Oats are usually best when they are cut as soon as the seed itself can be squeezed and a milk like liquid comes out. We have found that then it is the best hay.
I grew up on a dairy farm and baled 1,000's of square bales. Dad always said, don't be in a hury while baling. The machine was designed to run at a certain RPM and produce bales at that rate. Go slower and the break downs go away. We used the same baler😄
I know it will cost more but if you were able to find like a 12’-14’ hydroswing swather with a conditioner, it would help to dry the hay out a lot and still be small enough to run off of the 4020.
You need a crimper of sorts if your sticking to sickle mowing. We use to sickle mow and took forever to dry our grass down to rake and bale. I use to get so frustrated over it. One day i found an old crappy haybine for $500. Put $300 into it with sections, rockguards, oil and pto bearing and been doing it that way ever since. What use to take 7 days to dry down, im now down to 3 days. Oh and we got a tedder which helps even more. Keep going, it lets me know im not the only crazy one out their playing with hay and its one hell of a learning curve.
Awesome, need a Hilbert brother equipment tour some time. Also seeing that disk mower in action, John deere use to have Kuhn build there disk mower so if your ever looking for one, keep that in mind.
Great skyline shot right there at the end, makes me really hate my office lol. Also, i have a huge man crush on JD4955s like your neighbor had for round bailing. Cant explain it, I just love that effin tractor.
I really enjoy your videos explaining how to farm corn and hay and the economics. How many acres do you need to operate a farm that actually earns a cash profit and could be a family's livelihood? Is 100 tillable acres enough? I see people operating small "farms" but they are really a combination of hay, farmers market sweet corn, selling firewood, brush cutting jobs, etc. and not producing a cash income.
Great baler, it will last many years. Keep those knotters clean, greased, and out of weather. End of season, unload bale chamber. Count number of turns to relieve spring pressure and write it on the cross bar with paint pen.
The value of good neighbors in beyond valuing. Grant: figure out how to integrate that into your video game, lol. Spencer: I don't think there's any tougher crop to farm than forage... or more satisfying. One thing you'll learn to appreciate, you can't push hay.
Those 6.0 duallys are made to be farm trucks we used ours which is like yours but a king ranch and we hauled 26 round bales 18 hours from northeast Florida to central Texas only problem we had was a tire catching on fire but luckily we put it out and got a new tire put on the gooseneck was a long trip
Your brother's 4020 looked like a boss out there in those fields and that 235 mower was way better than the bar mower. Keep making the awesome content.
What would really help you is a mowing conditioner haybines work great and they really help you get those stems dry, not to mention they are cheap since nobody wants them anymore
14/16 % moisture, never push it. If it’s for cows it’s okay but you shouldn’t put it in a barn. When it’s that wet it can and will spontaneously combust. Don’t push it, take your time and do it right.
Thank God for wonderful neighbors. Great to watch you learn and grow.
i dont understand why i find this so enjoyable to watch i dont farm i havent ever farmed i know a fair bit about it though but its just enjoyable to watch this and i cant figure out what exactly about it lol. Thanks for the great videos to entertain me and educate me and sharing your journey. Hope it continues to go well for you!
Good stuff, appreciate the comment. Thanks
Because farming is cool
I think it’s because he’s loving it. He’s full of hope and not being really negative. He’s a young guy giving it a go and has passion for his land. Also he’s using small older equipment which has a very quaint and innocent feel to them. Out with nature and the elements. Not the huge new tractors that would do that in about 20 minutes.
@@spencerhilbert Why did you cut oats now like weren't you supposed to harvest them when they grow up?
@@Memalario69 Oats is mainly a cover crop to help the alfalfa grow. It depends on how good the oats are if they look like they are going to be good yielding you could combine them. However, if they don't look the best it's a better idea to put it up for hay. Sometimes it doesn't matter how good they look people will still put it up for hay because it's less work.
very good video, I run a 16000 acre cattle station in Australia and these videos have helped me transform 100 of those acres into small scale hay farming. keep it up!
You cant rush hay. That is the most important thing you have to remember.
Yea I know that too well
Thats verry true. If it aint dry it aint hay
Great video. The 4020s are great hay tractors. Tips from us baling all these years. Look to get a discbine. The disc will mow anything and not plug and get rubber rolls that will break the stems and make it dry faster. Stay away from mowers that have impellers they have always been problems for us. Also if your looking at different rakes we ran a wheel rake for years but have since switched to a rotary rake and it does a way nice job for making a fluffy windrow that will help dry. Keep it up the hard work. Baling season is always my favorite season
I live on a coffee farm in California and Your videos are entertaining to me because I’ve never experienced that type of farming and it’s fascinating to me.
Nice to see a young guy interested in farming. I'm retired now from a work accident and 81, Did a lot of baling I personally like using a swather conditioner to mow with making small squares I would have an accumulator,grapple loader and anything else to cut down on handling..
alfalfa crop requires about 30 to 45 pounds per acre (lb/ac) phosphate (P2O5), 120 to 160 lb/ac potash (K2O) and 15 to 20 lb/ac sulphate-sulphur (S). So try that
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I like watching you guys get it done with the equipment you have at hand. Some other channels, which are also entertaining, use millions of dollars worth of gear. This channel gives an alternative perspective.
The truck came back hallelujah. Your knee is better Your happy and fit grant and Josie were helping with everything. All is well. My prayers were heard.
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Looks like a lot of fun, I'd love to be doing that. Neighbor sounds like a valuable relationship for sure, take care of each other.
Without good neighbours farming can be difficult for a single person. We borrow equipment from neighboring farms and they borrow ours when needed to it saves the season when someone has something that you have broken and no time to fix it
I'm new at learning farming and have learned a good bit from watching your videos, from my friend, and playing a ton of farm sim and I would like to say I have a lot of respect for what yall do and I always enjoy watching.
It's definitely a great idea to re-seed the 2 fields with more seed and next yr first cut you should triple your bale count. Disc binds are awesome to cut with and will cut anything in its path and your baler is still worth every penny you payed for it hope your knee is getting better it's hard to get around and do stuff when you are down and out
Thanks for schooling all us ppl who benefit from all your work
Big ups to the neighbours for helping out, I'm sure you pay it back when you get the chance
Great to see you have wonderful neighbors to assist with your hay harvest. You might like to consider a hay conditioner, it will assist with the dry down of your hay.
I could watch you guys farm all day, and I LOVE old tractors.
Great work guys!
Wonderful video, great to see the support you all give each other. Watching the fellers on the trailer stack bails reminded me of my younger years, I used to do that for some extra $$. The only difference was back then the bails were on the ground and we had to run along pick em up and heave them up to someone on the trailer or truck. I still remember the first time, I had sore muscles that I didn’t even know I had! 😅
I know you would like that mower lol. It's nice for thick place. And they're affordable. Same with them high carts wheel rakes. Really helps speed up the process.
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It’s great to see you guys got another 4020! I would definitely look into an upgrading your mower and rake for next year in my opinion! Kind of like the ones you guys got to borrow from the neighbors!
We ran a 10ft disc mower on a 4020 powershift very comfortably. Krone 323s was a tough built mower, they’re relatively affordable for a mower. Krone also makes the toughest built tedder on the market. If you consider buying a rake, I’d really recommend a Kuhn speed rake, we have a 108 8wheel now and it does great work with plenty of room for adjustments. Great video!
You should buy one of them disc mowers! Better quality, if u hit a rock or a stump it would be less damage than on the mower you have right now. We have krone mowers and as I said, there good quality. The only thing about them is that there heavy... But reliable. Anyways good video! Keep doing this kind of content!
Good that your brother got something with power shift and a roof that you can use😊
I haven't seen a sickle bar used in years !! Thats definitely old school !!
Having hay in the rotation is great for the soil and will help your yields
truly keep going spencer, you're doing well.
This can be a sustainable and profitable venture, especially with your relationship with neighbors (they probably give you some great beef products in return for the hay). Would running some of their livestock on your land for a week or so just to reenergize the soil with nutrients be beneficial? Or are the cover/nurse crops enough to keep the soil healthy? This whole rengenerative farming thing is kinda new to me.
Respect to all farmers❤
Spencer, thank you for the update, the bails looked beautiful!
This is my first favorite season of the year I love to bale hay and my first favorite thing about farming it when we chop corn I love your vids keep it up great video
I mean hay is my second and I live on a 420 acre farm and it's been in my family's hand for 97 years
I really like watching your videos it’s always nice to see how farming in other parts of the world works.
I hope your leg will be good soon!
Greetings from Germany.
Come so far you and grant been watching since ya old old farming sin videos 😢
Get a haybine,, crimping alfalfa is important. Raking over and over will not help it dry. The knotters on your baler need new knives. You actually found the secret...get your neighbor to do it. Good luck, best regards from Indiana.
Always look forward to a new video from you or Grant!
You got some good neighbors willing to help out
Spencer I
Don’t care what your gunna buy next buy a 8312 case IH discbine you need to crunch the stem to help they hay dry and find one in good condition they are also easy
To find parts for
Spencer, great to hear that your knee is recovering after surgery. For next year, get yourself a discmower and for hay, you need a little more time to dry down in most cases.
High work efficiency, appreciate you guys
I was surprised when I heard grant got a new tractor and hasn’t made a video on it yet I thought he did before you said something but a still surprised
And wasn’t expecting that tractor I thought it be a bigger one to help with the main farm stuff
Glad you got your truck back - interesting video 👍
Invest in a side pull haybine in the future, it will help alot easier than a sickle mower on some of spots it was having a hard time, I recommend a JD 1209 and you don't need alot of horsepower cause my uncle ran one on his 4020.
Awesome video. Thank you guys
ya'll make bailing hay look way too fun lol
Spencer just to help you out in the fall brush hog the fields it will stop the weed growth and come spring the grass will be taller and lusher
Awesome job!! Keep up the hard work 💪🏻
It's amazing how a community of ag people can come together to help each other. Cool stuff.
The harvesting machines are crazy
Grant without a shirt hell yea 🚜
What a great job!
Here in central Utah the only hay we do is alfalfa and it was cool to see the differances and that you were also adding some alfalfa to your hay.
tHX FOR SHARING
Great video enjoy watching keep up the great work
Good farming
Never be afraid to ask your neighbors for help or advice it will help you out tremendously
We put up some oats for hay every year in south central Nebraska. Oats are usually best when they are cut as soon as the seed itself can be squeezed and a milk like liquid comes out. We have found that then it is the best hay.
Looks like it went pretty good
You need to Ted directly after you mow it when you wait 2-3 days it shreds the leaves off even if it’s a heavy dew
another very interesting banger your videos are so interesting and informative keep it up🎉❤
I grew up on a dairy farm and baled 1,000's of square bales. Dad always said, don't be in a hury while baling. The machine was designed to run at a certain RPM and produce bales at that rate. Go slower and the break downs go away. We used the same baler😄
I know it will cost more but if you were able to find like a 12’-14’ hydroswing swather with a conditioner, it would help to dry the hay out a lot and still be small enough to run off of the 4020.
I really enjoy watching your channel..it is very realistic with the farm.
You need a crimper of sorts if your sticking to sickle mowing. We use to sickle mow and took forever to dry our grass down to rake and bale. I use to get so frustrated over it. One day i found an old crappy haybine for $500. Put $300 into it with sections, rockguards, oil and pto bearing and been doing it that way ever since. What use to take 7 days to dry down, im now down to 3 days. Oh and we got a tedder which helps even more. Keep going, it lets me know im not the only crazy one out their playing with hay and its one hell of a learning curve.
You have good neighbors
Grant finally did it, he bought another tractor!!
Your videos are very cool. Greetings from Germany
Awesome, need a Hilbert brother equipment tour some time.
Also seeing that disk mower in action, John deere use to have Kuhn build there disk mower so if your ever looking for one, keep that in mind.
Cool u got the truck back....looking 4ward to the backstory
good job
Lol Spencer i had to laugh you talking about your knees i was back planting 2 days after Sever back surgery the. Pic in my profile was that day 😂😂😂
Thank you for sharing your video, it's wonderful and very meaningful
Quite the collection of new generation tractors in this video
Great skyline shot right there at the end, makes me really hate my office lol. Also, i have a huge man crush on JD4955s like your neighbor had for round bailing. Cant explain it, I just love that effin tractor.
Great video, Spencer. Very interesting. Well documented. Glad to hear you got your truck back!
I really enjoy your videos explaining how to farm corn and hay and the economics. How many acres do you need to operate a farm that actually earns a cash profit and could be a family's livelihood? Is 100 tillable acres enough? I see people operating small "farms" but they are really a combination of hay, farmers market sweet corn, selling firewood, brush cutting jobs, etc. and not producing a cash income.
Great baler, it will last many years. Keep those knotters clean, greased, and out of weather. End of season, unload bale chamber. Count number of turns to relieve spring pressure and write it on the cross bar with paint pen.
For me hay operation needs mower, tedder, rake, baler, accumulator, grapple and wagons....
Love it
The value of good neighbors in beyond valuing. Grant: figure out how to integrate that into your video game, lol. Spencer: I don't think there's any tougher crop to farm than forage... or more satisfying. One thing you'll learn to appreciate, you can't push hay.
I'd be interested to hear what kind of equipment you are looking to get for next year, and what direction you are going to take your farm
Ur neighbors are awesome
Great video, I hope you get better soon ❤
The alfalfa should come back pretty good next spring it takes a year to get it to grow good
Great vid! Hope the knee is healing nicely!
Heck of a job!!
Those 6.0 duallys are made to be farm trucks we used ours which is like yours but a king ranch and we hauled 26 round bales 18 hours from northeast Florida to central Texas only problem we had was a tire catching on fire but luckily we put it out and got a new tire put on the gooseneck was a long trip
New subscriber here. I enjoyed watching your vid. And I dont even farm lol. Keep the video coming. 🔥🔥🇵🇭
Love the vids keep it up
I’m praying for your leg hope it gets better soon!!!!
Your brother's 4020 looked like a boss out there in those fields and that 235 mower was way better than the bar mower. Keep making the awesome content.
But is sickle bar is better for regrowth actually
you have some really nice neighbors letting you run up hours on their equipment, not many farmers would do that.
What would really help you is a mowing conditioner haybines work great and they really help you get those stems dry, not to mention they are cheap since nobody wants them anymore
And good advice I got from my papaw was alfalfas not ready to bail until you can snap the stem that’s when it’s finally dry enough
And when you by fertilizer it’s 0-10-30 with boron you’ll get the hang of it. The stuff is insanely finicky
Hey Spencer great video. I had a similar issue with my baler but it wasn’t the same cause still trying to figure it out.
Still can’t believe you guys made farming simulator into a real world thing! Nice job all around
If you can snap the alfalfa stem it is dry enough. Don’t need a moisture tester just a nice tool
I saw that tractor and planter 6:52 in the show I was going to work and a saw the same thing on a truck lol😅
Sickle bar is fine but when it’s thick and high it clogs up , especially if the wind has laid it down. Fuggettaboutit !
14/16 % moisture, never push it. If it’s for cows it’s okay but you shouldn’t put it in a barn. When it’s that wet it can and will spontaneously combust. Don’t push it, take your time and do it right.
I love your videos spencer
A hay conditioner would help get that hay dry quicker.
Nice 👍 bro