Finding a Needle in the Hay Stack : Square Baling Take Two
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- We're back in the hay field and appreciating somewhat cooler weather. Also appreciate these dinosaurs that keep working for us, even if one wasn't. Thankful for anything we can get at this point! We appreciate you being here! Until next time, Farm Hard Live Well, The Bernards
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Hopefully Wes does take time for an education but I get the feeling he'll be the next generation on this farm. Get ready to expand!!! Need to make room for a horse facility for Austin as well.
I don't think Wes will go into farming
Wes is going to Jr college I believe when school starts up here soon
If I remember correctly, I think he was considering an engineering degree, maybe electrical engineering. I might be wrong.
He is going to college in a week or so. You clearly aren't a regular here...
When I was a young person we always pulled a wagon behind the baler and the bales were just pushed out onto the wagon and we stacked them. I must admit I never saw a contraption like that "bale lifter" LOL Seemed like baling hay days always fell on the hottest days of summer.
We still do that here. I have a 15 year old Deere baler that I bought new and I just want to bought it didn't think I needed a kicker because we only Bill a couple thousand squares a year everything else is round belden most of the time wrapped a few times in my life that we ever got more down than we had time to put away or time to put away and wagons to reload and we had to drop hey and pick it up what's either a truck or a trailer or not necessarily fond memories we had a neighbor in the North end of the county that had one of those conveyors I think if I remember right he loaded loaded round bales from and Allis Chalmers roto Baylor with it
Our bailer had a tray that was spring loaded and the bail was thrown by the bailer back into the trailer. This was back in the mid 80’s.
Wes is a valuable team member. But you all do your best. It's a true labor of love to work a farm. I appreciate you all, God bless ❤
Wes is certainly a God send! He’s such a hard worker…and Cissy wrestling those bales too!
Hard working family. Some of the best and hardest parts of my teenage years were making hay. Keep up with the big boys and we rewarded with a beer.
That boy's eyes could tell a story or two about a few things he thinks, (dreams) about.
Good to see you all mucking in to the hay bales..love your videos....Stay safe and see you soon
Good evening Meredith,
I usually never speak up but I seem to notice a few more negative comments coming in lately. This ol Iowan wants to let you know I didn’t grow up on a farm but spent some of my favorite times with my grandparents in Missouri on their farm.
They too struggled at times with all the same things as your family. It was very fortunate that my brothers and I were only about 50 minutes away. We helped any time we could and besides my parents this helped teach all my family to be very hard workers for anything we wanted for our families. It worked, we were all very successful in many fortunate ways.
You have a Beautiful Family. Keep doing what you’re doing. Sometimes you just need to hear it.
I love and also find your videos quite comforting.
Takes me back sometimes.
Give all your family a hug and continue with you.
I started working with hay and straw when I was 11 yrs old and loved it. I worked for my neighbours who made Hay and their son was a yr younger than I was. We would walk along side the trucks and put the bales on it’s side, ready to go into the baler. We would stack the bales into the barn by hand. It was a long hard day but I loved every minute of it! 👍🏽❤️😎
Wesley is so wonderful!
spent many hours on a hay wagon listening to the "chug, chug" of the square bailer. wonderful sound.
“The brunt of the work was on him (Wesley).” And, not a peep out of him for being the rock.
Yay!! When this video just dropped I was watching one of your old videos from 3 or 4 years ago, "First Hay Came Fast". Your vids are the Best!! 😊
Great video Meredith.
Enjoyed your video I wish the young generation would see what it is to be a farmer.👍👍💪💪
MANY MEMORIES A BALIN HAY AND TAKIN IT UP
Thank you for the farm tour material 🌷💚🌷 Enjoy with you I love rural life in America Welcome to Morocco
I've never seen Lawrence do anything physical all this time, except the driving.
Just hope that Wesley cuts his own path in life, and follows his own dreams.
I believe he has a bad back. ?
I fear that those heavy fresh bales will “heat” in the container, as it lacks ventilation.
Great video. 👏👏👏
Naw, they were baled dry.
Easy for boss to say not heavy, they ain't totin the bail😂
Wesley if your reading. I've done this. 21 bale bundles. I used banding from Uline. But if you just want to try it, take two ratchet straps on the ground about 32 inches apart. Stack 7 bakes 3 rows high. The ratchet them together. Use same spear on tractor for round bale. Try it.
Awesome your family defines
every aspect of the word.
Thank you for sharing everything.God bless you all
Such beautiful countryside. ❤👍
I’m a fifth generation cattle farmer from Southeast Indiana along with my brother and dad. My son and daughter are the sixth, they are our hay helpers. I took Katy back to Purdue for her senior year and Landon to Ball State for his Freshman year. We are getting to start our 4th cutting hay, we round bale all first cutting and square most of the rest. We bale around 100 acres each cutting and usually get at least 5 cuttings. We have around 100 head of angus cattle (50 in a spring calving herd and 50 in the fall). Going to miss my hay helpers. Katy is going to graduate from Purdue with an Animal Science and an Agricultural Communications Degree, two Degrees in 4 years. She works for the Animal Science Department and creates almost everything to their social media accounts along with doing the midday show remotely for one of our local radio stations. Landon is in the School of Education and plans to go through the State Police academy after graduation and be a School Resource Officer who also teaches. Very proud of both of them.
Yay 2024 Hay Babies! 🚜
I started working on a ranch when I was 11 years old driving in the hay fields. When I was 13 I was a husky country boy and started bucking hay. Worked through 2 years of college on this ranch.We never had a loader. 2 people would load from the ground and usually the owner of the ranch would have one of his daughters drive for us. We would haul 450 to 500 ton evert summer.
Used to pickup and stack several thousand every fall, lunch money for school
Great Video Meredith, picking up small bales is hard work, There is nothing more satisfying than a well stacked barn full of hay, thanks for sharing
Wes needs a raise $$$$👍🇺🇸
Great video. That Wesley is Lawrence’s right hand man. He helps with everything around there. Ashley works and helps too! Of course you do a whole lot as well! Great family. 👍❤️
You could shorten the length of the bales if they are too heavy to handle. Best stored in a ventilated shed with an air space under the stack. We used to lay a plastic goundsheet, then arrange pallets on the ground and stack the hay on top.
When we square baled ours we layed them on the side a hand thickness apart and scattered a little salt to help to keep them from moldind, just thought it might help
Meredith thank you for the Adventure on the farm and It was a blast to see y'all in the hay field wes,Austin are growing up fast. Like to hear some of Wes music if y'all don't mind well y'all have a bless day my friends God bless 🙏
Oh yes ,,this hay conveyor is the vary same kind we used to stack hay on a pipe trailer, flatbed, it was the best days of my life , I loved it , thanks BigAl California.
Wes did not look happy!
I do agree, y'all are going to miss him one day ....
I hope the youngens appreciate these precious time mom is catching. My mom took so many pictures and videos in the 90’s I thought it was embarrassing… now I cherish those pictures and videos.
Wonder how much Money all that old equipment lining the roads, tall grass, and around here and there would bring?
Great video as always. Enjoy watching your channel.
Lawrence is really going to miss Wes when he off to school.
We always used hey hooks and hooked and pulled off the loader sometimes hay hook in each hand
Hello there. You will have to get a farm Johnny when Wes has gone.
Just gotta watch as the sweat increases so does the tempers of some
Great video God bless
I enjoy your videos as always. 🙂 I just want to say, back in my days of hauling square bailed hay (64 years old here) we used hay hooks which made it a lot easier to drag the bails, pull them off the lifter, and buck them up on the stack on the trailer and in the barn. Thanks for sharing, you have such a great family! Take Care! 👍
8/16/24 -- Meredith, In about 3 months we will be gripping about the COLD ! We better enjoy summer !
When I was doing that we would put one layer down so the bale were easier to get a hold of
Kinda reminds you of grocery shopping for the cows doesn’t it, you go to the store ( hay field ), you load the cart ( hay wagon ), you get home and unload the groceries ( food for cattle ), you put it away in the cupboard ( metal container ), then you feed the cattle daily. Just my midwestern way of thinking 🤣 I get flashbacks of helping on the farm in my yute ( what’s a yute ) “ youth” ! 80 continuous days here in Zona 🌵 of triple digit plus temps 🌞 😓 should be cooling down by Holloween 🎃
Seen you all at the restaurant last night when you came in with the family. You all looked tired. I hope you all enjoyed your meal.
The next time you have too many Bells Of Hay. You can always use your horse trailers for storage for the Winter. Thank you for your video.
Hey guys, like always I love your videos😊 that is so cool how that Haybar so cool love you guys❤
We in southeast Colorado have to cut after noon and bail early morning we are so dry😊
YOur kids are great!
Can't believe you don't have a old hay rack to pull behind baler- would make it one less trip around the field
Used to bale alfalfa 800 bales per day for 3 days with a John Deere 327 bailer twice to 3 times per year not counting Timothy clover and orchard grass mix we also done! Our alfalfa bales were 100 pounds minimum each and the mix bales were 70-80 pound each! That’s probably why I’m 52 and broke down my body is done.
This family all works well together when there's something that has to be done.
I was about 10 or 11 yrs old when I started hauling hay for a farmer, and we started about the time the sun set and finished when the hay was in the loaf of the barn. Most nites it was 6 trucks loads.
Loved haying time. I was a town girl and didn’t learn about making hay until I was in my 40s. I still love the smell of cut hay. We made 50 to 75 lb hay bales. I am now in my late 70s. Summer makes me smile as I drive to and from town smelling fresh cut hay and remembering the times I loaded hay, cut and tedded hay
Great job everybody. So proud of your family. God bless you all. I love all the animals. ❤❤❤❤❤
Always refreshing to see the family team effort in action ❤
Hey Meredith, just be carefull putting your small squares in that air tight container especially if they are a little tuff, I would leave them out until they go thru the swet. You don't want them to get any mold dust in for your horses. Take care!!!! S. Ia.
You know we never picked them up by the strings when I was a kid in the early 60's. We always used "hay hooks" a metal hook with a wood 90° handle. One in each hand and grabbed the bale by the end with a hook in each hand. Never had a bale come apart. Probably a little tighter too, that was over 60 years ago too. No round bailers then in our county anyway.
Good job everyone!
IDK why exactly but something about watching Lawrence bale small squares with "Little Blue" give me a comfortable feeling. ❤
That is one awesome machine when we were kids that's how we help our grandfather with one of those that brought back some memories thank you for the video
Be a great place to build a house of his own and start his own family!
Oh my goodness…I didn’t know that I missed the sound of a square bailer. There is nothing like the sound they make. Such a wonderful video.
I think your awesome
Thanks for sharing the video Meredith. Nice looking bales. That hay loader works good. Wish I would have had one years ago. But I walked and threw them up to the stacker on the truck or the wagon. Glad you got the hay in the cover and I hope you are able to make enough square bales.
Lawrence could use a new shirt for Christmas. Rural King!
Enjoy your videos! Farm life,it is what it is! You're good people!😊
Nice job family
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I love to see a family working togather. I really miss it.
Have you given any thought as to what you are going to do when the children might not be around to help?
Great video. Thinking Wes is.going to be an Engineer.
Try using a pair of welding sleeves when handling the square bales. It’ll protect the arms without all the extra heat from wearing two shirts. And you can slip them off between loads.
Tell Mr LB I m not trying to mind his business but if y'all put a couple of whirly birds on top of that container the hay will be less likely to mold . Mold equals colic in horses very easily.
Love the sound of a square baler. Usually means a lot of itchy sweaty hard work, tho lol
I remember those days
Good evening Merdie and Family
Nice job y’all ❤
Well I got home off the road for the weekend and Miss Debbie left me a mess to clean up 🙃
Y’all take care Always 🤠❤️😘Love Y’all
Hello from Romania, I greet you with respect Marius, God help 🙏🙋🇷🇴🤠
Been there done that. Not fun on those real hot days. One thing it will do is make you want a shower or a bath when you get finished.
Feel for Wes. Soon, decisions that will tear him in two directions.
As we say in Arizona, it’s a dry heat 😅😂😊
Another awesome video one hard working family thanks for sharing
There not heavy if you're not lifting any 😁
Well done on getting you're square bales of hay saved
Hopefully soon we'll get our baler working soon & then what our hay ladder needs, besides tires lol then we can at least do our friend's field & ours next yrs
MAN YALL WORK FAST BT LA
You could be putting them up in a barn loft in 100 degree days hoping wasp don’t sting you.
didn't have one of those loaders when I was a young teen all done by hand. Yours is old but it works.
Awesome video
🇺🇲☕ havea. Great day. 🎉
Back on the neighbors ranch before I was a teenager.
At age 12. They Bale the pasture next door to us. Back then we use hooks to drag that bells and lift them up through the trailer. Also used to hooks One Way unloaded. I could drag two bells at a time.💪🏽💪🏽.
With my grandfather I learned to eat a lot of greens.
From The orchards..
And up until now I still have muscles in my arms. And this was back in the early sixties. Maybe you can figure out my age..
Good work you all. 🤟🏽✋🏼🫶🪶😎.
Ps. Hydro machinery at a very young age.7 my first 22 rifle at the age of 9.
Makes ya a couple yrs younger then me!
Great video good to see y'all
Another very interesting video Thank you 😊😊😊😊😊
well L B is right bales need to be good weight just one question you didn`t stack them in that container the same day as baling them surly they will be heating and sweeting possibly firing wes doing a great job sissy turning out to be a great farm girl as well not afraid to get stuck in and doing a lot more to help good job all the family
I suggest you get a two wheel “truck” to move the bales into the container instead of breaking your backs lugging them in. You can get them at Harbor Freight for about $30.00.
When we used to load square bales we were told "it builds character" but somehow all I ever got was a sore back...
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