Can't tell you much about big square balers as we run a round baler wrapper combination machine. It's a kuhn. The reason we chose it is for the intake design. On all other balers they have these little "stub" augers at the sides to bring the swath to the right width to fit the size of feed rotor into the chamber. On the kuhn the rotor and auger are one piece. The benefit is that in short crops on the regular design, there is a space between the pick up tines and the feed rotor that's there to fit the stub augers into, so it can be like a dead spot in crop flow, in the kuhn design because the auger is part of the feed rotor the tines are much closer to the feed rotor and eliminate the dead spot in crop flow. John deere also use this same design, John deere and kuhn are very closely aligned on forage implements such as mowers and balers. We actually had a roller chamber John deere with the same intake before our kuhn but changed so we could have the combi baler wrapper machine(jd dealer at the time didn't want to sell us the John deere combi version for some reason). Anyways that's all I know about square balers, John deeres intake would be miles ahead of the others.
Hay farmer here. Have a gehl 2245 sickle mower too. Upgraded to a massey 1383 razerbar discbine. Sickle mower not used now. Small squares done here with a bale bandit. Round baler is only used for rolling up quick to beat the weather than rebaled over the winter.
Had to laugh at the title. It was the original “Hay Baron” video that brought me to your channel. Stuck around because I grew up in the Southern IA too.
Me and my dad want to get into small square balers. We just upgraded our hay mower from a old shredder to a Vermeer 810 disc mower. Can’t wait to use it this year. Good video.
I am thankful I found your you tube! Very honest and helpful content for EVERYONE interested in making a living doing a job, that is environmently important, and "with quality hay" profitable!
Worked on a farm as a kid, hard work for sure. Was hit in back many times from bales being kicked up from the baler. Love watching your videos. Loved going to Iowa to visit my mom. Could not believe the size of the fields and farms.
Completely agree with the weather comment. My favorite is when you work your butt off and run hard as you can to get the hay bailed and wake up the next morning to find out you didn't get any rain....
The key to making hay (for profit) is to treat it as a business. As you say, you focus on producing as good of a product as possible... on the hay's timetable. To me, the second most important factor is marketing your hay based on it's quality. Too many midwestern farmers treat hay as an afterthought and not as a cash crop. Treated as a cash crop and you'll find some money.
Some customers do NOT accept or realize the $ inputs necessary to produce quality grass hay. HAY's timetable is a very notable POINT. 🗽🚜 Small squares (idiot blocks per Wes Pandy) are very labor intensive, twine & bale wrap might be in short supply 2022, 🚜🚜
Ben I don't know if this would work for you but we use too swath the tops out of the fescue and combine the seed out then come back in and haybine it and bail it. We used an old gleaner did a hell of a job on the fescue seed. Just a thought.
@@iowANFarmer Well my stepdad made some good money years ago selling the fescue seed and the equipment is cheap doin it. Just another possibility young sir.
Talk to Tony Fast about the baler. Pretty sure his is a big square baler. It’s my favorite machine to watch, second fav is a round baling cotton combine.
I followed my dad in hay since we had cattle but I went out and bailed on the side. When I got older I used Kuhn cutter,speed rake, and tedder followed by JD round bailer. Didn’t make a million but like you I enjoyed it! Gald to see you out and about.
When I made hay there was nothing known as a tedder. We haybined it let it cook a day or two depending on sunshine and bailed it. Never had a problem with hay.
A disconnect is the way to go. The newer v-wheel rakes appear to handle rough ground with the individual bars. Large square bales biggest asset is the loading and hauling. You can use all the available space and they don't start leaning as your hauling them
I just bought a couple of 4x4 round bales and while they fed ok it only equaled about 10 squares. Not sure what I will do this season because the farm I used to get my square bales from is only going to do round bales. In my area squares are 5-7:50 depending on cut and the round bales I bought were 75 each for first cut. Anyway good luck this season and enjoy your videos.
I also think our hay here is more consistent in quality because of the predictable weather and irrigation, as a seller it’s great but as a buyer it’s not good. All of our “ wild horses” term used very lightly came from people dumping their horses because they can not afford hay. Started in 2005-9 seeing the trend happening today of people turning their horses out on state and federal land.
Go with the Hesston baler! 2270 series makes a great 3x4 bale. Last I knew the 2270 XD was still having a few issues but that was 4 years ago when we got the new baler. Could be fixed by now but we’ve ran almost 100k bales through and it’s been pretty consistent.
Yeah I fell for that click bay video a couple years ago this is a much better video a lot more commentary. In my area Southeast Michigan large square bales of pretty much flooded the market small squares and small Round Bales have been a niche market for me 4 foot or less diameter
Hope the hay market in southern IA is better than Northeast Iowa. Hay like you are loading would bring $80 a ton or less up here. Even dairy quality second / third crop big squares that are nice and green only brings around $130 a ton. Going to keep enough hay acres to feed my own cows but any other hay acres are going to corn.
@@iowANFarmer We were on the verge of getting dry all summer but got enough rain for good alfalfa yields. Local weekly auction had over 1500 tons last week.
@@iowANFarmer two years ago one of my regulars that takes the wagon off of the field called and said she just had 600 bales stacked in her barn for 2.75 a bale. I said I wouldn't cut the hay for that
Ben is 100% right on finding horse people to sell your small squares to. I've seen it go for 8 a bale even at auctions much less out of the barn sale price to horse people.
On my 3rd disc mower. The new ones with the "gyro" type gear box is the way to go. I bought a new Kuhn. I have never been able to mow so much a day. A new Ogden 12 wheel rake, walking tandems & NH RB460 round baler this past year. I have doubled my haying ability in 1 year. Stay in it. Cattle always need to be fed!
How many acres of hay a year do you do?how many square bales did you make?what kind square baler do you have?does your father help fix it?why don't you use ateeder?
I use to to do custom hay for people that had 5 to 20 acres and work a job besides [had to] with the weather it was almost impossible to get the quality hay I and my customers wanted and needed. Anyway good video. Glad your back, missed ya
Lasix eye is well worth it. I had it done over 20 years ago. As for the hay deal, I never knew how a round baler worked till I was about 16, now I've worked on vermeer round balers for almost 25 years.
There is a youtube channel from the UK called the hay team TV and their business is pretty close to 90% hay. They make big wrapped round hay bales and then during the winter use a machine to convert big round and square bales into small bales. But I think most of their business is direct with horse stables and horse owners
Ok, you had a partnership with Kinze for harvest season, so why not try a similar deal with Vermeer for hay season (support Iowa busnesses!)? Maybe they'd let you demo their new self-propelled round baler! That would awesome to see! Also, check out Farming Insider's RUclips channel. They're a big hay outfit out of Ohio.
Hey been wondering what you've been up to. Farming is changing All the time. They're selling chicken manure in Pennsylvania for $41 a ton With fertilizer being so high
As a side note. Your success with large squares will be dependent upon the size big square you make for “your” customers. If they’re primarily equine, nothing bigger than 3x3’s. A lot of equine operations don’t have the equipment to handle anything larger.
The hay market here in Australia is no different, I remember when I was young n we did mostly small bales, we had hay bale pick up hook to the truck which would stack 6? high, we would thousands of these bales. But with age round bales over took small bales but I prefer bigger squares because safer carting n storage, but our hay feeder is round only. My only advice in buying hay equipment especially balers, please store them in a shed as seen to many balers sit outside n rust internally, then break down. And for anyone wondering what the weather like in Australia this year? It been coolest no 40oC plus days yet but storming late afternoons/nights. So you can imagine how quickly loaf bread goes mouldy...
How are you selling your hay? eg small squares per bale or per ton? Round bales per bale or perton Ditto large square bales - per ton? Do you deliver hay free (say up to three miles) or charge by the mile or by time involved with delivery? Do you sell hay direct off the field? Do you do weed control in hay fields?
Good video !!!! Cold start tractor wasn't happy!!!! The old duramax is getting tired . Might need to up grade to a newer flatbed diesel in the future 🤔
If we can get Ben 1 million subs and tons of video views and comments we can get him a self propelled and a vermeer self propelled baler We raise boer goats here around Lincoln, Nebraska. I would prefer to have all small square but I lack storage for all my needs. We put up prairie in rounds, I set it on end in my shop and undo it and pitchfork that but it's a product of my father-in-laws 4x6 round baler. We have friends that put up 3x3 big squares and we buy those from anywhere from $80-100 each depending on cutting.. They're not as easy for my wife to handle but each flake is similar to 4 small flakes. We fold them in half to fit our small hay feeders and use 2 flakes. We can bring a few home from his covered shed and tarp the extras if needed.
If your going to get into a lot of hay cutting, get a Haybine from John Deere that can switch sides to cutting down the hay. Like New Holland, older style, you can only cut on one side. Were able is able to switch sides and cut hay at higher rate of speed. You probably already know this.
The other item that is nice while making hay is help, doing it your self is 😵💫😵💫😵💫. After along day- seeing the dogs at the end of the day, they are the best.
Good evening Ben glad to see you back. Hopefully the family doing good and I have a couple of questions for you. How's the service truck and trailer that you bought are coming also do Kenzie make balers or do they just make grain carts??
The service truck and trailer are on the back burner. Kinze makes Grain Carts, Planters, and Tillage equipment along with the technology to go with it!
Stick with NH or Agco big square, l asked the JD dealer shop foreman what was wrong with the 100 big balers and he said everything from the draw pin to the bale slide.
It is more cost effective for us to hire the whole process done instead of buying equipment. 1,800 lb 5x6 Net Wrapped for $25. BTW I'm in central eastern Iowa.
I know some days can be tough Ben, but I appreciate your videos… just promise that if you accidentally attach a million balloons 🎈 to your home & attempt to evade the stress - you’ll video it & take Molly with you. 👓🤓 😁
I like that......" If you want to make a million in hay, start out with 3 " Haaaaaaaaa LOL. When I started, the saying was " If I hit the lottery, I'm gonna farm till its all gone.......LOL. love the video's, keep them coming !
Here's a question for you, when seeding a new hay field do you have a particular mix or brand you like for seed? My dad is getting ready to put everything in hay once the contract farmer is done on our land this year. Thanks.
Go to a hay auction and look at what tells best. I like a mix of Timothy, orchard grass and alfalfa. Timothy will be in the first cutting by not show up in the rest, the orchard grass makes it easier to put up the hay, and here it will sell just as food as pure alfalfa.
See a lot more Case big bale balers on other youtube farmers. Farmiing Fixing Fabricationg uses Case and he is a big John Deere guy. NY Farm Girls use Case. Tony Fast Fast Ag uses Case. I even thing Trevor Bales of Bales Hay channel uses Case.
I’m still waiting to make my first million from hay… 10yrs in it still seems a looong way away 🤣🤣. I bale about 2000 little bales and the rest in 4 band bales. I find I make as much money from big squares as little ones because of the time and fuel saved if I have to store it, then haul it out to a customer.
@@iowANFarmer might be a bit different as I’m in England. I get a contractor in… I don’t really do enough but think I’ll keep an eye out for one. He used a krone HD and a Kuhn baler. I’ve had both 6 string bales and 4 string bales both at 4ft long. The 4 string, 4ft long are great to push about with 2 people, the 6 string really are for machines to move but we have moved them with 4 people before but need to be fit
New drinking game... Every time Ben says "big square bale" = drink! It wasn't that often so you won't drunk much as think u will... Wadda ya mean the visheo is over?! (hiccup) I still have some drink left! Why I otta... You're not the boss of me! C'mere u....I loove ya mannn...
Just hard on them….. we had a 4’x4’ and changed to a mid size but the profit was the same. Issue we had with the 4x4 was parts and break downs. The mid size usually comes with more cost of the machine. I would still avoid machine used heavily in corn stalks because the west and tear.
@@iowANFarmer probably 3X4 bales. Instead of 4X4. I would go CNH baler if it’s not too old. Stay away from the old 5 strings. Agco’s are good. Not a fan of the JD. Don’t even think about a JD 100 baler no matter how cheap. We sell a lot of basket rakes here. Twinstar is the name. Wheel rakes are good and less cost. Hope all goes well for you.
If your market demand is moving to the large square bales, will you get out of the small square and round bale business and move exclusively to large square bales? Yes, the large squares have to be stored quickly, but the effort to bale them is much less.
Can't tell you much about big square balers as we run a round baler wrapper combination machine. It's a kuhn. The reason we chose it is for the intake design.
On all other balers they have these little "stub" augers at the sides to bring the swath to the right width to fit the size of feed rotor into the chamber. On the kuhn the rotor and auger are one piece.
The benefit is that in short crops on the regular design, there is a space between the pick up tines and the feed rotor that's there to fit the stub augers into, so it can be like a dead spot in crop flow, in the kuhn design because the auger is part of the feed rotor the tines are much closer to the feed rotor and eliminate the dead spot in crop flow.
John deere also use this same design, John deere and kuhn are very closely aligned on forage implements such as mowers and balers. We actually had a roller chamber John deere with the same intake before our kuhn but changed so we could have the combi baler wrapper machine(jd dealer at the time didn't want to sell us the John deere combi version for some reason).
Anyways that's all I know about square balers, John deeres intake would be miles ahead of the others.
Another great video! Very informational for us non-farmers that wish we were able to be farmers. Keep up the great work Ben!
Thanks Brian
Hay farmer here. Have a gehl 2245 sickle mower too. Upgraded to a massey 1383 razerbar discbine. Sickle mower not used now. Small squares done here with a bale bandit. Round baler is only used for rolling up quick to beat the weather than rebaled over the winter.
Great to see you back. But I'm sure a break was really nice. Thank you
Good to see you back at it. Don't mind chatting when you have something to say...which is most of the time. Looking forward to the rest of the year.
Thanks Peter!
Thanks for your time to do the videos keep up the great work you do on your families farm
Thanks Andrew!
Had to laugh at the title. It was the original “Hay Baron” video that brought me to your channel. Stuck around because I grew up in the Southern IA too.
What part? Thanks for liking the title, I worked at that.
@@iowANFarmer Oskaloosa. Family farms about 5 miles NE of your farm up there.
@@rexdebruin4508 10-4!
Me and my dad want to get into small square balers. We just upgraded our hay mower from a old shredder to a Vermeer 810 disc mower. Can’t wait to use it this year. Good video.
You’ll like it!
@@iowANFarmer I’ll love it. I used to help my neighbor cut hay and he has some and I just loved running them.
I am thankful I found your you tube! Very honest and helpful content for EVERYONE interested in making a living doing a job, that is environmently important, and "with quality hay" profitable!
Great video Ben
Worked on a farm as a kid, hard work for sure. Was hit in back many times from bales being kicked up from the baler. Love watching your videos. Loved going to Iowa to visit my mom. Could not believe the size of the fields and farms.
Completely agree with the weather comment. My favorite is when you work your butt off and run hard as you can to get the hay bailed and wake up the next morning to find out you didn't get any rain....
Sometimes you want to leave some hay out there to get a little rain.
The key to making hay (for profit) is to treat it as a business. As you say, you focus on producing as good of a product as possible... on the hay's timetable. To me, the second most important factor is marketing your hay based on it's quality. Too many midwestern farmers treat hay as an afterthought and not as a cash crop. Treated as a cash crop and you'll find some money.
Some customers do NOT accept or realize the $ inputs necessary to produce quality grass hay. HAY's timetable is a very notable POINT. 🗽🚜 Small squares (idiot blocks per Wes Pandy) are very labor intensive, twine & bale wrap might be in short supply 2022, 🚜🚜
@@billupstateny9151 I’m sure more than twine and bale wrap will be troubling this coming season.
Ben I don't know if this would work for you but we use too swath the tops out of the fescue and combine the seed out then come back in and haybine it and bail it. We used an old gleaner did a hell of a job on the fescue seed. Just a thought.
I’ve thought about that. Growling Timothy or something along those lines.
@@iowANFarmer Well my stepdad made some good money years ago selling the fescue seed and the equipment is cheap doin it. Just another possibility young sir.
Nice looking JD loader tractor Ben
Thanks Kevin!
Look into LASIK eye surgery. 10 yrs into mine and loving it. Worth every penny.
Most people recommend it!
Great video! Not many people on here talk about the hay markets!
Thanks!
Talk to Tony Fast about the baler. Pretty sure his is a big square baler. It’s my favorite machine to watch, second fav is a round baling cotton combine.
Nice trailer. Keep up the good work.
Thanks Kevin
Hay there!😉
Couple years ago I watch One Lonely Farmer. He contract bails hay. He uses Crone bailers. Might check out his channel.
I know OLF!
I followed my dad in hay since we had cattle but I went out and bailed on the side. When I got older I used Kuhn cutter,speed rake, and tedder followed by JD round bailer. Didn’t make a million but like you I enjoyed it! Gald to see you out and about.
I think Kuhn makes some nice stuff!
When I made hay there was nothing known as a tedder. We haybined it let it cook a day or two depending on sunshine and bailed it. Never had a problem with hay.
@@billc3271 You must have had 25% humidity and full sun every day, stored it outside, and fed it to cattle!
Another good video love listening to you explain everything so well
hay, hay, nice Ben !
A disconnect is the way to go. The newer v-wheel rakes appear to handle rough ground with the individual bars. Large square bales biggest asset is the loading and hauling. You can use all the available space and they don't start leaning as your hauling them
Safer to haul is a positive!
I just bought a couple of 4x4 round bales and while they fed ok it only equaled about 10 squares. Not sure what I will do this season because the farm I used to get my square bales from is only going to do round bales. In my area squares are 5-7:50 depending on cut and the round bales I bought were 75 each for first cut. Anyway good luck this season and enjoy your videos.
Hello 👋 Andrew and Wayne
Down here in AZ good quality alfalfa mix horse hay brings $15.00 $17.00 a bale and that's a small 95lb bale.
That’s amazing.
I also think our hay here is more consistent in quality because of the predictable weather and irrigation, as a seller it’s great but as a buyer it’s not good. All of our “ wild horses” term used very lightly came from people dumping their horses because they can not afford hay. Started in 2005-9 seeing the trend happening today of people turning their horses out on state and federal land.
Go with the Hesston baler! 2270 series makes a great 3x4 bale. Last I knew the 2270 XD was still having a few issues but that was 4 years ago when we got the new baler. Could be fixed by now but we’ve ran almost 100k bales through and it’s been pretty consistent.
Thanks for the tip!
Yeah I fell for that click bay video a couple years ago this is a much better video a lot more commentary. In my area Southeast Michigan large square bales of pretty much flooded the market small squares and small Round Bales have been a niche market for me 4 foot or less diameter
Cool hat Ben
Hope the hay market in southern IA is better than Northeast Iowa. Hay like you are loading would bring $80 a ton or less up here. Even dairy quality second / third crop big squares that are nice and green only brings around $130 a ton. Going to keep enough hay acres to feed my own cows but any other hay acres are going to corn.
Hay markets are unpredictable. Travel 100 miles and it's different
It is picking up a bit. Normally you guys have an awesome hay prices. What’s going on?
@@iowANFarmer We were on the verge of getting dry all summer but got enough rain for good alfalfa yields. Local weekly auction had over 1500 tons last week.
@@iowANFarmer two years ago one of my regulars that takes the wagon off of the field called and said she just had 600 bales stacked in her barn for 2.75 a bale. I said I wouldn't cut the hay for that
Ben is 100% right on finding horse people to sell your small squares to. I've seen it go for 8 a bale even at auctions much less out of the barn sale price to horse people.
Correct!
Was selling from $8 to 10.25 a bale today at sale barn, mid-quality alfalfa, NE Kansas
I remember when you first started. I do believe I subscribed just as you were just over 1k subscribers. It's been great 👍 ☺
Heck yeah my dude! Thanks for riding along!
On my 3rd disc mower. The new ones with the "gyro" type gear box is the way to go. I bought a new Kuhn. I have never been able to mow so much a day. A new Ogden 12 wheel rake, walking tandems & NH RB460 round baler this past year. I have doubled my haying ability in 1 year. Stay in it. Cattle always need to be fed!
I’ll look up those gear boxes!
How many acres of hay a year do you do?how many square bales did you make?what kind square baler do you have?does your father help fix it?why don't you use ateeder?
Yes to the last bit!🙃
Excellent video, I will share.
Thanks Woodstock!
You could consider continuing with your small square baler and buying a Bale Baron. Will make your handling much easier.
I don’t think the math works on that. Because they will sell it by the bale. It is a nice system.
I use to to do custom hay for people that had 5 to 20 acres and work a job besides [had to] with the weather it was almost impossible to get the quality hay I and my customers wanted and needed. Anyway good video. Glad your back, missed ya
Hardest part of hating is the weather
Lasix eye is well worth it. I had it done over 20 years ago. As for the hay deal, I never knew how a round baler worked till I was about 16, now I've worked on vermeer round balers for almost 25 years.
I like the Vermeer balers!
Enjoy your videos
Interesting stuff Ben👍👍
There is a youtube channel from the UK called the hay team TV and their business is pretty close to 90% hay. They make big wrapped round hay bales and then during the winter use a machine to convert big round and square bales into small bales. But I think most of their business is direct with horse stables and horse owners
There is an Amish around here that does that too!
Ok, you had a partnership with Kinze for harvest season, so why not try a similar deal with Vermeer for hay season (support Iowa busnesses!)? Maybe they'd let you demo their new self-propelled round baler! That would awesome to see! Also, check out Farming Insider's RUclips channel. They're a big hay outfit out of Ohio.
I’ll check them out! The Vermeer round baler self propelled is a machine!
Hey been wondering what you've been up to. Farming is changing All the time. They're selling chicken manure in Pennsylvania for $41 a ton
With fertilizer being so high
What is it normally?
Liking the glasses brotha. Always, great content and information.
Thanks Russ
As a side note. Your success with large squares will be dependent upon the size big square you make for “your” customers. If they’re primarily equine, nothing bigger than 3x3’s. A lot of equine operations don’t have the equipment to handle anything larger.
Thanks for the tip!
ROTARY RAKE BEN !! Are very nice easy on legumes Thanks 🙏 Ben.
Lol, that’s what they’re called!
Watching from goderich ontario Canada 🇨🇦
Nice spectacles! 🤓
I made them out of coke bottles.
The hay market here in Australia is no different, I remember when I was young n we did mostly small bales, we had hay bale pick up hook to the truck which would stack 6? high, we would thousands of these bales. But with age round bales over took small bales but I prefer bigger squares because safer carting n storage, but our hay feeder is round only. My only advice in buying hay equipment especially balers, please store them in a shed as seen to many balers sit outside n rust internally, then break down. And for anyone wondering what the weather like in Australia this year? It been coolest no 40oC plus days yet but storming late afternoons/nights. So you can imagine how quickly loaf bread goes mouldy...
Someday I need to make it to Australia.
Hello 👋 Bandit
How are you selling your hay? eg small squares per bale or per ton? Round bales per bale or perton
Ditto large square bales - per ton?
Do you deliver hay free (say up to three miles) or charge by the mile or by time involved with delivery?
Do you sell hay direct off the field?
Do you do weed control in hay fields?
Around here everything is by the bale unfortunately. Charge to haul most of the time.
Good video !!!! Cold start tractor wasn't happy!!!! The old duramax is getting tired . Might need to up grade to a newer flatbed diesel in the future 🤔
Not at their prices. I’ll go back to riding a horse!
Take some of those "millions" and buy one of those fancy electric jacks like those other "millionaire" RUclips farmers have on their trailers. :P
I wouldn’t know what to do with myself.
If we can get Ben 1 million subs and tons of video views and comments we can get him a self propelled and a vermeer self propelled baler
We raise boer goats here around Lincoln, Nebraska. I would prefer to have all small square but I lack storage for all my needs. We put up prairie in rounds, I set it on end in my shop and undo it and pitchfork that but it's a product of my father-in-laws 4x6 round baler. We have friends that put up 3x3 big squares and we buy those from anywhere from $80-100 each depending on cutting.. They're not as easy for my wife to handle but each flake is similar to 4 small flakes. We fold them in half to fit our small hay feeders and use 2 flakes. We can bring a few home from his covered shed and tarp the extras if needed.
Great comment. What would a round bale of the same quality hay go for?
Krone is one of the best big square bales on the market.
People say that. But no support around here.
Do the Lasik. I have never regretted it.
Maybe next year. Gotta save it up… and then spend the money on something else lol.
Ben, didn't you have a self unloader trailer for round bales?
I do, only hauls 8 vs 14
x22 report uses this same music, nice 👍
Nice!
If your going to get into a lot of hay cutting, get a Haybine from John Deere that can switch sides to cutting down the hay. Like New Holland, older style, you can only cut on one side. Were able is able to switch sides and cut hay at higher rate of speed. You probably already know this.
Use a 946 currently
Hi wayne
The other item that is nice while making hay is help, doing it your self is 😵💫😵💫😵💫.
After along day- seeing the dogs at the end of the day, they are the best.
Massey ferguson owns the big square bale market if you go out west
They say they are good machine!
Hello 👋 Molly
great video-but i wanted to see how u tied the bales down-ok
One strap at a time!
Good evening Ben glad to see you back. Hopefully the family doing good and I have a couple of questions for you. How's the service truck and trailer that you bought are coming also do Kenzie make balers or do they just make grain carts??
The service truck and trailer are on the back burner. Kinze makes Grain Carts, Planters, and Tillage equipment along with the technology to go with it!
Lol the sorry sorry sorry made me laugh …
Coveralls are cumbersome makes ya feel like a walrus keep up the good work
When it’s negative out and you have 8 layers on, you get the waddle
Last year I paid 515 a ton for fertilizer. This year I was told to lock my price in now at 1012. Wtf. Let’s go Brandon
Up up and away.
What you think about the self propelled sickle mower? Or would you shoot right for the self propelled disc mower?
I wouldn’t go back to sickle
good job man good details good video
Thanks Ronnie
Stick with NH or Agco big square, l asked the JD dealer shop foreman what was wrong with the 100 big balers and he said everything from the draw pin to the bale slide.
Lol
Do you have fertilizer program for hay ground?
Probably not as dialed in as much as it should be
How to tell when its cold outside? When you walk and the ground crunches
100% accurate - the crunch and Squeak
Great video .
Thanks Michael!
Good video! Looking forward for an annual goat video! Lol
We will see if I can make it happen!
It is more cost effective for us to hire the whole process done instead of buying equipment.
1,800 lb 5x6 Net Wrapped for $25. BTW I'm in central eastern Iowa.
Yep! That happens that way to. Does the rate change depending upon the cutting?
My dad used to tell me that saying (19:47)
I know some days can be tough Ben, but I appreciate your videos… just promise that if you accidentally attach a million balloons 🎈 to your home & attempt to evade the stress - you’ll video it & take Molly with you. 👓🤓
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Thanks Jeremy!
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The the best quality, the most quantity for the least amount of overhead.
I like that......" If you want to make a million in hay, start out with 3 " Haaaaaaaaa LOL. When I started, the saying was " If I hit the lottery, I'm gonna farm till its all gone.......LOL. love the video's, keep them coming !
Thanks!
I love cutting hay with an old school sickle mower
Done it once or twice. Cool to see.
Someone has to be the first. Can you buy a big square bailer use it on your own stuff and then do custom? Food for though.
Time is a constant issue.
Here's a question for you, when seeding a new hay field do you have a particular mix or brand you like for seed? My dad is getting ready to put everything in hay once the contract farmer is done on our land this year. Thanks.
Go to a hay auction and look at what tells best.
I like a mix of Timothy, orchard grass and alfalfa. Timothy will be in the first cutting by not show up in the rest, the orchard grass makes it easier to put up the hay, and here it will sell just as food as pure alfalfa.
See a lot more Case big bale balers on other youtube farmers. Farmiing Fixing Fabricationg uses Case and he is a big John Deere guy. NY Farm Girls use Case. Tony Fast Fast Ag uses Case. I even thing Trevor Bales of Bales Hay channel uses Case.
I’m leaning case if I get into it.
What do you think of putting fertilizer to maximize each cutting seems to be working for the rest of the story farmer
It’s possible.
I’m still waiting to make my first million from hay… 10yrs in it still seems a looong way away 🤣🤣. I bale about 2000 little bales and the rest in 4 band bales. I find I make as much money from big squares as little ones because of the time and fuel saved if I have to store it, then haul it out to a customer.
What big baler do you use? (Don’t worry I’m with you, but I’m only 7 years deep)
@@iowANFarmer might be a bit different as I’m in England. I get a contractor in… I don’t really do enough but think I’ll keep an eye out for one. He used a krone HD and a Kuhn baler. I’ve had both 6 string bales and 4 string bales both at 4ft long. The 4 string, 4ft long are great to push about with 2 people, the 6 string really are for machines to move but we have moved them with 4 people before but need to be fit
Yep! Total CB. Why Change? $$$$$$ Of course! Honor among Men! Admired your channel until this post.
I was very clear about it being Clickbait.
New drinking game... Every time Ben says "big square bale" = drink! It wasn't that often so you won't drunk much as think u will... Wadda ya mean the visheo is over?! (hiccup) I still have some drink left! Why I otta... You're not the boss of me! C'mere u....I loove ya mannn...
Big square bale
Haha! Uncle! I give in!
👍Good work ethic works- too bad young people now days don’t get it !!
BUT YOU DO - good job !!
No Molly, no blue healer!
Too cold
With large square bakers watch out on used ones which were used to bake corn stalks… otherwise they all cause issues and frequently break down.
What’s wrong with the stalks?
Just hard on them….. we had a 4’x4’ and changed to a mid size but the profit was the same. Issue we had with the 4x4 was parts and break downs. The mid size usually comes with more cost of the machine. I would still avoid machine used heavily in corn stalks because the west and tear.
Also Agco balers are made here in KS you should come for a tour… used to be Hesston..
@@scotyarnell1157 what do you mean by mid size?
@@iowANFarmer probably 3X4 bales. Instead of 4X4. I would go CNH baler if it’s not too old. Stay away from the old 5 strings. Agco’s are good. Not a fan of the JD. Don’t even think about a JD 100 baler no matter how cheap. We sell a lot of basket rakes here. Twinstar is the name. Wheel rakes are good and less cost. Hope all goes well for you.
Ben. Give Tony Fast a call. he puts up large bales.
I was thinking about asking him about his baler.
Ok now you got the capper !…ok sorry carry on ser !
Krone, the only brand you need to know.
Yeah, but no service around here.
If your market demand is moving to the large square bales, will you get out of the small square and round bale business and move exclusively to large square bales? Yes, the large squares have to be stored quickly, but the effort to bale them is much less.
Time will tell. Most likely I will go where it is most profitable
@@iowANFarmer Indeed true. thank you
Love the videos! I’m 13 and just posted my first farming video and I was wondering if you could give me shout out! Thanks