It's hay cutting day in Switzerland! (Farming The Alps #8)

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  • Опубликовано: 31 янв 2025

Комментарии • 31

  • @OchsnerVinzenz
    @OchsnerVinzenz Год назад +4

    It is so funny, seeing an American guy out there with the farmers in my hometown (where I just moved back to).
    E liebe Gruess us em Dorf!

  • @xgeneral2502
    @xgeneral2502 Год назад +1

    This gives patriotism a totaly new definition.

  • @MVMSUIIII
    @MVMSUIIII Год назад +4

    Ich hab schon alle Videos
    gesehen, es ist also wirklich erstaunlich, in der Lage zu sein um gleichzeitig arbeiten und aufnehmen zu können, ehrlich gesagt bin beeindruckt 💪 Viele Grüße aus Salzburg 👨‍🌾

  • @maryabreu6924
    @maryabreu6924 Год назад +2

    Yes I never seen that mower like that before . I will be looking forward to see how you get the hay off the hill. That is a lot of hard work.

  • @FermaSauciucSV
    @FermaSauciucSV Год назад +3

    My dream machines ❤ We actualy make the same process here in Romania I truly understand the hard work of making this expaining videos , you earn a new subscriber.

    • @AmericameetsSwitzerland
      @AmericameetsSwitzerland  Год назад +1

      Hello, thank you for the kind words. I've been watching some of your Videos. I can't understand the language but they are interesting. Do you use horses for all of the work or do you have a tractor as well?

    • @FermaSauciucSV
      @FermaSauciucSV Год назад

      @@AmericameetsSwitzerland we begining from some years to use the car to transport the hay I will make some videos to see we use the horses to the forest and transport the hay in winter to hay storages . I searched a time to find some channel like yours and i am happy i found it You can make a specific playlist to be more eazyest to find ''the alpine work videos'' Keep push ups this videos the algorithm will push more and more your videos. Have a great day

    • @ArvinCorrea-n2t
      @ArvinCorrea-n2t 4 месяца назад

      ​@@AmericameetsSwitzerlandsir can you help me to apply in your farm..I have a certificate as dairy farm worker

  • @moewasd1528
    @moewasd1528 Год назад +2

    Thanks for the upload. I never realized those difficulties only driving by in a train

  • @togsikmale5625
    @togsikmale5625 Год назад +1

    I have used an Aebi „motorized wheelbarrow“ with two tracks and I loved it.

  • @albertjschoenenberger9074
    @albertjschoenenberger9074 Год назад +1

    Your videos are extraordinary. thanks

  • @Inkomanstay
    @Inkomanstay Год назад +2

    saw these machines in a video a few years back, but the video didn't mention where these would be used, so now I know!

  • @DrLazic98
    @DrLazic98 Год назад +2

    Nice machine! First time seeing it, I could use some too!

  • @goatfarmmb
    @goatfarmmb Год назад +2

    we had a AEBI walk behind sickle bar mower when we still farmed in Switzerland by the way Rapid the brand ya guys where using that swiss company was founded in 1926 and the central drive mower bar was invented by Jakob Fahrni a farmer son from the Eriz Canton Bern in the early 1920s. Oekoflaeche is the other field we had those back in the 1990s too in Switzerland. We did loose hay back then too. Yes the Rapid Euro came on the market as a replacement for Rapids first Hydrostatic model 507 in 1992 they made a couple of thousands of em. In the US there was a manufacture that made those Gravely. Some farmers still use scythes maybe not as much as they used to, in the olden days a good mower with a scythe could cut an acre in 10 hours

    • @AmericameetsSwitzerland
      @AmericameetsSwitzerland  Год назад

      That's really interesting. My dad has a couple of Gravelys, but they have more of a rotary type mower. Can you get a sickle bar for them?

    • @goatfarmmb
      @goatfarmmb Год назад

      @@AmericameetsSwitzerland the old Gravelys had that attachement avaible there is a guy on youtube that shows on of. Read in a book I have that there was even a small dealer network in Switzerland that sold them, met a collector a few years ago that had one but with a rotor plow on it.

  • @candycrusher45
    @candycrusher45 Год назад +1

    Wow, very interesting! Thanks!

  • @Motherof6pack
    @Motherof6pack Год назад +3

    Loving this! We have cows and actually just got our first cutting so this is quite fascinating!
    About how many cuttings per year do you guys get?
    I've seen as many as 4 cuttings if we have a rainy summer and as low as 2 cuttings if a dry summer. Naturally the average is 3.

  • @RetiredRhetoricalWarhorse
    @RetiredRhetoricalWarhorse Год назад +2

    Whenever the discussion inevitably turns to "Ya know, we're eating too much meat anyway, we should be more vegetarian" I like to think back to all these steep hills we do our farming on and wonder how on earth people expect farmers to harvest corn or wheat on those... if it even grows on that kinda soil.

    • @eragon96grasel
      @eragon96grasel Год назад +1

      That's not really the argument though. The farmers in Switzerland get subsided for the steep land by the state, otherwise it would not be profitable to do any kind of farming there. The problem is mainly that to much crop is used to feed animals. Switzerland doesn't have farms because they are profitable or sustainable but because swiss people generally have close ties to the farming community. The worldwide consumption of meat is unsustainable at the current level and the few heavily subsided Swiss farms are not going to change that.

    • @RetiredRhetoricalWarhorse
      @RetiredRhetoricalWarhorse Год назад +1

      @@eragon96grasel Yeah that's a load of bull and has little to do with what I said.

    • @eragon96grasel
      @eragon96grasel Год назад +1

      @@RetiredRhetoricalWarhorse So what's your point then? I don't know any farmer in Switzerland who doesn't buy additional crop to feed their livestock. These steep lands aren't used because it's a sensible thing to do, but because they get subsidies for each acre of steep land they maintain.

    • @barbarabetschart8372
      @barbarabetschart8372 Год назад +2

      @@eragon96grasel Unser Betrieb wird nach den Richtlinien von Bio Suisse und Mutterkuh Schweiz bewirtschaftet. Das Ziel ist Fleisch aus Gras herzustellen. Also nicht Getreide, das wir sowieso vom Klima und der Topografie her nicht anbauen können, zukaufen und verfüttern.Wir betreiben Landwirtschaft aus Leidenschaft, nicht wegen den Direktzahlungen (heisst Direktzahlungen und nicht Subventionen).

  • @cabanford
    @cabanford Год назад

    Swiss/American hay-fever here 🤧

  • @petermangold7524
    @petermangold7524 Год назад +1

    A green Aebi? Heretics!

    • @AmericameetsSwitzerland
      @AmericameetsSwitzerland  Год назад

      😂

    • @goatfarmmb
      @goatfarmmb Год назад

      tell that to the Aebi company sometimes they sell em the way the customer wants em lol but I know what you mean. Looks more like the Rapid green ;)

  • @Mohamedk.91
    @Mohamedk.91 Год назад

    Hello sir,
    I want to work with you
    my name is Mohamed, I graduated from the Faculty of Law, Department of Private Law. I have experience in the service sector and animal husbandry. I have a diploma in informatics programs. I speak Arabic fluently, English and French well