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It's summer and in our neck of the woods, that means there's hay that needs to be hauled. Except for the bale wagon has seen better days and needs a little love. Check it out!
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FARM RATS TEE SHIRTS COMMING SOON !😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Yes! Fab Rats on a tractor! Lets do this thing! 🤣🤣👍🏻
I mean if he doesnt the scammers will in a week
Hay, great idea!
😂😂😂😂😂😂 hahaha
I was wondering if they’d be Farm Rats or Barn Rats.
That is why my father and grandfather had kids so they didn't have to invest in fancy hay stacking equipment. Oh the days of hand stacking the bales on the wagon and mow in 90 degree heat and our reward was Kool -Aid
My brother called me one day, saying he checked the weather, and the temp was 100 and humidity was 100%, time to make some hay.
Back in my day we grabbed bails off the bailer with a hook and hand stacked them on a trailer. Then conveyer loaded them into a barn loft and stacked them again. We had a small hay loft, 9000 bails.
And he has two strapping boys that would really benefit from that experience!!!
That’s what I did as a kid as well
Farming is the hardest job there is. You have to have more job skills than any other occupation.
I have an 80s bale wagon. It's definitely a love/hate relationship.
Doggo was sniffing around the welder at 1:37. Dark flat object can be seen on top of the welder. In the next edit, the dark object disappeared. Conclusion? Doggo ate your jerky!
Forget that old stacker. Put those 3 boys to work loading by hand. They will appreciate all other jobs in the future.
takes me back to the 70s! as young teens we just rode on the trailer and the stacked each 60lb+/- bail as that got pushed onto the trailer.... usually about 300 bails per load! w got $50/day and thought we were kings! Lots of "animail parts" sometime whole live ones in the bails!
Fancy. Back in the 80's I bailed hay in for work, we walked the field and threw bales up to the trailer guy who stacked them. Then we sold them and hand stacked them in the ranchers barn. We got .10 a bale.
Ah the good ol’day’s!
Damn, you guys are FANCY. We did it all by hand. Throw it and stack it on the truck and trailer, drive back home, unload and stack, rinse, repeat. Me and my brother. Sometimes I ended up loading the truck by myself. I'd let the farm truck idle in first, and just trot along throwing bales until I needed to turn the truck. You guys got it EASY. lol...
Gotta love some good fab rat footage in the morning. Morning Paul hunter n the crew
My grandfather mounted a baler on an old binder chassis. We stacked many a bale with that machine. Gramma even laughed at me when I bailed off from a smoking wire. That laugh interrupted his lunch. Great memories!
You’ve never run a Stackcruiser before. You need to put a tie in the fourth tier. You’ve got auto tie in that machine (pins in the second table that are remotely operated by you via lever) that allows you to change the orientation so that the rows don’t separate and fall over just like they are doing for you. The push off bars are supposed to be perfectly straight, but have been bent by loads falling over onto them while stacking, just like you have demonstrated. You may wish to refer to the operators manual.
Paul is philiosophically opposed to instructions! I wondered why the wagon was stacking like that.
You definitely have to run a tie layer.
Growing up, in southern Tennessee, I couldn’t wait for hay season to come around. That was my main summer job. We would haul as many as 2500 bales of hay per day with a crew of 4, two people throwing hay onto the truck, one person, stacking, and one person driving the truck. It was all done by hand, and with the money made I was able to buy my first truck. Those were the days!
We did the same out here in Oregon. As I was watching this I couldn't help but think that if they had done this by hand they would have saved a lot of time. I have to admit that this was a lot more entertaining though. Lol
That kind of work must have made for some strong men! Hats off to you for enduring that kind of labor 💪
Yeah, back in my younger days that’s what they called us Country Strong
Spent quite a few days doing the same thing, in IL. Long hot days but in youth. Did work tobacco fields when I stationed in KY. Probably made more money doing that than I made in Army at the time.
I was raised in North Western Tennessee, did the same thing. Nickle a bail all day long.
The reply from Paul about the coolant was gold, thanks for the laugh
Looks like Scout got him some floor jerky 😂
65 years ago in Kansas we did all of the loading and unloading by hand...except for a gasoline converer belt to raise it up into the barn. Bales weighed up to 110 pounds each. This looks a LOT easier. 😀✌
Nice we used 4 electric elevator to run bales up in hay mile our barn was 245’ long took a bit to fill
Nothing better than farming and buying 2 new FabRat hats. Thank you FabRats
Once upon a time, haying for me was walking the field, loading bales by hand on an old flatbed Model A, walking up to the barn and unloading and stacking by hand. Repeat, repeat, repeat. Yeah, I'm a bit older than you guys.
No longer OSHA compliant, like bail flingers!
I spent a couple of Summers on a friend's farm up in Idaho.
He had an alfalfa field.
He had a swather and a bailer.
To collect the bails He had a flat bed trailer he would tow behind the tractor.
We would have to pick those wet hay bails up and toss them up to the guys on the trailer who would stack it.
You talk about back breaking work!
This was in the Summer too.
Throwing 140# bales all day was the most physical work I’ve done my entire life. There’s nothing like farm work. I’m 41 now and my back feels every bit of 65.
@@agoodballet I completely understand when my grandfather switched from square bales to round bales words can not describe how happy I was.
I ended up having back surgery later on in life.
We would have damn near killed for a machine like this!
Bailing/Hauling/Stacking Hay in the Hot Texas Sun . That is when I learned to drive a Tractor pulling a flat bed . Probably about 9/10 yo ? Total Misery ! Thanks for bringing back some memories .
Grew up in Indiana bailing hay when I was a kid and still doing it today. 11 year old Grand Daughter driving the truck, I'm throwing onto the wagon, son is stacking, other grand daughters are riding and supervising.
Back in 1962 I was eight years old and had to sling these bales up onto a flatbed Chevy C30 4+2 speed. My foster parents had five 100 acre fields of baled hay we had to bring in. I was 165 pounds by the time I was 12 years old and driving that flatbed.
I grew up on a ranch in Eastern Oregon. We would stop the bale wagon after two or three tiers and manually arrange the bales on the table to create a tie tier before lifting the table. After years of stacking hay, changing hand line and feeding cattle, I decided a different path was for me and now I'm a professor of Computer Science at Boise State University. 😂
Our 1033 and neighbors 1037 had a lever for tight are you pulled from the seat and switchback the next layer
The old 'goop some weld and get a few more rounds'...Ahhh, memories.🤓
We used a flatbed, us kids walked along and tossed them up. Another kid stacked. When we got to the barn we made an 'assembly line' and transferred them from the truck to the hay loft. Aren't that what kids are for? 😂
Sounds kind of similar to me I grew up on a cattle ranch on ten mile and pine in meridian, though by the time I was old enough to remember my grandpa was just leasing the land to the dairy farmer down the road so all we really did was feed them. It's quite sad passing by there now because it's a gas station, church, and apartments now.
I had one of that hay stacker. 50 percent chance of stacking by hand in the barn. Now I usa grapple that picks up 8. Not very many problems now
I grew up a navy brat city boy ?
My farm’n experience ?
I was the kid riding your fields on my bike 😂 amazed at the giant equipment…
Thanks too all farmer’s
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When I was a young boy my father didn’t have all this fancy equipment that picked up and stack the bales. He had 4 sons. And I promise you, none of the sons got to run any of the equipment. We would fill three or four large barns or square bales. Oh, and I forgot to mention this is in the middle of the Midwest where your had 90° days with 100% humidity. Made for great football high school players though in the fall. 😅
YAY!
Weld a small reinforcing plate on the top of the bucket, then weld the receiver tube to that plate. Unless the trailer is extremely heavy, the 3-point is not nearly as easy to use as a hitch on the bucket.
I wondered why they didn't just do a bucket hitch, but now they can easily move around heavy loaded trailers too.
I guess it depends on what you're doing with the trailer.... the 3 point is super easy and I can go down the road... I even have a light hook up with turn signals 😁
The enthusiasm for “farmin” just oozes from Paul . FARM RATS TEE SHIRTS COMMING SOON !.
One of Paul's best lines ever! "If I catch coolant on fire, I'm special!" That just about had me rolling on the floor.
Fortunately it's been many years since I put up square bales but when we did it we had to load it all by hand.Hard work but keeps you in shape.Never had the pleasure of having machinery like yours.
When the boys were younger they called there muscles chicken muscles they soon became horse muscles. Happy Trails
Paul's statement of fixing like a farmer would is so true. I did more of those kind of fixes than I can remember. Looking forward to the Sunday build video already!
Little man holding that bar up and moving it up and down while dad measures is like holding the flash light for dad when he can't see what he's working on! Lol
That brought back a memory of 6-year-old me holding the light for dad while he was working under the kitchen sink and him saying, Will you hold the light where I'm working. I was trying but the light was moving all over the place.
yeah or shining it in his face, because your watching the work being done instead of watching the lights aim. 🤣
Holding the trouble light for my Dad usually meant I’d hear words I wasn’t allowed to say because if it wasn’t light where he was looking it was probably shining in his eyes.
Lan and Hunter and even Jase, enjoy the time even though it SUXS! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸Stackin' hay, movin' pipe twice a day (2 miles each time), workin' with my dad and grandpa! They had a plumbing, excavation, and BLASTING business 🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨💥💥Just some of the great summer jobs as a kid in the summer. Definitely most kids these days HAVE NO IDEA!!!!! Proud of Paul & Michelle rasing the kiddos right! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
It was definitely hard work but at times I wish I was still doing that!
I remember doing all of that by hand.
When I was a little boy, my dad owned a small farm and he baled hay and sold it, and also cut sod and sold it. Ironically the two implements that drove him the craziest was the old John Deere bailer (the type that is pulled behind a tractor) and the walk behind sod cutter. They caused me to realize what a kind and patient man my dad is because any lesser man would have cursed and kicked something fierce.
We called it bailing hell,, off the bailer on to the trailer into the barn all by hand in 90 deg 75% humid Indiana summer. The snakes sticking out of the bails were the fun part.🤣
My son and I only use tig gloves now days. In the words of my welding supply guy, "once you feel heat in the MIG gloves, it's too late." I greatly enjoy the dexterity of them. Way to keep the farm equipment going.
In the 1940s & 50s, my father owned a hay service business. He was crazy good at bucking bales by hand. Even when he was in his 50s, he could still toss heavy green alfalfa bales like they were nothing. He hated the baling wagons because they couldn't make a stack without it falling over. He made sure all us kids went to college and didn't try to make our living with our backs...
my father used to tell the story of his father (ww2 vet/farmer) who would pick up and throw bails one handed while adjusting the last bail to keep everything square on the trailer while periodically steering the tractor ALONE them dudes where different
my neighb0r here in grand juncti0n is 80 & still d0es all his 0wn hay & helps l0ad every bail he sells. merlin isa wizard.
Paul your dragging up on those great memories cutting, bailing, and hauling hay.....although we didn't have the stacking issues, one man on ground, 2 on😢 the truck bed and 4 unloading and stacking.
Looked more like an Old Holland to me!
I'm 44 been bailing since I was a kid I don't have to bail but I just love doing it and it makes me happy to bail more then the teenagers that get paid to do the work and most don't last a day by noon they packed up and gone crying that it's too hot and too hard of work LOL.
"you got to get out of the house to get big arms" loll.. best dad quote ever..
These kids today need more outdoor activities..
I spent more time on a balewagon than I care to mention. We always put a tie tear in and use poles with a spike to hold stack when pulling away. Straw bales were always a challenge. They were so light they would bounce around the table always had to stop.🤠
Pro Tip: Have someone tip the bales up as you bale as it helps keep the mice from chewing the strings before up can pick 'em up.
When I was 17 I had a Summer job where among other fun stuff we loaded hay when the loader was out of commission. They'd drive a flat bed around the field and we young and dumb fellows would trot along and grab bales and sling them up to the flat bed. Other young and dumb fellows on the flat bed would catch and stack. When the flat bed was full or we ran out of bales we'd toss them off and stack them at the barn. It built character, I guess, because I'm still a character more than fifty years later.
Jace and Land... both of you young men are way cool for the help and comic relief you bring to the Fab Rats channel. Studly!!
That would have made hauling hay a WHOLE lot easier when I was a kid. My sisters & I bucked a LOT of hay off the field.
Several years ago, I was trying to figure out something like that tractor thing to haul with our tractor. Ended up going to a farm supply store and asking about it. They had this little sleeve thing that slipped over the PTO bar and hitch bar to keep it from tipping. Worked great!
As a child I had to use a hay hook and catch square bales shooting out of the bailer on the wagon. If you did it just right the bale never stopped, you just ‘helped’ it get up on the stack. At the barn they stored it on the second floor and used an elevator. The men would load it and I’d have to stack it in the loft where it had to be over a hundred degrees. They’d fill the opening just for meanness to take a break. But they raised some of the finest cattle on that hay, with chopped sorghum cane and corn. We even still had some retired work horses and mules on the landscape. I miss those days of riding a coon hunting, fence jumping mule, looking for heifers with calves in February. Nowadays I just sit in my chair and watch FabRats do it all.
Fab Rats crew are Jacks of all trades and master's of some! Fabricators for sure! Good days work. Til next time, take care, and we'll see you on the next...
🇺🇸Fab rats farm’n Shenanigans 😂
Always a fun show !
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You can tell Paul and the entire family was raised right. I'd say I respect them all but that would be a huge understatement.
Where was this machine 40 years ago? I stood in the back of a truck while a man threw the bale up to me and stacked them in the truck. Then unloaded and stacked in a barn up to the ceiling. Learned that summer, I'm not a farmer and don't want to be a farmer. Next summer, I went crabbing and shrimping. Been working on the water ever since.
Once again Paul proves a self-sufficient thinker (farmer) can do anything. I wouldn't be surprised to see this 3-point hitch adapter working its way into an upcoming recovery video!
I haven’t put up hay in over 50 years but growing up on a rural Virginia farm I have harvested hay with horse drawn power using shocks and pitchfork and modern hay bales. I was big and strong so I always loaded the heavy bales that were harvested next to the river. The work made me strong and tough.
There used to be farm kids built like gorillas.
Hey Philip...what part of Virginia? I live near Harrisonburg but lived near Covington until I was 10. We had a bunch of old horse drawn hay equipment on my dad's home place in Covington. ..he used it until they got their first tractor...he is 91 now still kicking!!
@@johnsizemore6061 , I’m from the Copper Hill area of Floyd County. In 1950 Floyd was a one stop light County and still is to this day. Floyd is 20 miles from Roanoke with Covington being on the other side of Roanoke. I currently live in South Carolina and have a neighbor from Covington,Va.
Back in the day ..
When I was 10 to 12 I have carry a lot of hay lift a lot of downs by hand. And stack them on the trailer. Offload them by .hand stack them in his big old barn.
They used to stack bales of hops and their years ago. The bar next to it was a dryer Baylor 3 floors.
My first moved here I was the last year that they bailed. Back in 59. Lot of hops back then and grapes prunes and apples pears.
Northern Cal.
I was this strong tough kid back then. I could hook two bales of hay and dragon..
This was on the ranch next door.
I never got paid I just like working out there. I work at our Ranch in the summer driving forklifts tractors. Moving bins loading trucks I was 13 + 14.
We live right off the Russian River well do you want your dress. Right next door to Fred MacMurray Twin Valley Ranch.
Flat horseback riding when I was young.👍🏽🤟🏽. Yes a kid learns a lot being up the country.. start driving old flatbed trucks at the age of 7 and 8. Old tractor wheel tractors and Clique tractors.
All three-wheel John Deere tractors. Can hear that thing a mile away according to the canyon. Spend some time and teach your kids while you can the next thing you know they're all grown up. You don't want to do nothing but play games.
Get a bill them back bones and muscles up. I ate every Green that grew out in the fields.
Just about every animal on four legs so two-legged Feathered Friends. Whatever God my grandfather's 22 site.
Yes I grew up with that old man I never even knew.
Being mean and abusive.
It's where I spent more time at the other Ranch Nextdoor.🙋🏽♂️😎🌉
When I was young we just had one guy throw the bales to guy in wagon.. he stacked… repeat… repeat…repeat… until one of us passed out. Half hr break for water and carbs… repeat…repeat. Same in the barn. Man we were in good shape.
I helped a man on a farm for a while and we threw it by hand. Always great content guys
The enthusiasm for “farmin” just oozes from Paul 😂
Long story: I grew up in Utah, went to law school in AZ and Maine, and got a job as a prosecutor in Maine. I was presenting a case to the Grand Jury, and the all looked confused. I asked, "do you have any questions?' They replied, "yes, what is a bell violation?" Come to find out Bail is pronounced much differently than Bell in Maine. I also went to a feed store and asked about buying some straw bales I wanted to make a back stop for an archery target. The dude had no idea where I could find a straw bell or why I would want one. When I mention Whale Watching people think I'm talking about staring at a well. I guess I've been here long enough that I was a tiny bit confused when Paul mentioned the Bell Wagon needing a little work. Love your channel!! If you come to Eastern Maine I will pay for your dinner and I won't make you eat with me.
My dad turns 82 this year this will be the first year he had a bail wagon come and get hay out of field grew up throwing bales still throw them im 50 years young
Paul, weld a 2 inch receiver on the top center of that blade on the mini x (you can even make it flush with the top of the blade).
BEST TRAILER MOVER EVER!!
I grew up on a farm in the UK, spent many hours hauling hay bales around, loading was by hand back in those days, we dreamed of having machines to do the work then.
The best part of baling was the free cider, ( VERY alcoholic cider ).
My best ever memory was a small sparrow landing on the front cage of the hay wagon, and hopping on to my finger for a few seconds before it flew off again.
Expert farm fixes by Fab Rats!!
I love rural America. Where most have learned how to fix things on their own. Or how to re-engineer things that weren't made properly in the first place.
And here in this video, we can really see how Paul and company got their start fixing things that were broken And they likely learned that a very young age.
Well done guys!
That stacker might be wore out but it still beats picking them up and stacking on a trailer then unloading them on a stack. That's what I and my brothers and dad did on our farm! Nice three point hitch build!
They weren’t worth a hoot when they were brand new.
Every day when i watch @theFabRats it makes me wanna get out there and get after it more and more.
Growing up on a dairy farm, we baled a lot of hay. We had a six man/boy crew, who could bale up to 1200 bales a day. Two baling hay, one hauling the wagons, two in the mow, and one unloading the wagon. Later on as a mechanic, I specialized in New Holland balers and skid steers.
We could have baled more in a day, but we still had to milk the cows in the morning and evening, in addition to chores and making hay.
I usually had a retired driver and did all the stacking and unloading @ 1000 per day. Penny a bale. I was a rich 12 yr old kid.
I grew up on a “go-for-broke” farm in Northern Minnesota. When I was ten years old Dad had me on the seat of a sickle mower raising the sickle while he drove the old F14 Farmall. We raked hay with a dump rake that you’d have to stomp your foot down onto to dump the hay in what we called shocks. Then we’d drive down the field in an old 1945 Ford truck and while Dad threw the hay up on the bed of the truck the kids would “stack” it. Once loaded we’d drive up to the hay mow and use a hay fork that hung from a rope and was used to put the hay up loose inside the mow.
After a few years we found a neighbor with a side delivery rake and baler that was willing to bale the hay for a share when finished. We raised pigs, calves, chickens and rabbits. We had a milk cow named Betty that we milked by hand. When Dad wasn’t farming he was logging. He worked full time in the iron mines. In 1970 I went in the service and visited a wonderland known as Vietnam. For the most part my farming days were done. But I still have an appreciation for farmers that keep those old “Rube Goldberg” contraptions working with a bit of weld and baling wire.
@@mikeg6042 I spent my summers and all the school holidays on my dads family farms. I also worked when there weren't any holidays cause there was work that needed to be done. Lost him two days before my 9th bd. He had retired from the USAF and couldn't stand not flying. He enlisted in the reserves He was flying his last mission when we lost him along with six other crew members that were close family friends. I wouldn't trade those years working on those farms for anything! Thank You for your service sir!!!!!!!!!!!!
Grew up here in north Florida area…Worked for an older man who bailed a type of hay for horses 🐴. He had excellent quality hay that folks would drive for a distance to come get. We had a crew of 6 guys that worked together during our junior high and high school years helping him. 2 walked along side a trailer slinging it up on the trailer, with 1 on the trailer stacking it. 3 were in the barn unloading the trailer and stacking it. Each of his three fields produced about 600 to 700 bails of hay…Was good honest hard work for us young fellas. I’m 54 that’s been a few years back!! Lol
In my teen years I spent many summer days in the hay fields in central missouri. One day the farmer was baling alfalfa, I was stacking on the wagon and his one handed farm hand drove the tractor and wagon between field and barn. In 12 hours the three of us bailed, stacked in a wagon, unloaded and stacked in the barn 1,000 bails. I stacked every bail on the wagon and stacked every bail in the barn, so i handled every bail twice (2000 bails). At the end of the day, we sat outside under the shade tree, he brought out a 6 pack of beer set it down and said, I wont give you a beer but if you work like a man you should be able to,drink a beer like a man. I had two and went home. We worked like a dog but we were men even as teenagers. We got $2.00 an hour in the late seventies.
If you've got any goose neck trailers to move, you can add a 2-5/16" goose neck ball (?) to the top of your new trailer mover attachment. I've seen them offered that way from various tractor 3PH attachment vendors.
Now today we're farm'n! Love it! Nice job bringing the Fab Rats team and family together and making things happen. The new hitch you made for the tractor works good moving trailers around since you have lost the Forklift.
When I had to do that in high school we had a wagon on highway tires and you had to throw them up to the guys on the trailer so they could stack them and then reverse the process to stack them in the barn. Hot, dirty, dusty work but after a summer of that you had some massive arms. 😁
Hey Paul, if you're planning on using that tractor for a long time and in place of a forklift you may want to grab a category II quick hitch. It's a game changer, I use it all the time when switching attachments, whether that be for moving trailers, mounting a fertilizers spreaders, or brush and disc mowers. Means when I mount a piece of equipment to a tractor I can disconnect and put that tractor to work somewhere else within 15 minutes, definitely worth it.
Thank You for the Beautiful Memories of baling hay with my Dad❤🙏🏻 We Love Y'all ❤️
There's nothing like watching professionals at work... 😁😁😁😁
My Dad always said he was a Jack of all trades and master of none........you sir are the master period😊
Paul looks good with A straw hat 👒 lol😊
I help a local farmer throw hay. I have since high school. It's good character building work :).
I ran a 3 wide bail wagon as a teen, 50 years ago, they work great when everything is straight. We loaned it to the neighbor and the main tip table was bent and it was missing hydraulic oil cap when it came back, never worked right again. One suggestion I might have, in one of the row make a tie row, it changes positions of bails on one row to help tie it all together. I feel for the boys, I too had to restack many loads that I tipped over with bail wagon.
Thanks, Fab Rats , this is what I do every day and have for 30 years . Ranch mechanic.
Central California watching
That 3 point hitch adapter is BADASS!!!! Great Job!!
Watching you all work on this old farm equipment brings back very fond memories of my dad and I doing this very same thing. I was about 10 years old when my dad taught me to weld. Not only to weld, but when to use a big hammer or something smaller.
Thank you for the memories!
God Bless you Paul.
" back in my day " we had to through them on the trailer and stack them then unload and restack them in the barn all by hand ! I do not miss those days !
No prep work, and Paul's welds still make mine look like crap. you the man Paul!
When Paul is on a roll there's no way to stop him! Great job with the trailer hitch....!
I couldn't function without my 3-point trailer mover. You're going to love that thing.
You are 100% correct about that saves a lot of time being able just to back up, raise the lift and move it
Landon in the background nibbling on jerky while Paul’s grumbling about his jerky walking off! 😂
Back when I was a hobby farmer I would load hay by myself. Flat trailer towed by a Ford 800 tractor, dead idle, 1st gear, point down the row and let it go while I walked alongside tossing bale's on the trailer. Every 20 or 30 yards I'd have to jump onto the tractor running board to make a course correction. Unloading was easy. All the hay was bought by my sister so I'd parke the trailer full of hay at her house and walk away. From there it was her and her husband's problem.
We rebuilt a self propelled bale wagon from a rusty wreck, all new decks and a lot of straightening, but it was worth all the effort, getting the hay in is much easier. Great video cheers from New Zealand.
My neighbor had a bailer with a kicker that you put behind the flatbed trailer and it would kick them onto the trailer. My job as a kid was to catch and stack. Those things weighed as much as I did and you better have been paying attention or you would get took out! 80lbs. flying straight at your head. I hated hay season!!! Lol😂😂
Fancy welding…. What no farmer rods in use? 6011 for the farm win!
It's nice to see American small farmer's and the old fixit machines. Out here in South Africa a lot of farmers also work with old " hand me down" tools and machines. Machines that first need a bit of fixin' before they can be used. Keep on going guy's. Cheers.
My summer job in Iowa was to bale hay all day everyday it didn't rain. We walked and picked up the bales to load on a 5th wheel that held 305 bales. Then go drop off at the veterinary college. We stacked by hand and sometimes had to get hay from barn lofts...that was a real pain. Go back to the good old days and stack hay by hand.😊
It’s pretty to cool to imagine that the same item you fabricated in this video will be around long after we’re all gone. Even cooler I picture a future Cox adding something to it or fixing a weld.
😂😂😂. Great to see a fab Rats video. 😂😂😂. Gotta love that farming life. Keep up the great craftsmanship and hard work my friends. Farm On?Fab On. Weld On. Keep Making. God bless.
Paul, you brought back a lot of memories with the hay hauling and the three point hitch. The hitch fabrication was slick.
‘’Git outa the house more-get big arms.. priceless!
I guess I'm old because we never had a machine to pick up the hay and stack it in the barn. It was all manual labor. One guy drove the tractor slow, another stacked on the trailer and the rest of us bucked the hay onto the trailer. Then off-load in the barn. Of course, as a kid, that is how I made some $$ to put gas in my truck and go to the movies on a Sat. night.
I had a three point receiver hitch made to use like you did on the video. I have a John Deere 2020 that I move trailers around with. It works great. You will like it. I also have a fork lift on a Ford 9N tractor that was used in the orchard when we raised peaches. We are nut farmers now. God bless, JP
I grew up on the largest farm in Bliss, Idaho, all 18 acres. Now farms outside the city were much larger, but in the City of Bliss my folks had the largest farm.
We manually put our hay bales on a large flat trailer. The stack on the trailer had to be very tight or it would wiggle apart on its way to the stack yard. Then we manually humped the bales upon the stack.
By the time I retired from the Marines Dad had bought a derrick. A cable ran from our little John Deere M to the bottom off the mast, out to the tip of the boom, and down to the Jackson Fork. I would stab the fork into four bales and the driver of the M would back up. As the bales went up the boom would swing them over to the stack. There Dad would drop them where he wanted them, I would pull on the fork rope, and as the M would be driven forward the fork would come back down to me. Simple, efficient, and low tech.
Dad's first paying job was riding the boom horse back and forth. The only change was from stacking loose hay to baled hay, and driving a tractor back and forth instead of a horse.
One summer Dad hired a couple of city boys to help stack. They just couldn't get the bales to the hay trailer fast enough, and when they finally got to the trailer they could barely lift the bales a foot and a half to set them on the trailer. I finally had to tell Dad, who was driving the tractor,, "These two aren't family, you need to drop a gear." When my son-in-law showed up he started tossing the bales up to the third level on the trailer, making my job a lot easier. The two city kids were amazed at what he could do. I told them, "Joel is my son-in-law. You have to toss hay that high if you want to marry into this family. But I don't have any more unmarried daughters."
Dad was proud of having the last working hay Derrick in Gooding County and he was up on the stack making sure every bale was properly placed up into his 80s. But his Addison's disease was slowing him down and during his last hay cutting he remained on the ground, watching from the seat of his fourwheeler.
Dad and Mom are gone now, as is the Derrick and the even the farm. But I still have the tractors, the trailer, the Jackson Fork, and the memories.
Oh, I just love it when there’s other stuff that you put in like your new garage and the farming and the other little side things
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When I was growing up we had to toss the hay bales up to guys on the trailer. The higher the stack went, the higher we had to toss it. Then we had to do the reverse and toss the bales up to guys in the loft of the barn. It was a lot of work.
Oh, man! I wish we had that on the farm in Vermont! Dang, hauling string bales and wire bound bales was the pits!
Moving trailers around the yard? Put a hitch on the front of the tractor. Receiver on a quick hitch bracket or a ball on a pallet fork. So much easier to back up a trailer when you are looking straight at it.