Stacking Hay with the Hesston 30B - Dagley Ranch Life - Episode 2
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- Опубликовано: 13 янв 2022
- From cutting our hay, to stacking with the Hesston 30B, then hauling the stacks home with Farmhand Stack Mover, join us for another episode of Dagley Ranch Life!
Putting up hay is an important part of how we ranch here in South Dakota, making sure we have feed for our cattle over the winter.
Filmed in year 2020.
Thanks. Very interesting. To this flat land farmer very enjoyable
The art of Agriculture, what a beautiful choreography of man, machine and nature. Thank you for sharing and filming your hard work, wonderful camera work, drone shots, and editing.
Great video. I never stacked hay. Only corn stalks for bedding. The Deere and hesston stackers are very similar, even checking the door latch after every stack.
I always wondered how those machines worked. When i was a kid we used to call those stacks "loaves". Thanks for posting and have a good winter.
Fun watching this and seeing the town I was born in across the water.
I have never seen it done this way before...I learned something tonight.
Very nice video
Pretty neat. Those stackers and movers always fascinated me.
Always wondered how that worked. Great video and narration
God bless you and your family
What an awesome video! That’s a little different than we do it down here in Alabama!
Fascinating. I don't understand why the stacks don't blow away though. It gets windy there!!!
I know where one of these Hesston hay stackers in in a fencerow, but I've never actually seen one work? I assume these were made for a time before the round baler? I don't see how this is better than a round baler, I would assume when it came along it made these stackers obsolete. Looks to not be packed nearly as tight or shed water as well as a round bale.
Interesting machine with lots of working parts. Do you do the maintenance yourself? Seems like a fair amount of waste. Do you let the cows in to eat it or let it fertilize the soil? Thanks for an interesting insight to one of the many facets of your life. It’s truly a family affair❣️🙏 (Wasn’t that Annie at the very end?)
Yes I do all the maintenance. During the winter when there's nothing growing we do run the cows through the field to clean up. That was "Cap" a son of Annie.
@@dagleyranch I guess you have to be a Jack-of-all-trades when running a business that large, extensive and distant. You’re such a great teacher, I’m certain you’re children will be on top of everything with you, too. Much love, respect, and Prayers. (Cap looks very much like his Mom! )
@@readytogo6569 the mechanic work is not my favorite. But I'd have to say I'm glad I've learned as much as I have. And I truly feel very very blessed to have a job where I can work with my family. It will be very interesting to see what direction my kids go as far as their interests and such. Yes, Captain "Cap" does look a lot like Annie. I think I may have posted a couple videos of him on our RUclips channel last year. Thanks for your comments.🙂
I didn't think anyone used those farmhand stickers anymore. Do you go back and clean up the hay that's left?
Seems like they leave lots grass in field
Just found your channel are you the owner of the ranch that is some beautiful land thanks for the videos 🙂
No, I am not. But I have had the pleasure of working on and managing it, going on 15 years now.
@@dagleyranch thanks love your dogs
Is there any advantage in this system against baling it ?
The hay stores longer in the stacks. Another thing about the stacks is when feeding older hay you don't have to deal with rotten strings all over the place like we do with round bales. Disadvantages are you can't really sell the stacks because hauling them long distance over the highway doesn't work. But since we don't sell hay it's not a problem for us.
Curious about waste by not covering the stacks?
The tops shed the water quite well. I've fed 10 year old hay that was still good and as green as the day it was put up beneath the surface. The thing I've seen, is that the bottoms slowly decomposed because of their contact to the ground. So those 10-year-old stacks are only half the height. Sometimes the tops get wind blown if we have a big storm before they've settled very long. But once they've settled well, they can handle a lot of wind without the tops moving at all. Any waste from them being wind blown in the field as they're settling. Is then cleaned up by us running the cattle through in the winter, when everything's frozen, nothing's growing at all.
Do you ever cover the hay?
Maybe you guys can help. I bought a male from the registration governor's in Missouri. He's not real handy but makes good pups. My female works a trailer like a champ. She will also take on a donkey and move them. But she has a tail. I offered to pay for a DNA test. The people in Missouri said that wasn't good enough. Sorry but if someone didn't cut a tail doesn't mean it's not a hangin tree. I can dock the pups if necessary but I think if you have a dog that will head and heal a donkey and I pay for the DNA it should be worth something. If it comes down to it I'll sell puppies with tails. Probably better for them anyway because God gave them a tail. Just wanted your opinion
In order to register you have to follow the Association's guide lines. In order to permanent register you have to send them proof of heading and heeling on cattle, NOT equine.
@@dagleyranch didn't actually answer my question. Monkey knows the difference between saddle horses and kill horses. She also works cattle. She works very well in a 53 foot floor trailer. She pushes stock off the gates so I don't have to struggle. She takes each cut runs them toward the pen and comes back to help me with the next. She protects my life with hers. She will take a hit meant for me. I would ride a grade horse with heart than an expensive papered horse and I'd rather have a dog with a tail who will protect my life with hers over a dog that came from the people who control the registration of the hangin tree dogs. That was my point. I don't think you understood my question. I got my male from the people who control the registration. My female is 1000 times the dog that he is. I offered to pay to see what she had but they would not. Just wanted to see where she came from in the breeding. Maybe the people who bred her came up with the same conclusion I have. Good dogs don't have to have paperwork. Like to see your dogs take on a donkey like monkey does. Bet that won't happen. Made me want to fine tune and come after the dog trials with mine
@@joewidau428 sounds like monkey is a good dog. You should get more like her and don't care about registration. The people from the association won't be interested at all in working with you about a dog that didn't come from the original lines. They will only DNA register dogs that have an unbroken paper trail anymore. Go with the best dog that works for you. Don't worry about whether it's registered or not.