Done for the day, heading home. The twilight between sundown and dark is my favorite time of day, when the machines have shut down and the quietness of the evening settles across the fields, peace and tranquility with man and nature...............nothing else like it.
Greetings from France! Have subscribed a while back, but not really got into watching your videos until of late. First of all I would like to say I take "my hat" of to you Sir! Kudos for the continous filming of your daily challenges, chores, obstacles and joys! I thank you for providing videos allowing people like myself, understand the hardships you farmers endure on a daily basis, in order to provide us consumers with the products we take for granted are on the shelves in the stores. I enjoyed watching the series of videos on the repairing of the burnt tractor - what a job! In contrast watching you slide of the roof of your house with all the snow, was a great reminder never to forget to take time out for a good laugh! Once again, thank you and your family for the insights into farming! May you always have the wind in your back, and the sun upon your face! Respectively, John / France
I remember about 40,000 bales a year, 1800 round bales, bunch of work, and we had a small farm, dairy, backer, corn, alfalfa, Ky farmin, pickin up rocks choppin thistles cleaning out fencecrows, hauling cow poppy, moving cattle, feeding silage, COLD MORNINGS NO CABS, eating dust, fighting, gettin drunk, cutting backer, housing backer, stripping backer getting done 2 days before Xmas,
when i was a kid the neighbors had a self loading hay truck. i dont know if it was bought or home made but it was made off a large truck chassis powered by a Ford 460. it had a spiked conveyor on the front to pick up the bales and then the kids would stack them in the flatbed portion of the machine. it was an odd looking thing to be sure! it was basically a driving deck with an operator station and the evil looking spiked convener in the front. never seen anything like it....
We used to push 80lbs to 100lbs brome hay through our old JD 14T square baler. Baled a lot of hay each year with it until we switched over to round bales. Only thing wrong with that old baler when we got rid of it was, the floor had rusted out. JD wanted more for a new floor than what the baler was worth. Only thing we square baled after our switch over was alfalfa and clover hay. Hated handling all those small bales though, a real pain in the arse for sure. Great video Wes. Cheers
Those wheel rakes work great if there set up right, not too rough ground, and if it hasn't been raked by one of them old stile side rakes before because it roles the row too tight.
We always stacked the last 3 loads of hay and left it on the wagons and covered it with tarp inside the wagon shed. Then when someone wanted a load it was ready to go..
Growing up on the farm we did work with old eq and hand all we had was those little bales you say , it worked , those big round bales i never see till many decades later .
Wes, I would be really interested to know how the bale ejector works as they were never used in the UK (or I have never heard of their use). Is it a hydraulic action? A close-up would be great! Thanks so much for all your videos too!
I have never seen a bale tosser working before. I've seen evevators, self propelled balers but I didn't even know the thrower existed till I saw a picture in an old 1970 catalog. Thanks for the cool vid.
ianslow1234 I hadn't seen a conveyor chucker, but I had seen kickers back when I was a sprout-they had a plate, on the bottom of the output chute, that would kick the bale up, up, and away.... I loaded quite a few wagons-by hand from the output of the baler (no kicker/conveyor chucker), stacked em' tall, and helped supply Grammy's sheep farm..... Long, Long, dirty, dusty, tiring days.... And they only baled 25-30 acres-of a 40 acre farm.... They had a ole' 3 wheel single side Sun rake, a '70's ford 5/6000 series 2 wheel drive tractor, flat bed hay wagons, and some red little baler-with 2 claws to feed the hay from the tines to the packer/knife....
back in the day we use to pull a bail sledge behind the bailer then pitch fork them onto the trailer 7 high hard work that was.. to old to do that now.lol keep up the good work..
Kevin Willis we used to do that over hear in Ireland or we stacked them into stacks of nine then load them onto a flat trailer with front bale grab , build a load of 160 to 180 per load then back to the hay barn to reek them in there.We also bailed 5000 plus per day with a welger ap 830 bailer finishing at 11pm
sure have but we still use alot of small square bales over here as we use them to cover over a silage pit in an open ended shed , we bale both hay and straw for farm use
+Kevin Willis If we were far from home Dad would have me in the kicker wagon stacking them, was up on one almost full side hill Dad dropped the wagon wheel into a wood chuck hole and over it went, I jumped and landed 30 to 40 feet from the hay. We put up 90,000 to 110,000 per year, then we switched to hayledge and put it in silos.
Could you do a video on the bale toser, we still do alot of wee square bales and bale tosers don't exist in our area so we lift all ours onto trailers, seriously thinking of building one for next next would save a awful lot of man power, thanks
in my experience, people who use small square bales are typically horse people, and they typically don't think about cost efficiency, they just want them small enough to move by hand because they don't have any other equipment to haul them. and horse people are crazy lol
True. Lots of times it's the small dairy farms with like 40-50 cows and they have a couple sturdy sons that can do stacking for them. They just have what they have and can't justify buying new equipment when it's working for them the way it is.
We never had a bale thrower but my old man would check the bales periodically and if they didn't weigh 80-100 lbs he'd crank that baler down. My brother and I would catch him not looking back and jump off the wagon and run up and loosen the baler back up..lol
damn i remember picking up hay like that ,, it was about the only job i could get when i was in highschool ,, i enjoyed it ,, but we didn't collect them like you do i was a walker that tossed bales to a stacker on a hay wagon ,,usually i worked with a 5 man crew , tractor driver , 2 walkers and 2 stackers ,,,and on average i would throw 1 bale every 5-8 seconds sometimes 10secs ,, never paid much attention to tonnage but i do remember getting 150 bales to the acre 1st cutting,,and they averaged 55 pounds on the first cutting ,,and about 45 pounds on the second cutting ,and 120 bales to the acre ,,,i remember helping pick up 150,000 bales one summer ,, 1992 it was ,, it's no wonder i hate baling hay now
I'm afraid many people cannot handle a 60lb bale -40 is enough for them! Most sacks / bags of material, that are designed to be manhandled, are max 45lb.
What crop is this for please? Maize / Soya bean or something similar? What row width is being used - something pretty wide I imagine? In general the only crop seeds supplied in small bags/boxes in the UK are acre packs such as grass seeds or fodder / game crops, the only major crop supplied in small bags commercially is oil seed rape but the seed rate is very low / acre.
BeaverRick New Holland Balers equipped with a thrower, at least the older ones, have a vari-drive to adjust the speed of the thrower, it is controlled by a crank that can be reached from the seat of the tractor, the newer ones have hydraulic speed control. When I run a baler with a thrower, I always set the thrower to gently toss first 10-15 bales in wagon, rather than bounce them off the back of the rack. Once you get a pile going in the bottem then you increase the speed of the thrower to fill the back up and then back it off as the wagon fills. Also, slowing the thrower down when turning helps avoid losing bales.
looked like a white cat sitting on the brick wall next to the building. building looked like a barn on first glance not going to rewind and pause to check.
I guess the only good thing about little bales is your getting more money for less hay, if you sell 40 pound bales for $6 that's $300 a ton but there hard to sell and nobody wants to pay you
i like little bales because they get shot out of the bailer like they do. im not doing the work or buying the bales so it doesnt matter, but i still like em. ha
People are weird about bale weight. Bought some a couple years ago and the guy said people weren't buying his because they were too heavy at 70 ish pounds. Same with feed sacks, bunch of pussies. When we were kids it was 80 pound bags. I remember wrestling with those suckers when I was 10 or 11. Grandpa said we were pussies because in his day they weighed more than that. Now it is little 40 pound sacks. Have to carry 2-3 to make a trip worthwhile.
what happens when that hay wagon get 3/4s full can you adjust how it shoots out the bale? sorry for the question i just thought it drops and you have to load wagon by hand i didnt know it shot them out.
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thumbs up.........I like to see a family living and working together.
I enjoy your videos of the farm life and fixing the equipment.
Done for the day, heading home.
The twilight between sundown and dark is my favorite time of day, when the machines have shut down and the quietness of the evening settles across the fields, peace and tranquility with man and nature...............nothing else like it.
Greetings from France! Have subscribed a while back, but not really got into watching your videos until of late. First of all I would like to say I take "my hat" of to you Sir! Kudos for the continous filming of your daily challenges, chores, obstacles and joys! I thank you for providing videos allowing people like myself, understand the hardships you farmers endure on a daily basis, in order to provide us consumers with the products we take for granted are on the shelves in the stores. I enjoyed watching the series of videos on the repairing of the burnt tractor - what a job! In contrast watching you slide of the roof of your house with all the snow, was a great reminder never to forget to take time out for a good laugh! Once again, thank you and your family for the insights into farming! May you always have the wind in your back, and the sun upon your face! Respectively, John / France
I remember about 40,000 bales a year, 1800 round bales, bunch of work, and we had a small farm, dairy, backer, corn, alfalfa, Ky farmin, pickin up rocks choppin thistles cleaning out fencecrows, hauling cow poppy, moving cattle, feeding silage, COLD MORNINGS NO CABS, eating dust, fighting, gettin drunk, cutting backer, housing backer, stripping backer getting done 2 days before Xmas,
You guys have real lives, enjoy it!!....it's better than sitting inside a cubicle all day.
I like these videos that show a little bit of what you do every day more than the others. You should do more of them.
what do you do with the little bales? do you sell them for feed/bedding or do some mushroom barns want them?
I'll rewatch these if there are gonna cue them up. Oldie but a goldie
when i was a kid the neighbors had a self loading hay truck. i dont know if it was bought or home made but it was made off a large truck chassis powered by a Ford 460. it had a spiked conveyor on the front to pick up the bales and then the kids would stack them in the flatbed portion of the machine. it was an odd looking thing to be sure! it was basically a driving deck with an operator station and the evil looking spiked convener in the front. never seen anything like it....
We used to push 80lbs to 100lbs brome hay through our old JD 14T square baler. Baled a lot of hay each year with it until we switched over to round bales. Only thing wrong with that old baler when we got rid of it was, the floor had rusted out. JD wanted more for a new floor than what the baler was worth. Only thing we square baled after our switch over was alfalfa and clover hay. Hated handling all those small bales though, a real pain in the arse for sure. Great video Wes. Cheers
Those wheel rakes work great if there set up right, not too rough ground, and if it hasn't been raked by one of them old stile side rakes before because it roles the row too tight.
We always stacked the last 3 loads of hay and left it on the wagons and covered it with tarp inside the wagon shed. Then when someone wanted a load it was ready to go..
Is the shirt Tim was wearing available on the OLF merchandise site & if not then where did he get it? Looks good.
Growing up on the farm we did work with old eq and hand all we had was those little bales you say , it worked , those big round bales i never see till many decades later .
Penny a bail for unloading and stacking in the barn when I was a kid!
Wes, I would be really interested to know how the bale ejector works as they were never used in the UK (or I have never heard of their use). Is it a hydraulic action? A close-up would be great! Thanks so much for all your videos too!
arnt those tiny little wind rows cute :)
Why doesn't it surprise me that a hay farmer would name his son Timothy?
I like these day in a life videos can you do more.
I have never seen a bale tosser working before. I've seen evevators, self propelled balers but I didn't even know the thrower existed till I saw a picture in an old 1970 catalog. Thanks for the cool vid.
ianslow1234 I hadn't seen a conveyor chucker, but I had seen kickers back when I was a sprout-they had a plate, on the bottom of the output chute, that would kick the bale up, up, and away....
I loaded quite a few wagons-by hand from the output of the baler (no kicker/conveyor chucker), stacked em' tall, and helped supply Grammy's sheep farm.....
Long, Long, dirty, dusty, tiring days.... And they only baled 25-30 acres-of a 40 acre farm....
They had a ole' 3 wheel single side Sun rake, a '70's ford 5/6000 series 2 wheel drive tractor, flat bed hay wagons, and some red little baler-with 2 claws to feed the hay from the tines to the packer/knife....
bigtrucker26 we hade a new Holland bailer pulled by a super fordson major.. good old days but bloody hard work
back in the day we use to pull a bail sledge behind the bailer then pitch fork them onto the trailer 7 high hard work that was.. to old to do that now.lol keep up the good work..
Kevin Willis we used to do that over hear in Ireland or we stacked them into stacks of nine then load them onto a flat trailer with front bale grab , build a load of 160 to 180 per load then back to the hay barn to reek them in there.We also bailed 5000 plus per day with a welger ap 830 bailer finishing at 11pm
how times have changed..
sure have but we still use alot of small square bales over here as we use them to cover over a silage pit in an open ended shed , we bale both hay and straw for farm use
+Kevin Willis If we were far from home Dad would have me in the kicker wagon stacking them, was up on one almost full side hill Dad dropped the wagon wheel into a wood chuck hole and over it went, I jumped and landed 30 to 40 feet from the hay. We put up 90,000 to 110,000 per year, then we switched to hayledge and put it in silos.
How many acres do you farm again?
Hey Wez .... How many farm trucks you got man ?
Could you do a video on the bale toser, we still do alot of wee square bales and bale tosers don't exist in our area so we lift all ours onto trailers, seriously thinking of building one for next next would save a awful lot of man power, thanks
I've never seen a baler do that, round where I live 😂
Cheers
They sky is awesome at the end.
Good to see the 4230 getting used some this year, what about the 4320?
Wes Likes big bales and he don't no why, Some other farmers can deny...
3 x 4 = 12
51zebra I just wanted to make sure I heard him right when he said 3x4=9
I'm ganna be coming threw jersey on my way home this weekend and have a farm in pa I'd love to meet u and see your operation !
Love this video seems little diffrent.
Nice Tundra, now there's a truck.
Who drives the Toyota?
Wow, I remember selling hay at $2 a bale.
in my experience, people who use small square bales are typically horse people, and they typically don't think about cost efficiency, they just want them small enough to move by hand because they don't have any other equipment to haul them. and horse people are crazy lol
True. Lots of times it's the small dairy farms with like 40-50 cows and they have a couple sturdy sons that can do stacking for them. They just have what they have and can't justify buying new equipment when it's working for them the way it is.
Tim must like it when he bales with the little bales unlike you xD
We never had a bale thrower but my old man would check the bales periodically and if they didn't weigh 80-100 lbs he'd crank that baler down. My brother and I would catch him not looking back and jump off the wagon and run up and loosen the baler back up..lol
John Wallace When you are packing em' that tight the twine tends to break at the knot.
What happen to the green truck?
damn i remember picking up hay like that ,, it was about the only job i could get when i was in highschool ,, i enjoyed it ,, but we didn't collect them like you do
i was a walker that tossed bales to a stacker on a hay wagon ,,usually i worked with a 5 man crew , tractor driver , 2 walkers and 2 stackers ,,,and on average i would throw 1 bale every 5-8 seconds sometimes 10secs ,, never paid much attention to tonnage but i do remember getting 150 bales to the acre 1st cutting,,and they averaged 55 pounds on the first cutting ,,and about 45 pounds on the second cutting ,and 120 bales to the acre ,,,i remember helping pick up 150,000 bales one summer ,, 1992 it was ,, it's no wonder i hate baling hay now
Do you expect next year to be a better year?
I'm afraid many people cannot handle a 60lb bale -40 is enough for them! Most sacks / bags of material, that are designed to be manhandled, are max 45lb.
What crop is this for please? Maize / Soya bean or something similar? What row width is being used - something pretty wide I imagine?
In general the only crop seeds supplied in small bags/boxes in the UK are acre packs such as grass seeds or fodder / game crops, the only major crop supplied in small bags commercially is oil seed rape but the seed rate is very low / acre.
Dan Whiteford I handle corn seed that is in 50 Ib bags. Most of the soybean seed I use is in bulk seed wagons.
can you adjust how far the bailer throws the bails?
Garrett Edwards Yes, by revving the tractor up .
BeaverRick New Holland Balers equipped with a thrower, at least the older ones, have a vari-drive to adjust the speed of the thrower, it is controlled by a crank that can be reached from the seat of the tractor, the newer ones have hydraulic speed control. When I run a baler with a thrower, I always set the thrower to gently toss first 10-15 bales in wagon, rather than bounce them off the back of the rack. Once you get a pile going in the bottem then you increase the speed of the thrower to fill the back up and then back it off as the wagon fills. Also, slowing the thrower down when turning helps avoid losing bales.
Yes, there work very good.
its a toggle switch on those the older hayliners and stuff was a hand crank
It kicks those bales out really often, im surprised
JulianZeezer that's because those are huge windrows
looked like a white cat sitting on the brick wall next to the building. building looked like a barn on first glance not going to rewind and pause to check.
Wes, some days, you make me wanna be a farmer, and some days you don't.... Maybe one day, I'll hobby one....
at 6 dollars a bale, you should rebale the dry big bale during the winter. a thousand bales is 6000 dollars.
Enjoyed the video
Full day's work for sure . . . Rog
I hate them too, I was always in the wagon stacking
Is the camera zooming in and out or is it just me
is there actually 45 little bales in 1 big bale
Thanks for the video. I requested that.
a couple a weeks ago I broke my plunger to my square baler over 6000 dollars well that's what John deere wants to fix it
We have a pottenger top 421a and a old newholland rake
was the cat white?
Yes sir it was white
onelonleyfarmer
o well i got 1 thing right. :) lol was it siting on top of that break wall?
You should have put the 720 on the bailer.
Awesome 👍
I think I though a puddy cat 😺
cat was orange with white stripes
I guess the only good thing about little bales is your getting more money for less hay, if you sell 40 pound bales for $6 that's $300 a ton but there hard to sell and nobody wants to pay you
u need 2 count 10-12 packs per bale for tight bales -instruction manual -slow down !
a day in the life of OLF? Cool :)
all that useless stacking i did so we could get more bales
Cool vid
some people like me have to bale little bales because we dont have the equiment.
Any one else think tim looks like Ricky Valance?
If you dont like doing small bales, why are you creating them? I am gathering I may have missed something.
He does it every year to sell local and for his farm animals i think
i like little bales because they get shot out of the bailer like they do. im not doing the work or buying the bales so it doesnt matter, but i still like em. ha
Nice way to do a video, if you should be inordinately busy. Seems it would save some time. I wouldn't mind more like this.
Onelonelyfarmer you should get Tim to vlog
white cat.
yes the math is wrong.
The Cat was White
People are weird about bale weight. Bought some a couple years ago and the guy said people weren't buying his because they were too heavy at 70 ish pounds. Same with feed sacks, bunch of pussies. When we were kids it was 80 pound bags. I remember wrestling with those suckers when I was 10 or 11. Grandpa said we were pussies because in his day they weighed more than that. Now it is little 40 pound sacks. Have to carry 2-3 to make a trip worthwhile.
3x4=9? Sorry Wes not right, but I laughed anyways.
what happens when that hay wagon get 3/4s full can you adjust how it shoots out the bale? sorry for the question i just thought it drops and you have to load wagon by hand i didnt know it shot them out.
"3x4 is what?" 3, 6, 9! That's 9,000 little bales in a day". Since when did 3 x 4 = 9 ?!?!?! Wooowww !!!!
did he just say 3*4 is what 3 6 9 - hmm
You're like Donald trump 0 fucks given love it