I hauled hay while in high school. was always the one loading the trailer in the field by hand. Once in the barn, you guessed it, I unloaded it by hand all the way to the top 18 feet high mark from the ground. Oh well, I leaned hard work never killed anyone but I also learned “smarter’ ways to work. That was a cool machine. Thanks for sharing.
Yes I did a lot of that too. I always envied the guy out on the wagon pitching the bales onto the elevator. Those of us in the hay loft would have appreciated a little air to breathe 🤣
I purchased some hay last year from a farmer who had the same set up for square bales. I was thankful i brought my flat bed trailer as he loaded 12 bales at a time with that skid loader.
Why is everyone so amazed by the machine. They have had things for collecting grouped bales for several decades. The first one I remember in the UK was about 35 years ago. The bales would slide into a frame which organized them while dragging them along the field. When full it would release the bales ready packed together to be picked up with matbro or tractor with front loader attachment.
Most people I’ve talked to don’t like the machines that drag the bales on the ground. They get dirt in the hay and damage the bales if the terrain is bumpy. This is a pretty slick accumulator. I’d really like to see one of those balers that ties 21 small bales into one big square bale!
Very professional operation - I like those bale behind balers but there are not that many about but love their wide throat for coping with wide swaths. Like you I'm most impressed with those mechanical bale accumulators made by Kuhn. However I prefer the version that DLH Farms uses which is a 10 bale system with flat bales; accumulator system to me is better than what is used here as it carries the bales off the ground. the ones generally in use here are called a flat eight or flat ten where bales are dragged in a metal frame system on the soil, they are also entirely mechanical and diverting gates are operated by springs. dragging bales behind the baler can lead to broken strings if the soil is very stoney and yields are low. Your thistle control looks most effective but what about the wild rose plants with their more woody stems and probably deeper tougher root systems!
The farms i have worked on that would be on it side lol. We did have field's it would work on. The bale were hand stacked on wagons and hand stacked in the hay loft. Good thing i don't have to do that anymore i would fall of the wagon before i could get on lol. Grew up on the farm also.
Thanks, Carl. Thanks for the excellent educational content presented in a clear and entertaining way, and thanks for supplying our nation with a vital food source. Best wishes to you and your family!
What a slick machine! I'm reminded of the New Holland Super 77 baler my dad had when I was a kid. I was always always fascinated by the way the knotters worked, with their combination of gears and fingers. My dad always said "The guy who invented those is in the nut house".
I hear ya..growing up on a dairy come summer we knew what was coming...we loaded on to a 2 ton 56 chevy. flat bed getting straw was hilarious afterwards... we'd through the 1st couple over the bed...lol
Growing up, grandpa had bought a Schwartz bale accumulator to tow behind the baler. This, plus hydraulic fork grapple on the tractors front end loader did much the same for us as your skid steer set-up. Two bales 80-100 pounds spanned the width of the wagon. 120 bales made a load tied on with 5/8 polypropylene ropes and a trucker's hitch
Very neat stuff indeed, Carl. Back in the day my haying partner and I looked very closely at several different (used, of course) New Holland bale stacker wagons, but for our little operation, they were too big and a hydro-mechanical nightmare. This one, plus the grapple and skid steer loader is an ideal setup. Keep showing us "kewl" stuff.
Yeah I’m very impressed by the simplicity of it. The only issue is when they are brand new the bales don’t want to slide down the new paint. They had to dust it with baby powder for the first couple loads.
PHIL.LOOKS LIKE A GOOD WAY TO GO.. IN MY DAY WE DID IT THE OLD WAY.I DID GET A N.HOLLAND BALE WAGON AND IT WAS GREAT BUT THIS LOOKS MUCH BETTER. THANKS.... .
A couple of questions: 1. How does the bale get the string/cord tied on the bale? 2. Does the string come in rolls or what? 3. How often do you have to reload the string? Lastly: What is the difference between straw and hay, assuming there is a difference? This was an awesome machine but I think the genius that figured it out aught to have a idea ho to finish those last bales with less muscle power. :) Keep the videos coming, I am learning so much about the farmers. Thanks!!
Hay is cut grass or alfalfa used for feed. Straw can be leftover stems from harvest of wheat or oat usually used for bedding. It helps make manure cleanup easier in the barn.
Right Andrew! Straw has very little nutritional value. It is pretty much dead when it is harvested. It’s just holding up the grain. The straw is the byproduct of wheat or oats etc. Hay is still alive when it is cut and dried to be preserved for feed. The Baler has a mechanized knotter to tie a knot in the twine. They are pretty simple, but hard to show on video. This is the best video I’ve seen on the subject. czcams.com/video/ZoB_1meRa9A/video.html The twine comes on rolls that will do approximately 500 bales each.
It's come a long way for sure. My 1st hay crop was baled by a local farner, dropped on the ground. Then I had to pick up each bale and stack on a pickup, take to barn, then hand stack in the barn loft. Our first baler had a throw belt into a tall sided wagon, haul wagon to the barn, hand unload to the barn, then latet added a mow elevator track and ground elevator. Still had to hand unload wagon and restack in barn loft. Lots of sweat in those bales.
Very nice setup, manual labor is becoming almost extinct on farms now, millions of less farms now in operation and millions more to feed, farmers do it with very little thought by non farmers on how this is accomplished. far cry from putting loose hay to finally a wagon pulled behind the baler, first receive the bale than stack in the wagon, later a bale thrower on the baler to fill the wagon. But both had to be hand unloaded to a hay stack or put on a hay conveyor into the barn and than stacked in the hay loft. My farm days were at the end of loose hay to handling bales from wagon to hay stack. I love watching modern farm methods in operation, keep up the good videos i certainly enjoy them!!
I know that there are several stacking machines available, but this one must be the simplest. No hydraulics, no complicated mechanisms, no hastles. The wonders of gravity!
That’s a nice set-up. Instead of travel around the field and picking up each bail individually you can make 15 stops and grab a group at a time. Like the new intro to your videos.
We run the same setup except we do ten bales. My dad runs the baler, I load. Together we can do 1000 bales of hay a day with just the two of us. We have done 2000 bales of straw in one day. That was a late night for me getting them loaded out.
@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206 I forgot to mention that this year we installed two cameras. One on the back of the tractor looking at the pickup and one at the top of the accumulator making sure everything slides down. Its nice to catch one bale jammed up rather than several.
Carl, do you have a background in acting or public speaking? Your presentations on camera are so professional and "flub-edit" free. You also have the rare youtuber skill of talking to the individual watching your video rather than to the camera. Makes watching your videos and learning about farming so much more enjoyable.
I really appreciate that Richard! I did speech club in school and I worked for the radio station voicing commercials when I was in high school as well. Otherwise I’m pretty much learning as I go. Thanks for watching and giving me some encouragement!
I fist saw one of these in the UK back in the 60's. Plus a pull along cage that coralled the bales until the tractor driver let them out. All manual...
I really like the Kuhns Accumulators. I have seen some with a tie-grapple which uses the same twine to put one string around the stack of 10/15/18 and uses the same type of baler knotter. It keeps the stacks together really well especially the ones with the bales on their sides. Much cheaper than an Bale Baron.
Rock picking. Gone. Walking soybeans. Gone. And now baling hay. Gone. How is a teenager supposed to make a few dollars to take Susie-Q to the movies? Great video I really enjoy machinery and technology.
Cool, never seen it, we just bought a new mf 2605h, going to try to get equipment to bale hay, pasture is prime, been fallow twenty years, we used to get over three thousand squares, oh well, it’s only my brother and I, but we have two 135 Massey Ferguson also, wish us luck, trying to revive 150 acre farm
Hi. That was awesome. The technology available to ya'll is Expensive but amazing !! It looks like it cuts down manpower to bale but you still need someone to collect bales n stack. Can you just rent the equipment, since you bale, maybe 2 times a year if lucky? What are the little bales used for? It would seem you would have to cut a lot of acres to justify the price of the equipment. Great video n explanation of machine !! Who would have thought of a mini roller coaster for hay. Peace to you and yours
Yeah we may borrow it sometime. We only make about 500 little bales per year. They make at least 4,000. Most of the little bales go to people with a couple horses who don’t need to feed large amounts of hay.
Quick question, when cleaning out the twisted chute, why can you not just unhook from the baler and let them fall out instead of pushing them up and out?
Cool baler and amazing channel system. Since I had my accident while bale carting I am only now getting really bad pain in my neck. Whiplash has only now started. It's been about a month since the accident and I am just getting the side affects of it.
@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206 when I fell off the bale trailer while bale carting I am only now getting the side affects from that. 3 weeks later. Whiplash and muscle tension in my right shoulder. It should be OK in about a month.
Curious why the bales go through the twist before being stacked. Must be a good reason that i just cannot see. When did skid loaders become popular on farms. It seems they are better at doing things that were once done by tractors but with more manuverability. You did look a little warm though.
Yeah I’ve wondered about the twist myself for awhile. They must slide better on their side or something. Maybe it’s to keep the strings from getting hurt by the grapple. And you are right about skid loaders they just keep getting bigger and better.
Back in the day I knew some local teenagers who would head to the hay fields every summer to load bales. I don't know what it paid but I imagine they earned whatever it was!
I was one of those teenagers. Not sure what it paid in other places but in the early 80's I made 3 cents a bale. Square Bales were a hundred pounds each and the lofts were high.
I spent a lot of quality time in the hay loft at dads and then in a few neighbors barns as well as I got older. It’s not fun work, but you sure feel good when it’s done!
Put up loose hay then you know what hard work is lol. I hated it only did that for 2 years then went to squares. The only way as a small farmers son to make money was helping the neighbor's put up hay and other farm relate choirs.
Haha yeah! It’s best if you can notice it right away. Lots of times you won’t see it until the first broken bale goes over the top and by then you might have a six busted bales in the twist chute 🤦♂️
THAT LOOKS LIKE A NICE OPERATION WITH THE HEY MACHINE WHAT STATE DO YOU COME FROM ??? HOW MUCH DO YOU SELL ONE BALE OF HAY FOUR,,??? JUST THOUGHT I WOULD ASK YOU THOSE TWO QUESTIONS I AM JUST WONDERING ONE MORE QUESTION HOW HEAVY IS ONE BALE OF HAY ??? THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR VIDEO IT WAS PRETTY COOL 👍👍🇺🇸
@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206 THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME OUT AND ANSWERING MY QUESTIONS 👍 WE WOULD SELL ONE BALE OF HAY FOR.50 CENT OR $1 BACK IN THE 60S I COME FROM MASSACHUSETTS P. S. THE HAY WEIGH ABOUT THE SAME MAYBE A LITTLE MORE THANK YOU
Great equipment but expensive. Everybody would love to work with handy tools like that, but overheads just not attainable in most cases. That is why farming will remain backbreaking work for the larger part. Costs, costs and costs!
It’s all about scale. We make about 500 small square bales each summer. This equipment would not make sense for us. They make over 5,000 bales and most get trucked at least 20 miles. The time savings and labor savings for them pays for that machine pretty quickly.
Yeah I have always kind of wondered that as well. Maybe it’s to protect the twine strings, or maybe to keep the bale from getting bowed when it comes up over the top.
@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206 Some times I get dog with a bone syndrome. So preventing deformation is the reason: kuhnsmfg.com/news/slick-for-small-bales/ " and the twisting action of the chute (for on-edge models) does not deform the bales, Kuhns says."
It’s hard to see, but they are actually separate bales as soon as the knot has tied. There is a set of twine needles that come up from the bottom and pierce through the hay bringing the twine up from the bottom with them. The place that they pierce through will be where one bale ends and the next starts.
Hay ( yes a pun intended...lol) your cheating with those thistles .. growing up on a dairy we had to take a shovel with us when changing irrigation and dig them along with tansy ragwort or tansy as we called it ... Nothing like walking 40 acres of hay field even come hauling time ..loading onto a 2tn flatbed.
I hauled hay while in high school. was always the one loading the trailer in the field by hand. Once in the barn, you guessed it, I unloaded it by hand all the way to the top 18 feet high mark from the ground. Oh well, I leaned hard work never killed anyone but I also learned “smarter’ ways to work. That was a cool machine. Thanks for sharing.
Yes I did a lot of that too. I always envied the guy out on the wagon pitching the bales onto the elevator. Those of us in the hay loft would have appreciated a little air to breathe 🤣
My back is shot
I did it the same way that you did it was hard work
I love how this thing works by gravity and mechanical systems with no software to keep you beholden to the manufacturer.
Yeah it’s a real work of art!
I purchased some hay last year from a farmer who had the same set up for square bales. I was thankful i brought my flat bed trailer as he loaded 12 bales at a time with that skid loader.
That’s such a great way to do it!
Why is everyone so amazed by the machine. They have had things for collecting grouped bales for several decades. The first one I remember in the UK was about 35 years ago. The bales would slide into a frame which organized them while dragging them along the field. When full it would release the bales ready packed together to be picked up with matbro or tractor with front loader attachment.
Most people I’ve talked to don’t like the machines that drag the bales on the ground. They get dirt in the hay and damage the bales if the terrain is bumpy. This is a pretty slick accumulator. I’d really like to see one of those balers that ties 21 small bales into one big square bale!
Very professional operation - I like those bale behind balers but there are not that many about but love their wide throat for coping with wide swaths. Like you I'm most impressed with those mechanical bale accumulators made by Kuhn. However I prefer the version that DLH Farms uses which is a 10 bale system with flat bales; accumulator system to me is better than what is used here as it carries the bales off the ground. the ones generally in use here are called a flat eight or flat ten where bales are dragged in a metal frame system on the soil, they are also entirely mechanical and diverting gates are operated by springs. dragging bales behind the baler can lead to broken strings if the soil is very stoney and yields are low.
Your thistle control looks most effective but what about the wild rose plants with their more woody stems and probably deeper tougher root systems!
Hey Dan I wouldn’t like dragging the bales across the ground either! And I wish I would have showed the MF rose bushes. They are extra crispy... 👍
That's great. Where was that 40 years ago when I was hauling hay! Hauling hay by hand is some of the hardest work.
Yep. It builds character! Or at least it builds muscle 😂
The farms i have worked on that would be on it side lol. We did have field's it would work on. The bale were hand stacked on wagons and hand stacked in the hay loft.
Good thing i don't have to do that anymore i would fall of the wagon before i could get on lol. Grew up on the farm also.
Thanks, Carl. Thanks for the excellent educational content presented in a clear and entertaining way, and thanks for supplying our nation with a vital food source. Best wishes to you and your family!
Thanks for watching, chuck! And thanks for the encouragement
What a slick machine! I'm reminded of the New Holland Super 77 baler my dad had when I was a kid. I was always always fascinated by the way the knotters worked, with their combination of gears and fingers. My dad always said "The guy who invented those is in the nut house".
Haha that’s a great quote from your dad! Knotters are fascinating. It’s funny how every brand looks almost exactly the same.
That's fecking awesome! Never seen a setup like that before but it's a brilliant genius and ideal setup.
Yes I love how simple it is!
Pretty slick machine. Dad used the "son-power" method, we sure would have liked to have one of those things.
Haha me too! Later this summer I’ll make a “baling hay the hard way” video 🤣
I hear ya..growing up on a dairy come summer we knew what was coming...we loaded on to a 2 ton 56 chevy. flat bed
getting straw was hilarious afterwards... we'd through the 1st couple over the bed...lol
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Great new intro and a slick way to handle small square bales.
Thanks Richard!
Growing up, grandpa had bought a Schwartz bale accumulator to tow behind the baler. This, plus hydraulic fork grapple on the tractors front end loader did much the same for us as your skid steer set-up. Two bales 80-100 pounds spanned the width of the wagon. 120 bales made a load tied on with 5/8 polypropylene ropes and a trucker's hitch
That’s a man’s bale! Swartz made some really innovative things in their time.
Very neat stuff indeed, Carl. Back in the day my haying partner and I looked very closely at several different (used, of course) New Holland bale stacker wagons, but for our little operation, they were too big and a hydro-mechanical nightmare. This one, plus the grapple and skid steer loader is an ideal setup. Keep showing us "kewl" stuff.
Yeah I’m very impressed by the simplicity of it. The only issue is when they are brand new the bales don’t want to slide down the new paint. They had to dust it with baby powder for the first couple loads.
PHIL.LOOKS LIKE A GOOD WAY TO GO.. IN MY DAY WE DID IT THE OLD WAY.I DID GET A N.HOLLAND BALE WAGON AND IT WAS GREAT BUT THIS LOOKS MUCH BETTER. THANKS.... .
Impressive that the unit doesn't need electronics or hydraulics to have that many steps work automatically!
That’s the brilliant part of you ask me. I’m always on the lookout for the simplest way to do something.
A couple of questions: 1. How does the bale get the string/cord tied on the bale? 2. Does the string come in rolls or what? 3. How often do you have to reload the string? Lastly: What is the difference between straw and hay, assuming there is a difference? This was an awesome machine but I think the genius that figured it out aught to have a idea ho to finish those last bales with less muscle power. :)
Keep the videos coming, I am learning so much about the farmers. Thanks!!
Hay is cut grass or alfalfa used for feed.
Straw can be leftover stems from harvest of wheat or oat usually used for bedding. It helps make manure cleanup easier in the barn.
Right Andrew! Straw has very little nutritional value. It is pretty much dead when it is harvested. It’s just holding up the grain. The straw is the byproduct of wheat or oats etc. Hay is still alive when it is cut and dried to be preserved for feed.
The Baler has a mechanized knotter to tie a knot in the twine. They are pretty simple, but hard to show on video. This is the best video I’ve seen on the subject.
czcams.com/video/ZoB_1meRa9A/video.html
The twine comes on rolls that will do approximately 500 bales each.
It's come a long way for sure. My 1st hay crop was baled by a local farner, dropped on the ground. Then I had to pick up each bale and stack on a pickup, take to barn, then hand stack in the barn loft. Our first baler had a throw belt into a tall sided wagon, haul wagon to the barn, hand unload to the barn, then latet added a mow elevator track and ground elevator. Still had to hand unload wagon and restack in barn loft. Lots of sweat in those bales.
Yes I spent a lot of time in the hay loft as a farm boy myself. I always was jealous of the guy down on the wagon putting the bales on the elevator.
I like the new intro!
I want to change it up once in a while, but I rarely find the time 😂
Man, the ingenuity in farm equipment in general is really impressive. It's why most of us are alive today!
Yes it is! I love how simple this machine is.
Awesome video! Just love the mechanics behind that hay baler, beautiful! Drone shots were cool as well.
Thanks a lot Rob!
That set-up is awesome! Really enjoy watching ur videos 👍
Thank you! I really appreciate you taking time to watch and leave your encouraging words!
Very nice setup, manual labor is becoming almost extinct on farms now, millions of less farms now in operation and millions more to feed, farmers do it with very little thought by non farmers on how this is accomplished. far cry from putting loose hay to finally a wagon pulled behind the baler, first receive the bale than stack in the wagon, later a bale thrower on the baler to fill the wagon. But both had to be hand unloaded to a hay stack or put on a hay conveyor into the barn and than stacked in the hay loft. My farm days were at the end of loose hay to handling bales from wagon to hay stack. I love watching modern farm methods in operation, keep up the good videos i certainly enjoy them!!
Thanks Fran! I definitely put in a lot of hours in the dusty hay loft myself. This is a pretty slick machine.
I know that there are several stacking machines available, but this one must be the simplest. No hydraulics, no complicated mechanisms, no hastles. The wonders of gravity!
That’s what I like most about it. I’ve seen different versions that drag the bales on the ground and I’m not a huge fan of doing that.
That’s a nice set-up. Instead of travel around the field and picking up each bail individually you can make 15 stops and grab a group at a time. Like the new intro to your videos.
Thanks Dennis! It’s a pretty slick system.
We run the same setup except we do ten bales. My dad runs the baler, I load. Together we can do 1000 bales of hay a day with just the two of us. We have done 2000 bales of straw in one day. That was a late night for me getting them loaded out.
Man I bet you were almost out til sunup 🤣
@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206 I forgot to mention that this year we installed two cameras. One on the back of the tractor looking at the pickup and one at the top of the accumulator making sure everything slides down. Its nice to catch one bale jammed up rather than several.
Carl, do you have a background in acting or public speaking? Your presentations on camera are so professional and "flub-edit" free. You also have the rare youtuber skill of talking to the individual watching your video rather than to the camera. Makes watching your videos and learning about farming so much more enjoyable.
I really appreciate that Richard! I did speech club in school and I worked for the radio station voicing commercials when I was in high school as well. Otherwise I’m pretty much learning as I go. Thanks for watching and giving me some encouragement!
I fist saw one of these in the UK back in the 60's. Plus a pull along cage that coralled the bales until the tractor driver let them out. All manual...
Yeah I kindof like those gravity cage wagons
I really like the Kuhns Accumulators. I have seen some with a tie-grapple which uses the same twine to put one string around the stack of 10/15/18 and uses the same type of baler knotter. It keeps the stacks together really well especially the ones with the bales on their sides. Much cheaper than an Bale Baron.
Man the bale Barron looks sweet, but I bet they are outrageously expensive!
@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206 That's for sure. I guess only guys who do 10s of thousands of bales per year can afford.
Yeah i still have to do it the hard way, but that is really neat. nice video!!!
Thanks Tim! We still do it the hard way too.
Brings back memories but I had to build them in the field by hand 🙈🙈 great video
Woof! That’s work!
Thanks for showing that accumulator. Whoever invented that deserves a Nobel prize. Amazing.
I can hear an amen from all the teenagers who no longer have to stack hay 😂
Great informative video.
Thanks Michael!
Always enjoy your videos Carl! I like your Millenial farmer reference "Are you ok?" Stay safe from your Canadian friend
Hah yeah I’m probably going to hear from his lawyers 😂
That was a nice setup not long ago it was a few teenagers a tractor and bailor and cart and hypothetical maybe a case of beer Great Video
Actually my bro and I still bale the hard way 😂😂
Thats the way to handle bales ! Not good hay weather here in eastern Pa., getting eight inches of rain today .
Yikes that’s too much! Could you send some back my way?
Thanks. Interesting to see how machines do their tasks.
Thanks!
Out west we use a harrow bed and a hay squeeze. Plenty of CZcams videos on those if your interested.
I’ve always wanted to drive a hay squeeze!
I'm new to your channel. I liked your laid-back style and your content so I subscribed!
Hey welcome aboard! If there is anything you would like to see or any questions you have don’t hesitate to ask!
Wow.. 😍😍😍
Love this video!!!
Thanks Marlyn!
Rock picking. Gone. Walking soybeans. Gone. And now baling hay. Gone. How is a teenager supposed to make a few dollars to take Susie-Q to the movies?
Great video I really enjoy machinery and technology.
Haha I know! Don’t worry there are still some of us who haven’t caught up to technology yet 😂
Very Cool Video,Just love mechanical machines ,Good Job !!!
Yes it’s such a great and simple design!
Man i wish we had that setup for baling small bales!
This is cool ! Your videos have improved in quality ! 👌 Best Wishes 🇺🇸
Thanks! I do my best to make improvements over time. I’m learning as I go!
Cool, never seen it, we just bought a new mf 2605h, going to try to get equipment to bale hay, pasture is prime, been fallow twenty years, we used to get over three thousand squares, oh well, it’s only my brother and I, but we have two 135 Massey Ferguson also, wish us luck, trying to revive 150 acre farm
That sounds like perfect content for CZcams videos!
Nw that’s the way to handle square bales...love it!
Yeah I need to borrow that rig later this summer 😂
Great video new prescriber enjoying so far
Thanks Robert! If you have any questions or things you’d like to see let me know 👍
Hi. That was awesome. The technology available to ya'll is Expensive but amazing !! It looks like it cuts down manpower to bale but you still need someone to collect bales n stack. Can you just rent the equipment, since you bale, maybe 2 times a year if lucky? What are the little bales used for? It would seem you would have to cut a lot of acres to justify the price of the equipment. Great video n explanation of machine !! Who would have thought of a mini roller coaster for hay. Peace to you and yours
Yeah we may borrow it sometime. We only make about 500 little bales per year. They make at least 4,000. Most of the little bales go to people with a couple horses who don’t need to feed large amounts of hay.
Man....Am I jealous! We've been looking at these. Maybe next season. Nice going.
I would highly recommend this brand.
Hello Carl, Great video!, and what a set up for sm bales! I really like watching your videos! Keep up the great work, and stay safe.
Thanks a lot!
That system is ingenious!
I thought so!
Great bit of gear 👍
It’s amazing!
Hello, always enjoy your videos.
Hey thanks Marvin!
Quick question, when cleaning out the twisted chute, why can you not just unhook from the baler and let them fall out instead of pushing them up and out?
That’s what the older guys do. Then you have about five more bales to carry to the stack. Actually that’s probably easier... 🤔
That equipment sure beats the way we used to gather hay..
amen!
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Thanks! Welcome to the party 🎉
Great video
Thanks David!
Very nice video, thank you.
Thanks!
Lot easier than when I was making a nickel a bale and bucking them onto a pickup
That’s for sure! I tried picking them up off the ground once and I’ll never do that again
Cool baler and amazing channel system. Since I had my accident while bale carting I am only now getting really bad pain in my neck. Whiplash has only now started. It's been about a month since the accident and I am just getting the side affects of it.
Oh man that’s not good! How did it happen?
@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206 when I fell off the bale trailer while bale carting I am only now getting the side affects from that. 3 weeks later. Whiplash and muscle tension in my right shoulder. It should be OK in about a month.
George Goodman ouch!
Nice system
Do you think this system will pay for it self?
The guy that invented that machine was one of us old guys who threw to many bales when we was young, haha
I bet so! Smart guy...
Wish we would have thought of that back in the day would have made life much easier
Yeah but then you wouldn’t have been as tough growing up!
You know you're a hundred percent right on that one thank you
Football coach in my area hired out his players for conditioning and set a 72 game win streak which stood nationally for some time
Smart guy!
Curious why the bales go through the twist before being stacked. Must be a good reason that i just cannot see. When did skid loaders become popular on farms. It seems they are better at doing things that were once done by tractors but with more manuverability. You did look a little warm though.
Yeah I’ve wondered about the twist myself for awhile. They must slide better on their side or something. Maybe it’s to keep the strings from getting hurt by the grapple. And you are right about skid loaders they just keep getting bigger and better.
That's alot easier than how I remember having to do it 🚜🤔
Me too! Shoot, we still do it the hard way 🤣
G'day Carl, good video, thanks for sharing. Thistles are past help :)
Yeah I should have shown you the rose bushes. They are extra crispy!
The new intro is good!
Thanks!
I always enjoy your drone footage! What sorta drone setup do you use?
Thanks Nathan! It’s a DJI Mavic Air. They are a nice affordable drone. Easy to use too!
That would have saved me lots of back pain when I was younger.
Yeah but you wouldn’t be nearly as strong 💪
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching, Robert!
Back in the day I knew some local teenagers who would head to the hay fields every summer to load bales. I don't know what it paid but I imagine they earned whatever it was!
I was one of those teenagers. Not sure what it paid in other places but in the early 80's I made 3 cents a bale. Square Bales were a hundred pounds each and the lofts were high.
I spent a lot of quality time in the hay loft at dads and then in a few neighbors barns as well as I got older. It’s not fun work, but you sure feel good when it’s done!
@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206 yes and the day I saw the first round bales was a happy day.
Put up loose hay then you know what hard work is lol. I hated it only did that for 2 years then went to squares. The only way as a small farmers son to make money was helping the neighbor's put up hay and other farm relate choirs.
That's cool. I should have been an Agg. Engineer. (I'm a Civil Eng.).
There’s still time!
Brilliant!!!
Yeah it's all fun and games until the baler misses a tie. Then you'll get to learn new words!
Haha yeah! It’s best if you can notice it right away. Lots of times you won’t see it until the first broken bale goes over the top and by then you might have a six busted bales in the twist chute 🤦♂️
I don't help able hay anymore but that would have been nice. They didn't have them when I baled hay.
Yeah would have loved that when I was a young lad!
Hay buster
Hay!
That's a pretty impressive machine
I love how simple it is!
great video, very interesting
Thanks John!
THAT LOOKS LIKE A NICE OPERATION WITH THE HEY MACHINE WHAT STATE DO YOU COME FROM ??? HOW MUCH DO YOU SELL ONE BALE OF HAY FOUR,,??? JUST THOUGHT I WOULD ASK YOU THOSE TWO QUESTIONS I AM JUST WONDERING ONE MORE QUESTION HOW HEAVY IS ONE BALE OF HAY ??? THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR VIDEO IT WAS PRETTY COOL 👍👍🇺🇸
Hey joe we are in Iowa. One bale weighs about 45 pounds and goes for $5 each.
@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206 THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME OUT AND ANSWERING MY QUESTIONS 👍 WE WOULD SELL ONE BALE OF HAY FOR.50 CENT OR $1 BACK IN THE 60S I COME FROM MASSACHUSETTS P. S. THE HAY WEIGH ABOUT THE SAME MAYBE A LITTLE MORE THANK YOU
What about the multi-florarose?
Man I should have drove through the gate and showed you. It is crispy dead.
@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206 Remind me what you used please?
Great equipment but expensive. Everybody would love to work with handy tools like that, but overheads just not attainable in most cases. That is why farming will remain backbreaking work for the larger part. Costs, costs and costs!
It’s all about scale. We make about 500 small square bales each summer. This equipment would not make sense for us. They make over 5,000 bales and most get trucked at least 20 miles. The time savings and labor savings for them pays for that machine pretty quickly.
Great way to move hay
Yes it is 👍
What no flashing lights or beeping, who'd a thunk it. That is neat. Though I am wondering what twisting the bale is in aid of?
Maybe so when they go to pick them up they don’t break the twine?
Yeah I have always kind of wondered that as well. Maybe it’s to protect the twine strings, or maybe to keep the bale from getting bowed when it comes up over the top.
@@dodgebrothersfarmandranch9206 Some times I get dog with a bone syndrome. So preventing deformation is the reason: kuhnsmfg.com/news/slick-for-small-bales/ " and the twisting action of the chute (for on-edge models) does not deform the bales, Kuhns says."
The damn thistles don't look DEAD ENUFF !!
Dead enough to keep them from seeding.
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Not sure.. look like the LIVING DEAD. !!
A big thumbs up in agreement
I may have to kill them again 😂 at least the MF rose bushes are crispy
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Massey Ferguson makes roses ??
Slick way to bail squares.
Yes indeed it is!
Hey Carl get er done
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How are the bales cut/ separated from the last one?
It’s hard to see, but they are actually separate bales as soon as the knot has tied. There is a set of twine needles that come up from the bottom and pierce through the hay bringing the twine up from the bottom with them. The place that they pierce through will be where one bale ends and the next starts.
Love it but plz teach people how to operate a tractor
I’ll put that on the list
How to play connect four tractor version
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Check out a Bail Barron
Boy I love the look of those things, but they are so expensive!
Hello Carl!
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Ok so where was this bale accumulator 60 yeas ago as a young lad I hand bombed the bales? lol
Haha me too! In fact we still do. Maybe some day we will have a rig like that.
Hay ( yes a pun intended...lol) your cheating with those thistles .. growing up on a dairy we had to take a shovel with us when changing irrigation and dig them along with tansy ragwort or tansy as we called it ... Nothing like walking 40 acres of hay field even come hauling time ..loading onto a 2tn flatbed.
We have hand pulled milkweed out of 30 acres of hay before. Not a whole lot of fun but it was pretty much the only option at the time.
Neato
Thanks for watching!
much easier then the way you guys do your small square bales.
Haha yes it is!
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Are you the real John turner??
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