Hopefully the last time I buy hay. Stacking hay bales in the bank barn
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- čas přidán 22. 04. 2020
- I just picked up, what I hope is my last load of hay bales that I will buy. In the future I should be baling my own hay. Today I am going to stack these 32 bales of grass hay in the hay loft of the bank barn. I also show a quick tour of the hay loft and my plans to future improvements.
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Starting that tractor brought Green Acres to mind.
Yup I remember all that. Grew up working granddads diary farm, long days bailing hay, stacking on trailer,then stacking outside barn to dry, then loading onto conveyer to the loft, then stacking again.now that was work. And you know what, I loved it and miss it.
Just call Cole the Cornstar , he'll clean that barn up ship-shape in no time !!!! LOL
See what you have done now Evan !!! we want to get that barn cleaned up ASAP, and that tree stump outside the barn and the weeds and and and , enjoy you video's so much, cant wait for the next one, only wish we could help.
Nice good looking hay bales
Doing a good job with your barn and you both will make it work for you. Time and elbow grease and you’ll have the equipment running again. Keep up the good work and thanks for sharing with us. Fred.
Great workout Evan, framework keeps you fit💪💪
Boy ,l would love to have that barn. It's not perfect but it's close to perfect for what you want to do
You’re a busy guy as usual. Thanks for taking me along🐓🐓🐓
You made that look easy 🤣🤣🤣
That’s the 1 job hate most is stacking hay & stray bails . Lucky we have the equipment to make round bails now saves us a lot of back ack .. good luck on your 1 st cut this year . Stay safe & god bless ..
Re-bale the straw, it's free bedding, then send it to a compost pile. give you chance to test the baler too.
Great video Evan! God bless!
I like your channel.
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Use to stack hay bales when I was 13 from field to the wagon. Too much like work Always spend a few weeks on my cousins farm which was across the river from our farm my grandfather sold in 1958. Was in our family since 1823. My father was not a farmer. When he retired from the Bell telephone he said I should have taken the farm. I wanted to slap him. So van I love your channel. Thanks.
Hard working man!
Hey! I bet you hated buying all that hay when you know you're going to grow your own! Great video!
Backing a hay wagon is an art form. Have fun with that.
Yea, I tried backing it up when I got it. No luck. I will needs lots of practice.
That is an awesome barn. Wow, would love it, (well about 30 years ago,we are 73 now) so I will just enjoy watching you and Rebecca as time goes on and what you do with the place. Stay safe and enjoy your homestead.
Wow, that is a great barn! Let me know when your ready to clean it out! I'd be more than happy to come there and ................supervise you guys!😂🤣😎
Dang, my eyes started itching just watching this!
Looks like you have a lot of work to do before hay season and it will arrive quickly .
Couldn't help but notice the neatly stacked pile of lumber off in the background beyond the trucks passenger side... I'm sensing another project developing
That is the lumber for two, 8 foot wide compost bins. Yes, and upcoming project, but the garden is the first project to tackle.
Grate video hope you video when you clean the barn!!!!!!
Always a good feeling to have stacked hay. 👍😊
Better get those shelves done hay season is nearly there 😀
Good thing you are young
That was a very good bucking technique that you used Evan--
Nice to be young! HaHa I would have left the hay in the trailer....my aching back! lol
Hi from New Zealand. Glad you didn't croak from carbon monoxide poisoning Evan.
JudithB I remember cutting and stacking our first crop of hay!! LOL The end of our barn was a drive-thru and the loft floor was 12' up. We rigged a pulley system with a hay hook to get the hay off the truck, pulled it up, snagged the bale and threw it on the floor. My 10 yr old son would pull the bales back and we would stack everything off the truck. It was a big job twice a year. One spring we had so much hay left over from winter, we sold a semi load. You got a big job cleaning your loft, and can bet the mice problem is in that old straw!! I try to get my barn problems done in the winter to avoid spiders and snakes, but as usual-------LOL
Would be a huge job to get it cleaned up but worth it in the end.
Good video
Looking forward to seeing a video on how to back a loaded hay wagon. It is a frustrating task for me and I have never mastered it. However, I did carefully lay out my barnsite with circular driving routes so I no longer need to back my five wagons.
Looks like you need a hay elevator bud! Hay wagons aren't the easiest to back up. Let me know if you have any questions on doing your hay. We do about 2500 bails every year for our horses. Keep up the good work!
Yeah some conveyors are really cheap and that way you don’t have to carry the bales the whole way
Looking forward to seeing how you do this Hay season. Hope you get enough to keep all those goats fed!
I should get enough for our livestock, and should have extra to sale.
Qué bonito se oye esa joya de internacional y las aves que cantan
If you cleaned up the loft I am sure it would help with the mice getting a free place to live lol
I think stacking bales on their side is just an old farmers tale. we always stack on the string side. so much easier. the only time we stacked on their side is if we had bales that needed more drying, maybe we made it against and outside row in the field next to trees that kept if from getting as much sun. we put them on their side with some space between to give a little air. we had a neighbor with horses we sold hay to and she used to insist we stack her barn full with bales stacked on their side. tougher to stack and tougher to walk on.
I am surprised, more people noticed me stacking them on the side, than I thought. I was told that old timers, stack the bales with the cut side up. So that is how I have been doing it.
Just wondered why you stack your hay on it’s side? We always stacked them flat in the loft of our barn. That’s been many a year ago for me lol. Great video. Thanks
old timers, said to stack the Hay with the Cut side facing up. So that is how I stacked it.
Country View Acres oh ok. Was just wondering. Thanks
I never see bales stacked that way. Looks like it worked good.
You are doing a great job of cleaning up that place. Many cats too I think - about 4 because you are always igoing to have vermin accomadation.
I highly suggest that you either move the concrete into any available air tight container, or use it ASAP. Bags of concrete don't last long. The portland cement portion of it will suck water out of the air solidify in tiny pieces. The bags might still appears to be loose, but the chemical activation won't happen at the scale it would previously. This can lead to very weak cement causing very expensive repairs (ie rebuilding a someone that has collapsed due to a poor foundation). IMO, if it has been outside for a while, it is fill. If you use it in a non critical area, such as weighted barrel for you tractor, you should be fine.
Sorry about the rant/rambling, but I have been caught by bad cement in the past. Its easy to assume that just because a home improvement store has it in open air that you can to, but they have selling volume on their side. 99% of their bags are probably less than two weeks old.
Looks like the header for them doors is way up just some nailers in there to make them decorative door openings if you need you could probably rip that out very easily at least on one of them to get the trailer in
That Sickle mower,, here in the UK we call it a Finger mower,, we had one right up till 1990,,then went to a drum mower, then a disc mower,, funny how things progress.
AND... no need for a membership in any fitness center. Last year, here in the Cody WY area .... wife & I bucked 1400 bales @ 50 lbs ea. off the hay field & stacked. Took 5 days to do it. Just need more Bengay @ night.
Low sides on the hay trailer would help with carting logs and fire wood because you only have to handle the wood twice as you can tip them off. Regards Billy from S A
No health club membership needed. Just bale throwing 1 hour 😎🚜🐃🐃🐐🐐🐖🐖💪💪👀😁😎👍
Those mice have to much food with the chicken feed, can you get a feeder that is mouse proof, I thought I seen one that the chickens have to step on to open it up.
You wore me out just watching you. I used to be able to sling around bales of hay like you in my younger days. I would have been done after a half dozen or so (LOL). I'm interested to see that old equipment put to use. That's the kind of stuff we used when I was a kid doing alfalfa.
get the long hay hooks at tractor supply if your gonna get a set.... i got a set and put them in storage... im gonna need them some day.....
Open area in barns always seem to get stuff put in there I always have that problem to ,hay conveyor will help save a lot of steps
Nice video. As others mentioned, an elevator would make moving the bales easier. That baler looks like either a NH 67, 68 or 69. We have a 68 that we did a refurb on some years ago. They are a good baler, not fast, but fast enough to work the wagon stacker real hard. We also have an older MF 32 sickle mower too. Sickle mowers will get the job done if set up right. I assume you have a rake and tedder? We have a mix of really old and newer equipment on our farm for haying. We’ve got some videos of the 68 baling hay and the sickle mower cutting it on our channel. You may have the hay thing all figured out, but if it is of help, we are working a series on getting started baling hay on a budget. The next video will be on the hay cutter, ie sickle or haybine. Don’t hesitate to ask if you have questions - looks like you’re doing pretty good. Take care!
I should start going through all the hay equipment soon. Just trying to get the garden finished first.
For the small acreage you have ,sell the Baldur and get a hay sweep
make sure you look around before cutting outside swathes .... tree limbs, old fence post ,wire, rocks, cement blocks, tires... etc....
thx
maybe you can store the long pieces of wood straigt up against the inside wall? makes it a little easier to get to individual pieces
That barn needs a couple of cats to keep the mice in check and that barn is a magnet for mice!
Yes a green Acres tractor but it works
Better get your baler checked out real quick! Cant rely on what people told you when you got it!! Ya it ran the last time we used i, LOL!!
I wanna make silage this year
make a quick shed to store that wood you have tin roofing.
Just a suggestion.. Build a leantoo for building materials
How is the hay Field looking have not seen it in a while 👍
The hay field is looking good. The edges are starting to fill in, and the alfalfa is getting taller.
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Is it time to invest in a new barns? Pre-assembled. Measures out your floor plan. Order pre-assembled to your specifications. This is just a thoughts. It would make it safe for you two.
yack f zay once its cleaned and shelves built, he won’t need any more barns
Nothing like doubble work to make you're day rite pal
Dig out the floor enough to get the trailer inside?
Evan ..... I seem to remember you saying the farm used to be in your family way back. Do you know how it was used?
It might mke good future video to compare the differences (and what a difference tech makes!)
Actually, I don't know how the farm was used, when my Great Great grandfather owned it. I only know that is was a hog farm in the 70s.
Need a ramp instead of steps
Might wanna clean your barn out and organize it… lol
Time to get out the old leaf take and the snow shovel. Get up that loose hay and toss out to the goats.
City slicker question. What's the difference between hay and straw??
Straw is usually made from the stalks of wheat around here. First you harvest the wheat, then you can go back and bail the stems of the wheat for straw. Hay is usually dried grass or legumes.
almost time to make hay.... i didnt see a rake or tedder.... you said your gonna get a wagon.... i saw baler ... and mower.... you will do fine.... are you gonna be able to get 3 cuttings this year?....
I have a Bar rake parked by the hay wagon. I hope to get 3 cuttings.
How is your hay field coming out?
It is looking good. I might show a clip of it in an upcoming video.
The walls of the barn is looking very bad. Are going to batten them??
no.... needs air flow for new hay.... dont want to burn down barn....
My alfalfa hay bales are 110 lbs. You wouldn't be throwing them around like that!!
WHY are your bales that heavy. I have known many farmer who make the heaviest bales possible and then can't understand why nobody wants to work for them Why are so many feed bags now 40lbs instead of 50 . better sales less lawsuits.
@@kolilagephart37663 string bales are 100 lbs
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that will wake you up in the mourning..
Damn you make me feel so lazy.
JUST BEIN NOSEY, WHAT EVER HAPPENED WITH THE SPRAYED HAYFIELD, YOU COULD BUILD UP THAT AREA WITH DIRT TO WHERE THE WAGONBED IS LEVEL
We replanted the Hay field last fall and it looking good. Very happy on how it turned out this time.
How many kilograms are in each hay loaf
I would load hay on pallets even in the horse trailer. I would slide the pallets out with chain and tractor. I would find forks for the bucket on the tractor. They sell aftermarket fork kits. Those bales would go into that barn or as close as possible with tractor. You work too hard!
give em afew years!! He might figure it out!!
How much do you have to pay for a bale there
$5 a bale
No mosquito
I love seeing that old case tractor and hope to see you making hay with it this summer. I wouldn’t worry about stacking on pallets since it’s on a wood floor they seem like more of a hazard than help. The only bales that need to be stacked on their side is the first layer so the mice don’t cut the strings but I don’t see why stacking them all on the side wouldn’t work we just never did it that way. Great video and good luck cleaning up the barn.
I've thrown and stacked alot of bales myself,never have I seen hay stacked that way,maybe it's a Mid-west thing👍seemed to work though
who needs a gym👏🏻👏🏻
Looks like a great barn, curious though Evan and maybe you said this in an earlier video, what do you expect to the yield or how many bales of hay are you going to get out of your field ??
around here, people shoot for around 50 bales per acre. but I am sure that depends on which cutting it is, first cut will probably be the biggest amount.
Wait that's not how
is that an old chick brooder leaning on back wall right side?... i think thats what it was....
I think is a cover for an old grain cart maybe. No sure what it is.
The tractor us gas o dissel
That tractor is diesel. I may have stated the model number wrong. It might be a Case 731
Why not leave them in the trailer....oh let’s hid behind the chainsaws ......wow
Are you tired yet.
It's a good idea to wear a mask if you're stacking a lot of hay. In the old days, they called it "farmer's lung" or "farmer's cough" when they had breathed in hay dust their whole life and coughed as a result.
Elizabeth the Queen its a form of early emphesema
You need to pick up some hay hooks
Ummmmmm
Baler
YOU NEED TO LEARN HOW TO STACK HAY DO NOT PACK HAY BAILS SO TIGHT THEY NEED AIR AROUND THEM. HAY STACK TO TIGHT CAN CAUSE A FIRE