We Finally Figured It Out (Loading Hay)

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  • čas přidán 28. 04. 2021
  • We finally perfected our semi loading technique! We are using a Steffen System Grapple with our JCB telehandler to load up some first cutting #Hay in #Arcusin bundles for the long haul. We are trying out a new camera, so we apologize for the awkward points of view at times. The field of view is a little smaller than our standard camera. Also, get a glimpse at the newest employee, Robby!

Komentáře • 111

  • @jeffmiller9986
    @jeffmiller9986 Před 3 lety +9

    Telehandler looks like it has drastically increased both pushing power, stability of the stack when moving, and also operator visibility. Fantastic upgrades. Can't wait to see the content this upcoming hay season!

  • @truckerjames7292
    @truckerjames7292 Před 3 lety +4

    Holy crap, the subtle humor at the end of Justin's quote made me spit my drink out from laughing lol. I enjoyed this video. I'm happy to have found you guys. Beautiful farm!

  • @dieselfan16
    @dieselfan16 Před 3 lety +7

    As a collective we all would like to see more of everything. Keep up the great work. Your efforts are appreciated

    • @FarmingInsider
      @FarmingInsider  Před 3 lety +2

      Thank you for the encouraging words! It is very much appreciated

  • @blossomquisno9187
    @blossomquisno9187 Před rokem +2

    I really enjoy watching you and the guys load and haul hay

  • @customwork7788
    @customwork7788 Před 3 lety +6

    It’s nice seeing crews having fun working

  • @randymonninger9913
    @randymonninger9913 Před 2 lety +1

    Love hard work you all put in I'm retired farmer I no all hard work you do have lot more Vance equipment help you that makes difference god bless you all for hard work you put in

    • @FarmingInsider
      @FarmingInsider  Před 2 lety

      Thank you Randy! We really appreciate the support

  • @amandaboutton2099
    @amandaboutton2099 Před 3 lety +6

    Excited to see what projects you have planned for the shop. Some construction videos might be pretty cool 👀👀

  • @susanreutter4576
    @susanreutter4576 Před 3 lety +5

    Yes, more of everything. Please

  • @ericbiermann8744
    @ericbiermann8744 Před 3 lety +2

    They will have fun getting them out

  • @rypie91d
    @rypie91d Před 2 lety +2

    New subscriber here. First time you've come up for me. I live 2 counties south so excited to see!

  • @featheredcoyote5477
    @featheredcoyote5477 Před měsícem +1

    I feel bad for the sucker that had to unload that van trailer. Hay was packed in there tight!

  • @deuntewilliams9384
    @deuntewilliams9384 Před 3 lety +2

    That’s one clean Pete

  • @timdex91
    @timdex91 Před 2 lety +2

    Awesome loading equipment....must have some fun getting it out???

    • @FarmingInsider
      @FarmingInsider  Před 2 lety +2

      It goes in tight! They usually unload with loading docks and a skidsteer

    • @michaelwalsh9145
      @michaelwalsh9145 Před 2 lety +1

      @@FarmingInsider Thanks, I was wondering how they’d unload it,

  • @racerroy1
    @racerroy1 Před 3 lety +2

    Nice to see some JCB Mahines in use over there.

  • @aidenkoster6427
    @aidenkoster6427 Před 3 lety +3

    Great video

  • @willhorting5317
    @willhorting5317 Před 2 lety

    I can honestly say that, in six decades of being around farming, this is the first time I have ever seen (or heard of) someone putting hay baled in a semi trailer like that!!🤯🤯🤯🤯........I have only ever seen bales put on a flatbed trailer....... How does the people on the receiving end remove the bales? I guarantee that it's going to be a lot more difficult than pushing it in!!😁

  • @CEng-ge6sw
    @CEng-ge6sw Před 2 lety +1

    Nice to see a British machine (JCB) in the USA.

  • @neilramseyer5348
    @neilramseyer5348 Před 3 lety +7

    More Carl :) can't believe people in NC buy hay. Seems like it would be easier to raise it there

    • @FarmingInsider
      @FarmingInsider  Před 3 lety +3

      They can! The quality of our cool season grasses and alfalfa tends to me significantly better though. Apparently enough of a margin better to be worth the premium it takes in trucking there

  • @tommurphy6062
    @tommurphy6062 Před 2 lety

    Jcb tele seem to be getting popular in USA 30 years after Europe 😉

  • @robinmiller4135
    @robinmiller4135 Před 3 lety +5

    CZcams nicknames make the world a better place. So do blue eyes 😊

    • @FarmingInsider
      @FarmingInsider  Před 3 lety +2

      We think so too! Great lighting, huh? haha

    • @CraydenGamingOfficial
      @CraydenGamingOfficial Před 3 lety +1

      @@FarmingInsider i really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really want to see more of u

  • @mattstaks
    @mattstaks Před 3 lety +3

    It looks as if the winter weather is behind you all. Beware though, Ohio can be tricky (as I'm sure you know). Sometimes the weather can be nice one day, and not so much the next. Hard to plan around.

    • @FarmingInsider
      @FarmingInsider  Před 3 lety +2

      Planning is what separates great successes from catastrophic failures!

    • @mattstaks
      @mattstaks Před 3 lety +2

      @@FarmingInsider Thank you. I’ve seen a lot of similar motifs in literature. Do you read a lot? I prefer the classics

  • @394hamme
    @394hamme Před 3 lety +5

    Rob, Robby, Robert... Bob, Bobby, Bobert

    • @FarmingInsider
      @FarmingInsider  Před 3 lety +3

      Haha, man how did I not think of that on the fly. Sammy came up with Reckless Robby on the fly. I thought that was pretty good

    • @timdex91
      @timdex91 Před 2 lety

      Robert....Robeard...

  • @stephenbeecher7545
    @stephenbeecher7545 Před 2 lety +2

    Nickname suggestion for Robert: "Bobby Baby" or, just "Bob".

  • @nazzarenoceretti8025
    @nazzarenoceretti8025 Před 2 lety +1

    Bellissimo video 🙋‍♂️ 🌈

  • @kimholian4113
    @kimholian4113 Před 3 lety +4

    I never realized all that your farm did while living less than 2 miles from you...I miss seeing all the farming equipment go past the house!

    • @FarmingInsider
      @FarmingInsider  Před 3 lety +1

      I really appreciate your continued support! From my general life experiences, there is not a whole lot of reason to head west from the Valley lol! We get to experience a little bit of seclusion

  • @kennethheern4896
    @kennethheern4896 Před 2 lety +1

    How many bales fit in that box trailer

  • @pakviroti3616
    @pakviroti3616 Před 3 lety +3

    So, how does the truck get unloaded at the destination? How do the front most stacks get reached for extraction.

    • @FarmingInsider
      @FarmingInsider  Před 3 lety +2

      The destination really needs to have a loading dock to get a machine into the trailer to spear them and pull out, if not they are just unloaded by hand

    • @benjaminyoung2454
      @benjaminyoung2454 Před 3 lety +1

      Great question 😊 I and my son was watching and wondering the same.
      All the hay loads we see in Australia, are usually just open air or tarped which is easy for unloading.
      Great video as always love every part of your story and journey.

    • @pakviroti3616
      @pakviroti3616 Před 3 lety +1

      @@benjaminyoung2454 What part of ''stralia mate? When I was 12 we moved to Sydney, my dad had a two year posting with IBM. That would have been 1970, we stayed in Kingsford not far from Marubra Beach.

    • @benjaminyoung2454
      @benjaminyoung2454 Před 3 lety +1

      @@pakviroti3616 we are in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 🦘🦘

  • @Cake41579
    @Cake41579 Před 3 lety +1

    Tie a piece of pipe with a groove cut down the length so your string comes out on each side of the handler. Tie a plum bob on the end of your rope yo drop down the pipe to hrlp you tie each one

  • @kennethheern4896
    @kennethheern4896 Před 2 lety +1

    You guys also have a blueberry patch?

  • @shannonoconnor9671
    @shannonoconnor9671 Před 2 lety +2

    Damn thats some good looking hay. Do you a beef cattle forage mix?

  • @leighcowley9869
    @leighcowley9869 Před 3 lety +3

    I’ve loaded 4x4s in a van that went to Hereford Texas

    • @FarmingInsider
      @FarmingInsider  Před 3 lety

      Awesome. So I’m guessing you stacked 2 high and just kept pushing?

    • @leighcowley9869
      @leighcowley9869 Před 3 lety +1

      @@FarmingInsider yes I did. I’m from Utah and at that time Texas was having a drought. When I loaded it the driver had never hauled hay in it before. Towards the end I had to have him go in and press his service brakes because the park brake wasn’t holding it. I don’t do 4x4s anymore. We went to 3x4s.

    • @FarmingInsider
      @FarmingInsider  Před 3 lety +1

      @@leighcowley9869 I don’t think I’ve ever even seen a 4x4 in person. I’m sure they have their place but they seem to be tough for shipping

    • @leighcowley9869
      @leighcowley9869 Před 3 lety +1

      @@FarmingInsider truckers love them. They hate 3x3s but their favorite is 3x4s. When you load 4x4s can only go two high. I loved them because there was way less bales in the field. I use to put up about 40000 bales of little bales a year. Talk about depressing. And we hauled it by hand. We use to put our hay up loose and I was the tromper. I was about ten years old and they hay would got to the stack with a John Deere A that had a farmhand type loader. That was how they put the loose hay in the stack before the bales. They would cut the hay with a couple of John Deere mowers on a couple of other John Deere A’s. We also had a Case 500 that had about 70 hp. That was big in it’s day. We also had two John Deere Ds. They would call them two lungers. We would have two guys mowing native grass hay. Then a day later they had a side roll rake and put in in a windrow. The the the tractor with the farmhand would go and make big bunch’s all over the field. When that was done they would come back and pick a bunch of hay with the farmhand. It wasn’t like the loaders like you see today. It had a big square frame higher than the tractor behind the seat. The bottom of the frame set on two huge angle irons bolted on the axle and right up to the front of the tractor frame. From the top of the out side corner of the frame were two pipe about three inch diameter that came down past the driver all the way to where the angle iron was bolted on. Also from the top of that frame was two five inch square tubes that angled from the top of the back frame to about three feet in front of the tractor. I forgot to tell you how wide it was. It was just wide enough to drive the tractor inside of this frame. On the bottom of the frame were two long cylinders. About four inch diameter. That is what lifted a twelve foot wide basket. The basket had a frame that pointed 2x4s were bolted to. They were foot apart. That is what we would bunch the hay up and then carry it to the stack. When it was ready to dump it had a hydraulic cylinder attached to what looked like a aluminum slats and cross slats that would push the hay off. The height of this loader was way higher than loaders we have today. It would put bales up eighteen layers high.

    • @FarmingInsider
      @FarmingInsider  Před 3 lety +1

      I would have loved to see drone footage of that operation! I’ve watched CZcams videos of guys hand cranking John Deere Ds.

  • @wattyh1
    @wattyh1 Před 2 lety +1

    in scotland we call people named robert BOB

  • @snoopy6135
    @snoopy6135 Před 3 lety +2

    What difference between wet dry hay?

    • @FarmingInsider
      @FarmingInsider  Před 3 lety +1

      When we say wet hay we are referring to silage or baleage. It is baled at high moisture and must be wrapped in plastic to avoid spoiling and ensile correctly

  • @Nick-B78
    @Nick-B78 Před 3 lety +3

    Regarding a good nickname for Robert you could try Minty. Reason being here in the UK there’s a brand that makes mints called Trebor which is Robert backwards

    • @FarmingInsider
      @FarmingInsider  Před 3 lety +2

      We started calling him Minty today! That’s awesome

    • @Nick-B78
      @Nick-B78 Před 3 lety

      @@FarmingInsider lol that’s a great coincidence. Was that because of the mints?

    • @FarmingInsider
      @FarmingInsider  Před 3 lety +1

      I’ve never heard of the mints, it was just because of your comment lol

    • @Nick-B78
      @Nick-B78 Před 3 lety

      @@FarmingInsider oh that’s awesome 😊

  • @sethg.7158
    @sethg.7158 Před 3 lety +2

    Robert should be called rubber toe

  • @danrose3233
    @danrose3233 Před 2 lety +2

    How do they unload the vans at the customer end?

    • @michaelmcnamara7971
      @michaelmcnamara7971 Před 2 lety +2

      Yea I am wondering that also. Small forklift to go into the box van and a ramp to get up and down I'm guessing.

    • @FarmingInsider
      @FarmingInsider  Před 2 lety +2

      That’s pretty much what they need. The customer needs a loading dock to take a small machine in and you can use pallet forks underneath the bundles

  • @pakviroti3616
    @pakviroti3616 Před 3 lety +3

    Rapid Rob! Just sayin'.

  • @scottgouker808hardwrkr
    @scottgouker808hardwrkr Před 3 lety +1

    What is your current total cost in Machinery (est.) and How many Acres do you farm?

    • @FarmingInsider
      @FarmingInsider  Před 3 lety +1

      We’ve got a really detailed balance sheet and accounting records but I’d rather not be public with it

    • @scottgouker808hardwrkr
      @scottgouker808hardwrkr Před 3 lety +1

      @@FarmingInsider I understand. Just Curious what kind of capital it takes to farm today. I'm buying my first tractor, and the "attachments" alone exceed the cost of the Tractor.
      (Planting oil palms, rubber trees and rice)

  • @timroberge1498
    @timroberge1498 Před 2 lety +1

    How many bales per load? 53' trailer?

    • @FarmingInsider
      @FarmingInsider  Před 2 lety +1

      Last load we sent out was 798

    • @timroberge1498
      @timroberge1498 Před 2 lety +1

      @@FarmingInsider I probably should have asked before, but what's the rough weight per bale? 798 is impressive.

  • @iancrossley6637
    @iancrossley6637 Před 2 lety +1

    I feel bad for the guy who has to unload the trailer.

  • @tylerw2464
    @tylerw2464 Před 3 lety +4

    What did I tell you about Carl being a millionaire?!? #PCH

    • @FarmingInsider
      @FarmingInsider  Před 3 lety +3

      2 days ago he did come into work with new shoes and new Wrangler jeans. He really might be hiding something lol

    • @neilramseyer5348
      @neilramseyer5348 Před 3 lety +2

      @@FarmingInsider in ohio you never know :)

  • @ghorner11
    @ghorner11 Před 3 lety

    How much do you charge per bale and how many would that truck hold?

    • @FarmingInsider
      @FarmingInsider  Před 3 lety +1

      We got $6.50 for these bales and they usually hold 756 bales

    • @ghorner11
      @ghorner11 Před 3 lety

      Wow! I'm 47 and I remember getting a $1/bale with Alf-Alfa, Timothy, and Broughm grass mixture for horse guys and we sold a lot of bales. Good for you.

  • @frankoch1
    @frankoch1 Před 2 lety +1

    Humberto............

  • @chrisjohnson2053
    @chrisjohnson2053 Před rokem +2

    Hey buddy I wouldn't like all your videos if it wasn't for you and all the equipment.

  • @josr
    @josr Před 3 lety +1

    Your still doing it a little wrong. The first two put a rope around them. To take them out its mutch Easyer and don't brake

  • @brentfarrow8125
    @brentfarrow8125 Před 2 lety

    I really don’t want to see more of Carl very negative person!😎

  • @chrisrussell8903
    @chrisrussell8903 Před 3 lety

    Carl is a skipped video for me. Just call the guy by his name, Robert, Rob or whatever he says. Stupid CZcams nicknames.