Hay and Accumulator Update

[@outdoorswithlarryrobin]

Same here, delivered 31 truck loads of Firewood in the last 5 weeks, crazy demand this year, 👍🏼🇱🇷

[@DLHFarms]

Yes yes yes what is going on!

[@bjenkins803]

Crazy how that little extra weight helped the gate that much. Glad you got a break on labor day. I stop for food too lol!

[@DLHFarms]

That was the only meal that I didn’t eat while In a tractor that weekend haha

[@marhuf]

I'm happy to see that you're getting down to the last of the third cutting, and will get some rest time. I know it's a lot of work along with time stress. Get some rest my friend.

[@DLHFarms]

Thanks Martin!

[@jontanner6878]

Good info! Thanks! Be safe🇺🇸

[@ihus9950]

Thanks for the update Dennis, hope all is well👍

[@DLHFarms]

Thanks! All is good

[@eof3100]

I think rotary rakes are the best thing out there I have a 2 Claas rotary rakes and they work very well . I haven't seen any wheel rake make through a big hay season without some type of repair bearings wheel replacement or something. Plus your not dragging all of the rocks and dirt in your windrow.

[@DLHFarms]

Exactly! In heavy hay they I’ll wad up too never had that problem with a rotary.

[@donstravelsandrants.]

Tremendous work you have done 👍😊 Dennis. Love watching the hay making videos. Great stuff 😊

[@DLHFarms]

Thanks Don!

[@jeffwilson1484]

I love your hay barn it so neat and hay stacked good.

[@DLHFarms]

Thanks!

[@stephensfarms7165]

Thanks again for a great video enjoyed watching as always. 👍👍

[@DLHFarms]

Thanks!

[@stephensfarms7165]

DLH Farms : Hey Dennis saw this accumulator called a “Steffen 1550 accumulator” , it’s a flat trailer, I think u might could use one like this, no weights involved. Thanks check it out on CZcams. Later, was thinking of you when I saw it. Take care Ron.

[@DLHFarms]

Looked at them before I bough my first Kuhns at the time it cost over 30k and had to have a control box installed in the cab and also extra hydraulic lines ran on the baler all the way back there to run it. The Kuhns cost 12k and you basically just hooked it up. Also the reviews on the Steffen said it was troublesome on hills also.

[@stephensfarms7165]

@@DLHFarms : ok, understand go with one that works. Did not know they were that expensive. Good choose. 👍

[@casto-]

It takes us ages to gather in 2000 bales 🙈. 8bale accumulator, hand stack on a trailer, hand ball off the trailer, hand ball it into the stack 🙈🙈. The right equipment makes life sooooo much easier! I agree with you, rotor rakes are the way forward but Europe (especially 🇬🇧 at the mo) are looking at belt/hydraulic windrowers.

[@DLHFarms]

I’ve been seeing more of those windrowers. They do a good job

[@casto-]

@@DLHFarms yeah they seem to but are they really better?? I’m not sure 🧐

[@DLHFarms]

I know they cost a fortune!

[@timerfarms113]

I've had the same problem with gate not tripping. The guy a kuhns told me to blunt the end on the trip point said it was to pointed. I've also had issues with bale length causing gates to move prematurely. I've been thinking about shortening some of the levers just haven't decided on a length yet. Not sure if it would affect the leverage on the gates. Also after your last video I called kuhns and got the parts to update my accumulator at no cost. Really are a great company to work with. Talked to one of the engineers for over an hour about the accumulator. Thanks for the videos.

[@DLHFarms]

They really try hard to make you happy with their product

[@JohnJohnson-vx2wr]

Great video Dennis. Glad everything is working out for you.

[@DLHFarms]

Thanks!

[@straightpipeacres6365]

Hey buddy, good to see you are getting the accumulator dialed in hope those weights help. And yes its always nice when a guy gets some help. I know how ya feel man. I work on my own most of the time too. Anyway have a good one Dennis!!

[@DLHFarms]

Yeah working alone is good and bad I guess

[@straightpipeacres6365]

@@DLHFarms hahaha yep. Can't get mad at anyone that way lol

[@dehavenfamilyfarm]

Glad you are getting it dialed in!

[@DLHFarms]

Thanks!

[@BagwellFarms]

They’ll also sometimes flip off the top if you go over a terrace or threw a dip in a field an the accumulator drops 8in to a foot below the baler chute which creates a U shaped bale by the time it gets to the top it’ll flip out. But we have a lot of terraced ground we’re baling. It doesn’t do it very often I had the same thoughts though on a cage just at the top. Also they sent me the same weight kit but only one 5 pound weight I tried it for the first time yesterday it messed up once going up hill all day so hugeee improvement

[@DLHFarms]

I noticed in one of your videos that it actually picked the front wheels of the accumulator off the ground when you went trough one of those. I don’t have any that are that bad just mostly steep stuff here. I’ve noticed with two weights it’s dragging the bales some now going down hill so I might take one back off and try it.

[@farmcentralohio]

Better off letting the bales fall to the ground. If they put a cage up there chances are the bale will get wedged in there and then the operator would have to climb to the top and try to get it out.

[@DLHFarms]

Probably right

[@farmcentralohio]

@@DLHFarms My mind goes to this. A cable attached to the bale chamber of baler goes up and over the top of the bales and attaches to the accumulator with a spring inline so it has some give. Just a thought

[@joeystump3591]

Used different rollabars, various wheel (brand and size) but none compare to the rotary. Clean job for sure, biggest learning curve was height adjustment between two tractor drawbars

[@DLHFarms]

👍

[@markgamble8377]

Nice operation. Im still kicker wagon. Too old to update.those acumlitators and ease of handling is sweet. My wheel 10 wheel wheel rake is my upgrade from side delivery.what ive seen rake like urs fluffs it more. But beyond my price range since i only do couple thousand sm square.bout 100 round. Thats the way to go with an acumilator tho

[@DLHFarms]

Nothing wrong with your set up 👍

[@ad1011000]

Dennis can you haul 1500 square bales to Texas?!? lol since I’ve been subscribed for years this load should be on the house 😂😂

[@DLHFarms]

Haha yeah I’ll be there in an hour

[@donstravelsandrants.]

LOL 😂

[@w056007568]

Surely there cannot be too many folks that bale hay on slopes quite as steep as you do!

[@DLHFarms]

Everyone around here does

[@matthewsims359]

Hope ya get some rest soon. Stay safe, stay well and we’ll see ya on the next one

[@DLHFarms]

Thanks Matt!

[@bobjoncas2814]

good one, stay safe..

[@DLHFarms]

Thanks

[@genedameier8746]

Like I keep telling people, "It's good to carry an extra 10 pounds."

[@DLHFarms]

Or 50 haha

[@chadking2222]

For the accumulator, have you thought about bending a piece of cattle panel about a foot wide over that problem area. That way you can still climb up there and clean out broken bales. Just a thought.

[@DLHFarms]

Haven’t done anything yet only happened once so far

[@allenwray6595]

I feel your pain working all the time. My normal work week is 80 plus hours a week. 😞😞

[@DLHFarms]

Yep me too work about 55 hours a week for my dad then farm and do firewood the rest of the week haha

[@uppsalahazzemarkstedt2759]

Real Farmer ingenuity fix for the gate. No hydro-electro Isobus gears to mend it! :D

[@DLHFarms]

Haha yep

[@almyers8074]

If those signs dont provide enough weight, welding weights to the bottom of the tailgate should work.

[@DLHFarms]

There’s almost to much weight on there now

[@almyers8074]

@@DLHFarms Did adding the signs rectify the problem?

[@DLHFarms]

Yeah but created another problem where the gate is so heavy it drags the hay sometimes going down hill may take one weight back off

[@eddiemortontapman7252]

Have you finished up on the hay baling ? I see plenty of farms cutting this week trying to get it baled up today before we get this rain this weekend from Delta ! We have certainly had a nice week weather wise here in the Piedmont and eastern North Carolina. It wasn’t a record week for utility tapping and concrete coring but pretty close , September was down a little being so wet .

[@DLHFarms]

I finished up this week! It was some nice weather

[@southtexashay777]

Dennis what rake are you using. I do Tiffan grass in South Texas and do have some problems with rotary rakes.

[@DLHFarms]

It’s a kubota RA2072

[@JALSFarm]

Dennis- what is the size of your hay barn? I’m looking at building a shop/equipment shed and your hay barn looks like the size I need.

[@DLHFarms]

70x135

[@trig5454]

Would be interested to know it you had the opposite problem of it failing to open properly when going DOWN a steep hill?

[@DLHFarms]

Slightly I’m going to remove one weight and I think it will be about right.

[@eddiemortontapman7252]

Hey Dennis , are the leaves in full color on the Blue Ridge Parkway yet ?

[@DLHFarms]

Not yet getting close

[@bradamen1751]

Did you have the smv plates made for the af10 I just purchased one and like to see the issues I may incur also

[@DLHFarms]

Kuhns made them, if you have trouble call them

[@bobrees2581]

Dennis, just traded our 1534F for the new 15F.

[@DLHFarms]

Dan the hay man told me about that. Have you used it yet?

[@brandoncaldwell95]

Im jealous of the great hay fields. I have fields full of KingRanch Bluestem... Pain to deal with...

[@DLHFarms]

Hmm never heard of that sounds like you need to spray and replant do soil samples

[@brandoncaldwell95]

@@DLHFarms It's around 10% nutrition value to cattle qual to "cardboard". Invasive species to Texas planted during the dust bowl preventing erosion. Was spread out by TxDot and a few ranchers when its dryer. Neighbors pasture, which looks pretty being a copper/brown top, is full and it migrated over. Requires a 2 part spray for the root and the seeds sprayed 2 times a year in July and September. The 1 part alone is $110 for 5 ounces. Requires a 1 to 1.5 ounce per acre application. That's not including the fertilizer or diesel mixture to kill huisache (thorn tree). Not sure i could make enough back for a 4x5 round bale at $45-55 and $8-12 a @small square.

[@DLHFarms]

Yeah that sounds like a losing battle

[@TheByard]

Thought you might like to take a look at this video showing an accumulator/trailer that takes 100 bales. Mind you they did seam very light bales, nothing like the heavy weights I baled, the farmer wanted to save on string. Anyway these bales get a merry go round ride.
httpps://czcams.com/video/SiOPm4n3c_M/video.html

[@vinnypinatelli221]

I wonder why it flipped out of the shoot

[@DLHFarms]

Going down a steep hill

[@vinnypinatelli221]

Oh I see

[@nevysnova]

After the last bale is out you might be able to Break Check and the gate might close.

[@DLHFarms]

But you don’t know it’s not closed

[@nevysnova]

DLH Farms Maybe you could use wireless backup camera. To check on the gate. You guys will figure it out. Keep up the good videos 😷

[@cntslesfabrication]

If your getting really bizzy I could come work for you

[@cmhager01]

What size is your hay barn?

[@DLHFarms]

70x135

[@kentitus7550]

When a person is a little wimpy and gets exhausted it is always good to have good equipment that will do the job for you.

[@kaceywilson2482]

Have u loaded box trucks ?

[@DLHFarms]

Not yet but if someone brings me one I will.

[@kaceywilson2482]

@@DLHFarms ok

[@kaceywilson2482]

Trying to figure out how our grapple system will load a box trailer

[@DLHFarms]

@@kaceywilson2482 the best way is to build a stack behind the trailer on a stand or loading dock then push it in.