Do you pay Shelly by the bale or the hour on hay duty?

Made some nice hay buddy, always a good feeling when you beat the rain

Gotcha a good woman there Farm Boy

What does the crisper do? Aerate the hay?

Good job done. Your equipment preformed flawlessly. Thanks for the ride alone Ethan. Take care. Fred.

I do have to say that the 60 year old Baylor does a good job

Love the crusty but trusty baling equipment. 550 looks cool with new treads.Great video. Jeff

15:30 could try and get some S hooks and close one end on your drag rings so you don’t have to fight them around the drive shaft

there's a new oliver[0-9]+farmboy channel

Thanks much for the video! Your equipment does a job without a glich very well taken care of

I coulda cursed you when you mentioned humidity on my last comment! 94 F & the sky decides to open up for 10 minutes, enough to make things soaked! Not once but 5 F***in' times in one day! It's so humid now you can have a shower just standing out in the sun! At least I got the big field done before the rain. 289 rounds & now time for the idiot blocks.

My grandpa ran a Oliver 77 with a New Holland semi-mount sickle mower kind of like the one you are using and we ran 3rd gear too (depending on the grass)...the only problem was we were usually on two different tractors, a Super 88 diesel and that 77 gas, and the Super 88 was slower in the same gear, so eventually one would have to pass the other on the big fields.

Great job getting your hay done before the rain your equipment sure performed well

Some of them are foolish farmers, and dumb enough even to put their inherited farm land as collateral so to cover the equipment loans they have outstanding ,heck they'll (banks) will take the farm land and force sell it off to pay off the negative balance on the loans outstandings ,,and put them out of business,,as they (the banks)have done before.

Keep working that older equipment for sure that's pd for ,as you'll be still farming when the high rollers get their expensive equipment loans called in,and driven out of farming,,it called a bail in, in which is written into every loan now to protect the banks fed underwriters when a depression hits again,,it's stated so ,so the banks can now balance their books when push comes to shove ,as it right around the corner the signs show

A little green paint and some decals is surely now warranted with those new $$$$ tires

Refreshing to see a young farmer who embraces the old style way of doing things. You sleep well at night and earn your pay.

Thank you so much for another great video, great job getting the hay inside before the rain

Good old baler, I have only see 2 or 3 sell around me here in Southern MN. Thanks for sharing.

Nice job

Excellent job and filming

Hay making equalls heat and rain.

proper wife you have there ethan just like it used to be

Doing the same job as new equipment and not thousands in debt

Glad you got that all done. We finally got ours off just before you cut yours. We got around 100+ an acre. It was rough on my equipment and some repairs are in order before we cut again. Glad to see you didn’t really have any mishaps.

That tractor looks like the one I spent years operating back in the 1955 - to 1968. Tires look great, i bet you could use that tractor a lot more if the pto was operational. We did an update on our tractor by p[tting the larger clutch system that has the extra disc, it really increased the functionallity of the pto, has much more resistance to slippage and less pressure to engage. It is like the system on the 550 I now own, and I don't have the oil leakage that the oleer clutch system had, I think our 55 was the earliest model and they made updates in 19555-1956 era to imrpove the oil leakage problems with a new hub that had a better seal system. It has been so long I don't remember the details but we had the tractor back at the dealer several time for updates on the pto and the front axel and steering arms reenforcements. Also a major hyd lift upgrade in 1959.

I love baling hay. I use my Oliver 1855 with a John Deere 336. Great video as always, and so true about women

"Freedom Fractions" haha i love it. 🦅 🇺🇸😂😂😂

Ethan, it’s ok to THINK what you said about women but I caution you about putting it in a video. It could come back and haunt you later on. But you are absolutely correct about this.. 😂😂

loading hay bales by hand that brings back memories good ones. look forward to watching your videos thanks

Wow that was a lot of hay off that small field!

Looking good!

Ethan when I had cattle I made comment I got some grass today! The people that knew me , knew I was talking about hay. Several old hippies heard the comment and perked up. My x wife would be to lazy to help. You have a good one!!!

Good for you Ethan getting that hay off the field. You are lucky to have a female that don't mind getting their hands dirty. You wouldn't get a city girl to do that. Growing up on a farm back so many years now for me taught me many things that I used all through my working days.

Thanks for all your effort. I really look forward to watching your farm videos.

You're right, it was a good thing you didn't double the rows,😂. That second field had some really big ones. I noticed you had to drop a gear. The old equipment came through once again. Glad you beat the rain this year. I remember last year, it was tough getting it to get it out of the field. I loved watching the hay go into the baler. Thanks for sharing. I'll see you later.

Had add a like for the freedom fractions.

Glad you missed the rain!!! A few misties was par for the course when we were starting the season. Our knot failures were when twine balls changed or if baling too heavy. Had some twine once that had thick/thin spots... you could see it snap in the bale chamber from the tractor @#$%^&. Not much fun with a thrower launching bale flakes.

Really cool camera locations. Good thing Shelly started picking up bales. Did you ever consider pulling a wagon?

Good job, Ethan and crew. You really have your equipment running beautifully. I remember how well you sleep after day like you all just put in.

Never call them idiot blocks... for many small squares are the easiest for many people to feed hay to their animals without big equipment...with alot less wasted feed... just saying... those discriminating Big Farmers with their Derogatory terms over old ways of farming... for many this is still the easiest... raking hay and Baling are 2 of the most satisfying jobs on the farm

I was wondering why you don’t have hay rack to pull behind baler ? Then you don’t have to pick them up . I baled hay for years by myself and it was easier to get off and stack them on rack . Just wonder is all . I do enjoy baling myself especially the smell of hay .

hay little bit wet in places still

You have learned the most important lesson of all never keep a great woman down!!!

Great vidéo and great equipement old school i love this us equipement Hello from Alsace in France

Doesn't Ross the Oliverguy have the same rake looks great

Thats a good amount of that ground ,just thi k how well it will do with some fertilizer.

Awesome episode

That rake baler and cutter works better than this new crap

Good video good to see y'all