Lightning Strikes the Farm (Baling Hay)

[@imjustbrowsingok]

Kevin and Rhonda you guys are so humble to watch and appreciate you guys so much to show family and family values as well as to what it takes to run a dairy farm thanks for letting us be part of your lives

[@acresofclayhomestead]

Thanks for your kind words.

[@jerrystout3032]

Outstanding Craftsman ship 👍😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇

[@dennymarquart2665]

Thanks for being dairy farmers the product you produce brings healthier lifestyle for us

[@ElvinWeaver-pu8te]

Thank God the lightning only hit a tree and didn't cause major damage. Stay safe and blessed my favorite Christian farmers!!

[@cassrailroad5358]

Always like seeing Kevin and the guys working on machines. Rhonda and Kevin one of the best farm videos ever 💯. Takes me back when i work on the farm.

[@50popaul]

Superbe vidéo sur une belle ferme et différents travaux de la ferme

[@robertmarino2158]

Great video , the boss explaining how to change the forks on the wheels, stay safe everyone, enjoy !

[@jamesmainers7814]

Thank you so much!! For great family videos,,,, So Blessed!!!!!

[@mikeyoung5211]

Have a good day, time for breakfast late, when retired

[@olfashionedbray]

That sounds like our luck when trying to get hay up. Stay safe.

[@davidmuise388]

Thank you for sharing another amazing video enjoy them very much lucky with the lightening strike could have been worse right ….anyway take care god bless have a wonderful blessed Sunday 🙏🙏🙏

[@wesmyers734]

Great video today. You included a lot of the daily farm activities. Always nice to get more bales than you were expecting.

[@olfashionedbray]

Glad to see a Massey Ferguson tractor. Good video.

[@eldenoneil3297]

I'm so glad that your husband thinking the same way I do .( LAND LINE BECAUSE ONE DAY WERE GOING TO NEED IT😂)

[@johntolly1013]

Ronda, you are an AWESOME operator and the guys are very good at keeping everything up and running.

[@Dan-qy1rg]

My youngest son and I have to do the same with our rake, it's an old John Deere v-rake, Ethan had the fun side of that job! Did good on the hay for how much rain you got. We have trouble getting parts for our rake, but it's paid for and that's the best kind. Some cute calves there, we do the same for our beef calves, only tube them if necessary. Enjoyed watching, thanks and I hope you all have a good week!

[@jamesmccrary3468]

Really enjoy the videos and know it’s hard work always something to do.

[@kens.3729]

Your Family knows what Hard Work is. Proud of your Families Accomplishments in Life. Keep up the Strong 💪 Efforts. Buy Cheese 🧀 and Drink Milk.🥛 👍🙏

[@davidwittmer8806]

Awesome beautiful lady balling hay. Beautiful family working together. Keven

[@davidwittmer8806]

Kevin always smiling . Love it 😍

[@davidkimmel5153]

Very pleasant family to watch and enjoy. Thank you for sharing with us 😊

[@donrea4846]

Rhonda - you are the Dream Farmer's Wife - hope Kevin and the boys appreciate you - but I have an idea that they do! Thanks for great videos - lots of good memory recall for this 75 year old retired Canadian farmer! Thanks again! Stay Safe and Healthy!

[@paulbarr3981]

This was, for a multitude of reasons, one of the most interesting and of course there were CALVES! I know at times your crew will have personal issues, bad days. But, the way your personalities are itsmmany as one. Tyhank you from an old guy who loves farming and cattle.

[@1944chevytruck]

GOOD JOB EVERYONE!

[@AllenHough-kf5nr]

Coming from a retired Dairy Farmer, you guys have a lot of respect from me!

[@donaldscheer5206]

And I Think That I Did So Much House Yard Work! Wow! You Guys Work Your Fannies Off!

[@doughaynes1048]

Thanks for sharing great to see your family working as a solid unit . Looking 👀 forward to your next adventure . Blessing ❤️🇮🇱😀👍🙏🏻

[@Oscar-mc8gj]

Can you imagine a country where every able person worked like this?

[@MorganOtt-ne1qj]

Dairy farmers are hard to keep up with. 80 hour weeks until they get busy. Most work half days, 12 hours is half a day. 🤣

[@Oscar-mc8gj]

@@MorganOtt-ne1qj I have nothing but respect for them!

[@farmboy5622]

Your hay rake is one of the largest that I have seen. I can remember back in the late 60's, when we went from a 4-bar rake (with steel wheels), to a 5-wheel Farmhand rake. It was a pleasure. You could rake so much faster, and it was sooooo quiet. I know what you're saying about not being an electronics guru. I am not one either. But it does amaze me, that if I have a problem with my home computer, sometimes all you have to do, is turn the computer off, and then start it back up to let it reboot itself, and voila`, it fixes itself.

[@acresofclayhomestead]

I do know that restarting the computer helps solve many things. 😄

[@jazzerbyte]

Glad the lightning didn't hurt anyone or get into the power system for more damage.

[@henrymichaelwilson8107]

Be careful and keep out of the thunder storms. I have been very close to being struck. So try to keep indoors.

[@Leon-qc7fe]

Another great video for Sunday morning. Nice intro by Kevin. If he ever gives up farming he can be a movie star. Look out Tom Cruise. Oh wait, Kevin is younger and better looking than Tom. Thank you Ronda

[@daleroth236]

Our farm sat on more water being on a hill than any other property around us. Thus we were hit my lightning six to a dozen times a year. And the old adage lightning never strikes twice did in fact hit the same tree the very next year. Split is down the middle which finally killed it.

[@MichaelGregson-xg9ks]

I enjoy watching the channel .

[@acresofclayhomestead]

Thanks!

[@James-jx5uc]

Hello Rhonda always glad to get to see you and your family just love your Beautiful EYES 👀

[@johnviney7919]

Thanks for the video, Rhonda and family - you have really busy days!! I think you are absolutely right, Rhonda, the world is a much more 'techie' place. I get left behind at times and rely on the younger family members to know what is going on 🤣🤣 It's a team effort as always!! 😀

[@johnkeynes8873]

Grat chanel Kevin and Rhonda

[@acresofclayhomestead]

Thanks!

[@justinfelt748]

Hi, Ronda and Happy Sunday!😊😊😊😊😊😎☀💙💙💙💙💙💙🌷💖💖💖💖💖💖🎇🎇🎇🎇🎇🎇👍. I'm so glad that you're okay when a big flash of lightning hit the tree😮😮 and...came down like toothpicks. OMG!!😮😮. And thank goodness no one got hurt🙏. Also, the baling hay is a perfect objective. Well done!💖🎇💖🎇💖🎇💖🎇💖🎇💖🎇💖🎇👍

[@JasonSteria]

I love farming and I used live and work on farms.

[@ohcrapwhatsnext]

Your poor tree was bleeding to death. Nature is amazing. Happy farming.

[@ricktucker5130]

I like seeing your videos keep them coming and I like seeing the cattle long time sense I milked cows here in Kentucky and I like the Massey Ferguson tractors you use

[@ppugh-q8u]

Thank you Ronda for the video, I also kept my land line, camera operator.

[@rayeddy528]

Thank you Rhonda for taking your time to share this interesting video !! I am like Kevin, I want to keep a landline as long as I can . I love the Massey. We had one Massey, a small 451. Dad liked Case Internationals. That's mostly what we had. I have a NH TD5050 and a CIH 385. Really enjoyed Kevin's intro!! You all be careful and God bless this precious family !!!!!! Eddy

[@acresofclayhomestead]

You are so welcome!

[@keithvanpolen9049]

The weather Tuesday was bad in west Michigan!!

[@ablelock]

I really enjoy your videos of you and your family and all the things you’re talking about around the farm. The longer videos are more enjoyable truly enjoy the 30 minute videos. Keep up the good work. Tell your boys to get into it. It’s OK it’s just people wanting to know what life is about on the farm that’s all, true dislike that camera is a friend and then they won’t be shy behind the camera

[@michaeletchepareborde4298]

Y'all work very good together family owned

[@Gearoid35]

Excellent video, great number of bales, I think you should do a cooking video in the quieter times, as the food sounds delicious 😋

[@NeilMaclachlan]

That lightning was a bit close for comfort.....Good crop in that field 40 bales...thats great....Good calves lol.....Stay safe and see you soon

[@patkelly7999]

Mighty stuff Ronda and The Gang, great intro Kevin👌👍🙏😎

[@billyshumate853]

Great video and good job with the hay. The twins are so cute. Take care and have a blessed and safe week 🙏

[@carolhunt7086]

I have been watching your videos and I enjoy them! You have a wonderful family that works well together. Keep making them I will watch!

[@acresofclayhomestead]

Thank you! Will do!

[@farmingfishingfamilyontari2814]

This has been a challenging year for predicting the weather. Lot of heavy rains here. We did get some dry second cut off without rain. Glad to see you’re getting it off. 3rd cut starts tomorrow

[@jaybernieschoep]

i enjoy your videos. hope noone got xapped with the lightning strike.

[@jakefarra7537]

You are truly fortunate Mr. Kevin; lovely family; wonderful, beautiful wife. Best wishes now & Always for All

[@rickcham7781]

You folks do a good job with your farm. I enjoy watching your channel. I remember years when it seemed like we couldn't get hay up without it getting "washed" a couple times. That is when we started putting everything in the silos.

[@heatherd212]

🇨🇦You do a great job with your videos Rhonda! Someday I’d love to meet and have coffee with you 😊 Heather from Ontario

[@MalikUmrani]

Great Video Rhonda I'm Glad You're My Friend

[@Adam_Poirier]

When I was a sophomore in high school we were milking cows one evening in July. We had a bad thunderstorm come through and lightning actually hit the top of the silo. We had lightning arrestors on everything, and it actually burnt the wire off of the ground rod at the corner of the barn. It was the loudest thing I have ever heard, and all I could see was blue for a couple of seconds. After I rubbed my eyes and looked behind me, I saw roughly 20 out of the 55 cows in the barn were laying down awkwardly.. It was a tie-stall and we had trainers to make sure the cows would back up so the manure would be in the gutter. It seemed like a handful of the cows were shocked and actually knocked down from that. They were all OK and eventually got back up.. it took one girl a couple days to get back up tho, I thought for sure she was down for good. That really scared the crap out of me I remember that like it was yesterday, and the sliding door on top of the silo still has a big stain mark and is crinkled up where the lightning hit. We had to replace every fence charger on the farm, the radio, and the contactor on the silo unloader. The fence charger that ran the cow trainers actually landed on the ground smoldering. Sounds like a far-fetched story I know but honest to God that's what happened. Would've really been something to have that on video.. Awesome video Ronda, glad to see you guys had a decent number of bales. Without fail every Sunday I watch your video when it comes out and I'm usually on a tractor or in the shop someplace far away from lunch, and usually by the time I'm done with your video I'm starving after listening to you talk about delicious food haha

[@acresofclayhomestead]

Wow, that's scary!! Thanks for sharing!

[@samueledgarpegram7088]

Enjoyed the video very much. Rhonda you do a great job with the baler. Hard working family!

[@leighwade6232]

Hope you all have a Beautiful day love from Australia ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@Babydawg0714]

Rhonda and Kevin, I must agree with all the good folks who have only good things to say about your channel. I've never farmed, but I do so enjoy seeing the workings of yours, and I also am pleased to be "invited into your home and family life". Is there a chance Mackenzie and Seth might start a channel of their own? And I hope we get to see an update on the "skunk-bale". Best wishes to your whole family. ry

[@acresofclayhomestead]

I'm not sure if they will ever start their own channel.

[@dennisburkle8720]

My agco would throw the same code most generally a speed sensor not behaving. Good video best of luck with everything

[@dieseldoctor2221]

Hello Kevin and Ronda and all the acres of clay crew!!!Have a great week!!!👍👍👍👍

[@acresofclayhomestead]

You too!

[@cajuneagle638]

As always great content. A plus is all your guys can fix most anything. Keeps cost down on de farm.

[@Birddog67]

Love me some through the cab video of the baling!

[@mikerequa820]

Great video young lady!! That's crazy how red the tree was looked like red cedar inside. You did a fine job bailing the hay. Seeing the cow's milked took me back 62 years in a second when i was year's old milking 10 head each by hand then got surge milkers did 30 head each they was three of us . At 10 year's old i had a lot of strength in my hands n arms lol. Thanks for sharing be safe have fun enjoy ya'lls family time and homestead

[@johnl.vantreeck3636]

We always raised our twin female calves from our male/female births. They supplied our families with our beef. We fatten them by running them with the top group of milk cows (more HMSC in the ration). The free stalls stayed a lot cleaner then if we had to run a steer. 👨🏻‍🦳 🐄🐄 🚜

[@acresofclayhomestead]

Yeah, that's our plan, too.

[@torbenjensen6382]

Hi from Norway nice to see you

[@genechronister7085]

Another awesome vid! Stay safe, things do happen!

[@lesterhertel2945]

Another very interesting video Thank you 😊😊😊😊😊😊

[@ronaldgallihugh9456]

You are a hard working lady and I think that's awesome.

[@larryanglea3458]

it is called a free martin heifer. I never wanted to take a chance to raise the calf. Are you all using a jersey bull ? I enjoy watching what is going to happen next, something being born,dying or broken always something to do on a dairy. Hope your milk prices are good.

[@eddiewright6078]

Rhonda, it was so good to see the family out doing what they do best. I m thankful for you safety and gods protection. I’m seeing your video at 11:35 am Michigan time. Thank you for sharing your family and time. May god continue to bless you and keep you safe

[@randyphillips1275]

Really enjoy your videos

[@henrymichaelwilson8107]

Hello happy farmers. We love yous and the farm and the hard work yous all join in and do. I have been in and around farming all of my life. And yous remind me of it. So Thank yous for showing us. Thank you.

[@itsjustmetomc4848]

A channel of farming, fixin' and family!

[@randywilson9611]

Good video good to see y'all

[@johnarmstrong5727]

In the UK we have the same wheels on Vicon Lely Acrobat (3 point linkage mounted with 4 wheels) I think these date from the 1950s or 60s . Almost every farm in northern england would have one in the past and their are still plenty in use in 2024 and I bought one for spares 3 months ago and it will keep our 60+ machine going a bit longer. We still have landlines in the UK but the government is shutting the system down in a few years despite many areas having poor or non existent mobile (cell phone) coverage. Thanks for the excellent videos.

[@richardmednansky-yp3on]

the broken ends make really good tent stakes or for hunting blinds

[@RobertSkene-qw3ob]

Well that tree got sun tanned a million times over in a second,!! Permanently.,,😂🇨🇦

[@joebryant5793]

Glad I found your channel. When you said the rain amounts it sounded just like the amount I got.Hmm. Then see you're a close neighbor! I'm over in Burnips!

[@acresofclayhomestead]

Thanks for watching!!

[@ronaldgallihugh9456]

You are a hard working lady and I think that's awesome

[@rogercarl8923]

Isn’t it so nice to have children who can do those things. My son is very good at that stuff,but he has a problem believing that I can’t do it myself lol

[@justinmills8084]

I bet your husband and kids are looking forward to having a big new shop to work in when the weather is cold 🥶 wet and even on hot days.

[@flemmingnielsen3434]

Thanks for a wonderful video

[@grzegorzkasperski1408]

With twins, if there is a pair, the heifer will not be fertile. It's a good thing the lightning struck a tree and not a building or an energy line. I have a V rake with 2x7 wheels. I made it by connecting 2 rakes because that's what we made. The tines in our rakes are double and one person can replace them, but they are probably made of thinner wire like yours.

[@Dennismelnychuk]

True family farm ❤❤❤❤❤ except to Kensie the city slicker now 😂

[@MorganOtt-ne1qj]

It's really difficult to tell, but I think I have only seen one other young lady with the same eye color that you have, Rhonda. I like to think that she is still as sweet now as you are. Her eyes sparkled like yours seem to, but I can't be sure. You have a blessed and great family, especially Kevin. And he looks like he knows it. Great video, you can replant a tree but you can't replace family.👍

[@davidowen8632]

Love you both

[@steveforrest6720]

Great video thanks for the time and effort you put into your videos

[@kevb9578]

Hell yeah. One of my new favorite yourtubesv

[@johngeorge1294]

One thing I like about your videos. I was not a farmer but grew up around farms and you really explain what's going on. I look around and see so many who have no idea about farm life. I enjoy hearing all of you explain in everyday terms what's going on. At first I thought why do you do that, then I realized your audience reaches those who maybe have no idea of farmers lives. I'm fortunate, I have helped bale and stack on a wagon, I worked for a while on a dairy farm, many haven't done that. Thank you and God's blessing on you all.

[@davidowen8632]

Rhonda you are the best and prettiest woman on the farm

[@tube8533]

Blessings to all!

[@raymondtarbox]

Interesting thank for sharing ray from maine

[@juliantorres8403]

Yes please . video on fried sour dough bread

[@lindasmithson6031]

Great video

[@sgrizzz]

you guys are the best . enjoy the videos

[@acresofclayhomestead]

Thanks!

[@johnearle6667]

That’s a light crop of hay , we baled 7 acres yesterday and 112 firm round bales made by our mchale fusion .

[@57fitter]

Hi Ronda! If you can, follow up on the tree and the skunk bale. With small bales, we'd just toss that one and go on. Do you lose the whole bale or just a few slabs? Most trees hit by lightning die farther down the road --I'd expect you'd have to cut it down to not have the danger of it hitting something else later in a storm. Too bad it's Cottonwood, not that good for wood heat...And... I had to come back to compliment Kevin on the intro. Excellent!

[@terrykoch1250]

Thanks