Baling Corn Stalks For Bedding on a Small Family Owned Dairy Farm! 2023 Harvest Season!

Today we are going to be harvesting the rest of our corn stalks. I start off by raking to finish off the drying process and make it easier on the baler. Later our custom guy shows up with his brand new New Holland Round Baler! Then the race was on to get the bales hauled to the yard before it was too dark. Overall it was a very productive day. Thank you all for watching! Make sure to like and subscribe!
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[@tractordan933]

Starting to become obvious why your family is still dairying when so many have quit, you guys are good resource managers. Keep it up, be safe.

[@paulmartin8784]

I like that red equipment you guy get on your farm to do custom work😅

[@jamesmorrison1884]

Nice work

[@burtzorn4059]

Them old cows sure love the stalk bales. Remember back 50 years ago we would get the cobs at the elevator, that also made great bedding.

[@jpeel2066]

It's funny. Narrow front wheel tractors never caught on here in the UK. Don't think I've ever seen one working. Great video. All the best 🇬🇧.

[@franwagner622]

Nice work! Merry Christmas to you all!!

[@ThomasDrehfal]

A busy day and night. Thank you for sharing Aaron.

[@DonWelter]

Family teamwork gets a lot of work done for the time spent. No shortage of bedding to keep the cattle clean and comfortable.

[@geraldsundberg3610]

Busy-busy times.

[@AmandaDoll-hi4dr]

I like your cows and calefs and bulls and your trackers trackers 👨‍🌾🐮🐮🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄 and your jhon deer tracker is so nice. Have fun

[@danw6014]

I'm betting it wasn't a popular option but John Deere made a flail pickup head for their 24T baler for chopping and baling cornstalks. I've only seen it in a book. Wonder how well it worked and how well it would work for hay or straw.

[@rogerkinser872]

Mission accomplished! You guys always get her done, no doubt in my mind.

[@randycharest4507]

I TOTALLY ENJOYED WATCHING THE VIDEO G GUYS 😊

[@tractordan933]

Kept wondering why he was backing up with the baler, then I realized he was dumping them in the valleys. Sure wouldn't want to head one down hill toward the buildings. Great way to add value to the corn crop.

[@timrydman-mr5hp]

On the Oliver I wonder if the idle adjustment vibrated shut. Nice day to work.

[@LukeLong-oi4uc]

You all work like a finely tuned machine. Well done!

[@alisciamarotta3888]

Looks like quite few bails....great stuff for bedding. Ty for another video, and the tag along.

[@krissyb1980]

I like the cutter bales they come apart and spread out a lot easier in my opinion. Lots of good bedding there, good work y'all.

[@anthonyblalock1790]

I run a 575 everyday with forks really good machine. You guys really make things look easy. I know it’s not but your team work is amazing. My grandson loves his black hat

[@hturbo1007]

The next time the Oliver cuts out like that, try opening the gas cap If it makes a whoosh sound, then it's the cap not breathing right. Our M does that once in a while when we're picking corn with it. If it's not breathing, it'll create a vacuum inside the tank and starve the carburetor for fuel. The strange thing about these caps is that they only do that once in a while, you would think that if they were plugged up, it would be consistent. The way it was acting, it's definitely a fuel issue.

[@anthonyhengst2908]

That's what I was going to suggest. Our 88 does that so we leave the cap on a little loose.

[@leahmollytheblindcatnordee3586]

Sounds like a possibility.

[@timknoll8654]

That's what happened on my skid loader, Dealer charged me $700 and didn't know what was wrong, also put fuel filters on tractor and on storage tank

[@johnhenderson299]

Very resourceful operation nothing goes to waste great video

[@markgoulding-vm8bj]

Video quality is crystal clear and great content as always

[@ryanbachman9227]

Your family does a great job with farming keeping things put away in the shed the cattle are in really nice condition well taken care of. Lots and lots of hard work on your family farm. Keep up the great work. Gif bless. BTW I got the hat I ordered. Very satisfied with it. Anyone looking to buy a hat I’m telling you they are very nice hats. Thanks again

[@tractordan933]

Those old olivers really sound cool and I favor the other green

[@jaredmata347]

Fine sand paper. Clean them points up and gap them to 16 thousands. I have a 1650 myself. Every 2 years I take the carb apart and clean it. Sand country up here in central Wisconsin. Stuff gets in the gas tanks no matter how hard I try to stop it.

[@MrTonyharrell]

I was gonna ask what you do with all the corn stalk debris when you were harvesting the corn but I figured you would show us soon enough, and here we are. 👍

[@timsticha650]

What a beautiful day. I like how you all make great use of the equipment for storing bales especially the forge wagons. I do have a burning question for you all: Have you ever considered using a wheel type rake instead of the roll bar type rakes? I have used both and I like how the wheel rakes can combine 2 rows at once and it fluffs the hay better without knocking off the alfalfa leaves, but the roll bar rakes works in tight areas. Thanks for sharing these videos.

[@clinthochrein888]

Impressive New Holland round bailer . I figured some giant comes down a picks up the round bales from the wagon 😄.

[@Blackwellll3066]

Knives on a baler are nice makes what ever ya baling smaller for feeding out or bedding that each bale is heavier and less bales needed to bale

[@leahmollytheblindcatnordee3586]

As usual a very interesting and enjoyable video. Love how well you guys work together and use your equipment to the best advantage. Glad things worked out. Wonder what was going on with the Oliver

[@tammygurke7482]

Love it Aaron. I am a city girl and my husband use to farm…he about died when I asked “how do they make the hay square” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂PS, can’t wait to get my Gierok Farm pink hat.

[@davidschlecht3016]

I once owned an oliver1650 and I had an iss as you described didn't know what was going on and finally talked to an oliver daeler mechanic and said it sounds like the inline resistor is getting week and about to fail,said go to NAPA store and by a ceramic resistor and put it in line to the distributor, I mounted behind the dash cover, and that solved the problem, no issues after. Good luck.

[@mikeburgan7675]

Wow You guys awesome

[@user-du1um2pl4g]

❤❤I ALWAYS ENJOY THE VIDEOS ❤❤😊

[@billtrotter2105]

Good field conditions for west Central Wisconsin in mid December

[@davidlauman760]

As a young man and the only farm machines we had on the farm were gas it was almost always was something getting caught in the outlet of gas tank can be hard to get this corrected drain all the gas out and look in tank for trash might even be almost impossible to see might require tank removal and complete cleaning sometimes machines want to run away before quitting something in the carb float bowl will do this also this will require carb cleaning as with carb and choke cleaner and sometimes even more involved you can save old gas if it smells good use a paint filter in a funnel and check for water in gas by using a clean clear jar and leave it sit for a while the water will go to the bottom of the jar get all new gas if it has water some fuel line anti freeze does help sometimes

[@deanpatterson1842]

I love that old Oliver , still working hard.

[@joshuadake2334]

Vapor locked, shield the fuel line😊

[@arlodewald5378]

Good idea to check fuel levels on your way to work for the day ? When different people are using them for so many different tasks . Wouldn't be farming if things didn't throw a monkey wrench in to keep your best foot forward day in and day out ?

[@dr.michaelr.foreman2170]

Merry Christmas!

[@petercahill3859]

“That would really suck”. New farming terminology.

[@sarah_farm]

excellent video again, i like the bamboo shoots, they taste good, keep up the excellent videos and get your farm the way you like it🥰❤ ! And it's an honor to have you visit our channel, we can discuss more about our experiences in harvesting and building farms.

[@robert12345678912312]

It is very interesting to see you maneuver the equipment and storing the corn stalk bales in your sheds. A lovely farming operation. I do like the farmers. Thank you for showing all your farming activities. Happy Christmas.😊😊

[@natewood3345]

Love the videos keep it up

[@arlodewald5378]

You left us hanging on how many bales . Maybe should have had a contest for one of your hats if a of your viewers was to guess the exact number of bales ?

[@willwill77]

Your Oliver is acting like it may have a vapor lock problem. That's when a fuel line is too close to a heat source. We solved ours by clipping clothes pins to the fuel line to dissipate the heat. It worked. You can try it. It won't cost you much and you don't have to tell anyone.

[@MorganOtt-ne1qj]

I think you will love the bales that he ran the processor knives on. They may explode when you cut the net off, but will be better bedding. Great video!

[@trentonromig9765]

Awesome very nice video guys we put round bales on a wagon before to but our end gate opens

[@michigantler5046]

cool

[@markschwab7829]

I’m a red guy so I would use the super Mta? 😅 Great video I know how much you need bedding for cattle in winter!👍

[@danw6014]

I'm a John Deere guy but I have never heard a tractor run smoother than an Oliver with the Oliver Waukesha engines.

[@frankdeegan8974]

I worked a farm with a super H and a super M But the Oliver 6 cylinder had no match for enjoyment doing any job.

[@lonniebrock3282]

If you'r tractor has the old round coil sometimes they get a crack and when they get hot they open up and shut down and when they cool down it's just like nothing happens they call them fly back coils just something to mention

[@chipbraker9315]

My 1650 did the exact same thing when the points got bad.

[@philipalanparish65]

Is there a bunch of dirt and crap in your sediment bowl? Check screen on it and take some carburetor cleaner and squirt up into the tank and see if that works you might have to put a stand pipe in bottom of the tank

[@Thewilsonfarm]

With the oliver it's electric the distributor gets hot. Switch to electronic get rid of the points and condenser

[@andymanthey6695]

How well do you guys get along with the Schank Bros? I was looking at Google maps and I've never been in a barn like they have. Should do a farm tour of your neighbors, I'd just be interested to see the inside and curious why it was built with the windows. Just cosmetic or if they served a purpose

[@prariewindsfarm]

You folks sure do have fun. Some would call it work looks like fun to me

[@MorganOtt-ne1qj]

The first day or two are fun... 😮😂

[@prariewindsfarm]

​@@MorganOtt-ne1qjthis was my childhood till the cows were sold my junior year of high school. I was told I was better of going to college and getting a stable job. Now I am stuck inside without a window 40 hours a week at my stable job wishing I was farming no matter how hard the work was.

[@MorganOtt-ne1qj]

@@prariewindsfarm thanks for reminding me that I went the best way despite what "guidance counselors" kept telling me. 👍

[@prariewindsfarm]

I graduated in 2000 and all they preached to us was get a 4 year degree or you will go nowhere in life. Now here I am sick of my job with a family of my own trying to decide when is the best time to leave and go into the trades. Glad you had the sense to not listen and follow your gut unlike me.

[@JoaoPires-pd9ot]

❤ tudo joia beleza farda fardamento de gado falando da ração da palha de milho para o gado comer ração na cana do milho

[@tomspielmann9220]

RED POWER!

[@robertburt9071]

How bales did you get made Great video Thanks

[@adamkonopko3580]

👍

[@brucemckeown3283]

We like to bale our corn stalks in the spring because they are dryer

[@davdhynes3518]

What percentage of the bedding bales do you think they eat.

[@marklen2322]

The birds knock the wires off my coil

[@douglaswhite7328]

"70% of your carburetor problems can be found in the electrical system"

[@billjoat]

Curious with the hay wagon. It looked as though you could have had 2 on the bottom sideways with one on top for a total of 9. Why not?

[@robertmacleod4058]

You can't not tell us how many were made!

[@cowshottv5867]

If it will only run with the choke on, its starving for fuel. Filter? Water in the tank?fuel line kinked or collapsing perhaps? A few things could be wrong

[@br927]

So, why don't you just chop the stalks into the chop wagons and store them in the chop wagon. Then when you need bedding , unload into a bucket like you would silage!

[@joelwindsor525]

On this day you had 4 good tractors on the farm an Oliver and 3 international

[@briancolshan1613]

Joelwindsor if Oliver and international tractors are so good why aren't they being made anymore

[@joelwindsor525]

@@briancolshan1613 poor management

[@rayjerome3832]

I think you guys need to trade the 7810 for a case ih magnum like that one on the baler😂 all the grit in the stalks has to be a killer on the life of the round baler😮

[@philbrand7978]

Dirt in the fuel tank or rust or a collapsed fuel line choking it tell me it’s fuel

[@kevinwittstruck8764]

I think that the doesn't want to work wants to be lazy lol

[@benrogers5808]

Glad that Mason He showed up to help. 🦞😂🫎🦌👍🏻