Baling Hay During The Eclipse

A rare solar occurrence while farming a field of hay. We rush to the field to catch some video of us watching the solar eclipse and putting twine around some round bales. Enjoy and thanks for watching.

[@lukestrawwalker]

Looks like you should get your hands on a couple pieces of round baler belting and cut them about a foot and a half long, and bolt it to the underside of your drawbar through the hammerstrap holes with a couple bolts and fender washers... it makes a flap that will keep hay from bunching up under your drawbar pin and the baler clevis... I put one on the 5610 and it really works great. Need to make one for the other tractors too. If you don't have any old baler belting (or anybody you can get some from) you can always use a strip cut from an old mud flap or something similar... OL J R : )

[@michael7423]

You have one of the most interesting farm channels on KZbin, I’ve been on a Boehm farm marathon while I recover from an auto accident. You and Brad are awesome to me, thank you Jacob and Brad for keeping me from going stir crazy!

[@boehmfarm4276]

We strive to be different from the rest of you tube.

[@michael7423]

Boehm Farm - that’s why I love you!

[@gleanerk]

You boys got it going on ! Thanks for sharing!

[@boehmfarm4276]

You're welcome, we're glad you like what you see.

[@cameronnalley3197]

Driving to Kentucky would’ve been a waste. It wasn’t much better than what y’all had. I’m central KY so I couldn’t imagine it being much better further south.

[@fredf3391]

Brad is right about slobbering . You see that in the winter time . Could also be pump is turn up ,so you would be over fueling. Wouldn't hurt to look under hood

[@boehmfarm4276]

The screws on the pump cover are still wired together. I don't think it has been tampered with.

[@rogerholloway8498]

We're in Oregon, had 99.7% eclipse and it was still light out! We don't know how powerful this old star really is until it still makes mother earth light enough to see with only 0.3% exposed. Einstein was right, light does bend.

[@boehmfarm4276]

Yep, the Sun is powerful. If I was that close to totality, I would have found a way to see it.

[@rogerwilson9361]

Brad and Jacob, hate you didn't get see much of the eclipse we were lucky down here in Tennessee got to see it. I do like to see your baling videos.

[@boehmfarm4276]

Don't worry, we'll be much better located for the next eclipse. And we've plenty of baling to do.

[@paulcasefarms9933]

I noticed the shady look here in NE Oklahoma from the eclipse. I forgot to take my welding helmet along so I didnt get to look at it. I noticed you looking at the hay or dust coming out the back of your baler. My 605f vermeer looses some like that and the dealer told me to fun the rpm's slower like 1500 on the tractor and keep the pickup full. I have been running like that and it works real well for me. I bale in hi 1 and 1500 tractor rpm on my 1086. Most of the time you cannot tell that I loose any hay out the bottom of the baler. Looks like you all are getting it done!

[@boehmfarm4276]

I can jam the baler full of hay, but that will hurt bale density.

[@alastairmccormick9657]

You can also dip the clutch when you move your TA it will reduce the slap as you change! 🚜🐄👍

[@boehmfarm4276]

Yeah.... the low side of the T/a is going out.

[@fredf3391]

Yes you answered the TV show question right 👏 When are we going to see Daisy Boehm in her cut off👍 I used Howes Diesel Treatment in a green tractor and it helped clean it up .But you never know about them green machines

[@boehmfarm4276]

Well, it could be a while. Brad and I could be members of Sergeant Pepper's lonely hearts club for a while. This farming thing takes more time than women allow.

[@jaycool7805]

👍

[@johnhancock7289]

Did y'all check the relief valve on the side of the lift housing 1086? If the spring is bad in it the remotes won't get full pressure from the pump. It kinda looks like a shotgun shell when removed from the tractor you could swap it from the 1466 to see for sure if it's bad. Y'all keep the videos coming we enjoy seeing the farming in ohio

[@PAFarms]

John Hancock that was my first thought to check as well. Good advice!

[@boehmfarm4276]

We have not checked the relief valve. Our diagnosing has been seeing what hydraulics function. No wrenches have been turned yet.

[@ontarioagguy2769]

Bailing hay,during a solar eclipse that would be awesome

[@boehmfarm4276]

If only it went dark. The next eclipse will be in April, so at best, we could be plowing.

[@ontarioagguy2769]

Boehm farm we can hope

[@danielthomason5685]

Yea I went to Clarksville Tennessee about 30 minutes away got about 2 minutes of totality. Wasn't pitch black but dark enough to turn on street lights

[@boehmfarm4276]

That's much better than we had.

[@pocketchange1951]

👍👌🇨🇦❤

[@jamiehumphrey2587]

Yes it does. John Deere had it in their shop more than it was in our field and never did get it right.

[@boehmfarm4276]

That's how I like green paint described.

[@farmall560diesel7]

I would say if that oil coming out of the 1466 is coming from the manifold, it's wet stack, in which case just load it down hard and it will burn off.

[@boehmfarm4276]

The funny thing is, it's been running hard until I gathered the round bales. Before that it was tillage.

[@mrnate4280]

What are those adapters called

[@boehmfarm4276]

Are you thinking poineer?

[@MrJohndeere3720]

nice vid. :) we never got 2 see it + a storm moved in. the next 1 4 us will be in 2024..

[@boehmfarm4276]

The next eclipse will be better positioned for us.

[@MrJohndeere3720]

they were saying we would get 2 see the next 1.. i hope so..

[@lukestrawwalker]

Do yall always bale that slow?? I can understand with the small square baler, particularly when you have someone on the wagon stacking that you can't get too far ahead of, but with a round baler?? I bale typically in 6th gear at 1800 rpms on the 5610, crank 'em out the faster the better or so it seems. In SUPER heavy hay I sometimes have to drop down to 5th gear, that's 5 mph versus 6 mph in sixth gear... With the Zweegers drum mower I typically cut in 6th gear, in super thick fine stemmed hay like bahia I've had to drop to fifth, and in the hay I just cut last week which was EXTREMELY heavy 4 foot tall so thick I couldn't walk through it bluestem hay, I did something I've never had to do in 33 years of owning and running that drum mower-- I had to drop to fourth gear on the Ford and about 4-4.5 mph to keep it from tripping open when it hit an anthill-- the hay was SO dense and pushing against the safety trip (which I carefully measured the spring and trip mechanism and then tightened the spring up so it'd be *just short* of coil bind when the safety trip popped open, to get maximum trip pressure out of it without locking the thing up and defeating the purpose). Anyway I guess the hay was pushing against it SO hard that when it hit an anthill it'd pop open. SO I dropped a gear and then another til it quit tripping. Baled some of that hay in 5th gear but most of it in sixth gear... we got 29 bales off a little over 5 acres, so nearly 6 round bales per acre (5x6 rounds at that!) Later! OL J R :)

[@boehmfarm4276]

The old baler just didn't make tight bales. Going slow have it some time to compress the hay.

[@timerfarms113]

If you cut a chunk of rubber and hang it on your draw bar your pin won't drag the windrow. Thanks for the video your eclipse was about like ours uneventful.

[@boehmfarm4276]

The rubber idea is easier than finding a high clearance tractor, lol. Thanks for watching.

[@boehmfarm4276]

At least for the next eclipse, We are very close to the path of totality.

[@boehmfarm4276]

We try to keep an informative flow of videos. We are always behind on editing.

[@dirtbiker6185]

What state are you from

[@boehmfarm4276]

Ohio

[@danielthomason5685]

You really need a tedder....you can dry your hay and improve quality big time with one....they are so worth the money

[@boehmfarm4276]

Could it really set me up to bale next day after mowing?

[@danielthomason5685]

If your dew and humidity isn't the worst yes, and it will also greatly reduce sun bleach a lot, the hay also rakes a lot better

[@danielthomason5685]

Have brad Ted right after you cut then Ted next morning you'll bale that night assuming you didn't cut late first day, it at least has a couple hours to dry first day

[@ZachTaylor2631]

Boehm Farm we have one. If it rained the night after we fluffed it with the redder (Mixing it up) then it would still dry.

[@mikeoconnell8248]

Check the hyd pressure relief valve on the 1086

[@boehmfarm4276]

That's next on the list. We have strictly diagnosed without wrenches.

[@rbone0403]

Where at in Ohio are you from? I'm west of dayton

[@boehmfarm4276]

We are 40 miles east of Cincinnati.

[@gregorythompson2251]

That sun is 1 bright bulb huh

[@gregchilders2942]

Y’all need a flufer or Tedder so it will dry faster

[@boehmfarm4276]

I'm sorta looking at tedders. But other items mightbe higher on the purchase list. I have a three day turn around time from cut to bale. I would need a miracle (drought)for a two day window to bale day after cutting.

[@mrbill4187]

I saw some bugs eclipse the camera lenses🌘🐝

[@boehmfarm4276]

The sweat bees were awful that day.

[@demonfire6629]

It was dark in ms

[@boehmfarm4276]

The next eclipse is supposed to be much darker for our area.

[@mark3972]

I was bailing hay During it to but I didn't see it :/

[@boehmfarm4276]

Without welding masks, it was uneventful.

[@lukestrawwalker]

@@boehmfarm4276 We were at my wife's school cleaning loading some stuff out of her classroom when the eclipse happened. We went outside as I had brought my welding helmets with me for my wife and daughter, and took turns looking at it with some other teachers... What was cool was, under the nearby tree, the spots of light where the sun was filtering down through the leaves, you could see all these little crescents on the ground-- the leaves were acting like a pinhole camera... Take a cardboard box and poke a little hole in the side of it, like a shoebox or whatever, and let the dot of light shine on the far end of the box... the pinhole acts like a camera lens and you can see an upside-down image of the sun on the other end of the box... you can watch the totality or partial eclipse as a crescent of light til it hits totality... I made one of them too and we passed that around while we were using the welding helmets... OL J R :)

[@scottgolliver6]

You will not have to wait 30 years for the next eclipse in October or November is the next one

[@boehmfarm4276]

For my area, I think I read an article stating April 8, 2024 as the next one.

[@jonathandempsey9953]

I was baleing hay during the eclipse

[@boehmfarm4276]

I feel like it was a common event that day.

[@ak-pj5dm]

For me this is not dry hay

[@boehmfarm4276]

Given the wet summer, it's dry.