Building a hay trailer for small squares.

[@DaveCollierCamping]

Sounds like a good idea. Awesome video. Have a great day!

[@farawayfarm2520]

Thanks Dave. Glad you liked the video. 👍🙂

[@DaveCollierCamping]

@@farawayfarm2520 My pleasure

[@pinesedgefarm1155]

Now that's a saw! The hay rack turned out great. Now you can haul round bales too.

[@farawayfarm2520]

Thanks. I'm happy with it. It will definitely haul some rounds too.

[@brenterickson1695]

That's stout enough to haul your big Deere around on..lol. Looks damn good to me....I'm a believer in the used oil coating too, nothing else will last on a flat surface...Thanks Will....

[@farawayfarm2520]

Thanks Bryce. It's definitely going to get the custom water coating. I figure I over built it a little but that beats the alternative.

[@Pennies_on_the_dollar]

Man yeah Mr Will!! That is absolutely epic!! I loved seeing the work for sure!! You needed an arm breaker 2000 for that bit😉🤣🤣 Man that turned out amazing!!! I need to tare mine down as well, although with the new row crops, I think the spare running gear will end up being a grain head cart 😁 Really enjoyed the the commentary and and your dislike for torx screws😉😁😁 Thank you Mr Will, looking fwd to seeing some squares on there for sure!! Gonna try to cut tomorrow myself on the second cutting!! Thank you sir!! 😁😁😁🇺🇸🇺🇸🚜🚜👍👍

[@farawayfarm2520]

Thank Nelson. Glad you enjoyed it. We got a couple tenths of rain last night. They keep predicting big thunderstorms but they fizzle out before they get here. I should be making hay but more rain predicted. 🤷‍♂️. I hope so. A header cart is a good idea. Have a great week my friend. 😃

[@Pennies_on_the_dollar]

@@farawayfarm2520 😁😁👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@Kevscancave]

That’s one big circular saw! 👍👀👍 Looking Good! 👍😎👍

[@farawayfarm2520]

Thank you very much. It is a beast of a saw. 👍🙂

[@Kevscancave]

@@farawayfarm2520 I see that! 👍👀👍

[@Rollinghillsfarmsmn]

Love the bolts for the beams. Love that big saw. Deck screws for floor boards are such an improvement over nails like we used to use. Ash should work. We’ve always used Tamarack and oiled the deck with waste oil.

[@farawayfarm2520]

Thanks Dave. The deck will definitely get some treatment. It came out pretty good, the carriage bolts really stiffened everything up. I have to totally agree about the deck screws. Nailing wasn't that much fun and they liked to work out after a while.

[@tractortalkwithgary1271]

That looks to me like it will hold about anything you want to load on there.

[@tractortalkwithgary1271]

Wow! What a saw! How hard is it to get blades for it?

[@farawayfarm2520]

@@tractortalkwithgary1271 It should hold a few bales anyway. Hay trailers have a way of finding uses besides hauling hay.

[@farawayfarm2520]

@@tractortalkwithgary1271 I don't know. I've never bought one. I know they were readily available from the places that sold the saws. Schroeder Log Homes had them online.

[@tractortalkwithgary1271]

I hate Phillips heads. I really hate the straight bit screws. My Dad was a big fan of the square drive. They are getting hard to come by. Great job Will. Looks fantastic!

[@farawayfarm2520]

Thanks Gary. Phillips are worthless for anything that drives hard. When I went looking for screws yesterday Menards had a pretty good selection of squares. I was favorably impressed.

[@southtexashay777]

Built solid. Great job on the build.

[@farawayfarm2520]

Thanks. I still haven't used it. First we get the drought but now I can't get a couple days in a row to dry hay. Can't complain about moisture though.

[@karlsborgwi.jewell9919]

About 3 years ago I had to rebuild the 3 hay rack that dad and I made in the early 80’s ..we had broken some crossmembers hauling round bales and the decking was getting pretty bad…..I knew it was time to rebuild them when the neighbors quit borrowing them anymore 😂😂😂

[@farawayfarm2520]

I know that feeling. I have put my foot through a few rotten decks. You definitely know it's time for a rebuild when people quit borrowing them.

[@karlsborgwi.jewell9919]

That is a great looking rack that you built by the way.

[@farawayfarm2520]

@@karlsborgwi.jewell9919 Thank you very much. Can't make an ugly rack and put it up for the world to see. 🤣

[@rexkramer4938]

Nice wagon!!

[@farawayfarm2520]

Thanks Rex. I hope you're having a great weekend.

[@dustinadams9136]

Should haul a nice load with that! My grandpa always used oil on his decks too, I tried using some water repellent sealer the last time I made some. Doesn’t seem to last real long though I found out.

[@farawayfarm2520]

Thanks Dustin. I figure it will do what it was designed to do.

[@brycewiborg8095]

That gear traveled. Buffalo isn't far from me. I'm not surprised that the dealership has a Swedish name either. We used red elm planks. A bit of warp, but cheap. Thank you Will.

[@farawayfarm2520]

Thanks Bryce. I had a few Elm boards that I used for the potato bin. They do like to warp. Long stringy fiber. Lots of lowboy decks were Elm. The people I got the trailer from lived southwest of the cities somewhere. They hauled it up here when they moved quite a few years ago.

[@tractortalkwithgary1271]

Red elm were nearly impossible to break.

[@farawayfarm2520]

@@tractortalkwithgary1271 Elm was a bugger to split for firewood. A lot of homemade splitters were built in the UP when Dutch Elm disease went through.

[@tractortalkwithgary1271]

@@farawayfarm2520 it hasn’t gotten any better to split either. My splitter tears it apart more Thani than splits it.

[@brycewiborg8095]

@@farawayfarm2520 We split fence posts out of red elm with wedges. They had a tangled grain. It wasn't easy to drive staples either, but you were good for at least a decade. I saw a albino doe by Wauwega Wisconsin today. I thought someone's goat was out until I got close.

[@budl4656]

Nice hay rack oil and old mop good 4. 25 years maybe red ford might be better than the trailer 🤔 😉 😳 that saw I could cut trees down with it thanks Will

[@farawayfarm2520]

Thanks Bud. Red Ford has a bad water pump. The kid has another project. That truck's not bad just sat too long. Still working the bugs out of it.

[@GosselinFarmsEdGosselin]

It should work.. I always prefer metal frame and wood or metal deck..

[@farawayfarm2520]

It will do the job. A couple of I beams for the stringers would be really nice. Thanks Ed

[@brycewiborg8095]

Not for nothing, but we would spread waste oil on racks, and the spreader once each year.

[@farawayfarm2520]

It works. My brother-in-law just rebuilt a rack my Grandpa built in the early 80s. I had replaced a few bad boards over the years but that Tamarack made it almost 40 years on nothing but used oil treatment.