Cutting hay

[@stevesanders1187]

I think one of the reasons I like your videos is because they are so informative. I like how you explain things in a clear and concise way. If someone didn’t know the first thing about farming but wanted to learn, your KZbin channel would be an excellent place to start. Thank you again. 😃

[@conleybanman]

Thank you I appreciate that and your welcome

[@robinghunt]

The header footage was very cool. I approve lol. Love how your channel is growing.

[@conleybanman]

Thanks me too

[@SouthSaskFarmer1]

One heck of a nice crop of hay

[@bobcrone6151]

Howdy Nick!

[@onionfriend9799]

Hello from Colorado 🙋🏻‍♂️I enjoy your videos, thanks for posting

[@smokey904]

wow dude thats some nice crop dude. And some beautiful land man!

[@tommathews3964]

Interesting stuff! That red stuff in the header is a good thing, one less to worry about! Greetings from Alabama, new sub here. Quite a different look to your wide open plains! We're corn, beans, and cotton operation and contract out some hay work too. I'm really enjoying your work, you do a fine job! I'll be watching!

[@conleybanman]

Thanks 😁

[@billybraswell5426]

That header footage was cool

[@catfischer86]

I hope y'all are getting better drying weather than we are around Wichita Falls, I have had some wheat down for 9 days that got rained on once and a few hundred more acres that has been down 5 days, maybe it will dry up in a couple days.

[@conleybanman]

Let’s hope so but we never get any rain so it’s always dry

[@jackweeks8099]

I’ve always wanted to see what went on in them headers. It looked pretty cool what I could see. I’m sure you were proud your GoPro was still there! 😂

[@conleybanman]

Oh yea I was worried I’d have to buy a new one

[@benburns5995]

The Go Pro view underneath was great at startup but when you started cutting all we saw was hay twirling around. Never saw GPS used in cutting hay but it was interesting to see. My brother grew Alfalfa hay for awhile and we used to Swath it and load it on trucks to take to a Dairy. A Swather has really sensitive steering so GPS must really be nice and much more efficient. Without GPS you probably wouldn't be able to cut 1,000 acres so efficiently. Surprised that the Coyote didn't hear you coming and move out of the way. It may have been old and deaf.

[@conleybanman]

😂 haha that or it was sleeping. But yea Gps is really handy on a swather you can always cut the maximum amount every pass

[@Thegrim326]

One heck of a field would love to run those big ones just ain't got 100 plus acre field around me

[@عبداللهالمالكي-ر4ه]

Hello my friend, your work is very good. I work in the agricultural field from the Sultanate. I hope to exchange experiences and experiences between us

[@kopenhagenkid]

Great video Conley good luck swathing

[@jasonclark3127]

I like how you cut against the pivots here in Nevada we cut with them the wheel tracks will kill us some are so deep we bury a swather hard to keep filled because ground is soft wish we could do that here save allot of time not having that small wind row

[@conleybanman]

Yea I could see how that could be an inconvenience

[@countryboylogging4980]

Where u at the grass here is starting to grow now

[@conleybanman]

Texas it’s actually not grass it’s wheat

[@earlyoung2863]

Looks like you guys are gonna miss the freeze tonight, that we're due here in SW OK. That extra 100 or so clicks to the S, is a big deal! I ran a baby deer thru a swather one day. His mom had him hidden in the 8 ft tall sudan. It's usually the occasional rat as you cut in to the middle, tho.😁 BTW, they ARE, Ki- Oats....as you said😝.

[@conleybanman]

Oh yea I’m glad we’re not getting the freeze but sadly it’s still windy and cold 😂😂 Ki-Oats yes haha and like someone told me at least it wasn’t a skunk

[@alperensarlar9207]

Greetings from Turkey, brother. Hope to see you one day

[@huntingandstuff9489]

I don't know where you are but it's a lot warmer climate than here. Our wheat has a ways to go before it's even in the boot.

[@conleybanman]

Well we’re in Texas and it’s nice and warm here

[@piperdoug428]

The pivot tracks must suck after the rest of the field being so smooth

[@conleybanman]

It does but it’s not too bad it could be worse

[@chippunkcsgo1104]

May i ask how fast you can move on the road when switching fields? Obviously it depends on the road, but i was wondering how fast you can go.

[@conleybanman]

20mph

[@riskikewes7930]

nice

[@stephensfarms7165]

Man you do allot of work. Even at night. What part of country are you in? Thanks, I was a farm boy too. Loved it.

[@conleybanman]

We’re west Texas south of Lubbock

[@stephensfarms7165]

@@conleybanman Thanks, sure is big and wide open. Thanks 🙏 I am from Louisiana, I grow corn over here.

[@bobcrone6151]

Cool vid! Y’all have one main customer or market for all the bales you’ll make?

[@conleybanman]

Majority goes to local dairy’s but if others want some we’re willing to sell to others too

[@jayhuff4674]

Is that one of the farms you broadvast the wheat and then tan te vertical till to work it in

[@conleybanman]

Uh no we actually swathed those fields first and it seemed like those fields that we broadcasted produce a bit more hay than the rest of our fields. Now that you mention it I completely forgot to document that but I do show a bit of that field in the previous video

[@dylancarmack3643]

I would of put the new spring in the barrowed guys but I guess that how y'all operate

[@benmesman9711]

What do you use wheat hay for? Feeder hay for beef cattle or dry cows for dairy?

[@conleybanman]

We sell it to dairy’s

[@benmesman9711]

@@conleybanman ahhh ok cool. Thanks! Good job on the vids

[@rickyfuller6057]

What type of hay and is it custom hay cutting or do you grow the hay

[@conleybanman]

We grow our own hay

[@BirconuGaming]

Nice video. 👍🙂

[@markklim1997]

Is this legit wheat or is it triticale?

[@jimkavalier2831]

My uncle put a skunk into the caseih combine once, through the beanhead, couldn't hit the throat reverser fast enough, pewww... lol

[@conleybanman]

Oooh yikes doesn’t sound like fun at all

[@ballardgriswold7994]

what time was it when u started filming? love your videos!

[@conleybanman]

Around 5:30

[@cormackeane9587]

Hi I’m from Ireland and we do farming very differently so I’d like to know why do you use a swather instead of a triple mower on a tractor. It’s hard to tell the scale on camera but would the triple mower not be wider

[@conleybanman]

It would be but we like the swather instead of having to hook up mowers

[@cormackeane9587]

@@conleybanman ok thanks

[@jjarm]

When did green wheat become hay?? This is so confusing. Are wheat grain prices so low?

[@conleybanman]

Here yes but around here it’s very common for people to bale wheat the local dairy’s love it especially on dry years they need more feed

[@leonardodyck4654]

What kind of app do you use for the pivots?

[@conleybanman]

FieldNET and AgSense

[@leonardodyck4654]

Which one is the best one and which one do you use on zimmatic?

[@conleybanman]

On Zimmatic we use FieldNET I think any new pivot even come with it already. FieldNET is a lot easier to use

[@leonardodyck4654]

Cool. Thanks.

[@Cullison_Farms]

one important thing that’ll save your life someday always touch the back of your hand on a sprinkler pivot if you ever see dead birds by it, don’t even go near it because it’s electrocuted, one of my family members wasn’t paying attention and died because he touched it just like you did, and it was hot

[@koryleague8833]

Ive had a similar collision with a combine and bambi.

[@conleybanman]

Oooo yikes I bet that broke something

[@koryleague8833]

@@conleybanman it was one heck of a mess and bent the reel and feeder house chain😁

[@conleybanman]

Ooh not good 😂

[@bobbyflowers4859]

Awesome view inside the header. 1000 acres in 100 hours? Wondering what took so long? Kidding 🤣 Coyote vs coyote vs coyote. It is interesting how it is pronounced in different areas of the country. I say "ki-yot".

[@conleybanman]

🤜🤛 yes another one on my side 😂

[@corlett100]

Like your videos,but all that metal rattling would do my head in 🙂

[@conleybanman]

Oh yea I got annoyed by it after a while 😂

[@jaycavazos9857]

Way easier than my 9ft Kuhn and Kubota 🤣

[@sawyerdenman4063]

What header speed do u run on it

[@conleybanman]

Around 2,200 depending on how much wheat there is

[@jamesleonard4607]

I hit a Livestock guardian Dog a couple years ago, it’s scary he was a 100+ dog hiding in some really nice sudan hay I didn’t even realize I’d hit anything until the buzzards came.

[@conleybanman]

Yikes haha it’s crazy all the different types of animals that go through the header of a swather

[@paulprigge1209]

Dear pretty hard on them

[@jvcmcgowen]

what part of texas you from?

[@conleybanman]

West Texas

[@peteschiavoni]

That’s a lot of wheat you all got to cut

[@abekrahn2364]

R yall gonna swath the wheat that yall planted with the fertilizer spreader

[@conleybanman]

Yup those were the first two fields we cut and they weren’t too bad

[@billybraswell5426]

Do you ever chop your wheat?

[@conleybanman]

If the local dairy wants it that way they come and do it

[@jt4055]

what about the wildlife in the fields as mostly birds, at that speed they don't have a chance and night time is the worst time to cut hay , all the sugars are down

[@conleybanman]

It all had to be cut we didn’t have a choice

[@oe542]

I’m curious on what you’re doing.... So it’s wheat that your swathing (in my area we would call it mowing) to be baled for forage for dairy cows? Reason I ask is I’ve never seen wheat harvested in this fashion. I’ve also never saw anyone feed the entire wheat plant. I’m used to the traditional wheat harvest where you’re only looking to get the grain from the head then you bale the byproduct called straw and that’s used for bedding. Calling wheat, hay is blowing my mind! 🤯

[@conleybanman]

Yup we call it swathing and it will be made into bales and sold to local dairy’s. This wheat has a lot more nutrients in it than wheat that has made seed

[@markklim1997]

Robert it’s just like oat hay or barley hay you cut it green and the heads are in milk stage. Great protein cows love it

[@rightsideofthegrass8114]

1000 A in 100 hours, working day and night. You mention nothing about servicing the machine. How often do you service, in hours? Fuel, lubrication, ? What about changing knives? How often?

[@conleybanman]

Filling up with fuel about once a day greasing everything about twice a day and we changed knives only about twice we would’nt’ve changed them but one field had some pretty bad rocks that broke a few knives

[@rightsideofthegrass8114]

@@conleybanman Thanks. I am surprised at the longevity of the knives.

[@conleybanman]

Yea they usually last pretty long

[@catfischer86]

As long as you keep them out of the dirt they last.

[@raypitts4880]

ok machines dont cut hay they cut the green material to make hay when it dries out they also not called hay cutters they cut to make hay.

[@conleybanman]

Well I’m sure every farm calls it something different and what works best for each farm. We call it a swather and it cuts hay so 🤷‍♂️

[@frankdank7507]

And RAY, people shouldn't attempt to construct sentences without punctuation either. But here you are!

[@anzacday4141]

math? surley maths.

[@conleybanman]

Right how could I forget of course it’s maths

[@LewPatton]

No description of what you are doing?

[@conleybanman]

Cutting wheat 🤷‍♂️ I feel like it’s self explanatory

[@LewPatton]

@@conleybanman Where does it say that?

[@jamesbramblett3346]

Gosh that job would be so satisfying for some crazy reason 🤷🏼‍♂️