First Time Using This Machine…Ended in TOTAL DISASTER!

[@fintan3563]

I must say, Erik, your animals all look well cared for and happy! 🐑🐓🐣

[@williamcollins5183]

How can you know if a sheep is happy ? don['t tell because they wag their tails. Animals wag their tails because they don't wipe their ass after they take a shit its because its to try to kept the flies away

[@lukasvondaheim]

Nice and relaxing video! For your hay problem have you considered what we in Austria call ´´heumandl´´ it is basically justa wodden post rammed into the ground with two to four sticks shoved through it where the gets put up on directly in the field! gets it off the ground, lets the wind go through it better and you are not in a hurry. sometimes you can see the hay still hanging while the grass has started getting tall again! And if I am allowed to recommend someting else, it would be what we call ´´heurodel´´ it is basically a type of wheelbarrow that is longer and has no sides mainly used for transporting hay None the less thank you very much for taking us with you on your beautifull little spot on earth

[@ihnas2578]

What a great journey you are undertaking with your family very envious. Awesom to see your family pitching in on all the hardwork..great channel ❤ from Boston USA

[@ronaldlucas5360]

Enjoyed the video ✔️ The birds 🐦 singing the tune that God gave them to sing was nice to hear.

[@TheJimcrooks800]

Sorry about the hay - but you have learned a very valuable lesson and you still have a much more productive field. Two sets forward and one step back. Your resilience will increase exponentially so keep going. Great to see the progress.

[@Norwegianfarmlife]

Very true!

[@olderolderman4603]

Farm life is not for everyone it is hard but you and your wife will do just fine 😊

[@brycewiborg8095]

When damp hay molds it can heat, and potentially cause a fire. I'm relieved that your problem isn't worse. I wish things had turned out better. Takk.

[@Norwegianfarmlife]

Yes we where lucky that it did not catch on fire. 🤞

[@samueldougoud3289]

If this can be a consolation : half of Europe has had a hard time with hay until now this year. At least the cutting went smooth, and the summer is not over yet.

[@Norwegianfarmlife]

That is true😊. Now we are just waiting for a few days of nice weather and we can try again. 👍

[@snithereens]

@@samueldougoud3289 use Eric’s technique from Sweden or you could use the normal drying technique with the metal line, that you showed in a different video. What I find interesting in my idea that came up, is that you on one hand have the meadow for growing the grass and, as soon as it is moan, the slightly, deeper than surface inserted metal housings visible. You could then take metal rots or wooden rods and just put them into the metal housings and have more or less a pop-up drying place. I have no clue whatsoever if this is viable, I live in a city in Germany and I do absolutely have not any experience in farming. So I can just hope that you understood my description and that my idea could help you with the hay.

[@ozseagull]

Wow it's a beautiful area you live in. Lot of work with all those animals to care for. Great job!

[@stan525]

wet hay try adding some perforated pipe below stack and add a fan for a few hours a day when it is in the storage area. hay lofts have a natural convection to help with moisture

[@Norwegianfarmlife]

Thanks for the advice 😊👍

[@neutonrenda2303]

Oh no, it must've been a huge shock to lose all of that after all the hard work. It might make sense of investigating other methods for drying it, maybe speaking to some of the local farmers. I've seen traditional methods of hanging it over wire fences and similar. It's a hard knock, but it's also a learning experience. I really enjoyed watching your content again, thank you for sharing.👍

[@Norwegianfarmlife]

It is easy to ask the question why do we do this when these things happen. The answer is always the same however. Even though it sometime can be hard we do it because we love it. 😊👍

[@louismessere6379]

Make a grass dryer, it can be simple as square chicken wire fence with boards on the edges to add rigidity to the fence lay a layer of grass on it and have a fan blow on the grass. You'll need to move the fan to blow on other racks like that. Or you can automate it.

[@ProtonOne11]

Interesting way to try and turn and teather the hay with a small garden rake. I guess growing up on a farm told me many lessons and tools to use that make work easier and more efficent. Never putting hay into a pile if it's is not completely dry was a lesson i learned as a kid too. We usually kept a close eye on the hay stack when we brought new material into the barn, we even had a special long "haydrill" with a thermometer at the end so we could probe the hay stack for temperature change that would indicate something isn't right. If the temperature was rising too much, the pile had to spread out and loaded up and taken out on field again to dry. One of our neighbours farm completely burned down because of a fire that started in the hay stack. He had just installed a fancy air drying system for his hay stack, so he thought to take a bit more risk and take moist hay inside and not monitor the pile enough. Pretty tragic for the farm and the animals, at least the family was lucky and got out of the house in time, as the fire started in the night. But firefighters could not do much anymore. The straw, hay and wooden building burned extremely fast and could not be stopped with the available water, so they mostly just could try to keep the fire from spreading further to other nearby houses and fields. Keep on learning, and don't hesitate to ask other farmers for help and advice. Some of them might be a bit grumpy or laugh at you, but i'm sure you will find some kind and nice people that will help you too. By the way, we always raked up the hay into windrows in the evening, and spread them out in the morning again. This helps a lot to actually pick up all the wet patches of grass and turn them over, and the morning dew in the field evaporates away before you spread the hay again to dry, making it dry much better and quicker.

[@ulfrogeriversen2123]

I like your videos it's informative and good videos fore learning too 👍. It's not easy too work and have small kids but I am shore it's have some reward afterwards 😉 Looking forward too the next video. And starting off the new barn (låven). Best of luck 👍

[@shawnfromportland]

i bet your body still felt like it was vibrating a day later after that machine haha

[@Norwegianfarmlife]

Yes, it was quite intense. It helps to just grip the handles loosely as the machine moves on its own. You don’t really need to hold it. 🤠

[@goatfarmmb]

@@Norwegianfarmlife ya need to buy a AEBI AM 40 or AM 41 them mowers have a belt driven sickle bar and vibrate less. AEBI is one of two companies in Switzerland left that still makes mowers like that

[@KevinLyons-gn7eu]

@@Norwegianfarmlife where are you from?

[@einerreklov4304]

Well, if you have the energy after all of that hard work, you can always use the moldy hay which will make a decent sized mulch pile.

[@adamkarch7072]

witam,dobra praca pozdrawiam z Polski

[@erikcarlstrom6803]

Hi! One possible solution to the current problem u have with drying the hay you could always make a hesje, in that way you could dry the hay more safer before bringing it inside. On the westcoast of Sweden where I am from my grandmother thaught me how to make 3 legged hesje. U make like a tipi tent with 3 sticks, and maybe 2 m tall and 1,5 m between the legs. You put a supporting ring of 3 sticks at the bottom so the hay dosent touch the ground so maybe 20-30 cm up. After 1 day of drying you stack the hesje and try to lay the hay so the straw build up and be quite thick. Ur are supposed to create a whole "body" and afterwards you use the rive to almost use as a kam and get it a little more even. And then you just let it dry and it can whitstand rain you just need to wait longer to take it inside. The outer layer of hay will get a bit damaged by the UV-light but the inner part will keep nutrients and be a good hay. You could also get a höysvans to bring in the hay. I have a old Kverneland Höysvans for that and it works perfect. Dear regards, Erik From Bohuslän.

[@Norwegianfarmlife]

Hi, some years we have done that but I would rather not. It takes much longer to get it dry. In this video we made hesjes kzbin.info/www/bejne/b3qZomV3pbmAjLc 🤠

[@erikcarlstrom7608]

@@Norwegianfarmlife Hi! Yes it takes longer but then u can be more safe for the rain, the other option is that you make skulltork (ventilation for drying?) and a ventilation so air can move out. If the hesje was like in the video I would say you could pack alot more hay because they seemed quite thin. If u happen to be in Sweden I can give u a höfläkt (dryer?).

[@olegjringb3416]

have you heard about " hesjing " ? thats what we used to do to dry grass here in norway, i bet that would work better for you

[@samanthaclarke3422]

I use a smaller version , half the size. Very difficult to turn, and I have issues pulling it backwards. I do love it though. I feed it fresh

[@hamdude2109]

How big is your farm and how do you manage to support your family?

[@desertrestnv]

Could you use the moldy hay on the compost bin? Or as ground cover during the winter in your garden?

[@snithereens]

Here ist my Idea: you might want to consider publishing a rough map of your Farm, give the different places a Name like "The Hills" or "Front pasture" and so on. Then, youcould add the landmarks name to the scene that is shown at that very moment in the video. It would be nice to see, where the scenes take place

[@Norwegianfarmlife]

That is a grate ide.👍 It will look in to that. 😊

[@QuietestKris]

What a cool idea!

[@joojones4607]

You have the leaves of the trees, you can use that like hay. It´s what i do here in Portugal.

[@Norwegianfarmlife]

I did thing about it and in the old days in Norway they also dried leaf’s in addition to hay to give more nutrition and quantity of feed. My problem with that is that I lack the space to store it.

[@nacholibre1962]

Maybe use pallets next turned to put the hay on. Alow the air to circulate. I guess it was still a little damp when you put it in there. Lesson learned.

[@reannejarvis9464]

Heartbreaking after all that work. So sorry 🇦🇺🎸⚡️🤘🏼🤘🏾💋💜

[@heatherarthur6232]

You need a pitchfork not a rake for air rating your grass it separates better and is easier to use.👨🏼‍🌾

[@forrestvalleyfarmer]

Great to see you battle through even if there are some hiccups. Sometimes things mess up, but eyh, farm life? Garage looks gorgeous! Just curious. Hows the barn project going? You need more dry storage

[@Norwegianfarmlife]

That is trough.👍 I don’t thing this would have happened if we had more space to spread it out. It could not bread and if it is not totally dry then it can get scary. Many have burned down their barn that way as it can really warm in there. I thing the reason we have not had this problem before is that we have never produced this much in one go. If we can get another whether window we have one more chance. 🤠👍

[@forrestvalleyfarmer]

@@Norwegianfarmlife seems like the field work is paying off then! If you have two wooden Europaller id suggest putting them at the bottom. That way at least there is some circulation of air. Other than that one has to work with what you got 😊 Keep up the good work. Nice to see someone taking care of these old places.

[@KenthGustafsson300]

the hay should lay out and dry and get turned ower some times if you don't heck it on a pole to dry in the windy air and sun...it should get brown color when it is dry...

[@Urghings]

Kjedelig med varmgang i høyet! Neste års oppgraderinger må bli sidevenderive og høysvans til Fiaten. 👍

[@Norwegianfarmlife]

Ja, kanskje det 😊

[@northerntrucker]

Do you put hay on sticks to dry? We used to dry hay that way in Finland way back.

[@Norwegianfarmlife]

We have a trying technique like that in Norway called hesjing where we hang hay on wires between wooden poles. I have a video where I used that technique 🤠👍. kzbin.info/www/bejne/b3qZomV3pbmAjLc

[@yvind1465]

Hesjing is the way

[@olavbjrneset5675]

I understand that hesjing is more work…but as a born and bred vestlenning, quite familiar with weather and so on, Im pretty sure I whouldnt have trusted drying gras on the ground. But everything is easy sitting in my sofa 😂 Keep up the spirit!!

[@JBloemert]

Hello from the Netherlands, seems you were mowing in second gear, then it drives to fast for mowing, it has 2 speed forward, and one return. It doesnt have a differential, thats why its hard to turn, but more traction. Going in fiets gear you have more control.

[@Norwegianfarmlife]

Thanks for the info. I have only seen two settings for forward one with and one without PTO. The problem it that the original plate is washed out and someone has used a marker on it so it is difficult to decipher. It would be nicer if it went a bit slower. 😊👍

[@villageearthwright]

You could try building hay cocks, or a dying fence. These allows you to put hay up in the air and it dries much faster. if put up right it can even shed water and handle some rain without losing too much food value.

[@babanravi]

What are u sprinkling at or near 1:00 timeline

[@Norwegianfarmlife]

In an earlier video we did a lot of work to our fields in order to get more hay. I was not a good feeling editing this video while knowing what happened to all our hay in the end. 😭

[@Dovla252]

If you dont dry your hay properly, it will mold and you need to throw out a lot of it. Btw nice Sip butcher

[@QuietestKris]

Hi Eric, I haven't heard you speak about the mosquitos much. Would you consider mosquitos a minor annoyance or something that impacts your enjoyment of the outdoors? Do you get used to them? Thanks much for posting. Sorry to hear about your hay. Thankfully it was a larger harvest this year! (Thanks to the mobile chicken pen?) Can't wait to see your next project.

[@Norwegianfarmlife]

Hi,😊 The most annoying type of mosquito we have early in the summer is a small type called “Knott” in Norwegian. They come when the sun is sett and on damp cloudy days. The bites from them are so tiny that they are gone in a few hours. Thay are not too bad. Later in the summer we get a bigger type called “klegg”. They are a type of biting fly. I believe they are called horse fly in English. They are really annoying but they are so slow that it is not difficult to smack them before they bite. We don’t have those giant mosquitos that they have further north so it is not too bad. How is it where you live?

[@crtomirrozman]

Looks like SIP Bucher M200, made in Slovenia

[@emar9038]

And the engine it's Acme made in italy

[@corneliusanderson-t3y]

du må tørke det på gamle måten.hesje det på vaier.

[@Norwegianfarmlife]

Det er en mulig utvei om vi ikke får bedre vær snart men det går mye fortere å tørke det på bakken dersom været holder.😊

[@Hoffmannsfjeld]

Legg lagvis å bruk grovsalt mellom lagene neste gang du ikke får det helt tørt, så berger du det

[@Norwegianfarmlife]

Takk for tipset 😊

[@autoboybv]

You need a smaller cutting machine. One with 80cm...100cm blade should be enough for what you cut in this video. Also in the video I saw that the grass was not perfectly dry and that's why it got mold. In Romania, we spread some salt over all the grass whichwe put inside (around 2-3 kg of grey salt). And our hay deposits (șură) does not have perfectly closed walls, so the wind can blow over the hay and dry it even more. Only the wind, not the rain, because the hay with moisture in it can make auto combustion and burn.

[@Norwegianfarmlife]

Thanks for much good advice 😊👍

[@UnknownUser-em3sx]

Just buy 2 stroke trimmer with 40 angle blades knife. Or 2 wheel Traktor with rotor scythe

[@heatherarthur6232]

I hope that hay doesn’t catch fire it’s very dangerous to put hay with moisture in your shed and besides it will get mould.😮

[@jurgenh3671]

👍👍👍

[@gameingHyenia]

Was you running that machine or was it running you. ???

[@TERJEBORGEDANG-m5d]

Du må sørge for at høyet får god gjennomlufting etter at det er tatt inn. For å unngå mugg og varmgang er det viktig at bygningen der du oppbevarer høyet ikke er helt tett. La det være åpninger slik at luften kan sirkulere gjennom høyet fra alle kanter. Da unngår du problemer.

[@pig.cambodia]

Hello i like your farm 😅

[@Norwegianfarmlife]

Hey, thanks 😊

[@garybooth3179]

What have you done with your dog?

[@Norwegianfarmlife]

The answer to that question is a long one and not something that can be easily explained in a comment. I am thinking about making a Q and A video where I can go trough questions in more details.

[@ihordvik875]

Men slåmaskine var bra🤔

[@Norwegianfarmlife]

Slåmaskinen fungerte veldig bra👍 Fornøyd med den🤠

[@jg2480]

Wondering why you don't get a mower for your tractor in stead of the 2 wheel walk behind?

[@Norwegianfarmlife]

There are a million things I could by if I had the money for it. For now, this works. PS, I do also have a harvester for the tractor but that is for making silage but I am not ready to start using it yet.

[@bigunone]

First no farmer can control the weather, Moldy hay can be used in the garden for mulch, maybe bedding for chickens not sure about that one. Learn from the experience, and move on. Maybe invest in some fans to blow through hay next year.

[@Norwegianfarmlife]

I will definitely pay more attention to this in the future. 😊👍

[@sigbjrnjohansen8872]

😢

[@sverresvan4360]

Hadde du strød fin salt over vær båre du kjørte inn hadde du reddet høyet for saltet trekker ut fuktigheten

[@Norwegianfarmlife]

Takk for tipset👍

[@patk1284]

dear poor Norwegian, you have a tractor, buy a tedder to fluff the hay, buy a hay rake to put hay in windrows. push hay into one huge pile after its dry, tarp the pile to keep rain off. I've saved the most important step until last DO NOT CUT THE HAY UNTIL WEATHER PERMITS up until now it hasn't cost you anything, once you cut you are under the gun to get it done! I too have used your method, try mine, if you can't afford it then don't hay, SELL THE SHEEP! now you have solved all your problems. raise something else = chickens, rabbits etc.

[@nacholibre1962]

Don’t be so discouraging, you negative twat. He’s doing his best!

[@ahkkariq7406]

Running a farm in Norway is something completely different from other places on the globe. Especially along the coast, you have to take chances to get the hay dry - if you wait for good weather, you will never be able to harvest. And even if the weather forecast is good, you can be surprised by rain. It is an eternal game of chance, and if you have many people you can put to work, you can hang the hay to dry on wires. If you don't have it, you have no choice but to take the chance that the weather will hold. Otherwise, it is possible to save the hay even if you have to bring it in while there is still moisture in it, as others have mentioned in the comments. This is a family in training. Fortunately, they have another harvest. If it also fails, they probably have to buy hay for the winter. Farmers in the Nordic countries are used to life being "two steps forward and one step back".

[@inseiin]

You are going way too fast with it...thats your fault....

[@elainetarpley9837]

Leave off the “music”? Rather hear mower and birds!