Baling Hay at Front Porch Farm (3 of 3)

Watch how we bale alfalfa hay round bales with a John Deere 6410 Tractor and a New Holland 648 Silage Special Round Baler in northeastern Washington. frontporchfarm.net/hay/
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[@nathancmartz]

Man you must keep that old bailer up in shape lol! I dont believe ive EVER seen bales that perfect!!!

[@haweater1555]

I also use an NH648, without electronic monitor nor net wrap, good deal because I bought it off my cousin. I would like to have net but similar used balers with it were up to double the cost of what I paid for mine. Used for silage stretch-wrapped bales or all dry bales stored under cover.

[@1995jug]

I like your operation real neat, the best thing you seem to know what you are doing.

[@garybrady8411]

The video was informative and very well done. An excellent job.

[@IJV-X1]

really nice to see how its done. Im in agriculture school with farmdreams. Thanks for this upload :-) Greetings from the Czech Republic

[@mblankenship15]

I really enjoyed watching your video. It was very informative and made very well. Thanks for taking the time to make it and share it with the rest of us!!! Keep up the great work!

[@allenmeinhold7038]

You guys Rock !!!

[@basborsboom]

Very very nice videos hope to see more of the them this summer

[@leeroyexcavator9149]

Nice video, I'm a new Holland fan myself still bale with a 850 new Holland it's 43 years old this year. Only thing I don't like is net wrap that stuff is a pain!!! I don't ever plan on having a net wrap baler.

[@mrdeereford]

I'm an employee at Front Porch Farm, if you bale hay with 0 moisture you lose all of your alfalfa leaves. Most of the feed value of alfalfa in the leaves, you generally want round baled hay to have around 14-16 percent moisture, once you get above about 20-22 percent things start getting hot inside the bale.

[@nikkiannexo]

Great video you have it down to a fine art with all the right gear for the job....if you ever decide to update that mower conditioner give me an option on purchasing it off you please.Was interesting your comment on that rake and the job it does on the corners..thanks for the honesty

[@davidtravis1367]

Nice video and I like baling hay and studying to get my cal class a and save some money and plan on buying some land and equipment and make hay and drive truck locally and I love making hay and was looking to buy 100 to 240 acres of hay is that to small for a small hay farm business. And I love new holland hay equipment and I am a big John Deere fan too

[@Trinity8030]

very nice videos!

[@carolepine5742]

great informative video.. How come you need moisture in your hay.? I though hay needed to be dry before you baled Cheers

[@paulpatton2680]

I hope you can hold out farming as long as your money holds up!!!! I buy all the hay you want to sell....last time I checked you where charging $25 all take all you can bale!!!😂😂😂😎😎

[@KrAzYpOiiZoN]

I smiled when I saw that newholland but frowned when I saw that john deer, you should have a t5060 or t6020 haha. I'm really intrested in going into farming but I'm still young so I have time but do you think I should? My family owns a decent size newholland dealer ship so uv driven about every tractor out there. I really would like to go to a farm and bale for a while and see how it is. Great video :)

[@onanysundayaustralia]

Thank you!

[@FrontPorchFarm]

I explain a few of the reasons we use New Holland in my recent review of our new baler (check our channel for the video).

[@krazykanux]

at around 16% moisture, is it considered dry hay? or will u need to wrap them to preserve the hay? thnx

[@paulpatton2680]

Wow that is awesome!!!!! A half a million dollars worth of equipment to make $900 worth of hay.

[@FrontPorchFarm]

Sometimes it feels that way!

[@ma72091]

round baling is to complicated i just like to keep things simple so i do big square bales but nice videos hope to see more

[@rogercarrico4975]

I know this is a older video. I have this baler. Your bales really look great. What PSI is your bale tensioner gauge set too. Once the bale get under pressure? I run mine about 2,000

[@FrontPorchFarm]

We ran this baler at 1800-2000 psi.

[@rogercarrico4975]

@@FrontPorchFarm Thank you!

[@pl747]

I was wondering why you use the New Holland baler instead of a Deere baler?

[@FrontPorchFarm]

16% would be dry hay. Silage would be 50-60% moisture.

[@elnueste]

SUPER FARMER NEW HOLAND VERY NAYS

[@vermontfarmer1884]

never needed a bale monitor my round baler u actually have to watch it

[@johnwoitena2924]

HOW DO YOU LIKE THE 648

[@FrontPorchFarm]

It was a good baler. We lost it to a baler fire in 2012. We are now running a BR450.

[@jimwilson3157]

Hay is a lot differnent...now...than it was in 1958.....It was hot.and sweaty work. Just sayin'