Stacking Small Square Bales l Baling Hay 2022

[@domthomas1002]

In my younger days, we called them skeleton hay conveyor. But ours went about 40ft up and then across the whole barn in the hay mow. One guy on the wagon and two guys in the hay mow. We was a bunch of hay making fools. Dad and my Uncle couldn't keep up with us. I still believe that handling all of those bales of hay made me strong for the military. I retired from the military back in 84' after serving for 24 years. I love your YT Videos. I try to keep up with all of them. Keep up the good work and stay safe.

[@bryanginder5903]

Nice looking hay!! I see your dad is on the ad for Ashley For The Arts!! He is on his knees carving some wood!! Pretty cool!!👍

[@8tomtoms8]

That is the longest hay elevator I've ever seen. Great video!!

[@randyolsen406]

I really admire how well kept your farm is. It shows how much pride your family has in the dairy industry. Keep up the great work!

[@jerryhull7126]

Your farm does it the right way

[@PremierYachtFLL]

That reminds me of Dad and I setting up the elevator and getting things situated the evening before we were ready to bale.

[@barrywhite8628]

It was a lot of work, but I miss my baling and mowing hay days! Always enjoy your video’s. Keep them coming

[@KevinChristiansen-i2q]

Nice looking hay bales

[@randy9715]

This sure brings back a lot of memories

[@KevinChristiansen-i2q]

Great video Gierok Farms

[@kennethhall5070]

Great memories watching y'all get the job done the right way.

[@jvin248]

Looks like some good planning in the hay mow. When we'd put hay and straw in our barn back when I was a kid, we'd stack all the bales on edge rather than strings up. That way the bales fit tighter and each layer was more firm to walk on than if we had strings up. The bales tended to keep their shape better too, important to customers we sold to at the time. We'd still tie layers in at open edges by alternating bale directions and overlap like you are. We had a trick when filling the last bale in a row, put the last bale and the second to last bale on top of and with about a third of the string face overhanging the third and fourth then tip those last two together into the slot and push them down into place, compressing themselves. Your corn fields looked great as well as the hay.

[@lawrencedecker3453]

Your my favorite channel on youtube were almost Neighbors and I've learned a lot from your hard work.

[@johndeere1951a]

With all the different farms I watch on KZbin I never see anyone handle small bales with wood handle bale hooks. Why is that? When I helped my uncle and family during hay season, 1950's-60's, bale hooks were everywhere. Hanging up in the barn, in the truck, hanging on the wagon. I think it would save wear and tear on wrists, hands, skin ??? You have a well run, neat operation and your lucky to have sons interested enough that it will pass on to them. Great legacy 💚👍👌 Farm Safe please. Hillsboro, NH.

[@robertburden1509]

Another nice video and your father has a great way of explaining things I enjoy listening to him

[@southtexashay777]

Guy you all were killing it. I am glad I don't have to stack hay like that anymore. We used to have a barn we did like your but not that tall. Keep safe guy's.

[@at1ric]

Brings back memories. We put 55 gallon plastic barrels of water through out our stacks just in case of a fire. Great video. Your dad is an awesome speaker.

[@johnd4018]

Agreed. The father does excellent narrations!

[@danw6014]

We used to do about 15,000 bales a year in a big bank barn. There were three big mows and two threshing floors in this barn. We would fill the mows up to the beams with an old John Deere truss elevator with a Wisconsin engine. Then we used an elevator that had the bales climbing the wall of the barn and then down the ridge. It was hanging from the track that was originally used for loose hay. We always set the bales cut side up. As a kid I got little bit of scolding for not doing it that way but nobody ever said redo it. It is ingrain on my thinking now though. I can say one thing. There is no better way to put up dry small square bales than in a timber frame barn. It comes out just as good as it went in. What a beautiful farm you have. Sure do wish I could have gotten to a stage in my life where I could have had my own cows.

[@fiiatmies711]

Me and my cousin baled 320 bales😂😂

[@mikegerig5363]

I just love your channel! I can’t believe how much of the farmers wisdom your dad has that is exactly what I was taught when I grew up on the farm. It isn’t knowledge learned from books or classes, but good old fashioned common sense, salt of the earth stuff, that is what makes this world of us blue collar people, the ones who really make this world work.

[@loisgustafson1558]

I remember well the aroma of the haymow as a kid, it's a smell only topped by fresh baked bread! There was always a hay fort made in the haymow as the mow was filled over haying season. Thank you for sharing! Ron

[@bruceprentice6441]

I stacked the square bales the same way. I have a dryer in the mow . There was a 4’x4’ duct that ran the length of the hay mow. And the floor of the mow was slatted. Air blew from the duct across the mow floor, and up through the slats. Even when the hay mow was full up near the peak, the air coming up through the hay would billow out your pant legs. Never any worries about mould or hot bales with the hay mow dryer. I would let the dryer run for a month after we finished putting hay in.

[@rustyrelicsfarm2406]

I bet the air coming up also helped cool things up in the loft.

[@bobkinney7913]

Boy, I stareted sneezing watching this video!

[@pyroman6000]

The one Farm I worked on, we had an in-barn conveyor like yours. So we had to set up the elevator on the short end of the barn- in the middle of the laneway the cows used to get into the barn. You had to be careful to stay away from the electric fence when putting it in!! That barn had 2 sets of big barn doors on the side, but the elevator couldn't reach the end bays from there, so unless you wanted to chuck or lug every bale 3 mows over, you put the elevator in the end for those. The other barns weren't as long, or had more conveniently located loading doors, so we could just poke it in where needed.

[@kurtisharrington6015]

what a beautiful farm you guys have! love that you dont have a ton of modern equipment and you maintain everything so well! dont see too often all the equipment stored inside.

[@drdulas5055]

We always made sure the hay barn was sealed to keep snow out in Minnesota. Don't you have problems with snow drifts blowing in and melting and rotting the hay in the spring with the open slots in the walls?

[@davidkimmel4216]

Thank You and your family for such wonderful memories of when it was fun and enjoyable farming. Not that I don’t enjoy farming now. It was so so much simpler then 😊😊😊 Thank You 😊

[@mywoolmitten]

Really enjoy and appreciate your hay making videos! Thank you for taking the time to share them, especially because hay making days can be so stressful can't they? Thanks again!

[@stanhensley3082]

Always hated unloading bales that had set for a few weeks.They could be a bear to pull apart.The next dislike was getting bales off the floor when putting the first bales in the hay mow.If your timing was off and a bale from the elevator fell too soon it may land right on your back or head!! That can really ring your bell if the bales are heavy.Great to see you in the hay mow and not me!! Piling bales is a hot job most summer days!! Thanks 😊.

[@mrt4547]

A Kewanee elevator stored in a shed. Never seen that before, nice work.

[@danw6014]

We used to get our old John Deere elevator in for the winter time but it was out from the time we did first cutting until the last ear of corn landed in the crib.

[@heatherkohlwey8379]

Climbing on the hay bales and swinging on the rope was always summer fun. After all the baling and stacking was done of course. Thank you for sharing another great video. Many fond memories there for me. Stay safe and God bless.

[@mraetnts]

This gave me nightmares of my youth folks. Haying is no joke, its hard work.

[@chrisray6536]

One of my favorite jobs growing up

[@johnd4018]

you are definitely in the minority lol. 😆

[@jamesmorrison1884]

Hello I like doing hay and stored away in the barn looks great. Looks like you have good air flow so not so hot inside. Nice work have a great day.

[@benburns5995]

Great video of bringing your small square bales into your barn. Have to say you have very prodigious way of stacking. It sure looks nice and seems very efficient. Setting up the conveyor looks like quit the chore with having to get the one wheel up on the small wall. Glad you showed the bales coming into the barn and falling from the conveyor it was great footage. Looking forward to your next video, nice preview at the next, of your next episode.

[@FarmallFanatic]

Geesh...lot of red power

[@jamesmarsh4957]

brings back lots of memories for me doing just that in the barn when i was young but we put main of ours in a Dutch barn , what we call it here in the UK , now we do round bails and its silage not hay , there is a Art to stacking a barn , nice to see it done how it should be

[@br927]

I always saved my oil for occasions such as, chains, wagon beds, truck beds, barn cleaner chains, ect! Tying it in!

[@matthewdavis4081]

I think it is interesting to see you stack strings down. I never seen that poticular style of stacking. I have been taught to stack on edge and with strings out towards you. Great video and love how consistent you bale leanths are and the bales look good and tight. And that may have been the longest hay elevator I have ever seen to get hay all the way to the peak of the barn. Can't wait to see the hay being made on the next video

[@johnd4018]

2 reasons to stack baled hay on edge: 1) Starting a stack where the first layer may be subject to moisture (bare ground whether indoors or out) which would rot the strings where they touched the ground (not generally a problem on a wooden floored hay mow). 2) each bale has a "cut" edge made by the baler. By stacking the bale's "cut" edge facing up the hay would, at least theoretically, wick excess moisture like a straw up through the layers of hay in the stack and out the top, helping to dry the hay. We often did this only if the hay was put in slightly damp.

[@martinmcgee5503]

This takes me back about 60 years we had friends who farmed , they had 3 boys and a girl.They would build tunnels when they stacked rectangle bales in their barn.I remember they told me to watch out for snakes when crawling thru tunnels.It must have taken some planning to get about 2 or 3 stories worth.

[@rustyrelicsfarm2406]

I bet it was always awesome.

[@mikebrown1188]

It always seemed to take twice as long as it should to set up an elevator or so it seems. Another great video. Stacked alot of hay like you showed.

[@pyroman6000]

And the piece you forgot- or the replacement part for the thing that was broke- was always down at the other farm! Never failed!

[@r.scotthill3082]

A bin is a structure to store grain. A structure to store hay is a mow. Building a mow was a religion on our farms. We had large squirrel cage fans to force air under and up through the mowed hay. For this to be efficient the bales must be stored on edge with cut edge down for air to better move up through the hay. All bales had to be kneed in against the previous bale. No gaps were permitted. Our pattern for the front edge and succeeding alignment was the same as yours. The last two bales in a layer had to be folded like a book and wedged in tight. No other arrangement was tolerated.

[@anthonyhengst2908]

Sorry I'm a little late to this. I've been stacking some 3rd cutting in this same way. We average 25,000 bales. Dad always sells 5,000-10,000 bales per year. We use a Sam Mulkey elevator... It does the job. I stack edges same as you except I switch directions on every layer.

[@johnd4018]

Good explanation as to the way to stack hay properly. Especially important when stacking on a flat bed wagon being towed behind a baler without a thrower where the wagon may be subject to a sidehill or bumps in the field. Often times there is a reason so Just curious as to why you make such short bales?....uses a lot more twine....

[@paultighe3735]

ENJOYED VIDEO AS ALWAYS LOVE YOUR FARM 🚜

[@johnsheahan7914]

Great video once again keep up the great video and work

[@Adam_Poirier]

Awesome video. How old is your youngest son? I was really impressed with the shields he made and he's a hard worker too. That's a good idea utilizing the same plug that the milkman uses. I remember growing up we plugged in the elevator right next to that plug in a different plug haha... seems so simple now why didn't I think of that

[@BillTheTractorMan]

Stacking in the mow was always my least favorite part of baling hay. I wouldn't mind doing a wagon load or two at this point, but that is it! I rather go round bales at this point in my life. Thanks for sharing!

[@robertenglebrecht668]

Interesting you call it first crop, second crop, etc…Northern Michigan we call it first cutting, second cutting etc…also I’m interested in the back story on how you arrived at the name of your farm…makes sense based on your terrain…maybe a future vid?

[@pyroman6000]

Same here, in NY. But all the farmers I've seen on here from Wisconsin, Iowa, etc call it crop, not cutting.

[@marklen2322]

I have never seen a haymow in a dairy barn were there were spaces between the barn boards. Was this barn used for drying tobacco at one time?

[@bryanginder5903]

O I don't miss stacking hay! We have a mow elevator to take the hay threw the barn and drop it where we want!

[@doncc6080]

Hay, Hay, Hay up and away!!!!

[@jonlindner8022]

That elevator is built in my home town Loyal Wisconsin by Roth manufacturing three miles away from my farm, We also have one. The Roth family is a well respected family.

[@joutdoorsmen23]

Awesome job and awesome video work too thanks for sharing and what you do!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@big.g.fromohio3546]

You have a beautiful farm

[@949786293]

I always remember it being hot, hay sticking to my arms and the back of my neck.

[@eugenespreutels8305]

Lots of work getting them all in there. Looks like you have plenty of help though, makes it alot easier. My brother and I do all of ours by ourselves and at nearly 60 we are finding it harder every year to keep putting the same amount up, lol. Curious as to why you like to stack your bales flat, we like to stack on their edges, find they dry better and hold their shape better.

[@donaldmack7213]

We stack our bales on the edge, cut side up. Dad said it would dry some in the barn if there was any excess moisture.

[@johnthompson4162]

My only thing I see wrong here is that I'm not there to help you all move bales. John T. Thank you for sharing.

[@michaelmcconnell7958]

On your next video could you go into how to tell if the hay is “safe” to put in the loft? I’ve heard that moist hay can combust. How do you know when it’s safe? I’ve heard of people salting hay when it’s moist. Can you talk about that too?

[@danw6014]

Experience. You learn to feel the hay but also the baler can tell you a lot.

[@johnd4018]

@@danw6014 And some farms had hay dryers back in the day: The hay was put in the barn slightly more moist than normal and somewhat loosely stacked. Huge fan(s) blew ambient air through ductwork and then through the stacked hay eventually drying it to normal moisture levels.

[@danw6014]

@@johnd4018 Deere marketed a system that dried hay on the wagons. I do not know how well it worked but it didn't seem to catch on.

[@johnd4018]

@@danw6014 wow, never heard of that.

[@rebelgaming7718]

How do you guys do your bedding for your dairy cows just out of curiosity

[@kanefarms5963]

Keep up the great work

[@jamesbreault5762]

Good content always like haying

[@jeffreyhall5679]

The hay that is weatherd in your is that left over from last year ?

[@richardwilkens4577]

I have one like in my barn and one coming up the side of the barn and curving into the barn

[@andrewgraves3719]

Just wondering why your bales seem so short. Ease of handling? Is it due to the launcher you have on the baler? When I was a teenager in the 70's the bales we got seemed quite a bit longer and a bit more difficult to move around. But with a 8 ft bed pickup we did 11/12/12/10/5 stack so 50 per load. Love seeing farming the way it was when i grew up. God Bless

[@aaronmenke5794]

I was thinking the same thing

[@terencenelson4472]

What a tangled web we weave....now has an innocent meaning.

[@jerryfischer3988]

Oh yeah good times

[@chadpaider1009]

The only thing different we did puking in our barn years ago was out the bales on their side. Don't know what the reasoning was. Maybe to see the strings instead of having chaff on the strings or for the hay to cure out. 🤷

[@alancooper5386]

R U saying a milk truck come into ur yard to pick up milk, u gotta show him some time, how or where does he turn around, unless ur not showing wide open spaces on ur yard?

[@rustyrelicsfarm2406]

Small Square Bales are great for keeping your strength for a long time.

[@stropolimadness3867]

Would you guys be interested in selling any first bred heifers or bred young cows? Maybe a bottle heifer, I just recently bought a smaller farm close to you guys and I want a few for us and the kids.

[@Garrett572xpg]

Estimate of how many small squares u can fit in that barn?

[@peterhaan9068]

I think he said 4000. Don't know if that included last years crop or just the side he is filling with this years crop.

[@tommyparks4473]

He said it will hold 12,000.

[@johnd4018]

@@tommyparks4473 Yeah, 12,000 of those little mini-bales maybe....😄

[@tommyparks4473]

@@johnd4018 We use to put 10,000 in our loft every year. It would have held more easily.

[@princepa123]

Working like a Dod: he’s got it made, for sure. Plenty of rest and a lot of fresh milk around. I don’t believe you have to worry about him running away.

[@Ron-rs2zl]

I started stacking hay with the cut edge down 25 years ago and I believe you can build a better stack. A bale stacked cut edge down can resist pressure better and will not compress as much.

[@danw6014]

Hahaha. I was taught to go cut side up.

[@cut4fun50]

Cut side down for my dad also. He wanted hay packed tight so you wouldn't fall in a hole when piling next tier. Cut side down made dragging a little easier over hay

[@jeffvanderveen2890]

Ya know , just a guess, me being a farmer and all . If these guys would learn to adjust there baler , they could have longer , tighter bales . Probably half as many , than the way the baler is adjusted now .

[@mitchellmagden8283]

How much hay do you guys go through in a year

[@farmertony3895]

We were just doing straw.

[@johnhenderson299]

That is quite the elevator

[@TDS4x4]

You don't stack with cut side up?? The way I was thought

[@peacepeople9895]

Strings up? Aren't you afraid of catching a string on your foot?

[@miku-lazoshan2182]

Those are really small POS bales😂😂

[@stevedrew5425]

Do you ever stack your hay on edge?

[@ronzezulka6646]

You haven't mowed hay until you've been clipped by a falling bale.

[@tpfromcentralpa1692]

Would be fired here.................Cut edge up, salt sprinkled on each layer...............Order per old heads. Now I watch the rounds dump out the back of the 5x6 baler, move most of them out of the postage stamp fields here with a spike on the pickup. My son wants to put up small squares to sell as a winter job while he is in school..............I guess I will watch.😀

[@samuelruth7575]

first

[@daspicsman]

Boeing uses one of these to lift seats into the 737. They of course modified it to carry seats rather than bales. For all the machines on earth a simple bale conveyor does the job. You’d think that dog would be hot with all that fur!