HAY BALER BREAKDOWN! Baling Hay With Two Small Square Balers! (2023 Hay Season)

[@terrykoch1250]

At one time I lived your life back in Wisconsin, I have the highest respect for you. I left that and became a journeyman plumber and I'll tell you it's just as bad.

[@alanpranke3299]

Hee Hee Haw, I wanna see the guys stackin them bales in the hay mow, 100F, sweatin like the blazes. Been there, done that, still have my hay hooks from 40 years ago, ready to go, save some for me! 🤩

[@djsimonrossprice9400]

Best physical work out ever stacking bales... who needs the gym..😂😂😂😂

[@frankgyomoryjr6167]

That's some good backing up with the baler and wagon.

[@petercahill3859]

There’s just something about this channel that is so pure. The work ethic but also the quiet confidence. The boys are going to do great things in life. They exude pride. Workmanship. And they like to have fun!

[@KevinChristiansen-i2q]

Great job raking and baling your hay

[@KevinChristiansen-i2q]

Great video Gierok Farms

[@jvin248]

Funny dog "Nothing to see here, it's just us frogs down here in the creek, carry on."

[@danw6014]

My dad bought a 273 hayliner new sometime in the 1970s. He ran it with a John Deere 70 Diesel. I never was old enough to run it before my dad got out of farming. When I started working on dairy farms every one of them used a John Deere baler with the kicker. One of the differences if you bought a John Deere with a kicker vs one without, the left wheel is moved back about 14 inches. If you are not careful and go over rough ground to fast, you can break the bolts that hold the extension for the wheel off. Ask me how I know. Hahaha. I use a 336 John Deere with a kicker on my farm. I have pushed a lot of hay through it with very little trouble. A couple years ago I replaced all the rollers in the plunger and that was the most I had to put into it. It's paired with my 4020 most of the time. Glad you guys had the second baler to fall back on. At so point I'd like to get a 348 baler and keep the 336 on backup.

[@dlzastera]

Extra wagons sure come in handy. Extra bailer too. 👍

[@anthonyhengst2908]

We had the same exact thing happen on our 14T gosh about 40 years ago. All there was 4 bolts and the whole assembly came off. So we went to the dealership and I found another 14T in the bone yard so I took the whole assembly off, wheel, tire and all slapped it on there. It's still on that baler and we were using it just last week. So nice when things are so simple. New Holland makes great balers too. That's what I mostly see around my area.

[@richardploof703]

We had a hilly farm to had also broken axle on the Baler pulling out onto the road baler was in the middle of the road wasn't a good day Neighbor came over and told us we were turning the wrong way we're always supposed to turn towards the pickup don't know if that's true or not but that's what he told us

[@rogerkinser872]

Love that Mason!

[@DonWelter]

Made an unfortunate situation better having two balers so at least you were able to finish. Had the right-hand stub axle break on a NH 268 on a Fri eve. Went to the dealer on Sat morning, got the parts and finished Sat afternoon. Seems like wrenching on machinery is part of the game of farming. Gotta love those old "M" tractors...have a sound all their own and keep going. Don't need a modern wonder when an oldie will do the job!!!

[@johnthompson4162]

Above all else in your tribulations, you have some superior DRY hay that will store and the cows love!!! We've all broke axles like that, wish I could come pack the wheel bearings for you all. John T. Love all the milk,cheese, and ice cream.

[@walusimbikhan6484]

Am in Africa with an old Massey Ferguson on my small farm but you gentlemen your doing agreat job.

[@guydaubenspeck9206]

Around here in Western Pennsylvania we refer to that noise in MTA is making a stack music. And I for one think that is a pretty sweet tune

[@ساداتکاتبی]

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[@paulmartin8784]

The difference between a farm kid and a city kid It is like night and day difference

[@jamesmarsh4957]

them old 273 balers seem to go on for ever if you look after them but ours used to brake a shear bolt for no reason , with the wheel axel problem cold have been a fault in the axel and also on banks it puts more stress on these machines than if your working on flat ground , we found this with our stuff but its part of farming on banks , and things always go wrong when your busy don't they , just keep plowing on

[@williamhicken1206]

Excellent looking hay. You three brothers all make a great job of narrating.

[@phtaylor1976]

Some awesome angles with the camera this week - great video

[@reginabraok939]

Another great hay making video! Thanks much!!!!

[@Pileits]

Thanks again guys for the video. I really enjoy watching all the farm activity that you guys do..

[@r.scotthill3082]

That's what 6mph does. For being so conservative in most of your methods when it comes to driving your equipment you're like NASCAR.

[@trevor7918]

Hello boys. Picked up one of those new Holland carts so you can pull two rakes at once either going the same direction or the other side for two separate windows. It works pretty darn good.

[@johngourley741]

Always liked the sound of the Farmall M exhaust. Fourth gear is the most used gear in a M. Looks like good hay and the weather to get it baled.

[@doncc6080]

Cool hay in the barn. Hope the axle repair goes smooth and it up real soon.

[@aaronferstl9703]

If you are shearing bolts frequently, the timing of the chamber teeth and the plunger is likely off. We had an NH 269 that worked beautifully until one summer when it would shear a bolt every 75-100 bails. The NH dealer sent a guy out and he adjusted it and we never had another problem until we sold the farm and bailer 7 years later.

[@robertwilliams3322]

Reminds me of yesteryear, thanks for the memories 😊

[@russellhansen7622]

Thanks for the video, love small squares. We had a 273 and stacked allot of hay behind one of those.

[@toddcaskey9984]

I had to build sides for my ramp then put a blocker board down along one side . Then I would walk around the house herding them around the house and up the ramp then shutting them in . Do this for a couple days at the same time like 8 pm and they will Learn to go into their house at night . I just went through this also

[@duanebolen543]

When I was a kid on the farm we had a 1952 super 66 New Holland Baler and we rebuilt that twice because Dad did a lot of custom bailing to pay for the Baylor and Oliver super 77 that he bought it the same time

[@llljjjaaa1]

Great video excellent camera placement!!! one of the best baling videos I've seen on KZbin and I've seen a lot . Awesome

[@Jman771]

When you said it’s 85 and you know how that is in a hay barn I had laugh when I was growing up I hated it and now all I want is to go back to doing it

[@BeingMe23]

Hmm, no one has ever thought up a hydrostatic PTO. It would be able to run at many different speeds.

[@kooiskustoms]

13 by my count. Moving right along. Miss doing hay.

[@janmarjobartels5148]

Weer een mooie video. En wat een goeie machine van New Holland.

[@tammygurke7482]

I love your videos. Very educational and great camera angles. PS, Mason adds a comedic commentary…. Keep up the great work❤

[@garyforney9421]

On those hills with a John Deere bale thrower, you would be like an NFL quarterback trying to hit a receiver. Great video. A trip down memory lane.

[@lspkubota6936]

Good video brother❤❤❤❤

[@archermathews8562]

Nice job on the camera

[@markflick1641]

Nice seeing the Farmall’s stretch their legs . 686 is a sweet machine, guess I like red .😁 Break downs will always be there ( where you have trains you’ll have wrecks) . Great video ,God Bless

[@johnhenderson299]

Great haying video other than the baler

[@CharlesSmith-ty2ce]

Great job guy's Love the Family Farms Keep Pushing Forward 😊❤😊❤

[@KaosKniteFMC]

Maybe try adding some small wooden slats to the ramp so the ducks can get traction when climbing up? I've seen that with chickens, not sure if it will work with webbed feet.

[@colorado1088]

Maybe put one of those fake owls by the pen when you want them in. Also I've seen the Alaskan Kilcher folks tie a rag around a stick and flail it in the air to get chickens to go in as they think its a hawk or something.

[@dizzy8890]

Next time you bale let me know. I'll help you stack it ! It would be fun to hang out with you all for a day or two.

[@jamesbristow5740]

Weirdly specific, but at 2:26, just under the starter but above the clutch rod, is that a single hydraulic fitting? Some birds, if you put a light in the coop, as it gets dark they'll naturally head in, then once it's the norm you can get rid of the light.

[@leahmollytheblindcatnordee3586]

Enjoyed the ride and the commentary. You do it well both of you. Sorry about the broken axle, but loved your dad's comment. "That should be an easy fix----if you can find the parts." Bet you either find or cobble up one. Thanks for taking us along. Green gold is wonderful stuff.

[@petrokemikal]

About the ducks.. Get into the habit of giving them some feed inside the house at night, they cant resist that.. Maybe let them go a bit hungry beforehand so that they definately are interested when you put some in there.. After a few weeks you can probably stop doing that and will have programmed themselves into the routine..

[@hannahschaafsma2894]

We have ducks too. It takes a long time to train them to go in their coop!

[@bobrat]

You're an asset to the team Mason 👏👏👏

[@keithselzer9816]

Back when I farmed I had the same thing happen to our 273. That is when I bought my 1st round baler. I had 20 acres ready to bale. The New Holland dealer said he couldn't get axle for a week or so. So I bought a 847 4×4. And never looked back.

[@gregcatlett1458]

Smart dog 😂 ! Those narrow fronts sure can turn on a dime great for small fields ! Moving on there men looking good Thanks so much.

[@travisjones1241]

Great seeing the Farmalls get used. Doing all my farming with a Allis WD45 and IH 656. The Allis never lets me down. Great videos guys!

[@jvin248]

When you get a replacement axle for the baler, check the same region this axle broke for any sharp machining marks or tight radii -- stress risers next to all that flexing bending the bar (wider wheels give a longer wrench arm). You could try polishing that spot and the bearing edge where it could contact the radius too to make sure it's not cutting the bar. Fatigue fractures will leave 'beach marks' just like vacation spots where you can follow them back to the initiation site and figure out the problem. And Knotters, they were a bit of a bane in our operation back in the day, so finicky.

[@8tomtoms8]

Great video Mason!! Thanks for filming guys!! I think the hills on your farm contribute to the metal fatigue on those axles.

[@kensmithler5965]

Another great video guys! Lots of amazing shots that you set up beautifully. Love your channel! Keep up the great work.

[@GeraldSondag]

Back in the day we had a NH Hayliner 270 and had axle problems on that side of the baler a couple of times. Remember that is the heavy side of the machine then you fill it with hay as well as having the thrower on there too. We did not have a thrower on our baler but did load on flat bed racks. Our best day baling pure alfalfa hay one afternoon we did 997 in 3 hours. The 270 was a hay eating machine. Dad and I did custom baling every year and did around 50,000 per year

[@glenmomrik727]

Love the Ms raking personally raked with a H in the 70s and 80s baled a lot with a 273 and a 316 both great balers did about 12 to 15 thousand a year with them sure miss it great video

[@bobsuszka1159]

Hay's decent. Not a terrible load, but that's about it with a belt thrower. I remember the 327 and the 336 with the 30 thrower that would build a bigger load with stacking the front 328 with the 40 kicker couldn't build that big of a load. 210 stacked is a big load on an 9x16. No flats, but pretty sketchy getting that one home. Its creative what you can do with what you have

[@mikebrown1188]

Those old 273 were a great baler. Shear pins save alot more damage. Great video once again. Love seeing then old farmalls still working

[@280813jb]

A few years ago my brother broke the same axle on his CIH baler. My thoughts are that the axle was designed for the baler without the bale thrower attachment and with the bale thrower on the back there is just too much weight for the size of the axle. Love the sound of the IH 686 baling.

[@user-ew1sk9zp5v]

Love the hay baling clips, nicely done! Sorry about the broken axle, glad you always can fix things yourselves.

[@crazyoldbat7600]

Good job on the haying, Dad, Mason, Owen! All the little bumps in the road don't mean a thing when you're putting up hay for the year. It's always a long winter.

[@saint5345]

Hope all work out for you

[@clinthochrein888]

Nice set up with the 686 tractor. usually it gets eerily strange if nothing breaks down . But thank my lucky stars .

[@zebwalton979]

Would like to see how you fixed it. I mean, how do you get it off the ground, prop it up and change the axle?

[@tractordan933]

What, no old John Deere's. Oh well old Farmalls are OK too. How many tractors made today will still be getting the job done when they are seventy years old?

[@banjobenson9348]

I think we had the only IH baler in the state , no thrower though. good old bale hook and stackem.

[@creakingpines]

Great video, never knew how hay bales were made.

[@trystenplaysss]

well bummer for the break down but i did count 12 bales a minute

[@heatherkohlwey8379]

If you use equipment, new or old, it's going to break at some point. Some of the technology on those balers hasn't changed much since the old wire-tie balers. It is interesting to see how things change and stays the same. Thank you for sharing a day on your farm. Stay safe, and God bless.

[@adamwagner1987]

We used to have a new holland 276 hayliner and switch to a 570 new holland. Really ramped up our production.. amazing how far baling technology comes . The engineering in it is incredible..

[@jasonbeecher509]

A bad day baling hay is better than a good day of factory work

[@guptaram1988]

Hoi na hee

[@bhain40]

For my ducks, I had to add walls to the ramp and basically 'funnel' them in at night for a few nights before they would do it on their own. They were in this pen for six weeks before they were big enough to let outside, so it isn't just imprinting. It was interesting to watch which ducks went in first or last. They may need more grip, and eventually they may even figure out how to jump or pull themselves in without the ramp. They're pretty clever at using their bills and the hooks on their toes.

[@rohitkumar-jn4sg]

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[@CanuckAlert]

I cannot help to laugh when those bales get tossed. It probably doesn't help that I am saying weee in my head when I see it.

[@dennislang4375]

Man, those things gobble up a lot more windrow than my JD 14T ever did

[@andyrobinson339]

Very enjoyable video. You guys are so comfortable narrating...seems very natural. Very impressive for a young person to be so good at that! Man those side hills scare me. How to you decide how far up a hill to mow?

[@stanhensley3082]

The board maybe too smooth for the ducks to walk up on.Rough up the board or put down a old piece of thin carpet. May help?? Were there any tadpoles in the water? Getting the time of year to see them?? I hated to rake hay if I was not going to run the baler.Seems like everyone who runs a baler wants it raked just like they want it.They like to complain every time you pick up a new wagon. Yes, I even miss getting yelled at for not raking the hay right.Good looking hay .Cattle should eat it all. Thanks 😊.

[@ctfarmtrucking6934]

For someone who has livestock, bales in the barn are as good as money in the bank. Sorry to see you've had problems with your baler. I've never been real fond of New Holland balers even though I'm a big Ford guy. I prefer an old John Deere 14t, it's one of the best balers I've ever had. I've had newer ones, I've had older ones but the old 14t just keeps on ticking. Love seeing the family all working together too, that's what makes farming great.

[@dirthog1313]

That's a rough one.. I've done the exact same thing before...

[@AllenRipper]

Pen the ducks in for a week and they will call it their home.

[@lelandmonroe5842]

Excellent Video

[@robertlusnia506]

Great video

[@smileyfarmxbox8680]

It’s so hot and dry where I am at some guys are doing 1 day hay

[@farmerike-treasuredhavenfa66]

Years ago we broke the same axle on our NH 311 that we had. Bent the shield the same way. It's always something...

[@flk3rd]

While everyone was counting bales I counted strokes (tried). Anywhere between 5 and 10 depending on how thick the windrow was. Average was 7 or 8. I have a 273 and I like it!

[@mikewagar62]

An IH weight box is so damn handy!

[@davidkimmel4216]

I had a NH baler with a thrower just like yours. I have no idea how many thousand it put up. Gave me very little problems. Nothing has changed with the knotters or needles. My family had NH baler that had canvas pickup. It had a Wisconsin motor. The knotters were on the side of the chamber not on top like they are today. The Wisconsin motor was great. Don’t let it run out of gas. They would vapor lock and you could crank for hours. Also the crank sometimes would stay on the shaft and everyone would run for cover. It would throw upwards and you didn’t want to have it come down on your head.

[@HM-0410]

I miss the smells and the itchyness of balding square bales My first job on the farm was riding the wagon catching the bales as they were kicked out at us. I was 8 and many of time I didn’t pay attention and got knocked off the wagon. Man those were good times. Lol. Great video. God bless.

[@dairyfarmmidwest1615]

Takes about 2 weeks surround them take leader put on to and they will learn to run right up

[@Arch-uu1oj]

Remember back in the day when you hooked the thrower to the toung of yhe wagon?????

[@garyforney9421]

I do. It kept the bales in the wagon, but you had to go back and throw a few bales around by hand sometimes if you wanted to get your wagon full.

[@rayjerome3832]

Yep remember that in our 273 when I was a young kid. It was a big deal when dad had a hydraulic cylinder put on the thrower

[@travisvolf1804]

When you first get ducks or chickens, leave them inside for atleast 24 hours then the birds know that the house is their home and they will go back in their house every nite.. I learned that from watching pete.. at just a few acres farm..channel

[@lifeoutdoorseveryday1682]

I would enjoy seeing the repair, if you happened to take video of it.

[@whm2901]

Now you need to get a nice HR1140 to go along with that new tedder and get rid of those "twister" rakes

[@darrellrobinson5742]

Check shiming of flywheel should be very little gap back of flywheel I always set them up so all most turn baler over empty set right will make not having to change shearbolts as often also check pin in plunger stop in front of baler there have a bad habit of kotter key falling out an bad think happen when u need itit don’t work replaced alot of yoke for needles an needles at dealer

[@banjobenson9348]

I suppose twine has gone up a lot too.

[@jerryrobson9309]

15 bales great video

[@SemperFido9915]

As a kid, I spent my summers on my grand dad's hay farm, and I loved it. You guys are making me miss those days. Great job. Question: That Kerr pickling jar that sticks up out of the hood of Mason's tractor, what does it do? Thanks.

[@stevebiddle8912]

First time to watch your video. Really enjoyed it! How many bales will a wagon hold?

[@AnastasiaFuegel]

this is better than watching a john wayne movie

[@davidwhittredge-rr7ti]

That what happens when you”hot dog bale” dad!! lol.