What a great video on how you load the bales of hay. I just can't imagine that away back when I was very young in the late 40's and 50's. It was all done by hand mostly and you thought nothing of it because that was they way it was done. Thought it was great when we got a New Holland side loader that hooked to the wagon to pick up the bales on to the wagon. Now that,at that time was just great, we didn't have to pitch them up with forks LOL.
@thefunkyfarmer9 жыл бұрын
Im glad its not like that now. We used to do it with pitch forks when i was a lad. Hard work in the sun
@Galaedael8 жыл бұрын
Wow! I remember bucking bales. It was the worst job ever. Nice to see it has passed on to the history books.
@ultimatefarming80557 жыл бұрын
The way the farm near me does it is stack the 8's into stacks of 56 and cart them with a trailer. The trailer tilts and then picks up the stacks of 56!
@colincampbell36799 жыл бұрын
Wow, I got this exact same square bale grab in the fs15 game :) It sure helps move allot of the square bales I make! My one picks up 2 at a time length wise? I use a front loader arm attached to the tractor for this? Mind you I need a medium sized tractor with a 1000 or even a 1600 Kg counter weight on the rear of the tractor to stop the bales weight from making the tractor do a nose dive lol. Sometimes when stacking allot of bales high I have to use a JCB Teleloader with it's long extending arm.
@thefunkyfarmer9 жыл бұрын
+Colin Campbell you shouldn't need a counter weight, i've never used one. Only in farm sim i guess
@colincampbell36799 жыл бұрын
Most likely your right about that point? But saying that, I still have the tractor wave and wobble a around even with a weight on the back! I have done it without one of course but the tractor does tend to dip forward on it's front wheels with the backend up a bit? I find I need to go very slowly even with the weight on, as the tractor is a bit top heavy with the straw bale up on the front loader arm? Anyway you know more the real stuff so I let you keep us up to date with the real world of farming? Thanks :)
@outsideman669 жыл бұрын
I that neat way of putting bails on that wagon.
@liamashley621910 жыл бұрын
It wold be a handy if you used the flateight grab for lifting square bales.
@thefunkyfarmer10 жыл бұрын
might have to get a better grab to do that, this ones getting on a bit and getting rusty
@dustinhaynes26179 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the video... My brother and I have always been into heavy equipment and hard work... We also play simulation games... We found farming simulator, and I was inspired by the game... And becaus of the game... All I want to do is work hard and end up with a little farm of my own... Thanks for the video once again... Have a great day buddy.
@thefunkyfarmer9 жыл бұрын
Thanks Dustin really appreciate your comments. Good luck with your dream I'm sure you will get there
@dustinhaynes26179 жыл бұрын
thefunkyfarmer yea... Shouldn't be too hard.... All it takes is hard work and an even better attitude
@bluegtturbo7 жыл бұрын
Just wondering - why not go with big round bales? Just seems a lot less laborious to feed than the square ones - or are these square ones for horses
@thefunkyfarmer7 жыл бұрын
because we can use them in our old stone sheds
@exileinderby5111 жыл бұрын
Another good video. It's nice to see a good square load. I also liked how you 'didn't' give your bloke a lift down off the load on the bale grab!!!
@thefunkyfarmer11 жыл бұрын
yes, ones 30 years old!
@EastTexasRailfan9 жыл бұрын
What kind of tractor was that loading the bales and also u might wanna go up a gear from the way it sounded
@thefunkyfarmer9 жыл бұрын
Nick Morris cx95 mccormick
@santiagogallegos39877 жыл бұрын
That is the easy way of bailing hay
@wendyrowland77874 жыл бұрын
Santiago Gallegos and the hard way of moving it.
@ARCCommanderOrar9 жыл бұрын
tractors aren't cars... their engines are designed to run at high rpm for long periods of time
@joek44878 жыл бұрын
kitty do you know how a tractor works by any chance because when doing a job you have the tractor flat out .... so dont comment on things u know nothing about
@neilmccann998 жыл бұрын
Cars get to way higher revs mostly
@Masseyman-nv2kl6 жыл бұрын
joe k kitty is right you can run it flat out for extremely long periods of time unlike car engines. Cause a Stratford engine has a long bore stroke which gives it more power/torque. So STFU and learn mechanics before you accuse someone of not knowing something they obviously know more about than you
@billchapel52489 жыл бұрын
Their was only one farmer in our area, who had a kick baler, I liked working for him, the bales, were generally a little smaller, and lighter, than bales that we picked off the field, or working behind the baller, on the hay wagon, but no matter it was hot dirty work, I don't think many kids now days, would even do that kind of work.
@thefunkyfarmer9 жыл бұрын
Yeh I'm sure your right
@dieselrulesKO9 жыл бұрын
thefunkyfarmer im 19 and make the hay on our farm, we do 8 bale sled as you do, but stack them all by hand in the barn, its horrid hot itchy work but no one gives me a hand!
@thefunkyfarmer9 жыл бұрын
dieselrulesKO hard work but at least it keeps you fit
Your one grab is fine for the job it's better than mine.
@thefunkyfarmer10 жыл бұрын
thanks for the tip
@richardconnolly283410 жыл бұрын
nice video
@andygodby69027 жыл бұрын
Over thirty years ago my father had a Farmhand accumulator that worked with packs of eight in stead of these ten bale packs. It was a great system and I never understood why more farmers didn't use it. My brothers and I grew up on a 3020 stacking hay like this and we could show these guys a thing or two.
@0909159 жыл бұрын
Hello. I se you video is from England and I was wondering if you could tell me where you have bought your grapper? Maybe a link? I'm from Denmark and i can't finde a dealer over here. How is it, do you have to press youre bales harder to be abel to hold on to them with you grapper? Kind regards from Denmark
@thefunkyfarmer9 жыл бұрын
Hi. This grab is about 25 years old but I'm sure you could still buy one. Try googling 'flat 8 grab'. Yes the bales do need to be firm but not really much different to how they are normally baled
@0909159 жыл бұрын
thanks got a hit right away. it helps when you no what to look fore ;-)
@cormacreilly474510 жыл бұрын
can u bring big squares on that loader attachment. good vid
@thefunkyfarmer10 жыл бұрын
maybe but I don't know if its strong enough
@farmerd610 жыл бұрын
I grew up on a 60 cow dairy in Pennsylvania. my father and I did all the work. we baled 10,000 bales of alfalfa hay per year with no help. we had a kicker on our baler and basket wagons. the way you bale seems labor intensive and inefficient to me. love your channel though.
@thefunkyfarmer10 жыл бұрын
Hi. Nice to hear from you. Your right its not very efficient doing it this way but as we only make about 600 bales of hay a year its ok. Glad we aren't doing 10,000 like this!
@arwelagrimachinery10 жыл бұрын
thefunkyfarmer if you'd have a upright front ladder on your trailer and took the back one off , you could stack them without anyone on the trailer (we do this with a 20 (ish) foot single axle trailer given we cart down hill on our own road. We have to stack by hand using a lister elevator as we only have access to the front of the stack but some farmers around us have big sheds that have access to two sides of the stack allowing them to stack the bales using flat 8 grabs (they might only handle a handful of bales each summer by hand , just saying this as fair play to cooks (popular make of flat 8 grab/sledge) the flat 8 can offer a very minimal labour use and maximise speed.
@arwelagrimachinery10 жыл бұрын
Arwel Davies what i mean in the first part is that if everything is working as it should we don't handle any bales in the field (we own same grab as you)
@thefunkyfarmer10 жыл бұрын
i know what you mean about the back ladder but we haul uphill over bumpy ground so if we didnt have it on we would loose most of the load Arwel Davies
@mackthompson11619 жыл бұрын
farmerd6 lazy American farmer afraid of real work
@fr47699 жыл бұрын
good stuff. its an efficient way you have of getting them in. how many would you make in total?
@thefunkyfarmer9 жыл бұрын
+Trevor Farrell about 600-800 depending on the season
@fr47699 жыл бұрын
+thefunkyfarmer that's nice bit. very handy to have them though.
@rmack489 жыл бұрын
+Trevor Farrell On our family farm here in Canada, we used to put up about 14000 square bales like these every year before we started round baling the hay, but the folks who still are on the farm now still put up around 3000 square bales. When you hay this way the first prerequisite is to have a lot strong backs around.
@fr47699 жыл бұрын
Their alot of work. We used to make them one time. 5,000 of them. Thinking of making more of them again too.
@farmerdude357810 ай бұрын
Minimal equipment is key to hay production and sale. One man can bale with only a basket .
@logster0411 жыл бұрын
How many slurry tanks do you have
@archie_-zv8xc9 жыл бұрын
+brian welch 0 they contract alot of stuff in
@James_66008 жыл бұрын
here in norway well where i live the climet is to cold for weat so its just grass
@pepegarcia13008 жыл бұрын
p
@James_66008 жыл бұрын
+Pepe Garcia ...
@TheAdamRides9 жыл бұрын
great video! what model massey ferguson is that?
@thefunkyfarmer9 жыл бұрын
TheAdamRides its a 690
@danielcarragher35778 жыл бұрын
Strap it down but a good vid on my farm we have jd 4430,jd3050
@wendyrowland77874 жыл бұрын
daniel carragher yes penalty points on license for unsecured load.
@jakedog19768 жыл бұрын
love tthe vids been watching for a while amd was wondering a few things. How's the nw Wellies? and can you talk about your brother and how you two split up the work on the farm . How does it work and how does he feel about the filming ?
@thefunkyfarmer8 жыл бұрын
+Ross Hastings the wellies are good so far, i can't really judge them till i've had them a while. My brother does more with the cows and i tend to do more with the machinary/ maintenance etc. He doesn't like the filming which is why you hardly see him
@TheStephenheath8 жыл бұрын
just found this vid .Tell me what would happen if the guy using a mobile on the load tripped or got knocked H&E would have a field day
@thefunkyfarmer8 жыл бұрын
Maybe but this is how farmers have loaded trailers for years.
@TheStephenheath8 жыл бұрын
no excuse to have a chap walking on a load gawping at a mobile if he was hurt the boss would be in deep shit so to speak .I have worked in farming and times have changed just like with the PTO how many were prosecuted because a worker was hurt because guard was missing i agree the workers should not have worked without a guard but it was and is down to the boss so what i am saying is even the boss /farmer as you like the buck stops here no nastiness was meant in my comment
@thefunkyfarmer8 жыл бұрын
i hear what you're saying. But in this case this is our farm
@TheStephenheath8 жыл бұрын
ok
@thomascoates23998 жыл бұрын
What size is your farm
@aidansheehy48717 жыл бұрын
I am putting a loader on a tractor and I am wondering is there a difference between the Q720 and the Q750 QUICKIE loader TIA
@escofield9 жыл бұрын
We loaded it all be hand on the farm.
@thefunkyfarmer9 жыл бұрын
+Ernie Scofield fair play
@cowpoke029 жыл бұрын
thinking small tractors with bucket forks . push the dry hay together in a pile then . load a wagon or these silage wagons that bail up the rows . then dumps into a copper .blow into a open ground barn . ted it then tractor fork . mow let dry and round bale . otherwise I like green chop and run it through a drier and comes out done green and no dust into a bailer . did a lot of square bale unloading by my self. when I was younger .
@garethbaker49738 жыл бұрын
What type of trailer are you using
@thefunkyfarmer8 жыл бұрын
a really old one
@tiradouglas3189 жыл бұрын
we do ours by hand in newzealand. hay loader and acuple keen workes. she be right
@thefunkyfarmer9 жыл бұрын
+Tira Douglas good hard work
@eddieb52819 жыл бұрын
No offence but those McCormicks look like they have the back end of a John Deere the body of a case and the cab of a zetor
@thefunkyfarmer9 жыл бұрын
+tractor lad farming i know what you mean. I think there is some connection with Case with these tractors
@EastTexasRailfan8 жыл бұрын
+thefunkyfarmer No doubt the body and front end especially look identical to a case
hi i know it was a while ago this vid but roughly how many bales were there on that trailer
@thefunkyfarmer8 жыл бұрын
about 100
@harryroberts71648 жыл бұрын
okay cool thanks
@beartechdeck9 жыл бұрын
How did he get down from on top of that hay?
@thefunkyfarmer9 жыл бұрын
beartechdeck with difficulty
@swaggie58039 жыл бұрын
+thefunkyfarmer Just sit on the impaler or grab. cheers
@janpetrevcic72978 жыл бұрын
do you still have the McCormick cx 105 of did you sell it
@thefunkyfarmer8 жыл бұрын
+Jan Petrevčič yes we still have it
@72davisken8 жыл бұрын
you really need a telehandler to run a grapple efficently
@thefunkyfarmer8 жыл бұрын
+72davisken this works fine for us
@dazedconfuzed69 жыл бұрын
Damn it, I wanted to see how he got down and you cut it out of the video.
@beartechdeck9 жыл бұрын
Me too!
@rebeldude249 жыл бұрын
I'll take my kick baler over this any day. Only have to run two pieces of machinery my way, this takes 3 and twice the time. Looks cool but that's about it.
@mackthompson11619 жыл бұрын
rebeldude24yeah only fat lazy yank farmers seem to use kick balers. Afraid of real work
@farmingvermont4809 жыл бұрын
Mack Thompson have you ever hard of the term work smarter not harder and it is hard work to unload kicker wagons in the hot sun I should I have done it Have you ever done that I bet not you are just a jerk how about you stop typing on youtube and do so real work
@mackthompson11619 жыл бұрын
Travis Dusenbury Do you always cry like a baby on the internet?
@archie_-zv8xc9 жыл бұрын
+rebeldude24 but then it takes longer too unnload because you have too do it by hand. and its abit more expensive that way
@Cherryfarmboy6010 жыл бұрын
Kick baler and 3 wagons... Way more productive and less fuel
@mackthompson11619 жыл бұрын
Cherryfarmboy60 lazy mans way of doing the job.
@archie_-zv8xc9 жыл бұрын
+Cherryfarmboy60 more expensive way aswell and time consuming
@peterjames20049 жыл бұрын
lot of flys up Gloucester more than here in north somerset
@CodygoescrazyHQ10 жыл бұрын
what baler did yall use?
@thefunkyfarmer10 жыл бұрын
new holland
@CodygoescrazyHQ10 жыл бұрын
ah
@charliegardiner50511 жыл бұрын
are they all your tracrors
@kebbirhyner33149 жыл бұрын
Why do you run the tractor at such high RPM's? why not use a higher gear and lower RPM's. Kinda hard on the tractor no?
@thecornishdairyboys567910 жыл бұрын
are the hydraulics set up at a high pressure or are they just really sensitive controls there cuase seems like its going quick all the time no offence and no hate but try finesse on it be finger tipy like ya know ahah my dad would tell ya with a frotloader be finger tipy be gentle realy reayll gentle
@thefunkyfarmer10 жыл бұрын
I'll go for finger tipy
@thecornishdairyboys567910 жыл бұрын
ahah right on then mate ahah not being rude or criticisig just gerneral advice cuase mounted and dtachable loaders o that i know off are all flmsy or dont like alot of jolting
@thefunkyfarmer10 жыл бұрын
Motor Man no worries. Cheers
@thecornishdairyboys567910 жыл бұрын
right on hope to be getting the amount of videos u get this summer be out on asheep farm and a dairy farm should be fun ahaha
@litofajardo71747 жыл бұрын
nice machine for Philippines farmer.I am interested Bale Stacker
@joetiller10318 жыл бұрын
Sound like tractor had spur gears in trany, why it whines so.
@thefunkyfarmer8 жыл бұрын
+Joe Tiller i couldn't tell you
@CougarLand8 жыл бұрын
This is the most confusing way of baling I've ever seen. First one person bales with a wagon that stacks 1 row high and drops it on the field. Then two people are used to pick it up - one to drive all over the field again to pick it up and re-stack on another wagon, while another one stands around on the wagon to move some bales around and direct the person on the tractor.....OMG. At this rate, why don't they just go old school with a small tractor/baler wagon with one driver and one on the wagon. Save money on equipment and would go twice as fast. Either that or get yourself a kick-baler.
@thefunkyfarmer8 жыл бұрын
well it works for us. And plenty of other people
@WizardOfWhoopee9 жыл бұрын
Don't bring that contraption to the United States. It could spell the end of professional football! Most of our farm boys get big putting up hay, then go play football. Just look how scrawny that guy is on the hay wagon! (humor) -WoW
@thefunkyfarmer9 жыл бұрын
+WizardOfWhoopee ha. This is better for old guys like me who don't want to lift bales any more