loading hay bales

[@canvids1]

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.

[@thefunkyfarmer]

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

[@Galaedael]

Wow! I remember bucking bales. It was the worst job ever. Nice to see it has passed on to the history books.

[@ultimatefarming8055]

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!

[@colincampbell3679]

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.

[@thefunkyfarmer]

+Colin Campbell you shouldn't need a counter weight, i've never used one. Only in farm sim i guess

[@colincampbell3679]

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 :)

[@outsideman66]

I that neat way of putting bails on that wagon.

[@liamashley6219]

It wold be a handy if you used the flateight grab for lifting square bales.

[@thefunkyfarmer]

might have to get a better grab to do that, this ones getting on a bit and getting rusty

[@dustinhaynes2617]

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.

[@thefunkyfarmer]

Thanks Dustin really appreciate your comments. Good luck with your dream I'm sure you will get there

[@dustinhaynes2617]

thefunkyfarmer yea... Shouldn't be too hard.... All it takes is hard work and an even better attitude

[@bluegtturbo]

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

[@thefunkyfarmer]

because we can use them in our old stone sheds

[@exileinderby51]

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!!!

[@thefunkyfarmer]

yes, ones 30 years old!

[@EastTexasRailfan]

What kind of tractor was that loading the bales and also u might wanna go up a gear from the way it sounded

[@thefunkyfarmer]

Nick Morris cx95 mccormick

[@santiagogallegos3987]

That is the easy way of bailing hay

[@wendyrowland7787]

Santiago Gallegos and the hard way of moving it.

[@ARCCommanderOrar]

tractors aren't cars... their engines are designed to run at high rpm for long periods of time

[@joek4487]

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

[@neilmccann99]

Cars get to way higher revs mostly

[@Masseyman-nv2kl]

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

[@billchapel5248]

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.

[@thefunkyfarmer]

Yeh I'm sure your right

[@dieselrulesKO]

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!

[@thefunkyfarmer]

dieselrulesKO hard work but at least it keeps you fit

[@paulbowyer6449]

good vid

[@ultimatefarming8055]

How many trailers did u fill?

[@thefunkyfarmer]

only 4

[@thefunkyfarmer]

maybe but the tractor can take it

[@limdini9908]

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[@liamashley6219]

Your one grab is fine for the job it's better than mine.

[@thefunkyfarmer]

thanks for the tip

[@richardconnolly2834]

nice video

[@andygodby6902]

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.

[@090915]

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

[@thefunkyfarmer]

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

[@090915]

thanks got a hit right away. it helps when you no what to look fore ;-)

[@cormacreilly4745]

can u bring big squares on that loader attachment. good vid

[@thefunkyfarmer]

maybe but I don't know if its strong enough

[@farmerd6]

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.

[@thefunkyfarmer]

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!

[@arwelagrimachinery]

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.

[@arwelagrimachinery]

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)

[@thefunkyfarmer]

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

[@mackthompson1161]

farmerd6 lazy American farmer afraid of real work

[@fr4769]

good stuff. its an efficient way you have of getting them in. how many would you make in total?

[@thefunkyfarmer]

+Trevor Farrell about 600-800 depending on the season

[@fr4769]

+thefunkyfarmer that's nice bit. very handy to have them though.

[@rmack48]

+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.

[@fr4769]

Their alot of work. We used to make them one time. 5,000 of them. Thinking of making more of them again too.

[@farmerdude3578]

Minimal equipment is key to hay production and sale. One man can bale with only a basket .

[@logster04]

How many slurry tanks do you have

[@archie_-zv8xc]

+brian welch 0 they contract alot of stuff in

[@James_6600]

here in norway well where i live the climet is to cold for weat so its just grass

[@pepegarcia1300]

p

[@James_6600]

+Pepe Garcia ...

[@TheAdamRides]

great video! what model massey ferguson is that?

[@thefunkyfarmer]

TheAdamRides its a 690

[@danielcarragher3577]

Strap it down but a good vid on my farm we have jd 4430,jd3050

[@wendyrowland7787]

daniel carragher yes penalty points on license for unsecured load.

[@jakedog1976]

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 ?

[@thefunkyfarmer]

+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

[@TheStephenheath]

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

[@thefunkyfarmer]

Maybe but this is how farmers have loaded trailers for years.

[@TheStephenheath]

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

[@thefunkyfarmer]

i hear what you're saying. But in this case this is our farm

[@TheStephenheath]

ok

[@thomascoates2399]

What size is your farm

[@aidansheehy4871]

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

[@escofield]

We loaded it all be hand on the farm.

[@thefunkyfarmer]

+Ernie Scofield fair play

[@cowpoke02]

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 .

[@garethbaker4973]

What type of trailer are you using

[@thefunkyfarmer]

a really old one

[@tiradouglas318]

we do ours by hand in newzealand. hay loader and acuple keen workes. she be right

[@thefunkyfarmer]

+Tira Douglas good hard work

[@eddieb5281]

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

[@thefunkyfarmer]

+tractor lad farming i know what you mean. I think there is some connection with Case with these tractors

[@EastTexasRailfan]

+thefunkyfarmer No doubt the body and front end especially look identical to a case

[@swaggie5803]

Is that a Ferguson trailor?

[@thefunkyfarmer]

+Roy Crosswell marshall

[@swaggie5803]

+thefunkyfarmer Richard, That's interesting.Thankyou. Roy.

[@harryroberts7164]

hi i know it was a while ago this vid but roughly how many bales were there on that trailer

[@thefunkyfarmer]

about 100

[@harryroberts7164]

okay cool thanks

[@beartechdeck]

How did he get down from on top of that hay?

[@thefunkyfarmer]

beartechdeck with difficulty

[@swaggie5803]

+thefunkyfarmer Just sit on the impaler or grab. cheers

[@janpetrevcic7297]

do you still have the McCormick cx 105 of did you sell it

[@thefunkyfarmer]

+Jan Petrevčič yes we still have it

[@72davisken]

you really need a telehandler to run a grapple efficently

[@thefunkyfarmer]

+72davisken this works fine for us

[@dazedconfuzed6]

Damn it, I wanted to see how he got down and you cut it out of the video.

[@beartechdeck]

Me too!

[@rebeldude24]

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.

[@mackthompson1161]

rebeldude24yeah only fat lazy yank farmers seem to use kick balers. Afraid of real work

[@farmingvermont480]

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

[@mackthompson1161]

Travis Dusenbury Do you always cry like a baby on the internet?

[@archie_-zv8xc]

+rebeldude24 but then it takes longer too unnload because you have too do it by hand. and its abit more expensive that way

[@Cherryfarmboy60]

Kick baler and 3 wagons... Way more productive and less fuel

[@mackthompson1161]

Cherryfarmboy60 lazy mans way of doing the job.

[@archie_-zv8xc]

+Cherryfarmboy60 more expensive way aswell and time consuming

[@peterjames2004]

lot of flys up Gloucester more than here in north somerset

[@CodygoescrazyHQ]

what baler did yall use?

[@thefunkyfarmer]

new holland

[@CodygoescrazyHQ]

ah

[@charliegardiner505]

are they all your tracrors

[@kebbirhyner3314]

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?

[@thecornishdairyboys5679]

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

[@thefunkyfarmer]

I'll go for finger tipy

[@thecornishdairyboys5679]

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

[@thefunkyfarmer]

Motor Man no worries. Cheers

[@thecornishdairyboys5679]

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

[@litofajardo7174]

nice machine for Philippines farmer.I am interested Bale Stacker

[@joetiller1031]

Sound like tractor had spur gears in trany, why it whines so.

[@thefunkyfarmer]

+Joe Tiller i couldn't tell you

[@CougarLand]

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.

[@thefunkyfarmer]

well it works for us. And plenty of other people

[@WizardOfWhoopee]

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

[@thefunkyfarmer]

+WizardOfWhoopee ha. This is better for old guys like me who don't want to lift bales any more