making hay on a small farm

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4 жыл бұрын

Showing our typical hay making process and equipment. This is a second cutting that yielded 47 bales of hay. With second cutting hay bringing $7-10 a bale here, even small batches like this are worth the effort.
Equipment used in this video:
Mowing: 1950 Farmall M; New Holland 472 7" haybine
Raking: 1948 Ford 8N; John Deere 642 hay rake
Baling: 1965 diesel Ford 4000; New Holland 310 square baler
Unloading: Slovak muscle and sweat
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@homesteadaquarius 4 жыл бұрын

Once you have smelled hay in cut and dried and hauled and been part of it in any way.... it never leaves you. Thank you my friend.

@smallfarmsurvival4026 4 жыл бұрын

Mowing is my favorite step. It's more challenging and it's just awesome seeing the thick grass get laid down. You know you have 2-3 days of stress and fun ahead of you.

@WilliamDraper-ym3nv Жыл бұрын

It is a shame Ford Motor Company sold their Ag Equipment business. Several tractors were used in this video. I did all of the baleing work in my younger days too.

@AaricHale 4 жыл бұрын

Awesome video ! I love watching people making hay . I wish I had someone bale our back field .

@smallfarmsurvival4026 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks. :) This was a fun video to make. From what I've seen, your back field isn't that big but its thick. You'd get a good number of bales out of it.

@AaricHale 4 жыл бұрын

@@smallfarmsurvival4026 It's around acre or so . We don't need a whole lot of hay for three goats . It not worth any ones time for a field that small .

@Heimerviewfarm 3 жыл бұрын

Thal baler looks a lot like mine, except I have a thrower but live it because it can make some beautiful bales

@smallfarmsurvival4026 3 жыл бұрын

It sure does make nice bales. Very dependable.

@BillTheTractorMan 2 жыл бұрын

Brings back so many memories! Thank you for sharing. Do you throw salt on your bales when stacking? We always did. Grandpa bought salt from the elevator that we tossed onto each layer of bales.

@smallfarmsurvival4026 2 жыл бұрын

We do, especially if the moisture might be a little questionable.

@t6vim12 4 жыл бұрын

Another great vid Pete thank you. Do you ever feel the need to do heat/moisture tests on the bales after they are in the barn?

@smallfarmsurvival4026 4 жыл бұрын

Yes. That's something I'm pretty careful about. I keep a close eye on the bales that might be suspect, and I usually set the heaviest 1-2 aside for daily checks. If they are okay, the rest is usually okay.

@StealthNinja7 3 жыл бұрын

What type of hay do you guys grow? And for what livestock is it grown for?

@JohnSwink 3 жыл бұрын

the haybine puts this is rows already- are you raking just to get it to dry faster?

@michiganhay7844 4 жыл бұрын

So second cutting what kind of grass was that you were bailing also what were you spraying on the knotters? Yeah that’s me I wear a bandanna while I’m stacking hey also

@smallfarmsurvival4026 4 жыл бұрын

This field is fescue and timothy, with some nasty patches of johnson grass. I'm not sure how to get rid of it. I guess roundup once the mowing is done? I put a light coat of penetrating oil on the knotters every few hundred bales. I don't know if it helps, but the knotters haven't missed a knot in a long time. As long as the twine knives are kept clean and sharp, that 310 seems to run like a clock. The bandanna helps, for sure. At some point I realized it probably wasn't good to be blowing black stuff out of my sinuses after a day on the wagon. 😬

@livewithnick 2 жыл бұрын

@@smallfarmsurvival4026 we had it growing in our field too. Sprayed then ended up digging it up.

@acdii 2 жыл бұрын

How many acres was that you baled? I just picked up some equipment to do 3 acres with, a NH 273, JD 1209 and IH 35. All said and done, less than $4K. Will be much better to actually put the grass and clover to good use other than mowing it every week, like does anyone really care if you have 4 acres of lawn when surrounded by corn fields?

@smallfarmsurvival4026 2 жыл бұрын

I would say this is about 2.5 acres. You should be able to easily handle that 3 acres you have with that equipment. There's a little bit of a learning curve to mowing, but the raking and baling are pretty much just driving in circles. :)