Making Hay the Hard Way

An old fashioned hay day, with some other stuff thrown in. Its gonna come down to the wire trying to stay ahead of the approaching rain storm, and a new implement shows up on the farm!

[@1954jeremiah]

Spent my summer's making hay on my grandfather's farm in Pennsylvania, cutting with a rear mount sickle bar,raking,and baling 50-70 pound square bales,stacking them on the wagons,3-4 wagons a day,and unload that evening in the barn,,hard work!! Must be nice,having a round baler,being able to move a lot of hay with minimal physical effort!😎😎😎

[@mymichiganfarmlife7180]

Round bales are definitely the way to go 🤣 let the tractor do all the hard work haha

[@kennethhall5070]

Awesome job, perseverance pays off. I really enjoy watching your videos.

[@dm55]

Loved your drone overhead shot.

[@mymichiganfarmlife7180]

Thanks!

[@AGRIMOVIEemi]

Great video 👍🏻 👏 👍🏻 Great channel 👍🏻 👏 👍🏻 👋👋👋👋

[@MrSheepherder88]

He has one good tractor raking hay lol AC Orange

[@mymichiganfarmlife7180]

Thanks!

[@dougherring4965]

I agree with Leroy I didn't have to use horse drawn but 100sof thousands of small squares definitely easier with round baler

[@mymichiganfarmlife7180]

Agreed round bales are definitely the way to go!

[@paulveenings6861]

We call them idiot cubes , yes I handled thousands of them by hand as well . Dad said it was character building 😂😂😂 I still remember the day dad got a round baler . No more character building . 😂

[@mymichiganfarmlife7180]

That sounds like an accurate description 😅

[@leroyschlabach3697]

This video is titled wrong.... It should be called *Making Hay The Easy Way* Growing up I threw many thousand small square bales of hay. Put them on the wagon throw into the haw mow and stack them. And all af the aquipment was horse drawn.

[@mymichiganfarmlife7180]

That is definitely the hard way! I've spent quite a few summers throwing squares helping out a neighbor and that's just not for me lol

[@trabantfahrer6016]

Oh deer! I am very sorry to tell this to you, but here in Germany, we had long times NO mowing machines, we mowed with by Hand, with a "Sense", tedded it by Hand, swad it by Hand, and loaded it by hand, to put it in a shed, by Hand...

[@danielfennig8592]

I can assure you that is not the hard way to make hay😂 great video

[@mymichiganfarmlife7180]

I suppose it's all relative 🤣 glad you enjoyed it!

[@randygrider9758]

Rake double windrows, saves time and wear and tear on equipment

[@mymichiganfarmlife7180]

Yes we normally do rake double rows but we were trying to get this stuff dry faster. Appreciate the comment!

[@AirplaneDoctor_]

You need to adjust the brakes on the 706, they are designed to work even if the engine shuts off for whatever reason, they generally only fail when out of adjustment.

[@mymichiganfarmlife7180]

As far as I know the brakes on this tractor do not work when the engine is running, but I will definitely look into if there is an adjustment that fixes that. Thanks for the tip!

[@AirplaneDoctor_]

@@mymichiganfarmlife7180 It's the same from the 06 through to the 86 series, if the self adjusting brakes haven't been serviced they won't work when the engine is off. Only other possibility is the master is shot which is doubtful, but IH engineers built in the safety feature to stop exactly what you experienced. Nice channel btw, excellent job on the AC.

[@mymichiganfarmlife7180]

Well thanks for that info! I'll definitely look into that, cause it's not fun rolling down a hill 😅

[@DanielDavis-jk2su]

I enjoy watching the older tractors work, and am curious if they are easier on fuel than the newer ones?

[@mymichiganfarmlife7180]

Can't say for sure as we don't have any "new" ones, but the bigger gas tractors drink it up pretty quickly when you are working them hard

[@sparhawkable]

My first time to see your channel. What area of MI are you farming ? I grew up on a shiawassee county farm

[@mymichiganfarmlife7180]

Welcome! We are in west Michigan in eastern Kent county!

[@weissfarms7680]

Could you do a walk around of that sweet old combine is that a 45 model or 55??

[@mymichiganfarmlife7180]

It's actually a model 40! I'll try to do a walk-around of it on my next video for you!

[@randallsullivan3692]

Tried to watch but the cheezy music loop drove me away!

[@mymichiganfarmlife7180]

I'm sorry that you didn't enjoy it. I do not always have as much time as I would like to pick out music unfortunately. I hope you will try again on the next one!

[@randallsullivan3692]

@@mymichiganfarmlife7180 I came for the sound of the tractor working. Who needs music at all?

[@raywhite1442]

Didn't paint it to match tractor

[@mymichiganfarmlife7180]

The previous owners had it on a john deere so it matched their tractor 😅

[@danguritz2446]

You need a belt boiler those chain bailers are the worst.

[@mymichiganfarmlife7180]

They work just fine for me, when they are working of course 😅