New Holland L775 Skid Steer Stacking Round Bales

[@rogercansler3709]

What ever the season, there is such a satisfying feeling when that last bale is off the field and in the stack.

[@chrisgreeby3056]

It's good to see the skid loader and everything has been going well. We keep getting this pesky rain in Northeast Pa.....Fun Fun

[@boehmfarm4276]

Same here with the rain. Rained 19 days in October.

[@Joey966]

That IH truck was a good purchase, and the skidsteer also.

[@chargermopar]

Not sure how I didn't see this when it came out but great job using the skid steer. Even an old one beats moving them with a tractor.

[@Thatcountrykid3382]

I love it when Jacob posts

[@PAYNEKILLER..]

I'd love to put JB in my brand new bobcat T770 with heated air ride seat, track suspension and ride control etc. He'd probably hate it 😆

[@ianhaggart1438]

Definitely have to give a fellow 775 owner a 👍. 😉 Great vid. Stay safe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@rogercarrico4975]

Speaking of fires on the road. In a unusual dry spell in my area. Not long ago. A burn band was issued. A guy driving on the bare rim. Sparked several fires. I heard he had to spend a little time in the hoosegow! 😛

[@davidwatt7663]

Last time I rang the Fire Brigade to report a straw fire , They said “ Can you keep it going till we get there😂😂😟

[@lukestrawwalker]

Yeah... LAST thing I'd depend on is the fire department to protect your hay. About oh probably 10 years ago, maybe 15, can't recall ATM, there was a BIG fire out at NASA Johnson Space Center. Now, JSC is about 600-800 acres of land, which was bequeathed to Rice University back in the 40's or 50's when that whole area was undeveloped rangeland. Rice University then donated it to NASA in order to get the space center located nearby, since there were would need a TON of scientists and engineers and high level managers, all well educated people, and many of whom would be working on advanced degrees, which Rice would certainly be happy to help them with, for the proper tuition of course. Anyway, back to the fire... NASA decided to test their "Morpheus" lunar lander concept vehicle, and to do it on an old concrete runway on the west side of the main building complex. Of course I guess the engineers working on the project never heard of concrete spalling when a rocket engine exhaust blasts down directly onto concrete for an extended length of time as the lander was landing, and didn't take any precautions to prevent it (like laying a steel pipe with holes drilled in it to spray water out on the concrete under the rocket engine to keep the concrete cool enough not to spall. Anyway, they did hover tests on their lander including protracted hovers over the concrete apron with the engine blasting several thousand degree high velocity rocket exhaust down onto the concrete, so the surface of the concrete expanded faster than the concrete underneath it, causing it to chip and flake off, and these white-hot chips of concrete were blasted out by the rocket engine into the dry grass beside the runway. Of course all that landed in the dry grass, which they'd had enough sense to have shredded off a few inches tall, but there was enough wind and fuel to light up and carry the fire, and within a short time they had a RAGING grass fire on their hands... Now remember all those hundreds of acres of land on which the JSC campus sits basically dead-centered... which is now in the midst of urban/suburban sprawl, as houses and businesses now surround JSC on all sides, right up to the security fence in many cases. Well, JSC rents that land to some local farmer who bales a SH!T TON of round bales off all that land every year... and of course the grass fire spread in all directions, burning through the chain link security fence and basically right up into people's backyards, within feet of their homes in some cases. It also caught the farmer's bale storage areas on fire, and several thousand (IIRC) round bales went up in flames... Now I bring this up because JSC has their own fire department, as well as bringing in surrounding communities fire departments to help control the blaze, and there was some footage I remember seeing on TV filmed from a helicopter, of the burning row of round bales-- which was sitting there smoldering. The fire department was hosing the bales down, and the considerable pressure of the fire hose was enough to blow the outer layer of the bales off, which of course were loose because whatever twine or netwrap that was on the bales had long since melted and burned away, and when they blew those bales open with the water, AS SOON AS THE OXYGEN IN THE AIR HIT THAT SCALDING HOT HAY, IT *INSTANTLY* IGNITED, like it was soaked in gasoline! It was above it's "auto-ignition" temperature, the heat having soaked into the bales as the outsides burned, but eventually the ash on the outside of the bale smothers the fire, cutting it off from oxygen sufficiently that the flames die, though the bale continues to smolder... but as soon as oxygen hits it, when the bale is disturbed and the ash and outer layers smothering it is knocked off, it BURSTS into flame. SO, the only way to keep from losing your shirt to a hay fire is NOT have all your hay in one location; keep it spread out so if one storage area catches fire, not ALL of it goes up in smoke! Because you really can't put out a hay fire... I've heard that cotton bales will even continue to burn UNDER WATER, and I wouldn't be surprised if the same was true of hay bales either! Later! OL J R :)

[@jankotze1959]

Thanks for mentioning what engine is in the skid-steer, always wonder....

[@drknockers5716]

Lets go bradon!!!!!

[@lukestrawwalker]

Looks good... nice bales! Yeah, putting round bales on to heavy clay soil is just the worst for messing up the bottoms... So long as you're using them up or selling them within a year, the damage is minimal... if you carry bales over a couple years, that's when the bottoms tend to rot off them and you have a LOT of loss. At some of the extension presentations I've been to, they discussed how to minimize that issue. The main problem is, clay soil will continuously wick moisture up into the bottom of the bale-- rainfall or snowmelt constantly replenishes the soil moisture and capillary action will carry it right up into the bottom of the bale, even if the ground was dry when you stacked it. SO basically anything you can put between the bale and the ground for a "moisture barrier" will most certainly help... ground tarps even unrolling sheet plastic, helps to minimize water wicking. Even if rain drips off the bales onto the plastic, at leas the moisture only runs under the bales on top of the tarp or plastic during the rain event... soil wicking moisture up into the bales is a nearly constant process (unless you're in a severe drought and surrounding vegetation sucks the soil dry of moisture, which, well, yeah... it's Ohio LOL:) You actually have the perfect tool at your disposal for making a hay storage area-- lay plastic with your vegetable bed plastic layer then put the bales on top-- effective moisture control, and if you can make a raised bed, so much the better as the bed shoulders should help the plastic to shed water! Other recommendations the extension service discussed was putting the bales on high, sandier soil (if there's any available, which isn't always the case-- our farm at Needville essentially have no sandy soil). Lighter soils of course allow much faster water infiltration rates, and reduce wicking because of the larger pore spaces between the larger soil particles, which creates more air space in the soil, rather than the tightly packed small platelets of clay particles which have small pore space, so less air infiltration into the soil, slower percolation rates of moisture down into the soil, and yet the smaller pore spaces allow moisture to wick upwards readily from moisture lower in the soil. The next step would be putting the bales on crushed rock, broken concrete rubble, or anything else that would provide some "air gaps" to prevent wicking. Old tires are a possibility if you have a ready supply and aren't storing huge numbers of bales (but old tires have the disadvantage of providing good cover for varmints and critters, some slithery some not, which is why I never liked that idea myself-- plus old tires can hold water, providing perfect mosquito breeders...Unless you cut holes in the sidewalls with a hole saw or something... Rip-rap (broken up chunks of concrete) works well, as well as old pavement or crushed stone or whatever... the coarser the better. BUT *usually* that stuff has to be purchased, unless you get construction or pavement debris, which can present other problems (not clean, metal or other stuff that could damage tires, etc). What we did was, when they replaced some power lines from town out past the farm, we grabbed as many old utility poles as we could lay hands on. Our utility company pulls them up, drops them in the ditches, and it's "first come first served" after that... SO usually there's something of a tractor derby with guys running out to get them back to the farm ASAP. We got enough to put pairs of old light poles about 2-3 feet apart, then we stack rows of round bales on top of them. I had thought about railroad ties, and if a person could get their hands on cheap SWITCH TIES (which are much longer) it would work, but for the standard 8-8.5 foot RR ties, it's cost prohibitive, unless you can get a big mess of old ones at very low or no cost. Putting two light poles or ties a couple feet apart or so then stacking bales on them keeps the bales up off the ground, and leaves an air gap underneath the bales, preventing any soil wicking moisture into the bottoms of the bales. They settle over time, leaving a couple grooves on the bottoms of the bales where they sat on the poles, BUT even then they're usually still a couple inches off the ground, which is enough air gap to prevent wicking. When we ran out of light poles, I was lucky enough to have a source of free plastic pallets that had been sent for recycling. The plastic pallets aren't perfect, but they're good enough to keep the bales up off the ground, and when the little plastic "feet" of the pallet eventually settles into the ground, they STILL provide an effective moisture barrier between the bales and ground. I just lay them out in rows butted together and set the bales on top of them. Works great. I HAD tried wooden pallets, because when I drove a school bus, my boss was in charge of the district warehouse, and they had a LOT of junk pallets or broken pallets to get rid of, plus surplus ones now and again as they accumulated, as truck drivers would only take a few back compared to what was delivered. Anyway, the problem with wood pallets is, the clay soil wicks moisture up into the them... they keep the bale up off the ground by about 4-6 inches, so the bale is undamaged, BUT where the wood pallet contacts the soil, it gets wet and STAYS wet, and the pallets slowly "dissolve" as the wood touching the ground slowly rots away. I could get 2 years out of wood pallets pretty easily, but 3-- they were pretty much rotted away to nothing. I had been throwing another wood pallet on top of the old ones, but then as the wood of the earlier pallets breaks down, well, it leaves a LOT of nails, gang nails, etc. behind... hardware you don't want on the field or in a tire. SO I was out having to pry up crumbling rotting wood full of rusty nails and other hardware, then transport it to a burn pile to dry out enough to burn... SO once I got plastic pallets, which do not rot (at least not in any short-term process-- maybe in 20 years they'll break up or something, I don't know) I quit using the wood pallets. Anyway, there's some ideas that I hope will help you out. Later! OL J R :)

[@MedicineYandere]

Confession: I absolutely suck at lining bales up. Used to piss my grandfather off

[@rogercarrico4975]

Me either! If one rolls a little after I back away. That's where she's stays😛

[@Josiahdrews1466]

Great seeing the old skidsteer. Would you ever consider getting a farmall?

[@Chestnutridgefunnyfarm]

Just found your channel. I farm in the Shenandoah valley of Virginia. I also have very similar older equipment. Almost all my stuff is 30 or more years old. I move and feed round bales with an L445 skid steer with the deutz diesel. I had a Wisconsin gas one but sold it when the hydraulic pump gave out. I live your chain baler with net wrap too. I’m in the market for a baler and might look for one. Seems to work good for you.

[@boehmfarm4276]

I like the baler, but they are hard to find with net. This fell into my lap.

[@Chestnutridgefunnyfarm]

@@boehmfarm4276 found one at an auction last weekend! It’s got the bale command monitor. I wish I could attach a picture. Really clean little baler.

[@francislahey7981]

Jacob. I consider you to be a fascinating young man - I can accuse you of this because I'm 62 years aged - and I am in enthrall with your simple reckoning of things in the earth. I don't think you were educated by Jesuits, as I was, because I see no evidence that you were. I do know you think, though. I know you farm. I know that you live in the soil, the goodness of it. I sense you have a contemplation of a certain cosmology, a beauty that comes from the soil. I love your videos. I wish you and all great fortune. In the cosmological way. The Catholic way.

[@donald1056]

Need some new skid steer tires real bad

[@timheasley612]

Lol more like 30-1 great video just the same 💪😎

[@davidsizemore9906]

any chance you have a 4 way gearbox for sale? thanks, David

[@jonwcs5842]

What was the bales weight? Mine were around 1600#s

[@boehmfarm4276]

These are dry 4x4s. About 700.

[@patrickkelly4070]

why didnt you stack them two or three high to save space?

[@nicholasmeyer5234]

They will rot with the bale's touching from holding water in the crevices

[@lukestrawwalker]

You really shouldn't do that unless you can cover them to keep the rain/snow off, like with a tarp. Otherwise water runs off the top bale and SWAMPS the rows below it, causing a LOT of rot damage. Now there's a thing they do up in Canada I've never seen before (being down from south Texas), they stack one bale on it's flat end against the ground, then set another bale "the regular way" (round side down) on top of it. The purpose being, it prevents the twine/net from FREEZING TO THE GROUND so that when they go to move the hay in the winter, it doesn't tear the bale apart and leave part of it stuck to the ground with the frozen-down net or twine. Anything that freezes to the ground is just the FLAT outer layer, and a little of that rips off but leaves the bale intact. Likewise, the bales on their round sides sitting on top of them, even if their twine/net freezes to the vertical bale below it, it will simply rip off a layer of the flat side of the lower bale it's sitting on, rather than destroying the frozen net or twine of the top bale. Makes sense. BUT, you wouldn't want to store bales that way for long periods of time in the open, uncovered-- the water running off the top bale from rain or snow melt will drip or run down onto the FLAT end of the lower bale the top bale is sitting on, and run RIGHT DOWN INTO THE BALE-- no rain shedding whatsoever from the flat end when it's facing the sky! If you stacked bales like that and left them for a couple years in a warm, wet climate, the bottom bales would basically be garbage... Pyramid stacking is fine, but it needs to be UNDER COVER! OL J R :)

[@pocketchange1951]

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[@donfenton9082]

The prettiest one is a male lol.

[@robwoods5537]

Where's everyone watching from, goderich ontario Canada 8

[@rogercarrico4975]

Greeting Rob, from north Mississippi! Hope all is well with our good friends to the north!😃

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@@rogercarrico4975 hi Rob & Roger, watching Boem Farm from Wales.

[@thesmallscalefarmer1849]

Michigan

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Greetings from Belgium from a "Young classic farming equipment" - fan

[@wumzat1]

South central Ontario Canada