Raking Hay - RhinoAg RDF14 Wheel Rake

We rake hay with the Rhino RDF14!
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How Farms Work is a KZbin channel based in rural Potosi, Wisconsin. Our mission is to teach those who didn't grow up on a farm what the farming life is like. Our videos show the Kuster family working together raising cattle and GMO crops. We believe everyone who wants to know more about farming should be able to share the farming experience with us.
How Farms Work takes place on ~1,100 acres with around 75-200 cattle at any given time. Four John Deere tractors are currently used on the farm, which are a 4020, 4640, 7600, and 8235R.
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[@TwoFarmBoys]

There's something about being out in a field with nothing but a tractor and a lot of hay that's therapeutic! The music was really good in this video! And the drone shots were stunning! This reminds me of when I first started watching your videos back in 2016! Keep up the great work Ryan!

[@bonniezitting6671]

I have two toddler boys (2 and 3) that can hardly sit through a cartoon buy they love watching your videos. Thanks for sharing!

[@MatthewHoag77]

It looks like you figured out how to handle the rake pretty well in the time you've had it on the farm. The turning radius was unsurprisingly large, of course, so it was almost like watching a tractor-trailer maneuver on the road except really wide as well. I hope the new Rhino equipment suits your needs as well as or better than the current stuff. Thanks for the video!

[@wilsonandrade2220]

👍👍👍

[@kb7722]

Really enjoy your videos. The videos are reply well produced and edited. Keep them coming!

[@cjfarms5600]

I love the videos! You inspired me to start my own channel on my own small farm and ranch operation as well as my family’s operation! Keep up the good work Ryan!

[@cassiuspuckett8789]

Wow!!! Nice video Ryan!!! I know your just showing video of you operating your equipment, but damn, it looks like a video for advertising a John Deer, or the Rino RDX 14. Nice job editing the video. Always love your videos. Till next time, thanks for taking us along!!!!

[@lukestrawwalker]

Yeah I'm surprised some of the equipment companies haven't hired Ryan to do photography and videography for them for their own advertising... He DEFINITELY knows how to get the shots that put the equipment in the best light possible and in a way that connects to farmers! Better than the average K-street advertising people do anyway! Later! OL J R :)

[@nintendoryan2245]

Great video Ryan!!

[@justinward8885]

Love the videos keep up the great content!!

[@jordanroberts1519]

Ryan, check out Bunker Branding Co. It is a youtuber run apparel store. It is Matt from Demolition Ranch and his wife who run it and they specialize in creator merch. See if they can handle things for you.

[@jeffreyhouston2043]

Must be a nightmare doing those tiny strips with that big rake.

[@eddeetz493]

Excellent content. Raking hay was my favorite gopher job in the 70s before the wagon, stacking, hauling, unloading, elevating and stacking in a 100 degree hay mow. One bale was tossed 3x and stacked 2x vs 2x on one round bale. 70 less touches per round bale and tons of lifting by hydraulics sure changed haymaking for the better. Less worn out backs and hips. Good luck with fall harvest weather and yields.

[@eddeetz493]

I hope a bale accumulator jumps on board for next year. That would save wear and tear on the loader, hauling rig, time and fuel. That made some beautiful hay.

[@3brc519]

Hey it's me and ones again I sure do like John Deere but rhino ag is sure nice

[@oldtimeengineer26]

Very nice camera work well done

[@ceemorebuts]

Need to add hitch and pto so you can bale and rake at same time

[@roryfitzsimons6623]

love the video ryan I am a farmer I and work on a dairy farm and I farm in northan Ireland

[@johnh8192]

These are usually such beautiful videos. I often wonder: who's flying the drone?

[@johnh8192]

I don't know if he can do that and operate the tractor too, or if it's someone else in the tractor. Either way, that's some fine aerial photography.

[@jdaxelmarine8439]

Every time you bring out that John Deere 4640 always brings a smile to my face

[@JimEstep12071]

Travis said in his baling video with the Krone, that you would be making bigger windrows. How do you do that? do you widen the bars on the back to make the rake wheels pull in more hay? Is there an adjustment on the back of the Rhino rake, to make them taller? Glad to see you keeping with the Rhino implements .

[@HowFarmsWork]

Hi Jim, the Rhino Rake has a hydraulic cylinder on the back that you can use to move the back wheels together or apart, changing the size of the windrow.

[@lukestrawwalker]

Correct-- widen the frame to take in a wider swath into the windrow, adjust the rear width to make the windrow taller/narrower. Later! OL J R :)

[@joelmollenkopf3767]

Excellent

[@centralmndairybros13]

Just curious but why don't you use the 8r on the rake?

[@basclaas]

Hey Ryan If its possible could you demo an rotary style rake next year just to compare the 2 rakes? Grtz from the netherlands

[@gkrcr882]

My cousin used to have a Claas twin rotor rake, we were happy to get rid of it. It was much slower than the wheel rake, it broke more frequently (mostly universal joints), and didn't cover as large of an area. Parts replacement wait times and costs here in the US were on the high side compared to wheel rakes.

[@alessiomartini1221]

hi I'm an Italian boy and I see that in alternating crops in various areas close together ... this type of operation is for the erosion factor?thank's for the reply

[@lukestrawwalker]

Yes, to slow erosion. Farm around the contours. Our place at Shiner has sandy soils on hills and back then they installed terraces around the contours to minimize erosion. Even though it's been in cattle for nearly 50 years the terraces are still there LOL:) Later! OL J R :)

[@alessiomartini1221]

@@lukestrawwalker ok thanks for your answer ... we in our hilly fields use rip-off and it seems to have a minimal impact on erosion

[@Pinziee]

Thx for the nice video. Thx also to RhinoAG for the nice deal they make for the Kuster family, so we can get to know your equipments …

[@loganjohnson4584]

I noticed the rhino rakes lift a lot quicker than the ones I'm used to

[@jamesberry4438]

You geting more free stuff

[@ЧезаЧеза-ч4т]

Молодец успехов в труде

[@mulkakids2570]

Nice video

[@blaneheinrich5743]

Great video always love the Drone shots

[@DeeInTheHouse]

...why do you plant your hay and corn like that, I mean the patterns...thx

[@Rickenbacker69]

Oh, I didn't realize you grew your hay between the rows of corn. That's pretty clever, is it for erosion control?

[@HowFarmsWork]

Exactly. Farming on the contours causes all of the tractor tires and rows to form mini-terraces as I like to call them which slows erosion.

[@Rickenbacker69]

Thought so! Got to feel a little bit clever today, at least :).

[@goalieboarder8931]

Ok - city kid question. What’s the purpose of the two rake wheels in the middle near the tractor. They didn’t look like they were doing anything. Thanks.

[@quzzyofficial7125]

4649 looking goof

[@quzzyofficial7125]

Good lol

[@JesseEder]

I love your John Deere 4640 because throw out a lot of black smoke.

[@muckhunter]

Why do you have crops in patches and not just the whole field I'm from Scotland btw

[@michaelhelmick8225]

Strip farming helps deter soil erosion. Better explanation here:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strip_farming

[@bharzman]

What is the max width this rake will take in?

[@MarcDupont]

Really lovely aerial work on this. get a real sense of the way you seed your fields. And of course love the dog having a ball just being out there with you.

[@adamnygaard9585]

Where do you get your music?

[@michaelmurphy3567]

Will you, Travis, or your dad be buying any of the equipment, or is everything that you currently have been using getting replaced by new?

[@jonasskov1024]

Hey Ryan, love your vidioes and you need a straight pipe for the 4640, and it will Sound even better

[@dwightl5863]

Listening to a straight pipe all day long would definitely get tiresome. Straight pipe is good for a tractor pull and that is about it.

[@Wloo56]

Quite honestly i would rather listen to a tractor with a stock factory exhaust. Straight pipes are for pickups and semis.

[@muscletractorfan2441]

That is a big rake in a small space. On the last pass can you fold the rake in tighter or does it combine a windrow?

[@FermaEnache]

Wow man .. i want a hoodie .. but .. is 45 usd the shiping .:))

[@HowFarmsWork]

For overseas shipping, it's still super expensive but I'm still looking for cheaper ways to ship.

[@FermaEnache]

@@HowFarmsWork it will be great .. i realy want one .. because you are the one that make me start my own channel .. :)

[@waylondunkin3175]

Is that a foreman 500

[@SlipShodBob]

Thank you for the heads up though with our internet cutting in and out I have given up on livestreams for the moment as I end up getting the spinny wheel of doom shortly before no connection comes up ☹️

[@devonte3062]

What's the purpose of the two rake wheels right behind the tractor?

[@BornToFarm101MN]

Devonte McNeill it’s so all the hay on the ground gets flipped over. The two rake wheels right behind the tractor are where the windrow is formed. If it didn’t have those the windrow would be formed on top of that damp hay. Better drying this way.

[@lukestrawwalker]

Yes, called "kicker wheels". They also rake the hay where the windrow will end up off the ground and mix it in with the windrow instead of the hay from the sides just being dumped on top of it, which can mean the baler pickup doesn't pick it up off the ground as well... flipping it over into the path of the other wheels means it gets all rolled together into the windrow, so it picks up cleaner when baled. Later! OL J R :)

[@lukestrawwalker]

You're welcome! OL J R :)

[@stokesjo82]

I love this video. The drone footage, the music... makes me want to farm!

[@davidvincent3010]

You are making some nice videos ! Pleasure to watch.

[@spencerglass3085]

Great video!

[@farmtoycollector998]

Why are you selling the Rhino equipment?

[@farmtoycollector998]

John Haas ok thanks. I must have missed that.

[@josephsilva4825]

Are you going to be selling jackets I don’t like pull overs

[@jordanroberts1519]

Hey Ryan, where do you find all the music for your videos?

[@christadelud2647]

Always top videos greet form Austria :D

[@compacttractortv5074]

the 4640 looks really good with that rake

[@JeffStewart78..]

Is that a person in the upper left hand corner @3:53?

[@danohoh459]

WOW, you nailed that corner at the 8:00 mark

[@ihus9950]

👍

[@ar-taqarmando226]

Did you ever figure out why your drone was spitting out the memory card?

[@HowFarmsWork]

That’s the least of my concerns now that it crashed hahaha

[@ar-taqarmando226]

@@HowFarmsWork Oh no! I guess I have to get on Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter more often so I keep up with that.

[@HowFarmsWork]

Ar-Taq Armando I mention it in an upcoming video!

[@willcogdill5914]

Do you have any more shirts

[@HowFarmsWork]

We are still selling shirts on howfarmswork.com!

[@roundprairiedairy7006]

i’m going to have to look at that rake

[@reufjasarevic445]

Great video, like john deere

[@kevinwillis9126]

Thanks for sharing Ryan..

[@nielsdybro9759]

Nice video, except it would only play in 360p.

[@HowFarmsWork]

Niels Dybro refresh, KZbin loves to take their time processing 4K

[@carsenperl8334]

Someone hit me up with how farms work snap

[@HowFarmsWork]

@howfarmswork

[@ryanp6999]

How come it was uploaded in 360p?

[@HowFarmsWork]

It was uploaded in 4K. KZbin hasn’t fully processed the footage yet.

[@TwoFarmBoys]

My internet's so bad I have to watch all KZbin videos in 360p anyways! So, until you mentioned it, I didn't notice! Lol!

[@ryanp6999]

How Farms Work ahhhh. Just noticed, figured something was up.

[@carcadeaddi]

Song at 5:34 ??

[@HowFarmsWork]

They’re songs that I pay to use, unfortunately I can’t give them away

[@carcadeaddi]

@@HowFarmsWork that's stinks I really like that song

[@boerbrabant]

Why are you fields so weird corn grass corn and not straigt.

[@HowFarmsWork]

They're called contours. They're to slow erosion.

[@gkrcr882]

Ryan is located in what's known as the Driftless region of Wisconsin. The glaciers never covered this part of the state, so it is fairly hilly and fields are much more susceptible to erosion damage. I'm located in the southeastern part, where contour farming is rare due to the flatter terrain and more gentle hills.

[@casvervoort]

First

[@ryanp6999]

Cas727 NFC!

[@lukestrawwalker]

87th and loving it. Congrats! OL J R :)

[@keithgriffin5240]

Have Demolition Ranch do your clothing.

[@logansafley9577]

Hey I get paid Friday, can u hold me one till Friday or Saturday?

[@csbfarms]

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