Raking & Round Baling Hay

[@maxxcherry12]

Trucks looking good!

[@mikep7810]

Yeah I gotta fire it up and make a video on it sometime soon

[@farmshoffman8475]

Great awesome video mike, nice raking and great baler

[@mikep7810]

Thank you. That baler sure does make some nice bales

[@johngourley741]

Great video. Great tractors. Great looking hay.

[@mikep7810]

Thanks John.

[@donmacdonald7758]

Wow those wind rows must be 3 ft. tall. Nice!!! Thanks from Georgian Bay

[@mikep7810]

Thanks Don. I was real happy with how the hay turned out

[@richmaniscalco201]

Beautiful field of hay Mike , cows are gonna love it! Great vid thanks!

[@mikep7810]

Thanks Rich. The fields always look so nice when they are freshly cleared off

[@scottsargent8564]

Great looking hay Mike. Hope to finish up 1st cutting here as soon as the rain breaks this humidity.

[@mikep7810]

Yeah we've been unloading a bunch this week. Its been brutal with this humidity

[@markrepka8669]

There's gonna be some happy cows, I can almost hear'em chewin that beautiful hay. Have a great summer Mike!

[@mikep7810]

Thank you Mark. They definitely seem to enjoy it

[@antonyfarming]

Great video 👍 looks a great crop of hay

[@mikep7810]

Thank you. I was really happy with how the hay turned out

[@jameswebb6804]

Good morning mike look like you are going to have a good yeild of hay take care be safe.

[@mikep7810]

Thanks James. Yeah it did very well

[@matthewpernat3088]

Nice year for hay, truck looks sharp.

[@mikep7810]

Thanks Matt. I was pretty happy with how it turned out

[@bamanola3191]

Great video as always. Keep the videos coming!! My favorite time of year ( hay season)

[@mikep7810]

Thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed the video

[@danaedwards5464]

good looking hay and those windrows were huge

[@mikep7810]

Yeah I was putting a lot of hay in them

[@andrewstich7117]

Very good video thanks for your time to do the video showing your equipment works on the hay

[@mikep7810]

Thanks Andrew. I'm glad you enjoy it

[@herbhouston5378]

Nice lookin' hay! The cattle are gonna enjoy that!

[@mikep7810]

Thanks Herb. They certainly have enjoyed it

[@dennisshull5994]

Really nice looking hay! I always enjoy the drone shots! 👍😎

[@mikep7810]

Thanks Dennis. I'm glad you enjoyed it

[@BolenHouriRacing]

I agree the smell of hay is the smell of work to be had

[@mikep7810]

It definitely had a nice smell

[@peteschiavoni]

That’s some really sweet hay. The field produced well

[@mikep7810]

Thanks Pete. I was really happy with the turn out. 110 bales around 5 bales per acre. Definitely beyond my expectations

[@gregrhodes8451]

Great video Mike!

[@mikep7810]

Thanks Greg. I'm glad you enjoyed it

[@johnclarkkitner9556]

Like those rotroy rakes. Make hay dry lot sooner.

[@mikep7810]

They do a real nice job

[@genechronister7085]

Hay looks nice! Be safe,have fun!

[@mikep7810]

Thanks Gene. I was really happy with the hay

[@Zeke-yv3nw]

Some good looking hay!

[@mikep7810]

Thanks Zeke. I was really happy with how it did

[@massey375]

Those are some nice windrows Mike. Looks like a nice crop

[@mikep7810]

Thank you. I really appreciate it

[@frankeem3820]

You need to hit that tractor seat that you're sitting on with some grease too! SQUEAK SQUEAK SQUEAK with every little bump coming through on the video.

[@mikep7810]

Yep, that too

[@dehavenfamilyfarm]

You're definitely right- round bales are the best bales to stack! Hay looked really nice. I am way behind on hay down here.

[@mikep7810]

How is the hay looking down there. I as stacking hay in the mow today. This heat whooped my butt

[@dehavenfamilyfarm]

@@mikep7810 some fields have normal yields and some are below average- even with the extra rain. I think the cold temps we had slowed things down. I was working outside today, and it sure wasn't a great day to be in a hay mow! Better go get a cold one 🙂

[@possleaholsteinspossbrofar8429]

Looks like nice hay Mike.

[@mikep7810]

Thank you. It was really nice hay

[@ryanmcmillan7603]

What I have found through my experience with a rotary rake is that it’s easier to rake your headlands last so you don’t run them over

[@mikep7810]

Thats a good idea

[@Anteater6788]

With our rotarys I usually try to start raking where I finished mowing and rake backwards, with a little practice you can get to where you almost never drive over hay that has already been raked.

[@michaelwoodard4866]

We went to our friends a couple if days ago and uploaded 2 wagons of square bails and the hay turned out really good this year

[@mikep7810]

Hopefully the year continues to be good. We need it after last year

[@keithrobinson1331]

Looks up Mike 👍

[@mikep7810]

Thanks Keith

[@boB7710II]

There isn't any hay around me that looks that nice

[@mikep7810]

Hopefully you get some nice hay. Thank you, I was really happy with how this field turned out

[@TheGrumpyFarmer]

Hmm 4H and superclean don’t want to talk to me 🤷‍♂️ 🤣🤣 you nice guy you

[@mikep7810]

Haha I know I have them all fooled!! LOL

[@kevinrichards9460]

Dad used to do things like that. Did farm tours for the local schools back when we were milking cows.

[@kevinrichards9460]

Looks like a decent yield 4 bales or so to the acre

[@mikep7810]

Thanks Kevin. 110 bales total so it was around 5 bales per acre. Really happy with the yield

[@anthonyhengst2908]

It look like nice full windrows. We are finally getting a good rain in Wisconsin when we needed it most. Surely will be a nice second crop in a couple of weeks. About how many round bales you make up? Just think of the square bales you would have.... Work in the mow. 😊

[@mikep7810]

We ended up with 110 round bales. Very happy with the yield. Yeah I just got out of the hay mow today. This heat was brutal

[@leightonfarms4962]

👍👍👍

[@mikep7810]

Thank you

[@shawnfox8002]

Looking like 150 bales on that field

[@mikep7810]

Pretty close. 110

[@toddseefeld8469]

The 29 must be running better now ? Great video Mike !

[@mikep7810]

Yeah its been running pretty good as of late. We are keeping an eye on it still

[@chrismorris308]

Mi has been dry 1st was a JOKE but the storms started 4 days ago...6 & a half inches 🤪

[@mikep7810]

Holy cow. Thats a lot of rain

[@garybridger6707]

Yep, it's hay season here as well!! How about a closer look at the round baler? I thought I was busy doing 70 bales here last two days, you must have been close to a hundred?

[@mikep7810]

Good eye Gary. The final could was 110. Really happy with that on 22 acres!

[@dalenoack3929]

Do you top dress your hay fields in the spring and then again after taking off first crop? Sure is some nice looking hay!

[@mikep7810]

We put some fertilizer down in the spring, however, this field didn't get any fertilizer.

[@TheGrumpyFarmer]

You need to get a hold of the millennial farmer and get some WD-40 from him for your squeaky seat 😁

[@mikep7810]

Maybe he'll even deliver it!

[@carloscordova1351]

Nice mike exelent work greetings from burley idaho

[@mikep7810]

Thank you Carlos. Glad you enjoyed it

[@carloscordova1351]

@@mikep7810 👍😁

[@agirlandhercows501]

one more week and we will be out in our feilds

[@mikep7810]

Good luck when you get out in your fields

[@NorthEastOhio]

I still see a rake hitch and 2 newholland 256 takes in the future 😎👍

[@mikep7810]

I think you are looking into your future bud. We sold the old rollbar rake and love the rotary rake. If I buy a double rake it will be a double rotary!

[@ozz5350]

👍👏👏👏

[@mikep7810]

Thanks Ozz

[@astronomaestro]

knowing how hot it was a few days, I hope that tractor has good AC haha. How long were you out there? It looks like it took almost all day from the position of the sun.

[@mikep7810]

I went right up after the 4H zoom meeting and was there till about 9ish

[@jasonkotara2135]

If you had a Deere baler that small patch would have been baled the day before yesterday.

[@mikep7810]

I haven't seen any of the new John Deere round balers. The used ones I have seen I am not impressed with, and I wasn't trying to kill time I was raking the field. When you bump it up a few gears like you suggested you get going too fast and the rake is bouncing all over the place. I guess I'd rather take an extra couple of minutes and do a good job instead of a sloppy job and broken equipment and a field done fast

[@iantricker231]

What drone do you use?

[@mikep7810]

I use the DJI mavic mini 2

[@Blueriverfarms]

Does the new blue truck have a Cummings engine?

[@mikep7810]

No the red one has the cummins. The International has the DT466

[@Blueriverfarms]

@@mikep7810 Thanks. For some reason it did not sound like our old DT466? My hearing is going. Nice hay!

[@jasonkotara2135]

Bump that sucker up about 6 gears! How much time are you trying to kill?

[@mikep7810]

If I bumped the tractor up 6 gears I wouldn't be killing time I'd be killing the rake!