5010 goes raking and the 5020 goes baling! The new easy rake 14 from highline

[@gregggerber2626]

Thank goodness the kids look like their mother.

[@SouthSaskFarmer1]

Lol

[@tyler3148]

Lol

[@mikekleven8130]

Yup I agree... she's quite the sweetheart

[@rykermcconnell6524]

Twon looked happy with his new coat lol

[@johnmorgan4017]

Very nice!! Lots of good equipment this year for you guys. You guys and your wide open fields for your giant rakes.. lol. I cut 20 acres in 7 fields all washed out and rough. Haha keeps the abs and back in shape though.

[@lornatonack2514]

Yea John you don’t want it too easy!

[@joescheller6680]

Yeah we had to section lines and land that was to rocky to farm. I ran an H intenational with mower foot lift for cutter bar and pulled dump rake behind at 10 years old no power steering no hydraulics you had to be halfassed quardinated to lift cutter bar with foot lift over rocks pull the dump rake rope

[@kurtismiller9544]

Of course it rains, you're cutting hay. LoL. "He's chasing me" ROFL! Straight Pipe has it right I think. Amanda is doing a fine job there, taking care of the kids AND haying... You have yourself a Damn fine partner there Nick, you lucked out Big Time!

[@lukestrawwalker]

yeah sometimes yer damned if you do damned if you don't might as well cut it and roll up a few bales anyway. Once stuff flowers and heads out it ain't really gonna grow much anymore anyway rain or no rain because it thinks it's mature and putting on seed... Gotta cut it to 'reset the clock' on it so it'll take off again if conditions are right. Later! OL J R :)

[@scottkrieger4701]

Very soon Amanda in the Mccormick shell be nursing , cutting hay, and racking. Super multitasking.

[@allanvaneste9106]

Awesome video when you get to see almost all the tractors on the farm come out and play. You almost got more haying equipment in your yard then some dealers have on their lot. Lol.

[@SouthSaskFarmer1]

Is that a good thing lol

[@allanvaneste9106]

@@SouthSaskFarmer1 If it's paid for and does the job, there is no such thing a too much equipment.

[@Sanbar11]

How are you and Antione related?

[@SouthSaskFarmer1]

@@Sanbar11 we are not

[@palletcabin-YR_Author]

Excellent! We'd never seen anyone use a hay rake before. Thanks!

[@georgedavidson7986]

When you need rain. Just cut your best field of hay

[@SouthSaskFarmer1]

No doubt lol

[@straightpipeacres6365]

Hahahaha sorry I thought it said best friends hay lmfao

[@logpile1318]

@@straightpipeacres6365 maybe cutting your best friends hay would be a good idea🤣

[@kopenhagenkid]

Great job cutting hay Amanda

[@bobpaterson1845]

Great video Nick 👍 good to see all the different equipment workin 💪

[@TheHelgadog]

Never thought I would see such an awesome hay raking tractor! Keep up the great videos!

[@GosselinFarmsEdGosselin]

Nice rake!! You will use it in a normal year too, makes baling so much faster, drop a gear or two and keep the baler full👍 Funny the difference in cut hight between the haybines.. we never had any trouble cutting close, just adjust the shoes. But then, our New Holland discbine doesn't have adjustable shoes like the older John Deeres did.. Awesome mail call!!!

[@SouthSaskFarmer1]

As longbad the baler can eat it lol

[@GosselinFarmsEdGosselin]

@@SouthSaskFarmer1 if the hitch is high enough to let the throat open up..we baled a lot of 4+ ton hay with a 4' wide round baler, just gotta start the bale slow

[@dougschmitii6165]

I agree with Straight Pipe on the haying advise. A little rain on it when it's just been mowed can be ok if you really need to push it. Definitely no rain though when it's closer to being cured. Widen your windrows out also as far as you can without running over them with the tractor also. I think about any mower conditioner has that adjustment. Check your alfalfa also to make sure it's getting crimped enough to make sure the rolls are adjusted right. You can back them off when doing grass and tighten them up when doing alfalfa and clover so it crushes the stem a little so the crop dries better. It can add at least a extra day to drying time if the machine isn't set right

[@andrewstich7117]

Nother great video about your different tractors you use on cutting hay and bailing hay keep up the great work you do

[@leightonfarms4962]

I bought a Farm King roller mill, came out of Canada years ago, it was a dandy.

[@straightpipeacres6365]

Good job Amanda at chore new summer chob of cuttink

[@SouthSaskFarmer1]

Just idlink and cutink

[@olivergrigull5647]

Formation cutting awesome!!

[@SouthSaskFarmer1]

L9l

[@kopenhagenkid]

Great video Nick

[@chunkmen]

Look to see if there is a boot on that mower that wont cut as low as you would like, some people like cutting a bit higher because it helps the grass grow back better since it leaves more solar collection surface. It was originally made to skim above rocks but now alot of grazing farmers use that so they can leave more grass in the field for when the next rotation happens.

[@lukestrawwalker]

Skid shoes... possible. He said in the vid he made an adjustment to the turnbuckle to get it cut lower... probably a cutterbar tilt turnbuckle would be my guess... Tilt it back she floats over stuff better BUT cuts higher, tilt it forward she cuts lower BUT is more likely to jam on a rock or something. BUT you can tighten up the float springs bit which makes less downpressure on the cutterbar so it *should* float up over a rock a little easier as well... If in doubt read the book LOL:) Later! OL J R :)

[@shaneholst6940]

That's a nice rake !! I need one like that! Hay doesn't look too bad ! You should get a second cutting like you said if you get more rain ! Lol magnum alfalfa ! 👍🤣😂

[@SouthSaskFarmer1]

Hope so lol

[@waynek921]

Great 👍video.... folks

[@sterlingwilkey2124]

Nick what's crazy is I can smell all the farm work that your doing

[@SouthSaskFarmer1]

Good thing I'm not spreading cow crap then eh lol

[@sterlingwilkey2124]

@@SouthSaskFarmer1 oh I can smell that too, I miss it

[@chackos123]

"It's amazing the difference a couple of inches can make" ............... hah!!

[@SouthSaskFarmer1]

Lol

[@williamtorkelson3072]

Belt Dressing for 5010, Give Er Some Belt Dressing.

[@kopenhagenkid]

Nice looking rake Nick

[@michiganfarmer69]

We have a rake like. I run the 3020 6th gear 1500 rpms and it make a real nice windrow

[@lttl858]

Rake is doing a nice job....

[@nathanburgess4928]

The ole thats what she said 👍👍

[@farm3653]

Seen twon picked up a swath roller from the Estevan sale. Be expecting to see big swaths this year behind his swather!

[@SouthSaskFarmer1]

That he did lol

[@HGNeese3rd1]

5020 sounds NiiCCCEEEE!!!! in road gear.

[@curtiswolf313]

Magnum Alfalfa lol! Just have to start calling him "Alf" now. As long as it took Twon to find a gear on the 5010 you'd think he grew up running a Case!

[@williamriley2528]

Now aren't those classic Green Machines a lot more fun to take to the field than a new red one...???

[@randyloewen9234]

I pull the swath roller behind my rake. It compresses the swath enough that wind doesn’t bother the swath as bad. Lots of people have lost back windows in tractors baling ditch hay.

[@ronmckenzie2890]

Your going to have to pay your dad for all the work he does for you . 🤗

[@justaray]

Its Nicks dad.

[@justaray]

And it's a Family Farm

[@ronmckenzie2890]

@@justaray that's not the point I was making , family farm or not. He does a lot of work for Nick.

[@ivanmoreau1798]

@@ronmckenzie2890 he feeds my cows for my labour

[@justaray]

@@ronmckenzie2890 okay

[@thatfarmerinnewyork9708]

Great video

[@hoperichardson8569]

now Nick it's not how deep you fish it's how you wiggle your worm

[@chadknol2726]

1475s are good haybines a little bit of adjustment and they’ll shave the ground.

[@SouthSaskFarmer1]

Yup bit finicky

[@oilersridersbluejays]

Spraying is done, later then I wanted. Haying begins tomorrow. A good week of 30 to 40 degree heat up in the NW and of course no rain in the forecast. Have a quarter of new alfalfa/grass/timothy to do and some ditches. I wasn’t going to do the ditches, but this year I don’t think I have much of a choice. Maybe if we get decent rain in late July could try a second cut but that usually puts haying back too far for the next year, especially if she’s dry again (and probably will be). Got a half section of Copeland Barley (first year not growing Metcalfe). Might have to cut the shittier quarter into green feed. I really don’t want to though. First year back into cattle and starting to remember why dad went to straight grain. The 2002 drought was when he said enough. I still like cows, so I think I’m just whining and nervous. It’s the first time I had anything to do with cattle since I was 17, 19 years ago lol. Love that McCormick tractor. I can’t really justify myself buying one yet, so I guess the old 2290 Case will have to do for now.

[@bradbaynham5368]

Awesome new rake, that belt noise would drive me crazy, try some chalk while it's running, lasts a while.

[@lukestrawwalker]

Yeah I've had belts do that and the quick and cheap solution is to scrape up a little dust and grit off the ground (gravel road is best usually) and sprinkle it on the belt when it's hot... it'll stick and give *just enough* grip to help the belt quit squeaking/slipping. Lil hard on the pulleys though... Course the "right way" is use belt dressing-- BUT the belt dressing they sell now is pretty much damn worthless anymore... we used to have GOOD belt dressing in the 80's but then I guess the gubmint and their "no bad chemicals" policies turned it all into junk. I had my seed/chemical dealer give me a can of some black tar belt dressing he used in his cotton gin, and that stuff works GREAT! BUT I wouldn't have the first clue where to find it anymore... Plus it's not a spray can you have to put a few drops/dribbles on the belt and when it's running it'll spread it around and track it onto the pulleys and stuff... but it can sling off droplets that are kinda like road tar. Plus a lot of belts are hard to get to but I'd dip a piece of wire a foot or two long in the can and drip it where I needed it like a dipstick... For flat belts I won't buy any other brand but GatorBacks anymore... They used to be Goodyear but got bought out by Continental... They're a siped or notched flat multi-v belt and they run quiet and grip well even on worn pulleys. I think they make regular V-belts too or get the ones with the ribs or notches on the inside those seem to grip better. I won't even buy a Gates belt or the other common brands because every time I put a new one on my truck or car or van it'd squeak like a 10 year old POS belt so I just order the Gator Back Belts online... Later! OL J R :)

[@bradbaynham5368]

@@lukestrawwalker we ran a sawmill with belts & used molasses too. It grabs like glue

[@irishfarmer8332]

You have a serious woman there Nick,5 minutes after giving birth she's out mowing, hope I come across one like that soon

[@waynegalvin4639]

That squeaky belt is annoying! A nice quick fix is rubbing the belt with sidewalk chalk. Once a belt gets oil or antifreeze on it it takes a while for it to get worn out of the belt. The chalk absorbs the oil or antifreeze and there is no more noise.

[@piperdoug428]

Them weird folk that buy swing haybines n then go cut round n round, lol. i can see in the future Amanda taking over all the cutting and the baling, she looks right at home there, but i tell you i run my 568 up the 21 at up to 45* slopes n the bales come out square n round as ever, i do set my disc header doors the width of the baler tho.

[@wallyyuriy8912]

Watch out for the 6 big bolts at the center rear of the rake. Lots of stress on those and they tend to break. If those break the whole rake will collapse

[@SouthSaskFarmer1]

Yup neighbour's did that last fall

[@giltk8258]

Maybe you should spent a little money on fertilizer. To bad not much for a crop. Been there done that. Good video.

[@joescheller6680]

Gil guess you dont know unless it rains no amount of fertilizer will make it grow

[@johnannis2248]

Like the rake, good purchase!

[@SKC640]

I was going to comment this on your newest video but forgot lmao a good trick to stop that squealing until you can properly fix it, is to take some cheap solid white stick deodorant and when it's running shove it in the belt and then once it gets worked in in a few seconds it stop making that horrible noise as long as it's not coming deep inside s bearing but sometimes it'll even get into that and still make it stop. They actually use to make stuff specifically for belts in a deoderant container but I am sure people stoped using it and just used normal stuff since it's ten bucks cheaper! I have APD so it I Legitimentltly couldn't run that machine screaming like that it would be absolute torture to me.

[@noelhohberger1188]

That belt would drive me frickin crazy

[@mikekleven8130]

We're in for a hot spell... pray for some rain 😉😉

[@OpeningUpMore]

the magnum alfalfa.. perfect stripper name

[@pinesedgefarm1155]

That's a nice rake!

[@GMC-lr4jj]

Sorry for this stupid question, but when bailing on the gravel road like that does the bailer pick up a lot of rocks or stones and bails them into the hail bails?

[@rickduquette3399]

I was wondering the same thing myself. It just might be a little bit too much roughage for those moo-cows of his.

[@evanhind7871]

The baler will pick up some rock but most of the time the pickup shoot the rocks forward

[@canadianfarmerdonnie]

No we never had gravel in our square bales from ditches 🤠

[@SouthSaskFarmer1]

Nah it's nothing in them

[@billbooth4147]

That’s how come they have that big gravel pile in the yard

[@ianrobertson4616]

Do people wrap hay in your area? That last feild would make nice baleage.

[@SouthSaskFarmer1]

Not many bit I agree

[@makinhay2735]

Raise the shoes or skid plates up on the 1475. It will cut about right on the ground

[@mhft1091]

Do you ever cut any cereal crops for hay? That rake looks like a good bit of gear too

[@wilsonblair6788]

Seeing what your summer wages on. What Antonio buying?

[@SouthSaskFarmer1]

Nothing lol

[@joescheller6680]

Where i grew up 5010 and 20 were the big muscle wouldnt have even considered using them for raking or bailing we used H for mowing raking and stacking🤣😂😅

[@jansky7063]

I like the Deere sound!

[@Murphyslawfarm]

G'day Nick

[@FarmerInSaskatchewan]

Nice rake!

[@lukestrawwalker]

Yep fold her out all the way and catch three of them windrows LOL:) Need all the hay you can get in there as thin as it is... Why I run bridge hitched rolabar rakes... only 18 feet wide BUT I can just keep rolling windrows together til I get it the size I need to keep the baler fed. In thin hay it's easy to make 2,3, even 4 passes around the field keep rolling that windrow to the left over the cut swaths til it's as big as you need. Course the wide V-rakes are nice too and I'd be lying if I said I hadn't thought about one at some point... Less upkeep and way simpler and I guess in thin hay you can always just drive faster to try to keep the baler fed LOL:) Later! OL J R :)

[@mackenziebaker4406]

I wish I had one of them rakes it would make life so much easier

[@charleshart6992]

Another great update!

[@jamescassidy6533]

might have to apply some ivory soap to the belt

[@stevenstart8728]

I hate to state the bloody obvious but your hay bales are going to have big gaps between them. Anyway good years and bad years are what makes average years.👍🇦🇺

[@canadianfarmerdonnie]

Good ole magnum 😂

[@TheCrewChief374]

As frequent and as tall as the grass in my yard grows. You could get a lot of bails out of my yard in a year.

[@SouthSaskFarmer1]

Haha

[@TheCrewChief374]

By the way we are under a flash flood warning as I speak in my area of Oklahoma... So we must be getting your rain...👀

[@mattklein7543]

How fast do u run that crimper. Is it 16 feet.

[@tiger5551]

minty there nick

[@johnfurnival4133]

How long roughly do you leave the alpha alpha before you bale it?

[@jordybeardy6256]

nice 👍👍👍👍👍

[@57REDROOSTER]

Shit this whole time I thought Twan was your brother...

[@allanperry6507]

Thought Twaun was your brother 🤔 lol

[@SouthSaskFarmer1]

Not related at all

[@rollinghillsfamilyfarm5566]

You should make a new intro with 5020 5010 4020 835

[@bubbagump1204]

That's a pretty piss poor hay crop. Looks like you haven't been getting much rain.

[@SouthSaskFarmer1]

Nope it's pretty sad. Glad it's as good as it is for the year

[@groth3395]

i am sure there won't be any gravel or rocks in that hay....

[@lukestrawwalker]

There isn't... baler pickup teeth won't pull them up and flipping in the hay up into the baler allows them to drop out on the ground... OL J R :)

[@samrugtiv3839]

That's what she said

[@edwhite6250]

👍

[@CT-bz7cp]

i thought that baler was a 540 pto, and the 5020 only has a 1000, put you didn't have the 5020 revved up to much.

[@SouthSaskFarmer1]

You can flip the gear box on the old girl and make it 540 or 1000 so it's running on 1000 now

[@leightonfarms4962]

👍👍👍

[@ozz5350]

👍👏👏👏

[@jeffbute8431]

Antoine the star

[@craigh3773]

Right meow 😂

[@straightpipeacres6365]

Good n u

[@GosselinFarmsEdGosselin]

Too effing HOT.. but good

[@SouthSaskFarmer1]

Not so bad

[@bobcrone6151]

Real good real good

[@straightpipeacres6365]

@@bobcrone6151 well thats NICE!!

[@davdhynes3518]

👍😀

[@chicoPGCA]

Get yourself some kids sidewalk chalk rub on the belts any belt

[@pocketchange1951]

👍👌🇨🇦❤

[@GosselinFarmsEdGosselin]

Sixth 👍😎

[@jdman8881]

That looks uncomfortable to sit like that riding in the ditch all day lol

[@lukestrawwalker]

It is... I done a lot of road hay when I was younger some years baled both sides of the road five miles to town and the other way 5 miles out to the river bridge. With a 7 foot mower you gotta make three passes to cut to the bottom of the ditch LOL:) Then you get to rake it with a 8 foot rake so three more passes (one up from the bottom, one down from the edge of the road, and then one to roll it all together and put it down near the bottom of the ditch but not IN the bottom of the ditch) then a ride with the baler but at least down in the bottom you're a lot closer to level. Course that was back when the roadsides weren't just dumping grounds and the gubmint actually came out and shredded the ditches 2-3 times a year, and pulverized the trash and mixed it with clippings so it'd rot down. Now they just spray Roundup or something and kill the grass so it's mostly weeds and brush growing on the roadsides now (even huisache needle thorn bushes!) and since it only gets much maybe once a year at most the trash never gets ground up and mixed with the clippings to rot-- it just piles up and stays mostly intact. Plus the gubmint passed laws about how you gotta pay to dispose of oil filters and tires and other stuff last time I cut the roadsides back in 96 I was dodging everything from toilets to tires and every so often I'd hear a big "FOOM!!!" and look back and see an oil filter shoot out the back of the drum mower like a cannonball at about 70 mph, bouncing down the roadside or out into the highway... SO then I was worried about possibly one hitting a car and had to watch and stop a few seconds every time a car was coming up behind me til they got past so they were out of the way of anything the mower might throw. The ditch hay got me through the killer drought of 96 but I had to feed all the bales in one area and I picked up about 15 lawn and garden trash bags of flattened aluminum cans the baler had picked up with the hay. The glass bottles are shattered by the mower and the rake flips the hay enough to sift the glass out on the ground but boy what a mess of paper trash and cans... Then of course I had some yahoo from the highway department come out and tell me "the new boss lady (Hitler's widow type) don't want nobody cutting the roadsides and so you have to leave it; she made us load out over 100 bales a guy baled over on the other side of town last week and had put in his barn!" He proceeded to tell me how much they all hated her guts and what a bitch she was and how she ruined what had been a nice place to work and all that and how sorry he was, but I got to thinking and asked, "Well, who's HER BOSS??" He got a shit-eating grin on his face and wrote it all down for me and I called the guy and told him what was going on and that I needed the hay and told him in an offhand way, "Ya know it'd look mighty bad on Big 2 News if the word got out that yall wouldn't let the farmers have the hay on the roadsides we're cutting FOR FREE (meaning the gubmint don't have to spend money cutting the roadsides) when 35,000 head of cattle have already died in this drought for lack of feed, and this grass with go to waste anyway!" He said if anything happened they were liable (no shit sherlock!) and was worried about me leaving bales in the ditch overnight and the town drunk running into one and getting killed... I told him I did that ONCE in high school and never bothered again-- too much trouble coming back with the loader and truck to try and pick them up out of the ditch and load on an incline, so ever since I just finish the bale, wrap it in twine, and then pull up on the highway and put her in road gear back to the house and drop the bale in the storage yard, and then take her back in road gear to where I left off... May take a 15 minute drive when you're close to the farthest point from the yard, but it's a little break and I can do the whole job myself, not having to have a second person AND the truck and trailer AND the tractor and loader to move them back to the yard later anyway, which takes just as long or longer than just running them back one by one in the baler and dropping them in the yard... He was satisfied with that and said he'd take care of the bitch and do what I needed to do. Back in the old days we'd have wild ryegrass waist deep in the ditches in late spring or johnsongrass and mixed grasses in late summer, and it was good hay. Now it's mostly weeds and junk because they spray rather than shred it once or twice a year... We can thank that drunk Demoncrat lush Gubner Anne Richards for that-- she's the one that started the spraying instead of shredding the roadsides to "save money"... Later! OL J R :)

[@lukestrawwalker]

Yeah my brother ran a slope mower for the county drainage district for about ten years working on slopes worse than that mowing the creeks and ditches and his back was starting to give him problems, so he transferred to the warehouse and parts runner... Later! OL J R :)

[@nathanburgess4928]

Magnum

[@renesiborgs2773]

howdy

[@redchevy0282]

Put little bit of soap or deodorant on it.