Square Baling 2nd Crop Hay/Milking Cows

A perfect window opened up between the rain showers to get some dry hay baled. Even better is that the 2nd crop of hay was nice and tender and worthy of square baling. Justin started raking the hay with the John Deere 820 and New Holland Bar Rake while Alan went to v rake the other field with the 830 Case tractor. Then Alan got the New Idea 551 Square Baler and hay baskets ready. There was more hay up there than Alan figured and it didn't take long to fill up both hay baskets. All in all, there were 541 small square bales.
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Alan Klejeski
PO Box 153
Sturgeon Lake, MN 55783
Trinity Dairy was established in 2006, in Minnesota. Alan and Jennifer farm with their 5 children; Jessica, Justin, Jordan, Joshua, and Jason. We milk a mix of 33 Jersey, Holstein, Brown Swiss, Guernsey, and Ayrshire cattle. We also enjoy sharing our family's love of Draft Horses and using them for logging and other farm work. Dairy Farming in Minnesota can be challenging, but it's a lifestyle we really enjoy. Subscribe today to watch our small family dairy farm and family grow while continuing to thank our Lord for the blessings we've been given.

[@jimwalker2894]

Its a real blessing to have a helpful brother

[@trinitydairy]

Yes it is

[@tomhall7250]

Yup the smell of corn stalks after picked,silage,cow manure,my favorite baled hay…I still smell all when I watch your videos! Thanks God Bless and be safe ❤

[@ronaldfeuerstein435]

Yes I know what you mean about the smell of Hay days. Something you never forget. Your son looks so big out there raking like that. He is a very hard working young man. Hay does look good.

[@jerryfields8723]

So enjoying your channel thanks for sharing your life hope u keep putting out videos

[@ericpryce7311]

Didn't even know that New Idea made a square baler.

[@michaelbaker826]

Really enjoyed the video. Everything working great and beautiful looking hay. I hope that you made a lot of hay.

[@markschwab7829]

Great video brings back lots of memories

[@frankgyomoryjr6167]

Never seen one of those New Idea balers here in Michigan, mostly New Holland or John Deere. Looks like its working good.

[@leonardconlon9319]

Great to see you’re getting good amount and quality of feed for your cows. It’s a good feeling I bet. Sure better than past years.

[@frankdeegan8974]

One thing is for sure the Trinity Dairy machine is starting to get well oiled. Mom and Dad your investment in your children is starting to pay off. Good Job. It only gets better from here, the Lord is with you no doubt.

[@johnhenderson299]

Great video

[@br927]

We use to crank up the front of the rake , so it was higher, and leave the back where it is, and just hit the windrow with the back just to flip the bottom up on top, but not all the way over to dry out the bottom of raked hay! It's nice to have family help out! I have friends that have a farm, the Ladies do the milking and the guys stay out and do crop work! When I was a kid, we had a neighbor that bought a new Fordson and a new baler, he was baling on a hill, it was alright when he went up, but when he came down, the load pushed him down the hill, across the R.R.tracks, and into the woods, then his new equipment was junk!

[@MorganOtt-ne1qj]

Ouch! Hope he made out ok!

[@mikebrown1188]

Are you comfortable with the amount of hay you have made? It has to be a nice feeling having Paul willing to help. Your kids work hard also.

[@trinitydairy]

I would like another 600 small squares, but I have quite a bit of balage I can feed in the barn if I need to

[@350mack]

​@@trinitydairy plenty of time 😊

[@joewettstein740]

Like that smell of fresh drying hay . Your kids look like they not afraid of hard work that is awesome. Great video nice looking hay

[@joeoconnor9630]

I agree nothing better than the smell of second cutting hay drying

[@ronzezulka6646]

Hey Allen,,,truly enjoyed the milking part of the video. Family farm. Rare,,,but perfect!!

[@FreeloaderFarms]

Looks like great hay! Should keep the cows happy this winter.

[@ronniewayne5748]

Awesome video.Ah the smell of fresh hay .Brings back alot of memories .This video reminds of my grandpa and other family members baleing hay

[@alfredomarotta6604]

Thanks for sharing Alan, always enjoy your videos, like to see how TRUE farming is done. Always a 👍 or 2. ✌️💪🗽

[@canvids1]

Always enjoy your posted videos when you get time and guess the wife helps you out when she has time as well. Would be nice to see you have heavier crops but you have to take what you get, along with the weather and always have to work around that.

[@bl688]

Wd45 and NH 260 bar rake what I started on and I was 7yrs old. I could barely reach the pedals but I could run the hand clutch so that's what I drove

[@STA_FARMS]

I always like a good hay video, especially seeing small squares.

[@Stephenklausmeyer-hr9rb]

Do you feed dry hay to the heifers only and save the high moisture hay for the cows? I love the smell of hay however it brings back the memory of stacking it in our hay mow which I dreaded. But I loved watching our square baler at work even though my dad wasn't very good at running it. We had an John Deere # 5 sickle bar mower that was nice to listen to even if it wasn't very efficient. There was a dairy farm down the road from us that had a New Holland bale accumulator and one of those New Idea Uni's like you have. This was back in the early 70's and I thought that the farmer had it made. Your cows are so clean. Someone does an amazing job maintaining them. We didn't even have a hay elevator mostly because of how are barn was set up. It still has the old loose hay trolley hanging at the top. This is by far my favorite video that you have done. Really good camera work too.

[@trinitydairy]

Yes, the wrapped hay is usually made for the milking cows.

[@francishier4698]

The smell of fresh hay is intoxicating man I love it takes me back to my youth

[@RobirtGlennie]

Hi there, this is Robert from Dundee Scotland. I love watching your program specially when you’re billing here and I’ll watch your kids in farm shows it’s really good programme to watch. Thank you bye.

[@lesterhertel2945]

Very nice hay God bless you and your family 😊😊😊😊😊

[@williamkemm673]

And just one more great video for the archives, I'm glad you had some good drying weather

[@user-qw8ef9kf7k]

Hi Alan great video great camera man no fancy electronics just good old fashioned well maintained machinery that works when you want it to . Everybody mucks in with the milking sadly a lot of that as been lost in this modern rat race of a world of ours nice to see your kids enjoy helping out .All the best from a retired farmer in England Alec.

[@KiwiJim13]

👀🙄🐾👍Great video Alan and Jennifer Looks like you could use a balebaron to package the idiot bricks

[@jamesbristow5740]

My grandpa used to bale hay with the neighbor, I think Grant owned the haybine and rake and a Case like yours to bale with a small moline to haul wagons and G-pa had a JD baler with a kicker and a 4 star NH tedder with a Ford 3000 and they each had a couple kicker wagons. I didn't know what retirement was and I thought raising up a dozen heifers and baling 35 acres was the job for me when I was little. Thanks for bringing us along.

[@danthurman9076]

Bale baskets reduce labor cost when labor is non exsistance

[@jaykettlewell3922]

Thanks for another great video. Really reminds me of growing up on a small dairy farm in Ohio

[@cedricgates9976]

havent done hay myself since the kids left so i do it through you guys, used to love it, did it with a 2020 jd and a farmall h can almost smell it

[@karencary3312]

Great work!!!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@chrisburke848]

Thanks for keeping the cows in your vids. Love to see them.

[@dorperranch3748]

One of those smells you wish you could bottle and sell! Totally relatable😊

[@KenStewart-kt8ol]

The milking footage shows how fast your kids are growing.

[@gatorguy7711]

Working hard on a nice day! Always good to see family working together! Take care and be safe...

[@anthonyhengst2908]

Bale, bale and bale some more. Now if one could just get a little more people power. Looks pretty good though. Hopefully you can get that all in without any problems.

[@350mack]

Man kids are growing up fast. I did custom cropping for a long time an some of the farms we first did the kids were just born or not born yet and now are going to college 😢 makes me sad and happy i guess. Time just goes by so fast. Happy farming from Vermont ❤

[@dr.michaelr.foreman2170]

That old seed drill (planter) in the background of your hayfield is just like the planter we used on our farm back in the 50s.

[@trinitydairy]

I don't remember it being used, but my grandpa talked about it, it has a platform on the back that someone would stand on with a hand crank seeder, to seed the alfalfa .

[@dr.michaelr.foreman2170]

@@trinitydairy LOL That's right. Those were the good ole days.

[@user-os2el5zw1l]

Brings back memories thank you

[@ralphriddle8864]

Very nice job and God bless y'all

[@jamesmorrison1884]

Hello enjoyed your video. Second cutting bales look premium nice job. Your cows look great. Have a good day.

[@campingfishingloveeveryday3229]

Buddy you need a kicker bailer with big wagons

[@trinitydairy]

Never cared for the kicker wagons

[@dlzastera]

Everybody doing their part on the farm.

[@dougpeterson5257]

I remember raking hay for my grandfather and uncle. Some grass hay but mostly green pea hay that was baled after the harvest of the peas. Really dusty work and hard on rake teeth because you are scraping the ground with them.

[@Navet63]

Hey Alan. I've been a fan of the channel for a few years now. I forget how you acquired your land. Your Grandfather? Also, how much land do you actually own? Cutting hay, milking cows...all in a days work.

[@trinitydairy]

I own 60 acres, that I purchased from my grandparents, and the rest of the land we farm is rented.

[@billybrown.2900]

I love the videos and love watching you and your family, could you do a video about how you have your basket set up because we switched balers and now the basket doesn’t work right and it looks like you have yours pretty far away from the end of the shoot Thank you

[@trinitydairy]

Yeah I can do that

[@davevonmuenster6649]

Thanks

[@michaeletchepareborde4298]

That's very cool set up.

[@woodsgremlin9995]

I thought you'd tell everyone about how your mother "misused" the caseomatic when baling on those hills😂

[@trinitydairy]

😂😂

[@MorganOtt-ne1qj]

If a Rolabar rake is rattling, you are probably going to fast. Or you have a problem bearing. Just saying... Great video, and I don't miss small baling!😊I'm

[@trinitydairy]

That old rake is very worn.

[@MorganOtt-ne1qj]

@@trinitydairy Yeah, but they keep working! I especially liked the 258 model Rolabar's, they were the pinnacle of the NH rakes, IMHO.

[@kevinanderson89]

Do they still sale those hay baskets? If so what is the brand. Love the videos. Could you 11:56 do one updating how the cows are doing. Thx

[@trinitydairy]

The ones I have are pro quality brand, I think EZ Trail made them too, but I'm not sure if they still make them.

[@hartungdairyfarm0713]

Always a nice feeling to get a bunch of bales in the barn 👍. Is there much hp difference between the John deere and the case?

[@trinitydairy]

The john deere is about 32hp, and the case is about 65hp.

[@rockbrown9694]

Can you please tell me where the hay basket was made?

[@trinitydairy]

I think this was made in ST Cloud MN.

[@lorenzowoodson624]

Love the channel but would it be possible to see the horses more?

[@trinitydairy]

Working on a video of my mom and dad making hay with the horses. He doesn't do as much farm work with the horses as he used to, but whenever he does something interesting with them, we try to get a video.

[@lorenzowoodson624]

@@trinitydairy thank you so much, that would be awesome!

[@22gonefishing]

How many square bales do you like you have in a year? Nice Video.

[@trinitydairy]

About 1200

[@teluvinas]

A couple technical questions: how do all eight fans on the V rake keep contact the the grounds where the field is uneven? And how does the square baler keep baling/twining at the turns, I’d think if there was no input of hay you would want it to pause for the turn, otherwise there would be a mess of twine & no bale?

[@trinitydairy]

There is pivot points in the frame, that allow it to flex enough some they can follow the ground. The baler only pushes the bales when there is hay coming in, and it only pulls the twine when the bales are moving through the chamber.

[@zackarystaples238]

Pretty bad when you can go all the way across a field and only get 3 small squares. Might need a little attention on that field.

[@trinitydairy]

That first piece is really small and short, so it's not the length of the whole field. The field could use a shot of fertilizer.

[@teluvinas]

So the hay rakes: the bar rake is ground-drive, and the V (fan) rake takes power from the PTO?

[@trinitydairy]

No, they are both groud driven, the bar rake is driven by the wheels, and the v rake wheels turn when pulled along the ground. Some bar rakes are pto driven, but not this one.

[@briantaylor467]

Yap yap yap

[@trinitydairy]

Aren't you pleasant

[@stephenkeller6894]

I’ve never seen or heard of a New Idea small square baler. Is it made by someone else and rebranded? Seems like it’s an honest machine for you.

[@trinitydairy]

From what I understand, New Idea bought International's baler plant, and made balers for themselves and International. It has been a very good machine, but getting tricky to get parts for.

[@stephenkeller6894]

@@trinitydairythat’s interesting! I had no idea what other brand it looked like

[@marcuskelley2358]

How do you like the bale basket? I’m looking at getting one.

[@trinitydairy]

I like them, the only real issue I have with them, is that you can't turn very sharp when bailing.

[@SouthDakotaTT]

What model tractor is your JD workhorse?

[@trinitydairy]

820

[@colorado1088]

What was the pulsating light in the barn on the cart at 13:22 ?

[@trinitydairy]

It's a wireless speaker

[@davidwhisnant3230]

You not use your 560 farmall anymore

[@trinitydairy]

We decided to sell it

[@pocketchange1951]

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