Take A Load Off + Crawdad Conundrum

Scott loads hay for a delivery and then talks about the fields after the last cut.

[@garymaxfield1722]

Scott passed away Mar 22nd, cause unknown. Kim and her two sons are going to try and continue the hay operations. Whether or not we see them on you tube remains to be seen. Please join me in offering condolences.

[@martyd5819]

Sorry to hear of Scott's passing. Enjoyed the content. RIP

[@matthewshaw3718]

Very sad news, rip Scott

[@billsmith9610]

Thanks for letting us know and that is a very sad thing to read. He was a great guy to learn from and loved his videos. He is missed...... RIP

[@davidpeters1508]

Hope all is well with you and your family. Very much looking forward to seeing another video.

[@boltactionshooter]

Post whatever, we like it all!

[@TomTalley]

I know making videos is a pain in the ass. We appreciate your doing it. I know you think what you are doing would look boring to us...but its not. It's fascinating. Just to watch. Thanks for all your hard work. We miss your videos, but if its too much of a pain, we understand. Best to you guys up in North Texas from us down here near College Station.

[@mikeoneil2281]

we are all truly sorry for such a loss. please take care of yourself and your family god bless you

[@johnrenterprises2604]

Greetings from Catawba County NC! Looking forward to spring videos from the hay farm. Hope you and family are doing well.

[@pezter123]

Hey Scott - up here in Maine, we would love to see more videos from you all in Texas. Hope all is well.

[@markmortensen4341]

I had no idea there were Crawdads living in a hay field. In Oregon they're only in creeks or small Rivers. Thanks again for sharing your thoughts and video‼️‼️👍👍👍

[@ihus9950]

Just writing to say Hello to the both of you. Been awhile Hope all is well and hoping you post something soon and your hay is growing 👍

[@joelmollenkopf3767]

Excellent video Show us anything we enjoy everything!

[@farmboy2143]

We miss you! It's hay season in NC with good weather. Been cutting for 2 days.

[@mattclark8436]

I remember dealing with gopher mounds when mowing hay, but not anywhere as many as what you are having to contend with. Merry Christmas to you and your family and Happy New Year! Take care and looking forward to new videos in the spring!

[@johnhenderson8360]

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to you and your number one hand!!

[@oldsailor8593]

Hope all is well. I miss your videos. God Bless your family!

[@tonyburelle6633]

Any time you post , I'll be watching, good looking hay tough, came out nice

[@cliffvetter]

Been missing your videos. When can we see more. If it ever stops raining in michigan the hay crop should do well. Guess you may have your own rain issues.

[@memyselfandifarmer]

thanks for the update, enjoyed it.

[@shakerLT]

Got to be doing something hay related by now in Texas! Patiently waiting for some new farming videos:)

[@stevehardy7757]

Man I wish you had more bales to sell. Merry Christmas to you and your family. When you start looking at new mowers it would be cool to see the selection and buying process.

[@elizabethdixon8038]

Keep posting I’m learning lots.

[@darrenbrett388]

Keep posting Scott! Enjoying your videos over here in England (Uk)

[@NorthTexasHay]

Thanks

[@chadbrunet6457]

Sorry for your loss will miss Scott And his sense of humor

[@rnfarms776]

Agree. How often do you get to see haying with crawdad mounds thrown in. Enjoy the equipment work videos as well. Keep em coming.

[@chuckstevenson2929]

Thanks for the video. Merry Christmas to you, your lovely wife, and family. How about an update on your Daddy's house and car shed?

[@Ivansgarage]

Merry Christmas to you and your family...

[@WTFarmGirl]

It's so neatly stacked!

[@memyselfandifarmer]

WT Farm Girl Videos today we learned about scotts passing.

[@jddriver9565]

thank you for posting a video again, really enjoy watching them.:) one question: how many roundbales did you make of the last cut? We wanna see maintenance videos!:) Better than nothing!:)

[@valleyviewacres9120]

That’s a pretty nice barn sure beats the heck out of tarping everything LOL

[@ozz5350]

I hope you all are ok and the rain I hope it’s not to bad for you and the grass take care hope to see update on the grass take care

[@deanbrown4512]

I have the problem with my ryegrass when it falls. I saw an old rake as you were leaving. That was the style rake (Case) I learned to rake with. Things have changed a lot. Real good looking hay

[@belindakt]

Oh yeah, love those crawdads. My front pasture can be bone dry for 6 months, we get 3 tenths of rain, & overnight I've got mounds everywhere. Amazing little creatures! Speaking of amazing little creatures we don't see any more are ground squirrels. Remember them from my youth growing up on the golf course, i don't believe I've seen any in 30 years....

[@stephenpaget3660]

Good to see u back, hi from Australia Scott

[@NorthTexasHay]

Thanks

[@calumanderson5617]

After hearing the passing of Scott, I decided to watch his last ever video he ever made as a respect and honour to this great man. As a subscriber and someone who he didn't know, you were always kind enough to reply to my comments from the garden tunnel to the time you wiped the engine dipstick on your shirt ( I love it when Kim cought you and filmed you on the act!! ) You'll be miss by Kim, your family and your dog's, but also your friends and utuber's and me especially. Enjoy Heaven Scott as I'm sure you will and don't forget to drop by and see your family friend's and your dog's from time to time. But most of your soul mate Kim who will always love and miss you. Enjoy paradise my friend.

[@Plecz]

Hey Calum, I'm Scott's youngest son, Cody. Thank you for the kind words, it's greatly appreciated by our family to see these messages and comments. He was a very unique person and we miss him dearly, we'll try to continue this channel while we still can in honor of him. It definitely won't be the same without him and his bright personality but we'll do our best! Thanks again, Cody

[@calumanderson5617]

Hi Cody. Thank you so much for replying to my comment and you are all very welcome too, I felt I should pay my respect for him after watching you and your family's sad announcement about your Dad, I decided I should honour him and respect him for all the entertainment he provided and that I decided for myself to watch this last video he made as a big Thank you and to pay my condolences too. Your Dad was certainly a great and talented man especially when it came to projects from the garden tunnel to irrigation equipment in the fields, and most of all especially maintaining and running of the hay equipment for the business too, he was certainly a Jack of all trade's and knew his stuff when it came to anything. He was also kind enough to reply to my comments back on his videos as well as your good self too, Thank you, and as always I've hit the like button as a show of appreciation earlier on the day too. It's great to hear you are all going to continue on the hay business and also the channel too which is fantastic to hear ! I'm sure you and your family will manage fine aswell as you and your family will be there for support too. I'm sure your Dad will be looking out for you and your family. Again thank you so much for replying to my comment. Take care now and all the best to you and your family. Calum Anderson

[@Plecz]

You take care as well Calum and thank you for your support and kind words! God bless.

[@TheEric1066]

Just my 2 cents Scott but I would go with the massey Ferguson razor back cutter head on a self propelled. 2 sets of rollers steel on steel and a rugged build overall. I run across 300 acres and I just picked up another farm so I’m 608 acres now in eastern New York. I small square bale everything, your videos were a big help for me to move towards the massey line of equipment !!! From all of us at W A Ranch we hope your 2019 season is outstanding !!!

[@walterwoods832]

its nice to see u all agen

[@billfitzpatrick6910]

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to the Freeman family

[@NorthTexasHay]

Thank you

[@danagadoiii9032]

Where have y'all been? I have a forage and pasture class coming up in the fall and I'll use y'all's videos as teaching aides. I hope all is well, keep the content coming!

[@stephenpaget3660]

Hi from Australia Scott hope you and your wife are well and hope you start posting again soon mate

[@macdawg6403]

Hey Brotha, you and your family have a great Holiday!

[@NorthTexasHay]

Thank you sir

[@CampHideAway]

Keep posting!!!! Love it all. How's the wife? Merry Christmas!!

[@ihus9950]

Hello Scott, did you have good yields this year on your hay. Sure looks like you sold alot. Please do some videos on the Maintenance you do on your equipment, enjoy all your videos! Merry Christmas to you and your Wife and family. 👍

[@96chevydually6.5L]

good looking hay!

[@brandoncreech8810]

I have had Deere and NH mowers. The NH mower does clog up with mud in between the front skids and push the grass over before it is cut. Deere mowers are made with the front skid as part of cutter bar and NH are bolt on. The deere mower never clogged up with me. In dry conditions I do feel that the NH is a better cut though. NH is a good mower but I will most likely go back deere.

[@augustreil]

If you do any maintenance, please video it, we'll watch it ! What are crawdad mounds ? Crawdads up here in Ct, live in small streams, ponds, etc. They look like a mini lobster.

[@rocksandoil2241]

They live underground too. Soft wet ground. We even have them in the Ozarks

[@zackstahl7574]

Running a deere 15 years already, best disc mover out!!!!

[@zackstahl7574]

956 mower

[@donaldthomas5852]

Zack Stahl John Deere are good disc mowers, they are made by Kuhn, I have a 8ft disc mower a 1162 Gehl , it is also made by Kuhn. If you look at all three mowers John Deere , Gehl, and Kuhn they all look the same, identical, . My Gehl was bought new in 2004. This year I going to put a new tarp on it. The only thing I done is buy new blades when it needs them. It mows at least 175 acres every year and every acre is mowed and baled at least twice and at least 50 acres of it is mowed and baled three times. Last year we also bale and extra 60 acres. These hay fields are broken up into many different fields.

[@sowerscattleco3484]

I've got a massey 9870, I've heard the r450 had some issues, a guy I cut with had two of then and said they were gutless, but the gen after then were good and one before them was good. I had a 4995 and they were good machines but I really really like the massey machines and everyone I run with has them

[@johnfriesen3277]

Good video! We had to go to a sickle head to get a cleaner cut. They are slower but do a better job in thin crop or blown over crop. We farm in west Texas.

[@NorthTexasHay]

I need the speed

[@billsmith9610]

RIP brother

[@popparob6174]

Like #370, Lol, always like to listen to you yak or talk about what ever, nice to see a video 2, you all stay safe and keep that grass growing, lol, Later

[@NorthTexasHay]

Thanks

[@cntslesfabrication]

How is everything going hope everything is ok with you and your family haven't seen a video from you in a long time but I hope all is well with you and your family hope to see a video soon

[@johntischler1903]

Thanks. Merry Christmas always love what you share. How many acres do you farm?

[@NorthTexasHay]

130

[@demo2x]

Scott you really need to give vicon or aka kubota mowers a serious look. Since Kubota bought vicon they are a lot easier to find now with Kubota's vast dealer network. There triple blade setup is the only thing that will get thru your mounds of dirt and still cut close to the ground to get the lodged hay. The one thing Ive noticed is with the triple blade you use less horsepower. I really wish the other manufactures would offer the triple blade setup. We deal with ant mounds similar to your crawdad problems. Looks like they leave the same mess. We can't even use a sickle to get thru some of our meadows in the wetter years because of them so the disc mowers have taken over. For some reason they want to build up out of the ground in the wetter years instead of having there colony under ground. Just my 2cents

[@Chris_In_Texas]

@North Texas Hay - Ortho Orthene for fire ants works great on the crayfish (crawfish). Sprinkle a bit on each mound and no more. I have them in our bar ditch in Collin County and leaves a mess, little bit of the Acephate in orthene and no more crayfish.

[@augustreil]

Hope all is well with you two. Will you be posting any videos soon ? Sure miss your content !!

[@michaelcharboneau462]

do you plan to make more videos this year? hope all is well

[@codybeard222]

Marry Christmas to yall

[@NorthTexasHay]

Same to you

[@roynelson7613]

I hope everything's been okay it has been a while since you put up a video

[@herbhouston5378]

If I have already wished you holiday greetings, then I apologize for being redundant, but I would rather do that than fail to say; MERRY CHRISTMAS to you both and to all that you hold dear...

[@NorthTexasHay]

Thank you

[@geedubb2005]

Are the crawdads migrating from your ponds? Might get yourself in the chicken business by fencing around your ponds and putting a couple hundred chickens out. Then you can be in the coyote hunting business. Never a dull moment on a farm. Thanks for sharing your videos. Wishing you and the boss a merry Christmas.

[@Buck1954]

Put a bar in front of the cutter to stand the grass up before the cutter goes through. Maybe knock the crawdad mounds down at the same time. It bend the grass over backwards but perhaps it would fold back over in time for cutter to cut clean. Maybe not a solution, but an idea.

[@4700dan]

When are the 2019 hay videos coming

[@wadewilliams6787]

here in northern Saskatchewan we have moles...appear just as entertaining, quite curse worthy. great colour in your hay, haha , you should be happy, Merry Xmas from the great white north....and yes, here it is white for a solid 6 months.....no moles then lol

[@barrysimmons5489]

Weould changing your direction of travel start your cut from the road more east to west versus north to south make a difference? A lot of times when we had a challenge of similar nature my then father-in-law used to say kitter it... ( I wish the corrector would leave me alone correct itself so I don't have to keep editing).

[@randyhawkins3696]

Nice to see your video make more

[@NorthTexasHay]

Thanks

[@jeremydobbert1287]

Are you gonna be switching another field over to sprigs?

[@billking5407]

Nice video

[@thr8061]

We have the same problem with our hay fields with red clover. If we get to them before it gets too tall, we do not have an issue. If we get some rain and the ground is too wet, that stuff will lay over and look much worse that your field. Take Care!

[@NorthTexasHay]

Thanks

[@Zomsky]

Hope y’all had a lovely festive season! You going for roller or flail conditioner if you get a windrower? We got a new Massey windrower with the Hesston Razorback this season, is epic! No stripes like our previous NH mower...

[@NorthTexasHay]

Metal roller

[@jerrystott7780]

Have a crawfish catching tournament with a big picnic featuring crawdad recipes with prizes for the best tasting. That'll thin them out. 😜

[@dc102dc102]

are you coming back this hay seson?

[@JCourts2k23]

RIP Scott

[@lutherhitt7430]

You guys work your tails off. Good on ya. Keep the vids coming. Take a look at your neighbors operation. " Texas Grazer ", They work with the same weather challenges that you do ! Good Job! Bulldog

[@dustinkeith7641]

Where did you guys go?

[@LoefflerFarms]

Adjust the tilt on your mower forward and it will cut that long bits that it's currently missing I had almost all of my third cut alfalfa orchard mix down and it looked like a lawn after I adjusted it

[@NorthTexasHay]

I’ve tried that, when it gets to 8 rolls an acre it just won’t pick it clean

[@hammer7926]

You need to buy a new fold up land roller! They have several new ones out that cover about 30’ or larger! Rolling is good for the grass and will smooth your fields tremendously if you do so several times a cutting season. Rolling has gained popularity in turf and in row cropping as of late. Many row crop farmers roll to keep their fields as smooth as possible, so equipment can operate smoothly. Rolling will definitely take care of those crawdad mounds and with a 30 footer it won’t take you long at all!

[@NorthTexasHay]

Compaction

[@jonathanh3632]

what size tee shirt do you wear?

[@blfarms1687]

Knife in some NH3, really helps with craw-mounds and fireants. And you obtain more protein through the year. Easier levels of protein I should say.

[@NorthTexasHay]

Thanks for the info

[@waynew519]

Merry Christmas

[@NorthTexasHay]

Same to you

[@dalelewis1016]

You could do a updated version of your dad's showroom at the new house.

[@steverosenberger8671]

What are crawdad mounds? Do crawdads live in them?

[@danielthomason5685]

Hey guys everything ok worried about you....need more videos pleassssseeeee

[@tarefoot]

I was wondering the very same thing. They've been getting an awful lot of rain in Texas. Sure hope things are alright with them.

[@tedmcnair9709]

Here in S.C. we fight the fire ant hills in the field. I’m not sure I have ever seen anything like that. Here is a suggestion cut your fields cross wind. You would get a more consistent cut maybe. Last question how many acres of grass are you cutting?

[@NorthTexasHay]

Worse east to west, 130

[@7hdfarm662]

You mentioned ryegrass in your hayfield. Do you spray it? If so, what do you use and when do you spray to kill it? I have a problem with it in my coastal hayfield and it seems to set the coastal back on the first cutting down here in central Texas.

[@NorthTexasHay]

Pre emergent

[@JWW922]

Sic that Winnie on the crawdads and when she gets really good at it then rent her out!

[@ruralridez6165]

Looks great Scott! We still got to chat sometime on equipment.

[@57fitter]

I didn't know you watched these folks. Sad story.

[@ruralridez6165]

@@57fitter when Scott was alive we talked a bit I was going to go visit there ranch.

[@57fitter]

@@ruralridez6165 If I remember correct, he built that rake and baler combo, or maybe just heavily modified it. Clever guy. I miss him and their channel.

[@commonwealthfarms5342]

Scott, I’m looking at building a open front hay barn next year for my square bales. What are the dimensions of your barn (minus the “leanto” on each side).

[@NorthTexasHay]

90 x 150

[@warny835]

Where you guys been hiding?Haven't heard from you in quite awhile.

[@jasonkotara2135]

Buddy I hope everything is good? Get back on KZbin and teach everyone how to make premium coastal hay.

[@danielthomason5685]

Try a vicon or kubota mower they work much better in these conditions...best cutter design in my opinion

[@edwingrimm9183]

where are you guys

[@dieselfuel6006]

How big is your hay barn. What’s the most hay you have ever had in barn at one time. Thanks

[@NorthTexasHay]

19

[@danieljuarez-ln7sn]

I’m thinking about getting a grappler and accumulator,, what would u recommend

[@NorthTexasHay]

The one made with the least moving parts

[@drewwilke1733]

Tilt the cutter bar down or you can mow in the opposite direction of the way the grass is layed over

[@NorthTexasHay]

Have tried that, it’s a lost cause

[@honey5bucket]

Sounds like you need to be hosting crawdad hunting parties.

[@jasondavies4887]

What weight and length do you make your bales?

[@NorthTexasHay]

60lb 36in

[@4700dan]

Has anyone heard when Scott will be putting out some more videos I miss these videos

[@garymaxfield1722]

Scott passed away on the 22nd of March, cause unknown.

[@4700dan]

@@garymaxfield1722 Oh my God I am so sorry he was a great guy to watch

[@dieselfuel6006]

What’s the total amount of acres you bail and how many cuts and square bails you get from that

[@NorthTexasHay]

130 and hope for 30

[@jrbpa5775]

If we had hay down from north to south, we mowed from east to west. Mower seemed to cut better that way. Do you cut the long stems off before next years new growth? Good video, thx for your efforts!!!

[@NorthTexasHay]

Cuts worse east to west

[@NorthTexasHay]

Don’t plain to mow them just yet, I’ll see how much they break down

[@nickolasburger5999]

Are u folks still in business or doing filming still or did u quit?

[@clearingbaffles]

A dual crop field Hay & Crawdads Isleton CA has a crawdad festival they might be looking for an alternative supplier Thanx from the left coast near the Krapitol of California

[@NorthTexasHay]

Haha! You mean we could selling them? Hot dang!!!