Unloading Hay the Easy Way

Hydraulic Hay trailer unloading small bales at our ranch. Copyright Janet Williamsen 2016.

[@bigbubba9593]

All the dislikes hasn’t unloaded hay before

[@dougw9239]

Got that right.

[@jedg7869]

So true

[@SPCLPONY]

Dislikes? Seriously? This way is really slick! I would have had 10 or 12 bales offloaded and stacked in this amount of time!

[@JR-lg7fd]

* haven't *

[@VernWatson-bd8yk]

Right 👍

[@jondoe-xn9st]

I told my pops their was something like this back in the day but hey kept saying why spend money on something fancy when I got free labor, it may not do the best job but you try. Lmao still can hear his voice to the day. Lol

[@tommygowan3591]

I wished we had that when I was loading and unloading hay. That's high tech.

[@quitetidy]

What could have been an all day event turned into a few minutes.

[@egparis18]

And no barbecue afterwards! No fun at all.

[@gregorymattison6007]

Looking at this I noticed 577 thumbs down. Someone explain to me why and what kind of people would put a thumbs down ? (Why)🤔

[@jamesosburn734]

Someone who hasn’t buck’d 2 loads in a row at a feed store in an eight hour shift while handling customers pick up.

[@paulholmes489]

On some screens it's really easy to accidentally thumbs down (or thumbs up)

[@heywoodjablowme3554]

Hippie vegan animal lovers who don't eat meat and want to save hay from going extinct. Just my guess.

[@pauljamison3340]

They haven’t got a clue what the video is about. I’d be surprised if they actually knew what hay was!!!

[@Quackerstacker1973]

Narcissistic morons that have never touched a bale of hay in their life I hauled hay for 15 summers god I hate hay

[@paparoysworkshop]

One minute later the boss runs up yelling, "that hay goes to the farm down the road. Load it back up".

[@RonFly824]

Thats alot of hay moved and tarped in mere minutes, who could dislike such ingenuity. Great setup

[@sparrovski]

I admire people that work smarter, not harder.

[@kenwalters216]

They always told us “this is what teenage boys are for”

[@pauljamison3340]

Yeah, and I used to be one of them doing it. Where was this lot 40 years ago???

[@nooneimportanttoyou5050]

Isn't it the truth? I used to go out and bail hay from the field, when it was still green making it 50 lbs heavier than it needed to be.

[@joshschneider9766]

one of thosr teenage boys went to an A&T somewhere and retired phenomenally wealthy at the age of 45 lmao

[@oby-1607]

My brother used to load and unload countless trailers with bales of hay. He would sure like this approach.

[@gordonjamieson861]

Now then, we Lear something new every day. Very good Idea. Well done 👍

[@lawrencegolba2244]

Sometimes I think farmers were the first engineers.

[@barryphillips7327]

A lot of back breaking blood sweat and tears avoided!!!! Good job!

[@michaelmclaughlin6345]

Used to unload full trailers of boxes to stores, wish I had that then. 😆

[@stevescott6503]

that is a slick set up. should make and sell those trailers.

[@robhartshorn6823]

With my luck the straps would break and the first set of bales would fall over and take out the whole barn wall. Lol

[@chevybigblock3311]

That’s definitely how that job is done

[@TheAamott12]

Im sure glad they didn't have that when I was a kid. Learned some valuable life lessons from the process.

[@anneduggan1014]

I get what you're saying, but come on....this would have saved my arms, back, and legs....plus freed up more time for other work.

[@alierrtrillo9368]

Yeah like how to be a sucker lmao

[@TheAamott12]

@@alierrtrillo9368 you're probably one those people that talk shit about the youth of today being a bunch of pussies and afraid of work. Buckin hay gave me gas money when I was a kid, tought me the value of a dollar, to be on time and finish a job that I started not to mention got me in great shape for football. As a HS football coach now all I hear are parents complaining about how kids are soft can't make a decision on the fly or the coaches are being to hard on their baby. Point is that everyone wonders what's wrong with kids nowadays and that problem is we've taken work smarter not harder to the extreme and left generations of youngsters to be "programmers" not workers that understand the value a hard day's work.

[@noel1933]

I remember back in late 70's early 80's kids talking about playing a block stacking game on their Ataris video game, when I saw it for the first time, I invited them out to do it for real. They actually enjoyed it a couple times.

[@jefftaylor8254]

Taught me how to ask for more money up front.

[@kellypaws]

I’ve unloaded those the not easy way. And I hated it.

[@billyhuggins4737]

That’s awesome! Why would over 500 people give that a thumbs down? Jackasses

[@robertphillips3078]

I agree with u. Obviously they dont realize how labour intensive hay baling is. I have never done it myself. But l have picked one up. Real cleaver Idea & a nice drive from the operator 👍👍

[@c50ge]

Because the think all others should suffer like they did!

[@obsfordsandclassiccars8578]

Where was this 20 years ago when we worked our asses off from sun up til sun down for .25 cents a bale 😂🤦🏾‍♂️

[@xrpxtrariceplease2811]

what is the cost of each bale of hay

[@jonredd650]

You wouldn't have had a job.

[@toolmanthetim7042]

@@xrpxtrariceplease2811 depends, there is a difference in bales $ from whether it is the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd cut. first cut in spring is more nutritious.

[@xrpxtrariceplease2811]

@@toolmanthetim7042 thanks never know that

[@toolmanthetim7042]

@@xrpxtrariceplease2811 lived in Vermont for many years, 500,000 people and 650,000 cows!

[@handsommattransom]

Do I have to build a trailer like that or can I buy one somewhere

[@lorilewis9200]

That is amazing Wish something like that was around to do hay as a teenager working in the hay barns

[@wadebrewer7212]

Right? Lol. Then again....would you really trade the hot summers in a hay loft...come on now.

[@SPCLPONY]

​@@wadebrewer7212 Back then? Yes! Looking back? No. But I did say to my wife the other night, "I wish I was 25 again." I had just stacked 200 square bales in my barn that afternoon. At 61, I felt it a few hours later. 😅😊

[@wadebrewer7212]

@SPCLPONY I hear ya....just did a small welding project just now where I had to kneel and squat...Im checked the balance of the day. Knees are trash these days and I'm not but 2/3rds your age. Sounds like you are doing just fine sir. 😆

[@ManzanoManATVAdventures]

Where was this during my hay throwing days!

[@woodrowsanders9652]

I have unloaded a trailer of hay like that before by hand. It's hard work and a good workout. That's the kind of work we do in Texas.

[@wendygore2709]

Wish they had these when I was growing up on the farm. It was hard enough loading, but then once that was done, it all had to be unloaded into the lofts😵 it was back breaking, itchy work. But wouldn't have change it for the world. Growing up in the country was awesome!!!

[@jeanday9747]

Wish we had that when we delivered hay.

[@gp-gm6ev]

A farmer in Saskatchewan I worked for in the 90s made one of these and a special loader to boot. No handwork necessary. His was way quieter and faster. Sorry guys!

[@joshschneider9766]

dont be sorry id have sold my soul for this thing at the farm they sent me to for being a shithead child lol

[@maxpower9848]

What's so easy about that? That looks really hard and have a specialized piece of equipment? All you need to do is put straps underneath the hay and then stake it to the ground and just drive the truck out from underneath it. That's how we unload 1,000 Christmas trees at a time.

[@daveyab4889]

If you cant do this as a farmer that has been farming for a few years then you are not much of a farmer this is way easier and quicker than using a loader of this is specialized equipment that is quite costly

[@jimccc9467]

Epitome of “work smarter not harder”

[@nikishanishe]

Охуительный разгрузчик!

[@josephreed1457]

You mean the lazy way. I remember being 15 years old me and a buddy just the two of us loaded and unloaded 5000 bales in a day by hand no automated trailers

[@goodingwashington6099]

Respect your hardwork. We had unloaded and attacked hay. But this is the smart way. Last month I bought a 1750lbs blast of alfalfa. There is no other way. Strapped the bale to my tractor. And he pulled the trailer dropping the bale to ground on top of a pallet. You can only handle smaller ~100lbs bales.

[@patrciaclemons8183]

50 years from now even farmers will have a gamers physique

[@TheLiamis]

Most already do now. Everything is automated today.

[@jasonmushersee]

even with front end loaders dad always made me do it by hand every bale stacked knots up by 23 had lumbar herniated disc dislocated/torn rotator cuff & torn ligaments both arms now when they tear from time to time dont even feel it anymore but left arm keeps popping out of socket on its own

[@jarthuroriginal]

Obviously handling hay was not done with free labor. Damage done to bodies was very expensive. If doing things manually was virtuous, let's get rid of tractors and trucks. It can all be done with shovels and rakes. Hauling hay can be done with wheel barrel. And you'll be real hungry at the end of the day.

[@kaywatson6505]

Love the truck!

[@loadapish]

They never had this in my hayday

[@joro2385]

What kind of bales are these? Wild Grass??

[@donaldtriumph1682]

Haven’t met the tame sort of grass yet !!!!

[@missys]

Clearly I've been doing it all wrong for years. Lol 😂

[@cleophusfowler]

SWEET!!! I have hand loaded, unloaded and stacked thousands of square bales. When I started there was no such thing as round bales. At times we sold and delivered hay to other farms also. I would have given my eye teeth to have a set up like this! Sweet!!

[@TRSWOODWORKING]

Just lost my 10.00 an hour job I had back in 1995.

[@nerolsalguod4649]

Yowser Mr. Bowser ! 45 years ago I unloaded semi's like this by hand and bales then were a 100lbs plus. This reminds me of an 8-10 round bale processor where the large chains pull the bales forward to the processor. Excellent innovation. Dont tell my Dad !!

[@coindigger5392]

In order to come off just right, I'm sure it has to be stacked on just right too .

[@joshschneider9766]

probably just gotta be relatively close and the tie downs cinch them in on one another but im totally guessing

[@piotrlenarczyk5803]

Thak you for video. Cool stuff.

[@toddkarrick6711]

Dang... As an old guy, I wish we had that idea back in the day. Bucking bails into the barn was no fun.

[@benchedthatpiece]

That is very cool!

[@SGobuck]

16 year olds everywhere: Robots is taking our jobs!😱🤖

[@flattire819]

Tay jook r derbs

[@nemo227]

Excellent. Farmers generally know how to used the up to date, efficient methods. Many were early users of computers, spreadsheets, etc. Back in high school in the fifties I say one of my classmates working on homework before a sociology class. "What are you doing?" I asked. "Bookkeeping," he said. I was on a "college prep" track but he wasn't. He was a farmer. I then realized that he was getting a more useful education.

[@alexmachin8202]

This makes me want to cry 😂hand unloading 12,000 of those little bastards every year for you to do that 😭

[@catdieselpower193]

Now that is one sweet setup!! boys N gals!! sho nuff!!

[@jefftaylor8254]

Must be nice. We had to stack that shit 5 or 6 high and throw into a loft without an elevator for 5 bucks an hour. I hate hay.

[@pauljamison3340]

We used to get paid per bail. So it was flat out all the time.

[@jonredd650]

Hey I heard that!

[@megoingfast]

Strangely hypnotic.

[@davidfirth9342]

Jesus Tom idel down we gotta get 8 hrs outta this

[@80sriceman]

I've loaded hay on my rollback tow truck 3 things I learned: 1. those suckers are heavy! 2. Its a pain to load. 3. its an equal pain to unload. Even when I unstrapped the load and tilted the bed all the way up, the damn hay not roll off. I had to lift the bed footing a few inches off the ground and jerk the truck forward and back to get them off. Was not easy on the truck. I won't do that anymore unless they have a forklift to unload.

[@keza41]

Hahaha, how the hell did this get on my recommendations? Glad it did though, brilliant piece of ingenuity.

[@timoharkala7414]

I want this.Amazing.

[@MustangsTrainsMowers]

One of the most miserable tasks on the farm was stacking hay bales up in an old wooden barn on a hot summer day. The heat and the hay dust was terrible.

[@jaypence332]

Oh I miss that life.

[@hoythunter4853]

I loved it. Crazy hard work but still enjoyed it

[@d.delgado2137]

@@jaypence332 I hear ya! I miss my farm and ranch days!!

[@taufuilehauli5488]

Incredible to see

[@mikeybosco6875]

Awesome way off loading the hay

[@dalemorrissey6213]

That’s is super cool, saves a lot of time, energy, severe amounts of sweat, bad backs, etc… Wished that was around when I was younger. We had a stacker out in the field finally to pickup hay and stack it. That was amazing. Now they need to come up with something that will load the semi trailers. That would be the ultimate with this. Loading, unloading, the easy and quick way.

[@Gallo77769]

Now that's perfect unloading.

[@bdub78dub90]

Would love to get some of that hay if you're in that business. ?

[@yomommajumprcables]

497 people want to take each bale off by hand.

[@joelmosier125]

Wow! Amazing! We are becoming wiser in our abilities to bettering our society in the agriculture business. Thank you for sharing the video.

[@SemperBlood]

In the day, 20 of us would of unloaded and stacked the hay in the same amount of time.

[@skd5432]

awesome.... 👌👍

[@elblancochingon8138]

Its a shame the part of the hay that isn't covered sticks out of the barn

[@Alfredoalinoer]

Is that grass??? For animal?. Cow? The hay have prize???. Unbeliveble.

[@stump1897]

Beats unloading a kicker wagon into the hay loft

[@toureyacoubou9589]

that is not fair for us with 10 dollars per hour job

[@wifighostcruiser9665]

Wow, I can't even imagine how much time that saves.

[@KN-ek4wi]

Good job .. well done

[@soyeloso7345]

But that's not the easy way. That is how it is meant to be done. The flatbed was designed with that mechanism for most loads...

[@airups2001]

Put a dent in the backside of the pole building.

[@scottedwards6578]

Took me a minute to realise that these where tiny bales stuff hand loading that in the shed

[@eadomino2]

That's very easy. I for the same task took 2 hours

[@jwilliamsen]

eadomino2 cracked a board!

[@bigyay3372]

2 hours my ass

[@kirksulser3960]

I would love to see that done in 2 hours

[@marshallshelton6262]

2/3 of the way finished sounds like a good time to stop the whole operation and ask the operator to idle it down.....

[@jerroldkazynski5480]

Pretty good, depending if you're selling the bales to consumers. For big-eating cattle feeding, nothing beats the 1-ton bales unloaded by a squeeze-equipped frontend loader.

[@markdent4052]

Do it by hand lot quicker lol

[@treilly39]

Brilliant 💯💯💯💯

[@davidharrison6120]

The only negative i see is that the bottom layer is directly on the ground. Potentially down grading the quality.

[@wildsmooth9201]

Hated baking in the sun with itchy hay down my back.

[@nomangondal4619]

Very very nice

[@billyhammock6379]

That's so cool

[@richardhoover7569]

Hope they use them fast or the bottom ones will mold.

[@mikeca.7662]

Easy,more like the lazy,We used to hand stack each bale,whats the world coming to !

[@joshschneider9766]

finally respecting necessary labor. im sorry yours wasn't but thats really no excuse for being annoyed that your successors found a way to mate efficiency and worker health in positive ways ya grouchy old douche

[@ScottThomas-km4gl]

Think about all that weight at the very end of the trailer wanting to pull the front up. Even if it's attached to the tractor, gotta be careful about it.

[@gunrunner4653]

That's a great way to unload

[@janvandenbos7085]

Realy easy way to un load some hay wow 😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😂😜😛😜😂😜😛😜😂😜😛😜😂😜😛

[@omark2423]

You got the job done before I could get off the toilet.

[@TheSponge33]

Some WD40 would have been useful, to not damage my hearing.

[@MrJohnthefarmer]

To think I was all excited to get a hay elevator. No more chucking bales and having my shoulders ache.

[@SuperQuickfix1]

Nice, saves your back to load another trailer.

[@joelknierim1456]

Is the mechanism hydraulic or screw drive? Works very well!

[@catfishbaitface1]

I used to unload and stack hay from an elevator up in the hayloft 120F as a kid on a haying crew. Did this for several cuttings during the season 50+ yrs. ago. Could swing a bale 11 to 13 courses high! Made good money for the time. Now, it all seems a nightmare. Farming used to be work, now it's worry!

[@darylpischner6304]

Amazing

[@philiphendersonjr1760]

Workin' smarter rather than harder! Bravo!

[@truckinfam2207]

You see how they reinforced the back wall off that hay barn? Good job

[@edwardbright5894]

Alot of backs would have been saved if this were around year's ago🤠👍🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🇺🇸😴

[@brettknoss486]

What kind of trailer is that?

[@grahamturbett]

brett knoss I’m fairly certain it is a regular flat bed, with small side rails and a winch powered unloading system

[@marcz9482]

Simply and it works, coming soon someone will copy this and it won't work. It's how we do in 2021 nothing is original.