Unloading Hay

[@SLCFarms]

Andy you are the true definition of a Leader not a Boss. You don’t expect your men to do anything you wouldn’t do and you work side by side showing how to work hard. I try and always do the same. Sometimes my back gets in the way but I’ll chuck hay with my men till I fall over. You sir are a good man. Keep them coming Andy. If I ever happen to visit NY I’d love to meet ya and shake your hand.

[@FarmingFixingFabricating]

Thanks for the comment, if you are ever up this way stop in.

[@3069mark]

New subscriber here. My Dad was a "big for the time" row crop farmer (and sometimes a little livestock) in Iowa from the 50's-70's. We never did hay ourselves, but one time in 1974 when I was 16 our neighbor hired about 6 of us teenage boys to help him bale his hay and get it put up in the hay mow in his barn. We started early that morning and worked until late afternoon, and put up 4000 bales, and that included baling it, stacking it on the hay racks, hauling them to the barn, unloading onto the elevator and running it up to the hay mow, and then stacking it in the hay mow. Some of us were working on the rack behind the baler and some at the hay mow. The neighbor and his grown son ran the equipment. The neighbor would only let us drink water the whole day, and not eat anything, because he knew with the heat it would make us sick and well .... LAZY. LOL. He owned a small oldtime grocery store in the nearest town, and his specialty was his butcher shop, where he sold the meat that he raised on his farm. So he had his grown son go to the store and put together a feast for us and have it back for us when were done. We had a big cooler of sodas on ice, a big tray of cold cut meats, bread, cheeses, and potato chips. We could eat all we wanted then after the work was done, and since we were teenage boys we had a big appetite and we did eat a lot. So that's one of my many memories of my life on the farm during my youth.

[@FarmingFixingFabricating]

Awesome story

[@markbowling3475]

Man does this bring back memories, stacking square bales , that will make a man out of you , tks for sharing Andy, hello Andrew

[@rodneyerdmann1545]

Old school hay making at it's best! Stacking bales in a barn is something I haven't done in 40 years!

[@oby-1607]

Handled small square bales for over 40 years. Its a lot of hot, dusty, tiring work. Hats off to you.

[@leesteele9290]

Keeping the landlord happy is very important job everyone has their own desires and ways of thinking and keeping that communication line open is important! I custom baled for several years and put bales in every concievable kind of storage spot ,but a lot of old barns similar to that one ! Cut side up every time, process hasn't changed , load,unload ,stack,repeat . Can't hardly find any young people to do that kind of work today pretty sad. Glad those big machines have come along and replaced all that hand work! Thanks for the video!

[@craigsmith8217]

I never cease to be amazed at people who can't back a 2 wheel trailer.

[@sterlingspencer2934]

Used to love hauling and stacking hay. Could get 70 bales in a 1/2 ton pick up. Enjoyed those days. That was some pretty nifty backing of that four wheel wagon!

[@cavalcadekidstevehoag38]

About 45 years ago I grow up in central New York, East Genoa, on my 3 uncle's and grandfather farms. I learned to back wagons up in the barn, back them up to The Silo, back them up to the hay conveyor. It was a talent to learn and I did it well. As Farm life is it's rough on our body. At fourteen my father was taken out with a back injury to never fully recover from and we had to leave the farm. I still helped uncle's during summer break from school as well as some weekend's. We had John Deere A, G, 3010, 4010. My best choice for a future , with us leaving the farm, was to join the Marine Corps which I served eight years, got out and became an auto mechanic. Farm life never left my blood would love to go back there even through all these years. Great watching your videos keep them coming.

[@thomassojka2704]

Thanks for taking us along, you're a hard working guy, great job!

[@randybreuer1685]

i'm always impressed with people who can bake a hay wagon in a barn thats a lost art.

[@atomicwedgie8176]

I thought it was a lost art and no longer used...restored my faith in humanity! lol

[@Boodlemania]

LOL Not hardly. Do it all the time.

[@cavalcadekidstevehoag38]

Seeing it done, brought back waves of memories of yesteryear. Back many wagons into a barn or up to the elevator. I grew up in central New York I love farming in it. Four of my uncles had farms in the East Genoa area of New York. I would help out during the Summers and sometimes in the winter after school. My dad had a back injury when I was 14 and farming was no longer part of my life as far as my family goes.

[@normanreed572]

If you want a challenge try backing a full load of hay into a barn with a John Deere A with a hand clutch and no power steering.

[@SLCFarms]

It’s always the hottest day of the year when it’s time to toss hay. Watching you back the wagons made me realize I really need to do break work on my old Massey. She definitely won’t pivot like that I gotta stand on her to make her stop. Good winter job. I like that old iron. Ready to watch the big balers in action. I left 2 full balls of twine down the road one day. Limb caught it just right and pulled it all out. We followed it for miles. I couldn’t believe how far it went.

[@joeclarkson3642]

That was a nice looking barn. Great video 👍

[@elmcustomharvesting1072]

Thanks for the video always enjoy doing small bales. It makes you really appreciate the big baler hope you have a good evening talk to you later

[@FarmingFixingFabricating]

Thanks Eric

[@curtweatherbee2523]

Your good Andrew backing that wagon up⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️👍🏻😉

[@steveleverett300]

We use to have a hitch we put on the front of the tractors when backing these trailers makes it a lot easier. Wonderful videos. Thanks

[@jerrythegaffer]

Well done Andy good Video. Takes me back a lot of years, J.D. 3020 six cylinder no cab 85bhp, international 440 baler 10,000 hay bales and 25,000 straw, stacked by hand into 21's and hauled in 1 stack at a time with a bale carrier on a J.D 2130 4 cylinder 79 bhp, all done in the summer of 1977! Hot and sweaty but enjoyable work. 👍

[@joesanders652]

Old man out working the hell outta them young boy! Lol

[@robertblackman3451]

Yeah I like seeing a boss who will out work the help!

[@ISXCUMMINS565]

Joe Sanders Lead by example 👍

[@mikep7810]

That 100 is a sweet looking baler! You must have loved my unloading hay videos so much you went out and stacked some in a hot mow! Lol great video

[@FarmingFixingFabricating]

Yes you are right

[@johnpierce1251]

That brings back memories dropping thru the loose holes in the tiers

[@MichaelTJD60]

I like that 4320. You make backing the hay wagon into the barn look easy!

[@FarmingFixingFabricating]

MichaelTJD60 it backed itself in there..lol

[@mypetblackhole5793]

love the older JD's 4320 view was awesome. I just bought a 72' JD 4000. All season cab an 158 loader. want to replace the cab with an open station like yours. then I think about the snow we get up here on the Tug Hill an I appreciate the closed station. mostly bought it for the love of the JD's an snow removal/ land mantinece.

[@npascaretti]

You should give lessons on how to back up a four wheel wagon. Very impressive. Thanks for all the great content.

[@FarmingFixingFabricating]

Can’t really teach backing

[@galaxya7516]

Brings back good memory's we did every year 500 "idiot blocks" of straw to be put next year spring in the strawberrie fields. Respect for the hard work, would love to help out.

[@Samschannel-xi2ev]

Andy glad you said why you stack the bales cut edge up. I was about to ask why you do we do also but we always do because we used to have an old new holland baler and the cut edge was always tighter so we put them up so they were easier to walk on in the barn. We also never use hay hooks in square bales grandpa always said square bales have stings hooks are for small rounds. Great video my dad and I will talk about tomorrow on the farm.

[@sharonromer6606]

Impressed with that backup job 👍

[@Drew6709]

I'm in awe. That's impressive tractor skills to get that trailer in such a tight doorway. KUDOS. I would have had the trailer in the door a couple of times before getting it where it was supposed to go.

[@davevaughn6293]

Andy always outworking those young guys . Every video

[@thr8061]

When I was a kid, we would bale several thousand small square bales each year of 2nd crop alfalfa for the young calves, soon-to-freshen & new mothers. Mom drove the baler tractor, I stacked the wagons (7 high, 5 wide, 4 stacks deep = 140 per wagon). My dad would haul wagons back & forth, unload them while my 3 sisters piled in the barn.

[@h.e.phillips4002]

It looks like you have plenty of practice with those hay hooks Andy. Great video as always.

[@FarmingFixingFabricating]

I've handled a few bales

[@frankdeegan8974]

I found using just one hook worked best for me pulling the bales off the chute of the baler stacking on the wagon but in the mow I was better off without hooks, everyone has a preference.

[@WiedemannPhotography]

We also stacked bales like that too, makes it easier to walk on for the next layer instead of tripping on strings.

[@arkansas1336]

A lot of hard work handling those bales!

[@geoffhirsh2402]

Hell of a backup job Andy👍👍👍

[@davidtanner789]

Get Vinny in the mow! He’s a hell of a stacker, him and I stacked quite a few bales together!

[@anthonybanda8192]

nice job on using the independent rear brakes to turn the tractor grandpa taught me that trick when we had to back up our tractors into the barn on uphill on snow the tractor was an 1974 alischalmers 200 diesel it would turn on a dime on snow if you used the brakes.

[@jonathangreenwood6379]

You make that backing up look easy I am new to your channel and like your videos I am a framer from UK

[@FarmingFixingFabricating]

Welcome aboard, thanks for joining us

[@Rick-Rarick]

Not easy backing a hay wagon into a barn. I can do it on my first try most times, but I am not that good! Next time you stop by Webb road I will tell you the story about my mom, step dad, and backing a boat into a lake. It is a classic! Congrats on 20k subs!

[@FarmingFixingFabricating]

Thanks Ryck

[@williamj.barnhartjr.3108]

I sure am glad it wasn't me unloading that hay lol that's one job I don't miss, I miss farming but not that part of it, great video thanks for sharing, God Bless you and your family.

[@rjacobs1200]

Fun seeing the old green iron working. Sound a lot better with the muffler

[@cntslesfabrication]

That was pretty funny watching Vinny's hat go flying off and looked at you Andy like wtf just happened

[@fredrickkohlman9587]

looks like the racks and bales on wagons just clear. a front hitch on tractor is sure handy. you show those boys how it's done.

[@phillipsaunders8062]

Glad you guys were handling them bales and not me, baler guy would get a but chewing, i can not stand loose bales

[@JohnDoe-jq5wy]

Nice barn, the owner takes good care of it.

[@barrysimmons4724]

Now that there's part a the good ole days. Kicker bales instead a the old 50T 100 pounders. Nice job putting the wagons in. Easier when the tractor weighs as much as the wagon.

[@eddiereichel9354]

Looked to be an expert wheelman backing up that hay wagon. They are no joke to back up.

[@FarmingFixingFabricating]

It takes some practice

[@petenolte4192]

Yup I remember that whiny sound in the 4020 I ran. Good job backing the wagon in with a wide front tractor

[@mrnate4280]

Looks good man been on the road for a couple weeks gotta catch up with your stuff really enjoy your videos

[@FarmingFixingFabricating]

Mr Nate I’m glad you are back Nate,thanks for the comment

[@salmonhunter7414]

I used to hate walking on the hay. we use to put boards down. We got a penny a bale that was back in the mid sixties.

[@arnoldromppai5395]

for years as a kid i helped this old guy do his haying, with an old massy and small square baler, riding on a stuk slay behind the baler, and load a row of 4 bales on edge and 3 on top of that then one on top, and spep on the release and the stuk would dump off, in what looked like an A frame house, then hall them to the barn as a loader tractor loaded the stuks on the hay wagon and 2 guys on the wagon stacking it, when we put it in the barn, it went on edge as well, but after each layer was done, we spread none iadizeds hay salt over the whole top before the next layer went on .. that was hard work, all by hand into an old hay barn you drive in one side and out the other, but there was an old lose hat trolly with a loss hay basket that was used to grab loss hay off the wagons and host it up and over into the mound, witch was always in the way as we got higher, all by hand, no air in that barn, no hay elevators, my head was pluged up for a month strait 3 times a summer

[@FarmingFixingFabricating]

Those were the good ole days right

[@marklollar8120]

The good old days! Used to put in 30,000 of those things every summer for 1/2 dozen years back in the sixties. Don’t really miss it too much.....

[@mitchbehling9054]

Good god man. Your a better backer upper than I am!!!!!

[@andrewwoodhead8305]

Steering on the skids Andy, can't fault it.👍that wagon was built to fit in that barn.about £6 sterling a bale that gear in our area,the women go mad for it for their horses 👍lol

[@robbybachmann332]

That was a good video Andy. Sure brought back allot of memories of stacking hay in hot old barns. ( what held that roof up as there were no bottom cords in the trusses if you know what I mean ]

[@FarmingFixingFabricating]

Each side leans towards the other and as long as there bottom doesn't kick out it will stay

[@curtweatherbee2523]

Thanks for the hayride Andrew beautiful scenery upstate New York🤠 how’s the song go I love New York 😂🇺🇸👍🏻

[@FarmingFixingFabricating]

The politics about new York suck a little though

[@curtweatherbee2523]

Farming Fixing & Fabricating I understand Andrew New Jersey is the same way 🤪👍🏻 New Jersey is a beautiful state but it’s like you said it sucks like New York🤨 Take care my friend🇺🇸

[@FarmingFixingFabricating]

@@curtweatherbee2523 have a good day

[@JohnDoe-jq5wy]

Talk about hot!! It would be 110-120 degrees outside in the shade and as we got higher in the barn less ventilation and push on. It would be 125-130 degrees and after the truck load was unloaded I would be sweat soaked to my crotch and head to the watering trough to put my arms in the cold water and feel the cool blood flow through my body. Raised to go from start to finish, no matter WHAT!!!!

[@davidrowley8251]

Backing that wagon off the highway went pretty smooth, hope you have enough clearance for the rack after the weight is off the tires. A few men know how to use hay hooks at 7:00 Does the JD 7290R have the e23 transmission or the IVT? We have a 7280R with IVT.

[@FarmingFixingFabricating]

Ivt

[@kimandtonyholtmann4689]

every dairymen knows how to back up a self steering wagons good job Andy

[@mikebonge7206]

great driving skills backing up

[@domthomas1002]

My best diet plan was volunteering for the inside job. It was hot, no air, and dusty as all get out and that Alfalfa was dirty. Kept me in shape.

[@christopherkalinowski9430]

My father wouldn't approve of the stack, bales weren't tight enough. he was a stickler in the mow. Nice job guys

[@dalecornelius4374]

Awww man now it won't go faster without the chrome pipe on there lol. We just finished wheat and baled 2 wagon loads of straw that was plenty trying to dodge rains and get double crop beans in.

[@TheRealJesseStoltzfus]

How fast can you run with them balers?

[@FarmingFixingFabricating]

Depends on the size of the windrow If you are making a Bale in under 10 seconds you are doing pretty good

[@workonitm8]

Just curious how much those bales weigh ? (40 lbs maybe ?) Some of the guys were just tossing them around but those carrying were struggling a bit. Thanks !

[@FarmingFixingFabricating]

Yeah

[@davidberrier5894]

Backing a trailer very impressive

[@justinpoulin5123]

I have a question for you! I am thinking a big baler, I have been looking at some used jd100s, the seem reasonably priced. 12-15k, we plan on doing mostly dry hay with it but may do some silage. My neighbor has a case baler simaler to yours he says with hay and silage hay the jd 100 will make banana bales because it doesn't have a prechamber! I know you do most straw, just looking for you opion, thanks

[@FarmingFixingFabricating]

Justin Poulin they don’t like higher moisture bales

[@nathanmullaney6946]

I don’t know if you have bought one yet but the new holland bailers work pretty good for us

[@peewee.3138]

Millennials that know how to throw bales- they are few and far between! Don’t play them young boys out too fast, Andy!

[@chriswithington7557]

The simple fact that they show up for work and do manual labor without complaining is great and not on the phone all the time. I think the employer also has something to do with it too.

[@atomicwedgie8176]

@@chriswithington7557 The phones are at the bottom of the lagoon! lol

[@egan88817]

You run those hay hooks pretty good, sure better than grabbing twine 1000 times a day when stacking in the barn. How about a contest to guess the weight of a load of hay in the wagon you drove to the barn? Thank you for today's video.

[@MrMagnum7220]

I would have uneasy with that wagon halfway on the road Didn’t think Andy would own anything red. Haha

[@jimcivitello3913]

Ahh the joys of unloading little bales or as wes calls them idiot cubes lol. Maybe it was just me but that wagon looked like it doesn't like going down the road too fast behind your pickup. Nice old bank barn there too.

[@FarmingFixingFabricating]

Yes it wanted to sway a bit

[@chadtheartist5081]

I miss baling hay, as stupid as that sounds, lol. There were plenty of summers spent in the hay loft stacking those things. It's been 20+ years though.

[@crazyfarmgirl9010]

Nothing better than thrown a few bales lol👍

[@crazyfarmgirl9010]

Other then a beer when all done 😋

[@joedorweiler7733]

Glad you bought the hay by the ton/lb. instead of by the bale those bales are loose

[@ildairyfarmer2436]

Do both balers make 3x3’s?

[@FarmingFixingFabricating]

Yes the Case bales are just a little bigger not much though

[@oliverknapp3104]

How much weight ended up being in the wagons

[@FarmingFixingFabricating]

About 6,000 lbs

[@workonitm8]

Have you ever tried mounting a hitch on the front of the tractor ? It seems like it might be easier to steer the four wheel wagon into close spaces.

[@smcox1991]

I couldn’t even imagine having to move hay like this. All I bale are little bales but we have new holland hay wagons and can pickup and stack 104 bales in 20 minutes. Although these bales look really light I average 70 pound bales.

[@FarmingFixingFabricating]

Yes the stack wagon is probably the best way

[@jocalafarms4051]

God gave you 2 hands boys. Hay hook in each one. We walked 2 at a time to the back row. Those days are gone

[@FarmingFixingFabricating]

Yes they are

[@noelhohberger1188]

That and you know farming when you can put a wagon like that in a place you did!

[@barrybeggs8543]

Inthe midwest the firt row set the bales cut end up sy after that strings up. thats in Wisc & ill. where i have mowed bales

[@martinbenton742]

Stacking bales in a barn with no air moving will dang sure wilt the lily! A few years ago I barrow ed a friends Super hay liner. As with every year, I put in new balls of twine when I returned it. One year he called and asked why I didn't put twine in. I did, after I parked it in the field, was my reply. Come to find out, his son tried to thread the needles and left the twine hang down. He had twine strung through a corn field, down a gravel road, and along part of the highway before he ran out. I have a JD 24T of my own now. MB BAR RANCH

[@FarmingFixingFabricating]

That had to sick losing that amount of twine

[@martinbenton742]

@@FarmingFixingFabricating the guy that owned the field, made him go pick it all up. MB BAR RANCH

[@andrewsarles3520]

Should let one of them young guys spend a half hour backing up a wagon? I remember all the teasing from the older guys I took when I was a teenager! We used to bale 2000-2500 bales a day for 200 milking cows, 100-150 steers and alot replacement hiefers. By the time 1st cutting was done 2nd cutting was on the horizon!

[@jamesmckay9966]

That almost looked like the old saw where a semi couldn't clear the Bridge and a little boy suggested letting some air out of the trailers tires.

[@rawfarms2790]

You look like you have ran hay hooks before. Lol. I don't miss that at all

[@jaredhach4891]

You can tell that wasn’t his first rodeo!! Well done boss!

[@scotthawkins8740]

My cousin says his heavy breathing is his Turbo kicking in lol !! Didn't appear that doorway was tall enough

[@jfraz3570]

I have seen my Aunt throw bales around when I was a kid

[@adamburke7123]

Cool reversing

[@mrnascar9129]

The ability to backup is a natural born gift.....some men farm a lifetime and still can't backup.......my dad....lol

[@FarmingFixingFabricating]

Sometimes the struggles can be real

[@nickmatter2980]

Hate to say this glad it was u doing the hay bales and not me. I know I couldn't back that rack up When u stepped in the hole my uncle would say they aren't tightly stacked I never did get the luxury of using the bale spiked

[@FarmingFixingFabricating]

Yup not stacked tight is right.

[@JohnDoe-jq5wy]

The twine? I worked dot on highway maintenance and we made a rod to go on a battery drill to windup a mile of twine. All good

[@FarmingFixingFabricating]

John Doe that makes a mess doesn’t it

[@JohnDoe-jq5wy]

No, put a rod in the drill and started the drill and walked. All good. Usually it was in the back of the pickup and the paper tag on the start end would be activated by the wind as they drove down the road and run the whole ball of twine out. Amazing

[@JohnDoe-jq5wy]

That is a cool barn your delivering hay too.

[@frankdeegan8974]

Yes stacking hay in a barn is hot, no air and the fuller the barn gets the hotter it gets up near the roof. The last layers are very hard and hot. the only consolation was knowing that doing straw will be a snap usually cooler weather and best of all lighter bales.

[@anthonybanda8192]

it seems like a lot but we run a 9870 johndeere and a 40 foot draper header and then we will round bale the straw for cattle bedding and sell some to other people.

[@mitsnevets]

like how you turned your cap around backwards in a salute to all the millennial viewers ! lol on the tractor when you headed home

[@mannsjm]

If you had one more Andy you could send at least two guys home.

[@bloodymatch1]

Done that tons of times and I can smell and taste that dust through the camera

[@stanleyjones4180]

thanks for the video andy

[@amossnowdaharleyman9179]

Looks like a good time to buy some BenGay stock......Been there,done it: never again....

[@FarmingFixingFabricating]

Lol

[@geoffhirsh2402]

Remember you had rodent problems with the twine last year. Any changes for this year?

[@FarmingFixingFabricating]

We aren't going to put any bales in that barn this year. They were in there for 2 years and it was a year to long

[@brandonwood1397]

Andy you were out workin all of them kids lol

[@mikehall528]

Andy, You need some smv signs on the wagon. People are crazy on the roads today.

[@FarmingFixingFabricating]

You are right, those wagons weren't ours though

[@nomerc3608]

You should have sold that Case right after you had all of the work done on it! All you need is the 1290 Krone big pack and the Deere 100 as back up.

[@FarmingFixingFabricating]

Yes sir, we don't Bale that much though. The cases/ new Holland hopefully will work good this year.