You gotta think about farmers that do custom bailing for a living you need a tractor to load semis to make money we sell Johnson grass hay for 50 $ and a semi can hold 42
You are fabulous!!! I have 2 old hay rounds in my pasture that I have been wanting to remove without a tractor. They are falling apart and making one heck of a mess in my field and now using your method and my truck I will be able to move them out of my pasture and out into the woods to rot all they want. Thank you so much
I just watched the video of your bale mover prototype from a couple years before this video and I just wanted to say THANK YOU for sharing your ideas. I can’t afford a tractor, but I also can’t afford enough small bales to keep my horses fed. This is a game changer and I think I’m going to get a panel right now!
Once the hay has been sitting there for a while and it gets flat on the bottom sure makes it harder to roll out doesn't it. We have use a long rope looped around the hay tied to a tractor or you can use the bumper of the truck to pull it out. You know the old saying Where there will there a way. I like the way you think.
Before I got my bale spear, I used to throw a rope over the bale and tie a hay hook on the end and jab it in down low on the backside of the bale so when I'd pull away with the tractor it would roll the bale out of the rut. I'm not a he-man like you with muscles. LOL. The rest was done with smoke and mirrors, but having a bale spear is so much easier.
Just saw this cause I never needed to move a round bale of hay before. Now I own 7 acres of land and 5 goats. What a great idea to move them bales. I know how to move the 2 bales we have and how to make a feeder.👍🏻👍🏻
I'm in the process of getting all mine in from the fields - they're the larger 1200 lb ones. I'm using a metal pole through the center of the bale (like an axle) and hooking up tow straps to pull it. Tedious sledgehammer work to drive the pole through but it works! Your way is pretty quick!
Great stuff. Putting a pallet under it helps keep mold down. Also placing plywood or cheap corrugated metal on top protects it from rain a little better.
What about pushing a long pipe/bar through the center... Then attach ropes or chains to the ends... And using a 4-wheeler or your truck to pull-roll it out to where you need it? Just a thought :)
That certainly looks like a lot easier way to move hay than it was when I was a kid. Summers I would work on a 150 head dairy. Bucking hay, setting irrigation pipe, and milking cows was tough work for a 105 pound kid :>
I know the feeling of no tractor... My wife and I have the big rolls. we roll one out from the stack and turn it over on a pallet. then cut the strapping 1/3 down. pull off what's needed for our horses and tarp...saves a lot compared to bales. if I had a tractor I could put the roll in the corral with a feed ring... Maybe next year...lol
Man at least you got space to drive through in a truck! Lol we get the square bales and see me hoist that darn thing on one shoulder and march to the pens with it. Have done since my teens. Sacks of feed too. Dad always remarked it gave me big arms lol.
Interesting. Hadn't thought to use a cattle panel as a sled. How are you attaching the sled to the hitch? Chain, rope, etc? Any kind of bracing or anything as the pressure I would think would pull apart the cattle panel welds.
It's not always depending on brute strength and strong of body but using your brain skills that works For many years I moved around commercial refrigeration equipment by myself many times amazing others of how I could do it and really it was simple
I actually have seen both your videos about how to do this. I’m an OG subscriber! 😎. Good video, I’m super happy for you and the success of your channel! You’re doin an awesome job, man!
I loved how it was making sheep sounds while you pulled it.....wait....what? :) I also loved the jumping sheep in the beginning - or was that a goat? Your videos are always such fun to watch!
Most people roll the bale over on its side to help keep the rain from entering the end of the bale. Just curious why you leave the end up for the rain to enter it?
I have a question, please. Could one curry or brush the older sheep to help them shed out? Or, perhaps, does the new winter growth ( evident by the color changes on the younger ones) push the rest out?
Keeping It Dutch, Thank you. My Uncle hired a sheering team when it was time , rather than do it himself. Obviously , he had what you called wool sheep. ☺️
You may not be rich is $$$, I'll have to take you at your word but you are rich in knowledge and personality. Keep up the bad work Brother D.
Very cool idea for us mortals without tractors.
Improvise, adapt, and overcome
Absolutely
Smart man! And here I was hooking up a trailer and rolling them up on it... I get tractor envy from time to time, but I prefer getting out of debt. 😉
You gotta think about farmers that do custom bailing for a living you need a tractor to load semis to make money we sell Johnson grass hay for 50 $ and a semi can hold 42
You are fabulous!!! I have 2 old hay rounds in my pasture that I have been wanting to remove without a tractor. They are falling apart and making one heck of a mess in my field and now using your method and my truck I will be able to move them out of my pasture and out into the woods to rot all they want. Thank you so much
I just watched the video of your bale mover prototype from a couple years before this video and I just wanted to say THANK YOU for sharing your ideas. I can’t afford a tractor, but I also can’t afford enough small bales to keep my horses fed. This is a game changer and I think I’m going to get a panel right now!
I'm sure it helps that you're build like a darn linebacker.
Once the hay has been sitting there for a while and it gets flat on the bottom sure makes it harder to roll out doesn't it. We have use a long rope looped around the hay tied to a tractor or you can use the bumper of the truck to pull it out. You know the old saying Where there will there a way. I like the way you think.
It works
Before I got my bale spear, I used to throw a rope over the bale and tie a hay hook on the end and jab it in down low on the backside of the bale so when I'd pull away with the tractor it would roll the bale out of the rut. I'm not a he-man like you with muscles. LOL. The rest was done with smoke and mirrors, but having a bale spear is so much easier.
So I do most of my barn chores. I’m still trying to figure out how to get my new hay ring in the round bale for the horses. 😉
Just saw this cause I never needed to move a round bale of hay before. Now I own 7 acres of land and 5 goats. What a great idea to move them bales. I know how to move the 2 bales we have and how to make a feeder.👍🏻👍🏻
I'm in the process of getting all mine in from the fields - they're the larger 1200 lb ones. I'm using a metal pole through the center of the bale (like an axle) and hooking up tow straps to pull it. Tedious sledgehammer work to drive the pole through but it works! Your way is pretty quick!
Good idea! Consider it used at my ranch! I will be dragging hay rounds all over my property now! Thanks!
Great stuff. Putting a pallet under it helps keep mold down. Also placing plywood or cheap corrugated metal on top protects it from rain a little better.
You certainly don't seem " poor" to me, congrats excellent video, i appreciate learning about farming life.
What about pushing a long pipe/bar through the center...
Then attach ropes or chains to the ends...
And using a 4-wheeler or your truck to pull-roll it out to where you need it?
Just a thought :)
That certainly looks like a lot easier way to move hay than it was when I was a kid. Summers I would work on a 150 head dairy. Bucking hay, setting irrigation pipe, and milking cows was tough work for a 105 pound kid :>
Great idea. Doesn't have to be fancy to work!
That's genius, using what you got to get the job done!! 😉
That is a great solution as a feeder! Good man!
This was such a cool idea. Necessity is the mother of invention. 😃
I love this, I'll try it myself. Good job Dutch.
I know the feeling of no tractor...
My wife and I have the big rolls.
we roll one out from the stack and turn it over on a pallet.
then cut the strapping 1/3 down.
pull off what's needed for our horses and tarp...saves a lot compared to bales.
if I had a tractor I could put the roll in the corral with a feed ring...
Maybe next year...lol
Way to go Dutch...You just invented the Truck Tractor ;-)
I remember those their very heavy.. But the horse.. Sure did love them💗 have a bless day
Man at least you got space to drive through in a truck! Lol we get the square bales and see me hoist that darn thing on one shoulder and march to the pens with it. Have done since my teens. Sacks of feed too. Dad always remarked it gave me big arms lol.
Looks good. This could work with regular little bales too, to move them that way
Love the natural sounds, so peaceful
Interesting. Hadn't thought to use a cattle panel as a sled. How are you attaching the sled to the hitch? Chain, rope, etc? Any kind of bracing or anything as the pressure I would think would pull apart the cattle panel welds.
It's not always depending on brute strength and strong of body but using your brain skills that works
For many years I moved around commercial refrigeration equipment by myself many times amazing others of how I could do it and really it was simple
Shoot Yeah, adapt and overcome! You'll get that tractor soon.
Creative! Keeping things simple!!!❤️❤️❤️
I actually have seen both your videos about how to do this. I’m an OG subscriber! 😎. Good video, I’m super happy for you and the success of your channel! You’re doin an awesome job, man!
Thanks a lot brother.
Like to see in daylight please. How long does round last for how many sheep? Can it get wet? Rainy season is here. From Washington.
I loved how it was making sheep sounds while you pulled it.....wait....what? :) I also loved the jumping sheep in the beginning - or was that a goat? Your videos are always such fun to watch!
dutch i do the same thing for my goats but i have my hay on pallets that i pull keeps it off the ground less waste
You might think about hiring Daniel as your agent ... greenhouse and now a tractor with attachments ... just a thought. All the best!
Mike Cox he’s always two steps behind me buddy!
Brilliant simple but effective idea
I just came across thuis amazing video. This is what I need to also do. You said these round bales are smaller than usual What is the size? Thank you!
For a second when you went to roll that bale I was thinking Florida, OH NO! LOL lots of snakes down here. See ya on the next one. Later Okie
Looked like you where mowing your grass and what about making a tiller with it. LOL🙀👍🏼
Great idea.....have an awesome day. 👍👍👍👍
Lambo was doing a sweet jump! He knew it would make YT!
Cool way to move a huge bale of hay. Sometimes you just have to improvise. :)
Also if I may add
I can't take credit alone but learned and watched from older masters and passed on those said skills to younger ones in The trades
that is a cool way to move bails and great to see gabby
Most people roll the bale over on its side to help keep the rain from entering the end of the bale. Just curious why you leave the end up for the rain to enter it?
Just how I have always done it. Ive never had a bale go bad bf they ate it all. This way works for me.
for a second there i thought oh no dutch is going to wind his leg into that bale wire. that would have been funny/lol
yet another use for cattle panels. :) great tip
Farm truck, work truck, family truck....same thing...for us "po folk!"
I heard a lot of good things about dorper sheep meat so good
I just get the wife and kids to help push! HA!
Square One Farms That's the life of farmers..
just do what ever it takes!
You call it a cattle panel, my first thought was it was concrete reinforcing. Cattle panel more durable?
Thats a cattle panel what I was using.
Good job Dutch
I have a question, please. Could one curry or brush the older sheep to help them shed out? Or, perhaps, does the new winter growth ( evident by the color changes on the younger ones) push the rest out?
Yes that would help for sure
Keeping It Dutch, Thank you. My Uncle hired a sheering team when it was time , rather than do it himself. Obviously , he had what you called wool sheep. ☺️
Awesome video! Even a 5'4 woman can do this ;-)
Pretty clever! Do the sheep ever eat the rope?
Havnt yet
snap carabiners work well also.
GREAT SUGGESTIONS!!
Very clever! Thanks!
If they chew through the rope, that panel will slap em down...Lol
They have never chewed through it before lol. Will see how it plays out lol
that is a slick idea did you show that to Daniel yet
Yes but he has 2 tractors lpl
Whatever works! 💖
Poor people lol your so funny 😱 great idea you have there Dutch lol. 😃 works great .
Anything that gets it done!
Simple and effective
Pretty creative.
Dude, awesome tips!
#askdutch Dont you use that to clean up your gravel driveway?
Pretty slick
You are one smart dude, i dig it
Genius!!!
No 🚜 use your 40ths plus 🚚 works great.
Awesome video!!
Very educational good job.
Thank you
Dutch you have to mutch Hay Hay bayls.
Hey there bud that is very cool good job
lol I have baled (or better said rebaled) many a bale
AWESOME!!!
Hey you guys in the bunker it looks nasty over that way.
Almost
That's a great idea!!
Now, THAT is one clever and awesome fix for no tractor! HOO AHH HAWK6
I remember someone having a tractor for sale!!! ????
It sold lol
Love the videos.
You got to get a sled.
Now you tell me after i wasted all that money on a tractor.
Gabe could have helped
he cute. is he gay? single? i hope.