I'm in my late 60's--grew up on the East Coast and spent many a day baling hay and off-loading it into the haymow. Working up in the mow was the dustiest, hottest, most tiring job on the farm, but I did it right through college and beyond. Oddly, I have all good memories of haying. We had a couple of Farmall H model tractors, an M, and a Case RC. The Case pulled the baler most of the time, and I drove it starting at age 12 until I was strong enough to stack the wagons. Maybe why I remember so fondly is that it was a family effort--everyone had their job to do. I have read accounts of haying on western ranches, so this film is interesting. Apparently, there was a kind of buck rake called a "crazy rake," but I've never been able to find a picture or a clear definition of the term. If anyone knows, I'd appreciate the information!
When I was a kid we used to hay what seemed like all summer long from cutting, bailing, moving and stacking into the barn. One year I vividly remember it was 110'F in Minnesota, in the shade plus humidity and the barn felt like you're in an oven before you even moved tossing hay up.
I ran across a brochure for a commercial buckrake in the 70's and have wanted one ever since. I'm in the humid south east and don't know how well big stacks would last here. I still want to try a buckrake though.
Wasn't that long ago, GMC pickup based on the grill in the split windshield is no newer than a 1953. I came up in the Northeast so all of it south of haymaking was different to me when I got out west in the 80s and I got to watch a hay Boomer load trucks out of the field. That was another new experience. The last hay that I had worked with was put up with the kicker baler.
I bucked a lot of bales in the 60s and early 70s during the summer in the Willamette valley, on a smaller scale than this. Great story from the past, thanks for sharing.
wow what a cool video of course the stacking of the hay was the most impressive part of the video thank you a good look into our past a reminder of a much simpler time
tom burton I would not call this a third world country, I would call it America at it's prime. This is when America was not afraid of accomplishing something worth doing. Not being worried about "transgender rights" and all that other stuff. This is when my grandfather grew up and worked hard to establish the farm we still run today.
If men still worked like this... Did you miss the beginning where he mentioned having to plan the work because the hired hands would go on a bender every holiday and not come back? Golden age for sure! People still have the same or better work ethic today, getting more done faster (unless the government is paying them to build roads... LOL)
That was cool , I have one of those 24 foot rakes , my grandpa put up hay like that except he did not have or use any tractors or cut up cars,he did it all with Morgon Horses .
Does anybody know how they "unstacked" that to feed out with? Very cool hay buggies built from old cars and trucks. If you didn't have a machine to do the work you built one. Awesome stuff!
They ‘unstack” it the same way they stack it. They take pitch forks, climb up onto the stack, brush the snow off and fork hay down onto sleighs. They then drive the horses or tractor out onto the fields and pitch it off for the animals. Then they go get another load. They work very hard year around
Pure genius. Tractors, a Jeep, and an old car with wooden spokes doing most of the work. No barn required, 1200 pounds at a time, fertile soil and huge height of hay growth. Today's methods are superior in some ways but doing such huge work with very basic equipment is still unequaled. Eight hundred thirty three lifts equal a million pounds. That would be 25 semi trucks with 40,000 pound tare weight each. As they used to say "All in a day's work".
Great video! I happen to farm on the other side of the mountains seen in the background. You can still see some of the old hay equipment on some of the places in the valley.
when I was young I used to throw hay onto a flat bed wagon the hay was in windrows and just pitch it onto the wagon then back to the barn and take it back off. Nice tractors by the way
Here in MI all the Hay was brought into Barns.. The used a team of Horses to pull a clamped load of hay up. There was a Trolly at the top of the Rafters.. My Grandfather used to climb to the Top of the Barn to move the dumping point when he was young.. Then of course they went to square Hay bales and put them into the hay loft with an elevator. The Hay got compressed into bales .. So I would say the Hay was denser to make better use of indoor limited storage.. A Typical Farm milked 15 Cows.. I am going guess out West they fed 100's of cows from one Ranch...
Nice collection of Case VAC's Models that are still prized by collectors. Too bad you didn't have some tape on how the stacks are broken down for feeding.
@@Tractors_Trucks_And_Pups its an old case, if you look closely you can make out the eagle. It’s a VAC, by the paint and the new rims. That was the only model they put those rims on until the 400 and up came out.
I live in Ontario Canada. I was born in 1940 and as a very young boy I do remember horses and loose hay but it was brought in from the fields and stacked in barns. Then Tractors started getting on the seen and then hay was bailed. I don't remember any stacking in the fields I guess that wasn't done in my area. Great video.
Good day Wayne Rogers I live in Ont. Kit-Waterloo area . MY dad talked about buckrakes, but never about hay stacks, well I guess with only 100ac farms it went to barn. What part of Ont. are you from. Thanks
I come from KS and have never seen hay so high, growth and stack, interesting. Seems this reflects the production of the Era! Have seen on internet visuals of desert re- claimed by allowing cattle to roam. 3 and 4 yr. time lapses showing before and after!!!! This narrator triggered this memory stating cattle as a natural part. Too bad that good sense doesn't prevail in SOOO much of our present day!!!!!! I like to think that the difference between Good sense and common sense is that common sense tends toward Herd mentality LOL
Thanks for sharing
Fascinating seeing how it was done. Thanks for sharing
Good video
Amazing , what a great system, you had a good crew obviously, great video 👍🇬🇧
I was not around when this happen so I'm so glad i can see this.
No idea, that was absolutely fascinating
What a great video 🚜 thanks for sharing
Very interesting
I have 3 of them vac's
VERRY Interesting !! LOVED THIS !!!
Awesome. Wonder how the hay was preserved? Looks like it would rot.
This is great to see
I love these old videos
Love these video clips
Fantastic!
That is the damndest hay ive ever seen.What no crimping?
That was some tall oats in that field. Oats doesn’t seem to grow that tall anymore.
I'm in my late 60's--grew up on the East Coast and spent many a day baling hay and off-loading it into the haymow. Working up in the mow was the dustiest, hottest, most tiring job on the farm, but I did it right through college and beyond. Oddly, I have all good memories of haying. We had a couple of Farmall H model tractors, an M, and a Case RC. The Case pulled the baler most of the time, and I drove it starting at age 12 until I was strong enough to stack the wagons. Maybe why I remember so fondly is that it was a family effort--everyone had their job to do. I have read accounts of haying on western ranches, so this film is interesting. Apparently, there was a kind of buck rake called a "crazy rake," but I've never been able to find a picture or a clear definition of the term. If anyone knows, I'd appreciate the information!
When I was a kid we used to hay what seemed like all summer long from cutting, bailing, moving and stacking into the barn. One year I vividly remember it was 110'F in Minnesota, in the shade plus humidity and the barn felt like you're in an oven before you even moved tossing hay up.
I ran across a brochure for a commercial buckrake in the 70's and have wanted one ever since. I'm in the humid south east and don't know how well big stacks would last here. I still want to try a buckrake though.
Loved watching this. Fun to see how it was done back then.
2:09 we lost this idea of leaving things alone
The more tech we make the worse I hate it.
Simplicity was always best for me.
Such a great video thanks
Interesting. Good looking old vac tractors. I farmed with two of them in the 80s. Ver reliable.
Interesting to see how things used to be done. Would love to see more of these.
That was impressive.
11 men and not a single one over weight.
Very cool vintage machines
Wow that’s Awesome.
That is So awesome to see this back then and how my Grandfather and his family most likely did it also.
Wasn't that long ago, GMC pickup based on the grill in the split windshield is no newer than a 1953.
I came up in the Northeast so all of it south of haymaking was different to me when I got out west in the 80s and I got to watch a hay Boomer load trucks out of the field. That was another new experience. The last hay that I had worked with was put up with the kicker baler.
Great Film! I would like to view more if they exist.
I bucked a lot of bales in the 60s and early 70s during the summer in the Willamette valley, on a smaller scale than this. Great story from the past, thanks for sharing.
Awesome, first time I see something like that, really incredible.
у нас в те годы все на горбу и руками ворочали ....
thats a neat old film. its a good way to put a lot of hay especially out in the desert
Really great video documenting how things used to be done! Please post more like this!
wow what a cool video of course the stacking of the hay was the most impressive part of the video thank you a good look into our past a reminder of a much simpler time
America would be a different place if men still worked like this today
Sure would. It would be classified as a 3rd world country.
tom burton I would not call this a third world country, I would call it America at it's prime. This is when America was not afraid of accomplishing something worth doing. Not being worried about "transgender rights" and all that other stuff. This is when my grandfather grew up and worked hard to establish the farm we still run today.
If men still worked like this... Did you miss the beginning where he mentioned having to plan the work because the hired hands would go on a bender every holiday and not come back? Golden age for sure!
People still have the same or better work ethic today, getting more done faster (unless the government is paying them to build roads... LOL)
Welcome to Road Warrior Farms! Great to see the homemade/repurposed equipment at work.
That was cool , I have one of those 24 foot rakes , my grandpa put up hay like that except he did not have or use any tractors or cut up cars,he did it all with Morgon Horses .
Interesting...
I would like to for a couple of nights
I loved this video. Pre automation of any kind.
very good film, wow I never knew how they did it before....any other films like this??
That was a real skill needed to make that work.
Does anybody know how they "unstacked" that to feed out with?
Very cool hay buggies built from old cars and trucks. If you didn't have a machine to do the work you built one.
Awesome stuff!
Thanks for the comments. Here's the second part of the video showing unstacking. ua-cam.com/video/rKdzW0ObA9M/v-deo.html
They ‘unstack” it the same way they stack it. They take pitch forks, climb up onto the stack, brush the snow off and fork hay down onto sleighs. They then drive the horses or tractor out onto the fields and pitch it off for the animals. Then they go get another load. They work very hard year around
Pure genius. Tractors, a Jeep, and an old car with wooden spokes doing most of the work. No barn required, 1200 pounds at a time, fertile soil and huge height of hay growth. Today's methods are superior in some ways but doing such huge work with very basic equipment is still unequaled. Eight hundred thirty three lifts equal a million pounds. That would be 25 semi trucks with 40,000 pound tare weight each. As they used to say "All in a day's work".
Zmmother nTrue wins. Secret life of soil . U have been advised
Great video! I happen to farm on the other side of the mountains seen in the background. You can still see some of the old hay equipment on some of the places in the valley.
Was those stacks covered with tarps later on in the season?
The case dealership in that area must have gave that rancher a good deal on them VAC's to have that many
when I was young I used to throw hay onto a flat bed wagon the hay was in windrows and just pitch it onto the wagon then back to the barn and take it back off. Nice tractors by the way
Here in MI all the Hay was brought into Barns.. The used a team of Horses to pull a clamped load of hay up. There was a Trolly at the top of the Rafters.. My Grandfather used to climb to the Top of the Barn to move the dumping point when he was young.. Then of course they went to square Hay bales and put them into the hay loft with an elevator. The Hay got compressed into bales .. So I would say the Hay was denser to make better use of indoor limited storage.. A Typical Farm milked 15 Cows.. I am going guess out West they fed 100's of cows from one Ranch...
Thanks for posting this poignant footage. I love anthropological stuff like this. That was quite a fleet of Case VAC’s.
Imagine what it would cost to hire all those men today.
Nice collection of Case VAC's Models that are still prized by collectors. Too bad you didn't have some tape on how the stacks are broken down for feeding.
wow
Very interesting and enjoyable to watch. Anyone know what the new tractor is at 7:50?
Looks like an Allis Chalmers, maybe like a c? Sorry man I really don't know, I'm pretty sure that it is an Allis chaly
@@Tractors_Trucks_And_Pups its an old case, if you look closely you can make out the eagle. It’s a VAC, by the paint and the new rims. That was the only model they put those rims on until the 400 and up came out.
You have a very inquisitive young one that you ignore every time..
He's gotta keep up with the video probably
There is not a ranch in the country these days with a crew that big, it’s sad how our labor force has depreciated
killmoo that’s good in some ways, but you can’t find a man willing to put in a hard days work anymore
That's an HONEST days work!
Miles ahead of his time on cows and land
And I thought small square bales were labor intensive
👍👍👍 heck ya, more like this boy’s.
I live in Ontario Canada. I was born in 1940 and as a very young boy I do remember horses and loose hay but it was brought in from the fields and stacked in barns.
Then Tractors started getting on the seen and then hay was bailed. I don't remember any stacking in the fields I guess that wasn't done in my area. Great video.
Good day Wayne Rogers I live in Ont. Kit-Waterloo area . MY dad talked about buckrakes, but never about hay stacks, well I guess with only 100ac farms it went to barn. What part of Ont. are you from. Thanks
Born in 1951 and farmed all my life but I’ve never seen hay made like that. Of course I do live in the East.
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That’s a big pile of hay. I wonder how they fed off of the pile.
Brian Hoefs pitch forked it on to a wagon and took it to the cattle
Drove a team and hayrack next to the stack and loaded up a rack load. Hauled it to the cows and forked it off as the team walked. Did it many a time.
Colors didnt come until mid 60s but nice video wiith cases and an allis chalmers
I come from KS and have never seen hay so high, growth and stack, interesting. Seems this reflects the production of the Era!
Have seen on internet visuals of desert re- claimed by allowing cattle to roam. 3 and 4 yr. time lapses showing before and after!!!!
This narrator triggered this memory stating cattle as a natural part. Too bad that good sense doesn't prevail in SOOO much of our present day!!!!!!
I like to think that the difference between Good sense and common sense is that common sense tends toward Herd mentality LOL
When did this method of haying die out? I’ve never seen anything like it. Thanks for the narration, very enjoyable.
no fat farmers back then
I'm pretty sure leaving the hay stack was not OSHA approved. Lol.
now all u need 1 guy and 1 tractor, before what a dozen guys or more.
Are you sure? Need more then a tractor and the equipment cost around $80k.