I Started off with a dumb mistake. Let's hope I don't make any more Cutting Our Hay Fields.
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- Опубліковано 29 тра 2023
- Today I am Cutting our Hay Fields with a Hesston PT-10 Mower conditioner and a TYM T654 tractor.
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I always say that people that have never screwed something up have never done anything to begin with.
or never acknowledge it.
I always say that if you didn’t make a mistake at work that you sat home on the couch and watched TV all day.
Evan, you've been cranking out the video's reasently keep up the good work.
The pastures look so much better Evan. The work you did to increase the yield shows. Well done.
I feel for your start and that your “mishaps” are done in front of a really big audience, don’t beat yourself up… and that you always fess up is an endearing part of your videos…. Just makes our own goofs easier to handle… 👍👍👍
The camera work is fantastic. Great production.
Sorry, no drone footage in this video. My drone is broke right now. Hopefully, it will be fixed soon.
Hmmmm , wonder who broke the drone Evan 🤷♂️
Lay a piece of angle iron over the hoist and use your press to straighten!
Hey we all make mistakes don’t sweat it
Was about to say the same, if I had a dollar for each thing I’ve broken or busted from forgetting… I’d be living the dream 😅
oh come on you missed the opportunity "Hay" we all make mistakes 😂😂😂
No one but Jesus is perfect! We are only human! Great video my friend! loved it
Two pieces of angle iron on each side of cylinder with two clamps will work , that's what I did. Thanks
Now that jack is customized for lifting around corners. Well…. IT happens!!!!
If you don't occasionally break something your not doing enough work!
the wall of shame gets an addition
Beautiful red clover.
WOW that went very well Evan, just one Jack! Always Love watching!
Back-up jack time !
You make me feel like I'm not alone with the mistakes! 😊 I Appreciate you sir!
We tedder hay after cutting without much time to dry at all so the leaves stay on. it does lift the hay off the ground, especially where driven over top of it and allows more air flow under it and less wicking from any moisture from the ground or live hay underneath. Also, spreads it out evenly so more surface area is drying.
Trophy wall of shame - cute.
Good idea... you can call it The Wall of Shame... and it will be a constant reminder to take just a little bit of extra time and effort with stuff...
TRY a small muffler clamp for the stop collar
My friends have a wall in the shop called the Wall of Shame holding all the broken parts from the past. Its a big wall.
JudithB I imagine anyone who has pulled a trailer has had a blooper. I have pulled various trailers for more then 50 yrs and only remember 2!! I left the stand down on the flatbed while pulling down the driveway and put a hole in the culvert, and hit a bump several miles from the house with the popup and it jumped off the ball, slid under the truck as I slowed down. All I saw was the propane tank coming toward the truck---scary!! I had to pull by the chains until it was off the road, disconnect the chains, and go get my son to lift it back onto the truck. Ever since, I hook it up and lift the front of the trailer to make sure it is locked to the ball. I need to put a new stand on the enclosed trailer and prefer the wheeled kind since they are easier to hook up for me!!! LOL
👍👍 that old mower runs sweet
Awesome clover field. We all screw up at times. Your man enough to put it out there. Great job!
Very nice video, greets from Holland
good luck on the clover getting it dry in 5 days without tedding ....will be waiting to see how that goes ....i hate trying to get clover hay done....looks ugly after a few days too
Happy to see you got all of your hay cut. Sorry about your jack.
Hi Evan,i worked for a dairy farmer here in Vermont that had a Hesston PT-10 haybine,also a 1070 and a 1071
looks awesome
I’m 73 years old and I still have these moments.
Keep the faith!!!
Needs more rest🤗
Wouldn't be one of your blogs without you making at least one fuck up keep an coming shows you are real
Thank you for sharing.
You live....you learn!
Looks like some nice hay there to bale up. As heavy as that clover field looks, you might want to run the tedder over it. Just go out early in the morning while there's still some dew on it & run at a lower RPM. Just suggesting. Keep up the good work there. Take care.
I think we’ve all made these errors. The trick is how you respond to it. It’s just as easy to take note of your lesson learned and smile.
As my sweet wife says “In a world of problems, we have none.”
A little paint & the jack will be like new. Lol
I laugh always when I watch you
Awesome video I love the old farm equipment
I enjoy how you research everything before you start a new project and you don’t take shortcuts to get the job done.
You crack me. I always cringe when you say, "I need to be careful." We have woods on one side of a hay pasture. About a week before first cutting we take an after dinner evening stroll along woods picking up fallen twigs and limbs. It's easy to not see them when cutting the hay. Your cut hay looks like a good crop. Fresh cut fields are a beautiful gift from mom-nature.
You are always positive. No matter. Fix it and go on. Enjoyed watching❤❤❤❤
we have been there - don't be too hard on yourself. you get a lot accomplished
Good Job...sure enjoyed watching...see you soon and be careful out there !!!!
Jack aside, that went very well,
I remember your frustration with the sickle mower. So Happy days 👏
Lol I am Wright there with you brother.
Farming isn’t how fast you do something but how well you do them
Evan...."You need to make-up a checklist for each farm task you complete and go through it prior to starting. Just put it in plastic on the equipment or the tractor cab to protect it and have readily available.
Nice job Evan. Good looking hay for the steers and dairy cows. Thanks for sharing.
It looks like that old machine does pretty well for you .
Keep cutter blades fixed
Maybe you can fertilize after baling and pray for rain. Have a good 2nd cutting.
Hesston, greased-up, aired-up, oiled-up, but you forgot jacked-up. 😀
Oops!
Create a "Wall of Oops!" in the shop, Evan.
Evan you always make me laugh, you are very tallented, knowledgeablee, and extremely dirven and hared worker. But you will neeed a bigger Wall. LOL
I think that poor hay mower could use a coat of rustoleum😂
Can't fault yourself for the jack bend. It happens as you cut some really good hay. It's the Sign of a good farmer not cursing but keeping the jack as a souvenir.
haha....the miracle of editing!
I am so glad to know I am not the only one trying to plow with my tongue jack. It happens don't it guys. just sayen.
Great work. Looks like it should make some good hay. Keep up the good work
Great job. You and Rebecca have brought the property to new horizons. Really enjoy the content and the frequency of vids. Thank you guys. Now for the spray folks and those that criticize are just that….folks all have arm pits and butt holes some smell worse than others. This is your place which you choose to share for your audience and for the negative comments just ask them to find another channel. You guys are on point because it is your choices for your farm/homestead not theirs. God bless and keep them coming no need to explain yourself. That is what makes you and Rebecca a joy to watch.
you don’t need a wall….you got video action😊
It doesn’t hurt if you make mistake sometimes, then you will not make same one.. BTW, I had memories to work on hay. Hauling hay all day from ground to barn.. 🚜🇺🇸🚜🇺🇸🚜🇺🇸
Hey there. Pasture looks good. But you need to tedder. Otherwise you'll get rot underneath. Because damp wil pull off the ground. Because its a closed layer now
Keep up the good work mate. We have a hay farm in qld australia and still using the older hay equipment
Those who do not screw something up are the ones who do nothing. Keep up the great videos and we will be with you.
OUCH! Oh, Well. Honest mistake for sure
Great 👍job!!!
at 3:27..........I always used stop collars on my cylinders.
So convenient they snap on.
Easy on
Easy off
Lucky cat
You did a really good job on that a man off your experience really you should not be doing this mate but we are human hopefully you are all doing great José from Scunthorpe England Great Britain. Love watching your work. That’s a good idea then you can look back and I have done that once before Ha!Ha!
🌱👏✨ "Evan, the transformation in the pastures is truly remarkable! The effort you put into increasing the yield has paid off, and it's evident in the lush and vibrant fields. Your dedication and hard work shine through. Keep up the great work, and here's to more successful hay cutting without any more mistakes! 🙌🚜🌾"
Yes we all make mistakes. You should be able to find some hydraulic stops that will clip on instead of bolting them on.
Dad bought one of those new in 1977, to be pulled by an Allis Chalmers WD45 at the start. Replacing seperate Allis hay mower and conditioner. Traded in 1998 for used New Holland 411 discbine which was a big upgrade for non-stop, plug-free heavy hay cutting. Then in 2022 obtained used NH H7230 discbine with swiveling hitch drive for super-sharp turning.
Haha I've done exactly the same thing a couple of times!
Hay is looking good🙂
i just walked in the door and sat down from hooking up our disk mower Getting Reddy To Start Mowing Hay in the Morning & pulled up YT & the First video i See Was You Mowing Hay..lol. !I Dont Know About You All But We Desperately Need Rain Here! Alredy Ben Halfing To Dip/Pump & Haul Water From The Pond Just To Keep The Garden From Dying Out ! we have had less that probably 2-2.5 inches sense February/March Then The Same Last Year..
If you have a scrap piece of pipe and a scrap piece of flat stock steel! Weld them together to make a jack for your haybine
Ever run over a Yellow Jacket's nest? That can get exciting!
Job well done
If you tedder the hay right after you cut it while it's still green you won't loose any leaves. We always had someone running tedder as soon as the person mowing got the outside rounds cut on the field we could have square bales made in two days
Like the farmers insurance commercials.
The bend in the jack looks as if it might be just in the outer tube, above the top of the inner tube. If so, you might be able to bend the outer tube straight and save the jack.
You might want to look into whether leaving butterweed in hay is a good idea. I think it might be a problem for feeding cattle.
Your fields look amazing. I'm jealous. We Ted right after we cut it. Cuts our seeing time down a day. It's been so dry in pa we cut, Ted one day and take and bale the next.
Second field is some pretty hay Evan. A couple things for you to consider; 1) to help preserve the hay bind during winter storage take a garden sprayer and WD-40 and coat all surfaces 2) cover it with a tarp. Just a suggestion of coarse. The hydraulic spring spacer/collars are quite common and handy also. Murfreesboro TN
Looks like that second field will take some drying. Great video. All the best 🇬🇧.
The cat survived....that was a win!
When we worked our fields, after the first row, we'd go to the middle next, then next to the first row and again next to the middle and so on
The fields looks beautiful. I can imagen what it smells like.❤
were about a month away from cutting hay
Love it when your hay cutting videos come around!
Good hay!
The wall off shame is a learning act, btw I love the red clover but didn’t see any dandelion, why?
Nice one Evan but experience learned we all do it. On to the next have a good day.
That Hesston PT-10 brings back some old memories, my brother ran one for 4 or 5 years back in 1970. I did run it some, but my job was to run the baler. If memory serves me right, we had a quite a bi of trouble with the roller bearings and flanges, but it did a good job when it ran. Good luck on getting your hay up, hope it all goes well. Thanks and have a good week.
Thanks Evan
I enjoy seeing all that you do! You and Rebekah are Truely an inspiration. Maybe I have missed something but always enjoyed your drone footage on the big fields. Maybe you can get somemore shots that way. Really allows, at least me, us to see the entire field and how you have to maneuver around the field. Great Video's as they are though!!!
Nice fields, Evan. Sorry about the little mistake you made, it's all good.
Sorry Evan .smile .
Good job and don’t worry about bendin a jack lol my granddad says they make parts everyday I like the idea about saving parts for a memory board lol 😊😊
red clover is going to be great feed
Hey Evan, I know your hands are on many projects around the farm. But I just wanted to ask about the firewood shed. You did a lot of work on cleaning up the area around it and we haven't seen anything else about it. Just wanted an update on that project if you have a minute to throw that into a video or even a short. Thanks and keep plugging away at the farm. You've come a long way!👍
Can't say you're the only one. I bought some hay from someone that was 12 miles away from me, and didn't find out I left the jack stand down until I left a nice groove in his hay field.
Well from what I've seen of your talents I bet you could straighten out that jack and make it work agn. if not now one day when you're thinking about what to do because you"'re bored haha. great video/camera work thanks for sharing. ECF
Seeing you cut with the Heston PT-10 brings back a lot of memories. I am few months from turning 70 and have been working hay my who life and still making hay today. The proudest days of my farming were when I bought my own first (used) cutter which was a Hesston PT-10 and the second proudest day was when I got rid of the Hesston PT-10. I cut a lot of hay with it but I also worked on it a lot.
The mistakes are just part of farming. I bet from now on when you hookup the cutter you will always check the jack!👍😁
Nicely done, quite an improvement on the old sickle mower. Find that motor cycle chain oil seems to last better, the same with a good type of synthetic grease. Only people that never make mistakes is the people that don’t do anything, cheers my friend