A really interesting vid Dave, dad and friend, I could watch you guys do your thing all day. Love the harvest of all sides and the fasty's.. You make it bloody interesting as I said Dave. Great data.
It was interesting to see the difference in bale density and quality between the Krone and JD balers. Admittedly the Krone is brand new and has cutting edge technology but the bale comes out crisp and tight and practically bounces on the ground compared to the JD’s bale which rolls out and slumps on the bottom when it lands. The longer bale construction time must also be of significance as well especially as labour must be one of your biggest per unit cost and is also limited by availability.
Thanks for watchin and the fantastic comment. your very observant noticing the flex in the bales! The krone bales now that we have stared shipping some out are still holding their shape better than the deer, and are going to have less waste as well with less surface area touching the ground. Your right on the labor component, but the easy of use, and the safety of use with a green operator in the krone baler would also be improved. Many balers require higher levels of skill to operate. The Krone made it quite simple mated to the fastrac with an IVT transmission.
Well done. The fuel burn on the JCB is impressive. When pulling the rakes, the job for a 100-145 hp tractor, that is the fuel burn the tractor gave you. Hard to justify the smaller tractor for under 200 hrs per year usage.
For sure, its a hard balancing act with tractors around our farm for HP. The smaller ones can only do small jobs, yet something fuel efficient in bigger stature is backwards compatible like Fastrac's. Not all bigger tractors can do small jobs, in our opinion.
Great video, always looking to improve our haying operation. We upgraded to a Kuhn baler this year and never looked back. Never got out once to unplug the baler. VB 560 with opticut. Normally run 2 balers, but this year did it all with 1.
Thanks for watching and the comment @markneuman2070! Improvement is Progression, which is always a good thing! That's fantastic to gain the efficieny to only have to run the 1 baler! Good Job!
The drone views are sooo beautiful, for me that's instant thumbs up. Maybe cause I'm playing too much Farming Simulator but hey, I'm not taking credit from drone nor from the operator. Keep it up 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻.
Love that game myself. Just starting learning how to use CoursePlay and AutoDrive. If you play FS22 on PC and haven't tried those yet, Scroft & Farm Sim Guy both have great tutorials on UA-cam
Thank you so much for watching our videos and enjoying the content. There's nothing wrong with Farming Simulator, its the most constructive video game on the planet in my opinion! Good job!
The big question i have is how long is it from the time you start cutting, then drying, raking, and baling. Not just in field hours, but total hours from start to finish. Basically how long does it take the hay to dry?
Thank you for the comment @jmfarms3555. This field took 4 days total to harvest the hay, realistically would could have started raking and baling on the 3rd day, but some of the low-lying areas of higher yielding crop would not have been ready and we would have had to go around them, plus we were still working on baling another field at that time so we opted to wait till the 4th day. Hense some bale moistures being a little on the dry side under 10%.
What’s the weight/density difference on the Varipack vs JD? That likely increases the efficiency as well. I also must say, as a rancher in North Georgia (USA) who spent years building a large social media presence on TikTok.. I really appreciate the quality of your content brother.
Thank you so much for watching and enjoying our videos brutha! The hydraulic tension on the JD was running at about 85-90% in this video and in most of our fields we use it on. The density was drastically higher on the VariPack and it was only at 60% ish. I cannot even get my fingers into one of those bales, its insane how perfectly it packs the hay into a bale. Very Very consistent too. We look forward to owning one. In one area of the fields where we compared 2 similar bales, but from each baler, the Krone came in at 1285lbs, and the Deere was at 1210. In the end the Deere just couldn't put enough hydraulic pressure on the hay to build the same bale as the Krone.
Love this channel dude. Gotta couple questions; First, why don't you have any other social media set up? Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, even the Tok, that will all help grow your channel, plus folks like me can reach out to you instead of posting a comment and crossing our fingers we get a response 🤣🤣 Second, in that field you've got 95% darker green crop, but then it looks like Gods grandbaby drew in it with a big ass highlighter that's a few shades lighter than the crop. What's that all about?
Thanks for the loyal watching and we are glad your enjoying the channel @TheBiggRiggz! We are on other socials, but just not as active as You Tube. Check us out on Instagram @officialfarminainteasy for some additional footage and content. The strange lines you see in that hay, was from the previous tenant of that property. They had the grass seed blown on in a floater truck, which its a very inaccurate application method. Subsequently they got a poor catch of grass, so we had to go in with our No Till Drill in 2023 and seed additional seed into it to get it to fill in. We unfortunately are going to have to live with those lines for the life of the field now.... You are very Observant! Good job!
On the dry side of the field the deere was 1210lbs, and the krone was 1280lbs, and on the 12% moisture hay we had krone bales as high as 1370lbs. In a perfect world the whole field should have been baled during the night prior, but we wouldn't have been able to make this sweet video... haha
This year we were up to running 3 at one time, but we dream of the day the entire fleet could be Fastracs. The one in the video was on demo from Krone, as they were not yet for sale in North America at the time the video was shot this summer. Hopefully we will own one soon!
I see you don't ted which surprised me given your northern latitude. I see pretty much everybody around here (western NY) teds same day as cut. How long between cut & rake, and rake & bale? In other words, how many days total, including idle time, to make a bale? Granted this was all many years ago (dark ages before moisture monitors), but we'd cut (New Idea Cutditioner) morning of 1st day, rake (NH basket) 2nd midday to flip it (no ted), then rake & bale (Ford 542 small squares) midday 3rd day. Dad tried to bale on 2nd day once and almost burned down the barn.
Thank you for watching and the great comment wcooman1694. In regards to tedding, I'm not at all against it, however at our altitude of 4000' we do not have much humidity to contend with. In July which is our biggest haying month, we rarely have dew in the mornings. It can be so dry here sometimes that we bale at night to prevent leaf loss. If it wasn't for the smoke in the air in this video, we would have had to bale this field at night actually. The smoke kept the sun from baking the leaves off the alfalfa, it was just very warm. Without dissecting our timesheets in crazy detail, we probably have 18 hours of running time on the hay harvest portions of this field.
@@farminainteasy thanks for the reply. I hadn't considered humidity differences. We can be quite humid here with dew sometimes not burning off until late morning.
Thanks for watching and the comment @jaredvandebuinhorst4373. I unfortunately don't know much about that baler from New Holland, I will look into those, thank you.
I can’t wait to see this channel blow up. This guy is awesome.
Thank you so much for watching and the well-wishes for the channel!!!!! You are Awesome too!
Hello from Northern Alberta! Great content friend!
Hi there!!! Glad we could provide you some local content! Thank you for watching!!
A really interesting vid Dave, dad and friend, I could watch you guys do your thing all day. Love the harvest of all sides and the fasty's.. You make it bloody interesting as I said Dave. Great data.
Thank you so much for your loyal watching, glad we are able to create the type of content you enjoy!!!! Go Fasty's!
Great video. Thanks for the metrics.
Thanks for watching! The data can get pretty heavy in agriculture.. haha
It was interesting to see the difference in bale density and quality between the Krone and JD balers. Admittedly the Krone is brand new and has cutting edge technology but the bale comes out crisp and tight and practically bounces on the ground compared to the JD’s bale which rolls out and slumps on the bottom when it lands. The longer bale construction time must also be of significance as well especially as labour must be one of your biggest per unit cost and is also limited by availability.
Thanks for watchin and the fantastic comment. your very observant noticing the flex in the bales! The krone bales now that we have stared shipping some out are still holding their shape better than the deer, and are going to have less waste as well with less surface area touching the ground. Your right on the labor component, but the easy of use, and the safety of use with a green operator in the krone baler would also be improved. Many balers require higher levels of skill to operate. The Krone made it quite simple mated to the fastrac with an IVT transmission.
Well done. The fuel burn on the JCB is impressive. When pulling the rakes, the job for a 100-145 hp tractor, that is the fuel burn the tractor gave you. Hard to justify the smaller tractor for under 200 hrs per year usage.
For sure, its a hard balancing act with tractors around our farm for HP. The smaller ones can only do small jobs, yet something fuel efficient in bigger stature is backwards compatible like Fastrac's. Not all bigger tractors can do small jobs, in our opinion.
Thanks. Great video. Interesting to see the time it took. Regards Steve in New Zealand
Thank you so much for watching from New Zealand, and the great feedback. Many more videos coming!
I really enjoy your videos. I farmed cotton for a while and was a John Deere mechanic. They are way behind JCB tractors.
Thank you so much for watching our Videos, I'm glad your enjoying them! Sounds like we are on the same page!
Great video, always looking to improve our haying operation. We upgraded to a Kuhn baler this year and never looked back. Never got out once to unplug the baler. VB 560 with opticut. Normally run 2 balers, but this year did it all with 1.
Thanks for watching and the comment @markneuman2070! Improvement is Progression, which is always a good thing! That's fantastic to gain the efficieny to only have to run the 1 baler! Good Job!
The drone views are sooo beautiful, for me that's instant thumbs up. Maybe cause I'm playing too much Farming Simulator but hey, I'm not taking credit from drone nor from the operator. Keep it up 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻.
Love that game myself. Just starting learning how to use CoursePlay and AutoDrive. If you play FS22 on PC and haven't tried those yet, Scroft & Farm Sim Guy both have great tutorials on UA-cam
Thank you so much for watching our videos and enjoying the content. There's nothing wrong with Farming Simulator, its the most constructive video game on the planet in my opinion! Good job!
@@farminainteasy I know, that's why I'm playing it that much. It's a relaxing, never-ending game. And thanks to the modders, they're keep it alive.
Love the data
Awesome, and thanks for watching!
The big question i have is how long is it from the time you start cutting, then drying, raking, and baling. Not just in field hours, but total hours from start to finish.
Basically how long does it take the hay to dry?
Thank you for the comment @jmfarms3555. This field took 4 days total to harvest the hay, realistically would could have started raking and baling on the 3rd day, but some of the low-lying areas of higher yielding crop would not have been ready and we would have had to go around them, plus we were still working on baling another field at that time so we opted to wait till the 4th day. Hense some bale moistures being a little on the dry side under 10%.
What’s the weight/density difference on the Varipack vs JD? That likely increases the efficiency as well.
I also must say, as a rancher in North Georgia (USA) who spent years building a large social media presence on TikTok.. I really appreciate the quality of your content brother.
Thank you so much for watching and enjoying our videos brutha!
The hydraulic tension on the JD was running at about 85-90% in this video and in most of our fields we use it on. The density was drastically higher on the VariPack and it was only at 60% ish. I cannot even get my fingers into one of those bales, its insane how perfectly it packs the hay into a bale. Very Very consistent too. We look forward to owning one. In one area of the fields where we compared 2 similar bales, but from each baler, the Krone came in at 1285lbs, and the Deere was at 1210. In the end the Deere just couldn't put enough hydraulic pressure on the hay to build the same bale as the Krone.
There every where here in ireland and britain if you can get your hands on 1 try 1
We will keep our eyes peeled, thank you!
Love this channel dude. Gotta couple questions;
First, why don't you have any other social media set up? Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, even the Tok, that will all help grow your channel, plus folks like me can reach out to you instead of posting a comment and crossing our fingers we get a response 🤣🤣
Second, in that field you've got 95% darker green crop, but then it looks like Gods grandbaby drew in it with a big ass highlighter that's a few shades lighter than the crop. What's that all about?
Thanks for the loyal watching and we are glad your enjoying the channel @TheBiggRiggz! We are on other socials, but just not as active as You Tube. Check us out on Instagram @officialfarminainteasy for some additional footage and content.
The strange lines you see in that hay, was from the previous tenant of that property. They had the grass seed blown on in a floater truck, which its a very inaccurate application method. Subsequently they got a poor catch of grass, so we had to go in with our No Till Drill in 2023 and seed additional seed into it to get it to fill in. We unfortunately are going to have to live with those lines for the life of the field now.... You are very Observant! Good job!
I missed it , wt were the weights between the 4 ft verse the 5 ft bales?
On the dry side of the field the deere was 1210lbs, and the krone was 1280lbs, and on the 12% moisture hay we had krone bales as high as 1370lbs. In a perfect world the whole field should have been baled during the night prior, but we wouldn't have been able to make this sweet video... haha
How many Fastracs do you run? And did you get the new Krone baler or is this still the demonstrator? Anyway awesome video, as always :)
This year we were up to running 3 at one time, but we dream of the day the entire fleet could be Fastracs. The one in the video was on demo from Krone, as they were not yet for sale in North America at the time the video was shot this summer. Hopefully we will own one soon!
I see you don't ted which surprised me given your northern latitude. I see pretty much everybody around here (western NY) teds same day as cut. How long between cut & rake, and rake & bale? In other words, how many days total, including idle time, to make a bale? Granted this was all many years ago (dark ages before moisture monitors), but we'd cut (New Idea Cutditioner) morning of 1st day, rake (NH basket) 2nd midday to flip it (no ted), then rake & bale (Ford 542 small squares) midday 3rd day. Dad tried to bale on 2nd day once and almost burned down the barn.
Thank you for watching and the great comment wcooman1694. In regards to tedding, I'm not at all against it, however at our altitude of 4000' we do not have much humidity to contend with. In July which is our biggest haying month, we rarely have dew in the mornings. It can be so dry here sometimes that we bale at night to prevent leaf loss. If it wasn't for the smoke in the air in this video, we would have had to bale this field at night actually. The smoke kept the sun from baking the leaves off the alfalfa, it was just very warm. Without dissecting our timesheets in crazy detail, we probably have 18 hours of running time on the hay harvest portions of this field.
@@farminainteasy thanks for the reply. I hadn't considered humidity differences. We can be quite humid here with dew sometimes not burning off until late morning.
You should try mchale balers
Thank you for watching! I've Never run one, I would love to try one one day! We don't have a local dealer in our area...
Sure like your triple mower, but I can’t justify that on 700 acres of feed. If you were closer I’d hire you for cutting though. 🤣👍🍻
Thank you @chadtosh6831!!! They have changed the way we put up hay. Thanks for your loyal watching of our vids, we will try to keep you entertained!
That's krone baler still will not bet a new holland br7090 on bale with
weight in my experience
Thanks for watching and the comment @jaredvandebuinhorst4373. I unfortunately don't know much about that baler from New Holland, I will look into those, thank you.
Its a big M krone you need
Don't tell my wife, but I have dreams about the Krone Big M....