Raking Hay Just Like the Good Old Days! l 1st Crop 2022 l Dairy Farming in Wisconsin
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- Опубліковано 8 лип 2022
- We are finally baling hay! The hay we are raking is a grassy hay that will be used to feed our heifers and dry cows this winter. The fields that we are harvesting will be pasture for the remainder of the year. You could say they are rotationally grazed. We are using the Farmall Super MTA and the Oliver 1650. Both are pulling NewHolland Rolabar rakes. Thank you all for watching!
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Oh my gosh, I used to rake hay with a farmal tractor back in about 1966 as a 15 year old teenager in Illinois. The land I raked though, was flat with no hills to cope with. I hefted thousands of bales onto rack wagons, unloaded them on a conveyor to take up to the hay loft and also stacked in the barn. I even helped put up hay with the barn hay hooks from the barn ceilings and ropes to a Ford n tractor for hoist. Remember in the really old days they used to use horses or mules for the power to hoist hay into the barn.
Thanks for the memories.
It's the kind of day you dream about in January.
We used ours to bring loads of chopped silage down a steep ridge road. Ours was made by my Dad out of railroad plates. There was an older cast iron one but was for iron wheels. It would go under one back tire of the wagon and a chain from it to the wagon bolster. It would drag down the road and provide just enough braking. At the bottom of the hill we would back up, remove the skid and chain, and then continue home. MN farmer
Dam right that is the GOOD OL DAYS 👍👍👍
We like your farm. We also have a small farm and we enjoy it so much!! Your scenery is very nice!!!
I’m glad it is you guys. This flatland farmer in Indiana has nothing like that
That steep field gives me the heebie jeebies. We had a cattle farm in Orange, VA with steep hills. I mowed the 160 acres w/ a 15' bat wing Rhino and a MM 670 tractor. One learns how to negotiate steep hills, your life depends on it. Biggest danger is wheel dropping in a ground hog or fox hole that you don't see. That can turn you over on a steep slope. Love the video!!!
Thanks Tom
Here in Central WV we had to latterly have someone to stand on the side of the rake to keep it down. It was quite the pain. We had to catch the bales as they came out of the baler, or walk plum down into the woods and retrieve it if they were still in 1 piece. My how I miss those days now.
Drivin those tri"s on those hills is really gutsy! Stay safe.
I have raked many many acres of hay over many years. Even if you paid me an arm and a leg I would NOT rake any hay on your (suicide) hill. The narrow front wheels on your tractor really makes me hold my breath. Great video. Thanks😳.
Lol thanks Stan!
Holy cow pies. You wouldn't get me out in That field
I've used a shoe like that, back in the days before I had a big enough tractor to bring the wagons down the hill without it.
Yeah thankfully we have go a couple big deeres on the farm
Those Oliver 6 cylinders sound amazing .
Sure do! I had my headphones in and loved every minute of it.
Like an airplane!
The best thing about taking hay is it gives you a break to enjoy the equipment and land, the worst part is knowing what comes next
Yeah the stacking part lol
I am from South East Indiana and I have definitely raked a few hillsides like that with an old Farmall. Let’s put it this way it will make you pinch the seat! Lol
Man, it takes balls of steel to work those suicide hills. Wouldn't catch me up there and I'm used to mountain hills here in Ireland
Thanks John that's a great compliment
I’m on the edge of my seat watching that field
God be with every farmer
We used to use a New Holland 256 roller bar rake until I borrowed a neighbors rotary rake. Wow,what a beautiful job that rotary rake does. I went and bought one for myself and never looked back.
They should last for a long time!
Looks like the "shoe" that was used on the end of a sickle bar to keep the end our of the dirt
Boy that is a little steep you have a nice place and the hay looks good. Hope ir turn out with alot of bales.
Great video
New to your channel l, grew up making hay and I Miss it! Great content
Glad my M has a wide front,would not want to rake those hill with a narrow front. Stay safe
Thanks Kevin
those rakes are new and they destroy the leaves on the hay you only have to tip it over not spin like these rakes do, we used Ibex style dual front mounted rakes, get more yield and just flips it over not twisting it...
Great job raking hay guys
Thank you kevin
I love the way you use "vintage" machinery! This equipment works just fine, and it keeps the overhead down. Not to mention the nostalgia this brings to a lot of us older guys! Keep up the great work!
They are better than the new ones 😅that's for sure those tractors will keep on farming while the new ones for sensors, pc codes to be cleared and fan drive problems.
Thank you Bob!
@@jwhitley101whitleyfarms9 They can be sometimes!
Im over hear in iowa using simmaler stuff glad im not the only one 🤣
I grew up watching another Farmer named Howdik bring his team of Percherons over to the neighbors farm and hook up to a rake like the old one on your hill side.
Memories 🤩😍🤩 1950's SE WI.
Sounds like a good memory
That piece of metal is called a shoe. It put under a wagon tire and then chained in place. It acts as a brake for the wagon on steep fields. I live in extreme eastern Iowa and we've used them in the past.
Ive heard of chaining a wheel to the wagon. Dad called it a rough lock
You said it correctly the back cut. Used to rate k for my grandfather with a John Deere b 1956 and a John Deere 40 narrow nose 1954...
Sounds like a great tractor
I raked alotbof hay with a M and MT-A. We ran our baler with a 560.or the Mt-a
That’s wild on a tricycle. I love your videos. Keep them up!
The ole big Ollie does sound sweet, too.
Thank you!
Nice to see the old iron out working great video again wish oliver was still made good equipment
Thanks Robert!
I missing raking hay .i enjoyed raking hay.
Loader Looking well Adrian. You made the right decision to stick with red color.
That MTA is 2 years younger than me. It was our big 3 bottom plow tractor on our farm. Too much power for hay season. We cut the hay with a belly mounted sickle bar mower on a super H that simultaneously pulled a "crusher" over the swathe of the previous round. The raking was all done by a super C which was later traded in on an International 240. In the afternoon the H was put on the New Holland baler (the kind that fed the bale chamber with a plunger instead of an auger, if you were walking along side the baler you'd get hit by the plunger as it shot out the side). Dad had to share this baler with his 2 older brothers so he bought a brand new International he didn't have to share. It took half the first season to get the knotter adjusted to where it would miss only 5% of the bales instead of 50% of the bales. Dealer mechanic should have just stayed in the hired hands quarters instead of running back and forth from town. The same super C/International 240 dropped the rake and hauled flat, hand stacked hay wagons from the field to the electric powered barn elevator. The MTA got a break during hay season except for chopping green feed with the Lundell chopper. That's all it took to make 10-15 thousand small squares every year back in 50's & 60's Sauk County, Wisconsin (if you don't count all the buckets of sweat).
Those old tractors and the men that ran them are the backbone that built America.
I can't believe you guys use narrow front tractors on them fields!!
Get the rake on steel going that is setting on top the hill!
14:35 Incoming Huey!
I was thinking the metal plate was a “remote Rolabar (fixed autocorrect typo) disengaging device” that you’d toss in front of the drive wheel, then the wheel would drive into it and the chain would hold it in place so it would slide over the grass, thereby stopping the raking action so you could drive over a windrow or whatever. Then yank it out to turn it on again.
Love seeing the Oliver and those rakes. Such a gorgeous farm.
Thanks that's a great guess
Grass skid
It is really interesting. Nicely produced. Great farming. Thank you.😊👏🌟🌟
Greetings from Germany.........
Love the video .them banks are steep you and your dad take care
Love to no more about your family history. When you left Switzerland and moved to the USA.
For splicing barbed wire or any wire together is called "A Western Union" splice.
Pull one end tight pull the other end with pliers pinch them at a barb and then wind them perpendicular to the wires, one goes clockwise the other one counter clock. Doesn't break ( or 40+ yrs ago) it didn't break the galvanizing so didn't rust /much .
The pinching coma longs work best for pulling wire tight.
that was a really super video, that brings back some really great memories, you have a grand farm
Thanks John
The only part of that job I miss is the smell of the hay. Stay safe and God bless.
Amen to that!
Nice looking hay crop
Thanks
Great job like fun 😂✅
I have a NH 256 rollabar rake I use when we run the square baler. It make a more uniform windrow which the square baler likes better. To cover ground and stay ahead of the round baler we use a Kuhn 8 wheel v-rake. Wish you had smell a vision. I remember helping my grandfather make hay in upstate New York when I was a kid. Northern hay smells so much more fragrant than the hay we have in Georgia.
That's an interesting observation I wonder what factors change that smell. Maybe the soil!
Beautiful clear video 👍
Thanks Wayne
Love watching you guys. It is how my grandpa and uncles farmed including the new holland rakes and bailers. Bring back a lot of great memories!
And the 1650 Oliver as well
Thanks Gary glad we could bring back memories for you!
Isn't this a bit odd. I'm from a so called "Bergbauernhof" in Austria. We're only using 4WD tractors with twin wheels since 1993, a Case IH 840 and since 2007 a Deutz-Fahr Agrofarm 85. We sure got two old 2WD wide front Steyr tractors, but as I pointed out we don't use 'em on the field's no more. Just because of safety. What I'm trying to is that I'm very impressed about you two driving on such steep hills with narrow front's.
With best wishes
Franz
We put ro;ll Over Protective Structures on all of our tractors. We had two relatives die in tractor roll overs within a few years of each other. Both were crushed by the tractor while still in the seat.
you wouldn't want to shift that oliver into underdrive on that hill it would be a heck of a ride
Paul from Iowa, appreciate the videos, be safe, slow is good. God Bless you and your family
Thanks Paul God bless
Grew up in central IA, loved hay time, mow and rake with H, pulled baler and rack with SMTA, took full rack to barn with H, hot work but the lemonade was wonderful
Those old farmall H did alot back in the day
Our Good Lord has bless you guys with a beautiful farm.
Thank you!
They are some hill sides you have there. Them hill sides remind me of my uncles farm in West Central Wisconsin when I would go and help them make hay in the 70's, we manage to tip at least one hay wagon over once a year, whether bales or haylage. Very breath taking view on your hilltop!🌄
It's pretty awesome and amazing how you guys still use and maintain your farm tractors, equipment and machinery 💯
Stay safe on those hills
Thanks Craig
Dang that is steep, stay safe and thanks for another great video.
Thanks Penny
Been rainin good in the high desert of Montana. Right about 250 yards due south atop the western drink. Fixin to turn some of that tall grass into cow turds.
Nice work gentlemen. It's awesome working with your son a and is awesome working with your dad. That sure is steep on suicide hill. Your place looks picture perfect. Going to cut 10 acres have a good day.
Good luck with your hay. Thanks James
Love your Oliver! My fav tractors...
Looking good guys👍👍👍👍👍
We had a high, pointed ridge we farmed. Called it "God's Knob",,,lol
One of the best kept secrets of UA-cam...A great representation of a family farm!!!!!!
Thank you Chad that statement means alot to us!
I remember doing that with a Farmall H and a Massey Harris narrow front end
Sounds like a great combo
You fella's sure have a nice farm . This is the best You Tube video on the channel.
All of your equipment is down to earth and your methods are affordable and payed for.
Thank you Susan that means alot!
Another enjoyable video, spent many hours as "ride along" raking hay. Mesmerizing watching roller bar rake windrowing hay. Would also sit on windrow watching, loved the smell.
Can't wait for bailing video!!
Thanks Scott
Watching those old tractors work makes me think about how they changed the world. Can you imagine how it must have been to go from doing all your farm work with horses to buying your first tractor? We live in a disposable world but the farmers can make there equipment last a life time. We can learn from them.
Thank you that's a really great point!
We were bailing on a hilly field one day and unhooked the hay rack with 150 bales on it. We thought it was on a level spot but as we were working on next rack we saw the first one roll down the hill and end up in the neighbor's corn field.
Thats the scary part of the hole thing in my opinion.
We farm a lot steeper ground then that but we are 10 ft wide on the medium tractor and 14 with the big ones they are all 4 wheel drive and weighted.i love the tricycles but not on a hill yall are definitely brave I will say that. I have slid all over some of our fields on wet years but using a tri cycle is not for the faint of heart. We have lots of stories from the old timers of farmers in our area who have died on those . Great video guys beautiful farm 👍
Definitely have to pay attention to what we are doing out there. Thanks!
I love watching your video’s. I was born and raised in Wisconsin but never knew a thing about farming or cows 🐄 Now I live in the western suburbs of Chicago. I still visit Wisconsin and miss a lot of things about living there.
Sounds a lot like me! Grew up in SW Wisconsin and then move to j Western suburbs of Chicago (Naperville). We used to laughingly call the far west burbs " Little Wisconsin" because there were transplants all over the place flying Packers flags. LOL Moved on to Indiana now, but someday I want to move back to WI.
These guys are awesome to watch because that land screams "home" to me!
It's a great place to be
That's what I like best about your channel is that people get to see what hill farming is like. Reminds me of home. So much of UA-cam is 100 acre table top fields We call it the "back swath". Don't you know that in raking "speed kills". Slow down save those leaves.
There is defiantly a sweet spot when it comes to speed
For those kind of hills you need some of the Swiss haying machinery.
Yeah some of those walk behind tools would be great for that field
Dig the Oliver…good tractors
I put a lot of days on our mat really was a good tractor
The metal piece is a shoe for the back wagon wheel. You chain it to the wheel by the spoke so it can't slip. It holds the wagon back when going downhill so you don't run into the animals pulling the wagon.
Watching from Maine. Your land is beautiful!
Great answer, thanks Joana!
Love it! Man this state is beautiful
Thank you
I always thought raking was the most boring thing ever. 😉 I’ll cut, I’ll bale, I’ll do tillage work, but raking! OMG, if I could get ANYONE else to do it! Thanks for the video.
Never seen the shoe before. Using as a brake sure sounds like a good idea!
Thanks Benjamin!
That is the equipment I grew up with. Still doing a fine job! Glad you are not having to fight the weather right now. That can turn haying into a real grind. Such a beautiful farm you have.
Thank you Dale!
I've been rakeing hay since I was 8 years old and I guess everyone does it different but I always take the hay out from the back row as you. Call it but I call the fence row .
I absolutely love hay season for the smell to watching each wagon load of production and at the end of the day looking at what you accomplished and good quality feed for the livestock. That hill looks so cool. Thank you for another great video
Thanks agian for watching!
It is picture perfect!
Looks like nice hay, bring back memories I used to rake VAC case and International rake.
That sounds like a cool rake
Raking had on my fields is like meditation.... Raking hay in your field is like an exercise of engineering. If it it makes the tractor grunt a little, that's bonus. We have a couple of those tools in the shed but I never used them. Curious... Who's Jackie??
We have a video from this winter where we talk about it
A nice video boys ! Regards from germany
Sparks memories seein you holding the fender brining it around up that hill!! Grew up on a 1650 and grandpa definitely has some of those spots too. WI life
That's quite a slope for a skinny front!!!
Hay great video! I noticed you didn't state the year of the equipment.
nice to see these older machines still having a purpose
You guys are quickly becoming one of my fav UA-cam farming channels
Well heck yeah, we are happy to hear that!
Excellent video.
Very interesting.
Love the video
Get a wide front set of wheels for your tractors if you're gonna be working on hilly land!!
You wouldnt catch me on those sidehills with narrow wheel tractors
Love watching your videos. I grew up on diary farm in upstate NY but have no idea what that shoe/plate is for! Bailing hay was my favorite type of field work growing up.
It can be great if the weather cooperates
Tractors and rakes seem to be working great. Your fields are even steeper than what I farm here in western PA. Suicide Hill looks like something that should maybe be pastured only. As always, thanks for the great videos. I enjoy them.
Thank you for watching and commenting!
Im in westen pa too. What area are you in?
@@aidanschmidt607 I'm trying real hard to remain anonymous, so I don't want to get specific about where the farm is located - not even the county. I hope you understand. Thanks for inquiring, though.
That flat steel plate I believe is a skid of some sort!?
Well I don’t really know what the steel plate is for but maybe for the shoot on the end of the bailer?
Great video and thanks for the upload. One of my favorite channels! Keep of the good work!!
Great guess! Thank you for watching the videos and being part of the channel!