Rolling Rounds and Pitching Squares! It’s hay time!
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- Опубліковано 14 тра 2023
- First cut has come and gone! Well, most of it (stay tuned...). Watch to see how the baler acted (up) and then come stack some hay with us. Wish you were here! 😆 Until next time, Farm Hard Live Well, The Bernards
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Wesley needs to use my old saying, " You can't scare me, I held the flashlight for my Dad."
That is some frightening old memories, Robert. I can hear my dad's instructions now. 😵💫
I learned the same way 😊then passed it on to my kids, that taught me how much patience my flashlight instructor actually had ❤❤❤❤❤😂
Spent several years thinking gthat my name was Dammit , "Dammit get this and Dammit get that".😀
@@horsefly5728 LOL! That's right. And sometimes a bit worse than that. 😆
I'm not nor ever was but lived in a farming community. I've seen the hours farmers spend in the fields.We stopped over at a farmer friend's house and my dad helped the farmer and sons outside in the fields. His wife apologized for the look of the house. No daughters. She was also needed outside.. She mentioned how she'd have to fix a quick meal for the guys when she got back. She had breakfast aftermath all over her kitchen. She went to the fields asking me to keep an eye on her smaller ones. They were playing in the living room and I started work on the kitchen. It didn't take long about an hour and some sweeping and mopping. She was appreciative. I told her it was a small way for us to pay for their hard work in putting food on our table. When she was done in the fields with her part, her littles and I were sitting outside playing. I did babysit once in a while when it was harvest time. She also helped teach me some sewing skills. how the heck did she have time? we bartered.
Dear Bonnie, she just wants to be near you , I have loved watching her, through out the past years
BATTERIES. DRAINING.
Just take off one connector.
We leave a 1999 Taurus for 6 months in cold Michigan winters, and we just disconnect the negative or positive connection. We go to Florida for 6 months.
When we come back, we hook it up, and it started last week on the 1st try. Then we drive it around the yard and let it run, maybe 15 minutes and we are good to go. Hard to believe you don't do that OR get a battery disconnect switch. Then everything stays hooked up & you just turn the switch.
Easy peasy.
It is sooo nice to have great friends and neighbors to help ya out when equipment🚜 needs adjusting! Jimmy is a great guy and you all tell him he’s liked by a lot of your followers. Bless him and you all!!🙏🙏❤️🚜 Good Job!!💪
Lawrence is so blessed to have Wesley! I notice his voice is getting deeper too. They are just growing up so fast since I have been watching you. 😊
Was thinking the same also a good Woman.......
What’s for supper after a good day of bailing hay…? Well… after feeding and watering all the livestock….It feels like a great day for beans, cornbread, fried potatoes, a raw onion, tomato and ice cold sweet tea. Afterwards it’s a hot shower finishing off the day setting on the porch with the family and the dogs. Another great job and day on the farm. Thank God for all the farmers who spend countless hours in the fields to feed humanity.
I remember the good old days when square bales was norm, putting up hay bales in hay lofts, stacking and hauling square bales at night to avoid the heat and flaking out hay from square bails to the feed the horses! Thanks for some old time memory’s Meredith! Blessings to Bernard Farms! 🙏🏻🤞🏻🤗❤️
I hear ya. The good ol bloody forearms even with a long sleeve shirt. It didn't take me long, I started wrapping my forearms and my buddies made fun of me. The next day they all wrapped their forearms from then on as well - haha.
I can still hear that rusty old baler pounding in my dreams, see that arm clawing hay in, that huge crank turning, knotter clacking. And stacking dusty scratchy hay on the wagons pulled behind, so much hay lol
I remember stacking hay in an old tobacco barn. We had to give the cows a bale just to keep them away so we could finish unloading!
Ah "getting into the short rows" should be a metaphor for as you get older getting to relax and enjoy a slower pace
Jimmy and Lawrence giving each other a hug... it's the little things in life that make friendship so special!!!
You know, Meridith, what I really enjoy about your channel is that you and your family are great examples of common America, which unfortunately has become too uncommon. No frills, no BMWs or Mecedes, just making the best of what you've got.
Loading square bales by hand truck is a long afternoon, but it builds character.
The world of wisdom and Lawrence. That trailer can hold over two hundred bells of hay. He's a great father and husband. Always appreciate your man. I had a bad mother's day. On friday I buried my daughter. I know she's in heaven. But I miss her. We was best buddies. Oh lord. There will be sore muscles tomorrow. Arms. Back And legs. Prayers for you all.
So sorry for your loss, Raynona! Sending y'all lots of love! xx
Howdy ya'll,
I'm a 5th generation beef Farmer, up here in Alberta, Canada, and I have Never seen anyone bale as fast as Lawrence does !? I am amazed that baler keeps up....!?
Stay safe ya'll, and Farm on my Friends, Peace
I was curious what gear Lawrence runs in? I have a 567 and a 4055 with the power shift and if I go past 8th gear my pickup is slower than my ground speed.
Gotta stop saying "hope nothing breaks" right before you start especially in front of Lawrence. 😂
Thats Man advice for sure 👍
😊
That looks easy try drywallng
You are too cute, (your positivity is infectious)!
Hardest work I have ever done was working with hay baling and stacking. I know your misery, but you are getting it done.
I know the feeling feels like 100 yrs. since I saw all ya'llAll of you look great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We need to send LB and Jimmy to Washington DC cause they can fix anything together... And boy it needs fixin!😁 Yall need a 12 or so foot hay elevator for that container.... You can lay it flat on the floor and the trailer unloader can just set the bale on the elevator to carry it to the stacker... I use one here in a shed similar to a container like that... Works good... Saves all at walkin'...
Good job there beautiful.
And family. It was Mother's Day here yesterday. Flat poured hard.
I hope you have a wonderful Mother's Day.💖❤🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🤗😘😊😎🙋🏽♂️👍🏽🤙🏾🤟🏽
A miracle. .two fantastic parents. .with two fantastic children who were working without social media. ..
Meredith, if you read this, and value your fingers, please take the rings off of your fingers while doing farm work. A friend of ours was telling husband to take his wedding band off while they were on their way to the emergency room, do I need to explain more?
Little late to the party, but I'm here now! Whoop whoop ❤
Whoop whoop, thanks for watching, Richmond!
My hay baling days were back when all we had were the rectangular bales. They could be either string tied or wire tied. I worked one summer for a fellow in Oklahoma picking up and stacking hay bales on the back of a straight truck to deliver to wherever the farmer wanted it. The fellows uncle was his worst customer. One time the fellow I worked for got the bathroom scales from his aunt and we weighed the last three alfalfa bales we put up in the barn. They averaged 115 pounds. The uncle wanted tight wire tied bales as heavy as we could handle because he paid by the bale. Depending on how many of us were working the straight truck we got either 2 or 3 cents per bale for our part. I don't remember how many cents per bale the customer paid the fellow I was working for.
You finally found a comfort zone when raking hay compared to when you started. Hat and the shirt made your eyes outstanding. I see the two invented new eye makeup out of tractor steering wheel. You should probably get a patent on that pretty quickly
This might help, when I put my tractor up for a while, even if it’s only a couple of weeks, I always disconnect the hot side cable from the battery. I have had this new battery for years and it has never failed me.😊
In all of the years that I've been watchin y'all , I've never seen Lawrence walk so easily ❤ !! Makes this ol mans heart happy for him 🙏❤️🚜🇺🇸
When are you going to teach Wes how to use those big machines. I’m sure he would do a great job.🚜🚜
Done that many of times. We would have to hold it so high that it was sometimes to high to get it under the barn. That was the good days. Now all the young people wants to do is go to the beach. If you ask them to help you with the hay they would say it’s to hot but they ready to go to the beach. We get rain on the Mississippi gulf coast just about every day now.
Getting a downpour as soon as all the hay is in the barn lends an almost maniacal giddy feeling. The hay is safe and secure, and the next cutting is getting the moisture it needs to start growing by leaps and bounds. One of the best scenarios for farmers!
"Gnarley" is a word. It's a term that was popular with me and my back in the 1980s. And you used it correctly.
Greetungs from Argentina beautiful hard-Workin woman and have a goos start to the weenk long live the countryside 🇦🇷🙋🏻♂️
To me, putting up hay is the hardest and dirtiest job on a farm. I hated it with a passion. Love seeing the whole family working together. Love all your videos.
Wonderful video as always hello Meridith
Have fun enjoy and thank u for sharing 🇹🇹😊
Hey young lady I appreciate the video that loading and uploading those square bails brings back a lot of good and bad memories thanks so much
Hey MERIDITH, you guys should of borrowed a hay elevator, ran by a PTO shaft of ONE of your tractors 🚜🚜 and you could of SAVED yourself ALOT of EXTRA HARD work, just set it on there and runs clear to the end of your storage compartment, something to think about NEXT TIME you put SQUARE BALES in there, memory BOX🔥🔥🔥🔥👍🥳🚜🚜😎
you are one beautiful farming mama, wish i was living that life 👍👍👍👍🥰🥰🥰
Everyone will sleep good tonight after handling the square bales!!!!
5 high & a tie! The bales seem to be a little loose- tell thumper to tighten them up!
That was great Meredith when something gets done at the farm it is all hands on deck till its done all is great Lawrence is on a roll the family is beautiful you two can be proud great video can't wait for next video
learn to rake in a circle or just turn through the end rows the rake will make the wind row with that size of rake the bailer can still follow and make the turns but your end rows will be patchy
The Farmer is getting around much better. Glad to see him walking around and climbing in and out of the tractors.
So nice to see LB being able to get on and off the tractor without cringing in pain is a blessing.
Back in the day, I helped my Grandad bale hay, we used antique equipment because its all we had, Grandad fed the lose hay into the stationary bailer with a pitch fork all day long, my Grandmother and I punched baling wires and hand-tied each bale, I stacked the bales out of the way until we could haul it to the barn, we used a 40s model Alis C tricycle tractor and a little Massie Harris of about the same vintage to pull a converted horse-drawn rake, putting up hay in those days was some serious work!
This is like watching my family in a mirror world! Except you do it in a much prettier part of the country than we have have here in west Texas. It is a good life enjoy!
Glad to see that you got the hay in before it poured down rain. Every one needs a "Jimmy" in their life. We should try to be a "Jimmy" to those that we can help in our own lives as well.
Hundred an four lol we used to put up 12 to 15 hundred a day keep up the good work 👍
When is Wesley going to start driving the equipment & helping in the fields ?
You could paint a mark your rake for how wide you run it. Just a thought.
I hope that hay doesn’t get over heated in that tight container.
I love watching your videos!! Just something you might want to try with the square bales. I’m not sure if you have forks for the small John Deere. But if you stack the bales on pallets then use the small tractor to take it to the back of the container!! Even if you don’t have forks you could just use the bucket to push it in OR possibly the forks from one of the other tractors MIGHT fit. There both quick attach so that might work. Love how positive you are.
Bless you Meredith❤You have such a sweet family
Your children will are blessed to have parents who teach them and use them In and on the farm Lifelong experiences will follow them.❤
Should put the batteries on trickle chargers
Haying time already! Wow! Sort of like full time mechanic farming on the side! It all works out! You all are blessed! Enjoy! The Lord is always right there sending angels when needed!😊
..... great vid .... not a farmer but have always thought that if I were I'd be a hay and beef farmer. Not sure why but haying is just plain awesome in my books ..... Battery isolator switch is a handy thing to have. There are possibilities of little things that drain a battery over time. Kinda like, you remember when one would leave the interior light on and you'd be faced with the no-starty-thingy in the morning. I had a slow drain on the battery in my car and was advised to disconnect the battery if it was going to sit for a few days, Simple fix on my little VW that I bought new in 86 and still drive today .... a lot of commercial trucks have batter disconnect switches from the factory. .... The joys of working in a container when it is hot and no air movement .. TEAM work .. Together Everybody Achieves More ..... thx for the share .. as always .. never stop dreaming, just dream bigger .. have fun be safe, save our oceans ....
What would Lawrence do without you! I love to see you work together.
You should wrap the steering wheel with vet wrap. It will save your hands and you can replace it easy when it gets dirty
I thought I saw you had a forklift in one of your past videos. If so, provided you have a six inch free space after the last layer you may be able to stack the hay on pallets and run them up beside each other as long as the bales don’t overhang the skids. Usually shipping containers are tall enough for forklifts. Two problems you might encounter is having a ramp to smooth the transition to inside it so the bales don’t bounce off and never try to drive it in mud. If you can find or make the old style aluminum diamond plate ramp and attach U-channel aluminum on the bottom for fork pockets you can use the forklift to pick it up and lay it down on the back edge of the container. Whenever there’s no weight on the forks there’s very little traction to move in wet or muddy conditions. The average forklift weighs 10,000 lbs. with the counterweight on the back weighing around 5,000 lbs. acting more like an anchor with no weight on the drive tires. As you unload the flatbed you can sit a skid on it as you transfer onto pallets and drive into the container. I’ve spent a lot of years loading/unloading pallets from trailers so this way you only lift it once instead of two+ times. I’ve endured back pain from auto accidents so every bit of relief helps. Hopefully it’ll help for the future.
It's so great that you can grow your own hay. Good horse hay is like gold, and it costs nearly as much, lately!
Handling Small Squares........ Friday My Boys went to Rock Hill S.C and bought 242 Alfafa bales.... Sunday Afternoon Backed the trailer up by the Bale Baron and turned them into 21 bale bundles, so we could load them into a 53ft enclosed van with a tractor/loader..... for storage....
Love you as always you and Rita got it going on you just get that Beautiful sparkle in your eyes when you are out in the hay field 👑🤠
Just a suggestion for your hay storage. Build an a frame from some six to eight inch trees . Stack stack your hay around under it put a tarp over it to the rain off of it.
Thanks for making it possible for me to relive memories. Always tried to sow 'bout 20 acres orchard grass, always square baled it. It has the best smell, I think. Then plough in the stubble and sow Millit for the fall...love it, done it six decades, alas, age has caught up with me and can't do it any more. Can't get it out of my system, sold a lot of equipment, but kept 5 of my 13 tractors just in case there's a fountain of youth somewhere
Really like Wesley’s new service vehicle with the enclosed rear body looks like it will be great for transporting tools and parts
Thank goodness your not having the drought like the Great Plains!
You guys amaze me. Maybe put a contest on some how and the winner can be a farm hand for a week. I would enter for sure.
I see you had some gloves on stacking hay, maybe you could wear them while you're racking hay that way your hands doesn't get dirty. I enjoy watching your family work together, there's not much of that happening these days.
Thank you for your time and video.
Happy hay day, look's like a nice start & thank U 4 taking us haying W/ U all. 🙂
I love the look of storms in the distance. The clouds look so cool and the rain is pretty neat too
Awesome video thank you for taking us along for the ride...😅
Hello there. It's a good idea to have a isolator switch on machines or take a battery lead off for when they have to stand for periods of time.
Oh how we all love Rita!
I love seeing you upbeat on the day an life. God has blessed us with so much.
Good evening Merdie and Family
Looks like Lawrence got the baler working 😊 that’s good
As always Thanks for another awesome video Y’all
Y’all take care Always 🤠❤️😘Love Y’all
Very beautiful farm wife! Impressionnant de voir une femme conduire un tracteur c'est génial et royal de la voir à l'œuvre 😊😉👩🚒💪💜💚💗
I have so much heart for you. I hope all goes well in your fields. Rodney....❤❤
On the battery problem . Unhook the positive side and charge the batteries every 3 or 4 weeks. When you towant start, hook up positive . Should have a good chance # 2 would start.
I know it might be a big job to do, but I would highly recommend blocking up storage containers from the ground, when used for storage. Eliminates a lot of moisture inside and plenty of wood blocks or other stable base can do the job just fine.
Gerdy 2 was sold to the dealer there might be a small drain/ draw on the battery's that isn't noticeable when started regularly but not being started over winter it drained the battery's completely... might need to 1 find the drain , 2 disconnect the battery's, 3 put in battery's disconnect switch...
Lawrence is lucky to have a few truly good friends he can count on no matter what. If you have that anything is possible.
We don't have any grass or alfalfa that done as well as yours did. My one ton truck does that. It's a short. I unhook the ground cables.
everybody needs a jimmy
We've still got a month to go before anyone cuts hay over here. That might give us time to fix a bearing on our new to us baler. Seems to be the biggest issue. Outside of having new neighbor's that might want to run water at the wrong time (they're to irrigation life -they live in an HOA- so this will be fun. Not.) 😊
A fantastic video Meredith !!!! What teamwork ! Thanks for taking me along. God Bless you and your Family....😊😊
Thanks for watching and joining us, Nancy!!
Good video and yes I know what it’s like packing hay bales. We packed them right to the roof and I was the last one out of the mow. Hard and hot work.
Talk about timing and God's grace. Barely finished baling before the rain.
Oh I remember tossing alfalfa 90 lb bails and stacking them. They were packed tighter and easier to knee on the stack. Narly was a term used back in the 60s by the California surfers. Meant the water was unpredictable. Sort of like thunderstorms. 🤗
God love Jimmy, he is such an asset to your family❤
Jimmy is awesome! 😊
Love those Iron Horse John Deeres you're running. Great tractors for what you're doing. You're a good operator!
Meredith is definitely one of the prettiest farm wife I have ever seen. She is so patient.
I don't miss stacking square bales of hay my friends
Great job 😊again Meredith. You and Rita make a great team ❤
Jimmy is your mechanical Angel 😇
Great video Meredith. Always a few hiccups getting up hay. Hope you had a great Mother's day. Take care and have a blessed and safe week
You are a pro! Very impressive! Maybe the equipment issues will go away🤷♂️. Thank you for the video🙌
Hauling hay, stacking hay, it’s all hard work especially in tight quarters! Y’all did great!♥️
Thanks for sharing your hay day's!
It seems that you guys always have problems with drained batteries. My suggestion is to add battery disconnect switches. Inexpensive and easy to install. A good battery will never discharge while disconnected! It would save you a lot of headaches and time.
Stay safe healthy and happy 👍
Great Video, yes you need a Gertie bite! well done family Thanks for sharing
That was fun 😄 Alls well that ends well!
Y'all work so well together as a family. I know you're busy but I haven't seen the sheep in a while didn't see the horses either. Not complaining just saying..😉