We raise primarily hay here in Northeast Pennsylvania and it seems that the horse ladies we sell to want Timothy hay or second/third cutting grass hay. So what we do is plant a Timothy/Orchard grass blend. We use a blend called sale topper from Kings Agriseeds. The Timothy shows in the bale for the first cutting and then the orchard grass provides the second and third cuttings since the Timothy won’t come back make a second cutting. Good luck with your new hay field. I can’t wait to see that mower and crimper in action as well as the 77 with that plow. Keep on keeping on.
You are the most ambitious young man I know! You have a good plan for this area, good luck but I’m sure it will be a success. Thanks for video and your time. I bet your wheat is getting close to harvest.
This will be most interesting to watch you develop it into a hay pasture. If the soil is sandy to any depth which I think that you expect that it is then it is currently really acid. Some lime on it before ploughing and some more after ploughing will, in our experience, produce the quickest turn around to correct the situation. Real acid soils will reduce your options about what seed types you plant. I would totally agree that early Fall is the best time to reseed a pasture for all the reasons you mentioned. Keep your eyes skinned for a cheap land roller to firm the seed bed and push down any stones / rocks.
Nice reclaim sure will save Shelly and her mom some money, can't wait for you to plow . I ask you about your white 105 , with the Perkins engine . It was driving me crazy I swore that it had a turbo on it, and it does I went threw my dad's old tractor records . It had a pump failure and went to get fixed . He had them put a turbo on it in 82 it's a a m-w kit they dyno out at 128 hp . Thanks for the info not alot have that engine but been a good one . Glad ya got some rain God bless ya, Here from Turkey creek farms 🚜
My Grandpa used to have Clydesdale horses, and he always grew mostly Timothy, mixed in with a bit of alfalfa, and it was always great hay for the horses. Looking forward to hopefully seeing your having equipment running next year.
Now that's a familiar site to see, working under the powerlines. My boss has some land near Canton, NY that is under the big lines that come up from Utica. Makes it interesting working around and under the towers. Looks like it'll be nice hay ground when you're finished with it.
Gotta say you're certainly not afraid to take on anything. That acreage should be more than sufficient for 2 horses. Thanks for the update Ethan. Take care. Fred.
Field reclaims are fun. Got a relative that's got 40 some acres in crp that he wants to rent out once the contract is filled. That'd be a fun field to reclaim but I figured that it wouldn't be worth the hassle to do as crp likes to grow trees and big ditches.
@@Oliver66FarmBoy You'd need it for more than a week lol 🤣, I've walked that thing pheasant hunting and found plenty of big holes to fall into. It holds water like a son of a gun when the creek floods and all the rain comes off the old railroad tracks. Good pasture ground though. That 40 acres hasn't been farmed in 22 years it's been that long.
It would be interesting to see that crimper working. My neighbors are the only ones I know of that still crimp all their hay. They actually bought a brand new crimper.
in my experience in central Iowa I have the best luck just mowing it several times till the weeds are about gone then make first cutting hay drag it with a harrow broadcast extra grass or clover and then just keep mowing and making hay until its clean if I have trouble areas 24D or grazeon if its really bad
Plant 40% timothy/ 40% orchard / 20% alfalfa. This seems to be a good variety horses need in the diet. If you don’t want to mess with alfalfa do a orchard/timothy mix.
Alfalfa, Brome and Timothy mix Ethan, you can mix a very small amount of Red Clover. Too much clover and the horses will "slobber". The Clover will feed both the Brome and Timothy. Or you could seed it in Prairie grass, that's another grass that's good for horses. That would be your best option "grass" wise.
@@Oliver66FarmBoy just in case you changed your mind and wanted to farm it or just wanting to rotate a field out and not have the grass weeds to spray out
I dont want to be an armchair farmer here. Why dont you just wait a few days and spray with GRAZON, and leave what is there? looks like some good grass for horses right now. Just asking.
You saw I was mowing down TREES right? So what you gonna do with all the stumps? Plus all the ruts from kids running their pickups around? And is all shit shattercane, Johnson grass and foxtail. There is no forage crop there. Especially nothing you would feed a horse. I’m not going to half ass a hay field. I want something decent.
You keep picking up this "clean up" and gonna have to bite the bullet and find yourself a dozer. Seems like lot of the challenges on this one could be fixed with a D5 and some time
You can most definitely and very easily over lime a field. You never want to apply more than 2 ton in a single application and you never want to apply more than 3 ton a year. Any more than that and you will have you’re soil so fucked up it won’t grow anything.
What a great end to my birthday to watch one of your videos...been following you for quite awhile....one of the best UA-camers out there keep up the great work
You can farm power line right of ways. Guys do it all over. It’s no different than a high tension line running across an open field. Everything under that is a right of way and the power company has access 24/7 365 whether is planted or not. The right of way across the railroad tracks from this field is currently planted to beans.
hope the power company dont get in your hair over you doing that hay field there under that that line around here they tend to get pissy over farming them right aways like that here any way
There’s no law against it and it’s still private property. They just have the right to access it. It’s no different than farming under lines that go through an open field….
@@Oliver66FarmBoy no law on it but here they get pissy over it not sure if i was getting the whole story on it or not just saying what i seen few years back when i was in farming i was just hired hand and did what i was told did call a good bit on doing tillage but that was it glad i am out of it now that input costs are so high
@@Oliver66FarmBoy i believe it is mainly to protect the farmers from liability as you know the entitled think farmers are stupid and think the they would knock down the tower with the tractor now they can mow and run cattle but no plowing as far as i know
Hope your channel makes it big someday. You are one of the hardest working farmers on UA-cam.
plus he knows the way around the tractors inside and out
I think I work pretty hard to
@@obieacres4676 I do not doubt your work ethic sir.
@@rustyrelicsfarm2406 I am just joking 🙃
@@obieacres4676 I know where I have seen the name Obie. It's in the Arlo Guthire Song Alice's Restaurant.
Like that model bush hog, easy on the PTO and two rear wheels. Good call.
We raise primarily hay here in Northeast Pennsylvania and it seems that the horse ladies we sell to want Timothy hay or second/third cutting grass hay. So what we do is plant a Timothy/Orchard grass blend. We use a blend called sale topper from Kings Agriseeds. The Timothy shows in the bale for the first cutting and then the orchard grass provides the second and third cuttings since the Timothy won’t come back make a second cutting. Good luck with your new hay field. I can’t wait to see that mower and crimper in action as well as the 77 with that plow. Keep on keeping on.
It’s probably going to get Timothy/orchardgrass with a little alfalfa.
You are the most ambitious young man I know! You have a good plan for this area, good luck but I’m sure it will be a success. Thanks for video and your time. I bet your wheat is getting close to harvest.
Free is always good. You just keep on growing. Looking forward to watching you plow this.
This will be most interesting to watch you develop it into a hay pasture. If the soil is sandy to any depth which I think that you expect that it is then it is currently really acid. Some lime on it before ploughing and some more after ploughing will, in our experience, produce the quickest turn around to correct the situation. Real acid soils will reduce your options about what seed types you plant.
I would totally agree that early Fall is the best time to reseed a pasture for all the reasons you mentioned. Keep your eyes skinned for a cheap land roller to firm the seed bed and push down any stones / rocks.
Soil tests will tell the tale.
Nice work. Gonna be cool seeing your other hay equipment in the field.
My children had a horse that liked bermuda hay. We lived in the Texas panhandle and that has was grown under a pivot.
Nice reclaim sure will save Shelly and her mom some money, can't wait for you to plow . I ask you about your white 105 , with the Perkins engine . It was driving me crazy I swore that it had a turbo on it, and it does I went threw my dad's old tractor records . It had a pump failure and went to get fixed . He had them put a turbo on it in 82 it's a a m-w kit they dyno out at 128 hp . Thanks for the info not alot have that engine but been a good one . Glad ya got some rain God bless ya, Here from Turkey creek farms 🚜
My Grandpa used to have Clydesdale horses, and he always grew mostly Timothy, mixed in with a bit of alfalfa, and it was always great hay for the horses. Looking forward to hopefully seeing your having equipment running next year.
It’s probably going to be Timothy, orchardgrass and alfalfa.
Now that's a familiar site to see, working under the powerlines. My boss has some land near Canton, NY that is under the big lines that come up from Utica. Makes it interesting working around and under the towers. Looks like it'll be nice hay ground when you're finished with it.
Gotta say you're certainly not afraid to take on anything. That acreage should be more than sufficient for 2 horses. Thanks for the update Ethan. Take care. Fred.
Take what you can get partner, interesting project but I think you’ll get her in shape💪🏻🇺🇸💪🏻
Field reclaims are fun. Got a relative that's got 40 some acres in crp that he wants to rent out once the contract is filled. That'd be a fun field to reclaim but I figured that it wouldn't be worth the hassle to do as crp likes to grow trees and big ditches.
40 acres would be worth it even if you had to rent a dozer for a week.
@@Oliver66FarmBoy You'd need it for more than a week lol 🤣, I've walked that thing pheasant hunting and found plenty of big holes to fall into. It holds water like a son of a gun when the creek floods and all the rain comes off the old railroad tracks. Good pasture ground though. That 40 acres hasn't been farmed in 22 years it's been that long.
Great project looking forward to seeing more 😀😀👍
Thanks.
Can’t wait to see your hay tools back in action. 😀
Plant alfalfa Timothy mix with some orchard grass good horse hay .
That natural path that leads to the highway is probably how the highline guys access the towers and lines when they have to get in their!
Probably
Coastal or midland 99 is what we have in the sandy soil in Oklahoma we have mainly coastal and sell a lot to horse barns we really like it
Good project.
It would be interesting to see that crimper working. My neighbors are the only ones I know of that still crimp all their hay. They actually bought a brand new crimper.
Gonna be interesting to see a hay crop on there,might consider Timothy grass
Keep your hat on there Farm Boy! Your hair'll be standin on end! Ha!!
Only when it rains. Lol
That is the perfect use for that small field.
Yep
in my experience in central Iowa I have the best luck just mowing it several times till the weeds are about gone then make first cutting hay drag it with a harrow broadcast extra grass or clover and then just keep mowing and making hay until its clean if I have trouble areas 24D or grazeon if its really bad
It’s full of tire ruts and tree stumps. You’re not going to just mow it and re seed it unless you feel like destroying a hay mower.
Orchard and Timothy makes a very nice field. Orchard will choke out the Timothy over time. Most of my customers like orchard and a taste of Alfalfa.
Pretty cool bud! be cool to see that old hay equipment put to work
Land is land if it's enough to add up!!👍
Plant 40% timothy/ 40% orchard / 20% alfalfa. This seems to be a good variety horses need in the diet. If you don’t want to mess with alfalfa do a orchard/timothy mix.
Alfalfa, Brome and Timothy mix Ethan, you can mix a very small amount of Red Clover. Too much clover and the horses will "slobber". The Clover will feed both the Brome and Timothy. Or you could seed it in Prairie grass, that's another grass that's good for horses. That would be your best option "grass" wise.
It will be interesting to see the soil test. Will you trim up the tree line to get them branches out of the way.?
Yea
How will Timothy do it is good for horses?
That will be a pretty good field for a Hey I still use circle mowers I have New Idea 30A be safe out there your buddy from Nebraska
I had a 30A at one point.
@@Oliver66FarmBoy Did you like it
Good video
You have the manure spreader for a hay wagon, bale on the ground and pick up the bales.
Or just use a car trailer cause it doesn’t have sides and you can actually fit the whole field on it….
Don't walk under your loader bucket, buddy. Don't know if we had a bad camera angle or what, but yeah ... don't walk under your loader bucket.
I did walk under it. And I didn’t die.
Not this time, but famous last words "it won't happen to me". I would be lost without the new videos. Please be careful, Ethan.
Orchard grass they can tolerate ckover but it has to be dry dry
Now u need to get one of the old tricycles tractor to put the sickle on or u might be able to run it on the supper 55
Almost sounds like a chance for you and your buddies to have a plow day.
A plow day on less than 2 acres? Sounds like a cluster.
@@Oliver66FarmBoy true that sir, true that. Keep up the good work.
Nice 🤘🚜
So cool
Look at Teff grass it’s a annual but it’s an easy grass it doesn’t make horses sick it hates frost but loves sandy ground
I’m not looking to re seed every year.
@@Oliver66FarmBoy just in case you changed your mind and wanted to farm it or just wanting to rotate a field out and not have the grass weeds to spray out
I dont want to be an armchair farmer here. Why dont you just wait a few days and spray with GRAZON, and leave what is there? looks like some good grass for horses right now. Just asking.
You saw I was mowing down TREES right? So what you gonna do with all the stumps? Plus all the ruts from kids running their pickups around? And is all shit shattercane, Johnson grass and foxtail. There is no forage crop there. Especially nothing you would feed a horse. I’m not going to half ass a hay field. I want something decent.
Is that stuff too bad to hit with 2,4,d and seed through if it's too thin?
It’s full of stumps from the trees I was mowing down and it’s rough as hell. It needs plowed.
You keep picking up this "clean up" and gonna have to bite the bullet and find yourself a dozer. Seems like lot of the challenges on this one could be fixed with a D5 and some time
I would drop about 10 ton of lime on that field
Never can over lime a field
You can most definitely and very easily over lime a field. You never want to apply more than 2 ton in a single application and you never want to apply more than 3 ton a year. Any more than that and you will have you’re soil so fucked up it won’t grow anything.
what modle oliver are you runing
What a great end to my birthday to watch one of your videos...been following you for quite awhile....one of the best UA-camers out there keep up the great work
Thanks
Power line rite of way . There's a reason why it's not being farmed .
You can farm power line right of ways. Guys do it all over. It’s no different than a high tension line running across an open field. Everything under that is a right of way and the power company has access 24/7 365 whether is planted or not. The right of way across the railroad tracks from this field is currently planted to beans.
Thay probably like it better when some 9ne is taking care of it Its not fun to half to trudge through brush
@@Oliver66FarmBoy It's going to be great for making hay not so much for grain farming .
For the scrap pile Eathan
hope the power company dont get in your hair over you doing that hay field there under that that line around here they tend to get pissy over farming them right aways like that here any way
There’s no law against it and it’s still private property. They just have the right to access it. It’s no different than farming under lines that go through an open field….
@@Oliver66FarmBoy no law on it but here they get pissy over it not sure if i was getting the whole story on it or not just saying what i seen few years back when i was in farming i was just hired hand and did what i was told did call a good bit on doing tillage but that was it glad i am out of it now that input costs are so high
wow you can farm there with the large power lines here in Missouri you can't
Why not. There’s no law against it if the right of way goes across private land.
@@Oliver66FarmBoy i believe it is mainly to protect the farmers from liability as you know the entitled think farmers are stupid and think the they would knock down the tower with the tractor now they can mow and run cattle but no plowing as far as i know