Just discovered your channel today and really like 👍 it. Watched entire video of your rebuilt of your farmhouse and outbuildings. Next I watching hay balling. I am a fan of your story, you are really a great 👍 guy, thanks 🙏. Take care.
what a blessing that you have time with your dad working on your farm. Making memories with your dad, both now and when you where young. That's what adds up when you're older.
I remember when one of my old mans friends would take me to a ride in a crawler. As a 5 year old kid that is like winning a amusment park ticket. The joy and memories i have from that time I shall never forget as long as I live.
Loved the very rare off-camera comment from Hilary responding to your comments about her delicious dinner creations. She was humble, but I'm sure everything tastes good with extra hard-day's-work sauce!
I'm a retired architect/full time painter. My favorite painter is Van Gogh. When living in Germany I often times looked out my bedroom window watching farmer drive their tractors up and down and across the fields. The tractor and other equipment was always painted a bright primary color giving contract in an ultra modern experience against a rather historic background. Watching you and your dad driving around gives me a similar artistic moment recalling the Van Gogh hay fields and his farmers driving a horse with a hand held plough. Van Gogh concentrated his studies on the common man and his activities. Though he was far from being high tech, he was very much a modernist in his color sense and willingness to push for a new way of doing things. Maintaining an humble attitude and moving forward without forgetting or giving up the past. I think that might be you as well.
That was nice, your dad still being able and wanting to help with chores. What a wonderful example of family living. The flat tire couldn't ruin your day either.
Granddaughter of a hay farmer here. My Dad learned to drive the farm machinery when he was 8. People that bought my grandfather’s farm after he passed away cut the hay too early and put the bales in the barn way to soon. Barn caught on fire. Expensive lesson.
Watched this video with my cousin John a retired small farmer who had a milking herd in the day. He reminisced about doing the same job for years and how hard it was to make enough hay to last the winter here in the UK. In the end he ploughed up all his hay fields and grew crops - wheat, barley, or beans etc. sold the crop and used the money to buy in hay... he always had plenty of good quality hay from then on.
Love your videos. I'm 24 and I just started my own hay operation. Us younger people look up to you older guys for wisdom you cant get from a book. Thank you for sharing your story's and wisdom. Keep it up!
A flat tire. Didn’t see that coming! But the rain drops, I did. Whew! Hay. It’s what’s for dinner. I sure enjoy my time with your videos. A smart man , should get lucky often.
I really enjoyed your reminiscing about working with your grandpa and dad on the farm. I too have fond memories of my grandparents' farm and helping them gather eggs, shelling the corn and grinding it for chicken feed, feeding calves, slopping the pigs, checking on the cattle, and if we were lucky, helping feed Grandpa's pride and joy, his trotters and brood mares in the horse barn. He had a neighbor work the fields, but we kids always helped in the huge vegetable garden. Those years went by fast, but my sisters and I often talk about the farm and those long ago times.
Hi Pete I noticed you had on an Ohio State Tee-Shirt, I am in Ohio and GOOOO BUCKEYES.... It was great to see you and your father out there together...
Hi Pete...the smile you gave at 8:15 spoke volumes of the pleasure that doing the hay brings you. I love that you seem to enjoy triggering ocd'ers...love your vids. Thanks again !! 🙋
Dad, my brothers, and I turned hay with 3 tine forks. Also used New Idea rakes with the big steel wheels. I have you beat. Dad had a Minnesota hayloader built in the penitentiary. Actually worked good, but a full rack was the equivalent of 5, or 8 small square bales. We did bale most times. Thanks for taking me down memory lane Pete.
Your list of blessings are long Pete! But I notice your heart is towards doing everything the best you can do it, and I'm sure that adds more to your blessings by virtue of your work ethic and attitude!
You and your dad remind me of Daddy and I working together on the farm. Enjoy every moment you spend with him. Mine's been gone now for 13 years and I really miss him. I remember following Grandpa around on the farm when I was little. I can see him now on his Cub wearing bib overalls and his trademark fedora hat. Ah memories!😊
BoyHowdy! That sure brings back memories of baling hay n straw in Ohio as a young fella! We always made small bales, put them on wagons, then threw them into the loft for stacking. Great way to get into shape for the football and wrestling seasons. BTW, love that tOSU shirt, Pete! Thanks, Pal. I truly enjoy 'Just a Few Acres Farm'! YeeHaa!
I think you struck a chord with me when you showed both you........and your Father working in the field. At that moment, you found a part of the " Good Ole Days", brings a smile to your face as well as ours. Thanks You.
Pete, Thanks for your haying videos. It reminds me of when I was young and on the farm as I worked for lots of farmers making hay. In those days there was not any big round bales only the small square bales. I used to be on the wagon stacking the bales 5 high and 25 bales to the layer. Yes 125 bales makes a load. The farmers always wanted me on the wagon because when I loaded the wagon none of them came off on the way to the barn. There was always a knack to loading so they tied together. What great memories they are. Your videos are so good I don't like to miss any, Thanks so much. John in Missouri Valley, Iowa
We had the same issue with our New Holland baler. The wisconsin started first turn of crank but good luck starting hot. As a little kid and even adult nothing better than engaging the clutch with a little 3 belt screech and hearing that ' Song of the baler" .
Great stories Pete. Making hay was always a special time at my grandfather’s dairy farm in Watertown, NY in the ‘70’s. My cousin and I would ride in the hay wagon behind a kick bailer. We’d get knocked on our a**es trying to catch the bails. Then we’d stack the bails on the wagon. My granddad would get about twice as many bails on the wagon with us vs. the random kick bailer, so he loved it too. That cut down the number of trips to the barn and let him keep bailing in good weather. Great memories!
Pete, Thanks for the Vid, and since I have zero knowledge of farming (Electrical Engineer) can not provide critique. Simply wan to say thanks for sharing your day to help me escape. Much appreciate the efforts you put in to get these videos out.
Have to agree with you on the Wisconsin engines. You could not get them started again once they got hot. They would run all day long but don't stop them.
I really appreciate your videos man, you teach me alot about them old tractors and as a mechanic it's very interesting to me. They dont make anything now thatll last 70 years. It's a shame but again thank you for spending your time filming for strangers.
Thursday the Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 Steam Train is coming to my hometown of Muskogee OK. Looking forward to seeing it again. Have fun at your steam engine show Pete.
I quite enjoy seeing the older tractors valued and still in use. For those interested in how the newer farming equipment is impacted by technology/programming, I found an interesting conversation with a John Deere engineer by the title, **An honest conversation with Willie Cade; grandson of John Deere engineer & patentholder.** The topic makes me appreciate the efforts put into the restoration of the Just A Few Acres farming equipment.
This brings back memories of when I was In Prep School & University. Every summer I would work on my Fathers hobby farm doing everything you are doing in this video. He had Oliver tractors and New Holland equipment. Those days are long gone but the memories still linger on.
Great story. I share similar memories of baling with my parents as a young boy and I'm back on the farm baling my own hay. Love your OSU shirt. Buckeye alum!
Love the t-shirt today, Go BUCKS! Greetings from Cincinnati, OH. I really enjoy the time you take to explain what you're doing and the thought process behind it. I grew up on a small farm in eastern Ohio and did many of the tasks you do daily. Your thorough explanation let me know that my dad wasn't crazy making me do all the things one must do on a farm, he just didn't have time to explain it...and we were always trying to "beat the rain". Thanks for all you do, much appreciated!
My wife and I love watching your videos. There is something very therapeutic about watching you work and listening to your words of wisdom. Even something as mundane as baling hay is fun to watch. I think some of what makes your videos so enjoyable is your playful interaction with the animals, silly (but funny) jokes and general good nature. Thanks for sharing your life with us.
For a country girl, the sound of your tractor and all the equipment is so comforting to hear. I loved to listen to the baler and combine when I was a kid.
I also rennet turning hay alongside my grandfather as a child with a cut down fork. My grandfather also smoked a pipe, you just brought back very happy memories 😀😀😀
Pete your like a shrink. Your got your youknow together and just watching your videos makes me happy. I love all the editing and views to show us what it is like to farm. Keep it up you have reminded me in a positive way of the farming days I spent as a teenager and I am sure many more
It is very nice you and your father work together making hay. We used the same equipment and method as you do with the exception of using an IH plunger baler that rocked the MD when we stopped to make adjustments. Our baler made rectangle bales (75 pounders) and we pulled a wagon behind the baler and stacked the bales as high as we could go without dropping any bales on the way to the barn. It was hot and dusty but we enjoyed iced tea when we emptied the wagon in the hay barn.
So wonderful to see you and your Dad working in the field of Hay together…I don’t know who looked Happy year? Him or you. I truly enjoy your story of why you like making hay so much!!! It’s really quite a story and I think that it goes clear back to when you were full years old. I can’t believe you were driving a tractor at four by yourself! Now, I do understand You being on the tractor with your Grandpa, or your Dad, but not driving at yourself. Usually kids are riding on laps😊❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️I’ll be honest, that was very hard for me as a mother to allow my children whom I love so much and they were so tiny to get on the tractor with Grandpa (whom I love very much interested as well but the fear of my baby falling off his lap and under a piece of equipment terrified me more and I had to really work on that until one day my father was getting off the tractor and he looked at me and I know the fear had to been very clear in my eyes it probably even tears on my face and as he handed my child to me, he said very simply, “Susie, children have been riding tractors with their dads and grandpas for generations and we don’t want ANYTHING TO HAPPEN TO YOUR LITTLE ONE, ANYMORE…I want to reassure you, and squeeze in that little guy so tightly to ensure his safety, that if I squeezed him in ANY Tighter, he threw up. You just got to relax a little bit, little one, or you’re going to take the joy out of this for all 3 of us!!”…. And then he put his arm around me, and HUGGED ME HIS BIG, Wonderful Bear Hug he Always gave me, And he said, “let’s go get the boys something to drink”, And we walked arm-in- arm back to the farm house We never spoke about again! Nor did I ever stand around clenching my teeth is my dad gave my son rides. In fact are usually busy myself in the garden or with the cattle until they came back so that I worried less and less every time. But when I think about what I did starting at the age of four and five on the dairy farm, I marvel that I was able to not only do it, but yeah it was just kind of expected of you to get started on whatever chore you were capable of doing and then it was full speed ahead on becoming a farm kid! I loved it just like you do and I can tell that. I’m 68 years old this year yeah it seems so strange to say it because I don’t feel even 48 years old and I’m no longer living on a farm but I have begun watching all these UA-cam channels, living vicariously through everyone else actually, to be honest, I’m only watching a half a dozen or so of the best. I miss it so much. I want to ask you a question Pete and I know you’re not gonna laugh at me but there will be people that do, and that’s OK..I’ve told you before, that my father did not believe in the girls handling farm equipment… That means a tractors and Hay Baylor’s, etc…. However we could hook up the wagon to the tractor when we were going to cut hay. But that’s as close as he let us get our fingers she possibly being hurt. He really truly wanted to protect us from 80 farm injuries. So my question is this since I have truly no idea or understanding except from when I had my own land and I mowed the grass with my lawn more, but that’s not good enough. As I watched you in this video I don’t know where you’re looking as you drive the tractor and you’re trying to cut the wind row and then Riggs wind row and then billet. I watched your head going side to side and then you’re turning around and then you’re looking up front and then you’re looking in the back but I can’t figure it out how do you know where to keep the wheels of the tractor…?? It looks to me like you’re keeping them just on the Inside left of the role you’re coming down whether you’re cutting or making a wind row, or bailing…but am I wrong? I’m not too embarrassed to ask this question because my grandmother taught me there are no dumb questions how many dumb people who aren’t willing to ask so they can learn! So here I am at 68 years of age wanting to learn. You don’t have to answer it so everybody else hears the answer unless you want to… You can email me or ignore it because you’re too busy LOL somebody please help me know the truth because I never got to drive a tractor… But I rode a lot of horses and I rode on top of a Lotta Haywagon‘s, stacking it for the barn and also putting it in the barn. By the way, your field sure was BEAUTIFUL WHEN IT WAS ALL BALED😊❣️❣️
Your video's have inspired me! I have been working on my great grandfathers Ford 9N for the last year and now that its finally rebuilt and running I just went and bought a Ford 501 sicklebar to start cutting hay with. I have a friend with a 35 acre old grass/hay field and I plan on cutting, raking and moving bales with my old Ford 9N tractor. Thanks for putting out these videos and taking time to teach.
Man, I love seeing them old farmall tractors and internationals still working the small farms showing they can still do the work no need for these newer tractors. Love watching your videos. Me and my dad had an old ford we used to spray our fruits trees with and bush hogged, One day dad come home said we planting straw berries this year 500 plants by hand did not want to touch a strawberry for 2 years after.
Cracking video Pete, great to see your Dad back working the fields again, I'm sure that took you right back, watching him from the sideline going to work on those windrows. I myself prefer the old stories and memories you have to share over the Hollywood shots, but both compliment your videos! They say "make hay while the sun shines" , but in your case you had to make hay while the clouds make up their mind!
Starting this Thursday I'll Be at the OHIO VALLEY ANTIQUE MACHINERY SHOW in Georgetown Ohio for four days love the old equipment and Tractors hope you have fun at the show your going to...
Great video and commentary Pete. I'm 52 and my dad is 79. We hay together. This week we were square baling and my 20 year old daughter was running the baler while I loaded and my dad raked. 3 generations in the field. It was great. Oh yeah, my dad has told me the same thing about the Wisconson engines.
I really really enjoyed this video. I’m a little older having graduated from high school back in 1969. I grew up as a farm boy. My dad ran a 240a dairy farm. Your videos take me back to those days. I think I was 6 when I started driving the pickup and tractors. Dad had 3 moline and 2 Ford 8Ns. One of the Ford’s was called my tractor. It was several years before I could graduate to one of the Minnies. Keep going and posting such great videos.
Thanks Pete for sharing your childhood memories of hay making. I too have hay making stories of machines and tractors long gone but the "feel" of the job and observation and judgment makes it so satisfing. And beating the weather ! I agree with the weaving your rows. A 5 foot baler will always require you to weave to make a good bale. Great to see Dad on the MD. Cheers Dave.
I agree with bee back 4 - I'm not a farmer, but I really love your channel. I have a pretty big home garden, and have fond memories of gardening with my Dad and my grandparents, and those experiences had a big impact on me, just like you explain. No worries about no drone shots, but I have to say, they are very cool and really help to explain, from a "bird's eye view" a lot of what you explain.
I came across your youtube page from the videos about renovating your house. I enjoy your sense of humor (including the wobbly muffler!) and way of life. Thanks for sharing! I have a horse and our neighbor is so kind to mow our pasture for us to make hay at a reduced cost. Saves me SO much money. I also saw you have Dexter cows...I used to be an AI tech and got to breed a couple over the years. They were so docile and great to work with.
Your hay videos are just the best. It looks like the most satisfying job on the farm ‘cause when you’re all done you have a bunch of bales to get you through winter and a clean field with a fresh haircut! Thanks for posting these, really enjoy them. 😀
Pete, you’re a generous man! Pulling a single rake behind a vintage tractor (1944 JD A pulling New Holland 56) is the most relaxing thing I do. I like to think I’m a good person, but it isn’t something I’m willing to share often.
Thank you. Brought back good memories of making hay with my Dad, who has passed on, with the square baler with the Wisconsin engine, which I killed once-OHOH!! We always salted the bales once put into the hay shed.
Sounds like you grand dad's baler was a New Holland 66 I have one but it's been converted to pto. My wife and I rebuilt it completely 3 years ago. Never misses a knot!!! It does miss the paint from the rebuild though... we skipped that step lol. Thanks for the stories and the video content.
My grandfather taught me how to "drive" on the back of our old ('50's era) Ford tractor. It was a small tractor compared to the monsters we had stashed around the workshop so I was able to almost reach the clutch and the brakes. . .sufficiently enough so I didn't grind the gears and could stop before I ran into the quonset shop. Good times and, like you said, good memories!
Love all the history behind the equipment and why stuff was done back in the days. This is for ur previous video. Neat to hear about the history of you, your, and tour grandfather.
Hi Pete, your haying for me does bring back lots of good memories for and the old hay Baylor with the board that kicks out of the side, yup I remember that to and your right bayling is a lost art but then so is farming the way I remember witch I think was better anyway, in this world to day its get so much so ridiculously fast like produce being made so fast and prices going so hi its not even worth it, when you peel an arange it doesn't peel right its absolutely terrible, yup I agree with you, well bud grate video as always, you and your family have a grate day. Verne Johnson Farmall kid 63
I enjoyed this part so much. It is a lot of work but your being self sufficient and handling weather and break downs, you did a great job. This has been my favorite utube channel to watch. I am amazed at all the daily activity you tackle and always with a positive attitude! Thank you so much!
I enjoy watching your video. I can feel your down to earth and honesty. You have fun doing your daily chores not just because you want to record it, but you really enjoy what you are doing. Goodluck
You've got to be so darn proud of that tractor with all the work you've done to it. Awesome job.
Great days work Pete. Just get the hay inside before it rains😂😂
Just discovered your channel today and really like 👍 it. Watched entire video of your rebuilt of your farmhouse and outbuildings. Next I watching hay balling. I am a fan of your story, you are really a great 👍 guy, thanks 🙏. Take care.
what a blessing that you have time with your dad working on your farm. Making memories with your dad, both now and when you where young. That's what adds up when you're older.
Henry should have jumped up on the MD with his grandfather
@@jonathanking3497 Very true. I love seeing father and son working together.
Yes,this is awesome..love it,come on Henry
I remember when one of my old mans friends would take me to a ride in a crawler. As a 5 year old kid that is like winning a amusment park ticket. The joy and memories i have from that time I shall never forget as long as I live.
Loved the very rare off-camera comment from Hilary responding to your comments about her delicious dinner creations. She was humble, but I'm sure everything tastes good with extra hard-day's-work sauce!
I'm a retired architect/full time painter. My favorite painter is Van Gogh.
When living in Germany I often times looked out my bedroom window watching farmer drive their tractors up and down and across the fields. The tractor and other equipment was always painted a bright primary color giving contract in an ultra modern experience against a rather historic background.
Watching you and your dad driving around gives me a similar artistic moment recalling the Van Gogh hay fields and his farmers driving a horse with a hand held plough.
Van Gogh concentrated his studies on the common man and his activities. Though he was far from being high tech, he was very much a modernist in his color sense and willingness to push for a new way of doing things. Maintaining an humble attitude and moving forward without forgetting or giving up the past. I think that might be you as well.
That was nice, your dad still being able and wanting to help with chores. What a wonderful example of family living. The flat tire couldn't ruin your day either.
Granddaughter of a hay farmer here. My Dad learned to drive the farm machinery when he was 8. People that bought my grandfather’s farm after he passed away cut the hay too early and put the bales in the barn way to soon. Barn caught on fire. Expensive lesson.
Your way,helps myself restore my faith in humanity, keep up the buetiful work and ways. Thank you
Watched this video with my cousin John a retired small farmer who had a milking herd in the day. He reminisced about doing the same job for years and how hard it was to make enough hay to last the winter here in the UK. In the end he ploughed up all his hay fields and grew crops - wheat, barley, or beans etc. sold the crop and used the money to buy in hay... he always had plenty of good quality hay from then on.
Good to see you and the old man together. I’m sure he enjoys a little of the haying.
Love your videos. I'm 24 and I just started my own hay operation. Us younger people look up to you older guys for wisdom you cant get from a book. Thank you for sharing your story's and wisdom. Keep it up!
A flat tire. Didn’t see that coming! But the rain drops, I did. Whew! Hay. It’s what’s for dinner. I sure enjoy my time with your videos. A smart man , should get lucky often.
Absolutely...seem the harder he works, the luckier he gets. 😉
I really enjoyed your reminiscing about working with your grandpa and dad on the farm. I too have fond memories of my grandparents' farm and helping them gather eggs, shelling the corn and grinding it for chicken feed, feeding calves, slopping the pigs, checking on the cattle, and if we were lucky, helping feed Grandpa's pride and joy, his trotters and brood mares in the horse barn. He had a neighbor work the fields, but we kids always helped in the huge vegetable garden. Those years went by fast, but my sisters and I often talk about the farm and those long ago times.
Hi Pete I noticed you had on an Ohio State Tee-Shirt, I am in Ohio and GOOOO BUCKEYES.... It was great to see you and your father out there together...
Hi Pete...the smile you gave at 8:15 spoke volumes of the pleasure that doing the hay brings you. I love that you seem to enjoy triggering ocd'ers...love your vids. Thanks again !! 🙋
Dad, my brothers, and I turned hay with 3 tine forks.
Also used New Idea rakes with the big steel wheels.
I have you beat.
Dad had a Minnesota hayloader built in the penitentiary.
Actually worked good, but a full rack was the equivalent of 5, or 8 small square bales.
We did bale most times.
Thanks for taking me down memory lane Pete.
I loved working with my dad... cherish those moments. ❤️
Good afternoon Pete, just wanted to say," HAY" !!!
Been binge watching your channel for about a 2 months now. Love everything about you channel the Great jokes!! Great childhood story!
Father son team work. Grandfather stories. True gifts from God. thanks for sharing.
Never mind dinner Pete. It could have been raining on the hay. Be grateful for what you have been given .
Your list of blessings are long Pete! But I notice your heart is towards doing everything the best you can do it, and I'm sure that adds more
to your blessings by virtue of your work ethic and attitude!
Best running Farmall MD on the planet... Sure do enjoy your content and explaining everything... about life...
It sounds so good! Love it.
I also farm. When I see you use all your older equipment it make me feel good, all the farms around me have shiny new equipment and mine is a bit old.
Just love those tractors! Got several my self. Down here in south arkansas that hay would be dry the next day it’s so hot. Keep up the hard work!
You and your dad remind me of Daddy and I working together on the farm. Enjoy every moment you spend with him. Mine's been gone now for 13 years and I really miss him. I remember following Grandpa around on the farm when I was little. I can see him now on his Cub wearing bib overalls and his trademark fedora hat. Ah memories!😊
🐼 Big Bear Hugs from a 68 yr old grandma in Kirby, Texas, USA 🐼 ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
Glad it didn't rain on you,10 more bales for the barn. Good job as always!
There's nothing better than a great story that comes from you Pete. Bless You.
BoyHowdy! That sure brings back memories of baling hay n straw in Ohio as a young fella! We always made small bales, put them on wagons, then threw them into the loft for stacking. Great way to get into shape for the football and wrestling seasons. BTW, love that tOSU shirt, Pete! Thanks, Pal. I truly enjoy 'Just a Few Acres Farm'! YeeHaa!
No matter what music you put to the job it fits perfectly! Great job! Good job with the hay!
I think you struck a chord with me when you showed both you........and your Father working in the field. At that moment, you found a part of the " Good Ole Days", brings a smile to your face as well as ours. Thanks You.
Pete, Thanks for your haying videos. It reminds me of when I was young and on the farm as I worked for lots of farmers making hay. In those days there was not any big round bales only the small square bales. I used to be on the wagon stacking the bales 5 high and 25 bales to the layer. Yes 125 bales makes a load. The farmers always wanted me on the wagon because when I loaded the wagon none of them came off on the way to the barn. There was always a knack to loading so they tied together. What great memories they are.
Your videos are so good I don't like to miss any, Thanks so much. John in Missouri Valley, Iowa
We had the same issue with our New Holland baler. The wisconsin started first turn of crank but good luck starting hot. As a little kid and even adult nothing better than engaging the clutch with a little 3 belt screech and hearing that ' Song of the baler" .
2:58 I love how the refresh rate makes the tires look like they are not moving.
Great stories Pete. Making hay was always a special time at my grandfather’s dairy farm in Watertown, NY in the ‘70’s. My cousin and I would ride in the hay wagon behind a kick bailer. We’d get knocked on our a**es trying to catch the bails. Then we’d stack the bails on the wagon. My granddad would get about twice as many bails on the wagon with us vs. the random kick bailer, so he loved it too. That cut down the number of trips to the barn and let him keep bailing in good weather. Great memories!
I stay in Aberdeen in Scotland I am vegan I really like your video's and your jokes and how you take care of all your animals breath of fresh air
Hay there!
Pete, Thanks for the Vid, and since I have zero knowledge of farming (Electrical Engineer) can not provide critique. Simply wan to say thanks for sharing your day to help me escape. Much appreciate the efforts you put in to get these videos out.
@Hello Clayton how are you doing
The shape and design on the MD are really cool. It's just an awesome looking tractor. Running great Pete. Strong work.
Hi Pete, great memories for sure. I have many with my granma. I used to sleep over all the time. We had so much fun. I sure do miss her.
Have to agree with you on the Wisconsin engines. You could not get them started again once they got hot. They would run all day long but don't stop them.
@Hello Gary how are you doing
I really appreciate your videos man, you teach me alot about them old tractors and as a mechanic it's very interesting to me. They dont make anything now thatll last 70 years. It's a shame but again thank you for spending your time filming for strangers.
Thursday the Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 Steam Train is coming to my hometown of Muskogee OK. Looking forward to seeing it again. Have fun at your steam engine show Pete.
What a great shot with you and your Dad in the field.
I quite enjoy seeing the older tractors valued and still in use.
For those interested in how the newer farming equipment is impacted by technology/programming, I found an interesting conversation with a John Deere engineer by the title, **An honest conversation with Willie Cade; grandson of John Deere engineer & patentholder.** The topic makes me appreciate the efforts put into the restoration of the Just A Few Acres farming equipment.
Thanks Pete for sharing your family story today,
This brings back memories of when I was In Prep School & University. Every summer I would work on my Fathers hobby farm doing everything you are doing in this video. He had Oliver tractors and New Holland equipment. Those days are long gone but the memories still linger on.
Love the old school equiptement. Makes you realize that was a working generation. I can read about it. Actually seeing it working is awesome. Thanks
Great job 👍 Pete....
Great story. I share similar memories of baling with my parents as a young boy and I'm back on the farm baling my own hay. Love your OSU shirt. Buckeye alum!
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I just love your videos. Your smile keeps bringing me back . . . Thanks
Love the t-shirt today, Go BUCKS! Greetings from Cincinnati, OH. I really enjoy the time you take to explain what you're doing and the thought process behind it. I grew up on a small farm in eastern Ohio and did many of the tasks you do daily. Your thorough explanation let me know that my dad wasn't crazy making me do all the things one must do on a farm, he just didn't have time to explain it...and we were always trying to "beat the rain". Thanks for all you do, much appreciated!
Great that the weather cooperated! Have a good evening with Hillary. Relax. Be well.
My wife and I love watching your videos. There is something very therapeutic about watching you work and listening to your words of wisdom. Even something as mundane as baling hay is fun to watch. I think some of what makes your videos so enjoyable is your playful interaction with the animals, silly (but funny) jokes and general good nature.
Thanks for sharing your life with us.
What great bonding , doing a necessary job with your grandad.
The tractor sounds amazing Pete... you did a great job on that old girl.
For a country girl, the sound of your tractor and all the equipment is so comforting to hear. I loved to listen to the baler and combine when I was a kid.
I've got a pressure gauge like that it's never wrong . I enjoy your videos ,every one of them.
Thank you for keeping traditions alive.
I also rennet turning hay alongside my grandfather as a child with a cut down fork. My grandfather also smoked a pipe, you just brought back very happy memories 😀😀😀
Pete your like a shrink. Your got your youknow together and just watching your videos makes me happy. I love all the editing and views to show us what it is like to farm. Keep it up you have reminded me in a positive way of the farming days I spent as a teenager and I am sure many more
Glad you mentioned the muffler. Noticed last episode......and it definitely was not the only thing I could focus on....
It is very nice you and your father work together making hay. We used the same equipment and method as you do with the exception of using an IH plunger baler that rocked the MD when we stopped to make adjustments. Our baler made rectangle bales (75 pounders) and we pulled a wagon behind the baler and stacked the bales as high as we could go without dropping any bales on the way to the barn. It was hot and dusty but we enjoyed iced tea when we emptied the wagon in the hay barn.
So wonderful to see you and your Dad working in the field of Hay together…I don’t know who looked Happy year? Him or you. I truly enjoy your story of why you like making hay so much!!! It’s really quite a story and I think that it goes clear back to when you were full years old. I can’t believe you were driving a tractor at four by yourself! Now, I do understand You being on the tractor with your Grandpa, or your Dad, but not driving at yourself. Usually kids are riding on laps😊❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️I’ll be honest, that was very hard for me as a mother to allow my children whom I love so much and they were so tiny to get on the tractor with Grandpa (whom I love very much interested as well but the fear of my baby falling off his lap and under a piece of equipment terrified me more and I had to really work on that until one day my father was getting off the tractor and he looked at me and I know the fear had to been very clear in my eyes it probably even tears on my face and as he handed my child to me, he said very simply, “Susie, children have been riding tractors with their dads and grandpas for generations and we don’t want ANYTHING TO HAPPEN TO YOUR LITTLE ONE, ANYMORE…I want to reassure you, and squeeze in that little guy so tightly to ensure his safety, that if I squeezed him in ANY Tighter, he threw up. You just got to relax a little bit, little one, or you’re going to take the joy out of this for all 3 of us!!”…. And then he put his arm around me, and HUGGED ME HIS BIG, Wonderful Bear Hug he Always gave me, And he said, “let’s go get the boys something to drink”, And we walked arm-in- arm back to the farm house We never spoke about again! Nor did I ever stand around clenching my teeth is my dad gave my son rides. In fact are usually busy myself in the garden or with the cattle until they came back so that I worried less and less every time. But when I think about what I did starting at the age of four and five on the dairy farm, I marvel that I was able to not only do it, but yeah it was just kind of expected of you to get started on whatever chore you were capable of doing and then it was full speed ahead on becoming a farm kid! I loved it just like you do and I can tell that. I’m 68 years old this year yeah it seems so strange to say it because I don’t feel even 48 years old and I’m no longer living on a farm but I have begun watching all these UA-cam channels, living vicariously through everyone else actually, to be honest, I’m only watching a half a dozen or so of the best. I miss it so much.
I want to ask you a question Pete and I know you’re not gonna laugh at me but there will be people that do, and that’s OK..I’ve told you before, that my father did not believe in the girls handling farm equipment… That means a tractors and Hay Baylor’s, etc…. However we could hook up the wagon to the tractor when we were going to cut hay. But that’s as close as he let us get our fingers she possibly being hurt. He really truly wanted to protect us from 80 farm injuries. So my question is this since I have truly no idea or understanding except from when I had my own land and I mowed the grass with my lawn more, but that’s not good enough. As I watched you in this video I don’t know where you’re looking as you drive the tractor and you’re trying to cut the wind row and then Riggs wind row and then billet. I watched your head going side to side and then you’re turning around and then you’re looking up front and then you’re looking in the back but I can’t figure it out how do you know where to keep the wheels of the tractor…?? It looks to me like you’re keeping them just on the Inside left of the role you’re coming down whether you’re cutting or making a wind row, or bailing…but am I wrong? I’m not too embarrassed to ask this question because my grandmother taught me there are no dumb questions how many dumb people who aren’t willing to ask so they can learn! So here I am at 68 years of age wanting to learn. You don’t have to answer it so everybody else hears the answer unless you want to… You can email me or ignore it because you’re too busy LOL somebody please help me know the truth because I never got to drive a tractor… But I rode a lot of horses and I rode on top of a Lotta Haywagon‘s, stacking it for the barn and also putting it in the barn. By the way, your field sure was BEAUTIFUL WHEN IT WAS ALL BALED😊❣️❣️
Your video's have inspired me! I have been working on my great grandfathers Ford 9N for the last year and now that its finally rebuilt and running I just went and bought a Ford 501 sicklebar to start cutting hay with. I have a friend with a 35 acre old grass/hay field and I plan on cutting, raking and moving bales with my old Ford 9N tractor. Thanks for putting out these videos and taking time to teach.
Tired while you are proud and happy it different from being bored and depressed. I hope that one day I can show up at your farm and give you a hand.
Man, I love seeing them old farmall tractors and internationals still working the small farms showing they can still do the work no need for these newer tractors. Love watching your videos. Me and my dad had an old ford we used to spray our fruits trees with and bush hogged, One day dad come home said we planting straw berries this year 500 plants by hand did not want to touch a strawberry for 2 years after.
Cracking video Pete, great to see your Dad back working the fields again, I'm sure that took you right back, watching him from the sideline going to work on those windrows.
I myself prefer the old stories and memories you have to share over the Hollywood shots, but both compliment your videos!
They say "make hay while the sun shines" , but in your case you had to make hay while the clouds make up their mind!
Looks to me like ole pops is having a good time love it glad y'all still get r did
Nothing sounds as sweet as a Farmall running.
That's soooo funny...I was counting also as you stated to crank the rake down, then you finished counting at the end too.
Starting this Thursday I'll Be at the OHIO VALLEY ANTIQUE MACHINERY SHOW in Georgetown Ohio for four days love the old equipment and Tractors hope you have fun at the show your going to...
Must have been nice for your Dad to work the tractor. Hope that the hay was dry enough to not heat up significantly. Glad the rain held off.
Really enjoy your comments and stories.
I miss baling hay with my Pop-pop on his Farmall with a New Holland Super 78 square baler. You're living the dream.
Great video and commentary Pete. I'm 52 and my dad is 79. We hay together. This week we were square baling and my 20 year old daughter was running the baler while I loaded and my dad raked. 3 generations in the field. It was great. Oh yeah, my dad has told me the same thing about the Wisconson engines.
I really really enjoyed this video. I’m a little older having graduated from high school back in 1969.
I grew up as a farm boy. My dad ran a 240a dairy farm. Your videos take me back to those days. I think I was 6 when I started driving the pickup and tractors. Dad had 3 moline and 2 Ford 8Ns. One of the Ford’s was called my tractor. It was several years before I could graduate to one of the Minnies.
Keep going and posting such great videos.
Thanks Pete for sharing your childhood memories of hay making. I too have hay making stories of machines and tractors long gone but the "feel" of the job and observation and judgment makes it so satisfing. And beating the weather ! I agree with the weaving your rows. A 5 foot baler will always require you to weave to make a good bale. Great to see Dad on the MD. Cheers Dave.
Thanks for representing Ohio State! Two of my four kids are graduates and my youngest will be a sophomore this year.
love the haying videos we got 80 acres of alfalfa down and the weather is not cooperating like normal lol.
We'll be at the Steam Pageant on Saturday. It's a great show & organization.
I agree with bee back 4 - I'm not a farmer, but I really love your channel. I have a pretty big home garden, and have fond memories of gardening with my Dad and my grandparents, and those experiences had a big impact on me, just like you explain. No worries about no drone shots, but I have to say, they are very cool and really help to explain, from a "bird's eye view" a lot of what you explain.
I came across your youtube page from the videos about renovating your house. I enjoy your sense of humor (including the wobbly muffler!) and way of life. Thanks for sharing! I have a horse and our neighbor is so kind to mow our pasture for us to make hay at a reduced cost. Saves me SO much money. I also saw you have Dexter cows...I used to be an AI tech and got to breed a couple over the years. They were so docile and great to work with.
Your hay videos are just the best. It looks like the most satisfying job on the farm ‘cause when you’re all done you have a bunch of bales to get you through winter and a clean field with a fresh haircut! Thanks for posting these, really enjoy them. 😀
Pete, you’re a generous man! Pulling a single rake behind a vintage tractor (1944 JD A pulling New Holland 56) is the most relaxing thing I do. I like to think I’m a good person, but it isn’t something I’m willing to share often.
Next year im pulling my 56 rake behing my jd 620
We are starting a farm we are so inspired by you and your wife God bless
Thanks for clearing up the muffler problem.
Thank you. Brought back good memories of making hay with my Dad, who has passed on, with the square baler with the Wisconsin engine, which I killed once-OHOH!! We always salted the bales once put into the hay shed.
Sounds like you grand dad's baler was a New Holland 66 I have one but it's been converted to pto. My wife and I rebuilt it completely 3 years ago. Never misses a knot!!! It does miss the paint from the rebuild though... we skipped that step lol. Thanks for the stories and the video content.
Ha ,you brought back the memory of the international 50 T baler we had as a kid.
My grandfather taught me how to "drive" on the back of our old ('50's era) Ford tractor. It was a small tractor compared to the monsters we had stashed around the workshop so I was able to almost reach the clutch and the brakes. . .sufficiently enough so I didn't grind the gears and could stop before I ran into the quonset shop. Good times and, like you said, good memories!
Ford 8N tractor---
Love all the history behind the equipment and why stuff was done back in the days. This is for ur previous video.
Neat to hear about the history of you, your, and tour grandfather.
Hi Pete, your haying for me does bring back lots of good memories for and the old hay Baylor with the board that kicks out of the side, yup I remember that to and your right bayling is a lost art but then so is farming the way I remember witch I think was better anyway, in this world to day its get so much so ridiculously fast like produce being made so fast and prices going so hi its not even worth it, when you peel an arange it doesn't peel right its absolutely terrible, yup I agree with you, well bud grate video as always, you and your family have a grate day.
Verne Johnson
Farmall kid 63
I enjoyed this part so much. It is a lot of work but your being self sufficient and handling weather and break downs, you did a great job. This has been my favorite utube channel to watch. I am amazed at all the daily activity you tackle and always with a positive attitude! Thank you so much!
I enjoy watching your video. I can feel your down to earth and honesty. You have fun doing your daily chores not just because you want to record it, but you really enjoy what you are doing. Goodluck
Seeing your dad running that MD is one if the coolest things I've seen in your channel
Pete I love your channel! Your videos have encouraged me to buy local and support more of our community's farmers!