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Hi Ryan. I'm not sure you realize what you do. You are a tremendous source of knowledge and information. But for me personally, you are a great source of relaxation. Watching the farm work is very very calming for me and I appreciate it very very much.
One of your best videos. Excellent shots and editing. Good storytelling. Injecting shots = suspense with explanation later. Constantly improving. You have really developed into an outstanding storyteller and vlogger.
I have no idea what's going on in may part of this video, but it's still super interesting to watch. I live out in middle of nowhere Ohio, so now I'll know all the behind the scenes stuff when I drive by the corn fields and such. Thanks for sharing with us.
Nice video! We never needed a large rake like you. We never had pure alfalfa fields. We always had very tall 1st crop (orchard & bromegrass, alfalfa, red clover, timothy) which we chopped for haylage. Our 2nd & 3rd crops we small square baled and did not need large windrows. Once we started round baling, we would double windrows with standard rollabar rake.
Just came across your channel and I'm impressed especially how hay is baled and how those rolls are formed we take it for granted at least I know I'm guilty of it for what goes on in farming I'm from Chicago and I've traveled past many farmlands thru illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin,and the UP of MICHIGAN being a truck driver and always trying to get from point a to b in a hurry whenever I roll up behind a big piece of farm machinery on a two lane road I yield with the utmost respect for you farmers and what you do in our heartland THANKS FOR HELPING PUT FOOD ON OUR TABLE !! so cool too as my wife Jamie spells her name the same GOD BLESS from Chicago
"I'm gonna run over this thing!" LOL:) Hey, at least you were looking and realized what and where the rake was likely to be, and were watching... with experience you'll have your foot on the clutch and brake and ready to stop the tractor at a moment's notice in such situations "just in case". It's great that you've got the 'situational awareness' part down though-- some people never quite get it and end up breaking machinery, sticking it into the trees or the fence or power poles/guy wires or whatever... and sometimes it DOES happen to (most) all of us... (I've caught a T-post with the outside rear disk blade once or twice myself, but don't tell anyone!) Good job Jamie!!!! Ryan, give her a kiss for doing a good job... the dog can give her the licks on the cheek!!! OL J R :)
I wish they could do seal coating on the gravel roads here like that.... They do it on the paved roads... adds a few more years to the surface.....Nice Hay Ryan...I like when theres lots of help to get things done!!
Great video. I like that Ryan isn't lecturing Jamie as she drives. She's doing a great job and he's just chill answering her questions here and there. What a nice "date". Ha! Gotta love that quality time spent together on the farm.
We didnt rake much the past few years but we always set our swath just so it would fit under the tractor without running the swath over. That way you didnt have to weave much to get an even bale.
I so miss having my 4630, good tractors that stand the test of time. I pulled a 15 foot batwing to mow lots of grass. Had to switch the A/C over and put a CD player in.
Love the drone footage starting at 9:29. The camera's shutter sync makes it look like the front tires on the tractor are standing still and you are just skidding them along the ground. :-)
I wasn't as much concerned about missing hay on the outside as much as the insane turn radius that thing has. Your video gives a good view of how wide it is. Well done on the driving, Jamie Procarione.
Ryan, Jamie, really Nice video. Love to see you Guy's together and having fun. 👍 Nice driving Jamie ;-) seeing all the family involved also in one vid is Very cool indeed. Was halfway expecting Brittany too be bailing and Travis filming from the field 😂😂😂😂😂
Ryan, you may find your viewership numbers higher if you put Jamie's name in the titles. She is very brave, dedicated and cheerful, as well as being lovely. Of course, she has brains to go with her beauty. She is a wholesome treat to watch, always improving my mood. Please run the Idea by her. ( Like I said, Brains) God bless you both and best wishes.
I noticed when the bobcat is hauling bales the rear end is a little light, to fix that I made some half inch thick steel plates that I bolted to the side of the engine compartment to counterweight the bales and it works really well
i have a black top drive way we dont drive over it for a day after it is sealed but for regular highway pavement which is rougher than driveways you can drive over it pretty quickly
Lol I have worked on a farm for a little over 2 years now and it still amazes me how sometimes the the tires on the tractors look like they aren't even spinning and that they are just gliding over the top 😂
Ryan I wouldn't worry about missing a little hay with the double caster wheels the rake will last twice as long and will need less work I wish I had double caster wheels
This year there's less hay. It's very important to regulate ground pressure throughout the range of flotation to preserve the ground. You leave marks on the ground 3:36 . Rotary rakes are much better in this case. Agurrak Euskaditik,
It's not "tar", it's oil. It's not a thick layer but a very thin layer and rock is only for traction because without it, a oil top road would be slick as ice when wet.
Hey at least they do maintenance on your roads!!! We'd kill for a good sealcoat treatment on the roads in front of both farms, Needville AND Shiner... We too had gravel roads in front of the farms-- they FINALLY paved over Hubenak and Hurta Roads (either end of the Needville farm) back when I was in high school (mid-80's) and paved County Road 370 in front of the Shiner place about 10 years ago... course it's thin pavement and develops problems because of it... particularly at Shiner because it's thinner pavement there. Dad complained a few times about how rough the ride was in the ambulance when he got taken to the hospital a time or two... I couldn't help but laugh when we went to the funeral home in town the day after he died-- they were out fixing up the roads, patching potholes... Yup Dad's luck lasted til the very end LOL:) (and he'd have been the first one to tell you that). Thing is, gravel roads aren't exactly "maintenance free"... by the time you send a guy out to grade the thing 2-3 times a year, topdressing it with additional gravel, etc. over the years the gravel road probably costs more to maintain than the paved road... or it's a wash anyway... the paved road costs more to put in, sure, but the maintenance is a lot lower-- no grader or maintainer required-- just a lil dump truck, some hot mix, and a couple guys to shovel it into potholes once or twice a year and pack it down... and a seal coat once every 4-5 years also helps... Later! OL J R :)
Hey Jamie! Since Ryan licked your face you should have given him a "wet willie" when you were messing around the side of his face. Surely everyone knows what a 'wet willie' is but if you don't you simply stick your finger in your mouth and withdraw it with plenty of spit on it. Then to complete the act you put that wet finger into someone else's ear and in this case it would be Ryan's. Great to see you guys having fun and working at the same time!
I just noticed that you tractor has a "frontview" mirror, so when you are looking over your shoulder you can glance up to see where the tractor is going.
Nice video I really enjoy your footage and knowledge of How farms work, we are currently trying to get into a little hay but takes time when starting from scratch!
Hello Ryan, First I like to say is, thanks for sharing your farm life with here on you tube. I learned a lot of things just by watching you tube. I have one question that's been eating at me, Is there any friction between you and your father and brother at all because of the you tube channel? why I ask,I've watched all your videos on you tube and I picked on some friction between you guy's. It seems that your dad helps your brother out more then he does you on your farm, just asking. Keep the videos coming, thanks God bless
not to many 15 minute long videos I watch so intensely I let my coffee get cold. your fade to the next clip is excellent, I got to figure out if my video editor will allow me to reproduce your technique. thanks for a quick look at the soybeans as we flew by them.... roll on young man! :)
Heh! At 9:35 the camera's FPS and the baler tractor's front wheel are in nearly perfect sync so it looks like the wheel isn't turning. Does the baler have a sensor to tell the operator when it's time to dump? Surely it isn't a "ya just kinda gotta know" deal...
Yes, there's an electronic monitor in the cab that shows the bale shape and size (whether it's forming evenly or is "lopsided") and indicates when you're getting close to the size you programmed in, when the wrapping cycle starts, and when it's time to eject the bale from the baler. I run an old pre-electronic monitor baler and you have to do all those things "by eye" by looking at the shape and size of the bale in the baler as it forms, and then wrapping it manually with twine (instead of net wrap like this baler uses) and then ejecting the bale... the only "indicator" on it is a line of numbers across the top with an indicator that moves with the belt shuttle as it moves back (as the bale gets bigger). Later! OL J R :)
So, 2 things, I've lived on a farm all my life. Just a small 75 acre one in southwestern Pa. And we have a round baker that looks really similar to yours but the belts are a lot tighter. There is a bar at the top that lifts first assume to tighten the belts but I was really amazed at how loose the belts were on yours. Also, do you really need 4 wheel drive tractors? I would assume with that much ground you are completely no-till so you don't need 4wd for working ground. Is it a necessity or was it just an added bonus of that tractor?
Wrong color but good video just had a plow day we took out a 560 (for any of you who don't know what that is its a Farmall 560 turbo diesel) with a four bottom plow, Keep up the work.
Yeah, my grandmother told me about making hay back in the 20's... her first job on the farm was leading the horse around in circles, pulling a beam attached to a gear that turned a shaft that turned the baler... the baler sat in one spot, and the hay was brought to it with a "buck rake" or "dump rake" (which was basically an 8-10 foot wide rake with a series of curved, spring-steel teeth that were side-by-side mounted to a wheeled frame, pulled by a horse... it scraped along the ground pulling the hay up into piles, which were then dragged across the field to the baler, where one pulled a rope, which lifted up the tines and "dumped" the hay in a pile near the baler, and then it went back for more... The hay was then pitchforked into the baler by another guy working by the baler. Grandma told me that one of their field hands would stand on top of the baler, and push the hay down into the chamber between plunger strokes... usually you'd use a pitchfork or a stick, but he used his foot, and she was always worried that the plunger would turn back and break his leg (or take it off), but it never did... Later! OL J R :)
Couldn't you guys lock out/pin one side from swinging out and make a round on the outside then unlock/unpin then rake normal. I take into consideration fuel usage /time.
I like raking, you don’t have to listen to the PTO run, and its REALLY SATISFYING! And do you bale a lot of alfalfa? I’ve only been watching a short time now, I’m allergic to it so my dad usually puts me on the hay.
Makes sense-- if you need a bigger rake, you need a bigger rake. Having a package deal like you got, well, something about something isn't going to be "quite right" but you're kind of stuck with it, since you can't pick 'something else' and still have a 'package deal'. The reasoning why the dual front dolly wheels makes sense; I think it was just kind of stupid placement on Rhino's part... they COULD have put one dolly wheel as far forward as possible BEHIND the first wheel (in raking position) and then put the second dolly wheel somewhere behind that (with enough clearance between them so they wouldn't hit... even if it needed a little bit of a "standoff" (a setback, sort of like what they have on the front wheel) to make it work. The other thing they could have done was bring the front wheels a little further forward, and then brought them in more (closer to the tongue when folded) so that they didn't stick out so far when the rake was open in raking position... Having the dolly wheel inside isn't a "terrible" idea, since it takes a LOT of torque off the rake wheel toolbar in raking position, since having a tire in front of the bar and behind the bar essentially takes all the load of the hay pushing against the rake wheels and the rake wheels touching the ground, their weight, etc. which is trying to 'twist' the bar, and puts that into ground pressure on the front wheel... having both wheels behind the bar wouldn't do that... I guess they had their reasons for designing it that way, but its easy to see where the design could be improved... Later! OL J R :)
Round bales are a lot less work than square bales, even if you have a kick baler and high-side wagons. Back in the day, we had to ride the wagons and stack bales by hand. Now, in a pinch, one (wo)man could do the whole operation.
Hey there hows it going love your vids i sit and watch while waiting when im hauling grain. Wat a life we live when its good its really good when its bad its cutting maize in the rain like wat i been doin all day lol? Keep up the good work u teach me a thing or 2 and i been a contractor for 25 years.
Just came upon this older video. Miss seeing Jaime. Hope she's doing well. We enjoy watching your productions.
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Hi Ryan. I'm not sure you realize what you do. You are a tremendous source of knowledge and information. But for me personally, you are a great source of relaxation. Watching the farm work is very very calming for me and I appreciate it very very much.
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That's quality time with the family when you all have tractor each. Respect👍
The lick when your lady is expecting a kiss - excellent.
This a tough job owning a farm but it's good to see u two carrying on a tradition that others don't want to do anymore proud to know u both
One of your best videos. Excellent shots and editing. Good storytelling. Injecting shots = suspense with explanation later. Constantly improving. You have really developed into an outstanding storyteller and vlogger.
Yes! I need to pick up some tips!!
We have a 4270 4755 and 4955 they are our oldest tractors our newest is a 2017 8320R
Hello from France, i watch you for 2 years already and i can say, watching you is always as fascinating 😀 bye Ryan and Jamie
Au revoir 👋
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I have no idea what's going on in may part of this video, but it's still super interesting to watch. I live out in middle of nowhere Ohio, so now I'll know all the behind the scenes stuff when I drive by the corn fields and such. Thanks for sharing with us.
Always glad to see the old iron working especially with Mom operating the 4020.
I love the sound of a tractors diesel engine starting so awesome
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Thank you so very much for teaching us farming and cattle raising. The drone footage was awesome. The LORD bless you and yours !
Nice video! We never needed a large rake like you. We never had pure alfalfa fields. We always had very tall 1st crop (orchard & bromegrass, alfalfa, red clover, timothy) which we chopped for haylage. Our 2nd & 3rd crops we small square baled and did not need large windrows. Once we started round baling, we would double windrows with standard rollabar rake.
Just came across your channel and I'm impressed especially how hay is baled and how those rolls are formed we take it for granted at least I know I'm guilty of it for what goes on in farming I'm from Chicago and I've traveled past many farmlands thru illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin,and the UP of MICHIGAN being a truck driver and always trying to get from point a to b in a hurry whenever I roll up behind a big piece of farm machinery on a two lane road I yield with the utmost respect for you farmers and what you do in our heartland THANKS FOR HELPING PUT FOOD ON OUR TABLE !! so cool too as my wife Jamie spells her name the same GOD BLESS from Chicago
"I'm gonna run over this thing!" LOL:) Hey, at least you were looking and realized what and where the rake was likely to be, and were watching... with experience you'll have your foot on the clutch and brake and ready to stop the tractor at a moment's notice in such situations "just in case". It's great that you've got the 'situational awareness' part down though-- some people never quite get it and end up breaking machinery, sticking it into the trees or the fence or power poles/guy wires or whatever... and sometimes it DOES happen to (most) all of us... (I've caught a T-post with the outside rear disk blade once or twice myself, but don't tell anyone!)
Good job Jamie!!!! Ryan, give her a kiss for doing a good job... the dog can give her the licks on the cheek!!! OL J R :)
She's such a good driver 👌
I wish they could do seal coating on the gravel roads here like that.... They do it on the paved roads... adds a few more years to the surface.....Nice Hay Ryan...I like when theres lots of help to get things done!!
Northern farmer they just started doing them here
in some videos could you please show u hooking up the inplement if possible?
Drake Falkner YESSS I've always wanted to see how you hook up some of the stuff.
were do you live
yes plz do so
Hunter Walters or is a kid and can't choose where he lives or he just doesn't live on a farm
Hunter Walters well you can speak for your self because I do live on a farm and I do also play farming simulator.
I learned a new term today; tedding. Great video Ryan. You had all hands on deck today with the baling & tedding.
Great video. I like that Ryan isn't lecturing Jamie as she drives. She's doing a great job and he's just chill answering her questions here and there. What a nice "date". Ha! Gotta love that quality time spent together on the farm.
Jaime has really stepped up her tractor skills. Way to go!
We didnt rake much the past few years but we always set our swath just so it would fit under the tractor without running the swath over. That way you didnt have to weave much to get an even bale.
I so miss having my 4630, good tractors that stand the test of time. I pulled a 15 foot batwing to mow lots of grass. Had to switch the A/C over and put a CD player in.
Love the drone footage starting at 9:29. The camera's shutter sync makes it look like the front tires on the tractor are standing still and you are just skidding them along the ground. :-)
I saw that too-cool for a bit then I started to feel nauseous- wth
that's rolling shutter for you
its hard to fathom this work being done all by hand back in the day, or even back when a ford 8N was the latest and greatest
What i've learned from watching your channel
Farms work by driving and maintaining heavy industrial equipment.
I wasn't as much concerned about missing hay on the outside as much as the insane turn radius that thing has. Your video gives a good view of how wide it is. Well done on the driving, Jamie Procarione.
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Ryan, Jamie, really Nice video. Love to see you Guy's together and having fun. 👍 Nice driving Jamie ;-) seeing all the family involved also in one vid is Very cool indeed. Was halfway expecting Brittany too be bailing and Travis filming from the field 😂😂😂😂😂
Ryan, you may find your viewership numbers higher if you put Jamie's name in the titles.
She is very brave, dedicated and cheerful, as well as being lovely. Of course, she has
brains to go with her beauty. She is a wholesome treat to watch, always improving my mood.
Please run the Idea by her. ( Like I said, Brains) God bless you both and best wishes.
Jeffrey Plum yeah but his content is that good he doesn’t have to click bait with female names.
That Carl F Statz T- shirt your wearing is cool He is a relative of mine . My dad grew up in Sauk City , Wisconsin.
Incredibly green there, jealous.......been brown here for almost 2 months...........the new Midwestern desert!!! Northwest South Dakota!!!!!
Glad to see Jamie in the video.
Looks like you have got yourself some nice hay baled. GOOD JOB
I noticed when the bobcat is hauling bales the rear end is a little light, to fix that I made some half inch thick steel plates that I bolted to the side of the engine compartment to counterweight the bales and it works really well
i have a black top drive way we dont drive over it for a day after it is sealed but for regular highway pavement which is rougher than driveways you can drive over it pretty quickly
I want to say thanks to all the framers out there.
Lol I have worked on a farm for a little over 2 years now and it still amazes me how sometimes the the tires on the tractors look like they aren't even spinning and that they are just gliding over the top 😂
Jamie is being playful, I'm sure you two are living the good life
Ryan I wouldn't worry about missing a little hay with the double caster wheels the rake will last twice as long and will need less work I wish I had double caster wheels
9:56 kinda funny how the camera's shutter / FPS is in sync with the front wheels …appears as if they stand still
This year there's less hay.
It's very important to regulate ground pressure throughout the range of flotation to preserve the ground. You leave marks on the ground 3:36 . Rotary rakes are much better in this case.
Agurrak Euskaditik,
It's not "tar", it's oil. It's not a thick layer but a very thin layer and rock is only for traction because without it, a oil top road would be slick as ice when wet.
Cool videos!! Grew up on a small farm, miss it very much.
I just started working at a farm and today we put 6 loads of small squares up in the barn
nice job Ryan and Jamie, good looking hay!
another great video and nice to see you two lads out there in the field vying for space.
Hey at least they do maintenance on your roads!!! We'd kill for a good sealcoat treatment on the roads in front of both farms, Needville AND Shiner... We too had gravel roads in front of the farms-- they FINALLY paved over Hubenak and Hurta Roads (either end of the Needville farm) back when I was in high school (mid-80's) and paved County Road 370 in front of the Shiner place about 10 years ago... course it's thin pavement and develops problems because of it... particularly at Shiner because it's thinner pavement there. Dad complained a few times about how rough the ride was in the ambulance when he got taken to the hospital a time or two... I couldn't help but laugh when we went to the funeral home in town the day after he died-- they were out fixing up the roads, patching potholes... Yup Dad's luck lasted til the very end LOL:) (and he'd have been the first one to tell you that).
Thing is, gravel roads aren't exactly "maintenance free"... by the time you send a guy out to grade the thing 2-3 times a year, topdressing it with additional gravel, etc. over the years the gravel road probably costs more to maintain than the paved road... or it's a wash anyway... the paved road costs more to put in, sure, but the maintenance is a lot lower-- no grader or maintainer required-- just a lil dump truck, some hot mix, and a couple guys to shovel it into potholes once or twice a year and pack it down... and a seal coat once every 4-5 years also helps...
Later! OL J R :)
Hey Jamie! Since Ryan licked your face you should have given him a "wet willie" when you were messing around the side of his face. Surely everyone knows what a 'wet willie' is but if you don't you simply stick your finger in your mouth and withdraw it with plenty of spit on it. Then to complete the act you put that wet finger into someone else's ear and in this case it would be Ryan's. Great to see you guys having fun and working at the same time!
I just noticed that you tractor has a "frontview" mirror, so when you are looking over your shoulder you can glance up to see where the tractor is going.
how big does travis make the round bales we have the same baler and we make ours 70 inches tall
Love watching that bailer hatch those hay eggs.
Nice video I really enjoy your footage and knowledge of How farms work, we are currently trying to get into a little hay but takes time when starting from scratch!
I tell you what, that boy in that baler is rrooolllinnnnggg ittt upppp. Hello from austin, down in central texas! Hay all day and thats our pay! 👋🏼
Guy's, your video production is great. Picture AND sound! Keep up the good work. Very informative. Makes me want to stay on the farm!
Have to love riding double in the 46. I got fat it’s a lot harder now lol.
Do you have to travel the bobcat back to unload. I'm with Travis, he'll no on small bales. Do the old dairy barns still store hay using big bales.
Wow I didn't realize how much smaller a 4640 was compared to a 4840. We have a 48 with the 8 speed powershift.
Man that 4640 sounds like a beast when you first start it up.
I used to pull a International 6 bottom Plow with a 4640 in the late 80s!
Gotta love a 40 series Deere firing up cold. They sure smoke like a train until the governor catches up; especially if it's really cold outside.
Tar and chip "paving" and seal coating are two totally different processes
Raking some big doinks on the farm...big old doinks.
The music is perfect! Nice informational and calming video.
Hello Ryan, First I like to say is, thanks for sharing your farm life with here on you tube. I learned a lot of things just by watching you tube. I have one question that's been eating at me, Is there any friction between you and your father and brother at all because of the you tube channel? why I ask,I've watched all your videos on you tube and I picked on some friction between you guy's. It seems that your dad helps your brother out more then he does you on your farm, just asking. Keep the videos coming, thanks God bless
amazing what you can do with Dry weather Ryan...
not to many 15 minute long videos I watch so intensely I let my coffee get cold. your fade to the next clip is excellent, I got to figure out if my video editor will allow me to reproduce your technique. thanks for a quick look at the soybeans as we flew by them.... roll on young man! :)
Is the address we are headed to, the same one that is on the ticket? Jaime looks more confident driving the tractor....
The frame rate was matched the the steer tires and was tripling me out 😂
Heh! At 9:35 the camera's FPS and the baler tractor's front wheel are in nearly perfect sync so it looks like the wheel isn't turning.
Does the baler have a sensor to tell the operator when it's time to dump? Surely it isn't a "ya just kinda gotta know" deal...
Yes, there's an electronic monitor in the cab that shows the bale shape and size (whether it's forming evenly or is "lopsided") and indicates when you're getting close to the size you programmed in, when the wrapping cycle starts, and when it's time to eject the bale from the baler.
I run an old pre-electronic monitor baler and you have to do all those things "by eye" by looking at the shape and size of the bale in the baler as it forms, and then wrapping it manually with twine (instead of net wrap like this baler uses) and then ejecting the bale... the only "indicator" on it is a line of numbers across the top with an indicator that moves with the belt shuttle as it moves back (as the bale gets bigger).
Later! OL J R :)
So, 2 things, I've lived on a farm all my life. Just a small 75 acre one in southwestern Pa. And we have a round baker that looks really similar to yours but the belts are a lot tighter. There is a bar at the top that lifts first assume to tighten the belts but I was really amazed at how loose the belts were on yours. Also, do you really need 4 wheel drive tractors? I would assume with that much ground you are completely no-till so you don't need 4wd for working ground. Is it a necessity or was it just an added bonus of that tractor?
Dude that rake is friggen awesome!!
9:46 it looks like the front tires aren't even turning
I don’t like seal coating, it leaves too much loose gravel, that will chip most windshields
Wrong color but good video just had a plow day we took out a 560 (for any of you who don't know what that is its a Farmall 560 turbo diesel) with a four bottom plow, Keep up the work.
some nice road, hope they adopt that around here =) probably really cuts down on the dust
I’m not sure if it’s just the year of the baler but there should be a kicker to move the bail away from the tailgate
We would’ve removed it even if there was one. Kickers are not a smart idea in hilly regions.
Ya I know what you mean I’ve put the tailgate down on a bail
Beautiful farm, nice tractor and even a nicer couple, great job guys
Can you please do a farm tour of all three farms and the equipment
What is the purpose of the rubber hanging in front of the pickup? Too keep grass out of the tying arms? Just curious because I have a JD 435.
Why turn the pto off when opening the tail gate of the baler? And how many an hour do you guys make?
reminds me when my mom told me about driving a team of two horses in the hay field while my grandpa would pitch hay into the wagon
Yeah, my grandmother told me about making hay back in the 20's... her first job on the farm was leading the horse around in circles, pulling a beam attached to a gear that turned a shaft that turned the baler... the baler sat in one spot, and the hay was brought to it with a "buck rake" or "dump rake" (which was basically an 8-10 foot wide rake with a series of curved, spring-steel teeth that were side-by-side mounted to a wheeled frame, pulled by a horse... it scraped along the ground pulling the hay up into piles, which were then dragged across the field to the baler, where one pulled a rope, which lifted up the tines and "dumped" the hay in a pile near the baler, and then it went back for more... The hay was then pitchforked into the baler by another guy working by the baler. Grandma told me that one of their field hands would stand on top of the baler, and push the hay down into the chamber between plunger strokes... usually you'd use a pitchfork or a stick, but he used his foot, and she was always worried that the plunger would turn back and break his leg (or take it off), but it never did...
Later! OL J R :)
i just started watching about three days ago and i have just been watching non stop now love your videos got a new sub
Couldn't you guys lock out/pin one side from swinging out and make a round on the outside then unlock/unpin then rake normal. I take into consideration fuel usage /time.
Love the music starting at 3:15.
Good job Jamie just perfect
That rake is kick ass cool
I like raking, you don’t have to listen to the PTO run, and its REALLY SATISFYING! And do you bale a lot of alfalfa? I’ve only been watching a short time now, I’m allergic to it so my dad usually puts me on the hay.
It's hard to beat a 4640, I have spent many hours in the seat of one of them!
Makes sense-- if you need a bigger rake, you need a bigger rake. Having a package deal like you got, well, something about something isn't going to be "quite right" but you're kind of stuck with it, since you can't pick 'something else' and still have a 'package deal'. The reasoning why the dual front dolly wheels makes sense; I think it was just kind of stupid placement on Rhino's part... they COULD have put one dolly wheel as far forward as possible BEHIND the first wheel (in raking position) and then put the second dolly wheel somewhere behind that (with enough clearance between them so they wouldn't hit... even if it needed a little bit of a "standoff" (a setback, sort of like what they have on the front wheel) to make it work. The other thing they could have done was bring the front wheels a little further forward, and then brought them in more (closer to the tongue when folded) so that they didn't stick out so far when the rake was open in raking position... Having the dolly wheel inside isn't a "terrible" idea, since it takes a LOT of torque off the rake wheel toolbar in raking position, since having a tire in front of the bar and behind the bar essentially takes all the load of the hay pushing against the rake wheels and the rake wheels touching the ground, their weight, etc. which is trying to 'twist' the bar, and puts that into ground pressure on the front wheel... having both wheels behind the bar wouldn't do that...
I guess they had their reasons for designing it that way, but its easy to see where the design could be improved...
Later! OL J R :)
8:36 Its funny to see now the camera matches the Tractors front tire rotation to make it seem that the tires are not rotating.
Round bales are a lot less work than square bales, even if you have a kick baler and high-side wagons. Back in the day, we had to ride the wagons and stack bales by hand. Now, in a pinch, one (wo)man could do the whole operation.
Mark Stockman I wish we could do that, we still ride the wagon and do it by hand.
Love farm machinery, thanks for sharing. Very cool, loved the drone footage.
Beautifully done video! Excellent editing and very informative!
College is overrated.
Work ethic, and knowledge is essential.
Put them together, and you become invaluable. Not to mention a rare gem.
The 256 was a good rake
Jamie is getting good at driving the 4640
Hey there hows it going love your vids i sit and watch while waiting when im hauling grain. Wat a life we live when its good its really good when its bad its cutting maize in the rain like wat i been doin all day lol? Keep up the good work u teach me a thing or 2 and i been a contractor for 25 years.
Does the wheel type rakes cause less foliage loss in the hay than say a European type rake does? Enjoy your videos.
Hey Ryan, Would you ever go to A square baler instead of a round?
Coordinated family efforts, Great video, Cheers