Baling Hay on a Small Dairy Farm l Small Squares l 2nd Crop 2021 l Dairy Farming in Wisconsin

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  • @dejavu666wampas9
    @dejavu666wampas9 Рік тому +2

    You’ve really got a wonderful farm. Looks like you are far from traffic, nicely peaceful, nice rolling hills. Must have been a great place to grow up.

  • @louGriggs1944
    @louGriggs1944 2 роки тому +4

    I really like your channel. You do things the way we did it when I was a teenager. But I really love that you are keeping this older equipment running and usable. That's amazing. Really like the old Oliver and Farmall. Keep up the good work.

  • @minuelufilipiinidel2439
    @minuelufilipiinidel2439 2 роки тому +1

    I love that old style equipment. That shows that if farmer respects his machines then they will last forever.

  • @sgtstedanko7186
    @sgtstedanko7186 2 роки тому +15

    Glad to see you guys are still hanging on. Not too many small dairy operations around anymore

  • @paulkica4129
    @paulkica4129 Рік тому +2

    That Oliver is sweet

  • @eddlemanfamilyfarm1944
    @eddlemanfamilyfarm1944 11 місяців тому +1

    Nice looking Oliver always nice looking tractors I have a Oliver 70

  • @JT-ee1ii
    @JT-ee1ii 2 роки тому +1

    Greetings from Alabama! I really enjoyed that. Nice to see a Farming video that isn’t about “look at me and all the big fancy stuff I have” Thanks and y’all be careful, America needs you!

  • @jamesgoodman8289
    @jamesgoodman8289 2 роки тому +1

    Hey I'm from South Carolina good video my brother peace

  • @irishlad8797
    @irishlad8797 2 роки тому +1

    I love the Oliver what a great little trooper

  • @starflite3
    @starflite3 3 роки тому +18

    You got a beautiful place. Nice to have help. I'm just a one man show. Small old equipment but I love being out there. A bad day in the hay field is still better than a good day at work.

  • @lawrencerowe6440
    @lawrencerowe6440 3 роки тому +4

    This had it all. As a previous viewer said it was just the right ratio of mechanics, human interaction and gorgeous scenery. Music was spot-on also.

  • @kenmusselman4124
    @kenmusselman4124 3 роки тому +25

    Love 💕 seeing the older equipment still at work 👍

  • @johncostelloe743
    @johncostelloe743 2 роки тому +1

    Watching in in Ireland 🇮🇪 Beautiful footage thank you for sharing this video peace and love God bless

  • @tinkerinbruce6560
    @tinkerinbruce6560 2 роки тому +1

    Sure love to hear that old M run... really sounds awesome!

  • @Dennis-xt8lw
    @Dennis-xt8lw Рік тому +1

    We use to bale about 25 thousand bales per year I remember well

  • @marcryan1974
    @marcryan1974 Рік тому +1

    Very satisfying 👍

  • @131dyana
    @131dyana 3 роки тому +2

    A gentle man here in Phoenix used the old equipment because he hated computers. Love your machines thanks for sharing.

  • @justinshepard9096
    @justinshepard9096 3 роки тому +17

    Yes, I like that you still use the older dependable equipment and you don't have to hack the software to keep them running.

  • @herveauffray5883
    @herveauffray5883 2 роки тому +1

    Hello. What a beautiful vidéo. I whatche it from France and I am a IH fan , i have a 433 , a 744 and a 845 xl . There are magnifique !!
    Nice to see you gain !!!

  • @africadreamin
    @africadreamin 2 роки тому +4

    Great drone video of the rolling fields, I love how the landscape dictates the type and size of equipment.

  • @dejavu666wampas9
    @dejavu666wampas9 Рік тому

    Really enjoyed the details of equipment maintenance and adjustments. Brings back memories of my childhood. We did small bales, either dropped on the ground and loaded by hand later or with a guy on the hay rack towed behind the baler, then elevator to the hayloft. Was fun to load the elevator with bales inches apart, to make the guys move quickly in the hayloft.
    We had an old reaper for oats, had to go shock the bundles in the field, then haul them to the threshing machine, which was run by a long belt off the tractor. Played a lot in the straw stack.
    God, I really enjoyed my childhood. Thanks for the memories.👏👏

  • @bobdevine4906
    @bobdevine4906 3 роки тому +7

    Nicely done! Brought up many memories from the 60’s and 70’s, growing up in Kossuth County Iowa.

  • @henryofskalitz2228
    @henryofskalitz2228 3 роки тому +3

    Farmalls are my favorite tractors

  • @jalans8173
    @jalans8173 2 роки тому +1

    Some of the most beautiful countryside on God's earth. That drone footage is spectacular.

  • @johnberry1107
    @johnberry1107 3 роки тому +1

    Narrow front ends and rolly hills - yes sir! Still happy we quit, but does make me smile. Great times all around. Thank you.

  • @goingruby
    @goingruby 2 роки тому +1

    Love the sounds of equipment, camera views and drone shots. Love the guitar music too with the drone shots.

  • @reclinerdriver1489
    @reclinerdriver1489 3 роки тому

    I know I'm not the only recliner viewer watching these days and enjoying being there with U ;-}

  • @kyrangerman519
    @kyrangerman519 2 роки тому +1

    I remember when I was about 15, my cousin bought a new JD baler, first one we'd seen with a bale counter that actually worked. We baled 35k bales that summer and I touched every one of them. Pulled baler & wagons with a 175 MF diesel. We milked 12 or so cows by hand back in those days. Milk, eat a little breakfast, hit the hay fields until 6 or so, milk again. Those were the good ol days!

  • @America-First2024
    @America-First2024 3 роки тому +28

    This video just popped up in my recommended. I saw the narrow fronts in the thumbnail, so I had to watch. Great job editing. Hard to believe that you only have 1k+ subscribers. You added at least one more today.

    • @GierokFarms
      @GierokFarms  3 роки тому +6

      Thank you!

    • @WisconsinOliverNut
      @WisconsinOliverNut 3 роки тому +5

      I just came across this channel too. I agree, he's putting out videos like they've been doing this for years! Nice job!

    • @GierokFarms
      @GierokFarms  3 роки тому +3

      @@WisconsinOliverNut Thanks Rooster!

    • @cathiwim
      @cathiwim 2 роки тому +1

      Added 2

  • @winstoncloer1994
    @winstoncloer1994 Рік тому

    Lord,, I watch several farm shows and ur is the only place that is tidy and neat

  • @russellhansen7622
    @russellhansen7622 2 роки тому +3

    That brings back memories, I spent a few days running a 1650 on a New Holland 268 hay rake. Both solid pieces of equipment. Thanks for sharing.

  • @karllangner1579
    @karllangner1579 Рік тому +1

    Nice work !

  • @zadokmotorfreight2423
    @zadokmotorfreight2423 3 роки тому +11

    Beautiful farm! Love the Oliver!! Great to see an old MTA out working as well, really enjoyed it!

    • @GierokFarms
      @GierokFarms  3 роки тому

      Thanks

    • @brianimmel7934
      @brianimmel7934 3 роки тому +2

      Just found your channel ,and joined !!didnt know how to spell supscribed LOL planted corn with a SMTA for the first time all by my self when i was 13 years old with a 455 IH corn planter, Dad was starting milking and said go plant that field! and I did !!!!!!

  • @theburnhams2925
    @theburnhams2925 3 роки тому +1

    An interesting blend of technologies old and new! Olivers and UAV's!

  • @bruceprentice6441
    @bruceprentice6441 2 роки тому +1

    Great video. I found my milking cows couldn’t tell the difference between small square bales and big round bales, so now they only get big round. I still have a in mow hay drying system in my barn, that we stacked the fresh bales on. It blew air through the hay, and helped cool the hay down and dry out any tough or damp wads of hay. Been milking up to 80 cows now for 42 years, and we are going to transition to beef. Dairy is a young man’s game, and it looks like you have your heart in it . All the best

  • @denniswebken242
    @denniswebken242 2 роки тому +1

    Back in 1973 I bailed hay for my neighbor, who hauled hay for a living to Kentucky horse farms, for two cents a bale. Fifteen years old. Wire bales, so they were heavy. They fed us good though. Good memories.

    • @GierokFarms
      @GierokFarms  2 роки тому

      Glad we could bring back good memories for you! Thank you for finding the video and watching it!

  • @kellyconstenius676
    @kellyconstenius676 3 роки тому +1

    I love the sound of that M.

  • @flvince
    @flvince 3 роки тому +3

    Super M TA, used one for years, very good tractor.

  • @robertrevering5699
    @robertrevering5699 3 роки тому +9

    When someone says baling hay, I think of the way you guys are doing it! Never farmed myself, as teenagers my brothers and I worked for many different dairy farmers in central Minnesota, haying like your doing, decent money and we were always fed well. Nice video, I’m in!

    • @GierokFarms
      @GierokFarms  3 роки тому +3

      Thanks for watching robert, and I agree its exactly what i think of when someone says bailing hay!

  • @keithraisor4030
    @keithraisor4030 3 роки тому +2

    Good looking hay. Looks like you have good crop of corn and nice pictures of you farm 🚜.

  • @peewee.3138
    @peewee.3138 3 роки тому +6

    Beautiful fields, good weather and well maintained vintage equipment! I spent many a summer behind one of those kick balers stacking the loads on as we had to haul sometimes up to ten miles away so we wanted as many on the load as we could. You always looked out for your buddy to not get a bale in the side of the head!

    • @GierokFarms
      @GierokFarms  3 роки тому +1

      Stacking bales on the wagon can be a crazy job! Thanks for Watching!

  • @davidmillar259
    @davidmillar259 3 роки тому +1

    Love the sound of the old tractors grewup driving a massey 30 and 33

    • @donaldmack7213
      @donaldmack7213 3 роки тому +1

      I still have my Dad’s old Massey Harris 30. Parked inside,but haven’t run in ten years. I am retired now, planning on getting it running.

  • @Davefromrollinghillsfarms
    @Davefromrollinghillsfarms 3 роки тому +1

    Great use of drone and ground level shots with nat sound. Really like the GoPro on top of the NH baler. I have cab tractors with AC for baling today but remember the days of open station tractors. Takes young people with strong arms and motivation. Seems like that is in short supply today…

  • @PremierYachtFLL
    @PremierYachtFLL 3 роки тому +4

    I really enjoyed this video. Reminded me of growing up in the 80’s square baling hillsides like that with older equipment. Nothing prettier than a freshly baled hay field, especially 2nd cutting. I really admire just how well the farm is kept up.

    • @GierokFarms
      @GierokFarms  3 роки тому +1

      Thank you Paul, your compliments mean a lot!

  • @anthonyhengst2908
    @anthonyhengst2908 3 роки тому

    Real awesome footage. Just like how we do it. It's cold outside tonight but the summer footage warms me up.

  • @williamwimer2074
    @williamwimer2074 3 роки тому +2

    Still like raking hay with good ole NH side delivery rake. Cant beat it

  • @robertburden1509
    @robertburden1509 2 роки тому

    Nice to see the old farmall tractors out working they don't make equipment to last anymore your jd tractors are nice as well very maintained good job

  • @BillDalby
    @BillDalby 7 місяців тому +1

    Live in Ontario my father started with a hay loader and loose hay one day he went and bought a new Holland hay liner 68 baler made things alot easier in 1962

  • @kopenhagenkid
    @kopenhagenkid 3 роки тому +4

    Nice looking tractors u r pulling your rakes with

  • @rick4020
    @rick4020 3 роки тому +4

    Good job working with the contour. I like baling hay, it's the part that comes after that is less fun.

  • @michaeldrevdahl2292
    @michaeldrevdahl2292 2 роки тому +1

    beautifull farm! keep it up. love the video brings me back

  • @ericlemay686
    @ericlemay686 3 роки тому +2

    Good ole 686 ! Own one ! This is one great work horse that will never leave the farm ! Never see one with narrow front end tho ! Look amazing !!

    • @GierokFarms
      @GierokFarms  3 роки тому +2

      Thanks, yeah we purchased it with a wide front and put a narrow front on it!

  • @kopenhagenkid
    @kopenhagenkid 3 роки тому +2

    Great video good luck raking and baling your hay

  • @willhorting5317
    @willhorting5317 2 роки тому

    My family (KS cattle and horse owners) put up our own hay...both brome and alfalfa... for decades. In all my years, I had never seen nor heard of tedding or the machines to do it with. Then in the past couple of weeks, I start seeing videos on the topic, pop up in my recommendations.🤔😎

  • @tmangamingx
    @tmangamingx 3 роки тому +5

    Just happened by chance to see this vid and decided to watch it. For as old as they are those tractors sure do purr along nicely. Y'all have taken good care of them. Thanks for sharing the video !

  • @ceejay4377
    @ceejay4377 2 роки тому

    Great Video. brought back memories of my days as a kids baling on he 70s. There was no better baler in those days than a New Holland. YOu guys sure picked a nice day to make hay.

  • @garykawlewski8534
    @garykawlewski8534 2 роки тому +1

    Reminds me of being a kid and baling hay in Minnesota. Barn was always hot! Love your channel! Keep it up!

    • @GierokFarms
      @GierokFarms  2 роки тому

      Thank you Gary Glad we could bring back memories for you!

  • @jeffcarwile565
    @jeffcarwile565 2 роки тому

    Beautiful farm and scenery. Enjoyed seeing your operation.

  • @garlandhenry6792
    @garlandhenry6792 3 роки тому +1

    First rate show. Thanks for sharing

  • @wilscooley3083
    @wilscooley3083 3 роки тому +2

    My neighbor baled with a 686 NF for years all over wicked hillsides of western PA. Good video…keep them coming

  • @tederdmann2993
    @tederdmann2993 3 роки тому +6

    I miss driving Oliver's! I had 2 1650 and 1755.

    • @GierokFarms
      @GierokFarms  3 роки тому +1

      Oh nice diesel or gas?

    • @keithkuckler2551
      @keithkuckler2551 3 роки тому +2

      I had an 880 for awhile, i traded it for a brand new 550, to do raking and light chores. But, nothing could hold a candle to a good 4020diesel, i also had some two cylinder John Deeres, but, my wife did not like the hand clutch, so away they went.

    • @tederdmann2993
      @tederdmann2993 3 роки тому +2

      Both were diesels

    • @josephmickevich9552
      @josephmickevich9552 3 роки тому +3

      That oliver is nice no doubt! The only thing I could think of to make it an even better tractor is if it was yellow with that classic red MM on there lol

    • @8tomtoms8
      @8tomtoms8 3 роки тому +2

      @@GierokFarms Yours is gas, right?

  • @jacobceparano
    @jacobceparano 2 роки тому

    Beautiful video! Great job capturing the feels of puttin' up hay!

  • @gerryheckmann3167
    @gerryheckmann3167 3 роки тому +1

    Beautiful Wisconsin. Good job keeping up equipment of my youth!

  • @reginabraok939
    @reginabraok939 2 роки тому

    Great video! One of my favorites! Love the drone footage too! Thanks for feeding the world! 🌎

  • @dougsrepair1060
    @dougsrepair1060 3 роки тому +2

    Another well documented farming vlog. Thanks

  • @opijopionoi1047
    @opijopionoi1047 3 роки тому

    Some beautiful county you have. Nice operation, love to watch people putting in a good days work.

  • @scottcarpenter13
    @scottcarpenter13 3 роки тому +1

    I love the old Oliver

  • @tractorman1466
    @tractorman1466 3 роки тому

    nice to see the old equipment work

  • @kopenhagenkid
    @kopenhagenkid 3 роки тому +1

    Nice looking hay bales

  • @jpopcorn1273
    @jpopcorn1273 2 роки тому

    Looks like a beautiful day!

  • @42lookc
    @42lookc 3 роки тому +2

    A 1650 Narrow Front! You, my friend, are living the dream! God Bless! d:-)

  • @pgrafton
    @pgrafton Рік тому

    Our farm we always try very hard to handle cut hay with care, and not run over it with the tractor or work it. My dad was very particular about it. Every time dry alfalfa is handled the leaves slough and the crop loses nutritional content. I can still hear him yelling at me. LOL
    Our New Holland thrower was pulled with a MM M670 propane. Working with the baler from our other farm our record was just over 2,200 bales in one day. We had six people, two balers, six racks, and a lot more energy then. 😂😂
    Thank you for sharing!

  • @kopenhagenkid
    @kopenhagenkid 3 роки тому +2

    Beautiful barn

  • @alfredomarotta6604
    @alfredomarotta6604 2 роки тому

    Awesome looking farm! Glad to see father team, great variety equipment, nice music. Really enjoyed this video

  • @jameslockhart3102
    @jameslockhart3102 3 роки тому +3

    Great old school vid thanks for makin

  • @davepayne9162
    @davepayne9162 3 роки тому +1

    nice video remine me of the old days.

  • @Gixzer04
    @Gixzer04 3 роки тому +1

    That’s a pile of small bales. Awesome video guys.

  • @constructionwatcher5381
    @constructionwatcher5381 3 роки тому +3

    It was great seeing the M run, even though it's a later model then the one we had on the farm I grew up on in the 1950's. Still, it must be pushing 70 years old. I spent many a summer hour running H's, cultivating row crops, and very early fall mornings before going to school raking beans for thrashing while the dew was on them. Thanks for the great video work.

    • @GierokFarms
      @GierokFarms  3 роки тому

      That's cool, and thanks for watching!

  • @kopenhagenkid
    @kopenhagenkid 3 роки тому +3

    Awesome drone footage

  • @clubdoraoutdoorsandfirewood
    @clubdoraoutdoorsandfirewood Рік тому +1

    New subscriber here. Oh how this brings back memories. Before I retired my family operated a dairy beef farm in Minnesota. It is so nice to have family members helping out. I can’t believe how many tractors you have in operation. Having 2 balers going has had to have saved you many times. How many cows do you have in production,and do you raise dairy beef? My dad and myself operated about 70-80cows and raised All 8:05 the dairy beef. I don’t know how you can have the time to do the videos. Thank you for the sacrifice you do. I haven’t watched many of videos yet but will be. Take care and be safe

  • @donaldmack7213
    @donaldmack7213 3 роки тому +5

    A dairy farmer in southwest PA had ten wagons and the space in pole barns to park everyone under cover. He could get about 125 bales on each wagon. That’s about 1200 bales that could be put up in a day. Unloading and stacking was the difficult part!

    • @GierokFarms
      @GierokFarms  3 роки тому +1

      I heard its really pretty out there. Ya its really nice to have shed space for wagons. Thanks for watching!

    • @keithkuckler2551
      @keithkuckler2551 3 роки тому +2

      @@GierokFarms I had a large double corn crib with granary above. I could pull four racks in that, and, i too put about 125 bales on each one.

  • @alainbourdon2736
    @alainbourdon2736 3 роки тому +1

    Great. I did this for many years in a small farm in eastern ontario Canada. We had a small dairy farm my dad and I. My most beautiful years of my young life.

  • @jtoddjb
    @jtoddjb 3 роки тому +2

    Very nice.

  • @svennilsson8459
    @svennilsson8459 3 роки тому +18

    🎥🎬👏🏆👍 for those of us who likes to see machines at work, an excellent mixed proportion of human faces/speech and iron 😉. Honestly, well done!

  • @flyerbob124
    @flyerbob124 3 роки тому +1

    Nice to see that Farmall still earning a living. I hated those bale kickers……made unloading the wagon hard. Hand stacked was much easier. Later……..do you have a way to dry the bales in the barn. Dairy I worked on as a kid had two huge fans and tunnels that sent air up through the hay to dry it in the barn. We had to stack the hay bales cut side down so the air would go through.

    • @GierokFarms
      @GierokFarms  3 роки тому

      That air system sound cool! Thanks for watching!

  • @marcmuller6168
    @marcmuller6168 3 роки тому +1

    Je viens de France respect for toi job. Good bless you

  • @keithkuckler2551
    @keithkuckler2551 3 роки тому +5

    Judging by the land, and, the color of the crushed limestone gravel on the road, i am guessing your farm is in southwest wisconsin. I was just down in the driftless area last week. I drove wisconsin 35 from Superior to Prairie Du Chien, and, then on to Lancaster to visit old friends. I had never been south of La Crosse before, and, it was a real treat to see the country. Back when i farmed i used all New Holland hay equiptment, i had John Deere tractors, but, thoought New Holland made the best haybines, rakes and balers. I used to stack my bales, because i sold a lot of hay, and, wanted them bigger, I once stacked 1400 bales in one afternoon, my wife drove the baler and i stacked the wagons. I had a bunch of racks myself and, borrowed a few from a neigbor to keep going. I was young and strong then, and, could go all day in the hot Minnesota weather in southern minnesota. Like the channel, and, will continue to follow it. Thanks.

    • @GierokFarms
      @GierokFarms  3 роки тому +2

      Thank you for watching Keith, we like our New Holland balers as well! I agree, Hwy 35 is a beautiful drive!

    • @keithkuckler2551
      @keithkuckler2551 3 роки тому +1

      @@GierokFarms Did i guess right about the general location of your farm. It also looks a bit like eastern St. Croix or northern Pierce couties. My family was orignally from Polk County, Amery, and, Balsam Lake.

    • @ShutTheMuckUp
      @ShutTheMuckUp 3 роки тому +3

      I was gonna say those hills aren't drumlins, so it's got to be somewhere in the driftless region.

  • @antoinewiame3311
    @antoinewiame3311 3 роки тому +1

    Greetings from the wallon région in Belgium, beautiful video, beautiful country side, its nice to see those tractors without cab, I miss the odour of the hay!!!

  • @shawnnelson6146
    @shawnnelson6146 2 роки тому

    Different kind of country!👍🏽
    Growing up in Sandhills we put up 2.3 sections of prairie hay using a hay cage.
    Each place puts up hay is different.
    Hay stackers of different types gave way to round bales and big squre bales.

  • @mikeyc1928
    @mikeyc1928 3 роки тому +7

    You guys are driving faster than I remember as a kid in the 60's. Maybe our windrows were heavier, especially first crop. Spent many hours pulling a baler and wagon with the M-TA. Nicely done video.

    • @GierokFarms
      @GierokFarms  3 роки тому +1

      Thanks Mikey!

    • @williamkerchner5772
      @williamkerchner5772 3 роки тому +3

      That’s why we double up on our windrows so the baler didn’t have to drive so fast

  • @ryburnsjr
    @ryburnsjr 3 роки тому +1

    Wow great old school sounds ..well done well done...😀😀😀😀

    • @GierokFarms
      @GierokFarms  3 роки тому

      Thanks Roy, I enjoy the sound of the M-TA and the 1650 Oliver!

  • @richardjohnson5883
    @richardjohnson5883 3 роки тому +2

    Nice equipment, really like the 686

    • @GierokFarms
      @GierokFarms  3 роки тому +1

      Thanks its a pretty nice tractor!

  • @mroctoberish
    @mroctoberish 2 роки тому

    Nice feed! I really liked the 1650! I have one myself.

  • @vincentmeyers9365
    @vincentmeyers9365 3 роки тому +1

    Beautiful country. Nice job on the video.

  • @williamspates6105
    @williamspates6105 3 роки тому +2

    That 686 and 273 is a good match.

  • @johnperry5102
    @johnperry5102 3 роки тому +2

    great video great farm, we all like the equipment you run it's super

    • @GierokFarms
      @GierokFarms  3 роки тому +1

      Thank You John!

    • @johnperry5102
      @johnperry5102 3 роки тому +1

      @@GierokFarms your farm is totally grand and very well run

  • @klightfoote
    @klightfoote 3 роки тому +2

    Love your content. Upstate NY dairy farm here!! Whooop Whooop

    • @GierokFarms
      @GierokFarms  3 роки тому +1

      Thanks for watching Kevin! I hear upstate NY is beautiful!

    • @lydiacapps709
      @lydiacapps709 3 роки тому +1

      @Hello Kevin how are you doing

  • @michaelbenson2024
    @michaelbenson2024 2 роки тому

    Most our farm ground was flat.We pulled a Tedder with a vintage pick up for comfort and speed.

  • @brandonsaxe7439
    @brandonsaxe7439 3 роки тому +2

    Great farming videos very cool

  • @peteschiavoni
    @peteschiavoni 2 роки тому

    Great video. You just popped up in my feed. Saw your narrow front thumbnail and had to check you out. Glad I’ve subscribed. Thank you for sharing.