How We Make Hay in Rural NZ | FULL PROCESS
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- Опубліковано 10 чер 2024
- Every summer we mow, ted, windrow, and bale 500 - 600 conventional hay bales over two paddocks (10 acres/4 hectares), with gnarly old equipment we had to figure out how to use and maintain. We sell about half the bales, and the other half feeds our animals over winter.
We decided to document the whole four-day process this year, complete with drone footage for some unique and interesting perspectives! It's a stressful time of year, but one of the most rewarding activities when it all goes to plan.
The equipment we use is 50 - 80 years old, some of which we bought from the old owner of our homestead, including a UFO Mini Twin (mower), PZ Haybob (tedder), and a McCormick International Harvester (baler). All powered by our trusty old Fiat tractor.
Make hay while the sun shines!
Quick links
0:00 Preparing for mowing
1:15 Mowing (day 1)
7:05 Preparing for tedding/raking
13:12 Tedding/raking (day 2)
14:56 Fixing the tractor
16:44 Tedding/raking (day 3)
19:12 Windrowing (day 4)
21:51 Preparing for baling
25:36 Baling & stacking (also day 4)
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The good wife seems pretty good with heights sitting on top of the trailer hay bales. Excellent idea with putting wooden pallets on the ground to put the hay bales on top to stop the hay getting mouldy. It does pay to do the maintenance during your off peak times before next harvesting season. In the early years in New Zealand the practice for neighbours would offer to give a helping hand during haymaking, as it was a normal occasion for the wife and neighbours to provide lunch & a drink and bring it to all the workers.
That is the first 3 point hitch Tedder I've ever seen that's really cool 😎
It is so lovely to see husband and wife working together. This is a beautiful video.
My sister here in East Central Wisconsin, USA has an old farmstead (125+ years). She has several pieces of equipment that still has wooden spokes in the steel wheels (no rubber) and wooden hitching poles. At one time, we think they were used by horse teams.
Wonderful how you are reusing older equipment and managing to live a natural and beautiful life. God Bless you both and 👍🏻Keep Up the good work and thank you for sharing; I love country life❤️
Awesome video, nicely shot and narrated.
I grew up on a farm in northern USA. We made hay just like you do, complete with older equipment. Throwing bales around helps turn young kids into adults quickly.
Thanks for the nostalgic trip. I’m glad to see that the family farm is still alive somewhere in the world. Small family farms are dying off here in the States. Sad, actually.
Between the hay field and the tobacco fields it was hard work and good times.
It's a beautiful home you have and a fine family. It's good to see you have fun in the midst of all the hard work. Many years ago, I'm 77, I baled a lot of hay and straw... so I know how hard the work can be, but you make watching you all work a bit of fun for me. Thank you for posting this and sharing part of your lives with us. Be safe and God bless you.
Bautifull to see a happy couple working on the farm .Cheers from Argentina
Well you are a lovely couple and may GOD bless you both with all you need . Rob.
Nice video, FYI early hay bobs like the 300 are intended to be used in the anti clock wise direction. This is due to the steering mechanism basically only works one way, unlike on later models like the 380 they can be steered in both directions. This will prevent dragging and damage to the tyres and the rake/tedder frame cracking when turning to the right which can be a common probblem with old rakes. Cheers
Great video
Thank you for sharing us your video made hay 35years hard back breaking job I enjoy it God bless you all wonderful family
Great video! Beautiful bit of ground. Lovely pasture and the animals look really well. Love the little Fiat and that 440 goes nice!!
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Ihr seid ein nettes Paar
Gruß aus Germany 👍
Active and simple > Nice people . God bless you .
Fantastic video, good to see folk having a good go at it with old machinery. Still awaiting some good weather to start this seasons here in the UK!
Thanks for sharing. Your skills. Living in North America I have. To rethink the summer and winter months of the year. Take care stay safe. Later.
I love hard working normal people. Subd. and liked. Greets from Herzegovina.
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Great place. Nice people. Shocking bit of mowing!
the world needs more small farms and farm kids
Reminds me of growing up on grandads farm. Hay was my favourite time of year.
As a kid I saw a few bales self combust from being too wet and tight.
Great vid 👍
Great and amazing. Really Hardwork. I have no words to express my solidarity as a farmer except Admiration. Farmers are God's representatives as a replica creator.
Hope you guys do more content. It is well done and informative.
Que lindo lugar 😍
La vida en el campo es única 👏🏼👏🏼
Great video Greetings to you❤️ from Morocco🇲🇦
good team hope you all keep it going.
With regard to the Haybob, you are using it to ted with the wheels in their raised position. This is the rowing up position and you can see the machine is throwing the grass sideways rather than upwards. By lowering the wheels, you can get the rotors at a steeper angle to the ground and thereby throw the grass upward to get air under it and through it.
Your PTO shaft is the right way round.
Love farmers which use old school equipment. New sub. Keep vids coming
I used to work hay baling in the UK in the 50's, we used to have a steel sledge towed behind the baler on which we would(me) stack the bales three high and a couple deep then push them off the back of the sledge, used to make collecting really easy, like you videos and your farm
great watch guys well presented good memories
That was brilliant to watch. Loved it.👍😊💙🇮🇪🇳🇿
Excellent video! Very informative, as to how & why. enjoyed your video very much!
From Saskatchewan, Canada, truly enjoyed your excellent video, hi from Saskatchewan.
BRAVO ! GO GIRLS GO... WELL DONE !!
Awesome work. I loved watching your video. Thanks for shearing with us. It’s good to see a New Zealand farming video apart from country colander .
Great vid guys............down to earth, thank you
Wow what a pretty Gal. Lucky fella
ooh the romance of the old fashion bales and farm machinery
The cattle can smell & see the hay , they love it , hope that,s a good fence , good to see healthy well - fed animals .
You may have very old equipment but your videos are very interesting. Your hay process is very old for us but I know it works and that is all what counts.
Your videos are beautiful to watch. Young love is an amazing journey so savor every moment you have together! We have been married for 54yrs. & it has been a magnificent adventure!
When you drained the gearbox on the bailer, the fluid was milky at first, indicating that somehow water is entering the gearbox during the offseason.
It is the best job to work on the farm. I like it, I love it
Love seeing how people do it with old equipment, thats how we did it too. We had a mower/conditioner though so we would mow early one day, then by the end of the next, its baled in the barn. Always trying to beat the rain.
Greetings from wallonnie, the French speaking part of Belgium, I enjoy your video, nice people, beautiful landscape, lot of success on UA-cam, I liked your animals and specially the cat. God bless a so nice couple!!!
Awesome video, thanks for making it 👍👍
Super cool work . Wonderful Beautiful people and the livestock too👍
Super les l équipe 😅
Nicely done.
The Real Vintage Survivor Roleplay, folks!!! Awsome vid and content guys!
Great video. Thoroughly enjoyed watching it. I also grown grass for making hay and export. I have 275 acres of land where I grow Rhodes grass. It really was fun watching you guys. Great.
Thanks a beautiful view of your field. Great job. 👍👍
I hear NZ, is a beautiful place. I would love to live there and farm as you’ll do.
When I was on a farm in my younger days we pulled a sled behind the baler with someone on the sled stacking the bales and when there were ten bales on it, the stack was pushed off.
We made hay in the UK as you do and interesting that we do many things exactly the way you do such as pallets under the stack, saves the bottom row. Think you have one small maintenance job that would be good to address, the slip clutch on the baler flywheel is probably seized as your square drive is showing signs of twisting, it has probably not been released for 30 years. It is just a matter of undoing the spring bolts and breaking the rust weld on the clutch plates and then run it loose (slipping) to shine it up. We left the slip clutch bolts slackened off over winter and then before use partially tightened them and gave it a slipping run before setting it correctly (spring length 1-5/16”, there are 7 of them).
Everything costs but would certainly recommend a socket set and spanners, adjustable spanners round off nuts, filler plugs etc which eventually becomes a pain.
Wonderful video, beautiful countryside and you are a great team together.
Old country (British) Traditions Rmbr Passed down over the years.
nice job .....keep it up ....... lot of respect and love from pakistan
As a teenager & college age, I usually stacked bales on the flat rack hooked behind the baler wearing: a hat, gloves, shorts, sneakers & socks. Yup, my right knee area & back of my forearms would be pricked up from the hay stems, but at least I was cool. I usually baled 2nd crop in July (WI USA) and it was 90F / 32C - usually only 5,000-10,00 small square bales for our dairy cows, heifers, calves & sheep.
Very nice couple. I wish you good luck in your hard work.
Josef from Canada
Ganda naman Po jan
You are a brave woman standing that close to the disks when they are cutting,
Good work though, Nice to see the hay crop in
Great video you guys! Very informative for us non-farmers. It's great to see old machinery still working with a little attention and maintenance. You both seem to be really coming into your own as farmers as you gain more experience. Love the scenery, drone footage and can never have too much footage of Mica. Is that waterfall on/near your property? Maybe a video of the local scenery / things to do around you guys. Take us shopping too, we'd love to see it all.
Cool vid
Really enjoyed it.
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Thanks guys
Good job guys, one or both of you must have grown upon a farm because you really know what you are doing , I grew up with and run the similar old gear.
Beautiful country.........................................and Lady.
Beautiful farm
Beautiful video 👍👍👍🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰
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Crazy quality
Nothing beats the feeling of getting the hay in the barn successfully. Get yourself a welder and that tedder/rake will be new again in no time. Roll out plastic on the ground under your pallets to keep ground moisture from wicking up.
Thank you for the look in, best regards from Indiana, USA.
Nice video. While turning the hay with the PZ drive around left not right.
just found you guys and loving you videos. will be back.
VERY NICE
From watching the video the lady is the motor mech on the farm. not too many ladies can do what she was doing. Thanks for a very good video on farming. I lived on one for 18 years before I started roaming the world in the US Navy never went back when I left the military.l (Mississippi Gulf Coast, USA).
Tolles Video .
Enjoyed your video, I see some things do no change the world over - the Farmers tool kit, a pipe wrench & crescent wrench. :-)
always love the fiat sound. nice view, love the smell of the grass..
very informing
hi Guys only just found you, I was wondering where in NZ you have your farm was farming in NZ back in the 6o"s and 70's then moved over to OZ. we farmed just out of Gore and then up near Te Anau. the hay making brought back many memories... good luck to you both look forward to your next episode, Paul
Great video, cool...
good job folks
Wonderful and nostalgic. Make a change from the usual clips of tractors driving around at 10mph
এই কাজগুলি আমার অনেক ভালো লাগে
BONJOUR A VOUS JE VOUS SOUHAITE BIEN DU BONNE HEURE TOUT SA ME RAPPELLE MON ENFANCE MERCI
moi aussi (les jours heureux)
God bless you!!!
I really liked the video
Just found you channel. Cool video. God those old mowers terrify me. Cheers from canterbury
Beautiful lady and good couple. Best wishes for them.
I Love this video
Pozdrav deco iz Srbije divni ste zelim vam sve najbolje
So nice to find another channel to follow. Looking forward to more videos (after I binge watch all your others :) )
This video has just brought back so many happy memories may GOD continue to bless yous
200 bales good job. Growing up in dairy country I handled my share of bales, usually from first week of June everyday till the middle of August then a couple of weeks of oat straw. The farmer I worked for tightened the bailer all the way down to make the tightest packed bales so when straw baling came what a relief hay was 65 pounds and straw was 50 to 55 pounds. It takes a lot of bales to fill a hay mow 40 feet by 70 feet and 50 feet at the peek of the barn.
A pz haybob a great simple peace of equipment
Nice video
Makes me appreciate my equipment which is old, but not as old as yours! lol I'm guessing you have some excellent camera and drone technology... love the nature shots, the video quality and editing is wonderful too, thanks for such an educational story.
What a great video, good to see enjoying farming as well, Where about's in NZ are you, I was raised on a farm in the South Island, canterbury plain a couple of hours north of Christchurch back in the '50 - 60s. we now live in Australia, retired.
Hey guys you may have older hay equipment that still works and does the job, but you own it not the bank ,those UFO Hay mower are great NZ Made cheers mates...
Those exposed Pto driveshafts are dangerous fit some new covers or slide some 100 mm drain coil over them
works good.
I don't know if anyone has mentioned it before, your missing the top half of your towing hitch on the tractor. Noticed it when putting on the baler. Its basically a bar with a hole in it that goes on where you clipped on the chain. The towing pin then goes through both top and bottom holes with the baler draw bar in centre. Be much safer that way. Hope this helps. 😍. Big pat on the backs on what you're doing very commendable 👏👏👏
Hello from Queensland Australia 🇦🇺...nice video
New to your channel
g, day mates a lovely part of NZ .looks like my part of Gippsland rolling hill etc, a new sub to your channel cheers from Australia .....
Great video - I would tighten the bale twine a bit - seems awfully loose to me - but to each his own.
Hi from nederlands . Lovin ur old mower not seen one like that for a while we have claas equipment nz reminds me of scotland . From which im from . Older machinery it far simpler to use and repair . U cant beat the old pz haybob . Urs is an original one . But were copied by a few eastern european makers in recent years . Haybobs are two machines in one . Saves seperate tedders and rakes . Like we use now . We have claas volto tedders and liner rakes . Love hay and silage tine .