Great video of operations. 1968-1971 my Dad did custom alfalfa operation for a ranch in Basin City Washington. It was owned by two boys from Texas. We put up 1000 acres of Alfalfa four cuttings a year. My sister ran an 880 John Deere swather. Mom , brother and Dad ran three new John Deere 214 Wire tie balers and I ran the Haro Bed. On a good night they could run out 3000 bales. I hired a friend of mine and we stacked up to 4000 bales a day. Big sprinkler irrigated fields up to a mile long. Good running conditions. We stacked at the end of the fields and truckers came and loaded out and took hay to dairy's in British Columbia. Big ol KW's cab overs with 300" wheel base pulling 26 foot 4 wheel trailers. 535 bales at 125 pounds each. This brought back great memories. I was 17 yrs old back then and got paid 3 cents a bale to run the machine. Big pay for a kid in 1968 doing 3 to 4000 bales a day.
THAT'S a LOT of HAY....WOW. How beautiful is that field with all the bales. That is very hard work. Lucky he has a GREAT BOSS. Thanks for sharing. Love watching the ranch production and the bulls at play. 🍃🌎🕊
Thank you for sharing. I remember working on a custom hay cutting crew during the summers back in Kansas in the 80's. I weighed 125 lbs. and could hoist a bale that was my body weight, like lots of of other kids my age could. I don't miss it, but do have fond memories of it. God Bless from Phoenix. Russ
Love seeing other people who use old tractors! Baling hay is a lot of work - but I love it! Those little bales are so pretty. That bale wagon would be a little easier than us picking up the bales! But not for our 3 acre field. Thanks for sharing!
Yes the front rake is home made from parts off of a different rake. It is separately hydraulicly controllable on which side is up or down or both etc. It does well if you follow the same direction as the swather. It allows you to flip all the rows one direction so that the issue of two rows ending up close together when it isnt wanted is solved. Thanks for watching.
wow... You've not got a clue what your talking about comparing USA to UK in this instance. You can't not take pride in what you are doing when making hay. As getting it wrong and you've lost (all or part of) your feed for your animals for the winter months. Having worked on farms in the past, I know the effort put into this by all farmers and their staff I do find this comment slightly insulting towards them. They work so hard and yet are so undervalued by the public.
@aarontong1 Thanks for viewing...Approximately 50,000 bales each year. 100+ pounds each bale. We use small bales for several reasons. Primary reason being that It costs a small fortune to switch to mid-size or larger bale size setup. Our winter feed ground is in several locations across our valley here in Eastern Oregon. Our feedlot setup for calves, breeding heifers, herd bulls, sale bulls, etc. requires many lots of small head count. Thanks for the question
That was freaking amazing !! Have worked on a farm in New Zealand for over 20 years an have seen nothing like this.. We do half ton round bales now, but back in the day for us it was pick up these conventional bales by hand haha... What an awesum awesum vid loved it. Cheers for this , made my day....
Thanks for posting Duane, great video. I never saw those bale stackers in operation. When I was a kid in the mid to late 70's, my Aunts, Uncles and cousins would all get together and hand stack a field like that on 2 flat trailers pulled with john deere G's. We would race to see which team could get to 200 bales first. We baled all day, and hauled all night cause it was cooler. Those were some good times.
When I was teen back in the sixties I would work hailing hay a good day we would get 800 to a 1000 Bale's a day one man driving and two loading I made 2 cents a bale. Hardest job I ever had. At the time I was about 135 pounds and 6ft 2 inches tall all muscle.
In the 70’s My best friend family had a dairy farm and I helped bail hay and later stack them up in the barn. We had fun shooting rats near the corn bin at night.
@classharvester Thanks for the question. We have about a thousand acres of grass hay that we cut once and then re irrigate and use the regrowth as pasture in the fall.
That brings back some great memories for me. I can smell that sweet hay from here heh, heh. We were doin' it on a considerably smaller scale and we did not have a rig that did what that bale gatherin' rig did. Our baler would shoot 'em onto a wagon and one of us stacked and sometimes (when they sat on the field) we had to pick 'em up and throw 'em to the stacker guy on the wagon. I loved it but the best part of the day was the end and gettin' down to the river for a refreshing swim and wash the itchy stuff off. Eat big, sleep hard and do 'er again the next day...a wonderful life. .....................................PEACE!!
I just read a buncha comments after I posted mine and was surprised by how many of us had very similar lives growin' up. We're scattered all over but have so much in common. It's just kinda amazing to me......and cool. Heh, heh. ....................PEACE!!
New Holland 1037 best way to go. 103 bales at a time. Makes really nice stacks and hauls alot more. Also love the Hesston balers. We have a 4570 Hesston baler. Makes the best bales money can buy. The only thing is our bale wagon is a tow behind. But still makes amazing stacks.
We keep our calves through the winter and feed our cows from as early as December 1 and we usually are on full feed until May. This consumes most of our hay. If we can see that there will be hay left over then we sell some. So in answer to your question...It takes all the hay we produce to keep the cows and feedlot cattle fed throughout the year
Sometimes the old ones are the best. If they work then don't change it. Are these 3 pieces of equipment for the American market. Ive never seen them being used over her in UK. Job well done 🌳☺☺☺🌳
Yes the hay haulers are made by New Holland/Ford. The balers and tractors are AGCO, and John Deere. The truck with the hay hauler is something we made, but copied from a previous design.
sure would have been great to have one of those hay wagons around when I was young back in the 50's every thing was mostly done with muscle power tractors and wagons.
Sounds like your family are a bunch of hard working people. That's great. We also have quite a selection of John Deere tractors that still run from the past like the 520 in this video. We have 3 of them and two A models and one B model. We don't use them much anymore but it is still cool that a 1937 hand starter is functioning. All it takes is maintenance and good operators. lol
you must have pretty stable weather to put that many bales on the ground at once. If i did that here in Central Alabama I would just be asking for a late afternoon thundershower to ruin half of it while I was getting it in.
@YouCLTube I help them get caught up with the bales and I have run every phase of the haying for at least a couple full seasons. My main job is herd health in the summertime and anytime for that matter. It usually keeps me very busy with 550 spring calving cows and their calves through the summer and the bulls with those cows to get them bred. I also artificially inseminate approx. 75 to 100 cows yearly. Thanks for the question...D
duane - this is a beautiful operation. f #@ k the haters and suggestions. your family obviously knows what needs doing. a 1000 acres is a book - but real life is much more. 550 pairs plus the haying? fuggedaboutit. sweet vid. fair winds bro
I am sure that a custom hay operation in Klamath Falls would do well once you are known by the people in that area. I don't know many of the people in that area but I know that there is lots of hay produced there. I hope this helps. Take care
@dcpro1970 thanks for baleing square bales i like seeing them baled i hate seeing everyone going to round bales i am going to put up 30 acres of ladino clover and alfalfa all square bales i am going to use a haybasket though
Do you have employees that just do this, or do you all partake in this event? We used to move 2 semi truck loads of alfalfa and Timothy hay into our barn, that was something we never looked forward to. This is something you have to do, what two times a year? Second cuttings? Is this grass? So impressed with stacking process!
We raise grass hay and cut it once. We use the regrowth after hay time for fall/winter pasture until it is covered up by snow. We hire extra employees for summer during haying time. We have 3 full time employees, and we add 2 more for summer. We all participate in the hay production, but I bounce from taking care of the cattle to helping get caught up hauling the baled hay. Summer is a busy time.
Nice video and i am a big John Deere fan and how many acres was that in the video and I was wondering if you could make a living off of hay farming and how good are those inline balers
I'm curious, the truck picks up a load of hay and then the collector places another load of hay in its spot, have you ever considered having the hay collector drop it off on the other end of the stack? Even if both machines were their at the same time they would not hinder each other.
Wouldn't it be better if the collector truck were to deposit it's load very close to the final storage destination so the other truck didn't have to drive so far? I once helped bail 8000 bales of hay the hard way, with manual labor on a hay wagon behind a bailer. The bails weighed more than I did at the time but I could swing them over my head.
Nice video and that sure is a lot of hay. Just curious but why make a temporary stack? Couldn't the bale wagon just bring it to the final stack location?
Nice to see this. After studying only the theory on hay production is today I just saw how it's produced. I will like to work with this live hay production. Can I have that opportunity?
Yes we could make a living off of hay, but our cowherd consumes all of it in the winter here. Our growing season is short. We have 1100 acres in grass hay and it produces 2500 ton on average.
This amount of hay will last you for how long? (you have 550 cow-calves pairs, right?) Do you use it all up in one season? To sum up my two questions (:P), for how long do you feed hay?
Duane Chandler Why do you make small bales ? I heard that some people prefer them because of the better handling. The German Company Krone built a Special Hay and Straw baler that binds little bales in to one big one and the bale handling stays the same. The big bales are more effective in Transportation ! i don´t know why you do it this way. I would be glad if you could explain it to me.
Thanks for asking Brian. We prefer to use the small bales because we feed cattle in several locations in the valley here and our winters get quite cold. With large bales if a piece of equipment wont start then it is extremely hard to feed the cows. Little bales can always be loaded by hand if all else fails. We also have a market to sell horse hay with the little bales when we have a surplus.
Is that front mounted rake on the Deere something you guys built? Does it work well? I'd like to do something similar, but would dare try it on a narrow front end as we are on steep slopes, but it seems like it would be a nice way to rake.
Great video of operations. 1968-1971 my Dad did custom alfalfa operation for a ranch in Basin City Washington. It was owned by two boys from Texas. We put up 1000 acres of Alfalfa four cuttings a year. My sister ran an 880 John Deere swather. Mom , brother and Dad ran three new John Deere 214 Wire tie balers and I ran the Haro Bed. On a good night they could run out 3000 bales. I hired a friend of mine and we stacked up to 4000 bales a day. Big sprinkler irrigated fields up to a mile long. Good running conditions. We stacked at the end of the fields and truckers came and loaded out and took hay to dairy's in British Columbia. Big ol KW's cab overs with 300" wheel base pulling 26 foot 4 wheel trailers. 535 bales at 125 pounds each. This brought back great memories. I was 17 yrs old back then and got paid 3 cents a bale to run the machine. Big pay for a kid in 1968 doing 3 to 4000 bales a day.
THAT'S a LOT of HAY....WOW. How beautiful is that field with all the bales. That is very hard work. Lucky he has a GREAT BOSS. Thanks for sharing. Love watching the ranch production and the bulls at play.
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Thank you for sharing. I remember working on a custom hay cutting crew during the summers back in Kansas in the 80's. I weighed 125 lbs. and could hoist a bale that was my body weight, like lots of of other kids my age could. I don't miss it, but do have fond memories of it. God Bless from Phoenix. Russ
Love seeing other people who use old tractors! Baling hay is a lot of work - but I love it! Those little bales are so pretty. That bale wagon would be a little easier than us picking up the bales! But not for our 3 acre field. Thanks for sharing!
This is so cool, thanks again for a nice video without corporate machinery.
Our pleasure!
Yes the front rake is home made from parts off of a different rake. It is separately hydraulicly controllable on which side is up or down or both etc. It does well if you follow the same direction as the swather. It allows you to flip all the rows one direction so that the issue of two rows ending up close together when it isnt wanted is solved. Thanks for watching.
this brings back so many memories I can almost smell the hay thank you for posting this video
Thank you Sir... a down-to-earth narrated video without the stupid music edited in that covers up the originals sounds of the equipment and processes
Mad props to the work you guys do and thanks for sharing the video!
You Americans do take a pride in doing things right!
I'm ashamed to be British when I compare our two countries!
wow... You've not got a clue what your talking about comparing USA to UK in this instance. You can't not take pride in what you are doing when making hay. As getting it wrong and you've lost (all or part of) your feed for your animals for the winter months. Having worked on farms in the past, I know the effort put into this by all farmers and their staff I do find this comment slightly insulting towards them. They work so hard and yet are so undervalued by the public.
I love how machines have helped us so much on the farm
@aarontong1 Thanks for viewing...Approximately 50,000 bales each year. 100+ pounds each bale. We use small bales for several reasons. Primary reason being that It costs a small fortune to switch to mid-size or larger bale size setup. Our winter feed ground is in several locations across our valley here in Eastern Oregon. Our feedlot setup for calves, breeding heifers, herd bulls, sale bulls, etc. requires many lots of small head count. Thanks for the question
A lot easier than loading the bales by hand and stacking them in the hot barn......lol. I remember those days. Nice video. Thanks for sharing.
That was freaking amazing !! Have worked on a farm in New Zealand for over 20 years an have seen nothing like this.. We do half ton round bales now, but back in the day for us it was pick up these conventional bales by hand haha... What an awesum awesum vid loved it. Cheers for this , made my day....
Thanks for posting Duane, great video. I never saw those bale stackers in operation. When I was a kid in the mid to late 70's, my Aunts, Uncles and cousins would all get together and hand stack a field like that on 2 flat trailers pulled with john deere G's. We would race to see which team could get to 200 bales first. We baled all day, and hauled all night cause it was cooler. Those were some good times.
When I was teen back in the sixties I would work hailing hay a good day we would get 800 to a 1000 Bale's a day one man driving and two loading I made 2 cents a bale. Hardest job I ever had. At the time I was about 135 pounds and 6ft 2 inches tall all muscle.
In the 70’s My best friend family had a dairy farm and I helped bail hay and later stack them up in the barn.
We had fun shooting rats near the corn bin at night.
@classharvester Thanks for the question. We have about a thousand acres of grass hay that we cut once and then re irrigate and use the regrowth as pasture in the fall.
That is so cool!
I bailed hay as a kid and it was hard labor! Even then I knew there had to be a better way. This is one better way!
That brings back some great memories for me. I can smell that sweet hay from here heh, heh. We were doin' it on a considerably smaller scale and we did not have a rig that did what that bale gatherin' rig did. Our baler would shoot 'em onto a wagon and one of us stacked and sometimes (when they sat on the field) we had to pick 'em up and throw 'em to the stacker guy on the wagon. I loved it but the best part of the day was the end and gettin' down to the river for a refreshing swim and wash the itchy stuff off. Eat big, sleep hard and do 'er again the next day...a wonderful life. .....................................PEACE!!
I just read a buncha comments after I posted mine and was surprised by how many of us had very similar lives growin' up. We're scattered all over but have so much in common. It's just kinda amazing to me......and cool. Heh, heh. ....................PEACE!!
Wow, very interesting and educational! Thank you
Glad you enjoyed it!
A freakin’ SYMPHONY, brother!! Love your videos! My favorite is trimming the bulls feet - GENIUS!!!
New Holland 1037 best way to go. 103 bales at a time. Makes really nice stacks and hauls alot more. Also love the Hesston balers. We have a 4570 Hesston baler. Makes the best bales money can buy. The only thing is our bale wagon is a tow behind. But still makes amazing stacks.
good bits of kit .ive picked bloody thousands of little bales op by hand in the past
As a horse owner, I have to tell ya, that hay looks delicious!!!
[ actually, your horse looks tasty to me...... ]
We keep our calves through the winter and feed our cows from as early as December 1 and we usually are on full feed until May. This consumes most of our hay. If we can see that there will be hay left over then we sell some. So in answer to your question...It takes all the hay we produce to keep the cows and feedlot cattle fed throughout the year
Sometimes the old ones are the best. If they work then don't change it. Are these 3 pieces of equipment for the American market. Ive never seen them being used over her in UK. Job well done 🌳☺☺☺🌳
Yes the hay haulers are made by New Holland/Ford. The balers and tractors are AGCO, and John Deere. The truck with the hay hauler is something we made, but copied from a previous design.
@@ChandlerHerefords Excellent. Thank you. Made, Im impressed ☺☺🌾🌹🌾
50,000 bales a year... I tip my hat to ya!
That's America. Really cool and thanks for taking the time to make the video.
we use to have a very similar hesston baler, not sure about the model but looks almost the same , great machine!!!! thnx for sharing
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sure would have been great to have one of those hay wagons around when I was young back in the 50's every thing was mostly done with muscle power tractors and wagons.
that's what you called a " Hay day " !!!! lol ,,, love all that Open green land and blue skies.
That bale picker is pure genius!!!
maravilloso.
eurodestination, it absolutely is! I kinda wish we had one back in my hayin' days.
really cool enginuity at it's best........necessity the mother of invention
what a great system .. love it.
nice we make about 25000 small square bales of straw and another 1500 or so of alfalfa/timothy mix hay.
Sounds like your family are a bunch of hard working people. That's great. We also have quite a selection of John Deere tractors that still run from the past like the 520 in this video. We have 3 of them and two A models and one B model. We don't use them much anymore but it is still cool that a 1937 hand starter is functioning. All it takes is maintenance and good operators. lol
Beats the hell out of manual pick up n stack!! Brilliant
shure beats pitching hay onto a wagon with a fork os standing on the wagon getting bales thrown at you from the baler
Thank you ger fink. Much appreciated!
you must have pretty stable weather to put that many bales on the ground at once. If i did that here in Central Alabama I would just be asking for a late afternoon thundershower to ruin half of it while I was getting it in.
Nice, nice work! Greetings from Québec!
I like that bail picker upper device, pretty cool
We use some Polled Herefords for an outcross which we just started recently, but in the past we have been Horned Hereford only.
@YouCLTube I help them get caught up with the bales and I have run every phase of the haying for at least a couple full seasons. My main job is herd health in the summertime and anytime for that matter. It usually keeps me very busy with 550 spring calving cows and their calves through the summer and the bulls with those cows to get them bred. I also artificially inseminate approx. 75 to 100 cows yearly. Thanks for the question...D
duane - this is a beautiful operation. f #@ k the haters and suggestions. your family obviously knows what needs doing. a 1000 acres is a book - but real life is much more. 550 pairs plus the haying? fuggedaboutit. sweet vid. fair winds bro
This is a good looking hay outfit you got going on holy cow
I am sure that a custom hay operation in Klamath Falls would do well once you are known by the people in that area. I don't know many of the people in that area but I know that there is lots of hay produced there. I hope this helps. Take care
@dcpro1970 thanks for baleing square bales i like seeing them baled i hate seeing everyone going to round bales i am going to put up 30 acres of ladino clover and alfalfa all square bales i am going to use a haybasket though
that is some setup, wouldn't fancy collecting 50000 small square bales with tractor and trailer!
Reminds me of making hay in the Bitterroot
now that is what you call making hay.
Looks like at the speed you are running the pickup you are knocking all the leaves off the hay.
Gettin it! Now if you need to sell your hay there's an app for that...
Do you have employees that just do this, or do you all partake in this event? We used to move 2 semi truck loads of alfalfa and Timothy hay into our barn, that was something we never looked forward to. This is something you have to do, what two times a year? Second cuttings? Is this grass? So impressed with stacking process!
We raise grass hay and cut it once. We use the regrowth after hay time for fall/winter pasture until it is covered up by snow. We hire extra employees for summer during haying time. We have 3 full time employees, and we add 2 more for summer. We all participate in the hay production, but I bounce from taking care of the cattle to helping get caught up hauling the baled hay. Summer is a busy time.
Thanks for the reply, always interested to learn.
Nice video and i am a big John Deere fan and how many acres was that in the video and I was wondering if you could make a living off of hay farming and how good are those inline balers
The inline balers are the way to go for small bales. We had one with over a million bales through it before we traded it in on a new one.
That's a lot of hay
I'm curious, the truck picks up a load of hay and then the collector places another load of hay in its spot, have you ever considered having the hay collector drop it off on the other end of the stack? Even if both machines were their at the same time they would not hinder each other.
Great lookin at how ye do things out west, what a big country you work, im from fife in scotland where a big fields thirty acres
they do the same thing on my bros farms the small bales are easier to handle by hand unlike the big square or the round bales.
Wouldn't it be better if the collector truck were to deposit it's load very close to the final storage destination so the other truck didn't have to drive so far? I once helped bail 8000 bales of hay the hard way, with manual labor on a hay wagon behind a bailer. The bails weighed more than I did at the time but I could swing them over my head.
Nice video and that sure is a lot of hay. Just curious but why make a temporary stack? Couldn't the bale wagon just bring it to the final stack location?
This is awesome, but why small square bale your hay if you're just using it yourself? Most people round bale
Nice to see this. After studying only the theory on hay production is today I just saw how it's produced. I will like to work with this live hay production. Can I have that opportunity?
I gotcha and the inline balers seam to be nice and I was wondering if you could make a living off of hay and how many acres was that
Yes we could make a living off of hay, but our cowherd consumes all of it in the winter here. Our growing season is short. We have 1100 acres in grass hay and it produces 2500 ton on average.
That's a lot
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Wow beats doin that by hand I hated doin hay
I would like to work there. Great place mister Duane Chandler
This amount of hay will last you for how long? (you have 550 cow-calves pairs, right?) Do you use it all up in one season?
To sum up my two questions (:P), for how long do you feed hay?
is that coastal or bermuda grass or somthin else looks like great yeilds
hello, what brand of this equipment you have in your truck to transport the bales? very good this equipment.
Cool machinery!
Duane Chandler Why do you make small bales ? I heard that some people prefer them because of the better handling. The German Company Krone built a Special Hay and Straw baler that binds little bales in to one big one and the bale handling stays the same. The big bales are more effective in Transportation !
i don´t know why you do it this way. I would be glad if you could explain it to me.
Thanks for asking Brian. We prefer to use the small bales because we feed cattle in several locations in the valley here and our winters get quite cold. With large bales if a piece of equipment wont start then it is extremely hard to feed the cows. Little bales can always be loaded by hand if all else fails. We also have a market to sell horse hay with the little bales when we have a surplus.
Duane Chandler Thanks
Great machines
After work bud...too dam busy 2 suck a cold one down during the day while haying. It makes me lazy. lol
Is that front mounted rake on the Deere something you guys built? Does it work well? I'd like to do something similar, but would dare try it on a narrow front end as we are on steep slopes, but it seems like it would be a nice way to rake.
nice video
Nice ktm bud
I would have thought that baler would have made a cleaner, neater bale than this appears to? What is an average day's production for you guys?
+Bill Whitman With the two balers starting after the dew has gone off and quitting at 5 or 6pm we can bale about 100 ton or so in a day.
Hi George! You have a nice son!
nice operation
great video,alot diffrent operation from what we use in co mayo ireland,god help us....
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Hi,
love the vid, why do you use small bales and not round or big square bales?
how many acres is that? And how many cows does that feed?
Wish i had this from 1977- 2007 lol
that's allot of hay
I need two loads of good grass hay fast
Get the miss out of that New holland. Ford are good at that.
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Hi their, I have a question. Is bailing hay a good business in klamath falls oregon? meaning bailing and selling hay bales?
we are located in mexico. all the hay you whant call.el chapo guzman
2:42 HI GEORGE
How much does one of those bales weigh
100 lbs
Does that bale wagon have a 350 v8 in it?
ID HATE TO BE THE ONE TO STACK IT ALL IN THE BARN HOLY CROW
Cool
Why do you use the square bails? is that alpha?
When does the beer drinken start?
Man in my youth I only got .3 cent a bale
Thats alot of calves, I have my hands full with 30 cows. Is your herd all horned genetics?
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