Don't think I've ever seen anyone more proud of their hay field. It turned out great because all the hard work you put into preparing the field. Should yield well once you get the permanent grass planted. Edit: Forgot to mention how I think it's awesome that you bartered with your neighbor to work your hay field in exchange for you doing some work for him. It's always a good thing when neighbors are helping neighbors.
Yeah, but the IRS considers it taxable. The black-market where tradesman exchange services is estimated in the billions. That is significant money they want taxed.
I’ve noticed that the comments have all been very positive about your hay crop. Everyone wants you to succeed with the farm. We enjoy it about as much as you & we enjoy your enjoyment. Thank you Sir. Keep up the good work.
You b.....y little ripper - as we Aussie's say. So happy for you and the animals LetsDig18. The farm continues to produce, pay for itself and give huge joy to all involved. Loved it - farm life is the best.
Looks like a good hay and a good yield. Had a small place back in the day with a few horses and plenty of pasture to grow our own hay. It's a fine feeling when you see your animals eating what you've grown. There was a big difference though. I used a sickle mower and a square bailer, a large barn and long conveyor to put the hay into the loft. But the neighbor kids made some money, got a work out, and a large cookout/ picnic when we were done. Good times, hard work and lots of laughs. Thanks for the walk thru the past.
Hi Chris, When you first bought your property, you called it a farm, but it was really rough. You have made it a beautiful farm now. Getting your own hay is a great step for you, and I'm proud of you for all the hard work you put into this farm. Thank you for sharing all of your videos with me. I really appreciate you for taking the time to do all of this. Congratulations, and have a great night.
Absolutely love your excitement in this video! We are a first generation farm, and understand what it's like to have these small victories after putting a lot of time and effort into something 🙂
My son lives in Wisconsin and his boss has acreage a mile from my son's house. His boss rents out about 10 acres to a dairy farmer that plants corn for the milk cows. I was lucky enough to be there one day when it was being cut, chopped , loaded and stored for the cows. It was awesome to watch and this video reminds me of the fun it was to ride alongside, like you were. Thanks for the memories@letsdig18.❤️
I'm glad to see folks wearing hearing protection much more now than we did when I was growing up the farm in the 80s. I'm 51 now, and need to set up an appointment with an audiologist. Can't stop the ringing. Earplugs were "so uncool" back in the day. Now, I'd love to go back to my teenage self and tell him to wear the damn things.
We were all "bullet proof" in our 20s. Should have listened to the old timers when they said "jumping off trucks will hurt your knees" etc. YOUNG PEOPLE......LISTEN UP!
I'm very impressed! Your farm is really turned into a great investment for you! I wonder if you will give us a full tour to show your vegetable gardens and other things you're growing? Are you growing any fruit trees? How about bees for honey? Now that's an amazing thing to do there and they have these cool beehives with "taps" on them and you can harvest honey direct from the hive without interrupting the bees and needing to smoke them and grab their combs, etc. Anyway, there's so much you can and no doubt ARE doing! Great Job young man!
I love the smell of new mowed hay ,It was the job I liked the most on the farm ,cutting and bailing this brings back fond old memories as much as Chris likes dozer work ,I liked cutting and bailing Hay, This took me back to my teenage years and that was a long time ago
Thank you for showing me the full process of how the hay is done. I had never seen it before. Man, I sure am glad you put together these videos and post them. I do not watch regular tv and am very picky about any movies I might watch. I never have to worry about polotics or social agendas in your videos, just learning and watching you take a raw or broken place that is out of order and put it into order. Thank you again sir.
Not me to say but the rakes with the prong rake wheels and have 3-6 rakes at least 99% better than the PTO driven rakes and they don’t clog up either! I had to use the mechanical rake for the first time I did it and the hay was so thick that I spent most of the day unclogging the rakes! The prong wheels, you can just run through it and it doesn’t matter how thick it is my friend! Just saying, with the new rake we yielded more hey! The mechanical rake got put to pasture! lol 😂 That thing was a job! It’s looking good brother, thanks for sharing Chris! Kirk from Louisiana, not a farmer but I was working for them at the age of 13 until 18! Loved it but no money, welded every since! Retired now! Those rolls are probably 1500 lbs, I’m thinking! I think those look like the medium bales, large ones get a percentage wasted!
If you want the full effect of putting up hay bail it into square bales then go buck every bail onto the wagon and stack it in a hot hay barn with a hot tin roof. We made .50 cents a hour doing this. I got smart and started running the bailer!
no one wants to make small squares anymore, but they still sell for a premium because they are easier to handle for some (although horse people are known for not paying their hay bill haha)
Your farm is doing so well. Even though they were the old brick bales & not the round ones, this brought back so many memories of my uncle's farm and haying. It's been 55+ years since the last time I hayed with him, but the heat, itchiness, and that wonderful smell are as fresh as if it happened yesterday. Happy that the experiment worked, happy for your yield, just plain happy for you. Thank you for sharing this, Chris.
Smiles .... when i was a young feller (big testicles but no brains, right?) I unloaded haybales off a trailer into an enclosed barn and had such a bad allergy reaction .... I mean snot was everywhere! My Face? Covered! I mean how can a nose make so much snot? I mean who knows how a hankie can absorb so much snot and put it back in a chaps pocket? Tests, you ask? A Gallon? Really? I mean, can a snotter a put a gallon of the stuff into you trousers without you noticing? We're talking a gallon of snot, here.
That will be some good hay for your cattle when the snow is flying. It isn’t the best hay but like I was always told, it’s better than a snowball. We had an upright silo so we would chop it and make haylage. It was a good mid spring crop to get us through until our corn silage was ready to harvest. We would put up a good bit of small square bails every year too. You don’t see many farmers bailing small square bails anymore.
Its too labor intensive. There aren’t enough young men(and some women) willing (or physically able!) to get out in the fields and pick up and stack the bales.
@@cathiwim Even worse when a contractor friend does some small squares for you that top out at around 60 or 70 pounds per bale. Makes them a right sod to throw on to the trailer. 😃
congrats Chris. nice first time hay. I know you are happy. I remember riding on a hay wagon as our landlord bailed the hay on the 120 acres where we lived back in the mid to late 60s to early 70s. for his cattle. stay safe.
All your hard work is paying off my friend. Your cows are going to have a hay day ha ha. Glad you can trade work for work. Back in the day bartering was the way of life. Tx for sharing my friend.
Fantastic crop.... congratulations 🎉 Always have to check moisture content, as many hay sheds have gone up in smoke, with stacking damp hay.. The heat in damp hay, is incredible.
Loved hay work on the farm the owner supplied home made lemon tea, oranges for the young folk ,adults making dens with bails for us young kids to play safely ,mum did the meat stuff,at the end a barbecue for workers and family..X late father we had a small holding with pigs,so we had cash not much ,but we had great health ..
Long time ago when I worked in hay field we had a rake pulled by a team of mules. With a pitch fork we loaded a hay wagon to take it to barn. Lot has changed since back in late 50's. Enjoyed the look at modern farming.
That's a good stand of rye for sure. On our farm, we have a New Holland H7220 9ft disc bine. The conditioner rollers do a great job of squeezing out the moisture. With our current fertilize and spray program, we usually average between 8-10 4x5 bales to the acre of fescue hay.
And what a Brilliant Looking Rye Grass Fields they are - the Cutting was very Interesting indeed - Great Drone Views - Good Yield ! Bailing it ! The Whole Operation from Cutting to Bailing was sooooo very Interesting ! You sounded very Happy with the Final Result - Congrats and many Cheers from Australia !!!!
Your excitement is contagious! I'm glad you kept showing that the grass was really cut. Never seen it so THICK that it just kept standing up! This was fun to watach, thank you sir!
I miss doing hay. Grew doing it for our cows. We had all Deere equipment. Then after high school I helped a few other guys with theirs . Once I got a house I dabbled a little bit on my own. Used my old wd45 and a John Deere 1209, and a believe a new holland 268 square baler. I just did little patches here and there that were otherwise bushogged. All while working full time for a large grain and cattle farm . Had to give up my hobby bailing
Chris, you are one of the best examples of what hard work can get a man that I know of anywhere. I have been watching you since wayyy back just before you had long reach cleaning all the weeds out of that canal or whatever it was the first time. I think I remember you went back again? I forget. Anyway, a long time and I've never regretted it. A lot of good channels have gotten a lot of likes from me but if I had to say, considering how long it's been, you probably have more likes from me than any other single channel on UA-cam and I've been here since 2006. I've watched you pretty much grow into manhood and this old man is right proud of you, Chris. You're doing okay just take care of yourself.
Oh yes, the times, they have changed from my farm youth. And locale as well, I guess. In my childhood, the first step was cutting the hay with horse pulled side beam of triangular scissor blades. After some initial drying, a horse pulled rake was the next machine. The harrow was formed across, rather than lengthwise. After some more drying, poles (or stakes?) were erected near the harrows. They were heavier, but sharpened at the bottom end and narrower at the top, part naturally, part sharpened. At the 1/3 point, there was a cross member of about 8 inches length. When next hay was lifted with pitchforks for final drying on those stakes, the first necessary operation was to twist a small bunch of hay and bring the formed swab down on the cross member for better support of the hay that was loaded on top, all the way up. Also, it was important to make sure no hay was sagging enough to reach the ground. If it did, there would soon develop mold. I was in the team who made holes for the stakes and erected them. Then I participated in the pitchfork operation. On the other hand, I served at the receiving end in the barn, when the dry hay was two or 3 weeks later brought (on horse carts) in. As a final persisting memory is the smell of dry hay (dust), which I relate to Earl Gray tea. I still like any kind, green, black or herb teas, except for the Earl Gay variety. My comment about it is that I got enough of the dry hay smell (and taste) in our hay barns. By the way, in those operations we generally had about a dozen people. Evidently, in even earlier times at least two dozen people had been needed. Women usually used hand rakes to collect any hay left behind after the big rake or men with their pitch forks. I hope this sheds some light into the pre-mechanized days of farming to the younger folks.
Beautiful field of rye! Excellent yield. Made lots of bales for the 1st yield. And, blessed to have new truck to pull trailer full of hay bales. Exciting day on the farm. Loved the drone music. Thank u for video, loved it. God's blessing and stay safe.
Chris. Boy O Boy, that hay looks really great. As a.Kid growing up spent many hours working field like that hay field of your. Next, step picking up the bales and putting them up in the barn. Your cows will like that hay. 👈👀😎 Please take care.
WoW! Thanks! There are so many people like me that have never seen this done! Very interesting and just the right length of video for each step of the process. I could almost smell it. Love the smell of new mown grass.
Done so much different than farming in northern Illinois. We don’t do the tethering as you do. I notice there is a lot of hay laying on the ground after round baling. Looks like to me the teeth on the rake need to be lowered a little. Too much waste. We let it sit for two to three days and rake into rows. Bale it. Your style of baling is also done the same way in Tennessee. I have friends there and they also tether. Thank you for sharing, Chris.
Beautiful field…my dream field! My fields are all hilly and bumpy. I dream of flat perfect fields like this. I only do rye or peas on land I clear of brush to keep weed pressure down. That’s probably Chris’ intention also. Rye came in beautifully!
This reminds me when I was a kid on are ranch, every year cutting hay , bailing and stacking bale in barns. Are ranch in California the topsoil was like 6 feet deep cold black and rich in minerals. Those fantastic days. Glad to see you doing well on your property Ckris. Well done. Hard work generally pays off. This why your so successful.
You have yourself a nice lot of hay, nice way haul the bales, makes life oh so much easier to move it with machinery, thanks for the video sir, fun one to watch.
The New England Farmer I worked as a kid, cut the 3ft rye and bailed it moments later in a two tractor and flatbed truck parade. I was two years a stacker on the truck and two years a bail thrower. Great Times 1960's
Many farmers would feel blessed to have such a great first cutting!! Hope the animals enjoy it over the year!! A little add-on....I noticed it was down on your new truck video. Lol. Glad I got to see the work that was put in. We do our own hay to see after getting rid of our animals. So now it has become a yearly thing between myself and my brother in laws. It's a great few days and some excellent work outs. We do square bales and store them in the top of our barn.
Chris you did awesome flying & filming. Nice Piloting Bud. I love a drone view. Just 10 minute into the watch, on the the rest.. Looks like a good yield.
Chris, this reminds me of putting up hay for our ponies when I was a kid. We did it rather different back in the 1960s. Dad would mow the hay field with his doodlebug tractor he bought from a custom builder in the late 1940s. The tractor pulled a 19?? John Deere sickle bar mower. The mower was pull powered. I would ride on it to lift the sickle blade as needed. It worked pretty darned good. My job was to in a few days wind row the hay. I would use our 1937? Allis Chalmers tractor to pull the 19?? hay rake. The hay rake would combine 2 cuttings into one row. I loved this because it seemed to ring the dinner bell for all the local barn swallows. They would form a "traffic oval" to my right. One at a time a barn swallow would peal off and dive in front of the tractor to catch a bug. Then it would have to do a max climb to avoid hitting the radiator on the tractor. More than once I thought one was about to eat the radiator cap! None ever did! It was a great "air show". Sometimes I would pay more attention to the air show and about mess up the field. After two rakings, the field was ready to bale. Dad would use the Allis Chalmers and his 1947 John Deere wire tie side discharge square baler. It was powered by a 4 cylinder Wisconsin air cooled gas fired engine. Unlike the round baler, you didn't stop for each bale to pop out. You just kept driving down the wind rows and out would slide the bales to the ground. It was kind of neat as the big piston would be thump, thump, thumping packing the hay into bales. Dad never wanted us kids in front of the baler. If you got caught in the feed to pick the hay off the ground, he couldn't stop the baler quick enough to save you. The last was to hook the Allis Chalmers up to the hay wagon. This ideally was a 3 person job. One to drive the tractor. One to pick the bales off the ground and place them on the wagon. One to take that bale and stack it on the wagon. Once the wagon was full, it was pulled into the horse barn. One person would toss the bales up into the loft in the barn. Another would stack the bales. Hot, hot work! Mom would keep us going with her special lemonade by the gallon. This was half orange juice and half lemon juice with tons of sugar. Gatorade before it was invented! It kept us hydrated before we knew the term!
That sounds just like my uncle's. My aunt would make lime koolaid and bring it out to the field. I learned to drive his tractor for haying. And yeah, we were to stay far away from the front of the baler. Heck, we were to stay away from all parts of it while running. Good times and great memories.
@@Vickie-Bligh Vickie, thanks for the reply. I got my first driving lesson on the doodlebug tractor at age 5. Dad had another guy to help, but no one to drive the tractor. I got drafted. I just leaned back against the seat so I could reach the clutch pedal to stop the tractor. Dad put it in 1st gear and I steered where he told me. Mom was a bit concerned, but it all worked! Darned hard work, but still kind of a fun day as a kid. Oh that lemonade sure tasted great! It hit the spot! If more kids could grow up this way instead of playing video games, the world might be a bit better place!
@@klsc8510 I remember one year It was me, my uncle, & his grandson (my 2nd cousin) competing against my cousins and their spouses. They had 4 adults and a big truck, we had the tractor & trailer, my uncle bucking the bales, me driving, my cousin stacking. Proportionately, we were tied. We had as many layers as they did. I do remember itching even after a bath. Great times.
As someone who grew up on a dairy farm, I can simply smell all that freshly cut grass and dry hay as you show it to us. Good memories. Getting the hay off the fields was always a frantic time with very high stacked piles of hay traversing the roads around the village, but also a great opportunity to catch up with the neighbours :)
Great video. Glad to see the field producing now. Also brings back a lot of memories. I tossed a lot of square bales as a youngster growing up in central Missouri. Thanks.
Go with the K31 Fescue and get a good stand of red clover mixed with the fescue. Every horse operation will be wanting your hay with that red clover mixed in.
I'd plant a mix of cool weather grasses like orchard, timothy, perennial rye, NOVEL endophyte fescue and a mix of perennial legumes to capture nitrogen without fertilizing. I'd also inoculate the soil with fungus and bacteria.
Good Job. Not many people understand the 'tonnage' a field like that produces. Elvis, babyMoomoo and the others can forage thru the next winter. Most of the hay fields in my area are Coastal Bermuda - I have seen a round baler burn for hours after a mechanical failure. Oak Hill Farms will never be the same - who would have thought that in 2017 it would be this now besides Chris. Watch the composting heat so it does not all burn up.
The Grass wonderful long grown You have the perfect Weather by the Cut, and the Hey to dry Quick wath very good. For the Bale Pack. You very Proud from this first harvest. I think You become a done twice harvest this Year. And to last green Cut for the Cow in the Autumn. Make a good Farmer!!! Greeting from Austria
Chris, we can hear the smile in your voice! Congratulations! I love how you and your neighbors pitch in to help each other out! 🌾🌾🌾🚜🌾🌾🌾
Absolutely correct, damn fine outcome.
Don't think I've ever seen anyone more proud of their hay field. It turned out great because all the hard work you put into preparing the field. Should yield well once you get the permanent grass planted.
Edit: Forgot to mention how I think it's awesome that you bartered with your neighbor to work your hay field in exchange for you doing some work for him. It's always a good thing when neighbors are helping neighbors.
Bartering is a very efficient way of reducing taxes as well ... just saying😉
Yeah, but the IRS considers it taxable. The black-market where tradesman exchange services is estimated in the billions. That is significant money they want taxed.
Crazy how far all of this has came!! I remember when you first introduced the house to all of us!!
Just shows us what you can achieve when you believe yourself and don't give up
@@Rbnqss when you "work hard" is what you mean. 😉🖖
I miss the Mobile Mansion! haha
I’ve noticed that the comments have all been very positive about your hay crop. Everyone wants you to succeed with the farm.
We enjoy it about as much as you & we enjoy your enjoyment.
Thank you Sir. Keep up the good work.
You b.....y little ripper - as we Aussie's say. So happy for you and the animals LetsDig18. The farm continues to produce, pay for itself and give huge joy to all involved. Loved it - farm life is the best.
Excellent yield for a first-time Rye planting-you should have zero issues growing everything you need!
The smell must be AWES0OME. brings back memories of 70 yrs ago on grandparents farm. thank you..............
Looks like a good hay and a good yield. Had a small place back in the day with a few horses and plenty of pasture to grow our own hay. It's a fine feeling when you see your animals eating what you've grown. There was a big difference though. I used a sickle mower and a square bailer, a large barn and long conveyor to put the hay into the loft. But the neighbor kids made some money, got a work out, and a large cookout/ picnic when we were done. Good times, hard work and lots of laughs. Thanks for the walk thru the past.
..and always during the hottest times of the year. We didn’t have a conveyor for the longest time. Heave those bales up and over.
Most beautiful, peaceful and then some. Very rewarding. Watching this is time well spent.
I like the gray and black on your truck. It looks more unique the more I look at it. Nice truck
Hi Chris, When you first bought your property, you called it a farm, but it was really rough. You have made it a beautiful farm now. Getting your own hay is a great step for you, and I'm proud of you for all the hard work you put into this farm. Thank you for sharing all of your videos with me. I really appreciate you for taking the time to do all of this. Congratulations, and have a great night.
Now it's time to plant El felfa and clover for high quality feed over the Winter.
Absolutely love your excitement in this video! We are a first generation farm, and understand what it's like to have these small victories after putting a lot of time and effort into something 🙂
My son lives in Wisconsin and his boss has acreage a mile from my son's house. His boss rents out about 10 acres to a dairy farmer that plants corn for the milk cows. I was lucky enough to be there one day when it was being cut, chopped , loaded and stored for the cows. It was awesome to watch and this video reminds me of the fun it was to ride alongside, like you were. Thanks for the memories@letsdig18.❤️
What a transformation on that piece of property! Great looking hay; congratulations and best wishes.
I'm glad to see folks wearing hearing protection much more now than we did when I was growing up the farm in the 80s. I'm 51 now, and need to set up an appointment with an audiologist. Can't stop the ringing. Earplugs were "so uncool" back in the day. Now, I'd love to go back to my teenage self and tell him to wear the damn things.
I'm with you, I'm 66 and my hearing is not good from all the machine noise. I didn't know it would be like this back in the day
We were all "bullet proof" in our 20s. Should have listened to the old timers when they said "jumping off trucks will hurt your knees" etc. YOUNG PEOPLE......LISTEN UP!
I'm very impressed! Your farm is really turned into a great investment for you! I wonder if you will give us a full tour to show your vegetable gardens and other things you're growing? Are you growing any fruit trees? How about bees for honey? Now that's an amazing thing to do there and they have these cool beehives with "taps" on them and you can harvest honey direct from the hive without interrupting the bees and needing to smoke them and grab their combs, etc. Anyway, there's so much you can and no doubt ARE doing! Great Job young man!
Chris, you seem as excited about the hay crop, as a kid with a new toy !! LOL 😁 Hard work pays off at last !
Whoooo Hooooo!!! Fruits of your labor,,,SOOO COOL to exchange labor ,for mutual respect 🙏 and friends,! SOOO Smart
I love the smell of new mowed hay ,It was the job I liked the most on the farm ,cutting and bailing this brings back fond old memories as much as Chris likes dozer work ,I liked cutting and bailing Hay, This took me back to my teenage years and that was a long time ago
Thank you for showing me the full process of how the hay is done. I had never seen it before. Man, I sure am glad you put together these videos and post them. I do not watch regular tv and am very picky about any movies I might watch. I never have to worry about polotics or social agendas in your videos, just learning and watching you take a raw or broken place that is out of order and put it into order. Thank you again sir.
Not me to say but the rakes with the prong rake wheels and have 3-6 rakes at least 99% better than the PTO driven rakes and they don’t clog up either! I had to use the mechanical rake for the first time I did it and the hay was so thick that I spent most of the day unclogging the rakes! The prong wheels, you can just run through it and it doesn’t matter how thick it is my friend! Just saying, with the new rake we yielded more hey! The mechanical rake got put to pasture! lol 😂 That thing was a job! It’s looking good brother, thanks for sharing Chris! Kirk from Louisiana, not a farmer but I was working for them at the age of 13 until 18! Loved it but no money, welded every since! Retired now! Those rolls are probably 1500 lbs, I’m thinking! I think those look like the medium bales, large ones get a percentage wasted!
If you want the full effect of putting up hay bail it into square bales then go buck every bail onto the wagon and stack it in a hot hay barn with a hot tin roof. We made .50 cents a hour doing this. I got smart and started running the bailer!
no one wants to make small squares anymore, but they still sell for a premium because they are easier to handle for some (although horse people are known for not paying their hay bill haha)
Hayins always fun nice crop mister!
Your farm is doing so well. Even though they were the old brick bales & not the round ones, this brought back so many memories of my uncle's farm and haying. It's been 55+ years since the last time I hayed with him, but the heat, itchiness, and that wonderful smell are as fresh as if it happened yesterday. Happy that the experiment worked, happy for your yield, just plain happy for you. Thank you for sharing this, Chris.
Smiles .... when i was a young feller (big testicles but no brains, right?) I unloaded haybales off a trailer into an enclosed barn and had such a bad allergy reaction .... I mean snot was everywhere! My Face? Covered! I mean how can a nose make so much snot? I mean who knows how a hankie can absorb so much snot and put it back in a chaps pocket? Tests, you ask? A Gallon? Really? I mean, can a snotter a put a gallon of the stuff into you trousers without you noticing? We're talking a gallon of snot, here.
Vickie, if you hunt among the 500 replies, I typed my story of putting up bales of hay for our ponies.
That will be some good hay for your cattle when the snow is flying. It isn’t the best hay but like I was always told, it’s better than a snowball. We had an upright silo so we would chop it and make haylage. It was a good mid spring crop to get us through until our corn silage was ready to harvest. We would put up a good bit of small square bails every year too. You don’t see many farmers bailing small square bails anymore.
Its too labor intensive. There aren’t enough young men(and some women) willing (or physically able!) to get out in the fields and pick up and stack the bales.
@@cathiwim Even worse when a contractor friend does some small squares for you that top out at around 60 or 70 pounds per bale. Makes them a right sod to throw on to the trailer. 😃
One very very satisfying crop first time something you will not forget congratulations. 👍👍
congrats Chris. nice first time hay. I know you are happy. I remember riding on a hay wagon as our landlord bailed the hay on the 120 acres where we lived back in the mid to late 60s to early 70s. for his cattle. stay safe.
Looks very good, I always love the aroma of new mown hay. In Switzerland they stuff pillows with new mown hay, and sell them at a premium.
Those are going to be some happy happy cows!
Love it! $10 bucks says Chris has his own "hay toys" next year :)
All your hard work is paying off my friend. Your cows are going to have a hay day ha ha. Glad you can trade work for work. Back in the day bartering was the way of life. Tx for sharing my friend.
I love the background music starting about 4:45.
I knew as soon as you injected the grass it was going to take off.. should make SEVERAL Bails....😊❤
Good neighbors are everything 👍🏼
Pretty cool. I watched you clear, clean up, plant, and now bale the field. Nice set of videos!
Fantastic crop.... congratulations 🎉
Always have to check moisture content, as many hay sheds have gone up in smoke, with stacking damp hay..
The heat in damp hay, is incredible.
Thanks for sharing once upon time I did do the square bails all done by hand heavy and hot work 👍👋🇨🇦
Loved hay work on the farm the owner supplied home made lemon tea, oranges for the young folk ,adults making dens with bails for us young kids to play safely ,mum did the meat stuff,at the end a barbecue for workers and family..X late father we had a small holding with pigs,so we had cash not much ,but we had great health ..
Congratulations. Looks like a good healthy crop.
Long time ago when I worked in hay field we had a rake pulled by a team of mules. With a pitch fork we loaded a hay wagon to take it to barn. Lot has changed since back in late 50's. Enjoyed the look at modern farming.
That's a good stand of rye for sure. On our farm, we have a New Holland H7220 9ft disc bine. The conditioner rollers do a great job of squeezing out the moisture. With our current fertilize and spray program, we usually average between 8-10 4x5 bales to the acre of fescue hay.
Great looking crop of hay! Your friend lays a nice straight wind row.❤
Fantastic video on something I don't ever recall watching being performed. Very cool. Thanks for another awesome video.
Very happy for you, Chris. Nice bail yield for the first cut.👍🙂
That amount of BAIL should get anyone outta JAIL! But I'm sure the cows appreciate the BALES a LOT more! 🤣
@@RRRIBEYE got me🙄😂
And what a Brilliant Looking Rye Grass Fields they are - the Cutting was very Interesting indeed - Great Drone Views - Good Yield ! Bailing it ! The Whole Operation from Cutting to Bailing was sooooo very Interesting ! You sounded very Happy with the Final Result - Congrats and many Cheers from Australia !!!!
Wow, out here in the Rocky Mountains West, we are just now losing our winter snow, and here you are cutting and bailing hay.
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Many many circles I have made, weights, moisture, many years - have fun with it :)
Thanks Chris,peace brother…
Love the smell of fresh cut hay !!
Great look yield on the field!! 👍
Me too!
Beautiful, brings back memories of my childhood, we had square bails. Lots of work either way. ❤❤❤❤❤❤ my dad made us work hard, so thankful for him
Nice to see success. Thanks for sharing.
Your excitement is contagious! I'm glad you kept showing that the grass was really cut. Never seen it so THICK that it just kept standing up! This was fun to watach, thank you sir!
You’re Smart to have someone else provide the Equipment and Complete the Work because GOD knows the Equipment and Maintenance is Expensive. 👍🙏
Awesome!!! Nice to know where your hay came from and how it was grown. Nice and clean for your animals. Great first yield!
I bet that field smells fabulous!
Nice hay crop. Thanks for sharing. I never saw the entire hay cutting, prepping and bailing process in action.
I miss doing hay. Grew doing it for our cows. We had all Deere equipment. Then after high school I helped a few other guys with theirs . Once I got a house I dabbled a little bit on my own. Used my old wd45 and a John Deere 1209, and a believe a new holland 268 square baler. I just did little patches here and there that were otherwise bushogged. All while working full time for a large grain and cattle farm . Had to give up my hobby bailing
I'm glad your excited with a great crop.
Chris, you are one of the best examples of what hard work can get a man that I know of anywhere. I have been watching you since wayyy back just before you had long reach cleaning all the weeds out of that canal or whatever it was the first time. I think I remember you went back again? I forget. Anyway, a long time and I've never regretted it. A lot of good channels have gotten a lot of likes from me but if I had to say, considering how long it's been, you probably have more likes from me than any other single channel on UA-cam and I've been here since 2006.
I've watched you pretty much grow into manhood and this old man is right proud of you, Chris. You're doing okay just take care of yourself.
Awesome! Sure is nice to get your first cut on the new farm. Congratulations on the first yield! Take care and God Bless!!!😊
Congratulations on your first yield. So happy for you.
Chris im no farmer but i love the processing of the grass. Your an inspiration to us all my friend.thank you
Wow Chris that is beautiful cut and the animals are going to have very good nutrition out this hay going to make them strong 👍😎🇺🇸NY
Oh yes, the times, they have changed from my farm youth. And locale as well, I guess. In my childhood, the first step was cutting the hay with horse pulled side beam of triangular scissor blades. After some initial drying, a horse pulled rake was the next machine. The harrow was formed across, rather than lengthwise. After some more drying, poles (or stakes?) were erected near the harrows. They were heavier, but sharpened at the bottom end and narrower at the top, part naturally, part sharpened. At the 1/3 point, there was a cross member of about 8 inches length. When next hay was lifted with pitchforks for final drying on those stakes, the first necessary operation was to twist a small bunch of hay and bring the formed swab down on the cross member for better support of the hay that was loaded on top, all the way up. Also, it was important to make sure no hay was sagging enough to reach the ground. If it did, there would soon develop mold. I was in the team who made holes for the stakes and erected them. Then I participated in the pitchfork operation. On the other hand, I served at the receiving end in the barn, when the dry hay was two or 3 weeks later brought (on horse carts) in. As a final persisting memory is the smell of dry hay (dust), which I relate to Earl Gray tea. I still like any kind, green, black or herb teas, except for the Earl Gay variety. My comment about it is that I got enough of the dry hay smell (and taste) in our hay barns. By the way, in those operations we generally had about a dozen people. Evidently, in even earlier times at least two dozen people had been needed. Women usually used hand rakes to collect any hay left behind after the big rake or men with their pitch forks. I hope this sheds some light into the pre-mechanized days of farming to the younger folks.
Best video of 2023!! Nice load of hay.👍👏❤️
AWSOME AGAIN my friend,,!,Thank you ❤️
Beautiful field of rye! Excellent yield. Made lots of bales for the 1st yield. And, blessed to have new truck to pull trailer full of hay bales. Exciting day on the farm. Loved the drone music. Thank u for video, loved it. God's blessing and stay safe.
Chris.
Boy O Boy, that hay looks really great. As a.Kid growing up spent many hours working field like that hay field of your. Next, step picking up the bales and putting them up in the barn. Your cows will like that hay. 👈👀😎
Please take care.
You going to have a nice hay field in the end! Great job! Beautiful!
WoW! Thanks! There are so many people like me that have never seen this done! Very interesting and just the right length of video for each step of the process. I could almost smell it. Love the smell of new mown grass.
The hay field is larger than I first thought. The music was a pleasure as you cut, tether and rolled.
Done so much different than farming in northern Illinois. We don’t do the tethering as you do. I notice there is a lot of hay laying on the ground after round baling. Looks like to me the teeth on the rake need to be lowered a little. Too much waste. We let it sit for two to three days and rake into rows. Bale it. Your style of baling is also done the same way in Tennessee. I have friends there and they also tether. Thank you for sharing, Chris.
Beautiful field…my dream field! My fields are all hilly and bumpy. I dream of flat perfect fields like this. I only do rye or peas on land I clear of brush to keep weed pressure down. That’s probably Chris’ intention also. Rye came in beautifully!
Nice to see all of hard work went into bailing hay, I picked up many of square bails when I was younger. Awesome to see you so excited
This reminds me when I was a kid on are ranch, every year cutting hay , bailing and stacking bale in barns. Are ranch in California the topsoil was like 6 feet deep cold black and rich in minerals. Those fantastic days. Glad to see you doing well on your property Ckris. Well done. Hard work generally pays off. This why your so successful.
You have yourself a nice lot of hay, nice way haul the bales, makes life oh so much easier to move it with machinery, thanks for the video sir, fun one to watch.
Well done Chris, great result. Loved the drone footage as well😊
The New England Farmer I worked as a kid, cut the 3ft rye and bailed it moments later in a two tractor and flatbed truck parade. I was two years a stacker on the truck and two years a bail thrower. Great Times 1960's
Congratulations! This is SO great!! And now we all get to learn cool stuff about farming!
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That's a beautiful crop of rye grass!!
Many farmers would feel blessed to have such a great first cutting!! Hope the animals enjoy it over the year!! A little add-on....I noticed it was down on your new truck video. Lol. Glad I got to see the work that was put in. We do our own hay to see after getting rid of our animals. So now it has become a yearly thing between myself and my brother in laws. It's a great few days and some excellent work outs. We do square bales and store them in the top of our barn.
We farm in south west Arizona a lot different. Great looking hay. Great video 👍 👍
I really feel your sense of pride, love watching the process.
Chris you did awesome flying & filming. Nice Piloting Bud. I love a drone view.
Just 10 minute into the watch, on the the rest.. Looks like a good yield.
Chris, this reminds me of putting up hay for our ponies when I was a kid. We did it rather different back in the 1960s.
Dad would mow the hay field with his doodlebug tractor he bought from a custom builder in the late 1940s. The tractor pulled a 19?? John Deere sickle bar mower. The mower was pull powered. I would ride on it to lift the sickle blade as needed. It worked pretty darned good.
My job was to in a few days wind row the hay. I would use our 1937? Allis Chalmers tractor to pull the 19?? hay rake. The hay rake would combine 2 cuttings into one row. I loved this because it seemed to ring the dinner bell for all the local barn swallows. They would form a "traffic oval" to my right. One at a time a barn swallow would peal off and dive in front of the tractor to catch a bug. Then it would have to do a max climb to avoid hitting the radiator on the tractor. More than once I thought one was about to eat the radiator cap! None ever did! It was a great "air show". Sometimes I would pay more attention to the air show and about mess up the field. After two rakings, the field was ready to bale.
Dad would use the Allis Chalmers and his 1947 John Deere wire tie side discharge square baler. It was powered by a 4 cylinder Wisconsin air cooled gas fired engine. Unlike the round baler, you didn't stop for each bale to pop out. You just kept driving down the wind rows and out would slide the bales to the ground. It was kind of neat as the big piston would be thump, thump, thumping packing the hay into bales. Dad never wanted us kids in front of the baler. If you got caught in the feed to pick the hay off the ground, he couldn't stop the baler quick enough to save you.
The last was to hook the Allis Chalmers up to the hay wagon. This ideally was a 3 person job. One to drive the tractor. One to pick the bales off the ground and place them on the wagon. One to take that bale and stack it on the wagon. Once the wagon was full, it was pulled into the horse barn. One person would toss the bales up into the loft in the barn. Another would stack the bales.
Hot, hot work! Mom would keep us going with her special lemonade by the gallon. This was half orange juice and half lemon juice with tons of sugar. Gatorade before it was invented! It kept us hydrated before we knew the term!
That sounds just like my uncle's. My aunt would make lime koolaid and bring it out to the field. I learned to drive his tractor for haying. And yeah, we were to stay far away from the front of the baler. Heck, we were to stay away from all parts of it while running. Good times and great memories.
@@Vickie-Bligh Vickie, thanks for the reply. I got my first driving lesson on the doodlebug tractor at age 5. Dad had another guy to help, but no one to drive the tractor. I got drafted. I just leaned back against the seat so I could reach the clutch pedal to stop the tractor. Dad put it in 1st gear and I steered where he told me. Mom was a bit concerned, but it all worked! Darned hard work, but still kind of a fun day as a kid. Oh that lemonade sure tasted great! It hit the spot!
If more kids could grow up this way instead of playing video games, the world might be a bit better place!
@@klsc8510 I remember one year It was me, my uncle, & his grandson (my 2nd cousin) competing against my cousins and their spouses. They had 4 adults and a big truck, we had the tractor & trailer, my uncle bucking the bales, me driving, my cousin stacking. Proportionately, we were tied. We had as many layers as they did. I do remember itching even after a bath. Great times.
As someone who grew up on a dairy farm, I can simply smell all that freshly cut grass and dry hay as you show it to us. Good memories. Getting the hay off the fields was always a frantic time with very high stacked piles of hay traversing the roads around the village, but also a great opportunity to catch up with the neighbours :)
You should checkout 10th Generation dairyman on youtube if you don't know who he is. Eric and his dad have around 200 milking cows in Pennsylvania
Congratulations, Chris! So happy and proud for your success and happiness! Good look.!....beautiful new truck hauling in your first hay bails!!!
Great video. Glad to see the field producing now. Also brings back a lot of memories. I tossed a lot of square bales as a youngster growing up in central Missouri. Thanks.
Go with the K31 Fescue and get a good stand of red clover mixed with the fescue. Every horse operation will be wanting your hay with that red clover mixed in.
Chris great yeald! Thanks for sharing! Kevin
Yay !!! Hesston round baler. My father worked for Hesston UK back in the '70s as Demonstrator / Fitter
Nice looking crop there and very summery. Tree's are still bare sticks and ice on the way here in England ❄
I'd plant a mix of cool weather grasses like orchard, timothy, perennial rye, NOVEL endophyte fescue and a mix of perennial legumes to capture nitrogen without fertilizing. I'd also inoculate the soil with fungus and bacteria.
This video was very cathartic. Great feeling to see this coming to fruition.
Wow, first time I see how's done, AMEZING
Good Job. Not many people understand the 'tonnage' a field like that produces. Elvis, babyMoomoo and the others can forage thru the next winter. Most of the hay fields in my area are Coastal Bermuda - I have seen a round baler burn for hours after a mechanical failure. Oak Hill Farms will never be the same - who would have thought that in 2017 it would be this now besides Chris. Watch the composting heat so it does not all burn up.
Great making hay why the sun shines ✨️
The Grass wonderful long grown You have the perfect Weather by the Cut, and the Hey to dry Quick wath very good. For the Bale Pack. You very Proud from this first harvest. I think You become a done twice harvest this Year. And to last green Cut for the Cow in the Autumn. Make a good Farmer!!! Greeting from Austria
AMBITION AND HARD WORK 💪 WILL ALWAYS PAY OFF!!!!.KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK AND YOU WILL ALWAYS BE SUCCESSFUL 🎉....