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.
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.
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.
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.
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.❤️
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.
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.
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!
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)
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.
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'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 !!!!
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.
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.
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!
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. 😃
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 ..
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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!
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!
Well Done there Brother!! Must say, pretty damn proud of what you've achieved there mate! Keep them videos going. I Love putting up your vids in the workshop while I'm working. Keeps me motivated! Proud to be a subscriber!
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.
Crazy that you are already cutting some beautiful first cut hay , here we just fertilized the fields and the grass is just starting to wake up for the season , still mostly yellow
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 :)
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
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..............
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.
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.
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
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.
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 🙂
What a transformation on that piece of property! Great looking hay; congratulations and best wishes.
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.❤️
Good neighbors are everything 👍🏼
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.
Hayins always fun nice crop mister!
Chris, you seem as excited about the hay crop, as a kid with a new toy !! LOL 😁 Hard work pays off at last !
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
Whoooo Hooooo!!! Fruits of your labor,,,SOOO COOL to exchange labor ,for mutual respect 🙏 and friends,! SOOO Smart
Those are going to be some happy happy cows!
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.
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!
Thanks Chris,peace brother…
One very very satisfying crop first time something you will not forget congratulations. 👍👍
Thanks for sharing once upon time I did do the square bails all done by hand heavy and hot work 👍👋🇨🇦
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!
Now it's time to plant El felfa and clover for high quality feed over the Winter.
Wow, out here in the Rocky Mountains West, we are just now losing our winter snow, and here you are cutting and bailing hay.
I love the background music starting about 4:45.
Pretty cool. I watched you clear, clean up, plant, and now bale the field. Nice set of videos!
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)
Fantastic video on something I don't ever recall watching being performed. Very cool. Thanks for another awesome video.
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.
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.
Love it! $10 bucks says Chris has his own "hay toys" next year :)
Nice to see success. Thanks for sharing.
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'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.❤
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 !!!!
Good morning all
hayy!! lol
@Aqua Peet Haylow, have a great night
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
Happy farmer Chris! 😁
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.
Nice hay crop. Thanks for sharing. I never saw the entire hay cutting, prepping and bailing process in action.
I'm glad your excited with a great crop.
Best video of 2023!! Nice load of hay.👍👏❤️
This video was very cathartic. Great feeling to see this coming to fruition.
I bet that field smells fabulous!
AWSOME AGAIN my friend,,!,Thank you ❤️
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.
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!
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. 😃
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🙄😂
We farm in south west Arizona a lot different. Great looking hay. Great video 👍 👍
I knew as soon as you injected the grass it was going to take off.. should make SEVERAL Bails....😊❤
Thank you.
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
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 ..
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Many many circles I have made, weights, moisture, many years - have fun with it :)
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.
Congratulations. Looks like a good healthy crop.
You going to have a nice hay field in the end! Great job! Beautiful!
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.
Great making hay why the sun shines ✨️
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.
Never actually seen this process start to finish before. Thanks for sharing Chris!
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.
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😊
AMBITION AND HARD WORK 💪 WILL ALWAYS PAY OFF!!!!.KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK AND YOU WILL ALWAYS BE SUCCESSFUL 🎉....
I alway could feel the extra moisture in the air when the was a wet spot when the hay was drying when I got to it.
Looks good
Thanks for sharing
Love the smell of fresh cut hay !!
Great look yield on the field!! 👍
Me too!
Congratulations, Chris! So happy and proud for your success and happiness! Good look.!....beautiful new truck hauling in your first hay bails!!!
Thanks Chris for the Change up Video!!👍👍
Crazy that you are making hay, we are still a month away from silage and hay is end of summer. Not so sunny Scotland.
I enjoyed watching that. It's quite a process!!
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.
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
fantastic result for the hay crop, love the music and your drone footage. your farm is looking amazing, well done!
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!
Chris great yeald! Thanks for sharing! Kevin
Wow, first time I see how's done, AMEZING
That's a beautiful crop of rye grass!!
thank you ...
LetsFarm18,,ha ha. Good looking bales of hay Chris. Thanks again for all your good videos.
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!
Yay !!! Hesston round baler. My father worked for Hesston UK back in the '70s as Demonstrator / Fitter
Hay yes
Only time I enjoyed cutting hay this much is when I watched your video !
Well Done there Brother!! Must say, pretty damn proud of what you've achieved there mate! Keep them videos going. I Love putting up your vids in the workshop while I'm working. Keeps me motivated! Proud to be a subscriber!
always nice to see hard work pay off, nice field, can you smell the steak in that grass
Awesome! Sure is nice to get your first cut on the new farm. Congratulations on the first yield! Take care and God Bless!!!😊
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.
Wow, hay already!!
Congratulations! This is SO great!! And now we all get to learn cool stuff about farming!
👍👏🚜👏👍
Awesome!!! Nice to know where your hay came from and how it was grown. Nice and clean for your animals. Great first yield!
Crazy that you are already cutting some beautiful first cut hay , here we just fertilized the fields and the grass is just starting to wake up for the season , still mostly yellow
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