The Human Hay Baler! Jim Kovaleski Demonstrates His Custom + Manual Baler
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2021
- Jim Kovaleski is a Human Hay-Baler! He demonstrates the full process of creating hay bales using his custom-made, manual baler. Jim feeds the hay to his animals and gardens with this organic and sustainable approach.
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Jim Kovaleski is a Human Hay-Baler! He demonstrates the full process of creating hay bales using his custom-made, manual baler. Jim feeds the hay to his animals and gardens with this organic and sustainable approach.
Want to see more of Jim Kovaleski?! We filmed a Course with Jim. It's called "The Grass-Fed Market Garden" ; this course is packed with valuable information and is affordable! We are constantly adding more content to the course so be sure to check it out and learn from the Farming Master!
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thats a lot of work that, Jim he's a grafter! thanks for sharing Pete
Any chance of getting plans for this? Or reference to where/who he copied from?
Do you sell the shirt Jim wears?
Surely making wynds of hay and a reek would be less hassle.
Seems like a lot of work A rake he could just pull behind a tractor or truck
Never been so excited for a video about hay before.
Awesome 😎
I hope your life improves next week
@@harleyharleyharley oh man. I got some hay going. Got the garden almost fully prepped for my winter growing season. If I don't count that our government is doing, things are getting better everyday.
This is the guy I want on my team when the world returns to how it used to be 150+ years ago
Or just about any Amish person. :)
I know - I'd appreciate him just being within an hour of me, also because I like his personality and everything as a person to learn from ! Not that I'd want to be a pest, but even to just ask a question here and there, as we learn to keep our scythe sharp for example.
@@GARRY3754 Huh?
Get him in your team quick, that times back coming faster then you think.
Why wouldn't return to that?
In days like these we all wish we were Jim Kovaleski.
This treasure of a man is a testament to clean living and hard work
The type of work ethic and knowledge that should be documented and shared. This is what I love about UA-cam. No way Jim would post and edit vids on his own, but strikes me as the type of guy you could talk to and work with all day. Thanks for capturing his essence, and thanks Jim for freely sharing your knowledge with us 🙏🏾
Wow...You Tube logarithms think I should know how to make a bale of hay....I watched the whole vid too!!..really interesting!
I'm 72 and have my grandfather's long handled three-tine pitchfork. We are 5th generation rice farmers. My grandfather and a crew of dozens of men cut and binded (tied) rice into bundles with a binding machine drawn by a team of horses or mules. Thirteen bundles were stacked together into one "shock" (rice heads facing up with one bundle turned upside down over the top the shed any rain." After the sun dried the shocks, the crew used those pitchforks to load a horse drawn bundle wagon that brought the rice bundles to a stationary threshing machine powered by a steam engine and the bundles were loaded on to a feeder chain that carried the rice head first into the concave and cylinder to be threshed. All the straw was blown into a huge straw pile that feed the cattle through the winter. No barn needed. Today we raise 3.5 million pounds of high quality Louisiana rice on the same farm. The straw remains on the ground to feed next years crawfish crop! some fields yield 1,000 lbs of crawfish per acre. Airboats are used to empty the crawfish traps. We No-Till rice and precision level our land to save water and prevent erosion. We hold water as well. Less carbon. More food. 80% of American farms are family owned. We also have the gears for a horse powered hay baler. The horse walked around in a circle compressing a baler fed straw by the same pitchforks. I enjoyed the video. Good man.
Good Morning. Thankyou!
Please Do a video. Steam engines are great to see. May need to go back to them.
I really enjoyed your comment. Now I'll be looking for the Louisiana brand rice to buy, just because of the wonderful story of your rice farming family.
Please can you do.a video on how that's done! I'd love to see it. We do hay but my machine
Is it Zatarains? I want rice grown like this!
fantastic, some of us still about. Wiltshire hillbilly/country folk. 1950 here still working with horses. so only 70 years ago.
Love it!
This guy will remain young at heart and young in the limbs too.
You know it!
Okay, I hereby nominate Jim Kovaleski for permanent admittance into the "Garden Hall of Fame", MannyG Orlando
Absofeickenlootly
In the late '90's I fed rabbits and poultry home grown winter wheat that was hand baled on my farm in the Ozarks. In spring when the wheat headed out I cut stems and all then sun dried it. I baled it using just a wooden box about 1/2 the size of the standard bale Jim is making. Just by stomping with feet I was able to get a good compact bale. I fed the hay with grains in the suspended rabbit cages and the poultry down below ate the grains the rabbits dropped as they fed. I also did a lespedeza hay which is a high protein legume the same way. This got my animals through winter very well. Some of the wheat was hand threshed to grain and made into bread.
Awesome ! U may want to go find videos on Joel Salatin's " rakin " set up ( sounds just like yours in theory) to give those into it, this idea of raising that to feed them ! Thanks !!
Fascinating! How large an area did you plant? Did you use any machinery? Would love to hear more! Thanks!
What does he use to cut the grass???? Guess that will be part 2.
@@lmrohr1173 a hand sythe, think grim reaper lmao
this dude makes the amish look hi tech brings new meaning to manual labor.
Jim inspired me a couple years back to use grass in the garden. Oh how many people thought I was an idiot. Two years in and those same folks are getting interested in how I produce so much without buying fertilizers etc. Thanks Jim.
This guy is ahead of our time. God bless thank for sharing this knowledge
JIM ROCKS!🤘🇺🇲🤘
Thanks Mr. Pete!👍
One in five hundred million man.. Charmed!!
He is one tuff dude! 👍
He's a fit man,real world fitness and strength,fair play to him💪🇮🇪.
This reminds me of the old-fashioned way things are still done in some rural villages from Turkey to Eastern Europe. People today think that things can't be done by hand, but those ways have just been lost to modern society.
Pete, please pass this along to Jim. Before you put any hay in, start by passing the lower twine thru back at the door for easy access. Just pull an extra 6 ft straight thru out the other side. Use something like a paint stir stick to drag the twine up to the front. You could add a brass cup hook on the vertical frame about where the knot is in the wood ( see 6:58 ) on both sides. So that makes a "U" shape with the bottom twine when you start loading in the hay. You can take the twine off the cup hooks after your first compression but I think this will work. Don't cut the wood. It's an integral part of the frame. Just my 2 cents. I loved this video and the next one where Jim mulches the bed first and then plants. So simple, but amazingly effective.
Guy said " Jim you're not afraid of hard work" that's those old Polish genetics. I was making hay with my grandma in Poland when she was 87 years old, both barefoot :) just absorbing the earth's vibes ..
I wanna go back to the simpler life
Killing it with the Jim videos, it’s really nice to see other options available and how he doesn’t need machines. Keep up the good work Jim and Pete!
Thanks man! 👊
Well - my kind of machines. Ones that don't have motors or computers, things that I can't fix myself ( me, a NOT very mechanically inclined female ) or can easily kill you !
The earth does a big relief sigh of aaaawwwhhhhh when Jim shows up! He treats her so nicely pretty work Pete and Jim!
An interesting novelty
I suggest the gentleman is adding the hay to the bale through the rear of the baler chamber, when a machine compressed baler introduces hay through the plunger end, making compression more natural and far easier..
I totally agree ! It is a failure that even after so much engineering, the user is forced to such unergonomic labour 9:18
I have a manual Baler and I feed my loose hay in through the plunger end
I think a top loader would be the easiest way to go …
@@paint52 yes, mine is a upright, top loading version
Farmers are hardworking people
Well, I have to admit, I can’t wait to see this in action myself. Having spent most of my summers as a kid baling hay with my parents and siblings, I’ve seen more hay bales then I want to remember.
I hated summer hay bailing time, its hot and dusty and the hay would always cut my legs when i was moving it.
There is true intelligence here… and it’s not that it’s surprising, but it is beautiful and deserves celebration. Thank you for continuing to return to his projects and for letting us in
Jim, you’re a good man.
I've got a manual hay press that is 90% the same as this. Mine is more continuous like a machine baler rather than this latched door style. The twine tying is the same. They are surprisingly effective!
What's the name of your baler? Where can I find one? Thank you.
@@lisaclark4517 I built it myself with plywood and 2x4s, much like Jim's.
@@lisaclark4517 I have a video that shows it in use. I don't go over the construction, but it's pretty straightforward 2x4 framing. You can work out the dimensions based on a standard small thrower bale (approx. 14 x 18 x 36 inches)
Jim is amazing! Teenagers today couldn't do this physical work.
They don’t make them like they used to!
They used too. Thats why we have daylight savings time and they got out of school in late June to work on farms. Now teanagers do nothing because our society is a bunch of snowflakes!
I like the idea of reusing the twine. We need more of this in our lives, not just hay but so many farm products are incredibly dependent on expensive machines, particularly here in the UK. Finding an individual to actually work today is the challenge!
Pay adequately then there wont be a problem. Farm and fishing girl here. Love farm work but get no breaks, no rest room usage and pittance as a paycheck. That's why farmers had big families. Like our Dad told us...don't complain. For being my labor savers (paid employees we were not) you get a roof over your head, bed to sleep in, an education and 3 square meals a day, your mother does the laundry so the least you can do is 'help' on the farm. Slaves unpaid. We thought. They bought us clothing and shoes. We had a tv. Fresh milk and eggs and our own meat. Vegetable garden. Fish from the sea. Very lucky until it came to competing with kids in school for haircuts, latest clothing. Pocket money? Ha ha. Good luck. We didn't die. Cooked our own food. Went to mass every sunday. All successful. We had sheep. Cows. Hens. Pony. Best life.
Have u heard about JADAM?
I did not have time and materials to build a bailer so I reused bailing twine in a garbage can and stomped it in.
Great idea!
The old adage " where there's a will, there's a way " comes to mind ! Excellent !
Cool video!!! Hard work usually produces the best product! Maybe not the MOST, but generally the BEST.
Jim rocking it with the Opinel knife
Good work, if you put a load entries in en the top of the back compression you can continuously load hay without open an close the door.
Greetings from Galicia, Spain
Hi Jim! Nifty Rig! Miss seeing you around! Leasa and Mike
I would love to see a picture of his hands...I know that sounds weird but to me a man's hands are like his own personal history book.
That’s not weird at all! When I observe someone I look at their hands and shoes.
@@Sandra-gk3ct says alot about your character to me..strong, dependable, not afraid to work
@@Sandra-gk3ct I know, those little bastards, I'm fighting a horrible mound right now
Collecting my grass clippings today using that same hay fork. Every time I mow my yard (large one) I mow towards the center making mounds of clippings. I use those to make compost & to mulch. Have been doing this for 5 years now. Just thought it was coincidence that I am doing the same activity with the same fork and came in for an iced tea break to watch this video.
the contraption reminds me of the wool balers where you load from the top and tamp down.
Every time a greenie gets an idea, it takes humanity back 500 years.
Or the Sun will, then this information may be helpful.
Pete, enjoying your videos! Jim, learning a lot!
This is the COOLEST video I have seen in a long time
Ol Jim is my kinda guy! Patient, knowledgeable, (even while still learning), and a worker. God bless him and all of us true workers.
🌞🙏💛☯️🌞💯😃
You make me want to buy a baler and I live in a third story apartment.
🤣🤣🤣
That's funny!
Just be aware that green grass will heat up in a stack, and can catch fire.
I was born in 1957 on a farm in South Devon, England, and often helped my father with the hay as a teenager. ...... The smell of new-mown hay is wonderful.
He brewed home-made bitter beer, and elderflower champagne. ...... This combined into a great shandy - much appreciated by those moving bales like these from the fields into small stone barns.
This new survival challenge in Farm Sim 22 looking great! Very unique take
When is was a young boy. My Great Grand Mother would remark about things that were good. It implied lots and lots of strenuous labor. She was 99 when she passed.. Must been all that good stuff.In a way Jim has an old soul.
I want to be like this guy when I grow up.
I love thus guy!
I'm gonna say it again...Jim is a beast!
For some of you older folks, that's an extreme compliment!
💪💪
In the old fashioned barn with a hay loft, it was strewed all over the loft floor. After a few days it was piled in the corner, stomped to pack it down, and this was repeated till the loft was full. A lot of hay can be made this way.
This video is solid gold
Glad you think so!
Pete please keep them coming!! You and Jim are my therapy. Your videos put me in a happy place and they inspire and teach me so much! Please keep them coming!!!
Thanks 😊
Wowwwww very really inspiring hay baler
this guy is amazing, he absolutely touches me so much dedication, ethics and pleasure
As a kid growing up in the 60's watching old westerns I often wondered how they had bails of hay when the bailer wasn't invented till early 20th century
Happy Birthday, Jim!
Awesome! Love Jim.
He said $75 bales stored so far. At $20 plus a bale these days. Worth it!
I'm going to be doing this the whole summer so I got to get ready if I'm going to be doing it by hand so thank you
I would do this if money wasn’t involved. Always loved plants and knowing them, animals, and what we need for sustainence. So lovely.
I love everyone’s hay stories here. Mine is we cut our 400 of our 600 acres in central VA w/ 2 huge Ford tractors, use wind rakes, a round and a square baler. It takes a week, w/ 4 people, but the whole family works the farm. We get 3 or 4 cuttings a year to feed 2 herds, 80 head, of Black Angus & our horses. Our farm is Circa 1707, was all done w/ Oxen & horses until Henry Ford mass produced tractors.
This guy is a bad ass!!!!
Hey Pete, always love your vids with Jim. Man, that fella can work! I was impressed with what Jim said in a previous vid about the value of knowing your piece of land better by walking it and scything. You'd get instant feedback about where water accumulates, rocks, plant mix, etc. Respect from here in urban Sydney
great video.
Love seeing Jim! He is so amazing! Thank you!
Absolutely wonderful!!!! Thank you for this!
That's cool, I hope to be like Jim as I progress with my homestead farm.
man..a couple o good guys that like to work together could do quite a few a day. As someone who bailed hay all summer long as a kid i am Once Again impressed by JIM!!!
This could definitely be scaled with a little extra manpower.
@@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL its the like minded people that will do it. I do believe there are beginning to be more like minded people!
Very inspiring and informative. Thx for sharing you guys.
Great and simple man! That’s what this world needs. Hope he shares plans so I can build it
That’s cool. God bless
Great show! Thanks!
That is AWESOME 👍🏻👍🏻
Wealth of knowledge. Love you guys!
Hey Pete get a shot of the bales inside the barn.
Fantastic
That is amazing. I used to help my Dad put loose hay in the hay mow.
He would have loved this process!
I'm really happy to find this video! I've been thinking about this for a while and now I have more clear ideas about how I'll build my baler!
The support he is having to string around. Make a kerf for the string for an easy slide through was a good idea Pete. Great to see you guys!
Just in time! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for posting this video. It is so good to see that he is self sufficient. Not only is he providing for his animals but, he is also doing himself a great load of health. To work hard outdoors is so bennificial to our healt. He will surely live a health long life.
Super grass compress machine 👍
Amazing! I used to help my grandparents with flipping and collecting hay. We still have special wooden forks which are broader and can collect more hay. Jim mentioned how longer straws are better for flipping and stick together. This is essential for old style stacking. Thanks Pete and thanks Jim for bringing back some memories. Pity we can not sense that beautiful smell of freshly mowed hay. Keep up the good work guys!
Excellent soil builder. Good work Jim.
To be young again..I am impressed. When I had dairy goats I put hay in loose. I only scythed an acre...that was enough. With a full fork I probably got at least half bail over my head...a game I had played with myself since on a dairy farm ( with no tractor...just a team of horses).
Awesome! Thanks for sharing!
This brought back memories…..of the hay press (baler) my father made for us. What a special video👍👍
I see that slippery half-hitch, a great knot!
Jim is amazing. Thanks for the video!
awesome Jim, thank you
Good to see the "down to earth" ways!
My Aunt told me to make hay!
But living on a farm was like Greek to me.
Thank you
Thanks for another awesome video Pete! :)
Wow!
This video more important NOW, than on the date when it was actually made!
Someone needs to make plans available for this thing of beauty!
A lot of people could make use of this major survival tool!
Right - I was hoping there would be link to plans for this...
Always love to see what Jim is up to! Thanks Pete!
This is so awesome!!!! Jim you r amazing..love ur ways!!!
So cool. Jim is a he-man!
Such a gorgeous place !
Amazing Job!