The hay videos take me back to my summers as a kid helping my Grandpa bale and stack hay(square bales) and also helping with the cows...man that was hard work!!! Something about watching the tedding videos is relaxing to me, lol. 😎👍 〽️
Tedding is an interesting concept to me. It's funny to see the differences in haymaking from region to region. Wetter areas have to ted hay (sometimes more than once), and sometimes add crop saver. Where we are we just rake and bale it after cutting. Some places don't even rake, they just mow and bale. And then, in the Southwest, it's so dry that they have to steam it as they bale. It's pretty cool to see the full gamut.
So Ryan, the first publicly available gps was the Magellan NAV 1000 released in 1989. Accuracy was 300 meters. After Clinton turned off selective availability in 2000, accuracy was increased to about 20 meters. Now you can nudge your path tedding hay 5”. That is incredible!
I can see how the Wheelman could be useful during hay season, especially if it is used for more than one task on the same field. In my mind, at the very least, it would make a lot of sense to use it while raking, since following rows isn't as much of an issue in that task. If you had the ability to use it for cutting, tedding, and raking in succession, that would be even better, but since your farms are on contours, that'd be much harder to do than, for instance, someone harvesting a square 160-acre field of alfalfa, for instance. Regarding the crop damage in your field, maybe you need to spend some time in the woods in late November a little closer to that field (just a thought). Looking forward to the rest of the hay footage coming soon.
We have a 13' MoCo and a ~30' tedder. We have found it easier/better for us is to ted at like a 30°-45° angle. It works well for us, but may/may not work for you or other farmers depending on field shapes/sizes/contours. Another great video Ryan!
Expressing at length the advantages of the 4600 over the 4020: I had to yell STOP to the surprise of my spouse. Love the videos especially with the drone, but egad, brevity has virtues. Keep up the informative videos.
Hey Ryan I will be working on the map sooner or later I am gonna beef up my computer so it can handle the giants editor keep up the great work it helps with the map 👍
@@williammcallister3541 not sure it could be a week could be 4 months its gonna be a little while it all depends on what happens I found a dude to make the building but has not got back at me and thats been 3 months ago
Combine guidance is a little different... there's "feelers" under the corn head that keeps the row centered into the snapping plates as it moves through the field, the stalks push the feelers off to one side or the other as they go into the head if the combine is off-center, and so it steers itself the opposite way to compensate and stay on the row. Now with a bean platform yeah something like the wheelman COULD work-- just have to set the header width and an appropriate amount of overlap to compensate for whatever the guidance accuracy is. Later! OL J R :)
When you turned the basket and the camera turned, all I could think about was the spongebob episode where he turns a ratchet and the hole camera turns. Lol. I think it was the episode where he got the sea horse
my field by my house has down corn like that. thought it was part of the high wind damage. I was told that the damage is Raccoons . they took out the middle rows
Ryan, Why don't you use a conditioner on your alfalfa? I have read that this is the best for alfalfa, since the tedder really doesn't extract much water. I used to do hay on a farm as a teenager and we always cut, conditioned and the raked. We were able to safely bale and store the same day as cutting, conditioning.
They have a flail conditioner on their mo-co... roller crusher-crimper type conditioners are actually better for alfalfa so they say (flails can strip more leaves and work better for grass crops) but it works acceptably in alfalfa for what they're doing... rollers are a lot more expensive and WAY more expensive to replace when they're worn out or starting to chunk out... Later! OL J R :)
You have a major raccoon problem.... everyone blames the deer but the deer knock down very little.. coon pull it down to eat the ear, especially in the silk stage. For deer the ear is at eye level... no need to knock it down to eat it...
I actually used it a month or two ago for that. Works well! I don’t believe it has an offset feature but I got it to work. The problem is the offset varies with the hillsides so they aren’t always equally spaced like I mentioned in this video
What happens is that when 1 breaks the next on that same rotor gets overloaded and tends to also break & so it goes on . In heavy conditions a lot of kg ( sorry lbs ) of forage is airborne at any one time . Fair bit of metal now on the field just waiting for a tractor tyre or the chopper . ~~
Most of the crop we’ve got is grass but that is true. If you’re trying to make Dairy quality hay, you probably don’t want to ted but it’s fine for beef.
Depends when you ted it too... In alfalfa basically you wan to ted it as soon as you're done cutting basically... while it's still as green and tender as possible. The longer you wait to ted, the drier the hay is, the more leaves you'll lose. You *might* get away with tedding it the next morning, particularly if the dew is on to "toughen it up" some, but the drier it gets the more you lose, yet. Later! OL J R :)
You might need a trail cam out tbeir. Can I attach a wheel man to my car to take car of my drive to work. If so I could watch a lot more HFW and RTS videos.
@@HowFarmsWork And one you can't do much about... it happens... Most folks would be AMAZED at some of the stuff that turns up in fields... A few years back I was chisel plowing for my brother-in-law, and saw a tire going flat and noticed something sticking out. Made it over to the barn right quick so we could pull the tire and turns out it was this long spike-thing with a tapered point, about 6 inches long, with a threaded section next to this big knob-like handle... They were guessing about what it was I knew what it was real quick-- the control needle valve out of an old pot-type blowtorch (the old gasoline type blowtorches they used in the 20's and 30's, back before oxygen-acetylene torches or propane torches came out...) He said there had been a house there at one time and they find all kinds of crap out there... One time I was middlebusting (plowing out beds) cotton stalks one fall down here in TX and suddenly the tractor got pulled around like I'd dropped an anchor off one end of the plow... I raised it up and went back and I had centered an old 4 inch gas pipeline coupler right over the center tip of the middlebuster plow point, and it was wedged on TIGHT... of course being down in the ground suddenly instead of a plow point on that end of the bar pushing through the soil it's a big wad of iron pushing so that's why she made a sudden turn on me. Had to knock the thing off with a hammer and go back to work, no harm done. Had a whole collection of those things (among other stuff) behind the barn in the scrap iron pile that I'd picked up out of the field over the years... Later! OL J R: )
@@BWYinYang he said the he did not see horse tracks only deer tracks. Deer look for places to hide to have there fawns and that is what that looks like
The hay videos take me back to my summers as a kid helping my Grandpa bale and stack hay(square bales) and also helping with the cows...man that was hard work!!! Something about watching the tedding videos is relaxing to me, lol.
😎👍 〽️
This is my first year making hay on my farm so enjoy I your hay making videos even more now.
You gotta wonder where the broken tines go. Into the baled hay or tractor tire?
Tedding is an interesting concept to me. It's funny to see the differences in haymaking from region to region. Wetter areas have to ted hay (sometimes more than once), and sometimes add crop saver. Where we are we just rake and bale it after cutting. Some places don't even rake, they just mow and bale. And then, in the Southwest, it's so dry that they have to steam it as they bale. It's pretty cool to see the full gamut.
A lot of farmers here in WA State just mow it, let it dry, turn it let it dry then bale it
Hi Ryan, I like how you explain the reasons you do or don't do certain tasks and how the equipment is supposed to operate.
So Ryan, the first publicly available gps was the Magellan NAV 1000 released in 1989. Accuracy was 300 meters. After Clinton turned off selective availability in 2000, accuracy was increased to about 20 meters. Now you can nudge your path tedding hay 5”. That is incredible!
Bear love corn, especially this time of the season. Put up a trail camera, guaranteed to see what’s going on
I can see how the Wheelman could be useful during hay season, especially if it is used for more than one task on the same field. In my mind, at the very least, it would make a lot of sense to use it while raking, since following rows isn't as much of an issue in that task. If you had the ability to use it for cutting, tedding, and raking in succession, that would be even better, but since your farms are on contours, that'd be much harder to do than, for instance, someone harvesting a square 160-acre field of alfalfa, for instance. Regarding the crop damage in your field, maybe you need to spend some time in the woods in late November a little closer to that field (just a thought). Looking forward to the rest of the hay footage coming soon.
Good morning Ryan and hope u have great day.
You too Tyler! Have a great day and a great weekend!
considering the weird year, your corn and beans look pretty good
Hey Ryan,love your videos it really is a help for new farmers who are just learning,keep em coming. Big shout out from here in West Virginia
You guys are going to wear that 7600 out. Seem to use it for everything. Thanks for the videos!
We have a 13' MoCo and a ~30' tedder. We have found it easier/better for us is to ted at like a 30°-45° angle. It works well for us, but may/may not work for you or other farmers depending on field shapes/sizes/contours. Another great video Ryan!
Man you are getting close to a quarter million subscribers. The money from the views will pour in like crazy once you hit 500k subscribers.
Great videos. Drone shots really add a lot to the videos. Good work. Worldwide audience... Hello from East TN...
Expressing at length the advantages of the 4600 over the 4020: I had to yell STOP to the surprise of my spouse. Love the videos especially with the drone, but egad, brevity has virtues. Keep up the informative videos.
When the suns shinning...Make Hay, Great editing Ryan
Ryan that was pretty darn good. I always enjoy your videos. Looks like the deer have found a new home in your corn.
Children of the corn! Get outta there!
Morning Ryan! Hope your day goes very well! :-)
Good morning! Same to you!
Awesome video as always Ryan!
Hey Ryan I will be working on the map sooner or later I am gonna beef up my computer so it can handle the giants editor keep up the great work it helps with the map 👍
Wait, you're building an FS19 Map of the Kuster Farms?
@@SilentShadows877 yes I am
@@SilentShadows877 and it will be for console
@@oldcroneysgarage9739 thank you how long untill itll be donne
@@williammcallister3541 not sure it could be a week could be 4 months its gonna be a little while it all depends on what happens I found a dude to make the building but has not got back at me and thats been 3 months ago
Put a trail cam up, Send out the drone, Send out the hounds for that field. Cool love tedding.
The beans are looking pretty good.
We find that tedding on a little bit of an angle the Tedder works a little better, then your auto steer would work better
It's nice to see you help Travis and dad once in a while around the farm
Another great video, Ryan. Thanks!
I see the combine in the background.
Ryan. Can you make. A video on how fast the tedder can scramble an egg..
He could use the mower to take the shell of the eggs 🤔
You guys should wrap all that hay we wrap all ours this year the cows dont waste nothing
What your total acreage count and also for the hay your growing Nd how many are the cattle occupying. Thanks for another great vid brother
Hay Ryan, I don't know if you guys have this planned already but I think you should try the wheelman Pro on the combine this Fall.
Combine guidance is a little different... there's "feelers" under the corn head that keeps the row centered into the snapping plates as it moves through the field, the stalks push the feelers off to one side or the other as they go into the head if the combine is off-center, and so it steers itself the opposite way to compensate and stay on the row. Now with a bean platform yeah something like the wheelman COULD work-- just have to set the header width and an appropriate amount of overlap to compensate for whatever the guidance accuracy is. Later! OL J R :)
Good work sod buster
Option 3, You've got to get Travis to cut with autosteer, so you can flow consistent path spacing!
Fall harvest will soon be here
Our corn looks like that when we have Wildboars, sorry for the bad English
Wondering where the broken times end up? On the ground? Or in the bales? Do you find them in odd places?
240,000 + subscribers, well done Ryan:)
Hey Ryan! Hope all is well. Awesome footage as usual man
When you turned the basket and the camera turned, all I could think about was the spongebob episode where he turns a ratchet and the hole camera turns. Lol. I think it was the episode where he got the sea horse
my field by my house has down corn like that. thought it was part of the high wind damage. I was told that the damage is Raccoons . they took out the middle rows
They'll sure do it....
Great footage
Ryan, Why don't you use a conditioner on your alfalfa? I have read that this is the best for alfalfa, since the tedder really doesn't extract much water. I used to do hay on a farm as a teenager and we always cut, conditioned and the raked. We were able to safely bale and store the same day as cutting, conditioning.
They have a flail conditioner on their mo-co... roller crusher-crimper type conditioners are actually better for alfalfa so they say (flails can strip more leaves and work better for grass crops) but it works acceptably in alfalfa for what they're doing... rollers are a lot more expensive and WAY more expensive to replace when they're worn out or starting to chunk out... Later! OL J R :)
@@lukestrawwalker Thank you Luke
@@jpbudinger You're welcome glad to help! OL J R :)
Very interesting video!
do you ever find the broken off tines in hay bales? or do they jam up the baler?
Do the broken tines that end up in the field do much damage to balers or other equipment?
My family took off 4th crop last week
You have a major raccoon problem.... everyone blames the deer but the deer knock down very little.. coon pull it down to eat the ear, especially in the silk stage. For deer the ear is at eye level... no need to knock it down to eat it...
Ken Raterink agreed
I haven't seen a watering system. Is that something that only western, states need? In Oregon they mostly have huge pivot systems.
Great music and video 👍🧔
Hey Ryan how is the semi any more leaks hope all is well sod buster
Well hows things, just wondering whats the make of the impact driver you used in the video
Looks like the spot in your corn is where deer have been bedding down
How many bales do y’all produce a year normally?
Can the Wheelman be used with the discbine? Is there an offset function that would allow that?
I actually used it a month or two ago for that. Works well! I don’t believe it has an offset feature but I got it to work. The problem is the offset varies with the hillsides so they aren’t always equally spaced like I mentioned in this video
Hey since I'm from the UK do you spring harrow your alfalfa
You have a hurricane in your beard (left side) @ 5:09, lmao
Hey Ryan, great video again👍👍, do you know if your farm is coming on FS19??
Are you going to have enough hay now? I know you guys expressed some concerns earlier in the year about having enough?
Nice video 👍
Do you find all the broken tines? Found an old tine in my new tractor tire while baling yesterday, just caught the lug.
You can hear them snap, finding them is another story
@@HowFarmsWork Get the metal detector out. 😉
Finding a tine in your hay baler...NOT FUN!!!
@@nogeek43 Uh oh, been there done that huh?
What happens is that when 1 breaks the next on that same rotor gets overloaded and tends to also break & so it goes on . In heavy conditions a lot of kg ( sorry lbs ) of forage is airborne at any one time . Fair bit of metal now on the field just waiting for a tractor tyre or the chopper . ~~
I subscribed I love tractors and machinery I would want to be a farmer for my future
Hi Ryan and Rocket.
Please define SCV.
Thank You for your time and effort making vids.
Selective Control Valves, the hydraulics you can use to control different applications on a variety of equipment
Doesn't tedding knock the leaves off the alfalfa and lower the protein of the hay?
Most of the crop we’ve got is grass but that is true. If you’re trying to make Dairy quality hay, you probably don’t want to ted but it’s fine for beef.
Depends when you ted it too... In alfalfa basically you wan to ted it as soon as you're done cutting basically... while it's still as green and tender as possible. The longer you wait to ted, the drier the hay is, the more leaves you'll lose. You *might* get away with tedding it the next morning, particularly if the dew is on to "toughen it up" some, but the drier it gets the more you lose, yet. Later! OL J R :)
do you find broken tines in some or your bales when you feed them ?
Looks like a herd of something is using parts of your cornfield as a hotel and playground...
Nice vid!
Hi Ryan
1rst now let me wach the video i like and iv been subscribed also can the wheelman pro be used on combines.
I might have missed it. What’s the brand and model of your tedder?
Why does the corn plants in the field next to the horses look so yellow?
which tractor gets the most hours per year?
You must have that JCB on a rent to own program.....:)
You might need a trail cam out tbeir. Can I attach a wheel man to my car to take car of my drive to work. If so I could watch a lot more HFW and RTS videos.
Looks like you had a bunch of deer bedding down in that corn field.
Bravo!!
When he says a bomb went off he should see the feild by my house is a big amount of corn down
Did u buy the jcb ?
So you guys going to keep the JCB? Seems like you have had it forever.
You might have a Bigfoot lurking in the corn field Ryan 😳😬
Are you keeping the jcb ?
Ryan, do you ever worry about things like broken times getting lost in fields? I'm sure you do because it can show up at the worst time....tires
It’s always a concern
@@HowFarmsWork And one you can't do much about... it happens... Most folks would be AMAZED at some of the stuff that turns up in fields... A few years back I was chisel plowing for my brother-in-law, and saw a tire going flat and noticed something sticking out. Made it over to the barn right quick so we could pull the tire and turns out it was this long spike-thing with a tapered point, about 6 inches long, with a threaded section next to this big knob-like handle... They were guessing about what it was I knew what it was real quick-- the control needle valve out of an old pot-type blowtorch (the old gasoline type blowtorches they used in the 20's and 30's, back before oxygen-acetylene torches or propane torches came out...) He said there had been a house there at one time and they find all kinds of crap out there... One time I was middlebusting (plowing out beds) cotton stalks one fall down here in TX and suddenly the tractor got pulled around like I'd dropped an anchor off one end of the plow... I raised it up and went back and I had centered an old 4 inch gas pipeline coupler right over the center tip of the middlebuster plow point, and it was wedged on TIGHT... of course being down in the ground suddenly instead of a plow point on that end of the bar pushing through the soil it's a big wad of iron pushing so that's why she made a sudden turn on me. Had to knock the thing off with a hammer and go back to work, no harm done. Had a whole collection of those things (among other stuff) behind the barn in the scrap iron pile that I'd picked up out of the field over the years... Later! OL J R: )
Hey Ryan!!
You need to get night vision on your drone, and do a night investigation it could be a sasquatch?
We just started our second cut in our feilds 😢
Do you guys sell the hay? Or make just enough for your Youngstock?
Typically we make what we need and sell leftovers, this year we’re making a bit more hay so we’ll be selling more than usual
When you ted the outside round you should leave the outside pass because else the grass goes under the corn
Maybe some stem or crown rot in that corn, doesn't take much to knock them over sometimes.
Cool how ya doin how farms work wish I could come help yall
Looks like maybe a couple of young bucks may have been sparing in your corn field.
Do you deer hunt
bear will roll and play in corn
Texas don’t use a tear we
Rack rack it and Bell
So when are you going to demo a Krone Big M 500?! lol
Maybe a game cam would help
Bear can make a mess like that in corn.
Looks like some deer had there babys in your corn
Ryan, should tell difference between horse and deer prints. 🙄
@@BWYinYang he said the he did not see horse tracks only deer tracks. Deer look for places to hide to have there fawns and that is what that looks like
@@donmcmannamy3409 Deer have their fawns when the corn is maybe a foot tall and that corn was way too tall.
Looks like wildlife bedding down....
why does people do tedding? i usually dont see around where i live so i was just curious
Spread the hay out so it dries faster... OL J R :)
Hey Ryan, your teder ist to small. ;-)
Greets from Bavaria/Germany