Baling Hay on a Cloudy Day

foreign we're going to be bailing today it's a little cloudy a little humid don't think it's gonna rain it's giving us hope though it's kind of dark out west now the fly is getting you [Music] we're bailing five different fields today all of these we would normally cut the entire thing as you know uh we're in a different situation we just did the outside the tall stuff and we're gonna have the cows graze the rest so we're gonna do a bit of hopping around today [Music] thank you [Music] there's a little bit of blue and then in the west and we're a little worried about it sprinkling on this hay and I thought it was a little bit tough to bail because it might not grind the dust but after we made the first Bale and I feel like we're about 25 percent done with the field already I guess we just will finish it up that's terrible so this is the best part of the field that we cut and you can see that's the window and then this is what we didn't cut because we're just going to turn the cows in it and you can see there's not much here so the good news is we graze this every year so we got some cow pies it's going to add some tonnage to these Bales oh great so that's a win and off he goes into the wild blue yonder running like a crab oh here's a Rock depository [Music] usually I've got a lot of time in these fields to think of things to tell you but the Field's going to end fast since we just kind of went around the field four times and didn't do the main part of the field boy this has been a different summer you know instead of spending all our time hanging and Hauling Bales we're just hunkering down away from the heat when we're not working outside it's uh interesting this reinforces why we're not cutting when we're hardly getting any hay around the best part of the field where you know the snow set and the fence lanes and that's what we're going after and the rest of it's even worse so we're definitely in a pretty severe drought Brooks and Dunn country duo I think Ronnie Dunn is one of the best singers in country music he's got a just an awesome voice but uh this particular song by Brooks and Dunn kicks Brooks actually sang it and it just shows how talented he is too even though usually he's just kind of singing back up to Ronnie Dunn but the song of the day is You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone by Brooks and Dunn sang by Kix Brooks foreign [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] well that wasn't too bad we normally get about 90 and we got eight huh I guess considering how much we cut that it actually wasn't too bad it had the best part I bet we wouldn't get five more out of the 20 acres we didn't do yeah so that's fun so we got the first one done and the big scary clouds they're kind of Disappearing so we're gonna go back home get feeding done and then hit the next four all right Dad so we got two hours and 36 minutes and it's at 8 200. I see what are we going to win bigly go home or go big or go home give bear you can get here and give it a give it a poke or two I gotta wait till the last couple yeah yeah you get people excited well I know what happens with me I'm like I ain't spending a dime over this number and then it goes over that number and then I'm like okay I ain't spend a dime over this number and it just keeps going up so we gotta wait to the last minute so people get their hopes up and then we Crush their dreams yeah and then the other thing is is If you bid now they're like what am I missing maybe I better bid too so you want to think oh there's something wrong with it don't bid and that's why all the bins in the last two minutes pretty much you bet except the guys that want a bit but they don't want to really buy anything and then you bid early like me because it makes you feel good yeah dad'll be like I'm high bidder on a brand new tank it's like it's at five dollars Dad I'm I'm high bidder on a brand new tractor at a thousand bucks but one of these days everybody else is going to forget that oh we should have been on that tractor and I'm gonna win bigly but Brian Sunny he came home with a brand new tractor for a thousand dollars or thereabouts I don't think so so this morning it was looking pretty dark over that way so we were a little worried we'd get some sprinkle on that hay it was a little tough It's kind of humid so we're letting it dry down a bit but just so you know all this dark we're seeing over here it goes all halfway up into North Dakota and all the way to the south of southern part of Kansas it's like 300 miles long 400 miles and it's about 50 miles wide this storm but it's headed straight North so there's about 400 miles worth of storm not too far from us that's just sliding right by us and it's going to be doing it probably all day close but no cigar as they say we're gonna let that hay dry just for another hour wait for that trencher backhoe to come up on The Auction Block see if we can get it and then we'll take off and finish up paying for today it's at 9 200. no we'll go with a 9300 place in bed are you sure yes I'm automatically outbid it's crazy people are bidding here we go son of a gun it's already a 99 well I guess we're going 10-2 we're going 10-5 we ain't getting this paw it's it's too intense it's like camping I'm high bitter ten five here we go we're going ten seven this guy's thinking oh I got it 40 seconds left well I feel like it's me and another guy oh I'm gonna hide better at 11. there's a minute 10 seconds I'm out bit already I think if it wasn't for me this guy would have had it at like 9 000 bucks 20 seconds left bidden 14. 14 smooth yeah where the high bid that one is that thirteen nine now it's at 14. and we're out bed oh my gosh I'm done I ain't doing it working too I ain't doing it all right two one sold for 14.5 I think you would have gone all the way up to 20. that was a heartbreaker bunch of malarkey had enough sitting in the house let's do some raking and bailing get her done foreign [Music] [Music] [Applause] so this little tiny three acre patch we're probably gonna end up with uh I don't know six or seven Bales but about two Bales an acre which is amazing this year on grass hay three to five Bales an acre is pretty common here in the Sun so it's nice to get even two Bales maker uh something this year [Applause] [Music] well that's a fun field only three acres dad's about half done we got four bales already over a bale an acre look at that unfortunately it's our smallest field and it's and it's our only field that's going to be able to pump out Bales like that our coins actually looking pretty good today because it's cloudy but I've been hearing lots of stories about the brace roots and that haven't developed and they're just one or two little Roots going down and so without a brace thread it's not going to be able to stand any extremely strong winds a challenging year happens when you're young like coal you learn from it and you move on and most of it's on Dance checkbook you know now so you can learn a lot of things over the years from different uh bad situations we get ourselves into whether it's uh drought or flood or fire or you know just late plants or Frost freezing too early in the fall before the crops developed a tremendous amount of things that you know I'm still learning there's so many things that we get faced with and you never know from one year to the next what it might be or if it's not really anything other in the ordinary so it makes life interesting hopefully we grow stronger from it [Music] only the outside of this one was worth cutting and the rest were gonna have to graze when they run out of Feed in their pasture dad's got three Bales here one on the Baler fifth one getting made right now yeah it's about one day's worth of feed those five males there's about a half a bale right there but hey that's like 60 bucks so we're gonna get it foreign take that back it was more like a quarter of a bale two small areas left to go and we're done bailing and raking for the day [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] endros on that field blessed us with three whole Bales this one will be a little bit better there's some well we cut right through the wet spot there was actually some pretty nice hay in here thank you all right we're done with that let's go home and tackle the next thing okay it's been a nice cloudy day I really appreciate that especially since the last two days have been touching 100 degrees feels almost cool out here we made about 40 Bales today yeah I don't know it's nice to have them nice to have some hay that's for sure uh let's let's hop in the skid loader and do a little work a little bit of mowing with the diamond mowers brush cutter [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] well we weren't quite man enough to get that trencher and backhoe bot man that that guy we are being against needed that thing it seems like I kind of think if I quit bidding that like 9000 he would have got it for that it was just him and I forever all the way up to like 14 2 or something made a few Bales today cleaned up the yard and it was a decent day finally got some humidity back it's been a dry heat all summer so far anyway thanks for watching folks hope you enjoyed it love to see you next time have a good one [Music] that was loud

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Id: HW8r-l7E5vU

Length: 18min 21sec (1101 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 05 2023