CAN I BALE YET?!?!

morning everyone welcome back to another video today we're going to try and bail some grass hey you guys saw in the last video that we dropped this and that in right now is two days ago exactly so This Grass has been on the ground for two days it's dried out a huge amount already um some of the thicker bits are still a little bit tough but I think after today with the weather forecast this stuff is going to dry right out and we're gonna try to make some round bales we are going to make a few small square bales just uh enough to make eight Stacks in our small square Bill shed and the rest we're going to round bale I know lean's getting quite a few goats so I guess it's probably going to be more convenient to feed him with a round bale now instead of lugging those small squares around but still handy to have a few of those we don't feed any of this hay to the calves anymore we used to feed a little bit to the smaller calves in the group pen barn but not anymore so Miriam's out here she's raking them together for the round baler we're putting two swaths into one and that's just gonna speed things up quite a bit so that's one purpose of raking the other purpose of course you're taking that swath and you're flipping it upside down so obviously the stuff at the bottom of the swath always takes a lot longer to dry because it's not um facing the Sun so with the rake you're able to flip it over bring the bottom of the swath to the top and it'll dry out a lot quicker that way this grass is still pretty green it hasn't had any rain on it and if we can get a bale today I don't think there will be any on it but tomorrow's going to get really hot and there's always a risk of thunder showers when it gets super hot out here so we're going to try and get this build up today we'll see how it goes anyway Miriam's gonna finish raking this up here within the next hour probably and then this afternoon later we're gonna try and bail some hay so here's two swaths that haven't been raked yet and then here's one that has been rigged together quite an impact fluffs it up again allows the air to move through it better I asked Miriam also to leave 12 swaths that were just single but flipped over so she just raked the one swath flipped it upside down and those swats are hopefully going to make us all the small square bells that we need it's just that small square baler you know it's an older piece of equipment and it's not built for the wide headers of today so putting 32 feet worth of grass straw through that it's a little bit too much for that little small square baler foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] what's up [Music] foreign [Music] so we picked up the Baler from our other yard and I think we're going to be able to build this afternoon just checked out the hay again and it's supposed to be close to plus 30 today a bit of wind is going to stay in the air and of course no clouds so we should should have pretty good luck making bills today just pulled this thing out of the shed fired right up after six months there so solid we're just gonna put some grease to this baler Grease the chains a little bit put some oil on there get it ready to go [Music] okay guys we're ready to go make our first Bale slots are looking bone dry these are the first ones that we cut down [Music] very very little toughness in there still a little bit but should only get drier from this point on you can hear that crackling that's what you want well we got our first Bale in the chamber I tried putting the net wrap around it and it just didn't go so I think it's something with our net wrap system in the frontier I'm just gonna pull it all the way out and then refeed it in as if it was a new roll hopefully it goes on this time so we got these three rolls right here and we gotta feed it through with this pattern so under the first one over and under again I always need to look at this for the first bill I make of the year the First new roll we put in here so I think I got it foreign that's our first Bale you see the net wrap didn't go all the way to the edge here that's just because we restarted that roll the net wrap it always happens like this on the first Bale next one should come right to the edge it's testing the moisture this is our moisture tester we'll use this for hay for straw whatever we're making small squares round bills doesn't matter we always want to be around 50 and so right there you can see it's 22 way too high [Music] 14.8 see that's doable [Music] 10.1 [Music] 4.1 3.3 I often times I feel like a lot of other Farmers as well struggle to decide when you can bail it's always borderline borderline and then you might end up with a few moldy bells in there and you don't want that so I'm just gonna what I usually do to you know make up my mind I'll literally take the exact average of like five probes of the Bale and I'll add them up on my phone and based on that I'll go yes or no before I'll pick my moisture percentage so we'll do 14 if I'm above that I'm gonna give it another hour or so and then if it's below 14 on average then we'll go okay so the average there was 20. pretty simple not gonna make Bales right now gonna give it another two hours probably before we try so we'll come back just after six and uh see if it's any better I got another thing I need to do right now and I check the temperatures of all the bearings on the Baler so Brent gave me this is a thermal gun a heat sensor gun it's got a little laser on there [Music] and then it tells you the temperature where that laser is pointing pretty cool so the idea behind this if there's a bad bearing on one of the rollers it's gonna get hot after a few Bales and then it should be way hotter than the rest so I'm just gonna do that on all of these rollers here all the bearings [Music] so they're all around 30. real easy way to check if this gun is accurate or not it's just to point it at the exhaust so we're unable to make Bales there just a little bit too moist yet it's been on the ground now for 48 hours kind of checks out you know can't push it too much it is really dry almost 30 degrees windy Sunny very low humidity but she's still going to give it time to dry out so that's unfortunate but on the better notes um I'm heading to the city right now we're going to pick up new fan blades for our MacDonald swather so in a more recent video you guys would have seen Miriam was driving home after cutting hay and the swather blew up we need to use that swather tomorrow morning and we had a little bit of struggle getting that fan ordered dealers were not stocking it which is crazy to me because I thought that was a cop which is crazy to me because Saskatchewan's absolutely littered with this exact same swather the Mac Don the premiere the John Deere they're all the same they all have the same engine and it's crazy that they weren't stocking that but anyway ordered it about a day ago and it's inbound now so we're gonna go pick that up Brent can get her on swelter and then we're actually able to show up tomorrow well here we are hopefully they got the parts we need a bunch of green equipment what is this stuff huh well we got what we needed from these guys so thanks to them I like John Deere I have nothing against them we don't own any John Deere equipment but uh I don't know maybe in the future the only thing I don't like about them is their price tag full line eggs over there too I like fent tractors I like the cases as well that's a sweet rig right there with the blade on it so much shiny equipment it's unreal now look at all the combines how they're going to sell all those I have no idea anyway uh the fans back there and uh we're gonna head back to the farm Brandon's gonna put this on it's already 5 20 so better rip Brent got that fan back on the swather got it going again grab the Draper header so Lillian's gonna grab that thing in a bit here and cut the first round around that rye field I'm quickly gonna go check the hay again now I was pretty confident that stuff would dry out today but it doesn't look like it did it hasn't fully cured yet so the thick parts of the stems they're just not cracking like they should be if you wanted to make Bales out of this stuff already so it's it's still too tough and usually if you get Dew on your hay and then it gets tough it's not as bad but this stuff has not reached that fully cured Point yet and that's when you don't want to bail so try again tomorrow I'm going to be chopping ride tomorrow so dad will probably get out here with the round baler and get that thing going but it's already here to go for him the Baylor's sitting right there so it needs us to walk out to the field Hammer wrote a few bills it's only 50 acres so I feel like it's maybe three hours worth of bailing it's nothing too bad the tedious thing is going to be making those small squares so well we are not able to make any grass hay so I figured we'd ride along with Lillian while she opens up the first round of the Rye field we always do this the night before we start chopping we open up the field just to kind of get an idea make sure that the morning goes smoothly so she's heading out there right now and uh we'll meet her there okay so we're on the first round of this field probably you guys will notice there's a lot of weeds in this field so this is one quarter that we planted a varai last fall the one beside it here is another quarter that we planted that court is 100 clean because we sprayed it for weeds this spring but uh this one we decided we were gonna silage pretty early on so we figured we must just leave the weeds in there to add some more tonnage because it was already looking dry earlier this year and that's kind of how it turned out so a few weeds in here quite a bit of Lounge quarters a little bit of kosha some other stuff there's also quite a bit of volunteer barley in this field but it's all gonna add some tons and make a little bit more feed but for the rest you know honestly this Rye is looking really good for how much rain it got there's a few strips of barley mixed into the Rye and that's where we finish clearing the trees out you guys might remember last fall I was burning piles of maple trees and we had the dirt work guy JJ come out love a little dirt again and the spring after we see it arrive of course we came back here and put some barley down and you can see it pretty clearly here that's the barley and that's the ride so yeah it's looking pretty pathetic say the least [Music] cool [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] I just realized we still need to Mark out where that pile is going to go so we got a pallet full of stakes here I guess Sask energy did some testing in our Fields over the course of winter and they left a bunch of steaks out there so we were able to grab some before they took them away which is awesome these were just marking lines in the ground or test sites in our Fields so we swiped a bunch and uh we're gonna use these now to Mark out our silage pile so we're just gonna start the pile kind of equal with our other barley pile there and head that way our silage plastic is 66 feet wide I believe so I think we'll make this pile 38 feet wide and then that should give us quite a bit of height I think good enough so we got our pile marked out wherever we're going to put it just eight Stakes four on each side and it's pretty equal with the bunk over there so that's what really matters it's ten and a half meters wide so I think that's like 32 feet or something like that so should be good we're expecting 60 to 65 loads of silage tomorrow so it's not going to be a massive pile not gonna get Too Tall not going to get too wide should just look neat

Channel: SaskDutch Kid

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Keywords: dairy farming, dairy cattle, farming in canada, canadian dairy farm, dairy, farm, farming, farm vlog, farm vlog channel, farming selfie, holstein, holstein cow, holstein farm, cow farm, farming milk cows, tractor, seeder, combine, crop farmer, land farmer

Id: 8r_J13fY1cA

Length: 16min 53sec (1013 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 05 2023