Loose Haying with Horses on the Davis Family Farm

[Music] bril heritage on rfd-tv is brought to you by rural heritage magazine a bimonthly magazine featuring articles about farming and logging with draft animal power small-scale diversified family farming and homesteading and other aspects of our rich rural heritage rural heritage magazine borrowing from yesterday to do the work of today for subscription information please call three one nine three six two three zero two seven or order online at wwlp.com when the first mama SH man moved here they were just amazed to see an Englishman plowing with a horse and then I began to do farm tours for the Amish as they came relatives came to visit and the one thing that every one of them was common to say well you know he's doing it just like our grandfather did exactly I had dad my neighbor come here help just put in two loads didn't he he wanted to see what it was like and I said you'll get to like it after a while you'll get rid of that baler as soon as it breaks no you still got the vaillar but it'll break one day here's a situation Justin went to college to learn how to farm no so now he's putting up round bales cost him about $30 for a round bale maybe 35 and they're valued right now at about $20 apiece so every Bale he bails he's going $50 at that so he's better off if it just rains on him yes but just don't put it up at all but now Jacob has put this little Jagger haein which ain't a whole lot but it's a good start and it eight costume a nickel and it's all a freebie and it ain't for sale that's the difference you're making minor for your field and make it manure for the field that's a scale and people say and then just in the other day said dad we need at least a hundred cows and I said I have no intentions on milking under cows nor I do want to get the machinery to milk a hundred cows and the milking parlor will take 90 of them to support it the question of scale isn't it it's all scaled you have to size your farm to where there's a profit right if it's pretty simple to where you can do most of it yourself yes and realistically boys you remember when I filled this barn so full of hay that I started stacking at out here and I was by myself wasn't I so you build a stack out here and shut the water you several did you yes big big stack even after he built the addition on the barn even after I had the addition on the barn I was still but I had leased a lot of land - okay but the land was cloaked did you feed it all then or did you sell some of it you thought not all of it some way to have in the spring to go I never sold any you didn't know is that nice to have more hay than you need isn't it it's really a comforting feeling isn't it yes to come spring and you see the snow melting and you still haven't seen the floorboards through the barn it's got to be a sick feeling the other way around when you're sweeping the floor and there stills you don't want the grout is troubling yeah you're going just getting into the winter and you can't you see too much barn wall too much barn wall yeah right now truthfully the barn is that probably I haven't been up there but it's probably where it's gonna start building fast because it starts getting skinny right right start sloping in yeah the first 25 50 loads it looks like I'll never feel this barn and then all of a sudden you're up there changing the light bulbs on the ridge [Laughter] [Music] yeah is that going here we go hi I'm Joe Mishka virile heritage magazine I'm on location of one of the many events we cover that celebrates our rural heritage if you enjoy our show check out our magazine well you'll learn more about the people that blend the past with what works today you can save almost 20% off the newsstand price by subscribing at rural heritage calm or chat with us at 877 six four seven two four five - that's toll-free 877 six four seven two four five two [Music] [Music] [Music] when did you mow this John no rain it's very nice it couldn't be any drier [Music] [Music] how do you keep from falling off Justin okay alright okay that's what I'd be doing how do you know where the edge is I guess when you start falling off okay starts dipping when you start tipping so do are you careful how you stack it oh yeah yes that's the main thing and making not here you got to work it out to the edges got to keep it on the edges and fill up the corners make it square the middle just kind of falls in they all end up in there yeah and that's people don't realize if that's how you build a load of anything whether you're stacking pallets load flatbeds or anything Legos Lego you build up the edges and then you have walls in the middle if this stays in there it just mounds yeah falls off right right well yeah as you want to okay ever tip over the load off sometimes figured you wouldn't run me over [Music] this is a big job and they worked me pretty hard at it [Music] [Music] Oh whoa [Applause] John do you hear Joe yelling oh yeah Harry okay that's pretty good hearing yeah before I had kids I did this by myself and I could send the horses out and when I'd haul her and I'd say who come here G and they'd come back to the pile and then I would set the tines and I'd run in and out that's what I put that bottom door for to run in and out to mow it and well come back out and and then I had kids it's a lot easier with kids yeah but yeah but I was by myself and when they were little I was they were more in the way that they were helping but I didn't tell them that I let them think they were really big shots well paid off because now they're doing it yeah they can do it now yeah [Music] and when you bring the hay in you you spread it out yeah you don't just dump it all at the end and fill up to the top and then keep moving forward up high you you spread it out from back to front yeah and back to front yeah cuz it drives better cuz all right mouths out easier when you do it like the house is longer grass taller Hey easier than shorter hair probably oh yeah a lot easier yeah like second cuttings pretty tough to load because it's shorter yeah falls apart after yep but mouths out a lot easier the second cutting back easier to push around yeah it's a lot easier [Music] Oh [Music] [Music] [Music] thanks for joining us today at rural heritage and rfd-tv where we borrow from yesterday to do the work of today this program is available for purchase to order your copy please call three one nine three six two three zero to seven or visit www.hp.com/recycle farming and logging as well as other aspects of our rich rural heritage it is published by Mischka press which also offers a complete line of back-to-the-land books DVDs and calendars call or write for a catalog or subscription information or visit our website at wwlp.com [Music]

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Length: 24min 30sec (1470 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 18 2019

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[u/Drzhivago138]

That entire stack is probably 20 small squares. Okay, that's an exaggeration, but there's a reason we've gone to twine- or wire-bound bales.