Raking and Baling Corn Stalks for Cattle

all right now that we've got quite a bit of corn harvested we're going to go ahead and get our 7610 and go rake some corn stocks so we can get some of that bailed up for uh cattle beding let's see it was cylinder leak so I have to kind of bleed it a little [Music] [Music] bit this place here we're going to rake is what we combined the other day we call this property here the pits there's three pits and uh back in the 1800s there used to be a stage coach stop along here and the uh the railroad came down the Mormon trail and they used to refill uh steam engines with water that were out of these pits they dug all these uh with mules and back in the day a team of mules usually these are all full of water but we've had such a bad drought the last 2 years that there's they're all dried up now you can walk in it but normally the water is all the way up about oh 5 6 foot deep in here a little bit more but going to get the rake unfolded and uh start rake and all this field and this is all perfectly flat ground so we're doing the entire field both sides sides I'll kind of show you the other pits when we get around there I'm also going to try to get my drone up if it's not too windy and you'll be able to get a better view of what I'm talking about [Music] [Music] e [Music] [Music] e [Music] I made it that far about an AC here and I noticed you probably see it in the the first bit this T wasn't engaging the ground so what happened here is this T is loose so it was getting twisted around the other direction and it was getting hung up on on the spring I wouldn't let it go all the way to the ground so get that fixed and then we should be ready to go again [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] oh [Music] e sh sh there a lot of pressure to hold them together and when they split you got pile sick and tired of the SP have a problem with it off on that when I got to blow out in the center which I thought it was a lot worse that when there's that much on the edge yeah L to be running out of RA pretty quick don't feel like it's green and T left but there's plenty of weed in it combine Cho up bunch and Gass and stuff have control wasn't bad raking at all surpris went about over there on that corner that's old grass oh just right on the very end that's where there was a big pad get in there and spray on the end it's you damn bed better can't protection got two wagons load to unload later I'm let the Shor trying to get a HP

Channel: Midwest

Views: 1,756

Keywords: Farming, iowa, iowa cattle, farming, farm, iowa farming, small farm, small farming, john deere, new holland, tractor, agriculture, corn stalks, corn stalk bales, baling corn stalks, Midwest

Id: XAuCXUMXPHA

Length: 10min 10sec (610 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 24 2023