Round baling with an 853 New Holland Baler/ Spraying Crab Grass/ Square Baling 2nd Crop Hay.

got that piece of hay cut on that rented farm over there my dad's over raking now um got the other our other round baler hooked up to the tractor here it's an 853 new holland it's a chain baler yet instead of the belts i believe this was the last year that they made the chain baler my grandpa bought this new i think in like 91 1991 that's been a good baler um but kind of go over it here a little bit as i got to get it ready kind of show you that but um so that's what we're doing today it's a new holland 853. um it's a five five foot high bale and it's a it's not quite a full five foot wide um bale and it's got the chains like i said now the older chain balers that new holland had were um they had big springs on the side for tension to make the tail tight this one one of the big upgrades is they put on there's an air bag in here on each side and that makes your attention for your bale actually does make a pretty nice bale one of the big things you have to do though is your ground speed if you go too fast it you won't get as nearly as tight a bale but it has been a really good baler i typically it will bale baleage you know moist hay for the baleage but it's hard on the chain stretches the chain out a lot so i don't uh that's why i bought that other smaller baler just for that but because that chain is pretty expensive if you've got to replace it but anyway that's our it's kind of dirty but um other than that and i've got it on the 1066 now i wouldn't i've got the duals on here this probably looks kind of funny on the round baler i wouldn't need them on but um it's just this tractor gets mainly used on our all of our tillage heavy tillage so i like to have the duals on for that it's easier to just leave them on then take them on and off but and also you can kind of see inside there the the axles on this tractor it's got long axles where the hubs bolt on and when you don't have the duals on it's you can't see when you're in the cab where that hub is sticking out so it's kind of nice to have that on there as well and the 1256 i actually usually have that on the baler but the o-rings didn't come in to fix that hydraulic leak yet so um that's just why i've got this on there but anyway that's just kind of a kind of a run through of it like i said the only thing on this baler that i really don't like is it's got for the overfill protection i mean it's it's a nice thing to have but i think they could have maybe done it a little differently you've got a sheer pin right here and this is your chain that drives the pickup well if you overfill the bale what it does is it trips this lever and it shears this pin so it allows you to finish tying the bail you can kick the bail out but then you have to get out and put in a new pin every time that happens once you get used to it then you're usually pretty good for the year but the first few bales of the year usually wind up shearing a few pins um i kind of wish they would have done something a little different there but it's hard in get real heavy windrows or long hay because you'll stop in plenty of time but it'll pull in a lot of windrow afterwards sometimes i can trip it but we've been using it this long it's i guess something we something we just live with but anyway so we're going to get it greased up here gets chains oiled and everything and make sure it's all working and try to get some hay baled i just checked the air airbags for the tension i run that at 50 psi you can go 30 to 50. we usually run it at 50 all the time and then you just fill it right here with just a regular air chuck like you do with your tires um so now i'm going to pull it up away from the front of the garage here it's pretty hot here so i'm gonna pull it over in the shade there and get the rest of it oiled and everything [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] we're up here on the state land again where i had oats um it's all got the crab grass here now i'm up here i'm going to spray it uh i got the sprayer loaded up on the little drawn deer there um i've got our uh we've got a little gps here let me shut this off so you can hear me a little gps here i mainly just use it for spraying it works nice for fertilized fertilizer spreading too but um you set your width of your like whatever you're pulling behind you in there a couple different things get it set up and then it's got when it's running these there's lights all over here and when your lights are all lined up in the green that's where you need to be so then when you make your first pass when you turn to come back the other way it'll automatically move you over you know whatever distance you've got it set for and then you just keep those lights lit up back on the green in the center and it'll keep you the right distance it works nice i don't use it for spring corn or anything because i can just count the rows how much i need to move over but when you've got a piece like this where you can't tell where you've been um it works pretty nice we were gonna you put a foam marker on here we've had this for a few years but this was actually cheaper than the foam marker set up and you can actually you know you can use it if you're spreading fertilizer on hay ground or something where you can't really tell where you've been so that's what we're using here so i'm gonna see if i can get this sprayed should be a nice day for it it's nice and hot out not much wind so that's what we're gonna do here right now it's just recording my pass it's not telling me anything but then when i come back around i'll show you it'll light up and then it'll uh tell me where to follow on my next one [Laughter] all right well got it sprayed i ran a little short on the first tank i mixed so i had to go get a little bit more so got that done that's a good job to have done especially since it's supposed to rain tomorrow so i get that out of the way and then i can hopefully start cutting some second crop maybe it's going to look at this corn here too this corn this hill here this from about here up to the to the end of the field right up there that's all gravel um and a lot of times this corn on this particular spot here just to get so dry that it doesn't really do very well in fact i think last year the year before i don't even know if i ever even got cobs on it up on this hill because it's usually just so gravelly but boy it's not extremely tall but you know it's it's a good foot over over my head so that um getting some nice silks on it now if we got a nice shot of rain tomorrow that would be perfect for this stuff but it uh it really looks good all of it does can't believe for as dry as it started out this year we really been blessed with that rain and this been ideal corn weather which this part of the world we usually don't get much of that here but boy it's been nice everybody it's wednesday august 5th uh we're out here this is the field that we uh spread liquid manure on again with the tanker uh the i guess third time we emptied the lagoon to work on that pipe um my brother cut this a few days ago uh so this is the second cutting out here now um so i just i got the john deere hooked on our v-rake there so we're gonna go rake it up and i've got this piece and then i've got one other piece of second crop cut um that's a little thinner than this but i'm hoping maybe rake them both today and see what it looks like it's been pretty good drying weather so it should be dry but i might just break it and then leave that after i turn it leave it dry till tomorrow because they're not talking any rain until saturday so but we'll see what it looks like here get it rolled up and go from there [Laughter] all right hayes ready we got the baler hooked up i got the 560 on it today um no real particular reason i guess i kind of wanted to try it out on here we've never used it on the square baler [Applause] before so [Music] so things [Applause] all right my brother paul he's going to take over on the second load i'm going to go back and get chores started get milking and feed trucks coming tonight so i can't set up to unload yet until he gets here so um but it looks pretty nice nice and dry it's kind of a i don't know maybe half alfalfa a little less than orchard grass a little clover in there pretty nice that manure really uh really gave it a boost actually pretty decent windrows here the first two three windrows were a little thin but get here in the middle of this looks pretty good so the tractor works really nice on there i actually like that with the narrow front you can follow the windrow a little bit better and without the cab on there you can uh you can see it a little bit better where you're kind of what you're doing then the load i just bailed i think there was 119 in that load and that's about right and get about 120 in in them i can get a little more if i climb up there and pile them up but then i can't fit under the power lines in the yard so all right that's about the last of it i got one little spot down here to pick up and i should be done with this field it's a pretty sight seeing it all swept clean and we'll get another field hopefully get that done tomorrow be nice to have that in the bar now we're gonna go and get these unloaded i got two full loads and then i suppose there's maybe a half well that was pretty good friday august 7th just up here in the hay barn now um we ran the rest of that hey we got 202 bales off of that second field um we got that ran in here so we got four full rows for excuse me four full layers of hay up here now um so that's pretty good that's more than i actually had last year there's about i think about 1100 bales in here right now which is probably enough to get me through the winter for the milk cows it'd be probably just enough but i've got one more field here that i'm going to cut i'm going to let it go a little bit longer and then i've also got some that my dad's got some second crop he was looking to sell so i think we're going to square bale that too and put up here it's just nice in the winter time the way this barn is set up to have have these small squares um i don't i don't fill it they used to fill it all the way up with bales all the way up to the peak but uh the floor in here is starting to get some weak spots in it and stuff and i don't like to don't like to push it that much anymore but i like to try to get six or seven layers up here if i can so anyway that's kind of what it looks like in here so we're gonna finish up our chores this morning and get some stuff put away looks like maybe a little rain coming so that'll be nice we could actually use a shot again so all right now we're gonna take a little time here uh we got some questions on our video when we were wrapping the village bales um from two different questions and comments about why we wrap uh individually instead of like a tube or an inline wrapper which basically those they just make like a big stuff it like a big sausage tube instead of each bale being individually wrapped on its own uh there's a few different reasons we did that first of all i guess was probably price this wrapper is probably the least frills cheapest wrapper you can get um we did buy it brand new but it's just just basic wrapper um and that's all we needed really um some years you know we've wrapped about 100 bales this year some years we don't wrap we maybe won't even wrap any if i'm able to get the hay dry i i don't bother wrapping it so that was one reason another reason was um when we i had used previously before i bought this i used a wrapper like this and i also rented a tube wrapper to see kind of what i like better stuff like that if you're if you're wrapping and feeding a lot of hay a tube wrapper or inline wrapper is definitely the way to go um they're fully automatic you set the bail on the wrapper and and it takes over from there you just keep feeding it you just keep loading it um but for the little bit that we do i didn't need that for the price you know this was about under 7 000 brand new those for used one or over 10 so anyway that was a big part of it and also the feeding when we bought this we talked to the rep he asked why we were looking for an individual we told him you know we only milk about 30 cows he said yeah that's that's a good reason if you can't feed enough out of those tubes when you open them can't feed fast enough you won't keep ahead of the mold because once you open them you let oxygen in you start molding that's the key to wrapping any hay is you want the oxygen out otherwise it won't turn to silage it'll just mold um so that was that was another big reason was the fact that once you open it especially if the weather is warm you need to be feeding out of there a lot so we don't have enough cows to do that um and then another question we had was why do we put so much wrap on the veil i mean i noticed you know in the video if you're watching you know you see the bale gets fully covered with wrap and then we continue to wrap the reason for that is is you need to have i believe it's six mil which is the thickness of the plastic six mil of wrap on the bale to to to make to seal all the air out so it won't mold this this wrap we use is a one and a half mil thickness so you need to have about four layers on there to get the six mil thickness of wrap um so that's that's why we don't put any more than we need to that's just why we put on the amount we do um and that is one thing with a with a tube wrapper you use a little less wrap because you're not wrapping the ends of the bail you're only wrapping the outsides or this you're covering the entire bale um i can get about 24 bales 23 24 on one roll of wrap with this i don't know i've heard you can do about 30 bales on a tube wrapper but i that i'm not sure and it costs about i figured out depending on obviously what you pay for the wrap it's around three dollars three dollars and three and a half dollars a bail to wrap it with this for the wrap um so like i said you know what that would obviously be a little less for the individual wrapper but this is more convenient for us and another thing uh when i did use that tube wrapper you know a lot of times here if we just do one or two fields at a time if you have 15 or 20 bales it took me longer to set the tube wrapper up than it did to wrap 15 bales where this i can pop it on go wrap half a dozen bales or you know whatever i need to it's a lot quicker a lot less set up time so i'm not saying this wrapper is good for for every instance like i said if we were doing a few hundred bales a year and feeding a lot of hay i definitely would go with a tube wrapper but like i said for what what we use it for um this this works good like i said i know it's a lot more messing around than like a tube wrapper would be and they also make individual ones that that will you know you can just pull them they're on a trailer they're self loading again you know you can you can pay 20 30 000 for a new one of those as well for an individual rapper but like i said we didn't really want to put that kind of money out you know it's like i said some years we might wrap 150 bales some years we might not wrap any they do also make balers or round balers that you can that have a wrapper built right on them so you bale the bale it puts it on the wrapper wraps it and dumps it right in the field and then you just pick it up later uh with one of those bale squeezers but there again i would imagine those are probably at least 100 grand for for one of those so that's again way out of of what we need for um the little bit that we do so uh hopefully that answered answered anybody's questions on that um just kind of like said what's why we why we chose this wrapper for for what we do it works pretty good so all right it's monday august 10th it's about just before three o'clock in the afternoon we're up here on the state land here that i sprayed and boy it uh it really killed nice nice and crunchy now so yeah we got a good kill on that so i don't know we've gotten quite a bit of rain um pretty heavy rain i think we wound up with over three inches in a couple days there this field's got some low areas so i don't know we'll let this get dried out and i was hoping to still put some oats in here this fall yet for hay but i guess we'll have to see how how that works out but at least i got a good kill on this anyway so it didn't go to seed hopefully that'll help for next year if i don't get anything planted in it yet this fall but the only thing that didn't kill out here and i don't know if anybody knows out there they can tell me what this weed is i don't know what it is it's not really very invasive it kind of grows around here but it doesn't choke anything out but i know one thing roundup will not kill it um so if anybody out there happens to know what it is just leave me a comment but there's a few of them out here but other than that it looks like it took care of everything else so excuse me and like i said i don't know this isn't really a problem weed but it's just some of them out there here and there but anyway i thought i'd show you show you how good this killed and then i don't see any spots maybe a little tiny spot right right over there it's a tiny strip that maybe i had a plug nozzle or something but otherwise it looks pretty good i'll probably have to buzz out there and just make sure there's if there's any strips that are green i can spot spray them but other than that that's it for now you

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Length: 25min 31sec (1531 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 12 2020