Running Square Baler and Stacking Wagon Alone

[Music] so [Music] hey guys welcome back so today we are going to be baling the hayfield today um this is our second cutting this year so i've got all i think i've got the baler and everything pretty much ready to go and it's 11 o'clock now and i've come out here to check the windrows to see whether they're dry enough to be baled so overnight we get really high humidity and we have really heavy dew in the morning in fact it's almost kind of foggy in the morning how humid it gets overnight and the the dew on top is all gone and the hay feels nice and uh you know dry on top turn this over there's still a little bit of i can almost feel a little bit of dampness on the bottom of the windrow where it was against the ground so i think what i need to do before i bail it is i'm gonna i'm gonna come back out here with the hay rake and we're just gonna roll these windrows over to put the top on bottom to get it to dry and then um it shouldn't take very long in the sun and then we'll just bring the baler out here and start trying to get this build up [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] so i've got the tractor the baler and the hay wagon all hitched up together and pulled out here like a little miniature train so i said i wasn't going to use the the hay wagon unless i had somebody to drive the tractor so rebecca actually she worked last night and she works again tonight so she got home this morning she's still sleeping right now so i'm gonna try to do this by myself i had a lot of people suggest even if i did it by myself to try to use the hay wagon anyway try to see if you could get the bales to shoot up and fall onto the hay wagon and then once you've got a few up there stop the tractor go back stack them real quick and then rinse and repeat and they said that would be quicker than dropping them all in the ground and then trying to come back later and driving around the field and putting them on a trailer afterwards so i thought what the heck i might as well give it a shot see if it works if it doesn't work i'll just park the trailer off to the side out of the way and then put them back on the ground like we did the first time so one thing that worries me about doing it that way is once everything's kind of pulled in a straight line the bale chute actually is is off to the side of the hay wagon and we're going to be going clockwise around this so as we turn clockwise the bale chute is going to actually not be over the top of the hay wagon so i'm afraid i may lose some bales that may just not even fall on the wagon so we'll just have to see how it goes that's why you need somebody up there to grab them and pull them off of the chute so anyway i'm going to go ahead and start trying to get this field bailed up it's 1 30 in the afternoon now i stopped and ate a little bit of lunch so i'm sure that the top of the windrows have had time plenty of time to dry but we'll get going and see how this goes now last time we used the baler always for some reason always the first three bales don't tie this is a wire tie baler it actually twists the wires and for some reason it doesn't tie both sides for the first three bales so i may end up with a big pile of hay up on that hay wagon the first first few bales and may have to clean it off and you know give it a little bit of time to get going before before i make judgment on whether i can use this hay wagon by myself but anyway let's get going [Music] [Music] [Applause] so [Music] so [Music] all right i think i'm about halfway done with the hayfield you see all the hay behind me on the wagon it's probably at least half full so uh it is hot out here it is i think the heat index is 101 and i can't go half around to a third of a round without getting on off the tractor stacking bales so take a quick break get something to drink try to rehydrate cool down [Music] all right break's over time to get back to work so actually this has been going better than i thought so i've run the rpms of the tractor down and everything's just running a lot smoother so i think 1700 rpms is where the pto is the correct speed and i think last time i actually was over running i was going over that and running the the pto faster than it should have been so this time i've been running around 1500 rpms everything's just running a lot smoother so far i have not broke a shear bolt so far every bale has tied it's funny because the two bales that were in the baler there was two bales left over from last time that were in the baler and when they came out they busted all apart and the wire ties were broke but every new bale today has tied perfectly fine so it's really went rather smooth a lot of the bales when you're turning the corner they don't go on the wagon they fall off and then as i get on and off the tractor uh to stack bales i'll just pick up some of them bales as i go around i'll pick them up the ones that didn't make it on the wagon so i think like right now there's only like one or two bales that's actually laying on the field everything's pretty much all in the wagon so it's actually gone fairly well besides that it's just really hot so i've been trying to just kind of keep ahead of this and keep you know keep everything going i haven't taken any drone footage yet so i think i'm gonna go ahead throw a drone in the air and see if i can fill the wagon up uh maybe about the rest of the way and i think we're gonna have to unload the wagon before we uh finish the field but let's go ahead and start back up and see if we can get a little bit of drone [Music] footage [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] this [Music] [Music] this [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so so i got to be honest with you i was a little bit worried about bailing the hay today um doing this all by myself with the heat index over 100 degrees today and i was really worried that i'd get overheated i would get too exhausted that i wouldn't be able to do it and overall i am very happy with the way everything turned out everything went rather smoothly no big hiccups um except right at the end so right at the end we ended up i got back on the tractor just to do the little center of the hayfield and do those last few bales and i went to start the tractor and it wouldn't start and go figure you know it's like every time something has to break so the key switch you go turn the key switch and it just kept turning around and around in a circle the key switch broke so i ended up jumping the solenoid and i got it started and so i went ahead and got the rest of it bailed up and then went and parked the baler and the tractor and got that all put away before i turned it off so other than that you know we had to come back i think there was 13 bales left on the ground i think that i had to come back and pick up with that with a smaller trailer but both the hay wagon and the small trailer they're parked in the barn they're out of the rain so everything is complete the haze not gonna get rained on and that small trailer i'll just come back another day and i'll stack that one in the barn but that the big hay wagon i'm gonna leave the bales and store them on a hay wagon i'm going to try to sell them that way when somebody comes to buy them i can just basically pull the hay wagon out and load up their bales and hopefully you know be able to sell all the bales on that wagon plus some that's up on the hay loft so we ended up with a total of 74 bales today and everything we bailed today i didn't miss a single knot everything tied perfectly the baler just ran smooth no shear pins broke i really couldn't ask for the baler to run really any better than it did now pushing the bales up that chute onto the hay wagon that's a lot more pressure that you're putting on there and those bales were heavy it was really packing them tight trying to push them up there so i loosened the the bale tensioner i loosened it up twice and the bales are still rather heavy but you know it did it it did the job it pushed him up there and you know you had to get on and off the tractor several times and everything worked better at the beginning when the trailer is empty you can basically throw it let it put some bales up there and then go up you know jump off the tractor push the bales to the other side of the wagon go again until it gets a few more bales on there and then you could finally jump up on the bale wagon and stack those six bales or so but when you got the hay wagon full that's when it started getting to be more of a hassle because you could only maybe fit one or two bales up on the wagon and then you'd have to jump up on top of the wagon every time and stack them so that you had enough floor space for the bales so you know i think it worked out good uh and it's probably definitely quicker than me probably running around trying to pick these up afterwards but you can tell that it's just way more efficient at the beginning while you're well your hay wagon's empty and then at the end it's just a constant on and off climb up on the hay wagon and stack them but overall you know i'm happy with how that worked out i'm glad that people made that suggestion i was really skeptical of how that was going to work especially when i hitched it up and that bale chute wasn't centered in the wagon it was off to the side um yeah i was yeah i'm pretty happy with the way that worked and i will do that again i'll definitely hitch up the wagon again and i'll bail it that way if i'm by myself so yeah overall i think i'm pretty happy with the way this whole second cutting went except for the sickle bar mower it is really a shaggy feel there's just a bunch of little stuff around here that's not cut so i'll still do some work on the sickle bar see if i can get that to finally cut right that thing has been my little nemesis i'm trying to figure that thing out trying to get it working but uh yeah overall i think the second cutting the hay and the quality of the hay i think turned out better even though most of it was alfalfa it didn't have as much grass in it i would prefer for my use to have a good mixture of alfalfa and grass this was pretty much mostly alfalfa but i think you know what i had a pretty good quality product i had most of the leaves and everything were still on there so yeah i think i did good this time so pretty happy with the way it all turned out and i think after a long day like today i'm to go inside and take a shower might end up eating a little bit of ice cream to help cool down so sounds pretty good right now but anyway uh thanks for watching guys i hope you have a great day and i'll catch you in the next one [Music] [Music] woo oh good glad it's over

Channel: Country View Acres

Views: 709,017

Rating: 4.8935828 out of 5

Keywords: Homestead, farm, farmstead, hobby farm, self sufficient, homesteading, rural life, country life, farm life, new holland, new holland super 78, 78, super 78, square baler, square hay bale, hay wagon, stacking hay, alone, one man, one person, case 730, baling hay, wire tie, hay baler, hay field, alfala hay, grass hay, hay, bale

Id: Npkl_Xl05eI

Length: 19min 32sec (1172 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 01 2020