I used to bale and stack hay for a job in the summer when I was off from school. The ingenuity of farmers always amazed me. Those trucks with the gears turned around to run backwards are a great example of that. Great video and narration!
@thegumbofarmer2383
2 жыл бұрын
This is the best narration! I would listen to this guy all day. Probably has some good stories.
@scrotiemcboogerballs1981
2 жыл бұрын
People now days have no clue how easy they got it compared to how life was just 50-75 years ago or more
@sandib4234
2 жыл бұрын
Man you are sure right on that, they would be afraid to get their hands dirty and they wouldn't be able to stand the heat like we did.
@TheBrushcutter
2 жыл бұрын
@@sandib4234 hands? What do you mean, hands? Hay work got us dirty all over our everywhere. Lol
@ChicanoOne760
2 жыл бұрын
That's ok. Immigrants do those jobs now.
@kamurray67
2 жыл бұрын
I am 55, even though my father saw more advancement in life than I have, the amount of changes I have seen is still amazing.
@randymaylowski2485
2 жыл бұрын
@ScrotieMcboogerballs of course not, they don't teach history of agriculture like anything else that's important of history they don't teach pa sides stupid race shit.. p,s not only that just imagine how haying would be back before tartors and sickle mowers camed out where they had to hand cut everything by hay scythes and corn knifes. Most people nowadays would go nuts if they had to do haying like that.
@harlansteele5473
2 жыл бұрын
I grew up in Northern Minnesota , hay seasons were short . The hay was Timothy. Uncle Art cut Hay with an F20 Farmall . I raked it with the Joker. a cut down 26 GMC truck With the seat sitting on the gas tank. it had just a firewall and a hood with a chrome radiator shroud . steel wheels with wooden spokes and 14 ply tires I pulled a side delivery rake. This brought back some memories.
@_multiverse_
2 жыл бұрын
This can be accomplished by one man with today’s machinery. Incredible
@brianhealey5286
2 жыл бұрын
Memories of my boyhood driving a well worn Farmall Super H with sidebar cutter. Then towing a New Holland 3 string baler and all high school crew working until we dropped getting the bales up in the barn...wish more kids today got that chance. Never saw this method of stacking hay...must have been a commercial haying operation. Thanks for posting Dan.
@karencarter8292
2 жыл бұрын
Yes, the New Holland 3-string baler. You never forget the sounds.
@brianhealey5286
2 жыл бұрын
@@karencarter8292 Oh, Karen-that sidebar cutter and baler...at 82 I still have all my fingers and toes...then there was the corn chopper making silage...it is a wonder we were not maimed or killed kids. Nice to talk to a farm gal who knows the territory.
@karencarter8292
2 жыл бұрын
@@brianhealey5286 'Grew up in a mountain farming community of, at that time, several dairy farms. Yes, in the fall, my brother and I walked up the road where the silos were being filled with corn silage. I can still smell the sweet silage. I am hitting 74.
@brianhealey5286
2 жыл бұрын
@@karencarter8292 Karen, you sound like you are in high spirits for 74. Good for you. My wife and I (now 59 years married) hoof it (no pun) 7 to 10 miles per week plus dance. Must share a chuckle that she never milked a cow until I brought her to my friends farm (60 head Holsteins) and strapped a 3 toed stool on her. Then my bud gave her instructions on how to milk and strip. My wife's hands were warm and the old gal (cow) just relaxed against the other cow. There was my wife with her head barely showing between the two cow bellies as she pulled those teats. So funny we still roar about it in the family. My honey is a good sport that way. Wish you the same jolly memories. BTW-I am a retired engineer.
@karencarter8292
2 жыл бұрын
@@brianhealey5286 Yes, I am doing as well as can be and can't complain, not too much. Yes, the farms were of primarily beautiful Holstein - Friesians, the marvelous black and white breed, originally bred by the Dutch. Easy going cows who are a gentle, wonderful breed and prolific milker. That kind of farm, dairy, was a lot of hard work, and the milking job was arduous, even with milking machines or pipelines. We knew each cow by her name. We loved them; they were like pets. BTW, my late husband was a civil engineer.
@jamessmith7691
2 жыл бұрын
My dad got a jeep after the war. It served them well as a tractor and car for some years.
@douglassellers7528
2 жыл бұрын
Did it have the PTO on it?
@30acreshop_time
7 күн бұрын
@@douglassellers7528 lol, I’ve actually heard of jeeps having ptos on them, but they couldn’t run anything.
@MidnightPolaris800
2 жыл бұрын
Love it. Times were simpler for sure
@ruedaricardo
2 жыл бұрын
Wow. That stack is probably four stories tall. Haying was very labor intensive.
@fasx56
Жыл бұрын
I have never seen a LARGE FARM operation from the 1950s that put up Hay with this method and type of equipment, it was a real surprise. I grew up in the 50s on a Small Farm and we put up loose hay by cutting, raking in rows, shocking in piles and then hauling to barn with a truck. Big difference is the size of this very large farm for 1950. They were using methods to move large amounts of hay around and the equipment was designed and Jerry Rigged to meet the challenge. There was a Dairy Farm near our home in the 50s that did not use Loose Hay. They cut their hay and grass called it Silage and put it in a large SILO where it was stored and used as needed. When Hay Bailers came into use that changed farming methods a lot and saved a lot of labor.
@mikeewalt6270
2 жыл бұрын
I worked on a ranch, the hardest job I ever had. I'd go back in a minute. I remember cutting raking & bailing hay. Even drove a team of draft horses during one of the worst winters South Dakota had seen in a hundred years. Forty below , when it got up to forty degrees I thought it was jeans & tee shirt weather.
@catchingupwiththewalkers
2 жыл бұрын
I learned something today. Thanks
@LarsonFamilyFarm-LLC
2 жыл бұрын
Impressive way to hay...everything seemed to be better in the 1940's-1950's...simpler but more united, more labor intensive.
@nicke1903
2 жыл бұрын
Ya know, it's sad but it's clear the best is behind us now, if I could have my 2 boys and them and my family be healthy, 50-60's just feels good,we wouldn't know any better so it would be life either way.
@30acreshop_time
7 күн бұрын
@@nicke1903 things went down hill in the late 60s. 40s and 50s were the best.
@edwardbright5894
2 жыл бұрын
This Country has moved forward so fast, this video seems like a foreign place and time. I like the old ways and old days. I don't like what technology has done to America 🤠👍🚜
@knmaherijayatp8181
2 жыл бұрын
so why you on youtube then?
@edwardbright5894
2 жыл бұрын
@@knmaherijayatp8181 Enjoying the film from the Old Day's.. Remembering Back When.🤠🐎🐎🐎🐃🐂🐃🐂🐃🐄🐓🐓🐓🐓🐓🐖🐖
@30acreshop_time
7 күн бұрын
@@knmaherijayatp8181 so you can appreciate the days even more
@dominicohea5624
2 жыл бұрын
Beautiful work. Hard to beat the natural way
@bobbates6642
2 жыл бұрын
Never seen the hay dealt with in that manner . Saw plenty of bails and people having to toss them up on the trailer . Hard work and it was something that made some people so itchy they could not do it .
@fourfortyroadrunner6701
2 жыл бұрын
I was born in 48, we had a cow/ beef or 2 on about 40 acres. Dad never had a bailer until after I joined Navy in 68. Tractor was 24-28 Farmall "regular" mower and rake were former horse drawn. First few years --and I was young--used dump rake, then a side delivery. Even the side delievery may have been horse, it was steel wheels. Then Dad got a loose hay loader, would work you to death, plus pumping dirt and bugs up onto you along with hay, LOL. First couple years I rode the dump rake I had to jam a stick into the "hold down" as I was too little and weak to prevent it "kicking up"
@spanky12310
2 жыл бұрын
Love hearing that kid ask questions 👍👍
@Jack-ne8vm
2 жыл бұрын
In winter we used a hay saw to cut chunks off a pile to feed critters.
@outinthesticks1035
2 жыл бұрын
My dad always said it made it so much easier when he got a tractor and baler . I was not so sure . He had a John Deere AR and a 44 Massey , 7 foot mower , side delivery rake and new Holland baler . I started driving tractor to bale when I was 8 , got shifted to the stooker at 12 . Used to get home from school at 4 , supper by 5 , bale hay or straw till midnight or 2am . Then up for school at 6 . When the baler quit tieing then I would put my gloves and hands over the muffler to warm up . The day crew would be just leaving for the field when I got up in the morning . Hard work but good memories , didn't get much chance to see my dad unless I went to the field with him
@chasethreshing
2 жыл бұрын
The real amazing thing, is when your lineage knows the Garden of Eden works for you. Thy Kingdom come, it shall be done, on earth as it is in heaven. My sins make it so I sweat to eat, the earth is a closed loop system, I maintain dominion over: after I regain it.
@raymondjenkins4332
2 жыл бұрын
@@chasethreshing I
@alanhodge984
2 жыл бұрын
this is one of the most remarkable things i have ever seen i spent many days on my grandfather's farm but they had a dairy nothing like this
@dennisdunne588
2 жыл бұрын
There is a very interesting video of stacking hay in Montana. kzitem.info/news/bejne/x2Ovmpyeip96oYY
@ronaldburgess2884
2 жыл бұрын
I like seeing those Case VA tractors in action. I have a 1953 Case VAC wide front row crop tractor.
@jamesmason8944
2 жыл бұрын
The little boy sounds real smart and observant.
@Deontjie
2 жыл бұрын
Making hay while the sun shines...
@gregphillips1998
2 жыл бұрын
That’s very interesting. Nothing like how my grandfather thrashed and bailed hay on his farm in Virginia.
@glennmunk5707
2 жыл бұрын
I had never seen such an operation like that before. I was in awe of the Derrick that was engineered to make the hay stacks and the size of the crew to do the operation, great video! But how did they feed from these stacks in the Winter?
@HedgehogChopper
2 жыл бұрын
hay making was hard enough in the 1970 with bales, Massey ferguson 35 and ford 3000 tractors, fingers tingling frim the constant lifting on the strings. In the UK it went into the barns and it was stacked in bays we call moo's imn line with the beams in the roof and my dad took pride it getting it right into the very top of the roof, sliding the last bales in endways lol. Hard but happy times People called them the good old dasy but i havfe to say it made old men of you, my back and shoulders are shot to hell from a life farming and fencing, if i could go back and change it would I... NOT A CHANCE lol
@allanlavallee7171
2 жыл бұрын
Made hay all thru the sixties using seven foot sickle mowers, dump and side delivery rakes, and an overshot stacker. Labor intensive but less so than square bales. As well loose hay stacks when properly topped will last a long time without spoilage. Miss those days.
@lorenrasmussen338
2 жыл бұрын
We had a John Deere overshot hay stacker in the 50s and early 60s….. and a VAC Case
@sandib4234
2 жыл бұрын
Really interesting I enjoyed watching and listening to you I also like that little Feller in the background making comments he's a cutie!
@ottobthomas6254
2 жыл бұрын
God Bless America
@sandib4234
2 жыл бұрын
♥️🇱🇷✌️
@bobthomas9525
2 жыл бұрын
Love those old case tractors.
@toddr.4630
2 жыл бұрын
Great job ,, much appreciated 👍✌️
@cheeseburger9232
2 жыл бұрын
These were the days , when a man's word ment more than a bunch of lawyers , I was born too late.
@marshalloutdoors1791
2 жыл бұрын
The truck in the beginning looks like @Laura Farm's. Really cool to see how they used to do hay back then. Great video 👍
@vstrom9586
2 жыл бұрын
My Dad had one, I even got to drive it in the fields. 20 mph was fast & scary
@work2gather
2 жыл бұрын
I never knew hay could be stacked so high and last so many years.
@peterkolcun8912
2 жыл бұрын
Wow, How did they take hay out of that stack in the winter? Bottom to top?
@davepayne9162
2 жыл бұрын
i just love the old days,and how they worked, all the time in the world, just plod a long.
@ChicanoOne760
2 жыл бұрын
Trust me, it's way funner to watch. This is backbreaking laborious work
@nicke1903
2 жыл бұрын
Oh to been on a crew, that's just a beautiful place to be.
@jhonsiders6077
2 жыл бұрын
Never saw it done like this before and I grew up on a farm in Indiana . Every one had a square Baler and a sickle mower on the side or 3 point hitch some used to Tedder it to dry a few had the roller conditioners to squeeze the moisture out of the hay made a loud pop when you ran a snake through it !
@bobwalton5657
2 жыл бұрын
It must be a honor to be the lead mower
@connershepherd998
2 жыл бұрын
Meh
@johnlynn6291
2 жыл бұрын
Less dusty anyway
@noname-lm2nq
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the Video.
@hayhook132
2 жыл бұрын
Ranch Farm life blessed forever nothing like it.
@framfull
2 жыл бұрын
Wish these guys could see how its done today.
@lorenrasmussen338
2 жыл бұрын
I spent many, many hours on our VAC 60-70 years ago….. often with my dad yelling at me from the seat on the dump rake or the grain binder.
@ginggur17
2 жыл бұрын
Wow, never seen stacking like this 🇬🇧🇺🇸
@framfull
2 жыл бұрын
People of today cant even imagine how hard they work back in these days.
@ChicanoOne760
2 жыл бұрын
That's why everyone is so soft. People nowadays cling to racism in order to feel like they have an edge
@hanspetersimon3689
2 жыл бұрын
Good day, my grandpa have had to do this work without any mechanical support! All work by hand! Every member of his familiy took part If he didn't want to be hungry. Yes it was an hard work and every evening water was necessary to get clean. Today it is more simple to gain the results by machines. Most people have not any relation to this work. It isn't estimated from the majority of people. Have money go buying it. No producing for themselves! You must Love it what you do it and it will smell you better. Bye HP Simon Germany
@urbanitesgarage3299
2 жыл бұрын
Awesome
@ffjsb
2 жыл бұрын
I started out baling hay on a '45 Farmall M, an old New Idea towed sickle bar mower, an old rotary rake on steel wheels, and a beat up Deere 24T baler. That was a pain in the butt doing it that way, but way better than this. Glad I didn't do it for a living. Last year was my last year, and a modern Kubota with a JD moco and rake, and a good MF 120 baler made it pretty easy, except for stacking it on the wagon.
@dalebrown2375
Жыл бұрын
These folks differently were Case fans
@MrTyroneweaver
2 жыл бұрын
I can remember driving the side delivery mowers. They were really fast and you wiped out a lot of pheasants with them. Seeing cats run across fields on their stumps.
@cambian3
2 жыл бұрын
Sorry this happened to you. You are a strong person and will come out of this even stronger. Glad everyone involved is OK.
@pimslickins8321
2 жыл бұрын
And I thought raking and baling hay was tough back in the '70's. Loading and stacking the barn sure was. And you never wanted the boss angry at you. The top stacker in the barn catches HELL.
@markissboi3583
2 жыл бұрын
When that Aussie guy tinkering in his barn hand made it all new idea in the day the Wheat combine harvester ended up working for sunshine Harvesters in Melbourne OZ .
@barbarabeagley6650
2 жыл бұрын
The Baldwin Combine was invented in the town I grew up outside of, and a friend of my dad invented a bale moving vehicle called the Green Machine, it was really a great help, byt never made it more than just locally in South Central Kansas. I think I've seen a video or 2 of them on KZitem in the past.
@barbarabeagley6650
2 жыл бұрын
I'm not having any luck finding it, but it was a motorized flat vehicle with an short bale elevator that picked up the bales as the driver drove through the field. There were 1 or 2 guys who then grabbed and stacked the bales at the back. It was a little bigger than the typical hay trailer back in the 70's. They vehicles were also perfect for parade floats!
@robertblazier7530
2 жыл бұрын
#anchor brand ranch. I think you’ll like this
@WheresMyMotivation
2 жыл бұрын
Does anybody know what part of Ca?
@deweydodo6691
2 жыл бұрын
With the windstorms lately I wonder how long a high built haystack would stay put ?
@bestbuilder1st
2 жыл бұрын
They had wind back then also. Some of the storms were much bigger than we have today.
@TheBrushcutter
2 жыл бұрын
@@bestbuilder1st and the only warning was when we saw them on the horizon.
@650gringo
2 жыл бұрын
If OSHA saw this they would do a retroactive investigation.
@davidnelson6893
2 жыл бұрын
ALL COOL WOW
@Cypher791
2 жыл бұрын
Gonna get yourself in trouble if you go and get too sophisticated… Modern Man is unemployed with no skills but dreams of being a TikTok influencer, the government knows what you like who you like where you are and what your worth at any and every given second of your life.
@waynes.2983
2 жыл бұрын
What's really cool is to see this done with horses instead of machines.
@landonleffler2106
2 жыл бұрын
Any idea what city or county?
@dennisdunne588
2 жыл бұрын
The Ninety-Six Ranch of Paradise Valley, Nevada will celebrate 150 years in one location and in single family ownership/operation in 2014.
@rogersayer5714
2 жыл бұрын
Where is this haying ranch located? Great video
@Jack-ne8vm
2 жыл бұрын
Paradise Valley, Nevada, USA
@rogersayer5714
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks that was an interesting read. The ranch reminds me of my youth July 4th to labor day was all about alfalfa and hard work
@scotrussell9577
2 ай бұрын
Where is Paradise Valley?
@kevindumais9610
2 жыл бұрын
Old School!
@BrianDHoefs
2 жыл бұрын
At the very beginning of this video they started cutting alfalfa and oats. You don’t see oats that tall at all. I’ve never seen oats that tall. That sure was something!
@dlarta7265
Жыл бұрын
my grandpa would mix oats seed in the alfalfa field in late winter, early spring. it would get a couple feet tall.
@cliffordinggs9789
2 жыл бұрын
Hey that's amazing. Are those Farmmallcubs or mcormiks.
@MilkMan608
2 жыл бұрын
Case tractors. Couldn't tell you what model.
@christianwaller5751
2 жыл бұрын
Would much rather do this than stocking it in the loft
@jamesks16
2 жыл бұрын
great vid
@pepper13111
2 жыл бұрын
I grew like this, cycle bar cutting, rake it the bails on ground, on wagon by hand. In barn we had 3,000 bails , all started from bottom the to roof.
@ricklink786
2 жыл бұрын
Good place to be
@rodchandlerii6922
2 жыл бұрын
Where is this
@captnemo8069
2 жыл бұрын
Title should be "Haying (ca 1850)", this is haying back in the Stone-Age when hay was pitched into piles, by 1950 hay balers were used, invented in the 1930s. I'm 68 yrs old, have raised hay since I was a kid, still do, this is not how its done. Second falsehood, first field being cut is not alfalfa hay, alfalfa grows knee-high and bushy, not 6 ft stalks.
@austencitrowske9741
2 жыл бұрын
The narrator said alfalfa/oats, the oats are seeded with alfalfa as a nurse crop. Those tractors didnt exist in 1850.
@vaquero7072
Жыл бұрын
They still stack hay similar to this in the Big Hole in montana . This method was used before they had tractors and used teams in this video it looks like they were just getting into tractors. My cousins are there neighbors now days everyone in that valley has swathers and balers. That was oats alfalfa mix by the way.
@notvaxed
2 жыл бұрын
I have one of these tractors model 960 Ford row crop
@Sojourning_
2 жыл бұрын
I was 3 years old when this was made, I was 5 when some one plopped me in a seat of a tractor, and pointed the way, of course it didn't work out. back east.
@ripstephenhawking8787
2 жыл бұрын
Awesome. Just pure badass. Men won't work like that today. Sadly... unless they're Mexican...
@bikerhighmiler8998
2 жыл бұрын
There are quite a few hardworking people today..they just don't blow their own horns..
@juanvalles9730
2 жыл бұрын
U damn rite we mex. Work hard ese
@TheBrushcutter
2 жыл бұрын
My hobby was digging rocks until a few years ago when hunting clubs leased all the land. Imagine what my actual work was like...
@user-qt8zt6zg6w
2 жыл бұрын
And now people complain about having to stay home and watch tv
@ChicanoOne760
2 жыл бұрын
If you payed people to sleep they would wake up in defiance.
@user-qt8zt6zg6w
2 жыл бұрын
@@ChicanoOne760 theyd wake up to bitch about making 15 dollars an hour
@gregwddriver
2 жыл бұрын
Brand new Case VAC's and at least on Allis Chalmers WD or WC.
@bobo44donemilking51
2 жыл бұрын
How many acres was this ranch
@TheBrushcutter
2 жыл бұрын
Must have been big, those haystacks cover more ground than the average house lot these days. LMAO
@bobo44donemilking51
2 жыл бұрын
@@DanMillerXYZ wow
@anthonyraineri5190
2 жыл бұрын
Why would they stack the hay so high for?
@anthonyraineri5190
2 жыл бұрын
@@DanMillerXYZ Your points make sense, thanks. I am thinking with it being that tall the internal heat must get very warm to hot even though the hay may be dry. And also if I wanted to use some of that hay during the winter if I start pulling from the bottom of the stack, can they yell timber quick enough? LOL
@BillHarvey-qr5tf
3 ай бұрын
@@anthonyraineri5190 You would use a hay Saw and cut from the top.
@Deontjie
2 жыл бұрын
The difference between America and Africa. Here in Africa we could not invent tools to solve problems.
@robinhill2442
2 жыл бұрын
That kid would now be about 80.
@Deontjie
2 жыл бұрын
Imagine opening thet gate with your Tesla.
@mfgt4595
2 жыл бұрын
Hay must be full of rattlers ! Here in Wales, baled quite a few vipers over the years. Even saw one in a big baled silage, dead as a doornail thank God, squashed to smithereens. The little buggers got everywhere . Got bitten back in 2006 by a viper. I was really ill for 4 days . Too far from hospital.
@londonghung3392
2 жыл бұрын
Back when white people still had pride of working hard on a ranch. Now it's a Mexican ranch hand and farm and agricultural workers. Wish it was back to those days.
@jerrymills4203
2 жыл бұрын
Congress has went to shit
@sandib4234
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah it is a mess!
@bestbuilder1st
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, but they sure have a good library!
@jtcorey7681
2 жыл бұрын
Today they roll it and wrap it in plastic. Like giant snails in the field.
@stevenweaver125
2 жыл бұрын
That's some big oats
@mrt5293
2 жыл бұрын
That's not grass, that's jungle 😂
@kurtiskoppdrums
2 жыл бұрын
Win rows not wind rows
@terryallen9546
2 жыл бұрын
Laid out in long rows to dry in the "wind." A lot of us were that little boy asking what that was. I'm still trying to figure out what - drunk or "sumpthin" is;-)
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