This is why you build a community of like minded folks that can help each other. Well done! Also the drone footage is top notch!

Thank God for sending all of us helpers. I'm sure when they need it and you can, you will.

This says a lot about your friends and family. Good people pitching in. Also tells me you're a good man to have so many wanting to help out.

being your first go at making hay you did a great job. I'm sure you've already learned lots on how your next cut will be done.

So happy to see you on that tractor this morning. You did it, and just look at Rebecca just going at it. What an awesome job. You have told us that she is always ready to help you . And she I know have proved that many times. Those friends and family that was there to help are wonderful. You are a good person and hard worker ,that’s why so many offered their help ,and prayers. This old woman has sent up prayers morning and night for you, and will continue. So don’t ever forget to give our Lord credit for all he does for us. Slow down and take care of your body. God bless you ,Rebecca and all those that helped and also those that offered.

I have a tip for the raking, we always drive 2 or 3 times round en then from 1 side straight to the other and back and instead of driving round to the middle and then out of the field

I’m so glad the hay is in the barn. Pain meds mask problems, don’t think your back is better just because you can’t feel it.😊

Need to rake the opposite way, rake the windows to the outside so your not messing everything up while turning around.

As you continue to improve that hayfield, that yield will improve.

Thank God for family and friends. They are a blessing! You get well and take care of yourself. 🙏👍👏

Thank GOD for your help, and please be careful when carrying stuff.

The needles are timed to plunger, he feeder bar behind the pick up is also timed to the plunger. Most importantly, use the correct shear bolt, not an ordinary bolt. The shear bolt has a longer neck. The shear bolt is to protect the needles and feeder bar. Good job.

I just like to see people learn. Great job Your doing.

I would have raked it rather than ted it.The more you ted it,the more leaf material you break off...which is where the most nutrients are.Great video.Hope your back heals up quick.

God bless all who helped you and to those extended that wonderful thing called caring and helping a neighbor.

Friends are valuable. Great fiends are a priceless asset. Blessings to everyone. Sharing & caring about the needs of others is what has made and continues to be one of America's most valuable commodities. Appreciate the revealing of love. ☝🙏🇺🇸💪👉... It's what keeps US going.

You are blessed with great friends and family..thank you all for helping Evan and Rebekah. I don't know them personally but love their channel and their Godly Spirit. Everybody needs somebody sometime, and you were their somebody. God bless. Be safe. Stay well.

Yay for getting the hay in the barn! Perseverance in the face of adversity certainly pays off. Glad to hear you've got some meds for your back and it's feeling better.

Very glad to see that you got the hay baled and in the barn. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for bring me along.... it's a lot of fun seeing someone busting his way into the farming/ranching lifestyle.. super cool !

You can't beat family and friends, they are always there for you when you need them

Love seeing the old equipment being used and getting the job done

This is just another example of how man makes plans and God laughs, but proves again he loves us by providing what is NEEDED most! Family and FRIENDS! Ken

I Love watching you guys 👦 ❤ 💕 ♥

That is wonderful for that help for sure. Giving of one’s self is a pure form of love.

So happy for you two! So glad you got help and got it done. Glad your feeling better, can't wait to see your next project on the farm!

Welcome to Anything! Bad weather, machinery breakdowns but also people pitching in to help. Well done crop in and under cover.

Good to have help

Good people help good people....awesome harvest👍

Evan that was a great video ! So glad your felling better!♡ So sorry you had so many problem but that life! Lot of memories for me !! God bless!!!!♡♡♡♡♡

Pulling the hay wagon behind baler and loading bales on that you can have just 1 person driving tractor and 1 to 2 people loading wagon. Then unloading wagon in barn will be taller and closer to the hay loft.

Footage was great, brings back good memories . Great job everyone and good friends are priceless.

Pleased you got the help you needed. Good job done.

I really have enjoyed watching your farming operation videos . I pray your injury heals quickly. God Bless !

My best memories. Sitting down with the crew with sandwiches and a thermos of Tea after clearing bales

Good coverage.. good video..!! The bales are just great! Glad you are feeling better!!

Im from the Philippine came to your channel a week ago, got amused about this hay in huge rectangles. Im learning a lot.

Never bale the outside window first it's the wettest one in field start in center and work your way out

Hi..... Evan nice to see you and your back pain is felling better that good keep it up and keep smiling and keep sharing, thank you for sharing your video homestead chicken farmer garden 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 👋 👕🐔🐓🐥🐕🐖🐈🌱🎥👍👍👍

I'm glad that you are feeling better. God bless 🙏

Family and good friends make the world go around. Your gratitude shows.

...great work with a great crew.keep safe and hope you get better soon..

Love t see you old tractir equipment sir and always watching and support your videos thanks for sharing..this is my dream to have a farm someday..take always bro..from philippines✌️🍻

Good video mate love the old equipment

I’m sorry that anyone disliked this. Shit man, I think you are a baling ROCK STAR. Looked like it worked out pretty damn good to me. Awesome! 128 bales?! I’d be VERY proud of myself. I’m proud of you and you don’t even know me. The best part? You’ll get better at it. I’ve watched a lot of your videos so far. I think this one really shows your grit and determination. Awesome. Loved watching it.

The video was fine and I hope your back gets better soon and it is great to have friends and family to come when you need it! Old equipment needs a little more attention than new ones, but you have done a good job in getting them fixed and in good working order. Glad you got the hay baled and in the barn. In old equipment, a mechanic friend of mine said it is best to always check belts and hoses first and if either has cracks from age, go ahead and replace them and it will save you a lot of trouble down the road.

Back when I was a kid baling hay was always a big family get together.

Great friends and family! Big blessing! Thanks for sharing the blessing with us! ❤

You should double up your windrows. When you finish one, turn around and go the opposite way and put one right against the one you just made. Your baler can take the hay in much faster than you are running, and you will cut your turning in half.

Great job! Thanks for the video!😊👍🏻

So glad you're back is on the mend! Never underestimate the power of "more hands" making any job easier! lol Love watching your video's, love the music too!

Those old tractors don't do much for a bad back but they'll run forever. Take care of yourself...back injuries don't get better with age! I find myself aggravating mine doing the simplest things.

This is awesome! You are very blessed man.

Love the support u got and it made our day watching you GET UR DONE

Congratulations to you all! A job well done! Great to watch too. Thanks to you all. Rod

HELLO from chihuahua mexico, thank to your wife, friends and parents you accomplish this goal, take care of them and GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY.

Looks good. I used to double the windrows if the hay was thin, and sometimes only parts of a field needed to be doubled. Putting a hay wagon behind the baler is an incredible time and labor saver. You need another chute section added to the one already on the baler. Depending on the length of the wagon tongue, it drops the bale right on the wagon and two people can go into a field and in just a little while, have hay baled and already on the wagon. If you have two wagons, then you can unhook the loaded wagon and start right in on the second wagon. Two wagon loads was usually all my wife and I would want for one evening since we baled after getting home from our jobs. By the way, she drove the tractor while I stacked on the wagon. Then when we got the hay to the barn, she rolled the hay off the wagon onto the elevator. Doing the roll thing didn't hurt her back. Those were the good ole days. As a young person, we both enjoyed the feeling when you had unloaded 2 wagons of hay after working at your day job.

Glad u got ur hay in the barn and glad ur back is better

My back knows all about those muscle relaxers......helps me survive those days

Watching your videos taught me how to save over $400,000. This Playlist is awesome for hay farming beginners. I was overthinking so much. I believed before watching this, that for hay, I needed about 136 acres for hay. Now I'm informed that hay can be done with only 3 acres. Good job.

Seeing these aerial views of you raking hay reminds me of 50 years ago when my grandfather helped his neighbor make hay. I was too young to help but I do remember riding on the hay wagon. Good to see that old equipment getting some exercise. Great video.

Great team work!! its nice to see people join together and make a hard job easier. Salute!

Good to see old farm machinery come back to life. your a good man.

If nothing is broken you are not working. You are definitely a hard worker. Try to take care of that back. Thanks for sharing.

We are so glad to hear that you were able to get the hay baled with the help of friends and family! Also glad to hear you are feeling better and the trip to the Dr. was so helpful. Take it easy now and let your back heal. You don't want to start back at the beginning . Keeping you in our prayers for complete healing and a lot less pain. ! Take care, Patricia Huff, Kernersville, NC

love your channel. sorry to hear about your back injury. glad family and friends were able to assist you. please keep up the good content. God bless u your wife and all of your plans for the property. thanks again!!

I'm impressed with your crew. That was a quick turnaround. Glad you're feeling better.

Sounds like have good family and community supporting you and your dreams!!! Thank you for sharing!!

JudithB Glad that is done and love the smell of fresh hay!!! We usually got 2 cuts off 15 acres and sometimes 3, but usually just left the 3rd in pasture for the cows for the winter. Nothing like the sound of a shear pin, and we kept several for the most likely spots. Our twine baler would not tie every bale, but we kept going until finished and then rebale the busted ones. I was in the hospital with pneumonia one winter, and my neighbor kept my son at night, and milked my cow for us. Old times farmers had to help neighbors so all could get the work done especially in bad times. Happy Fathers Day Evan!

Awesome job. No right way or wrong way to do anything.

Well done Evan after all the trouble you had getting that field right you’ve got your harvest so happy for you both great work

Evan, you are a lucky man! Having the help of folks who care about you is awesome! Way to go getting it all done. There are alot of great comments on here with some helpful hints. Keep up the great videos!

Glad to see you finally got hay off your farm .. I know you been talking about it a few years now . The hay looks great 👍 glad to see your felling better . Thanks to all that help you & Your wife 💪💪 Stay safe & god bless ..

I always like the fact that you make what you have to work with into useable equipment.

Getting it done. It takes a village sometimes. Nice job everyone.

I hope your back problem gets better. Back in the latter 1980's, I fell off a ladder onto a wooden ladder on my back. Went through a lot of pain like yours and went in for some back rehab sessions at the local hospital but wound up with severe sciatica down the right leg and couldn't get up or move around without excruciating pain. Had an orthopedic doctor do surgery with a laminectomy on one of the lumbar discs but that fixed it for another 30 years or so. It took a good 3 months of work after surgery to get back to normal. Best to take it easy and don't stress that area while it's trying to heal. Good luck!

The hay bales look great! You did a great job in difficult circumstances! I know Rebecca’s goats will love it!

That's what friends and family is far! God bless you!

I have to say l love that you use the same equipment we used when I was growing up and bringing in hay!! I also wanted to tell you and Rebecca that I can't watch the TV shananagins anymore so I m always waiting on a new video. Always great footage!!❤️

BRAVO!! I am so happy for you!! 128 bales is not to shabby :)..Thank you to family and friends for helping him!!!

Just watched your hay making series from cutting to bringing in the bales. Well done for the first go. I picked many a stone, by hand as a kid, behind an Allis loader like yours. Three decades later I cut hay at 12 miles an hour, ted 30’ at a time, rake 24’ in one pass and moving 2 large round or 3 large squares with the skid steer. It makes me realize now that the simple life is just as good. Congrats to you and your crew on a job done well.

My motto is people helping people ", it's amazing when help is needed , stay safe everyone ! Thank you all !!!

I was the QUEEN of breaking shear pins, my husband almost fired me, he said I was going too fast and plugging it up the pickup wasn't going fast enpugh..so I slowed down a bit and the RPM ws goid...to this day I still have about 15 shear pins andcI am 70 now...but gay what nemories...we had the same baler...nice to see you working with older stuff...good luck...

i love the smell of hay in the barn,896 bucks worth of hay,your blessed my friend ,just how it is,i seen your belt after you started the tractor up,shear bolts ,ya carry extras, you push the hay shes going to shear a bolt,never goes perfect ,im happy you gotter done

Nice beatiful work

Another great video. Hope you’re feeling better. Love your videos.

Well that's a relief! You got your hay bailed and stored, you've got to be happy about that.

A way you can test if your hay is ready to bale is grab hay in both of your hand and rotate your hands the opposite way and if it breaks then it’s ready to bale.

Now you need to find a tired old hay wagon and make it serviceable again. bales going out of the baler up on the wagon is a lot better than having to pick them up off the ground.

Again I enjoyed your video segment.

This is awesome guys. Congratulations on reaching this goal of yours.

I hope you recover quickly. And I am so happy for your hays... Good luck my friend

Shear pins break when the hay is thick. Too much speed combined with heavy wind rows = a higher probability of shearing the flywheel pin. Watch the pickup and listen to the plunger. It will tell you when you're loading the chamber too much. Go a little slower in heavy wind rows. Shearing pins is normal if you're in a hurry. The baler is working correctly, it's just that your speed is a little too high. Great videos. Reminds me of my first cutting, raking and baling. Didn't really know what I was doing, but it sure was fun. Have a great weekend!

Well done and best to your crew. How great it is. Thanks Evan I have been cheering you on from Southern California

I am like the other loyal fan. Glad to see the old time equipment is running and usable. I feel you on the back situation. After 32 years of work. 20 being in warehouse. I had to let it go. Injured my back 5 times too many within the span of 24 months. Doc said your quality of life want be good if I kept it up. Born handicapped I never left that stop me from working. 32 years of hard labor. Hoped extension of knees 3 times. Both rotator cups needs surgery. Groin muscle tear. Pulled bicep twice. And like I said the lower back. 52 and now fully retired enjoying gardening. Farming is next. Keep in there and invest in weight belt. I used when I exceed 20 pound loads especially if that will be a routine prolonged lifting. Any Wal-Mart or fitness store has them. Great back saver.

Wonderful family and friends, God Bless.

So much help ,it speaks well for the man that you are! :)

I thought the video was awesome. Brought back memories for me. My daddy used to cut rake and bale hay and me and my two brothers and two sisters used to help get it up and into the barn. That’s some hard work. So glad you had help. And I know exactly how you feel with your back. I have several spinal issues and when my back goes out it is just horrible. Glad you got a second opinion and got the meds you need. Pray you heal quickly. God bless and have a wonderful day.

I started watching your videos a few days ago and I enjoyed what I saw. I am an older lady that knows absolutely nothing about farming but I have been watching a lot of homesteaders over the past few years and I truly admire the work ethic as well as the community spirit in these type videos. I subscribed today and will continue watching. Thanks for sharing and I hope your back gets well quickly. Have a Blessed day.

The Shear pin breaking twice is unusual,, and the banging you describe sounds like the ram inside the chamber,, sometimes the ram hits the needles which take the hay into the chamber..Love to know exactly tho.. Also great to know the shear pin works, because replacing the flywheel is a nitemare and costly... Again great video.