Hauling Large Round Bales in South Dakota

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5 жыл бұрын

We have been going pretty hard the last week and we got a nice day to spend moving bales. Dad was using the 6155R with the double bale spears to load the gooseneck trailer, and I was using the 7520 to load our notch bale trailer. In the end we moved about 200 bales.
Thanks for watching!

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@kennethunderwood2396 5 жыл бұрын

Enjoying the videos. Think you'll have no problem reaching 100,000. You have great narrative skills. I watch a number of family farming videos and your becoming favored to watch. Stick with it. Thanks from north carolina.

@SonneFarms 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@MaverickVersusEverything 5 жыл бұрын

"Hey - why don't you stack the hay bales like a pyramid? 4 - 3 - 2 - 1. The upper bales do not start to mold. We place the lower ones on pallets or a layer of gravel so that they do not lie in the mud. Greeting from Germany!"

@karencary3312 4 жыл бұрын

There is something mesmerizing about watching you moving bales. With your music it's very pleasant. Zoning.

@SonneFarms 4 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear!

@edcrego7978 5 жыл бұрын

Hay season was one of my best times of the year lot of hard work but when you enjoy something so much you don't look at as work love your videos thanks you make me think back and how very much i loved farming as always looking forward to your next video

@Bhambone 5 жыл бұрын

Awesome video!! Watching younger farmers (like you) is very inspiring and it’s good to know our generation still has good hard working people to represent us, thanks man and keep the videos coming!!

@firstlast5681 3 жыл бұрын

This video just popped up in my feed, go figure I've been subscribed for like 4 months now, oh well I enjoyed it immensely and cold the positions of the camera must take you a long time but they are appreciated, I know bailing is old hat to you but it's fun for us to watch, I love you guys life 👋

@SonneFarms 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome, thank you!

@leyton235 5 жыл бұрын

This is very well done and super interesting. A brilliant way to share an occupation and location that most people in this country will never experience. Great wok.

@fatlarry1184 5 жыл бұрын

I know your dad must be really proud of his sons! You make me feel great about the future of our country and the work ethic that you exhibit. It's the most important lesson I've always imparted to my kids and grandkids. I'm a loyal subscriber. Thanks, Larry (NY)

@SonneFarms 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Larry!

@CRAIGVY 5 жыл бұрын

awesome love South Dakota .been to visit many times , plan to go this fall , which i always drive from Massachusetts to an fro , get off the highway an drive thru the towns you meet the most beautiful loving compassionate Friendly people along the way , thanks for sharing an bless you all for your hard work , peace craig

@lizziehiggs5111 4 жыл бұрын

I want to farm so bad. This looks like the life for me!

@jamisgood21 4 жыл бұрын

I feel ya. I live in a rural area in SE WI. Farming all around me. Sadly, if you're not born into farming and land ownership it's extremely difficult and expensive to get land. I do the next best thing and hobby farm my tiny little 2.5 acres of heaven and sell sweet corn and pumpkins. Maybe someday I'll win the lottery and be able to buy more land. Until then, I'm still blessed to have what I do being as though I didn't inherit a farm or land.

@rasheduzzamanripon3325 Жыл бұрын

@@jamisgood21Wish you good luck man.

@barbarastedillie1336 3 жыл бұрын

Great drone footage!

@SonneFarms 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! 👍

@logins7381 5 жыл бұрын

In our 90 acre field we got 300 bales and we have another 1/4 section the we have half done and have like 370. Lot of hay to move. Love the video keep up the good work. I was mad I got half way they the video and the cattle truck showed up to load fat cattle and I had to wait to watch the rest of it.👍🏼🐂

@MrFarmallm0722 5 жыл бұрын

You could look into getting an Ag Speed hitch for the bale wagon. It would allow you to hitch and unhitch from the bale mover without having to get out of the tractor.

@danielrandolph9170 5 жыл бұрын

Good hay video and drone work cool ! & I see yal 5th trailer holding the rolls good. Good thinking on making the modifications removable 👍🇺🇸

@farmer2521 4 жыл бұрын

I run Kubota tractors but have always loved the sound of John Deere.

@ramseyridge 5 жыл бұрын

I don’t know why this was recommended to me but I’m not complaining

@leewhite317 3 жыл бұрын

And you cook too, your awesome.

@wallaceloan4169 4 жыл бұрын

Great drone shots and work in getting all those bales in. Great video

@BiohofRuehl 5 жыл бұрын

Hey, why don't you stack the hay bales like a pyramid? 4 - 3 - 2 - 1. The upper bales do not start to mold. We place the lower ones on pallets or a layer of gravel so that they do not lie in the mud. Greeting from Germany!

@chriscrosby8012 2 жыл бұрын

5 Star ⭐️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ video. THANKS 🙋‍♀️💗

@SonneFarms 2 жыл бұрын

Our pleasure!

@codyludwig2811 5 жыл бұрын

cool video I've put up with a stubborn bale before, I think our neibour tied the bale to tight and our bale bucked could barly penetrate the hay bale a few years ago I even put the bale on the flat side and tried to sprear it, Lifted the front tires off the gound spear only went in bout a inch.

@josephrodgers3119 5 жыл бұрын

There's always that one in the bunch, what cha gonna do... Thanks for the video..

@theresapetekiewicz1788 5 жыл бұрын

Just came across your video for the first time. It was inspirational to see a young man working hard with his father. Most Young Folks today complain and seem to have an entitlement mentality. I hope your video inspires many young people. Your father raised you right!😏

@dylanduster1903 4 жыл бұрын

Love your videos and love farming

@pinkywilliams8063 4 жыл бұрын

Loved it!!!!!!! no complaints here

@thomascooper5668 3 жыл бұрын

Another bisy day love. Farm work always something to do

@herdingcats3850 4 жыл бұрын

A long way from cutting alfalfa w/Farmall Cub , raking and loading a wagon with pitchforks and a mule. These ARE the good old days. On another note, you've done a good job with your direction, settings and narration for your videos. You could do all right with vids in any Big City. Good luck.

@danfinley3690 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for another great video lots of bails of hay

@dwaynepennel1488 3 жыл бұрын

If i had a cattle farm, I would have steak, steak w/onions, steak w/green peppers, ginger steak, steak fajitas, steak w/broccoli, steak w/snow peas, steak w/steak fries, steak w/mashed taters. Steak, steak, steak :)

@Marshall_Weber 4 жыл бұрын

Much Love as always!!!

@jasonlamb1644 4 жыл бұрын

Like that on bobcat sorry hit send to fast love what yaw are doing

@benburns5995 5 жыл бұрын

Great video of hauling bales. Neat seeing the footage where the camera was eye level with the spears going into the bale. Hope you have some time for a vacation before having to head back to school in the fall.

@amniconvalleyangus 5 жыл бұрын

Love your videos! That’s nice having two loaders in the field. We use old semi trailers with Dolly’s to haul our hay. Takes a fairly big tractor to pull it since you want to have stopping power, but you can move a lot of hay very quickly

@curtweatherbee2523 5 жыл бұрын

It’s a hot one here in South Jersey farmers are moving hay here too 😉🐝👍🏻

@mikebonge7206 5 жыл бұрын

nice equipment,,, Nice to have lots fo hay,,, probably going to be cold winter,,, you will need all the hay you have,,,

@ordinary-dubz6163 5 жыл бұрын

I’m only 13 but my dream is to start a farm love the vids

@b2617 5 жыл бұрын

I'm 31 and I would love to farm

@chrisfastrakdavies2598 5 жыл бұрын

@@onealfarms9967 where are you from? In England we have young Farmers groups they are called and everybody is welcome. It doesn't matter who you are and where you live it's a good place to find some connections by making friends with people that live on farms and they may invite you to do some work on the weekends. If you are really good they may pay for you to get licences and then give you full time work in the summer then you are on your way into a career in Agriculture. I was lucky my great grandfather started our business in about 1926 and we became contractors in 1984 when I was 3 and about 4 years later I was in the cab but not on roads. I am 38 now so I have 31 years experience lol.

@onealfarms9967 5 жыл бұрын

Chris Fastrak Davies I’m in the same boat with you 1940 is when my grandfather bought 180 acres now I own half and rent over 300 acres long story short there is no way I can buy this farm and be able to pay for it or even make a living because of the expense of paying taxes and buying land around $10000.00 an acre I don’t know how it is in England but I know on KZfaq that I seen you guy have some nice new equipment I still have tractor from the 70.s if I bought the tractor I got new today it will cost $80000.00 cow will cost $1000.00 500 bound steer averages $500.00 to$600.00 not much profit farmers have it hard unless your a corporate farmer

@jacewhetten7686 4 жыл бұрын

I have my cows i just want to start a alfafa farm

@longfordboy2538 4 жыл бұрын

That. is reallyl hard work. I hope it is paying off Thank you

@bradyford6901 5 жыл бұрын

i’m waiting for next trailer to come to unload bales and so i’m watching u

@h-aaskov618 5 жыл бұрын

Another great video!

@canadianfarmerdonnieseabor8487 5 жыл бұрын

I like bale videos 👍

@rosewhite--- 4 жыл бұрын

I didn't realise South Dakota got so much rainy weather to upset so much of your farming!

@RobertLidstroem 5 жыл бұрын

One weird thing...in the us farmers seem to think they need 1 tractor per implement? Not just Sonne Farms, but i follow 20+ us-farm-vlogs and many of them have like 6-7 tractors. In Sweden we unhook and move the tractor to another implement and then we go (yeah crazy, i know), but say 6-7 tractors in the us, would be 2, 3 tops in sweden, hence money saved.

@kylemoore5000 5 жыл бұрын

Back in the UK we stack the bales as well. Takes up less space and they don’t rot as easily. Love the vids keep up the good work 👍

@rogerwilson9892 5 жыл бұрын

Kranch is that what you said looked it up didn't know there were anything like it but you said the last field was a pasture/hayfield good to see you got as many bale as you had for it was wet at cutting and raking and baling nice video.

@SonneFarms 5 жыл бұрын

Kranch, its a mix of ketchup and ranch, Heinz just came out with it recently.

@rogerwilson9892 5 жыл бұрын

@@SonneFarms Yeah like it or not I am going to try it.

@billthornton5956 5 жыл бұрын

Have you ever thought of getting a shed for your bales?

@cjfarms5600 5 жыл бұрын

Hit That notification as soon as I could lol! Love the videos man!

@mrtheguzzomanshouldknow5853 5 жыл бұрын

good video keep up the good work 👍👍👍👍👍

@loganb7339 9 ай бұрын

Im surprised you are not stacking them or do the bottom layer on its end. In canada the part bale that freezes to the ground goes to waste plus they take up less space. If do see unstacked hay its usaually wrapped in a single row.

@josephschmid9339 5 жыл бұрын

Same, today is time to move hay

@josiahboll5193 5 жыл бұрын

At 5:51 and beyond it looks like you guys are stacked on bales

@bobcrone6151 5 жыл бұрын

Cool upload. Nice editing on the GoPro mounted on the bale forks ;)

@DeLandbouwSpotter 5 жыл бұрын

Beautiful to see.

@simonknight4744 5 жыл бұрын

Just love the channel

@peggooo 3 жыл бұрын

11:20 so so beautiful!

@bruhwithachevy8544 4 жыл бұрын

Fs 21 lookin good

@darkhorsejosh 3 жыл бұрын

Why do you store the hay and Alfa A individually, in the Uk we stack them so they keep the weather off them and then there’s less waste?

@jasonlamb1644 4 жыл бұрын

I have had a piston seal squeak

@BrianGLee-bc7hj 4 жыл бұрын

IH Case grew up on them

@kaljamaha3412 4 жыл бұрын

i noticed the sound that the front loader did when you talked about it

@leesteele9290 5 жыл бұрын

The drone shots are neat,is it unusual to have water standing in all those low spots this time of year ? Bale moving is a monotonous job for sure but somebodys gotta do it! Take us on a cow /pasture tour sometime please ! Thanks for the video!

@daledallas9630 5 жыл бұрын

Nice place.

@ArturoChurro 5 жыл бұрын

This video is so soothing 😁! What camera do you use? Love the quality!

@SonneFarms 5 жыл бұрын

GoPro Hero 7 Black

@stanleyjones4180 5 жыл бұрын

enjoyed the video thanks

@stijngmail 4 жыл бұрын

my trying to sleep at night mosquito in my room: 7:02

@ziga204 5 жыл бұрын

How come you leave bales on the rain? Isn't it that the rain is bad for hay? I am from Slovenia, live on a farm but we always store away from rain.

@SonneFarms 5 жыл бұрын

That is correct but a big hay shed to keep them out of the rain would be expensive

@ziga204 5 жыл бұрын

Ok, but what is the hay like than for cows?

@robertgorsett1586 5 жыл бұрын

did you ever contact Greenway?? Someone below asked about an "Auto hitch" so if you go onto onelonelyfarmer he did a 'hitch" video where he bought one 2 of the hitches where they simply unhitch/hitch without even leaving the tractor. You guys do a lot of bales, thought it may interest you.

@ranginrobert5455 5 жыл бұрын

Greetings from Wyoming

@SonneFarms 5 жыл бұрын

Howdy!

@humefarms210 4 жыл бұрын

I think the whole season last year our hay only got rained on one time

@SonneFarms 4 жыл бұрын

OUCH!

@rdekort9273 5 жыл бұрын

Men that will take ages,we load 32 big sqaure bales on a trailer one with the tractor and one with the manitou

@williamkeehn3637 5 жыл бұрын

In Southern Wisconsin where I'm at there's a dealership that sells notch equipment I never knew they made any in green everything I've always seen has been red

@austinsink5086 5 жыл бұрын

It’s a lot faster with a skid steer!

@michaelcollins6851 Жыл бұрын

Well I feel better for you guys now it looks like alot of hay but what do I know

@SonneFarms Жыл бұрын

yes it was, i think 2 or 3 years ago

@joshharber1079 4 жыл бұрын

How much grass and alfalfa do you go through in a year? Also have you ran out of bales to feed with?

@echutch 5 жыл бұрын

You all don’t have any family with a garden near you? My grandparents keep giving me produce. Window sill in my kitchen is full of tomatoes...looks like the PJ worked good. Does the front axel slide when you turn? That is the only negative I’ve heard about the tri-axel trailers. Thanks for the video kind sir.

@chrisfastrakdavies2598 5 жыл бұрын

We usually stack our bales then the rain then generally only effects the bales on top. We all have our different ways. Are all your bales for you to keep or do you get anybody that buys some?

@SonneFarms 5 жыл бұрын

Most years we keep all our bales, this year we are selling some

@willr69420 3 жыл бұрын

*Thus begins the bonus footage as the outro!*

@oddvargundersen4397 5 жыл бұрын

Way are you not using plastic on the bales, like we in Norway. It keeps the gras dry through the Winter.

@tedjohn441 4 жыл бұрын

I am old and had horses when I was younger. The hay had to be dry and stored in a barn. There must be some waste from the rain hitting bales. Or can the cows eat moldy hay? That is a huge operation. I grew up in WI and the farms were small. Now they are all huge on the land that wasn't developed. I would guess you are raising beef cattle. Haven't seen enough of you video's to find out.

@teamnoskillzracing 4 жыл бұрын

🏁Awesome

@OurNerdFarm 5 жыл бұрын

Man, your drone shots are really smooth. Which drone do you use if you dont mind me asking? Also that sub count is starting to really rise. Great work.

@SonneFarms 5 жыл бұрын

I use the Mavic 2 zoom

@flanbro3530 Жыл бұрын

How much does one of the bales usually sell for?

@jackaldrich1065 5 жыл бұрын

I’m haying this weekend on my family’s farm

@curtweatherbee2523 5 жыл бұрын

Will the cows still eat the hay 😎👍🏻✨

@FredaStauffer 5 жыл бұрын

Awesome video. I enjoyed watching you work. How many animals are you feeding?

@SonneFarms 5 жыл бұрын

depending on the year, anywhere from 600-900

@giuseppepellizzi4473 5 жыл бұрын

Why do You leave the bales in contact whit the Earth? From My peers we avoid doing because It could bring mold to hay

@ThyBountyHunter 5 жыл бұрын

My son hates tomato's (unless pasta sauce, pizza sauce or ketchup), so he love's the BL's, minus the Mayo/Ranch.

@cristiangiammarino2320 4 жыл бұрын

Pardon my suburbs dwelling ignorance. But I don't understand. You feed the cattle with this stuff? Like basically instead of buying feed you grow grass?

@SonneFarms 4 жыл бұрын

They eat grass, among other things. Either we grow it or we buy it.

@cristiangiammarino2320 4 жыл бұрын

@@SonneFarms excellent ! Thank you

@krystek92xd 5 жыл бұрын

Hello. What do You think about tires Firestone? I have these tires (Performer 70) on my 6120M and they have a lot of vibration when im driving between 15- 20km/h. I have vid on my channel. Maybe they do, but the ride is very unpleasant. As if I was driving along a stony road. PS. Great video and greetings from Poland.

@beverlyallen5308 4 жыл бұрын

Are you and your dad the only ones who work the farm? What does dad do when your at school or do you go close by? Just saying holy crap that's alot of work

@SonneFarms 4 жыл бұрын

My Uncle Jeff, works with us. Sometimes dad just keeps the harder jobs for the weekends when I can come home

@landrycoy5397 4 жыл бұрын

I living tea sd it’s near souix falls

@hoangpham4468 3 жыл бұрын

How is heavy each bale?

@Spike643 4 жыл бұрын

How much does one of these bails weigh? Which is heavier, per bail of grass or alfalfa ?

@SonneFarms 4 жыл бұрын

The bails weigh about 1400-1500lbs. I should probably know the answer to your second question but I am not sure

@joserubalcaba3920 5 жыл бұрын

So did the new trailer work out good for you

@SonneFarms 5 жыл бұрын

It took some getting used to but it is nice having two trailers

@danielkacko7616 5 жыл бұрын

How many bales do you make a year? I make about 1100 wrapped and som dry hay as well

@anthonybanda8192 5 жыл бұрын

how many head of cattle do you guys have. dad and I have about 150 head of cattle. 65 of them are mine and are at my 200 acre farm that I bought a year ago .

@gav242 5 жыл бұрын

loaders a bit squeaky. might want to grease it

@SonneFarms 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks ill get right to that

@m.j.l.abulle9107 5 жыл бұрын

Gavin Borstad push down on something to get grease on the working side of the loader pins

@mitchbrown926 5 жыл бұрын

Why don't you guys make another row on top of the ones that are on the ground since you have so many bales

@andrewpeterson5977 5 жыл бұрын

Is that double bale spear a MDS one or what make is it I have never seen one in my life other than in MDS ads in magazines. I think MDS calls it a double bale stabber.

@SonneFarms 5 жыл бұрын

It sure is an MDS