+Henry Zabel. Excellent story! Glad you found my channel! I know of a few barns that have burnt around here because of the same reason. Fortunately its never been any of ours.

+Todd Phillips. Thanks for watching Todd! I like this setup because I can unload the hay in the barn without help or labor.

+Chuck Stevenson. Yeap that's what I like about it!

+Ted Kahler. Thanks Ted, it easier with the right equipment, but still a lot more work than round bales.

+North east Ohio farmer. They are nice balers and do a good job, the hydro tounge is very helpful.

+onlygazza's fastrac farming. When I was younger I used to handle them by hand also, if I still had to do that I wouldn't be doing it anymore, hard to find help at a moment's notice. Thanks for watching, glad your enjoying my vids!

+Can Man 2000 dirty words. Your welcome, hope you can accomplish your dream someday!

+Trevor Wolfe. Good idea!

+m cole. I did some custom straw baling for a guy the other day, he owns a NH 273 and he was very impressed with my BC5060, I let him bale with it while I got the straw out of the field.

Glad you like it! Thanks for the offer.

No it's not any different that I can tell, you back off the tension some on the chamber because the back pressure of the bales will pack them tighter. Hardly ever shear a pin, normally it's from a stick or something entering the baler.

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+Soybean Farmer. Thanks! Yeah I wouldn't want to cut that field its basically the side of a cliff! Lol

+Soybean Farmer. I'll check landmark out!

+AndersonCattleCo. If they weren't sold I'd just ship them to ya! Lol

+Denny's Country Life. I built my own for the 315 hayliner I've got, wasn't hard to do!

+Jan Kotze. Thanks it does a good job!

+brian smith. Thanks Brian, I hope it works on this Johnson grass.

No I'm not close to there.

+Jay Poindexter. Yeap, I buy my equipment from Franklin Welding in Rocky Mount

Jay Poindexter where is this

+Braxton Johnson. This is Meadows of Dan, Virginia

+RustyCarnahan. It works pretty good most of the time, but yes there will be hiccups. I have found though unless like in this instance where the bale was stuck, it's faster to just keep baling even if for some reason it didn't get all 10 bales in the pack. The most common problem is it will leave one bale out if your on steep ground but not always just occasionally, then when your loading set all the pack that have a bale missing next to each other then get out and take one pack apart and fix all the other packs then load as normal. For example in 1000 bales on steep land you may have 5 to 10 packs missing one bale. You will drive your self crazy if you get out while baling and fix them. In the case of the bale on the tailgate​ I was coming down a very steep hill it's just hard to tell that in the video. That was the only hiccup I had in that field and it's all on the side of a slope. There is one spot the accumulator looks as if it could turn over but it doesn't.

DLH Farms Thanks. We're looking at buying a 1036F, a grabber and a tie grabber. I was just curious about how they did on hilly sideling ground.

+RustyCarnahan I would think if it works for me it would work for most people. I live in the mountains.

DLH Farms Same here. We live at the foothills of the Appalachian mountains in Southeast Ohio.

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+Stan Wilson. That's interesting, but I'm in Virginia. Thanks for watching Stan!

+South Alabama Corn Farmer. Ok I'll check you out if I can find some time.

+Howard Younger. Thanks Howard! This is a beautiful place I just take it for granted I guess don't think much about it until someone points it out. I like my bales to be 50 pounds for grass and 60 pounds for alfalfa mix, so we are on the same page sounds like. I have weighed them but I normally don't I just go by feel, been doing it a long time. I hope my son enjoys farming and tractors as much as I do but if not that will be ok also.

nothing like seeing your son drive tractor for the first time. mine dont want to farm but as long as he likes what he is doing that is cool.

+Raynald Chatillon. Sounds like it's time to get started again!

Not for a job no more... Now we only do a couple of hundred for my sisters horses.. And it's all by hand, what makes for a nice excuse to see old friends and have a beer afterwards. Question. Are you also able to unload by machine .?

+Raynald Chatillon. I gotcha. Yes I can unload it in the shed and reload it again on a customer's trailer, that's the beauty of doing this way.

+Pam Moritz. Yes that is correct, it's hard to count because you can't really hear this baler tie the bales, even with the window open, ive been doing it long enough I can tell if I'm getting to fast without counting

Have a 570 with a thrower I start counting every time a bale leaves the thrower

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+Landmark cattle. I really like the 5060, I think the 575 is basically the same baler with a wider pickup head than the 5060. As far as finding the right gear I normally can find one it's happy in with the T5, it has 16 speeds. The T4 I had, had the dual command and it had 24 speeds. You could find the perfect speed with it always. I'm going to assume your T4 must be a 12 speed. The T5 won't run exactly 3mph but it comes close in 540E it will run 3.2 in 4th gear

Thanks for the reply! Yes, my t4 is a 12 speed. I think that's my problem. Love your videos

+Landmark cattle. If you like the T4, get you another one with dual command, or trade that for it and that will solve your problem.

I like the t4. I just wish it had more weight and gears. I wish I had gotten a t5 like yours

+Landmark cattle. I agree, for such a big looking Tractor they are really light. The problem with the T5 is $$$$$$. But it's a lot more tractor weight wise.

+Dan Whiteford. It's going pretty good! I'm really having to work around a lot of rain this year, I have about 20 more acers to go and it's getting ripe because the rain keeps pushing me back on cutting it, but hopefully today I can mow it! I've still got a lot of videos to put up making hay, and other odds and ends. If you notice the dates on the beginning of my videos I'm way behind on posting!

Well look at this way if the grass is getting ripe at least it will be reseeding your pastures which could be a cost saving in the log run! It sounds as though your getting the same sort of weather we generally have here , which is precisely why most significant grassland farmers have moved over to making silage or what I believe is known as baleage (haylage here) in your country. There is a rapidly growing demand for plastic coated small square bales for the horse fraternity over here. Is much of your present hay crop sold to horse customers? A couple suppliers are www.eurobale.co.uk and www.bailliehaylage.co.uk if this interests you.

+Dan Whiteford. Yes my most of my customers feed horses, that's why I'm so particular about getting my hay dry. Most people around here that have cattle are wrapping what they call silage bales which doesn't make since to me I was always told silage was chopped corn, at least that's what we called it when we put it in the harvest store when I was a kid, and we called the chopped high moisture hay haylage. I've never heard of the plastic coated small squares. Are they dry when coated or high moisture?

Silage for people here in the UK and Europe is a term used to describe any form of green fodder that is preserved by natural fermentation (using plant sugars) The most common form is grass silage but also maize silage is very important too. Some people also ensile ( the word used to describe the process of making silage) crops such as whole crop cereals such as wheat, barley and oats quite often with other plants added into the mix such as peas, beans and other legumes. - Why? - Two common reasons, a)simply much less risk of failure to make quality winter fodder for livestock as the process is significantly quicker than making hay (1.5 - 3 days) in catchy, slow drying weather and b) the crop is usually harvested earlier meaning much better nutritive value. eg grass is mown at about 10 - 25% / head emergence for silage and near 100% head emergence for hay (which has more bulk in the form of stem and seed head but much less leaf). Grain crops and maize are usually harvested when the seed in the head is in the soft doughy stage. Traditionally silage is made long stemmed but increasingly is being chopped much shorter which is now the norm for high production animals such as dairy cows and high growth rate beef cattle and sheep as they can eat and digest more per day = more production / day.. (This is one of the reasons for more round balers being fitted with crop cutters and net wrapping). It is particularly important that silage harvesters used for harvesting maize and grains with corn crackers to open up the grain so that the animals can more easily digest it. Silage is undoubtedly wetter and is often 25-28% moisture, in fact if too dry it can be real difficult to seal it air tight in a pit clamp as its too fluffy and loose. Haylage has been developed as a sort of half way house position between silage and traditional hay in that you can bale it 24-36hrs before hay (less weather risk and better nutrient value). It needs storing in an airtight manner and will slowly ferment a little, sufficient to preserve it really well, hence the development of bale wrapping using stretch film. Once opened it will deteriorate quite quickly (3-4 days). If you look at those web sites I posted you will see that suppliers often supply differing size bales according to customer requirements. Haylage is often baled at 19-22% moisture it rarely smells strongly and to the casual observer appears to be green dry hay. Indeed some folks mow grass planning to make hay but if the weather threatens to go wrong they will make the decision to bale and wrap it and call it haylage to preserve their crop and avoid losses. Couple of points worth noting customers like the bale wrapping as the bale does not make a mess (or smell) in the car when they fetch it from their local supplier compared to hay and much more importantly it is normally dust free fodder which is most important to horse owners. - Many, may horse people soak their hay for 12 hrs before feeding it which many resent as a necessary but time wasting task. Hay is of course is the traditional fodder for livestock, especially horses, but it is far from easy to make a reliable quality product with our climate as we don't have regular high day temps and decent dry spells of weather. Most hay is about 14-17% moisture. Hope this helps, sorry about the lengthy reply.

+Dan Whiteford. Lol thanks for the book! I know some of this, a lot of cattle farmers here are rapping silage bales now including my uncle because of speed weather conditions in my area, this small bale wrapping deal intrigues my, I need to do more research on it, I'm trying to figure out how you would handle them since you would be able to get to the strings. I have a lot of questions, I will look it up when I'm not out on the tractor!

Not really just make sure the timing is right, mine was off when I first got it. Other than that keep it greased and oiled and bale hay.

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+KHank1995. Yes it does, only in heavy hay though and only with the square baler. Talked to the dealer today about it. Supposed to check it out sometime. Do you have a 120?

Gotcha I guess it must be normal then. We run a farmall 125a on a 5070 with the same accumulator and hear the same noise.

+KHank1995. Ok well that makes me feel better about it.

Ya same here. keep the videos coming love watching!

+KHank1995. There's definitely more on the way, just got to take the time to edit them!

+South Alabama Corn Farmer. Glad your watching my channel! I haven't really had any trouble with my balers. I live in Patrick county Virginia. Never heard of M&W.

+Daniel Geisenhof. That is an excellent idea! Thank you!

+DLH Farms, No problem! It's the same idea as using a knuckle on your hand as an inch measurement. If you know how different parts of yourself measure up you can get a variety of different measurements for almost anything on your farm when a roundabout measurement is all you need.

You just watched it work on a steep hill, cameras don't show steep well. It does pretty good.

@@DLHFarms I could tell that it looked steep. What about when you're going across the hill instead of up or down? I've been looking at them and I think the Kuhn is the best bang for the buck.

It still works, it's not perfect but I think all of them have some trouble on hills like I have.

@@DLHFarms I think we probably are farming in similar terrain. I live in KY and it's plenty hilly. I appreciate your videos and thanks for replying!

Probably so I'm in the blue ridge mountains of VA.

+Justin Owens. Well I don't know, but I would think that on edge bales would be hard to keep stacked on a wagon unless you used the tie grabber that puts a string around the pack of bales.

+Tom Reel. Thanks Tom!

+harry mcmillan. Thanks Harry! It is a beautiful place!

DLH Farms what state are you in? just found your videos

+Joe May I'm in the south Western part of Virginia.

DLH Farms i live in the Staunton VA area

+TODD Gruver. That's just a few hours up the road, I'm in Meadows of Dan right off the Blue Ridge Parkway

+Cougar Land. That would be my wife standing in the field at 12:50 with my one year old son so he could watch. Yeah I'm going to make them stack hay when I have the equipment to do it myself, that makes a lot of sense!