Eric is now a Pro Bonafide Farmer since he easily Learned how to Drive the Tractor and was able to get the Big Round Bales ALL Wrapped Up. Great Job, Eric! 👍🙏

I can only imagine what your face looked like watching the bale roll down the hill

That’s the best thing about your family. You all work together as one. That’s how families are supposed to be. All of you are very lucky to have one another.

I'm so impressed with Eric. He's doing a wonderful job!

How impressive was Eric!!! Joel you did a fab job, learning new skills yourself, and then passing info over to Eric!! Great video, it put a smile on my face and I am grateful for that!!

Eric did a great job! It was so good to see what a fast learner he is. He came in a novice and went out a pro! It was also so interesting to see that square bale machine in action, doing the work of an entire crew! What a blessing to hardworking farmers!

You're an excellent trainer Joel. Eric did an awesome job!!!! ❤️🤍💙

Wow… Grew up with square bales and that system your neighbor uses is absolutely amazing!

ERIC IS THE MAN. GREAT JOB

Eric your a great friend for coming to help Joel with the hay🎉❤.

Eric did a great job. Wow fast learner. So thankful you are having such a wonderful hay season. A great blessing

Eric, good one on you for coming and helping Joel with the round bales.

Joel , your whole family works so well together and it seems like everyone helps each other all the time; true teamwork God bless

Joel understand very well. Uses farmers always have different things on the farm it’s a hassle but we put our minds to do it.very awesome video. Great job Eric on your first day wrapping .

Horses will Never Stop Eating so Please keep Growing and Bailing the Hay. The Horses said, Thank you. 😬👍

that was nice of eric to help you with wrapping bails great job eric 🎉 hi gavin 😄👍

Oh no runaway bale!! LOL Gave me a good laugh!

Every time I see square bales, my back and hands ache! Memories of walking those fields and loading hay trailers! Hot, itchy, back breaking work! Ahhhh, youth!

Born operating engineers. Joel. Pete, Eric, veggie boys. Comes natural.

Your right! That square bailer is really cool!

Possessed Bale there!! LOL

Eric you are a STAR ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Joel great video again 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Love from the UK x

Wow well done Eric amazing start and amazing teacher Joel you seem to have a great connection with Gavin, Pete and Eric!

Great job Eric! You’re a very good and patient teacher Joel. Your great attitude helped Eric relax & be successful today. Enjoyed every minute with both of you.

Better to have too much hay than to little. Who knows what the rest of the summer will be like as the weather has been crazy.

Love your channel Joel. Eric is my new favorite farmer😊😊😊

Not going to lie, my draw dropped when I saw that hay wagon as I thought of growing up baling small bales stacking the hay in the searing heat wondering how many snakes I was going to see in the bales as they came off the baler. Ain't technology grand!?!!!!!

Great job Eric and Joel! The stable is really growing. 🥰

WHOOHOO Eric!!! You did awesome! Keep on Keepin' on!

Eric you did a fantastic job! Joel you are going to have a very nice stash of hay for the next 12 months. Way to go!!!! Very excited to see new hay barn, when completed of course. :) Thank you for sharing your world. See you in the next one,

Eric did a great job! Was hella nice of him to come help out.

Farm House with a beautiful pool?!? You mean Cement Pond!!! LOL

OMG, the run away bale made me laugh! Also Love the neighbors tractor.

Really enjoyed watching 👍👍

Joel is definitely a team player. I like that about him.

Good job Eric, not bad for first time.

Always educating us Joel. So much to look for in hay, never even thought of. Eric great job driving and wrapping. Thanks guys 😊

You have a great hard working family and ya all help each other out. We know that Joel glad to see things are getting done smoothly

When I was a kid we cut hay with a sickle bar, raked it, ran a crimper on it, then square baled it on the ground. No haybine or kicker baler. Then we hooked up a couple hay wagons and stacked the hay about 8 rows high. Then we put it in the barn with a conveyer. Lots of handling. Your forearms would be scratched up, but you were 17 years old and never got really tired. Loved it.

We call what your neighbor is using a Roadsider. To us old timers it was the greatest invention since sliced bread!😂😂😂

Getting to watch the wrapper up close was really cool! Thanks💚

That baler is AWESOME. I need one of those! 👍Great video!

great job Eric. All that hay looks really good.

Great job Joel and Eric

So funny seeing that round bale rolling down the hill after you righted it. You probably did not think so at the time, though!

Eric seems to have caught on very fast. Loved watching that bale run off down the field.

Absolutely love all of your videos! ❤

You guy's did a great job. Yeah I wish I had a stacker. They are very helpful.

Amazing job Joel and Eric! 👍👏

It is awesome that you can use their equipment to work the hay.

Good job Eric. You are a quick learner. Joel, you are very lucky that Eric came to lend you a hand. That would have been a pain to do by yourself. But, I'm sure you would have gotten it done because you have great perseverance. You seem be able to acquire some very good workers to help you also. That definitely speaks to how well liked you are and the fact that you have great character.

Sweat equity baby!!

Good day.

😂😂😂 the bail rolling away!

Looking good Joel, nice to have plenty of hay for the horses. Nice job Eric!

Good job Eric. That square bale loader is awesome!

Runaway hay! Eric you gotta start learning somewhere. You did great!

Wow the bales of hay !! 😀😀

Fascinating video… Eric did a great job as a novice😊

Did good Eric. Even the pros make mistakes. Keep it up and you will be a pro soon. Like Joel... Well he is an amateur baler... Life is learning.

Joel... I was traveling in Louisiana on Saturday, 6/23 and I past a farm with cattle and horses. He had about 35 wrapped round. bails, and ALL of the were stored and stacked ON END! I think you're on to 10:16 something!

For the question of the day...Are you and the family going to have the new hay barn built or are you going to build it yourself?

That's a wrap

Joel,just an idea,put those round bales in the run in,then put a couple of the extra gates around them

Our son Nick starts work at a local Stable here in Haymarket tomorrow! He watches your channel

Good job Eric!

Eric did a great job.

I love watching baling and wrapping - I’m sad when you fast-forward the wrapping! 😢

great job eric

Just making marshmallows.....The Veggie Boys are Helping you, they loaned their equipment to complete your jobs...teamwork...

You guys are rocking the hay baling so far! I was so sad to hear about Poncho, colic is so scary, my deepest condolences to his owner. How many rolls of wrap do you typically use per season?

Eric did an awesome job with his first time driving a tractor, and bailing! Is there any reason why you don’t use bail wrap repair tape on the damaged bails? I especially love the haying videos. Great job guys!❤

Nice job guys!

I hate seeing all the plastic used on round bales, that’s why I love small squares! I miss the days with my extended family all working together to fill our barn and hay storage building with small squares! Once the bales were made no special equipment to handle them just brothers, sisters, cousins uncle’s and friends

You may have said already, but I missed it. I’ve been watching your show for two years now and I don’t know this Eric guy who is he in your relation to the family just curious it’s always nice to see a new face.

I’ve been watching since the beginning of this channel and I know you all work together but I still haven’t figured out how you work out when you work planting and harvesting.

Loved the Video and Eric did great! Do you plan to also inlcude some new storage area for large square bales in the new hay barn ?

To Joel and the stable life one of the round hay bales look like a lion's mane before you wrapped it like a marshmallow and one other hay bale ran away on you and it went roly-poly before you could go and catch it 😂🤭. And it's good to have family helping you when you need it the most.

What about putting pallets under the round bales and put a tarp over them?

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Eric did good!! isnt there some type of tape you can put on the white plastic that you cover your round bales with

Look out, Joel, I'm about to make some Mom Noises (or g'mom noises). Time to start combing and brushing that beard. It is looking really good!!!! You and Eric really got the job done today!

Question: Do the horses (and donkeys) have a distinctive voices? For example does some horses have higher pitched neys over others. Can you recognize whos neying?

When you have a bunch of unwrapped bales like that, do you put a tarp over them in case of rain? I always wonder about that because I live in Florida and in the summer, we have thunderstorms daily. Some of them are pretty feisty (at least on the gulf side). I've always wondered if you ever considered putting a similar structure up to the left of where you keep your square bales that would be high enough to accommodate 2 round bales stacked (and the tractor, ATV) or is there not enough room between the current run-in and the ring? I'm not good at sizing spaces up so I can't tell how much room is available. I've been pondering that since last winter (it's a borderline OCD thing - snow on farm equipment). I'm so happy you've got the bulk of your bales set for the year! One less thing to worry about with the hot days of summer ahead. 😊

You are so awesome. I still miss you teaming up with Andrew or Daniel.

Niiice lol

NO MO Rib Tips at Applebee’s until they get the Repairs made after the Fire. 🔥 Hopefully they’re able to get Cleaned Up before the Farms Next Date Night. 😬👍

Eric did great congrats future farmer. It's been a long while since I bought a round bale, what does a 1sr or 2nd cut bale cost now a days ?

If you need about 332 round bales to get you through the year plus your big square bales should your barn be big enough to hold the 332 round bales plus the big square bales? Sounds like your barn needs to be a little bit bigger.

Question- Why don’t y’all try taping over the holes in the round bails to see if they will last longer?

When do you break ground for the hay barn? 😊

Please consider a dedication video to Poncho. The title of the previous video indicated nothing of Poncho’s passing, rather your first attempt at hay bailing. Poncho was a beautiful horse. Isn’t that what your channel focuses on, the horses at SKS?

Will there be another horse coming to the stable since poncho has left?

What do you do with empty grain bags? Norbert Decell

Q of the day....do you have the time to build this new barn or will you hire out to build it?

Question: can't you use a tarp to keep the new unwrapped ones good for longer ? So you don't have to use them right yet?

Would it make sense to get a large square bailer? You have said they expensive. Are there used available?

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Now that they are wrapped how are you going to move them without damaging them???? They are sitting in the hay field aren't they?????