Nice looking hay wagon. That takes me back a lot of years

@HayChaffandSawdust1

3 ай бұрын

@FarmlessFarmer-xs1he You're gonna need one for the ol' 300 to pull around for a hay ride when the air gets crisp this fall!!

@FarmlessFarmer-xs1he

2 ай бұрын

My buddy’s place where I keep most of my stuff is 5 acres. Not too big but he still wants a hay wagon and he’s got a bunch of little kids so there might be years of hay rides coming up

@HayChaffandSawdust1

2 ай бұрын

@@FarmlessFarmer-xs1he Great deal! Life's hourglass's sand runs pretty quick; don't dawdle and miss 'em while they're young!

Great video! Country farms and ranches have always had a bone yard to keep all the old and broken equipment, metal and vehicles in (until most the vehicles went to plastic) for future inventions. They also have a corner in the barn with buckets full of nuts, bolts, nails and smaller keepsakes. The longer bolts that lost there threads we’d sharpen to a point on the pedal grinder and use them on the corral lumber. Some of the smaller nails that rusted or got too soft from reuse we’d have to drill a pilot hole and then push um in with our thumb. A fact; the farmers and ranchers in Northern Nevada claim to have provided ACE Hardware with their initials; “A”ll “C”ertified “E”quipment, because of their bone yards. We still all try to avoid Earl that wants to argue ACE stands for Are Certified Equipment. If Earl was just ignorant we might have a chance, but he ain’t, caint fix stupid. Back to building your hay wagon, if you’d use a Husqvarna instead of a Sthil to do the trim work you’d achieve a much faster and nicer cut. Keep them doggies rolling, especially that finger eating border collie. Ole Mountain Man, still managing to smelling the roses… instead of there roots.

@HayChaffandSawdust1

2 ай бұрын

@olemountainman3996 I think you changed your "handle" to match your REAL name instead of the one that's on your driver's license?... that or it's showing different on my end; I like it!!. When I built this farm about 10-15 years ago, there wasn't ANYTHING here; I had to make 3/4 mile of driveway, bury my own 7200V power to my own transformer, dig wells, etc... *BUT*, as you can tell in the background of my videos, I'm beginning to get a mess of "treasures" around here to salvage parts for whatever my old brain thinks up. Dang ol' Earl!! He don't know c'mere from sic 'em!!! There's a point to using the ol Stihl for trim work... the Huskys make too smooth of a cut and the cows with rub on the wagon; with my old Stihl, it's so jagged the cows won't rub on it and it's so crooked that rain won't set on it!! ALWAYS THINKING!! Glad you are stopping to smell the roses from time to time; hope your bride and you take all you can; one of these days, the groundhogs will be delivering mail to all of us!!

Nice hay wagon build. Sure seems nice to have the tools to make the wood and not have to buy much. Say hi to the dogs for me.

@HayChaffandSawdust1

3 ай бұрын

@TheJohnDeereGuy You bet!! The collie is getting bigger and ornerier every day. It sure is nice to have the tools, trees, etc... I wish I could grow the fasteners!!

Nice work !! waste not , want not !! i like the way You think Sir, !! haha stump broke , we use to pick at each other here about the mare bein stump broke !! Ya Pooch havin a ball !! enjoyed the Video You take care !!

@HayChaffandSawdust1

Ай бұрын

@jamesconn7311 Half the secret to a happy life is find a way to be happy with what you have instead of searching for something to MAKE you happy. Can learn a LOT from them dang pooches and all the other animals; they can be happy for hours on end by just being a dog and chasing an oil jug around in the rocks. I'll get to answering your email soon; been a hectic week... supposed to rain tomorrow, so I only have to go buy a boar and help retrieve a hay mower for a friend. ...too wet to mow hay, so should be a quasi-easy day!! Take care James!! Sure am glad you are here and enjoy all the different types of videos showing the differing work/fun that goes on here!!

Great job

@HayChaffandSawdust1

Ай бұрын

@toddcaskey9984 Thank you and thanks for taking a moment to say so! Thanks for joining-in; glad to have you here.

i like you , thank you u would think this helps a cyclist build a cart to haul wood lol u did , like the flashing idea too . u haul hay , im totein fire wood , thank you so much

@HayChaffandSawdust1

3 ай бұрын

@CreativeFishDesignsCharlotte Glad it can help; firewood is as bad or worse than hay for holding moisture and rotting wood. I tend to tote plenty of firewood too!! Thanks for joining-in!!

Stump broke must have a different meaning where I’m from 😂

@HayChaffandSawdust1

3 ай бұрын

@jasentonguepowersaws4206 .😂😂 Naahh, it's probably the same. Conditioned to remain calm and stationary no matter what kind of startling unsavory thing is going on behind ya 😉😉

@jasentonguepowersaws4206

3 ай бұрын

@@HayChaffandSawdust1 ya sounds pretty close to me. 😵

Not the junkiest video at all. But you'll need to explain how to drill half a hole. I like the aluminum flashing idea.

@HayChaffandSawdust1

3 ай бұрын

@Kevin.L_ I use an auger bit to clear out a spot to install one of them 1/2 holes (sometimes a 1/4 of a bigger one is enough) that I get from those hollow pieces of firewood; Sometimes I split the hole too. 😂😉Thanks Kevin!!

@Kevin.L_

2 ай бұрын

​@@HayChaffandSawdust1What happened to you? Fall into that stack of holes in barn? Should we send help?

@HayChaffandSawdust1

2 ай бұрын

@@Kevin.L_ I'm good; thanks for askin' Been workin on rings and trying to make many hours into a 30 min vid. Also spring time and getting farm equip ready for hay season. Broke hydrant today... have to dig it up tomorrow... it's always something. Hope all well with ya!!

@Kevin.L_

2 ай бұрын

@@HayChaffandSawdust1 Good luck with the video. It's going to be hard to get all you've done and what you want to say in 30min. Most of us won't mind if it runs long. I'd rather have too much info. I know you need to satisfy the algorithm. Too bad about the hydrant. I'd feel sorry for you if I thought you were doing it all by hand.

Folding headache rack is genius! We have an old hay wagon that needs redone. I’ll be borrowing that idea. Do you have any white oak to sell?

@HayChaffandSawdust1

3 ай бұрын

@TTKMM You're welcome to the idea!! It's sure made my wagons last longer without breaking out. I'm sure I can come up with more white oak for ya!!

I have alot of experienced fasteners too 😂. I like your flashing idea. Spring rush, I have finished a deck or two the morning before baling ⌛. Nice work knocking this one out.🚜 We had a frost this morning but the grass is growing. When do you usually start baling?

@HayChaffandSawdust1

3 ай бұрын

@230e4 Been cool here; the rule of thumb is Mother's day here for first cutting. I fertilize heavier than most (on my personal ground) and I have 2 fields that are as tall as my German Shepherd (he was out in it today); it could have baled a week ago, but I haven't had a weather window (I only do dry hay) As soon as I can find a weather window with `3/4" of Pan Evap and humidity below 55 predicted, I'm gonna run the Ol' RainMaker2000 (my hay mower) across about 15 acres of it; that oughtta wake the gremlins up from their winter's slumber. I've been getting frost here too; our actual "last frost date" here is May 10th, I think. My fescue is headed and Orchard Grass ain't far behind.

@230e4

3 ай бұрын

@@HayChaffandSawdust1Wow, you are quite a bit ahead of us. When we used to chop haylage and fertilized heavy Memorial Day was our start. Now with just baling dry hay the first week of June is the earliest if we are lucky. Where are you located and when did you fertilize your fields?

@HayChaffandSawdust1

3 ай бұрын

@230e4 I'm in southern Illinois; I put on about 65units of N about 50 days ago; That was before anything really greened-up so speak of. If I wait too long at the end of winter to put on some N, seems like the rains hit and I can't get any on at all. I used to only fertilize (nitrogen) AFTER 1st cutting and life was much easier on getting first cutting out before it was rank... there just wasn't any!!!

@230e4

3 ай бұрын

@@HayChaffandSawdust1 That is what we used to do, then we switched to applying liquid nitrogen either right in front of rain or during about 45 days before first cutting. I no longer use synthetic fertilizers so I will spray either fish fertilizer or a compost extract about this time before a rain. My plan is to start grazing the fields as soon as the orchard grass hits the boot stage for about 12 hours then move them to the next strip and so on then hay the fields at the end of June beginning of July when the weather is better. The ewes will have the best quality of forage then going into lambing in May and June. I'm heading out to Nebraska from Pennsylvania in another week so I'll be going through southern Illinois. I'm looking forward to seeing the farms out that way and seeing first hand how others are farming. Have a Great Day!

@HayChaffandSawdust1

3 ай бұрын

@230e4 Not too much of an option to use other than dry mined fertilizer here; there's chicken poop and whatnot, but a single farmer has that all contracted. I would like to do more rotational grazing; I do some, but not enough. I doubt that you will be coming through this far south, but if you come down as far as Interstate 70, lemme know; if I ain't tied into something, might be able to catch lunch with you or something... provided I ain't cutting hay or something. Farming differences throughout this Country is sure an eye-opener.

Some good ideas there and nice wagon construction. .. Instead of ratchet straps we used a "truckers hitch" for a single hemp/sisal rope from the rear axle, up over the top row of bales and down to the front of the wagon where we cinched it down tight with a truckers hitch that acts like a come-a-long to pull the load down tight. This guy calls it a Wagoneer's knot kzread.info/dash/bejne/fHacmcGcp5WTYdY.htmlsi=VLuXIVi7Hska4On_&t=179

@HayChaffandSawdust1

3 ай бұрын

@jvin248 Thanks!! I'm familiar with the hitch/knot and it's a good one. and I"m not opposed to ropes AT ALL. I tend to used ratchet straps due to the quickness of tying down the load; I leave them hooked to the standards and they remain on the wagon when no in-use; I load with a grapple, so I stand the standards up, throw the ratchet straps behind the wagon (with the non-ratchet end still attached to the standards), load the wagon, and just swing them over the top to tie the ratchet end to the front. Ropes are a dandy tool and do well; for my operation, ratchet straps work better. Thanks for joining-in and mentioning the trucker's hitch; it sure it useful!!

The best hay wagon is the 1 that someone else uses.

@HayChaffandSawdust1

3 ай бұрын

@Alan_Hans__ Can't argue that too much!! I don't mind being the "somebody else" when it comes to making hay. Make ~5-10k squares by myself; so, you *KNOW* that I have eliminated most of the labor!!

@Alan_Hans__

3 ай бұрын

I HATE the little square bales. I was actually wondering if you did round, square or big square as 1 of the multiple things I make is an aftermarket controller for round balers. I made the first of them when my old man changed from square to round. That was ALMOST the end of me handling hay. Now he's been off the farm for a bit over a year I hope/expect I'll never have to touch hay again. Firewood and electronics are much more fun than hay.

@HayChaffandSawdust1

3 ай бұрын

@Alan_Hans__ I DO do rounds also; it's about 50/50; there's way more profit for the squares; in my area rounds don't pay for the fertilizer and trips across the field. For full honesty, if everything was to work JUST right, I would never touch a square bale with my operation.90+% of the bales have never been touched by the time they are loaded onto a customer's trailer and headed out; sometimes, if a stack gets wonky in the barn, I have to handle a few here and there. Bale monitors!!! I had to work mine over this winter; I *thought* I was going to have to work around a bad circuit in the board, but found a broken wire. It was one of those jobs I dreaded, but once I knuckled down and ripped it apart on the bench with a cup of coffee and all the patience I could muster, it was a simple issue. I hope ya get your wish on not handling any more hay!!