Man I wish I could mow my lawn at 15 MPH. One thing that always amazes me is that when they turn around they don't spread the lines of grass around with the tires. Great video Mike keep them coming.

Back in '81 I flew over Colorado and took a picture from the plane I was on. Couldn't figure out whey they farmed this way and now I know. Thanks for sharing one aspect of farming.

Been sharing your Idaho videos with my buddy in Idaho. He's east of Mountain Home... So far he knows everyone in the videos 😎 Thanks for the video Mike!!

That right there folks is a lesson on how to correctly turn your self propelled mower at the end of a row, instead of pivoting on your inside tire and scrubbing a circle in the ground at each row end. Nice job!!

One of fond memories of traveling out west was the sweet smell of drying alfalfa 😊

I used to cut hay in Poston Arizona when I was younger. I really liked that job.

I sure miss the smell of fresh cut alfalfa from when I grew up on a small farm years ago.

Quantity and quality for 3rd cutting alfalfa is amazing can't wait for the bale picking vids. Also looking forward to potato and sugar beet harvest vids Great job as always Mike Thanks

Rode with Billy in his fertilizer buggy when I was a kid. He did the application work on the ranch I grew up on.

the drone footage of the field cut looks soo neat and satisfying

Excellent movie Michael. One of your best A Great farm too

Nice thick lush weed free looking crop.I would love to have a crop like that to harvest.

I got a buddy that lives in Mountain Home, Idaho. Spent a summer helping him move those irrigation lines by hand. It gets tough when that hay starts growing up.

The sweet smell of cut hay.

Hope ya got to see Jim’s bale wagons while out there looks like he has a collection

great job Mike I watch most of utube on my smart tv but once in a while in get on my computer to watch so i can comment and like

lol Just what I was thinking about. I used to see those crop circles flying out to Sacramento years ago.

the people that dislike this probably thought the giant circles were caused by ginormous UFOs conjured up out of their totally bizarre imagination.

@ChevyConQueso

3 жыл бұрын

The joke's on them. Mike's channel rating goes up more than if they didn't click up or down at all.

Great Video , Nice Scenery ...........

You should come out and record again we own a family farm about 30 min to and hour away from mountain home. Where we run two self propelled Massey Ferguson mowers and four Massey Ferguson balers and are farm is caller young’s river front ranch.

@farmhandmike

3 жыл бұрын

Email me your contact information and maybe next summer we could do a video at your farm. mklss686farmhand@gmail.com

Man that's some beautiful alfalfa and it must be really smooth to be able to push those mowers to the max like that !! I didn't see any gps receivers so they must be driving them to so ya gotta stay awake for sure!! I saw the some pipes laying between the rows in the corners but I don't understand how they water them in conjunction with the pivot?? You are really a lucky guy to make all these connections all across the country and thanks for taking us along!

@BENFrankaka-sandstorm

5 жыл бұрын

Lee Steele they for sure have gps

@Snowtruckdriver

2 жыл бұрын

Those are hand lines. After the hay is baled and picked up the lines are laid out again in the corners of the circle and they are hooked to a main line around the perimeter for their water supply. They get full acreage coverage that way out of a quarter section of land

That was quite a mowing lesson, Mike.

Oh man , you know how to make a guy home sick. That is my home area, although just a little further west, across the border into Oregon, but have been around that area a lot. I have seen the wheel tracks so deep that when the operator gets just a little too close to the track he drops the tire into the track and gets stuck. Have to be very careful in getting it out not to bend things.

Nice video Mike!

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18 months at Mt. Home AFB, 1975 to 1977. Home of the 366th Gunfighters.

That is a unique way of making hay. They must make a lot of hay.

14:30, .. ouch....?

Man, those mowers are highly productive! I would be very curious to know how many acres those 5 machines could cut in a day, or how many acres 1 machine could cut in a day running at that speed. Would be very interesting.

@matthewkrening5220

4 жыл бұрын

I’ve gotten 50 acres done in six hours at around seven mph.

@bn4172

3 жыл бұрын

A windrower like this can easily average 20+ acres/hour. Ground speed is largely dependent on field smoothness as these rotary headers can function well even at 18 mph or more.

I see the hawks are getting some fresh rabbit or mouse meals. Must happen often in large fields like that.They might want to attack your drone lol.

Very neat! 👍

I wish we could go that quick and cover that much ground as quickly but I think there is a big price difference than our bank manager would like between out £1750 offset mower and one of those

Utah 500 disc bind race lol great footage

This is probably a dumb question but I’ve flown over the circles before and they all look about the same in size, like one bigger one smaller size. I was wondering how many acres are per circle?

Nice vid mike 👍

The wolfe brothers have a big operation

BROO..I like to know how many belt coming out..

Fat crop! Nice vid! Greetengs from Poland

lol Ik the wolf brothers my grandma was offered to rake there hay so many times she was a damn good operator too bad his brother passed away

Why didn't you upload the video of the wolfe brothers stackers

@farmhandmike

5 жыл бұрын

I will. I just haven't had time to edit them yet.

@pablovillalobos4662

4 жыл бұрын

ok, I wait for the video

So how big is the field they are working on and they are just flat getin it done

Australian here with a question is alfalfa what we call Lucerne ?

@Ghis1964s

5 жыл бұрын

Quebecer here, yes it is. It also took me a while to realize this myself (ex-farmer 35yrs ago) But even here in canadian-french part of the country, the guys around are also calling it alfalfa. I'm not sure, but I would suppose that in the past 30yrs, some new hybrid/improved version of luserne came out and it was named alfalfa since.

@roberthartman4368

5 жыл бұрын

@@Ghis1964s I grew up on a farm in the 1950's in the central San Joaquin Valley of Calif. and we grew alfalfa so it has been called that for at least 70 plus years here in the US.

Did you ask why they haven't gone to steamers so that they have a much larger window for baling?

@jasonnorris2979

5 жыл бұрын

Alfalfa is such a thick crop u don't want to mow any wider, otherwise it doesn't bale very good. Thin windows equals nice tight bales

@delbutler885

Жыл бұрын

Most of their business is with people who feed the hay in a mixed ration so dryness isn't a real factor with their clientele

now we know where crop circles come from lol

That is enough to make someone dizzy

What are the wheels on the side of the header for ?

U would think they have a butterfly mower to cover all them acres

@darrenkayes7911

5 жыл бұрын

I agree with you, I just don't get the concept of those windrowers, to my way of thinking 2 or 3 tractors with triple mowers would be more efficient, then you can use the tractor for other tasks.

@bn4172

3 жыл бұрын

There are a few issues with triple mowers that have kept them from becoming popular in the big alfalfa-growing regions out west. First is the cost. A tractor and triple mower combination will run about $500,000 which is about what these three windrowers combined cost. Secondly is the quality of the swath that is produced. Getting the alfalfa to dry down quickly so they can get it baled and off the field is important and how the hay is conditioned and laid down is super critical to the drying process. The quicker the bales get off the field the sooner the irrigation can be turned back on. Lastly is the durability of the header. The triple mowers currently on the market would have a hard time holding up to the 1000+ hours of annual use these machines get.

We have a hay farm next to ours.

and the wolfe brother stingers

@farmhandmike

5 жыл бұрын

Video will be coming.

How long is that pivot of irrigation?

@delbutler885

Жыл бұрын

The pivots are generally 1/4 mile 1420 feet. They set in the middle of 160 acres

Do they use GPS and auto steer on the mowers?

@farmhandmike

5 жыл бұрын

Yes

What are they doing with all that alfalfa? JIM

@farmhandmike

5 жыл бұрын

I believe they sell all of theirs to dairy farms.

You should come out to California

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decent

I need this job. My experince 15 year.

i use to wonder what up with the circle down there flying 20k feet up in the air to vegas, now i know. crop circles.lol

Voce faz e silagem ou feno

Hi, all I can see is a tractor going backwards

@Ghis1964s

5 жыл бұрын

LOL.... Yeah. The concept goes back to 1959 or even before. They were "Windrowers" back then. Only a roller-beater and a sickle cutting-bar mostly use for grain harvest. One of the oldest names was Kilberry, from Canada, in the 1950s. Just a 16-ft sickle-bar with a beater mounted on 3 wheels powered by 4cyl 18HP Wisconsin engine, and a comfortable iron-seat. Owatonna (est.1865) had theirs around 1949. Since then, every hay machinery companies started their own. A few yrs later, the conditioner-mower came in, so they adapted the conditioning head/pickup to the "tractor" part of the windrower. Now they don't have those beater and sickle-bar. It's only a few sets of turtles mounted on gear-bar. Each rotating turtle cuts about 16"-18". The larger the mower, the longer the gear-bar and the more rotating-turtles the engine have to power. btw: Owatonna (later on, Mustang) became a division of Gehl Company. and, Kilberry Industries was founded in 1949 by Tom Kilberry in Winnipeg Manitoba. The company was later bough by the MacDonald family in 1971, becoming Macdon Industries, one of the top-name in windrow-swatter machines and combine mower-header. So yeah, the Z-turn lawn mower is far from being new as concept ;)