Dawn and Dave Jensch at Rolling Hills Farms in Northeastern Minnesota. Dawn has operated the farm for over thirty years raising Angus beef calves and grain and now Dave has joined the operation full-time with his retirement from an office job. We’ll try to capture life on a small farm as we work to feed area families and cope with a harsh northern climate.
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I would adjust the duck bill baffle
There's a couple spots like this on 213th St. east of Camp Ripley.
@@user-qo5hh9bw4w glacial deposits
Take the centre rake wheel off, to much product being pushed to that side.
@@farmer697 that’s interesting. The center wheel has a hydraulic shutoff that I could deploy keeping it up in heavy hay. Great suggestion; thanks.
Have you checked the sensors in the baler? Maybe making the bales too big? Mud on the rollers? If none of that, I'd say switch netwrap brand.
@@pinesedgefarm1155 no mud but I haven’t checked the sensors. Not sure how. I could set bale size slightly smaller….
@@Rollinghillsfarmsmn if the bale chamber is too full that can cause issues.
i dont think the net is centered looks like its always the right side move clip in on right side of net shaft more right ,you could be favoring /over filling right side ,or there is debris in duck bill or wet hay/mud /dent /burr rollers on rh side .good luck
It’s definitely centered and no mud but I haven’t checked for a dent or burr. Thanks for the suggestion.
@@Rollinghillsfarmsmn try going past what u think is center ,i have several NH items that things were not true/square/in line from the factory
I would move my spacers and hair pin and when it would do that check right away to see if you are wrapping up on your steal roller check for burs or even a thin stem under round. Stockon roller
I’ll do that thanks.
Always amazes me how bad the troubleshooting section of manuals are something like that should be clearly described because I’m sure it’s happened to be before
Mine is terrible. Like it was written in a different language.
Wondering if you can attach your camera to the baler so you can get a close up when it's wrapping, you might see whats going on with the netwrap? Or try making the bale just a little smaller to see if that helps since it happens with the heavy hay. Just something to think about. Good luck.
Both good ideas; thanks.
Dang - that baler otherwise makes a nice bale and really eats the hay. Is there a point in the day - if the netwrap just won’t apply correctly, you’d switch over to twine to finish out the day? Good video…👍
I would but netwrap is just so much faster and neighbor Dave sells his half of the hay and can sell netwrap bales for more money.
Are you noticing any netwrap on the rollers? check the belt laces for ragged connections as they can grab the wrap as it comes out and pull it off the bale as it wraps
None. Just recurring uneven application when the net roll gets low and we’re baling heavy windrows.
I figured I'd watch your video while waiting for this heavy dew to go away. Maybe I should be happy with my twine baler. I might not have the patience for net wrap.
I love it when it works.
@@Rollinghillsfarmsmn It would be nice for my wrapped bales. The rain is on us now.
I have a Claas 354 roller baler with knives, It has 32000 bales on the clock. I used Tama edge to edge 4500 net. But this year was playing up with the net too. Turn out to be the net knife needed changing. It was tearing the net or leaving some parts uncut and only breaking off and then the next bale the net wouldn't run and I would have to manually feed in the net. My baler has 5 tension bars the net run through before it goes on the bale but this year I thought they were the trouble but it was knife.
I just pulled and sharpened the knife blades. Very dull on one side. Three knife sections on New Holland. Need to make some hay to see if it helps.
Hopefully you can get the netwrap issue solved!!
Thanks
Good morning Dawn and Dave ☕☕☕ No experience with netwrap, other than watching videos.. and seen too many videos, where people don't pick the stuff up.. then wonder why they have dead critters.. Green grass and lots of it!!!
I have a neighbor who does that and cuts it off his spreader the following year😅.
@@Rollinghillsfarmsmn how many cows has he lost??
@@GosselinFarmsEdGosselinHe regularly loses cows and can never figure out why.
@@Rollinghillsfarmsmn good example of why some people shouldn't have animals.. or need to be educated anyway.. tell them why.. have them cut open the rumen of the next one. I'll bet it's full of netwrap.
Morning Dave, I hope you can get the net issue sorted out. Happy note,we found the crappie hole in the lake finally and putting some nice slabs in the boat!
Nice! Crappie pan fried in butter is the best.
Full watch Dave
Good morning Dave and Dawn!
Morning Gary
No experience with net wrap. Thank you Dave.
I have that same netwrap issue with mine. Normally my issue is crop material gets up in the duckbill. With mine I usually have to manually clean the duckbill by hand
Interesting. I’ll check mine. Tearing into it now.
Such a great and fascinating day on the farm, thanks for sharing your vlog
@@vanhainguyen439 thanks for watching.
It’s wrapping around one of your rollers. Nets gotta go somewhere
@@wallyyuriy8912 I looked. Nothing on the rollers. It just bunches up to one side.
That's certainly a lot of hay! Glad you are getting sufficient rain this year. Maybe send some our way! 😃😃😃
@@pagrainfarmer Raining again today. Hoping to get back to mowing tomorrow.
Impressive!!!
@@HumbleHaymakers Thanks. I’d hate to try to sell hay here this year with the projected surplus.
Looks like a big ol slough conditions you're working in 😅 Just waiting till the ground gets baked now, right?
@@farming4g It’s finally dry enough to get through all our fields. We still have two fields too wet to plant oats. We’ll disc the weeds under and seed winter rye in August.
I see I got the date graphic wrong again🙄. July 19 not June.
I'm surprised how soggy some areas still are. In town we could use rain. 15 miles north the drainage ditches are full, and there are puddles. I'm really glad you are seeing Monarchs. I've seen less in recent years. I remember when they would cover three Hackberry trees at home. Thank you Dave .
Not much milkweed around anymore with fence rows disappearing but up here you still see it.
It's looking really good. Beautiful hay. I baled some not so beautiful hay today. Good luck with the hauling. I decided today that picking up and hauling round bales is the least fun part of farming.
That’s Dawn’s job😅.
Wow, he plugged that baler. A nice hay crop.
He wasn’t expecting hay that dense.
1,000# bales is impressive for a 450. I know 2 guys that can only get 800# in their bales running 450s.
A FB friend of mine that farms in Switzerland posted an old saying "lots of hay in Summer is a sure sign for a long and hard winter"
We’re due for one after last year’s no-snow.
Just sitting here waiting for the fog to burn off, then it's out raking and baling again.... Got 60 bales off a field yesterday that we got 10 off last year...May and June rain is a good thing..Glad to see your having a good season so far....Tell Dave to slow that Green tractor down a notch....lol. Thanks Dave.
There’s going to be lots of hay this year. Dave dropped the price on his round bales.
fingers crossed thats the extent of yer mechanical issues, bale on team
I’m spending the next two days fixing. Episode to come😢.
Morning Dave,wow the alfalfa is thicker than Grandmas homemade gravy!!!!!
Love Grandmas gravy😅
That round baler of yours sure makes some nice tight bales!
@@raincoast9010 Thanks.
How many tons per acre do you think you're getting this year?? Looks like we're about the same as last year, a whopping 2+... Still half of normal. Rain at the right time, does good things!!! Our normal on grass is 4+.. but it's gotta actually rain in May and June. Milkweed, not so good.. but the butterflies are a good thing!!!!
@@GosselinFarmsEdGosselin We got over 5 on two heavy grass fields, but we’re averaging about 3.5. I’m figuring my bales as #1000 and they may be more. Dave’s bales are #850.
@@Rollinghillsfarmsmn nice 👍 When we had the neighbors between us and the road, the 8 acres we cut for hay and then pastured 3 or 4 times, was 5 tons every year.. here at home, has always been 4 tons, except for the last 6 years.. everything else has always been 3 to 4 tons.. but once again, not the last 6 years. We've been lucky to average just over 2 to 2.5.. and single cutting.. but then, without irrigation on grass, we can only get one cutting.. need to plant some alfalfa!!
Good morning Dawn and Dave ☕☕☕
@@GosselinFarmsEdGosselin Morning Ed.
Our hay is an absolute bumper crop this year. I have to drive across my smallest field to get to the pasture The hay is so thick, when you get off the tractor to open the gate, you can hardly walk through the hay It just tangles around your feet
@@tractortalkwithgary1271 Same here
Good morning Dave and Dawn.
@@tractortalkwithgary1271 Good morning Gary. How’s the heat and humidity in Iowa today?
@@Rollinghillsfarmsmn , pretty decent today. We are going to head to the county fair here after bit. Supposed to get near if not 80 today
@@tractortalkwithgary1271 90 percent humidity now (8am) with 90 degrees forecast. We’re leaving the square bales on the wagon until it cools off a bit.😳.
@@Rollinghillsfarmsmn , I would too!
Where I grew up they always used dozers with big rock rakes on the back to pull out all the rocks
Where is the net wrap that is not on the bale?
@@baynebrown8914 It was tearing. I had it misaligned in the baler allowing it to catch on the edge of the carriage.
It always feels good to be done unloading wagons. Good job!
@@pagrainfarmer Thanks!
In all my years of baling, I never stacked in a wagon where bales were being tossed in by a bale thrower. You are brave men!
Didn't have that shit when I did it
This reminds me of my early life living in Edmonton, AB, Canada. This was what it looked like every winter. Not so much any more.
Nothing like small square bales in the heat of summer.
@@STA_FARMS it can take the starch out of you pretty quickly.
Nobody knows how to stack a wagon or build a mow in MN? WTF NOTE: never on there side !
@@jefftalbot5407 The dairy farmers where I grew up exclusively used square bales and all stacked on their side.
Come on Dave, you gotta catch them in mid air....lol
One of these days, she's going to get you... lol
Congratulations on 2k subscribers, Dave and Dawn!
@@e.a.bfarms Thanks I hadn’t noticed. People seem to like old-time baling videos.
Rolling Hills Farms started a very interesting piece of conversation. Stone lake ripples..................