Calvin hey everybody it's Ryan welcome back to how farmers work what's on the
agenda for today we are in the 7600 with the feedmill on the back we are headed
out to my place we've got half a load of corn on the feed mill because we are
going out to partially fill up the creek feeder out in the steer lot out of my
place so travis has a load of buckets we just
got done filling everything up the silo is getting pretty empty it's getting to
the point where we got to climb in and fuck your scoop it out but the sweep
inside is busted so we got to get that fixed sometime we're gonna head out
there right now
so now we're standing out in the oats field that is by the buildings of my
place and just walk around looking through it looking at the alfalfa
underneath so here's the oats here's the alfalfa and it's just serving as the
oldest serving as a parent crops the alfalfa here and once we cut the oats
off then the alfalfa will take over and typically we'll cut the new seating
later in the fall
and my bigfooting fit through there
hey Calvin
we just got done filling the Creek feeder in the steer lot so we're gonna
head up here and dump buckets in for the captain bullshit
we're thinking that we're gonna sell all of our calves here very shortly because
we're just about out of corn and the corn silo which is a good thing because
the first time she's been cleaned out in like 2 or 3 years and we don't clean it
out every year you get really bad corn in the bottom of it so we're cleaning
out all the corn that's in it now and we're trying to use up as much as we can
ran back to the farm we are going to disconnect the feed mill and we're gonna
put the Tedder on the back of the 7600 because trips got a little adventurous
and he cut some hay and unfortunately like two days later the forecast changed
and it got poured on for like two days so it's had ample time dry up now
so we got to go out there and turn it up to release them before that moisture
that's underneath it's pretty well matted down to the ground so by tending
it we're gonna be able to pick up off the ground and let it air out a little
bit more before the rain starts again which they're calling for this weekend
so it gives us like three days to get the hay made we're gonna tend it today
and then probably fail it either tomorrow or the next day so yeah well
somebody going on around here that's pretty much it it's we've been
getting rain like constantly and I know that everybody else has to so we've been
doing a lot of work I cleaned up the VT I greased it we changed some grease
zerks on that back that in the shed until they pulled the con by now because
the time I used to have some work done to it
just now we've got the rhino egg p4 19h back to the 7600 and we are going to
head out to the top of the tail Hill up here at the main farm we're going to Ted
that and then we're gonna head out to my place and start heading out there it's
raining
mother nature I tell you she saw that I was pulling out of the shed with the
tractor and she threw a curveball at us well I'm gonna go out there and Ted
anyway because we do have a few dark clouds but I think we should be good for
now at least the forecast is singing it's gonna be okay
so it is still pretty wet out here as you can see from the tracks that I'm
making on Field Road
but corns coming up good and soybeans and low spots are trying to pull through
hopefully we don't see too big of hurt and yield but they look pretty good here
too we're out here on top of the hill this
is the highest point on this farm the ground is starting to dry up as you can
see there but there's still a little bit of moisture on the ground come over to
the hay it's been really washed off I would say
that the rain washed off all the bugs but it is fairly wet underneath so we're
gonna want to spread this out over the field help dry it out some and provided
that the Sun comes back out over the next two days we should be able to get
this made so it definitely needs to be tented so here's the rhino egg PT 419 H
we've had this for three years now and she's been she's become a crucial
asset on the farm when it comes to making hay with this Tedder I mean
typically we can expect to cut the a-10 at the next day and then Bale it the
following day if it's not first crop first crop is typically a little bit
heavier so it takes a little bit longer to dry
we didn't fit that window for first crop this year but having it here we're able
to just kind of broadcast the tip of the hay out all over the field
that way we're reducing the amount of moisture that's in the hay itself so I
went ahead and grease to this up yesterday she's all ready to go I'm
gonna go ahead and spread the wings out I was a fool and when I was trying to
undo the wing locks i cropped it out of the Banat back of the tractor so right
up there until I can climb up in so on the waxer in place all you really got to
do is pull on this rope and that way it's unlocked but you still got to drop
the wings down
she's all set when we're tending we want to run the tractor at about 1500 rpms we
don't want to run it too fast so that just kind of pulverize is that hey we
just want to throw the hay out so the slower we run it the better it's more
gentle on the hay you can either set the tractor to run we always have tried to
run it around 1,500 or lower but if you run it up to about 2100 rpm since it's a
540 PTO the PTO should be rotating at 540 revolutions per minute it's time to
fire it up and get started
we're running about 1200 for now once we get going maybe I'll adjust it a little
bit
you want to run the tenner jests along the ground so they picks up the hay now
it's kind of like threading a needle you have to be pretty careful so that you're
not just digging into the ground because that can be an issue if you're not here
look QuickBooks suddenly I haven't seen sunlight since I was just
a boy
and it's gone I make quick work of this field we're
gonna pack up and head down Travis cut the pasture grass down there it's not
currently being used so we were gonna cut it up rate so I've got to do that
and then we're out here
yeah there shouldn't be a pond there there hasn't been in about the decade
chocolate infused a
oh boy
okay Ryan don't Ted your yard don't take your yard
don't take your yard I'm gonna take my yard
that was fun while it lasted we just got swept away we're gonna
spread out the center and start dead now here
you