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Distribute Hay Bales with ATV and Bale Roller

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What happens here

The presenter demonstrates the distribution of hay bales onto the pasture. He uses an ATV (all-terrain vehicle) pulling a specialized bale roller, a Greg Judy Bale Unroller. As the ATV drives, the bale roller unrolls the hay, spreading it in a linear fashion across the field. This method ensures an even distribution of hay, which serves multiple purposes: feeding the cattle, depositing a natural seed bank, and returning carbonaceous material and manure to the soil. The video emphasizes choosing high spots for dropping the bales and letting gravity assist in the unrolling process down slopes.

Goal: This step shows how to efficiently distribute hay bales across a pasture using an ATV and a bale unroller, ensuring even coverage for livestock feeding and soil enrichment.

Tools and materials

  • ATV (All-Terrain Vehicle)
  • Greg Judy Bale Unroller
  • Hay Bales

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is we're taking our atv and the greg judy bailon roller and we're unrolling hay out onto our land so in spots that need biologic material carbonaceous material this material right here this carbon and this gigantic seed bank is rolling out on the land and feeding the land year after year time after time i don't have a fertilizer bill this year i only spent about twenty five hundred dollars on hay period and that was more than i needed to spend if i had to fertilize all the open land that we have here on the farm it would have cost me somewhere in the neighborhood of seven thousand dollars it would have cost me three thousand dollars to put lime out on this land it would have cost me all the upkeep and all the maintenance of all the hay equipment that we have and it's just not worth it the dollars and cents are not there guys so i encourage you to look at the model that we're using on this farm and think about putting carbon back on your land you can see out here in this pasture let's go over here and show you we're getting ready to unload this this load of hey i've got seven more loads i'm gonna go get do i need seven more loads this year probably not but i'm putting it out on the land anyway because it's a seed bank because it's carbon and that's what i want to do is build carbon on the land look speckled out through that pasture right there and all i see are dollar bills every little black turd pile is a dollar bill stacking up out there on that pasture land that's what we want we're getting rid of clay and we're building topsoil and what you're going to see are results over the next few years of this farm completely turning around okay this is going to go from one of the ugliest farms in the county to one of the most beautiful greenest luscious growing farms in the entire county for the simple fact that we're not taking away from our land and then slinging fertilizer back on it chemical fertilizers we're slinging manure back on it dollar bill dollar bill dollar bill dollar bill dollar bill everywhere scattered completely over this farm we're using wood chips we're using sawdust from the sawmill we're using hay we are using all sorts of carbon along with that manure along with that animal urine and we're moving our cattle we're mob stocking and moving our cattle i hope you guys have learned a little bit we're going to go ahead and we're going to use the tym 254 tractor it's a tiny little tractor it's a 25 horsepower tractor we'll take you over and let…

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