HAY MAKING EQUIPMENT...WHAT DOES IT COST??

Hey, this is Josh, Stony Ridge Farmer, and this is Mrs. Stony Ridge. We are headed out of the Stony Ridge farm on a road trip to a wonderful place. We're going down to Denton, North Carolina, where I found a hay rake and hay balor and that this guy has and we're going to a chicken farm. So, basically, we're uh going down to pick up a hay rake and a hay bor. I'll talk to you a little bit about how I chose the rake and bor. This is a total first for me, guys. And you know, if you're watching this vlog and you're thinking about getting into farming, pushing the button to close my gate behind me, if you can see it closing. Um, if you're watching this vlog and you're thinking about getting started farming, these are things that you got to think about. You know, I've never mowed hay before. I mean, I've mowed I've helped out with mowing, but I've never mowed and ba bailed hay before. I don't know how to do this stuff. So, I've got a lot of learning to do and I'm going to take you guys on that journey of learning how to bail hay and uh and not wasting the grass that we've got in our fields and just mowing it down onto the ground. We don't have cows yet. We don't have fences yet. So, the logical thing is to bail it for hay and sell it and use it for uh water runoff control and stuff like that. So, come along with us. We're going down to Denton, North Carolina, where we're going to pick up a hay balor and hay rake. It's about 76 miles away and we're going to be towing on the freeway, which is a little bit on the stressful side. Probably maximum speed of about 40 45 miles an hour. So, let's get out of here. Go have some fun. Woo! All right. So, just FYI, there's a companion video to this that's going to go up first. I'm going to do a live feed uh on our way down here and I'm going to talk to you a little bit about the things that are going on on the farm and talk to you a little bit about some of the stressors that are here on the farm. So anyway guys, we'll uh see you on the live feed if you haven't seen it already and let's go down here, pick up this BOR. We're going to take you down in this video and we'll show you the BOR, show you what we're looking at. And uh this guy's got a chicken farm. So I don't think he's going to let us uh go in and see his chickens. I think he's got three chicken houses and they're little bitty babies like this big. So in the interest of biocurity, um we won't be allowed into the chicken houses. But uh we may get some aerial footage of the farm if we can and uh we'll talk to this guy a little bit. Still driving, guys. We're an hour and 10 minutes into this drive and we're getting close. We're getting ready to pull into this guy's place probably in the next 10 minutes. And we're both hungry. You hungry a little bit. So we're going to stop and get us a pancake breakfast. Pancake breakfast on the way. Look at this country glass of orange juice. You just don't get glasses of orange juice this big in the city. This thing's huge. which is as big as a water glass. Here's the Stony Ridge. I'm ready. I'm hungry. Empty. Empty. So guys, in the country when you order food, it's okay for someone else to get their food before you get yours. It seems to be a country restaurant trend. It's okay for you guys to eat breakfast together. And she get her pancakes before me. This is not fair. There you go. All right. Thank you. You're very welcome. Do y'all need anything else right now? Should be good. Good. All right. Thanks. Peacon waffles. Am I crosseyed? I think I need some more syrup. I'm going to be like a hummingbird today. This is what they refer to as stress eating. Peacons. Awesome. We're in peon country, North Carolina. Here, guys. All right. Now, I understand why she got her breakfast first, cuz there's her bill and there's my bill. We're obviously not together. This deal is not like this. Okay, it's like this. Corn. Corn everywhere. Corn driving in the mountain. Corn. When's the last time you saw a yield sign for a railroad track? I sure hope nothing's coming. Me, too. So, we're here, guys. Let's take you around and we'll show you what we're buying. This is the John Deere Baylor right here. Um, the model 385 John Deere Baylor. Pretty nice little unit. Uh, I'm going to say it's probably 15 years old, something like that. And what we're looking for here is we're looking at our belts. We're making sure our belts are nice. uh where our belts connect together that they're in good shape. We're looking for general leaks and and just obvious stuff in disrepair. I'll walk you around here to the back. Basically, the way this balor works is this part right here in the back opens up and it drops the bail out of the back right here. Okay. So, this thing has lights and he's been working on the lights. Got to tow it, like I said, quite a few miles. So, he's uh putting new lights in right here. And these are our belts. Uh this thing has some other cool features on it. Um you have a uh measurement right here that tells you whether your left or your right side of your bail is getting bigger as you pick up hay. And we'll talk more in detail about this as I learn more and as we start bailing hay. I also have a little cutter right here that you wrap string around and you cut. And there's a moisture meter that sits in the cab of the tractor and that's in right here and it watches the moisture that you're picking up. So if you get a bail that's too wet, the danger is that it can catch on fire in the field or you can put it in your barn and lots of barns have gone up in flames from a hay balor bailing too wet a hay and it builds up heat and it spontaneously combust due to the uh composting. I guess basically the bacterial breakdown because of the moisture content being too high. So let's go over here to the other piece and this is a Scitrex hay rake. Okay, this big old hay rake piece right here. This is designed to rake the hay after you've cut it so that you can run over it with the bor, pick it up and roll it into rolls. So this thing basically pretty simple piece of equipment. We've got to tow both of these back. 76 miles to the Stony Ridge Farm. It's going to be interesting. Way over here in the distance. Let's see. Let's walk over here a little bit. So, you may be able to see way back in the distance back here uh is the chicken houses. That's where the chicken houses are. So, we're going to go ahead and get things hooked up and get Mrs. Stony Ridge. She's over here looking. They've got a couple horses that are really pretty. So, guys, from here, the next step is we take these machines home. We got to tow them 70s something miles, which is going to be quite a pain in the butt. The gentleman I'm buying them from has agreed to help me tow them home, which is super duper awesome, but you know, everything comes with a little bit of a price, guys. This is what we're using to buy this equipment. It's a tough pill to swallow. So, we're fixing to hook all this stuff up, and I don't have time to talk to you about every single thing, but we're going to get them home. We're going to pull them home. We're going to about, you know, we're going to be going like 40 mph for 70 mi. It's not going to be fun, but we're getting these things hooked up right here. So, when you're hauling a bor piece of equipment down the highway, you really got to be careful. You got to drive slow. And these guys are tying up the hydraulic line so that they don't accidentally bounce out. It's a good idea to stop and check once in a while. Make sure nothing's out of whack. If you got two people going with you, one guy can pull up next to the next guy and check it all out. So, uh, we're getting all the hydro lines all tied up right here, the hydraulic lines, and then we'll go on and hit the road. Here we are, guys, down the road. Mailor behind us. Got to watch your mirrors and stay out in the ditches. Got a long ways to go. And we just happened to notice on the hay rake it says a max of 17 m an hour. See how this works. All right, we just stopped and checked the bearings. Everything seems to be good. No bearings are hot or anything. We're just going to go about 38 to 40 mph. Uh we're about 40 minutes into the ride and we're getting ready to get on the big highway. So nervous. Easy does it. Easy does it. But just take it easy, relax, have fun. Woo. We're at mile number 40 and we're doing well down the highway. Little bit scary. People, if you learn anything from watching this vlog, please respect folks that are driving down the road with farm equipment and the stress that they're going through and don't do what these idiots are doing. Treat folks pulling big trailers and farm equipment and stuff like this with a little bit of respect. Go swerving around them, guys. We're finally back to the Stony Ridge. Thank goodness that was a long drive. It's 1:30 and we left at 11:10. So, we're pulling back up to the farm now. We're going to go ahead and drop these two pieces of equipment. Just want to take you guys on the journey. Going to pick this stuff up. I'm not going to show you how it works because I'm not mowing hay right now, but I will be in a few uh months. Maybe about a month and a half. So, that's it. I want to show you we're blowing some money today here on the farm. And it's not really blowing money. We'll make it right back with the uh hay bor and and all this equipment. It's pretty awesome. So, thanks for coming along on the journey with us, guys. We'll see you later. Say bye, Mrs. Stony Ridge. Bye-bye. See you later. Click that like button if you can. Lean to your that way. There you go. No. Sexy. Not that. Come on. Austin Powers here. You're leaning over to John Deere. Go. There you go. Go. Sexy kiss. Kiss the money. Living out in the country in a pretty little girl living on a stony ridge. Stony farm girl. Uh the gentleman I'm buying them for from Excuse me.