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Slightly Supervised: Hay Season Secrets & Husband Input · Ranch Wives Unsupervised

• Episode 18: David opens the field up for me like a real princess, I am. So I think we need to do a shout out to my brother. yes. Yes. my youngest brother Kenton. He is I love Kenton. Yes. He has been listening Consistent. Every Thursday morning. He's he's on it. Yes. but it was really funny because this weekend we went down to my sister's. She was doing a gender reveal. And we're like driving. And he's like, you know that previous podcast when Brianna was talking about like the firefighters coming and how amazing these little Mennonite ladies were for like cooking the food. He's like, I was the little Mennonite lady. He also brought food, so shout out to Kendang. He's like, I made hundreds of sandwiches. He's like, there's probably other people bringing food. But shout out. I know there were tons of people. I just know the ones that showed up right outside the house. So shout out to Kenji for keeping the crew. That's what I mean. We appreciate it. Yeah, apparently he made hundreds of sandwiches. That's so funny. He's like it's me, I'm the Minnonite lady. He's like, I love how I was called a Minnonite lady. That's we got a lot of feedback that the food was really great. So Yay Kenton, apparently he can cook. Killing it, killing it. So Yeah, we have like a couple of like avid listeners. My mom likes to listen. My nephew is like very he's like my auntie has a podcast. And I'm like, no That's so sweet. And then we have to shout out Alana. Alana, bless you. She's always sending in questions and comments and she wants to know the ins and outs. She's listening. She gets all her life updates, so we love that for her. Yeah, we love that. So good. And I think maybe we'll get into like haying season and what that kinda looks like for all of us. Because it looks very different for all of us. Yes. Okay, you start because I think yours is probably I think ours is relatively similar. Yeah. Maybe. Ours This is like Tell me what you're using to cut. I want to know all the details. I should text Joram. Yeah, text him and let's get a live review. Yeah, we'll get a live review. So yes. Okay, Lacey, go first. All that. most of the time we just put up hey. David's dad has the equipment, like the dispine attraction. Okay, so you guys disc fine. So when you disc, yeah. Okay, so then you rake. Yeah. This is different. So you don't rake? No. You just disc? Or like you run the We have a hay conditioner, so it throws it into a small enough swath. That we don't have to do see ours does throw it into a small enough swath, but we rake two rows together. Yeah. So it's half the passes with the baler. But you're still doing a pass with the Rake. Yeah, but it's way cheaper on fuel because you're not Also your RPM aren't nearly as high. It's drying the other side. Yeah. It dries both sides. Okay, so we don't rake because we do it for simply the loss of leaves. Like 'cause you lose Right, you lose more foliage. But we also in general we what what size bales are you guys making? Seven six and a half to seven. Feet but like how many pounds? Hundred pounds? I feel I don't know what they weigh. That would that's feet. I think that we I think it's about fifteen hundred pounds, roughly thirteen hundred, something like that, isn't it? Standard bales that most people do are five and a half feet? Yeah. And I think maybe six. I think ours is set higher. Our like bigger. Bigger, yeah. Yeah, and ours are on the smaller side. Like I think ours roughly weigh like a thousand. pounds, maybe like eleven hundred pounds. Yeah. And we so because we're smaller, we can bale like a little bit wetter and looser. Not like a ton. Yeah, yeah. But we yeah, we don't rake. We just let it dry. And we're gonna start baling like next week. Have you guys started cutting then? We're gonna start cutting. Yeah. Like to I mean we're gonna start like haying next week. Okay. Okay, so hold on. Sorry, I interrupted you, Lacey, 'cause I was stuck on the disc vine thing. So what sizes do the disc vine you guys use? Like how many feet? I don't know for sure 'cause it's just like whatever his whatever Mark has that we use. So okay, so you so you cut with your just one how many days before you rake? it depends, but like one to two. Okay. If it's a really war hot summer then like the next day. Okay. And then you rake. Yeah. And then like following day you bail? Yeah, I mean it depends weather wise, like if there's dew or like Right, yeah, of course. But on a on a ideal weather scenario. Yeah. Warm, slight wind, yeah. Kind of day. Yeah. You're raking. Probably a day. Yeah. Then it's a day three days. Like we've I feel like we've raked and then sometimes the same day. If it's like raining tomorrow, like you're raking. Yeah. Most of the time you can rake and then follow behind a couple for a couple hours like a couple hours later. You can follow behind. Yeah. With Baylor. So like I'll rake the whole field and then go back where I started raking and start bailing. So are you using a different tractor for your rake? Or you have one tractor that runs all three? We have so his dad r tractor runs the dispine and the rake. Yep. And then sometimes though we run the pickup on the rake. Really? What? Yeah. Well you can just Like we don't pick it up and put it down. So if It just rakes it together. Last year yeah. Last year the PTO went out on his dad's tractor. So we only had one tractor. So then he'd bring the rake to the field, set it down, get everything like spread out with the tractor, unhook, and hook onto the dispine or the baler. And then I would hook the truck up to the rake. And then normally then I d I'll do the outside rounds and then he's bailing behind me. So he'll bail the outside rounds and then I'll rake because the rake can go way faster than the bailer. So it takes like two seconds to get ahead of him and then it's pretty easy to stay ahead of him. But typically like up until last year when the PTO went out, we had the his his dad's tractor is smaller. It was hooked to the disc mine and the rake. Uh-huh. And then our tractor is hooked to the baler. and th because it's got like all the electronics and like the monitors and gate it's easier to just set the bailer up to one tractor and leave it. Yeah, that makes sense. And the dispine and the rake are faster. Right. So you can switch between the two and then the bailer it just kinda stays. You know, s slow and steady behind. That makes sense. Okay, so do you net wrap or s just twine? Yeah. sizal. Sizal. Yeah, we use sizal too. We net wrap. Yes, I know. Yeah, 'cause net wrap you have to if you're free. You have to cut it off. Yeah, 'cause you're cut it. So okay, hold on. You net wrap but you also bale graze? So is Jorm going out there every other day and cutting the net like when he sets the bales out? Is he cutting off all the net wrap? Yeah. Yeah, you cut the net when you set it out. When you set it out. When you're plopping them all down, then you go out and cut. Yeah, I'm not for nut wrap. we had we bought some bales that like three two years ago or whatever when it was really dry. All net wrapped. So much nut wrapped. Yeah. F anyways. We just gets fro like frozen on. It sticks really bad. I guess a couple years ago Mark's baler burnt up. Burnt? caught on fire? Yeah. He didn't dump the bale in time or what happened? No. the Clutch went out in it and then it overheats and burns. And there was too much Like it was dry, dusty, and it was on fire and he barely got the tractor unhooked and driven away before the bailers went up. Yeah, that's so shiny. So then he bought a new one and this new one does net wrap. So you could if you wanted to, you could we have been running net wrap because last year I think size of the trine was kinda hard to get and the price w went way up. yeah. And netwrap is substantially cheaper. Yeah. And it's faster to wrap. Yeah, that's right. We don't have those options. 'Cause we run The old baler didn't either. Yeah. The old baler was sizal all the way. Yeah. Yeah. We we I mean you could have done plastic twine, but why? Why? The only reason we do plastic is if we have like a if we have a lot of green feed to carry over to the next year. 'Cause generally sizal doesn't last you more than a year. Like in like on a in a general sense. So it's the only time we plaster grab. yeah. Or what plastic twine, like the blue twine. Yeah. Yeah. So how many wraps does it do? Like is it just like how many wraps? I don't know. Is on that? Maybe it does three. Like top, middle, bottom? Or what? no. wait, like It just wraps it around and then wraps it back. I think it's And then I think it maybe goes back again. Yeah. But I'm not entirely sure. Well, so it's not even easy. I probably you can d you can change the well you can know if you can, but our baler you can change the settings to how much twine you want. Yeah, I think we I think we can. I don't know h like if it's fancy, but I think there's like a lever or something in there that you can essentially change change. Yeah. And you don't have problem okay, so when you guys bail, Jorm's still texting. So we'll get to me later. But when you guys bail, how long do you leave your bails on the field for? It depends. Till you stack them. we don't haul until like October? Yeah. And that's fine, your bales don't freeze to the ground and you it doesn't make a mess. I mean, on a what year you might have troubles, but we most nine times out of ten we haven't had problems. We don't stack in a stockyard though because it's likely to go up. Like Yeah. I or it's a concern to go up. So we take the risk of putting them in later. Like we always make sure they're hauled off before there's too much snow. Like and the other thing too is depending on where we've hayed, we have stack yards relatively close. Close for the most part. There's a couple of fields where we don't, but for the most part. Like you're not h putting it all on a semi and hauling it. No. Back to a bale yard or whatever. No, there's some things that probably be f that might be faster, depending. Right. Because like it's a it's a lot to like load it on the trailer. Hook up so you like unhook your trailer, you load up. On your pickup. No. the tractor. Tractor. You have the tractor, tractor. Trailer, tractor, like hay tractor. Or hay wagon. On the tractor, you unhook that and then you or you unhook, you go and load. I think it carries like eight or ten Eight bells on the bottom, and then dog does. Do you have the hitch on like the three-point hitch so you don't have to actually get in and out? It is on a three po I think the new one you don't have to get out for. I think you can just drop the three point, I think. Yeah. But the old one's dad made, so he just would get out, unhook Whatever. 'Cause it's definitely faster if you can just drop drop and go. Drive. Yeah. So but like even that still like unhooking, then you drive around 'cause you kinda try to park where like there's, I don't know, twelve bales around you or however many it carries. And then Hook back up, drive to whatever stack you're you're going to. Wait, so how many bales does your Haewagan carry? I think twelve. Maybe it's it it might be more. And how long does it normally take I think the most of all is twelve. I personally. Yeah yeah. When going to feed. yeah. Yeah, and that's another thing that we didn't actually really talk about is why we like take our bales off so late. Like we hay in July, August or whatever. Like we're strictly July. We typically don't hay in August 'cause that's fescue harvest for us. So we're like, we gotta be done. But you don't haul because you're combining. Yeah, we don't haul 'cause we're combining. That's like that's like we're we'll haul whenever we can. But if you Bring your bales in right after you bale them, then it can produce heat. Yeah. And then your bales can catch on fire. Well, and that can even happen in the spring. We didn't not enable it. yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. If you don't unstock them, the moisture from the melting snow creates like a heat bomb essentially, and they'll just light up. Yeah. And you lose all your hay. Which is like something you You really don't want. Yeah, you don't want. No. Did he get back to you? Yeah, he did get back to me. Okay, so what do you guys using? Okay, wait, so what do you guys use to cut? I haven't shared mine yet. You want me to share mine first then? Yeah. Alright. So we're different. So we we have a Kubota the Kubota runs the hay conditioner. Like it's like a 14-foot hay conditioner. And we just- What's a hay conditioner? It's just like appearing. It like aerates it? Or what? How do you explain it? It like It's got teeth, it chops it, but then it kinda like shoots it through so it's like a small instead of like a you know how a combine does a swath? Or like does a Yeah, we have a swather. Swather. So you a swather. Okay. So but those are pretty big. Yeah, it cuts and makes a swath. Yeah, so like whereas ours it like cuts it at fourteen feet wide, but then it brings it down to I think it's like three or four feet. I feel like the old version of a disc button. Probably, yeah, probably. It's probably very similar. Okay. So we have a hay conditioner. Yeah. And then but part of it is so one of the reasons why we haven't upgraded is well we'd have to upgrade our trailer because you need more horsepower. Yeah. But also none of our fields are because with a disc bind, from what I understand, you have to get enough speed to create. Is that correct? No. How fast do you go on yours? How fast are you in the when you're on your disc? I can go as fast or slow as I want. You just have to have the RPM at a thousand. Okay, everybody I've talked to you the dispine doesn't do as good if you're not able to go I hay like a grandmother. I'm like But how many acres are you hay? And then my father in law is like, you could like speed this thing up and I'm like, Well, I'm scared I'm gonna break something. That's so funny. How many acres do you hay? Well, we have forty right now in hay. Right. But then it's not like you need to go fast, really. No. Like major fast. You're still like sometimes I'll go out and help. Can we have to get Keith in, but he's coming in here anyways. But anyways, I I have a question about the dismine for him. So so we we hay condition we cut and then we just bail. But we run two bailers. Because we have two older bailers. So you from like the eighties? So dad hooks up. We've got a one of the John Deers on a baler and an old Bolaris on a baler. And so while like I generally go out cutting and then or like dad'll cut the first little bit and then Keith and then whatever then somebody will bail the first bit. And then once we're like ahead enough And how many acres do you guys do for hay? let's see. We have a map. Have I shown you guys this before? actually. I'm gonna have to post it on the thing. Yeah, nobody's gonna see it. But it tells us like what is what field is what, and it's all color coordinated. This was not me, this was my brother-in-law or my father-in-law. Did he make it? What's is it on Yeah, yeah, it's like our whole map. And this is why you have a map of your garden. Yes. Yeah, this makes this all makes sense. it's like color coordinated to what's what oats, fescue. Rygr I do have questions about ryegrass. Canola. Hey, is canola supposed to be blooming right now? Is it early for canola to be bloom? No, I wouldn't say okay. Yeah, Joram would say it's early, but I wouldn't say it's that early. I'd say like a week. Okay, yeah. It's not like a month early or anything like that. Hm. I'd say it's like a week. I just followed things really early this year. Yeah. But I've did my I've done like canola photos On like July fourth, where it's like really in bloom. Hm. And I've also done canola photos like more like the twentieth is it's still in bloom. So it kinda depends on the year. So it kinda depends on the year. Is this a good season for canola? Yeah. Well, okay. Here's the thing though, everybody's fields are so different. Like our neighbors' fields don't look that good for canola, but ours look like our field has canola in it and it's like a really good crop, but then we have another field like down the road that's not as great. Just because of weather or what? Hm. That's interesting. okay. I just asked Keith how many acres we ha I wanna say it's like six hundred. Okay, yeah. I have it on notes. Hold on. Let's wait, hold on. I've got it in notes. We just had a meeting about this. Please hold. six hundred acres and you don't have a bigger Like and you don't put two swells in the one? No. We just run two valers. Hm. It's pretty f well, depending on the field. Some of our fields ain't got much for hay. yeah. Do you know what I mean? Like they they were waiting to be turned over. Okay, let's see where my notes are. It takes a long time to make one pale. That's always sad when you're just like, We're still going. Okay, we're still going. Okay, yeah, so we have four hundred acres hay and two hundred and twenty oats, two hundred and twenty acres in green feed. yeah. This year. Okay. So that's what we have. So yeah, like I mean, we are a little bit slower. Yeah mainly 'cause our fields are rougher than get up. so like you can't you you just well break your head. Yeah. Going over certain spots. Like the one Westfield that we did last year. Normally we do ours like this is probably not the farmer way either. We just go like in rounds. Like that'll open the full field? Yeah, until it gets too too tight to like turn with the You don't do like three rounds and then back and forth. Back and forth? Yeah, no, we don't 'cause we they figured it out for the amount that gets wasted for like the in between of the rows costs you more in gas. What? In between rows? Okay, so like like when you're turning around. When you're doing the rounds, like when we do our rounds, there's like say this much of the oats or like of the hay left that just didn't get cut because otherwise it's too tight of a corner, right? Yeah, but do your outside rounds. Do your outside rounds, do you? And then you do your And then you go back and forth. So you don't have it but you're back and you start in the middle. But you're back and forth. So what we figured out was like the back and forth, the amount of time it takes you to turn. Like at the end of each row. Yes. Turning. It's faster just to go in and y I think Keith we'll have to ask. I think we only lost like it equaled out to be like a one bale or like a two bales in that whole field for what it was. Like why is that? I think it's only one b I don't know how to explain this. I think we don't have anything, we're not cutting. I feel like I understand what you're saying because the feel it takes for you to but like it doesn't But part of it is is yes, our fields aren't square. No. So then you're just the lines aren't straight anyway. Straight anyways. and then also just like it's like it's such a pain in the butt. You have a lot of littler fields, right? Like we'll we'll have a field that's like three or four hundred acres. Yeah. You can just we like I think last year the one year we did it was like a hundred and thirty acres, but then last year we did a thirty acre field, a seventy acre field, yeah, a hundred acre field. Things like that. But the hundred acre field, for example, it's so rough. that you can't we open it up so Dad'll do like two outside rounds or whatever it is to open the field up and then it's like we had to go up and down Like the way you guys were talking about, because going east west is so stinking rough. Yeah. It's really hard on equipment. So it's easier even though it's a pain in the butt to turn yourself around and then move your equipment over to like 'cause you have to move the hay bine over. Yeah, but like see It's up and moved before and switched over and like I just click the button and it's up. yeah, no, I'm And then you're gonna hold the hydraulics, switch it out. yeah. like it's so you have yeah. By the time you don't have a button that just clicks over. No, you're like holding the hydraulics to lift it. Lift it so then you stop. Well, y I don't even necessarily stop, you just have to be kind of quick on it. Like once you get it figured out, right. You're pretty quick. 'Cause it t it turns pretty Good. It's just a lot of time turning, spinning your implement to side to side. So they've always just cut in rounds. And I think I okay. I have a question quick. Take it. Your like when you cut, is it like beside you? Yeah. It's on an arm. Yeah, it's on an arm behind. And it's attached to the middle, so then you can swing it left or right. Yeah. Right. It's really handy for like if a tree falls in the field 'cause you don't actually have to move your row. You just push the dispine over and bring it back. And you can go around whatever you need without changing how like the tractor going straight. That would bother me to no end. But we also have a swather. So like it's different. Yeah. It's totally different. And it if you it's easier to make straighter rows. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Swathers are very hard. Swathers are very finicky. Yeah. It's like if the steering wheel yeah. Yeah. Steering wheel moves half an inch and you're three feet over. Yes. They're using swath. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So like you guys would open up your field, you do two or three rounds on the other side. We do three to four just so that like I think we do two nobody is like Kind of a pain like Yeah. I think we're But yeah, and then we just keep going around and around until it gets two I guess technically we would do six because then we rake it together so we end up with three to bail. yeah. I don't think we do that many outside around. Yeah, but you're running a swather. And a swather is twice as wide as the disc bite. It's probably like twenty feet. No, it's sixteen feet. Okay. Do you wanna hear what we use? Yes, go. I've got it. Mac Don M150 Swather with 16 foot Habine header with a crimper. I don't know what that means. I don't know what a crimper is either. But maybe to like I don't know. I don't know. I don't even wanna guess. we use our New Holland T seventy thirty tractor, one sixty HP, 160 horsepower horsepower and a rotary hayrake, New Holland T seventy forty tractor with 180 horsepower, and a Vermir six five meter baler with net wrap six feet by five feet bales. Six feet by five feet. So six feet wide no, five feet wide maybe, six feet tall? Yeah. No. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. That sounds about right. And how many acres are you guys running in hay? Seven hundred. Seven hundred? Okay. Yeah. And then we haul our bales with like a semi. Yeah, that makes sense. And it yeah, they'll probably run a tractor and a truck. And we're And somebody's in the truck. And somebody's in the tractor and the trucker will drive to each field. Each bale. Yeah, like you pull up to the bale, the tractor throws it on No, that's not how we do it. You how do you do it? Well there's too many P there's it's typically very busy season. when we're doing this. So typically Joram's dad goes out like I don't know Know how it works, somebody drops somebody off, or whatever. The tractor's in the field, he like lines it up. It's like, or we have the Swiss guys lining it all up, and then when the truck is there, then he just puts it Yeah, yeah, because the and then the truck is needed for grain. The truck is needed for grain. Okay, that makes sense. So it's like, okay, if the truck can be out there on this day, then yeah, like yeah, yeah. Growing up, somebody ran the truck, somebody ran the tractor. And then you just load in. Yeah, like we drove the tractor. Dad would put us in the truck in the field in first gear and we just like put along and you step on the brake in the clutch till dad and then dad would like you'd pull up right beside. He'd load the bale on and you'd pull off. You just load one bale at a time or two bales? One at a time. We do one technically, but d so like when dad's or whenever they're loading, he'll throw one on the three point hitch, like on the stabber on the back. Right. Yeah. And then one on the fork. So he'll like load the one on the forks, drop the one on the hitch. Or on the stabber, load that. So it's like it's technically two. We have a grapple, so we do two. It like grabs both. Yeah. It works because yours are lined up. Yeah, they're all lined up. It's not like they're we're just going like two each one. Yeah. Yeah, like dad will go I told Joram that you guys just do circles. Yeah. And I said yes. He was like, What do you mean? I was like, when they bail they just do outside rounds. No, when we cut. Everything. When you do everything. Yeah, we just do it. And he was like, What do you mean? They just do circles? And I was Yes. And he was like, I would die. Wait, why? Because it's not pretty looking? Jerome hates doing outside rounds. Yeah. Like it's the worst part of everything. Outside rounds. Like seeding outside rounds. Versus like turning back and forth to go up and down. Yeah, but we're also not doing 30-acre fields. But even in 220 acres, we're gonna do same thing. That's crazy. Why just why do circles? Less turning. You had four corners, that's it. But you just go down the line and then turn around and come back up. You don't it I don't know if we're on GPS though or not. I need to ask him. that's an interesting thought too. If we're on GPS, then you can just click and do whatever. But not do whatever. Like you're still looking back and making sure and you have to stop every time a bail your bail pops out. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. We've all I so funny. They worked it out to why they do it. I just don't have the exact I feel like Kiva's coming, but I think it Well to cut we use GPS. But not. With the rake as well, but you can't really use GPS to bail. No. 'Cause you have to Get whatever's on the chip. Well, no, and you have to move it to left to right so it doesn't so that your yeah, your bale is straight. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Totally. Yeah. You do have to look like a a drunk driver a little bit. And hay bailing is like very like you have to be so on it. Well see, I would way sooner bail than run the disc. Like the disc mine. Really? Yeah. I also prefer to bail over More than My kids don't love it because the amount of times that you hit the brakes Yeah and they're the window. That's fair. Well part of it there's there's more that can go wrong with bailing. Like you're more likely to have the fire, more likely something's gonna go wrong with your rap. Yeah. Or whatever. See, I feel like though But I If I get plugged up or like not if the belts go or something on the baler, but most of it I feel like I can kind of f like fix myself. Yeah. Whereas the disc bind it's when you break a tooth, I don't know like I haven't fixed that. Right. And I yeah, like I haven't run it. It's above my pay grade. Yeah, I haven't ran it as much, so it stresses me out and like Yeah. I got put on the cutter to start with because it was like the easiest thing to learn. Meaning not as much can go wrong. Wrong. Like it maybe is different though. Running old equipment. Yours might have specialty, you know, if you do this just right, it runs smooth, but if you don't know what you're doing. Yeah, I don't know. Like even when I didn't know what I do it was doing, I didn't other that I didn't the one time I just forgot to put the hay conditioner down. So there was like a probably a twenty foot stretch where I just sliced the top. Just totally missed it. And I I did for like the solid stretch. That's funny. Ooh, I missed that. Okay, hold on. Keith's coming in. We're gonna have question time. Okay. I just asked Joram why do we use wrap? Net wrap. Yeah. yeah I'm curious. Hey honey. I need you we're just about to finish wrapping up this episode, sort of. I I three questions. Three questions. Three questions. You can come here. You come here. Okay, he doesn't want to be recorded, but I'm gonna ask you the questions. So what's the reasoning that we just go in circles in the hayfield versus go up and down? Like do your outside. We think this is crazy behavior. Our farmer friends are ready to disown you over this answer. Okay, so anybody who you can't hear him on the mic because he's refusing to come in here, but he said time-wise. Okay, tell me more. It's because? Well, yeah, because it's time. Takes like point three seconds. Doesn't have you timed it? I haven't. I will this year though. I will though. I will I will time myself turning and I drive like an old lady. Yeah. No, we don't do that. We don't do that. No, we just cut our three outside rounds and then you go back and forth. Okay, so hold up. Driven over Unless you rake them, most people rake. They rake, they both of them rake. Okay. And then when we bail on hold on when we bail our outside rounds. Nobody can hear him, so just wait. I have to repeat every just wait, just wait, just wait. Nobody can hear him. So what he has just said is the reason we don't is because it's faster. And he said because you're not Cutting the three outside rounds and then see that's why it takes But we've had a hydro swing for f since I've been out here, so seven or eight what, eight years. Traditionally, they did not have a hydro swing. Tradition. Tradition. You cannot break tradition. But it was it is faster. Ca can you just come get you don't have to be on, but you can stand over here and like almost leave little corners, right, when you turn. Who's the we leave corners? Why are you leaving corners? Leave small corners? That doesn't have to be both. That's what we've always got. But I thought your dad too said that it's because we like even with leaving the corners, it was faster, but we didn't lose in our corners, we didn't lose that much to justify it going back and forth. a quarter of a bale. Yeah. So a quarter of a bale over eighty acres. So if you're doing six hundred, how many? Yeah. It's like a bale. No, it's not. I don't know. What is it? Which would be like I don't do math. Yeah. Two bales. Okay, hold on. okay. So I was right. Not a few. Two bales a year is what you lose. I lose more by like distracted driving and being that was Nope. So I wait. We do this because we've always done it. It is faster, but we do lose up to two bales a year. We find it faster per se. I don't know if it would The thing is we have a swather. So you can just like rip around and then just Kate. If we had a swather, that's what we would do. Yes. If we had a swather. Okay, he's saying if we had a swather, that's what we would do. But also, Kate, Lacey has a disc bind and she says that she can go in granny mode and it still cuts. But did we not just talk about how in a disc bind you have to keep up your speed for it to cut? But that was my question. Is everybody we've talked to says they have to keep up their speed to get a proper cut. Well maybe it's just like the salesman says. Yes. And also like my experience, guys are like, it's fine, just like rip around and I'm like most farmers do what the salesman says. Okay, Keith says most farmers do what the salesman says. Text or I'm not serious to what? I'm telling Joram about the netwrap thing. yeah, they they netwrap, we don't do that. He said the biggest reason it's because it's quicker for baling, but it also doesn't freeze on as bad in the winter. As as plastic twine. But I'm telling him, like everybody says that's worse. Net wrap is faster stack your bales. Yeah, how do you guys stack? like two and then. We do four, three, two, one. yeah, that's how we do it, sorry. Right? Four four. Yeah, four, three, two. Four on the bottom, and then and then two, and then one. Well we do three, two, and then one because ours. Your tractor probably isn't big enough. No, maybe ours is three, two, one. Our tractor, yeah. If we run our tractor, 'cause it's bigger, we we get four on the bottom. So Keith has just said our experience with net you should really just mic up for this part of the episode. Just wait, you have to let me call the crowd. Yeah yeah. Okay, so he just said if it's warm and then cold and then warm and then cold it freezes and you can't it breaks. Not good to haul off. No no no No, it gets stuck on the bale and you can't rip it off. It like freezes to the bale and you're like rewraping I can't rip it off. Did you? Okay, so there you go. Freezes to the bale. Joram says you're just supposed to unwrap it to take it off. It perfectly net wrapped bales, it's very satisfying because you can pick like you don't even have to cut it. You can pick it and just run your two circles. But in my experience That's not it from three inches of egg comes off with it, that's a pain in the Yeah. In my experience it is not and it's frozen and then it's thinking heavy. And you gotta put that somewhere. Yeah, that's Yeah. If it comes off perfect, you can wrap it up in a little ball, throw it in the track of your cavalier tractor and go take it to the trash. Yeah. Okay, also I am curious why why Joram doesn't like the outside rounds. I find it so peaceful to just drive in a circle. The outside rounds. Outside rounds suck. I don't I've never cut the outside rounds, but I mean because we do all of our but we do our field it up. No, but the outside rounds are like the first opening outside round. Yeah, you're gonna take out a stick and you're gonna and it's covered in like I know. It's so then the anxiety of like, what if I take out a rock? What if there's a tree here? What if there's you know? That is why I've never done it. I'm saying is that as for like versus going back and forth up and down. I like going in a circle because I can just you're more likely to just zone out and not What? Going in a circle? Well yes, because you got longer other than your two short ends. Do you know what I mean? You don't have to pick up and change. Well, there's two little buttons you can just. I mean going straight across a field. You can just zone out. I know, but like what I'm saying is we don't have pick up and change. Right. But for us, in other words, you don't like the manual workout. We just click the buttons. Yeah. We just click the button and then turn around and then go. It's different. Okay, and what You can just press the button. No, our yeah, ours isn't hard, but you still have to hold that hydraulics there's literally a click button. Like My father in law's is a lever. You can push forward and back, but you can push it all the way forward till it clicks and then it just auto sets. You don't have to wait till it's down. Yeah, that's ours too. Just when it's switching from side to side is the You have to adjust it. switching it's on the same lever thing. ours is not on the same You can just click it and same lever, different levers. Well, it's like two different levers, but it's the same style. Okay, so when we all start haying we need a video. We will video like a little process of each of us hanging. The problem for us is it's not Joram doing all the hang. So we'll see how much I can get. Tell yeah, tell your brother in law to say hey. Or it's like the hard hand. like he's just gonna join. I'm gonna bring you dinner. I need you to send me like a thirty second clip of how you makeup. You know what they would. They would. They truly would. Okay, what's the reason we don't rake, Keith? I think I answered this, but in case I didn't answer this correctly, correct. There we go. I did answer that. Lose a lot of leaves. Yeah, so you lose a lot of foliage 'cause you're What kind of rake did you have? no, I don't think so. I have no idea. The new one my father in law has works way better than the old one did. Besides the fact that new one's a gentler now. Maybe we should probably wrap this because you're gonna be late. Speaking of net wrap and other wraps, you're gonna be late. yeah. A rotary hayrake. What are you I don't know what it's called. I don't know. Anyways, we haven't found that we lost that many leaves. Okay, so we all hay very differently. Yes. Heavy debate on the raking and circles of the field. How wide is your hay bind quick? Fourteen feet. Jorm's like, why do you not rake? He's very like, what the heck? It also just comes down to tractor use. Hours on the tractor. Hmm. Anyways, okay. We can talk about it more later. Yeah, we we could go on the topic. We need the husbands too. Yeah, yeah, we do an episode. We need a husband episode. We want the I feel like David might be like, I don't know. It'd be Lacey. I don't know what Lacey does. We need my father in law. Yes. Yeah, that would be funny. Yeah, no, we just but yeah, okay, as for the outside rounds, I do have to say I'm so glad I don't have to do them. Yeah. That's like dad's thing. Dad goes and like opens the field up and I'm like, that's totally fine. You do that. Gladly take care of David opens the field up for me like a real princess, I am. Yeah, I like it. I'm like, hey, go open the field. Okay, but I will say, hold on, with our baylor, when I was talking about how like more things go wrong. I got put in the Baylor that was on the John Deere the one year because I love running the John Deere. Like it's an older John Deere and I like love the gear. I hate the Bolera shift. It is the worst. Ninth gear is in the middle. It's the worst gear split I've ever seen in my entire life. Anyways, love the John Deere split. It's great. Easy to run. And I was like, I kid you not, the twine on the we either bought really garbage twine or like I don't know what happened. It just kept breaking. Or it went. And then you'd have to go back and re And so it was just like one bale was wrapped like eight hundred times. no. And I was like, What is going on? I was like out there constantly like cutting it, re tying it, and then it kept breaking. So you're like re tying how. Okay, so what we're gonna have to do is everybody record, like how long does it take f for your bale to be wrapped? Because Dorm says it's sh quicker to Netwrap is faster. It is way faster. I think my father in law said something like seven seconds faster. It's ours is like twenty to what would you say, like I don't know. So then we save that on going back and forth. Yeah, there you go. There you go. There you go. Yeah, I don't know. We just never But this might change if we upgrade our hair equipment. But we have to get our fields in according to the s This could be the salesman thing, because you've just said you drive like a granny with a disc fine, but you're the first person I've heard that from. Yeah, because I'm also a girl. And my guy is gonna be like, don't mind me. I drive like a granny down the field. Yeah, that he probably doesn't know that you know, like he's probably doing anyway, so that'll be another thing we'll have to test out. But right now our fields, if we do have to drive fast to get the disc mind to cut correct. like correctly if that's what we've been told. We haven't tried it. Don't you our fields are so rough. Don't you think that's worse for cutting? Fast? Yeah. Par has this is just according to the we've talked to three people and they've only probably talked to the salesman, so I don't know. But it has to do with like the mechanics of the dispine itself. You need the speed for it to like create the swath correctly. Or something. I don't know I don't know. Above my pay grade. I will get more information and tell you guys. I don't understand that because I literally can creep around and it doesn't look any different than if you're running fox. No. Okay. And typically like ripping doesn't I feel like going faster does not If you slow the RPM down, then the blades aren't moving as fast. Yes. And then it's slowing everything down. Yeah. But it's not speed. It's RPM. And so that's how that's no different than in the hay conditioner that if that's the case, if it's off the RPMs. I don't know. To be determined. Yeah. We'll have to update you all on hanging. And we're somebody has experience with this, then please let us know. Yeah, please let us know because now we're all curious. And do you cut your fields up and down or do you cut them I feel like you are the only one. No, I know. Probably. No, I know that there's a few people on on the pressby too that cut it rounds, because I've seen it, but not many. It's also definitely not a farmer thing. Anybody who farms, up and down. Yeah. You see it? Anyways, we gotta go. We gotta go. That was so thank you for listening. Yes. And thank you for staying here if you're still listening. If you're still listening. And sorry that you did not like Yeah, we did. We did. Welcome to Hay Season, folks. Ranch wife recipe swap. Okay, so Joram has been like on the Facebook reels and is on the like the food side of Facebook reels. And so he's always sending me like, I want this, I want this, I want this. So then one day he was like, Okay, we have lettuce, but it was like a chicken lettuce salad with like cheese, and it was like more like fried chicken. And it was like cheese and tomato, and it looked like such a yummy salad. And I was like, that's great, but like I would have to first of all cook up a whole chicken and then deep-fry it in like batter. It and you know, all this stuff. And then he's like, why don't we just do chicken nuggets? yeah, brilliant. And just chop them up and then throw that in your salad. Done. And it was a hit because my kids, first of all, were like, yeah, chicken nuggets. And second of all, it just was so good, actually. It was probably really easy. It wasn't bad. Yeah. We just fried the nuggets while you're like making the rest of your salad, and then you just chop up your nugs and put her in. You'll have to share the reel tour to you. Yes. Reshare it. But like So I'll do a salad, but I just like baked chicken or like with seasoned bake and then like hard boiled eggs and cheese and bacon. I mean, I guess are chicken nuggets crispy though? Yes. I use my air fryer. There's a crunch to I use my airfryer. There's a crunch. Have you not ever had a chicken nugget? Yeah, like In a fast food place and they seem sod. Yeah, those aren't crisp. No, you gotta get like home. You really think I'm gonna buy a box? No, you're not chicken nuggets? Okay. Yes, okay. We'll do a test taste. Yes. my go-to has been the healthy ho what is it? Healthier homemade one pot hamburger helper. From half baked harvest. Okay. It's so good. It's like noodles, burger, zucchini. Chicken broth. Right? Yep, probably. Let's see, I can't even remember. It's been a minute. Yeah, ground beef, onion, salt and pepper, pepper, you got blah blah blah. Pasta, zucchini, beef broth, milk. When you say zucchini, you grated up. you grate it up. So you don't even taste it. That's so interesting. So fast. When I think of zucchini, I think of red sauces. No, this one is so fast. It's so easy. Love it. I love it. That's my recipe. Okay. We can post them. Yeah. We'll attempt to post them. Yes. I'm not gonna promise we will. Yeah, we're no, we're gonna do better, guys. Hold us accountable. We will do better. Comment if we don't if you don't when this episode comes out, if you don't see a post. Let us know. Let us get it. Hold us accountable. We need it. Yeah. Okay. Thanks for hanging out with us today on Ranch Wives Unsupervised. If you've enjoyed the chaos, hit that like button, drop a comment with your own ranch story, and subscribe on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts so you never miss an episode. 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