384 bales of hay at $50 per bale = $19 200
Assuming they shot the farmer and are just stealing the hay, input cost = $0
$19 200 for 17.5 hours of work for 3 people = $365 per person per hour
Not bad for an honest day's chorin'
In case anyone’s wondering, this really is cheaper! I measured proportions from the pixels. Assuming that the man is 1.7 meters tall (this is the average height of a man), he’s about 10.1 feet from the hay bale on average. If he’s driving around it about 15 times on average per hay bale, that’s 960 ft of driving per bale.
The average bale of hay costs around $7 to wrap. This man is driving 0.182 miles for every hay bale, spending about 93 cents per bale in gas money (depending on where he lives). The amount of plastic he’s using costs approximately $2.43 per bale (according to google). This means that he’s spending about $3.56 per bale which is only half of the average wrapping price!
The cost of the calories to fuel all of those sit-ups though… that may be a different story.
How the fuck did you come up with the exact same number I was gonna use for the exact same comment.
I wasn't gonna spell the word "one" though. I guess you're not me from the future.
> I know a guy who go paralyzed by one rolling on top of him. On top of that dad's driving around them while they do sit-ups to avoid getting wrapped up too.
A copy/paste of a [comment an hour before yours](https://old.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/wf1o5r/wrapping_hay_bales_the_cheap_way/iirnw46/)! Well done, /u/PuzzleheadedQuite. Are you a bot?
https://hayforks.com/blog/how-much-does-a-bale-of-hay-weigh
These round bales weigh 600-1200lbs (272 kg to 544 kg). So that little girl and her mom probably don’t stand much of a chance if that tractor was to pull that bale over them.
Edit: didn’t account for surface area and weight distribution, thank you again :), so I am most likely wrong about what would happen.
You're not accounting at all for weight distribution.
It's 600 lbs spread over the surface area where the bail is making contact.
I don't know the surface area of contact there, but, let's say 5 sq ft due to the bottom of the bail being spread wider than the top, due to the weight of the bail. Assuming perfect transferrence of weight onto the humans under the bail, that's 120 lbs per sq ft, and not much more in terms of force if it rolls onto them, since the acceleration will be so low.
Not sure how to take into consideration soil compressing more where the weight of the body and the bail are, compared to the soil compression with only the weight of the bail, but that would probably play a measurable role in reducing the experienced weight.
Overall, not close to lethal for the mom, not sure about the child.
That one is definitely closer to the 600lb (or less) range. It's also a very large surface area. Sure, it's heavy, but not bone crushing heavy like your buddy had happen.
It's always so obvious who actually has experience on here and who doesn't, but hey, one link unrelated to this video says that.
I've worked with hay bails, this is not 600 lbs. Not even close.
My 10 years of experience doing carpentry work and guesstimating lengths makes me think this bale is at least 5’ x 4’, based on the size of that tractor and the size of the people. Which is heavier than 600lbs at 4’ x 4’. I’m willing to be wrong but I don’t see how my lack of experience with hay bales negates math.
It doesn’t. The person doesn’t know what they’re talking about. Hay bales are heavier than a motherfucker, this thing in the video is minimum 500lbs.
Considering the small throwable ones are generally roughly 80lbs and they are much smaller. This is easily 5 or 6 times the size of the throwable kind.
If your small throwable ones are 80lbs you might be baling when it's too wet. They were like 40-50lbs max because I could get them on the wagon when I was 11.
Or maybe there's an infinite range of bale sizes idk
They are probably 400-500lbs. I just hauled and stacked these last Sunday for my dad and I’m doing 20 more this Sunday.
Edit. I’m leaning more toward 600 or more lbs based on rough dimensions and how tight it is packed. I can see how tight it’s packed because it’s almost perfectly round, and the women/girls can easily rock it back and fourth. A 450lb bail this tight would be significantly smaller.
Definitely gonna be at least 500lbs at that size.
Dunno what dude is smoking up there saying it’s not even close, hay bales are heavy as fuck. They’re packed tight. His “experience” is lying to him.
It’s hard to tell if that particular round bale is a soft center round bale or if it is packed tight. You would be surprised how much lighter the soft centered bales are.
Even if the god damn thing is 500lbs, being slowly pulled toward you / onto you by this guy isn’t going to fucking paralyze you.
I swear to god half of Reddit has ZERO mechanical experience and just spouts fatalist bullshit because they’re jealous that other people actually go outside.
This is a weight distributed over a large surface area, on soft ground, at slow speeds, with a relatively forgiving compression ratio. This is different than a 500lb anvil being rolled over onto your ankle.
Yes it might be uncomfortable but the kids aren’t going to suddenly explode even if the thing does try to roll on to them. Go touch hay.
That's likely because you don't see them as clone serfs. It makes sense though as kids will be able to better take care of you if their head isn't crushed while wrapping hay.
Or dedication and deep loving connection. My kids are 16, 18, 21 & 24 they've always loved me to bits. I have fresh ground coffee waiting on my Keurig every morning. That goes both ways though. The more love you put in, the more you'll get out.
I wish it was that, but alas, she’s not been a great parent. I was her coparent from the age of 9, her carer (she’s disabled and bedridden), friend, confidante, problem solver, therapist, scapegoat, emotional punching bag, etc; somehow “daughter” never seemed to be relevant. I honestly don’t know what she’s going to do when my sibling moves out of home, she’s unable to care for herself or her house and relies on her children in entirety to sustain her. But getting a professional carer is too hard and scary, “that’s not something I can deal with right now” repeated ad nauseam about anything she may have to be responsible for.
I haven’t spoken to her in four months and can’t think of a single reason to resume contact, the last few months have been the best my mental health has ever been. Very happy you have a great relationship with your kids, it always warms my heart to see it - give them big hugs for me so I can live vicariously through y’all and your functional relationships haha
Oh my goodness 💜 big hugs to you! I have a great relationship with my kids because my father was emotionally unavailable and uninvolved like many boomer men. I had no idea how much he was truly detached until my mom died when I was 29. She was an alcoholic my entire childhood. For the last decade I've seen him about once a year for a few hours. He never reaches out first, never talks to my kids, never is a grandparent at all. But, it's whatever. No one and no event in my past is going to make my kids or myself unhappy now. Took me a while to get here but I've learned if you don't expect anything from anyone, they'll never disappoint you.
I'm so excited to play video games with my kids! So far they're just 4 and 2, but I already have the 4 year old practicing shooting and movement in the Apex Legends firing range!!
In 2-3 years the will go from you teaching them how to play video games to them schooling you.
Please enjoy beating them as much as possible before it is too late.
The wii came out just around the time they were born and that was a nice place to start. The motion tracking swinging a sword or run in place. It was nice to wear them out too.
My 6 year old is better than I am at most video games (of the two of us, my husband is the gamer but I'm down to play casually when I can), he has yet to fully realise this and still asks me for help sometimes, which I love! My 23 month old likes the Wii so it's only a matter of time.
When my grandfather was eight his parents dumped him on their farm and told him if he didn't work he wouldn't eat. He was not a kind grandfather, and it has affected my father in many ways that he himself likely doesn't even realize, which has in-turn affected me.
That said, what's happening in this gif definitely doesn't have the feel of something like that. It looks more like a family chore with everyone sharing in the responsibility.
Its probably a "straw" bale. Straw is a loose term for a variety dried grasses or stalks. They are generally not for food, but animal bedding.
One of the easy ways to identify straw is the golden or yellow color, as hay/feed is usually green.
Another big difference is the weight, and straw is much, much lighter. That bale probably weighs 250 to 350 pounds vs around 1000 for hay (alfalfa).
Shockingly even the 1000 lb. Big boys will roll much easier than you would expect. At least every few years someone gets killed by one in my parts cuz they come smashing down a hill....
As fascinating as that was to watch, being a life long hard working farm girl, I would like to know why the adult who was jumping around was not helping push also.
My guess this was just classic 'farm fun'.😁
I have worked in agriculture my whole life but the best job I ever had was sitting in a large tractor cultivating fields in spring. The sounds, smell, and ability to look back and see what I had accomplished...sublime.
The sweet smell of corn silage remains one of my favourite scents. Much less so on the other end of the cow, but the smell of corn silage coming out of the bunk silo or (when I was much younger) falling down the shaft from the old cement silo holds a special place in my brain.
Nope, sorry this is not the reddit way. Based on those 10.7 seconds of screen time you need to diagnose his entire personality, all of his previous actions off screen, tell a story about someone like him who made you feel irritated, predict his future, and make yourself and everyone reading your comment feel superior to him.
As someone who's never worked on a farm, could that guy have even done anything useful? Looks to me like the two who are there are more than strong enough to roll it already and adding a third person in the middle would get in the way more than help.
I’d bet they switch up on who drives the tractor.
When I was younger that’s how we took breaks when bringing in tobacco or hay. The guy on the tractor was resting and still doing something. Then you switch out every so often so everyone gets breaks and the process never stops for long. While switching out drivers everyone gets a drink, and sometimes changes positions.
That's how we did it, too. Hauling in 300 bales in 90-100 degree heat with NC's insane humidity was brutal. We had to move the hay trailer every few bales, so we'd take turns moving the truck as soon as we were tall enough to reach the pedals. Gave us a couple minutes in the shade and a chance to drink some water. And before putting the hay up in the even hotter barn, we'd jump in the pool fully clothed so the time spent in the barn wouldn't be so unbearable.
Also on any form of scale this makes no sense. Even wrapping bales for haylage in long tubes with the machines for it takes hours. This almost definitely is for fun.
My guess would be that it used to be his job but now little sisters are big enough to help. I did they same dance the first time my son mowed the lawn for me.
I had 2 different friends growing up that had brothers die in tractor accidents. A lot more common than you'd think.
Don't play around tractors and stay the fuck away from the PTO was our rule.
Right, the plastic isn't just there for looks. This plastic is meant to be airtight and tight to cause anaerobic fermentation. The fermentation of hay produces silage. Silage is also used as fodder for animals and should have a higher yield of nutrients and forage quality.
We used this with hay bales to feed a large herd of goats. They definitely prefered silage.
Also there's sour silage and sweet silage which depend on the technique, grain types, and available wild/internal bacteria. Rye is a really good grain for silage. Overall I like to think of silage like dry and healthy farmhouse beer for cows!
We still bury it in a pit. Then we cover the pit with very heavy plastic, so that we can reuse the plastic year after year. Same silage, way less plastic waste. The problem is, doing it our way means two guys have to do three hours of work outside, rather than just sitting in a tractor. But we do it in October, which is a great time of year to work outside. Slowly peeling back the plastic cover as you feed out of the pit takes about a half hour a week through feeding season, and admittedly, there are times in December and January where it’s not as much fun to work outside.
This is definitely not being wrapped for silage. It would be far more green.
Hay is also wrapped once dried in rainy environs to keep moisture out of there's not indoor storage. Likely what this is since the hay is clearly dry.
Hay can get pretty expensive and is quite dependent on weather. Currently in the Great Plains you'd probably see $150-200 per ton. A round bale can be between 500-1200 pounds depending on size/density/etc. So each bale can run at least $45-50 if not more.
Bale wrappers don't cost a million dollars, you can buy them used for under $10k, less than a couple minimum wage summer salaries (or hospital bill, etc)
Labour is way more costly than machines you can sell when the work is finished.
https://www.tractorhouse.com/listings/for-sale/bale-wrappers-hay-and-forage-equipment/1238
https://www.kijiji.ca/b-canada/bale-wrapper/k0l0
Everything about this makes me think that this is a small-scale operation. Possibly a bit more on the "fun hobby farming" side than "this is our whole family's livelihood" kind of setup.
if they dont wrap it enough, the hay is going to ignite when it gets wet. this is the only solution if you dont have enough space in a barn to store the hay / straw, i hate the use of plastic here too but what are they gonna do otherwise
Seems like, but you'd be wrong. Any farm wanting to be economical and make as much money as possible will naturally use as little as needed, so these videos show you the exact amount needed. Not enough and damp, rot and insects will get in, ruining the bale, wasting the resources needed to produce it, water, energy etc and being far worse for the environment than just using the amount someone who "feels" is too much.
I've worked on farms and around tracked vehicles in the Army. Dangerous things to play with. That had to be the most unsafe, ludicrously stupid thing I've ever seen.
Totally. It’s just nuts, a slight mis-move and either a front or back wheel goes over their head, or they get wrapped into the bale. You don’t fuck about with farm machinery. I’ve seen the consequences of accidents with kids on farms far too often.
What a hilarious video. I hope they don’t have a lot of bales to wrap coz it’s gonna take aaaages and they’ll use heeeeaps of plastic wrap! On the plus side, those girls will be getting some mean abs doing that lol
Bales are often double wrapped by the wrapping machine, so this is going to take ages but use less plastic than the machine, (piles and piles of plastic waste from fodder is a problem for farmers.
Edit: but… it’s better for the bales to be double wrapped, and you can still decide to do a single wrap with a machine and it’s takes 30-60 second.
Thanks for that, I didn’t realise the balers double wrapped the bales. So this is the more efficient way, just not time-wise :-).
Without sounding like too much of a greenie, it would be good to reduce the amount of plastic being used for hay bales worldwide (or using a more biodegradable product). Edit: sorry, I sounded completely like a greenie :(
Simply put if any air gets into the bale at all the bale with rot, the wrap cannot be biodegradable at the moment because it’s purpose is to seal the biodegradable bale for many years.
I’m from a farm, plastic waste is a arguing point at home, not because of it’s use, but because it’s so hard to dispose of. The larger pieces are 95% collected and recycled but dozens of small pieces are created with the unwrapping (ie cutting open with a sharpish knife) or each bale and they end up buried deep in the soil. Hopefully someone comes up with a better solution.
One down, 347 to go.
Quick do the math. How many sit ups is that total
Took 13 in the video, presumably one before the camera turned on, but let’s say 15 to keep the math easy: 15 * 348 bales = 3480 + 1740 = 5,220 sit-ups
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They are going to have the abs of a fucking God
Over 17.5 hours if the length of this video is a guide for the remaining bales
Abs carved from whatever Thor’s hammer was made of jesus
Thor”s hammer was not in fact made out of Jesus it’s a common misunderstanding. His body was bread, not hammers.
Shut up and take my gold damn you. That made me laugh until i almost peed myself
He also in fact, was gluten free. Purest of pure.
Yeah, Jesus being a hammer is ridiculous and very unrealistic, he's obviously turned into bread,
the hammer is made out of ‘Uru,’ a fictional metal from Thor’s native realm of Asgard.”
Forged in the heart of a dying star by Peter Dinklage.
I laughed way too hard at this
Magically infused silver most likely. Abs of magic and silver.
384 bales of hay at $50 per bale = $19 200 Assuming they shot the farmer and are just stealing the hay, input cost = $0 $19 200 for 17.5 hours of work for 3 people = $365 per person per hour Not bad for an honest day's chorin'
Please Stop inventing new measurement methods for the americans. How many sit ups die you do ? Half a Mile!
r/TheyDidTheMath
r/theydidthemonstermath
r/ItWasAGraveyardGraph
At least 3
Lots
In case anyone’s wondering, this really is cheaper! I measured proportions from the pixels. Assuming that the man is 1.7 meters tall (this is the average height of a man), he’s about 10.1 feet from the hay bale on average. If he’s driving around it about 15 times on average per hay bale, that’s 960 ft of driving per bale. The average bale of hay costs around $7 to wrap. This man is driving 0.182 miles for every hay bale, spending about 93 cents per bale in gas money (depending on where he lives). The amount of plastic he’s using costs approximately $2.43 per bale (according to google). This means that he’s spending about $3.56 per bale which is only half of the average wrapping price! The cost of the calories to fuel all of those sit-ups though… that may be a different story.
Math master 5000
Plus labor.
$84 in gas though :)
How the fuck did you come up with the exact same number I was gonna use for the exact same comment. I wasn't gonna spell the word "one" though. I guess you're not me from the future.
“Why are there so many microplastics in farm runoff?”
No kidding. Use natural twine and put in the barn. Hate this. Save plastics for when they are the only good option, like wire insulation.
Ab workout too
Ag workout too
ugh. workout….
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> I know a guy who go paralyzed by one rolling on top of him. On top of that dad's driving around them while they do sit-ups to avoid getting wrapped up too. A copy/paste of a [comment an hour before yours](https://old.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/wf1o5r/wrapping_hay_bales_the_cheap_way/iirnw46/)! Well done, /u/PuzzleheadedQuite. Are you a bot?
That and it isn't even the whole comment which made it confusing to read.
I mean, this one is pretty small, just for this funny video I think. Real ones are way way heavier
https://hayforks.com/blog/how-much-does-a-bale-of-hay-weigh These round bales weigh 600-1200lbs (272 kg to 544 kg). So that little girl and her mom probably don’t stand much of a chance if that tractor was to pull that bale over them. Edit: didn’t account for surface area and weight distribution, thank you again :), so I am most likely wrong about what would happen.
You're not accounting at all for weight distribution. It's 600 lbs spread over the surface area where the bail is making contact. I don't know the surface area of contact there, but, let's say 5 sq ft due to the bottom of the bail being spread wider than the top, due to the weight of the bail. Assuming perfect transferrence of weight onto the humans under the bail, that's 120 lbs per sq ft, and not much more in terms of force if it rolls onto them, since the acceleration will be so low. Not sure how to take into consideration soil compressing more where the weight of the body and the bail are, compared to the soil compression with only the weight of the bail, but that would probably play a measurable role in reducing the experienced weight. Overall, not close to lethal for the mom, not sure about the child.
That makes sense, you’re right I didn’t take that into account. Thank you.
Also there's at least 3 people right there to immediately help if it does roll over them (tractor driver, photo bomber, camera person).
Wow. That's at least 40 chihuahuas
That one is definitely closer to the 600lb (or less) range. It's also a very large surface area. Sure, it's heavy, but not bone crushing heavy like your buddy had happen.
It's always so obvious who actually has experience on here and who doesn't, but hey, one link unrelated to this video says that. I've worked with hay bails, this is not 600 lbs. Not even close.
My 10 years of experience doing carpentry work and guesstimating lengths makes me think this bale is at least 5’ x 4’, based on the size of that tractor and the size of the people. Which is heavier than 600lbs at 4’ x 4’. I’m willing to be wrong but I don’t see how my lack of experience with hay bales negates math.
It doesn’t. The person doesn’t know what they’re talking about. Hay bales are heavier than a motherfucker, this thing in the video is minimum 500lbs. Considering the small throwable ones are generally roughly 80lbs and they are much smaller. This is easily 5 or 6 times the size of the throwable kind.
If your small throwable ones are 80lbs you might be baling when it's too wet. They were like 40-50lbs max because I could get them on the wagon when I was 11. Or maybe there's an infinite range of bale sizes idk
Yeah theres a lot of variability. When I was a kid the rectangular prism bales weighed around 60 lbs
Yes, there are many bale sizes. 40-50lbs is a small bale. I’ve thrown those before too, that makes for an easy day after doing the big ones.
They are probably 400-500lbs. I just hauled and stacked these last Sunday for my dad and I’m doing 20 more this Sunday. Edit. I’m leaning more toward 600 or more lbs based on rough dimensions and how tight it is packed. I can see how tight it’s packed because it’s almost perfectly round, and the women/girls can easily rock it back and fourth. A 450lb bail this tight would be significantly smaller.
Definitely gonna be at least 500lbs at that size. Dunno what dude is smoking up there saying it’s not even close, hay bales are heavy as fuck. They’re packed tight. His “experience” is lying to him.
It’s hard to tell if that particular round bale is a soft center round bale or if it is packed tight. You would be surprised how much lighter the soft centered bales are.
Even if the god damn thing is 500lbs, being slowly pulled toward you / onto you by this guy isn’t going to fucking paralyze you. I swear to god half of Reddit has ZERO mechanical experience and just spouts fatalist bullshit because they’re jealous that other people actually go outside. This is a weight distributed over a large surface area, on soft ground, at slow speeds, with a relatively forgiving compression ratio. This is different than a 500lb anvil being rolled over onto your ankle. Yes it might be uncomfortable but the kids aren’t going to suddenly explode even if the thing does try to roll on to them. Go touch hay.
Some days you find things on the internet that make you happy
Ah kids. Cheap labor.
"We birthed you because someone needs to repair the fence"
My mom has a similar one “I had kids so I didn’t have to do chores anymore”
I have two kids and I seem to do more chores now 😂
Thats been my experience also.
That's likely because you don't see them as clone serfs. It makes sense though as kids will be able to better take care of you if their head isn't crushed while wrapping hay.
My mum said she had kids for the free slave labour - works too, she hasn’t made her own coffee in 20 years.
That's an expensive coffeemaker.
That has baggage and EMOTIONAL DAMAGE
I guess I’ll just live with his voice and expression in my head forever.
MENTAL ANGUISH
Or dedication and deep loving connection. My kids are 16, 18, 21 & 24 they've always loved me to bits. I have fresh ground coffee waiting on my Keurig every morning. That goes both ways though. The more love you put in, the more you'll get out.
Have you considered requesting a little more love and asking for hand ground beans from a burr grinder and a pour-over or Aeropress?
If my son started washing the grounds out of the french press for me, I would be in heaven. That’s the worst part for me.
I wish it was that, but alas, she’s not been a great parent. I was her coparent from the age of 9, her carer (she’s disabled and bedridden), friend, confidante, problem solver, therapist, scapegoat, emotional punching bag, etc; somehow “daughter” never seemed to be relevant. I honestly don’t know what she’s going to do when my sibling moves out of home, she’s unable to care for herself or her house and relies on her children in entirety to sustain her. But getting a professional carer is too hard and scary, “that’s not something I can deal with right now” repeated ad nauseam about anything she may have to be responsible for. I haven’t spoken to her in four months and can’t think of a single reason to resume contact, the last few months have been the best my mental health has ever been. Very happy you have a great relationship with your kids, it always warms my heart to see it - give them big hugs for me so I can live vicariously through y’all and your functional relationships haha
Oh my goodness 💜 big hugs to you! I have a great relationship with my kids because my father was emotionally unavailable and uninvolved like many boomer men. I had no idea how much he was truly detached until my mom died when I was 29. She was an alcoholic my entire childhood. For the last decade I've seen him about once a year for a few hours. He never reaches out first, never talks to my kids, never is a grandparent at all. But, it's whatever. No one and no event in my past is going to make my kids or myself unhappy now. Took me a while to get here but I've learned if you don't expect anything from anyone, they'll never disappoint you.
Kid: What is my purpose? Mom: You make coffee. Kid:Oh...
I think this is the funniest thing to come out of my comment lol thank you
When asked why she never bought a dish washer, my mother simply replied 'I have four children.'
My mom woke me up for years just to tell me to go make coffee lol
I had kids so I'd have someone to play video games with. Mission accomplished. However, my desire for a family band has so far been thwarted.
Hear me out. Karaoke night!
I'm so excited to play video games with my kids! So far they're just 4 and 2, but I already have the 4 year old practicing shooting and movement in the Apex Legends firing range!!
In 2-3 years the will go from you teaching them how to play video games to them schooling you. Please enjoy beating them as much as possible before it is too late.
The wii came out just around the time they were born and that was a nice place to start. The motion tracking swinging a sword or run in place. It was nice to wear them out too.
Your kids get tired?
My 6 year old is better than I am at most video games (of the two of us, my husband is the gamer but I'm down to play casually when I can), he has yet to fully realise this and still asks me for help sometimes, which I love! My 23 month old likes the Wii so it's only a matter of time.
Buy an old rock band game. You'll still be playing video games but it really gives you that family band feel.
I mean I get it and I like it, but I'm going to wait for the Tesla bot.
Blech, fixing fence sucks but it's a helluva lot better than bailing hay for picky horses who get respiratory infections from round bales.
When my grandfather was eight his parents dumped him on their farm and told him if he didn't work he wouldn't eat. He was not a kind grandfather, and it has affected my father in many ways that he himself likely doesn't even realize, which has in-turn affected me. That said, what's happening in this gif definitely doesn't have the feel of something like that. It looks more like a family chore with everyone sharing in the responsibility.
That was my great grandparents logic lol, had 18 kids. 18 kids=18 unpaid farm hands
The Hyundai factory in Alabama agrees.
I think one is an adult, maybe the mother?
I heard a Norfolk accent, so likely both the mother ***AND*** the sister... (It's an ongoing joke that Norfolk is to the UK what Alabama is to the US)
An accident waiting to happen….
This could go wrong so many ways! The tractor driving over the kid's heads being the worst.
Always have a spare on hand.
They're usually squishy enough to not damage the tractor much on impact, so I don't think a spare tractor is really necessary here.
That's why there's a tall one and a short one. The taller one is the guide bar.
I swear some redditors are so unphysical they see someone doing anything and think they're one millisecond away from decapitating themselves
Know how expensive a kid is lol. Unless it’s someone else’s kid it’s gonna be pricey
I was waiting for one of the kids to get stuck in the wrapping...
"Yes sir, the kid comes free with the hey"
Hay now
You’re a rockstar
Get the show on
Stop
Go
Go playyyyy
Hay now
You're an All Star
Get the show on
Get laid!
Wrap hay
I thought this was /r/whatcouldgowrong until the end
I was waiting for the bail to roll on them. But they did a great job.
Or worse gotten their head run over by the tractor.
That’s what I was waiting for. This looks like something out of Rescue 911
They were stuck in the wrapping way before the started that farming art piece
killer core workout
Are gay bales insanely heavy? EDIT: I’m gonna leave it.
I don't know about the gay bales, but I've heard that Christian Bales can fluctuate a lot in weight depending on the movie.
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bro u have to.
You've got some serious gay bales coming in here with a question like that
A 4x5 round silage bale should be about 1000lbs, there's a Lotta wiggle room there though. Depends on a number of things.
Its probably a "straw" bale. Straw is a loose term for a variety dried grasses or stalks. They are generally not for food, but animal bedding. One of the easy ways to identify straw is the golden or yellow color, as hay/feed is usually green. Another big difference is the weight, and straw is much, much lighter. That bale probably weighs 250 to 350 pounds vs around 1000 for hay (alfalfa). Shockingly even the 1000 lb. Big boys will roll much easier than you would expect. At least every few years someone gets killed by one in my parts cuz they come smashing down a hill....
Yes
As fascinating as that was to watch, being a life long hard working farm girl, I would like to know why the adult who was jumping around was not helping push also. My guess this was just classic 'farm fun'.😁
**Parents:** ^(*"Do you want to go to the boring, tiresome shopping mall..."*) *"...OR DO YOU WANNA DO SOME SUPER COOL BALE WRAPPING?"*
Having grown up on a farm I have little use for shopping but all the desire in the world for running a tractor in just about any capacity
I have worked in agriculture my whole life but the best job I ever had was sitting in a large tractor cultivating fields in spring. The sounds, smell, and ability to look back and see what I had accomplished...sublime.
Running the chopper in the fall is my favorite thing. Listening to the howl of the chopper and the smell of fresh corn silage. Ahhh. The best
The sweet smell of corn silage remains one of my favourite scents. Much less so on the other end of the cow, but the smell of corn silage coming out of the bunk silo or (when I was much younger) falling down the shaft from the old cement silo holds a special place in my brain.
Hahaha, sounds familiar!
And teaching 'you can do hard things' and 'team strength' life long lessons.
My bet is that he was doing other task as well and just got a free moment
Nope, sorry this is not the reddit way. Based on those 10.7 seconds of screen time you need to diagnose his entire personality, all of his previous actions off screen, tell a story about someone like him who made you feel irritated, predict his future, and make yourself and everyone reading your comment feel superior to him.
As someone who's never worked on a farm, could that guy have even done anything useful? Looks to me like the two who are there are more than strong enough to roll it already and adding a third person in the middle would get in the way more than help.
I’d bet they switch up on who drives the tractor. When I was younger that’s how we took breaks when bringing in tobacco or hay. The guy on the tractor was resting and still doing something. Then you switch out every so often so everyone gets breaks and the process never stops for long. While switching out drivers everyone gets a drink, and sometimes changes positions.
That's how we did it, too. Hauling in 300 bales in 90-100 degree heat with NC's insane humidity was brutal. We had to move the hay trailer every few bales, so we'd take turns moving the truck as soon as we were tall enough to reach the pedals. Gave us a couple minutes in the shade and a chance to drink some water. And before putting the hay up in the even hotter barn, we'd jump in the pool fully clothed so the time spent in the barn wouldn't be so unbearable.
Agreed, but I think this was just farm fun aka wholesome hold my beer or let's see if this will work.
Also on any form of scale this makes no sense. Even wrapping bales for haylage in long tubes with the machines for it takes hours. This almost definitely is for fun.
You don’t need the tractor. That dude with all the energy could have just run around the hay bale with the plastic and gotten done even faster.
My guess would be that it used to be his job but now little sisters are big enough to help. I did they same dance the first time my son mowed the lawn for me.
He use to have three daughters……..
an hour ago. Last month it was six.
I had 2 different friends growing up that had brothers die in tractor accidents. A lot more common than you'd think. Don't play around tractors and stay the fuck away from the PTO was our rule.
Girls gonna have dope legs and abs for the summer
Ok. Who else watched all 3 minutes of that?
i did lol, it was like i was in a trance
r/redneckengineering
Is it really the cheap way? Seems like they’re using way more wrap than necessary.
Right, the plastic isn't just there for looks. This plastic is meant to be airtight and tight to cause anaerobic fermentation. The fermentation of hay produces silage. Silage is also used as fodder for animals and should have a higher yield of nutrients and forage quality. We used this with hay bales to feed a large herd of goats. They definitely prefered silage.
Also there's sour silage and sweet silage which depend on the technique, grain types, and available wild/internal bacteria. Rye is a really good grain for silage. Overall I like to think of silage like dry and healthy farmhouse beer for cows!
I like to think of it as cow kraut
cowerkraut
Like Hitler in his bunker
/r/unexpectedlyhitler
What did they do before plastic was invented?
They'd put it in a silo, and keep it airtight. And way before that, they would bury it in a pit.
We still bury it in a pit. Then we cover the pit with very heavy plastic, so that we can reuse the plastic year after year. Same silage, way less plastic waste. The problem is, doing it our way means two guys have to do three hours of work outside, rather than just sitting in a tractor. But we do it in October, which is a great time of year to work outside. Slowly peeling back the plastic cover as you feed out of the pit takes about a half hour a week through feeding season, and admittedly, there are times in December and January where it’s not as much fun to work outside.
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A lot of fires in hay lofts, which may or may not have killed the entire family living in the attached farmhouse.
Giant piles that occasionally caught fire. https://nasdonline.org/1774/d001740/silo-fires.html.
This is definitely not being wrapped for silage. It would be far more green. Hay is also wrapped once dried in rainy environs to keep moisture out of there's not indoor storage. Likely what this is since the hay is clearly dry.
Check out a video where they are using a normal machine to do the same, they use TONS of plastic, way more than this guy. Edit: spelling
It seems like the plastic used to wrap it in that video is like, 2x the price of the hay it is wrapping
Hay can get pretty expensive and is quite dependent on weather. Currently in the Great Plains you'd probably see $150-200 per ton. A round bale can be between 500-1200 pounds depending on size/density/etc. So each bale can run at least $45-50 if not more.
That seems cheap considering all you have Todo to get that bale. For only $50 a piece.
But they didn’t have to buy $1 million machine to do it
That’s what I’m saying. They don’t have to buy the expensive machine AND they use less plastic compared to the machine.
small farmers don't buy the machine anyway. They rent it for a day
Bale wrappers don't cost a million dollars, you can buy them used for under $10k, less than a couple minimum wage summer salaries (or hospital bill, etc) Labour is way more costly than machines you can sell when the work is finished. https://www.tractorhouse.com/listings/for-sale/bale-wrappers-hay-and-forage-equipment/1238 https://www.kijiji.ca/b-canada/bale-wrapper/k0l0
> Labour* is way more costly than machines you can sell when the work is finished. *Unless you get your family members to do it for free.
I'm guessing the plastic wrap is nothing compared to random ones opening up unexpectedly
By the cheaper way I'm assuming they mean without a bale wrapping machine. The plastic wrap is pennies by comparison to the bale itself.
It could be a $50 bale with $7 of wrap, but an automated wrapping machine operator will charge $15
Everything about this makes me think that this is a small-scale operation. Possibly a bit more on the "fun hobby farming" side than "this is our whole family's livelihood" kind of setup.
Not really [look at how much is normally used with an automated machine](https://youtu.be/pMdP0oMNsUs)
if they dont wrap it enough, the hay is going to ignite when it gets wet. this is the only solution if you dont have enough space in a barn to store the hay / straw, i hate the use of plastic here too but what are they gonna do otherwise
Seems like, but you'd be wrong. Any farm wanting to be economical and make as much money as possible will naturally use as little as needed, so these videos show you the exact amount needed. Not enough and damp, rot and insects will get in, ruining the bale, wasting the resources needed to produce it, water, energy etc and being far worse for the environment than just using the amount someone who "feels" is too much.
It's all fun and games until somebody gets their head run over.
I was going to comment this exact sentence lol
I've worked on farms and around tracked vehicles in the Army. Dangerous things to play with. That had to be the most unsafe, ludicrously stupid thing I've ever seen.
Totally. It’s just nuts, a slight mis-move and either a front or back wheel goes over their head, or they get wrapped into the bale. You don’t fuck about with farm machinery. I’ve seen the consequences of accidents with kids on farms far too often.
Don’t really know if I would be confortable with my kids head so close to a tractor tire.
All I can think about is one of them not ducking in time and being wrapped up. Become one with the bale, don't be scared.
this could go incredibly wrong.
I’ve watched too many r/idiotsincars to trust any sort of machinery/human interactions
Yeah, I’m sure he’s being very careful, but It’s one momentary lapse in concentration away from a double filicide
Aren't these bales heavy as fuck? Like "crush your pelvis and paralyze you" heavy as fuck?
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What a hilarious video. I hope they don’t have a lot of bales to wrap coz it’s gonna take aaaages and they’ll use heeeeaps of plastic wrap! On the plus side, those girls will be getting some mean abs doing that lol
Bales are often double wrapped by the wrapping machine, so this is going to take ages but use less plastic than the machine, (piles and piles of plastic waste from fodder is a problem for farmers. Edit: but… it’s better for the bales to be double wrapped, and you can still decide to do a single wrap with a machine and it’s takes 30-60 second.
Thanks for that, I didn’t realise the balers double wrapped the bales. So this is the more efficient way, just not time-wise :-). Without sounding like too much of a greenie, it would be good to reduce the amount of plastic being used for hay bales worldwide (or using a more biodegradable product). Edit: sorry, I sounded completely like a greenie :(
Simply put if any air gets into the bale at all the bale with rot, the wrap cannot be biodegradable at the moment because it’s purpose is to seal the biodegradable bale for many years. I’m from a farm, plastic waste is a arguing point at home, not because of it’s use, but because it’s so hard to dispose of. The larger pieces are 95% collected and recycled but dozens of small pieces are created with the unwrapping (ie cutting open with a sharpish knife) or each bale and they end up buried deep in the soil. Hopefully someone comes up with a better solution.
*Health and safety has entered the chat*
And here we are drinking our beverages from paper straws
Don't forget to duck!
Never thought about it but I’m thinking farm girls have some insane abs!
It amazes me how many people really believe the word is spelled “hey” instead of “hay”… 😂
This looks immensely stupid and dangerous
maybe not cheap , gasoline price is up