Unloading Straw | Wheat Harvest Finished!

Kip, a lot of old Dairymen are reliving our Glory Days through your family …🇺🇸💜

Started working on a farm at age 12. Worked for an old German couple and a dairy farm. AMAZING people. After about a year of feeding and milking and cleaning lots they let me rake hay. I thought I was in heaven. At the end of day we were eating supper (they fed me 5 times a day) and I thanked the farmer for letting me drive the tractor that day. He replied, "This is how it goes: You start collecting the eggs and milking the cows, then you get to feed the cows, then you get to fix fence, then you get to drive the tractors, then you get to pay for the tractors and you wish you were back collecting the eggs an milking the cows" They taught me so much! Never forgot that quote.

Watching Kip scale the elevator into the loft brought back a flood of memories when I was in High School. Straw bales were quite a bit lighter and easier to handle than hay, but sometimes dirtier. I loved operating our WD-45 on the baler which it handled with ease. Summer time was very busy, but very rewarding when the crops were in the bin and the bales in the barn. Be safe out there!

When the neighbors bring lunch, that's true Michigan hospitality.

That's awesome a neighbor bringing lunch. Great work and video.

Kip I sure like the way you do things and you get right in there and do what has to be done and shows that you will not ask your workers to any thing that you will not do. Awesome.

I liked being on the wagon putting the bales on the elevator but was always up in the hay mow stacking. Sometimes just my dad and me so I was glad to let him be on the wagon where there was a little breeze.

We sweep every one of our wagons out, every time, all day. Also with that mow set up we would stay on the wood floor as long as possible, stacking them 5 or so high. We always used gloves and hooks, but had relatives that loved slivers also! Bare hands all year long.

Tim from Canada I remember doing this summers on my grandfathers farm at the end of the day, I would be covered in bumps, because I was allergic to the straw in the hay. Do you know sad it is when you were the only kid out in the field with a snowsuit on bailing hay because you were allergic to the hair in the straw. It would be weeks after bailing straw and hay it would take me just to clear my sinuses out. But I would not give it up for the world because this was the best time… did exactly what you were doing, but only I grew up on a before did not have a tractor we used to buy our hay in our straw from cousins who would deliver and then put it up in the barn. Exactly what you were doing.. but we did not have an elevator. We had to throw it up from the heat, Kurt which was about 25 feet from the ground… after a couple wagons, you got pretty good with your in putting those bells through the door… that was my experience as a kid on my grandfather’s farm

Good vid again kip!!

Spent more hours stacking hay coming off a squeaky Kewanee elevator than I care to mention. Maybe that is why my wife says I can't hear anymore. Thanks for the video

Used to love bailing straw after doing hay , I felt like Superman !

Catherine melted my heart! What a sweetheart.

Kip. Your daughter is adorable. She looks so much like your mom!

What we always used to do and still do sometimes is when you have a lot of loose straw in the wagon we used to go out to a windrow and then kick it off the wagon. That way you can try and rebale it to get as many bales as possible. We do that with hay also. That was back when we used to bale 3000 bales of hay and same with straw. Used to fill the barn all the way to the rafters but have not done that since we quit milking 6 years ago. Now most of the hay gets round baled we still bale some small square hay and straw though nowadays.

Family generations working together stay together !! ❤️🇺🇲 Family is Great

You all are beasts. I always wore leather gloves when I baled hay and straw in the 80s. I started as well on the bottom and worked up. I started when I was 12. When I was 16 I was the only guy in the barn stacking. Nice to have help up there. Keep the awesome videos coming.

So adorable and heart touching at the end! Love the videos!!!

Team work , that's important , congratulations !

Thats the best way for kids to learn start with hard work then easy work for a reward