Video of haymaking in Co Cavan

Lovely video and the definition of good neighbours is there to be seen.

On a side note, 35 years ago we had a Massey Ferguson 20 baler identical to that one. They were not a fast baler but made good even bales.

For a while in the early 90's those Massey balers were cannabilised for their packer drive gearbox's.

They were ideal seemingly if you wanted to make a bench saw.

Isn't he going wrong way round with haybob? 😁

Yes he is, on both turning and rowing.

He's essentially gone round in circles rowing. A baler man's nightmare 🤣

2 bits of gear in that video i have and still use. The dexter and the gemini hay turner. Both great pieces of machinery

I doubt it. Todays "vintage" machinery is all simple stuff that anyone with a modest mechanical skill could maintain and fix. Most things can be fixed with a socket set, a hammer and a vice grip.

Current machinery that will be vintage in 40-50 years is all too complex and large to be maintained by the retired oul lads of the future. In particular, everything is electronically controlled now - once that breaks down, the machine is a brick and the best you could do with it is as a static exhibit. In the future there won't be the parts or specialist equipment or skills there to service the likes of Big Ms and Fendt Varios - once they have finished their useful life, there is not really much else for them only the knackers yard.

and the bottle of tae in a sock.

Been so long ago as I can't recall correctly, but I thought rowing went clockwise, same as baling.

Haybobs require you to go anti-clockwise , otherwise they throw a "long corner" that gets impossible to follow.

But small square baling requires you go clockwise.

Yer man was going clockwise nice and slowly, and making a decent job of clearing the ground.

Ideally you'd start in the middle and work your way out to the edges, anti-clockwise (as the machine is designed to do) so that you could follow the row all the way into the center with the baler, and not be always crossing rows.

Where are the videos of the “hay” being “made” in 85 and 86?????? None of this hay been saved in ideal conditions and lads drinking bottles of heino in the field. Where’s the misery in that??

I'd take the bales any day over pulling ragworth and especially picking stones!

My father made us pick 14 acres polluted with ragworth (yellow with it like a field of oilseed rape) 3 years in row until it became manageable...

Spent months on and off picking stones out of 5 acres of reclaimed land, it was like the glacier had just retreated and left ungraded gravel behind..

The bales were only a mild purgatory compared to the two hells above

I also remember being driven to tears helping out on the bog one even when the midges took a particularly liking to me and attempted to eat me alive.

I suppose most of us concentrated on the video and didn't really listen to the song. I've watched it a few times listening to the song and it gets better each time. Can you post a link to the lyrics.

As an aside I love the clip of Joxster spitting on his hands before grabbing the steering wheel - what a driver 😀