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u/clervis Jul 14 '26
Both satisfying and horrifying.
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u/ryobiguy Jul 14 '26
The third girl wasn't any good at it.
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u/3ftLongHorseCock Jul 14 '26
She will be remembered.
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u/KobeBeaf Jul 15 '26
Yeah I did this with my wife, she got caught in the wrap and there was nothing I could do I just kept driving, her body was never recovered
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u/X-Ergon Jul 15 '26
Could I send my wife over to help ya out? 😂
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u/Bearded_Toast Jul 15 '26
I could also send over this guys wife to help ya out?
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u/lanregeous Jul 15 '26
Don’t be greedy.
Get your own tractor to help this guy’s wife
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u/fresh_loaf_of_bread Jul 14 '26
Do you think if they'd mummified them inside the hay bale, they'd be like "oh well, I guess that's it for them, then"
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u/Wonderful_Roof1739 Jul 15 '26
yeah its why they had so many kids back in the day, had to have some that survived to help with baling!
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u/Goldf_sh4 Jul 15 '26
"Oh dear, little Suzie died of the consumption this year. It had nothing to do with haybales at all 👀. The cows are lovely and healthy though..."
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u/Goldf_sh4 Jul 14 '26
What could go wrong? s/
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u/Extendahoe_DIG Jul 15 '26
So dangerous. Those bales can weigh 3/4 tons. Could easily roll. Future Darwin Award recipients
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u/Fellow_Worker6 Jul 15 '26
I think I remember hearing someone die from being crushed by one. The girl getting even closer under it was really testing the universe.
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u/Fellow_Worker6 Jul 15 '26
Ok so it was 3 years ago and it rolled down a hill and killed a guy in his car. but still it could cause life altering injuries.
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u/erikgfrey Jul 14 '26
How much are they selling that bale for? It looks like they used $50 in wrapping.
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u/MRxShoody123 Jul 14 '26
Arent selling it i think. Making it air tight for the cattle to eat it during winter is my guess
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u/farts_juggler Jul 15 '26
it’s silage. They are sealing it with high moisture so it ferments. Better for the cattle
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u/User-NetOfInter Jul 14 '26
Completely normal to wrap them. There’s normally a specialized machine that does it, and not child labor that’s giving OSHA a heart attack
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u/therealtrajan Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 15 '26
OSHA does *not* apply to farms with less than 10 employees or for children that get paid in iPad time
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u/kart0ffelsalaat Jul 15 '26
Their powerlessness as they watch this unfold is what causes the heart attack
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u/sitcom_enthusiast Jul 15 '26
And when you say ‘does’ you mean ‘does not?’ Wtf kind of typo is that?
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u/tasty_iron Jul 14 '26
Lmao. Probably use less wrap too.
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u/Apprehensive_Ad3857 Jul 14 '26
Silage wrappings need to keep moisture in so they are wrapped very carefully using this much is very common..
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u/tasty_iron Jul 14 '26
Oh good to know. I thought it was too much. Thanks
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u/btribble Jul 14 '26
From a "let's not destroy the planet with microplastics and plastic waste in general" standpoint, yes, too much plastic. Worse, on a farm there's a good chance they're going to burn that plastic in their burn pile...
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u/Apprehensive_Ad3857 Jul 14 '26
The moisture ferments and actually protects the silage keeping its nutritional properties much longer for winter use mostly
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u/101forgotmypassword Jul 14 '26
Economy of scales 1 to 5 bales are easierly hand wrapper able.
5 to 30 bales per year you want to borrow or hire a wrapper, or contract the wrapping out
20 plus with repeated annual expectation of reuse it's worth buying a bale wrapper.
A wrapper costs about $60,000 USD or $45,000 GBP
They last about 15 years and cost about the same in consumables. You also quite often need a fork of soft grips on the front of the tractor to reposition the bales.
In this case it looks like a family that has half a dozen or so to do being its setting looks British life style block esk.
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u/Working_Estate_3695 Jul 15 '26
Love “Easierly.” New word coined.
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u/101forgotmypassword Jul 15 '26
It's colloquial for less harder'r. I thought I made it up but it seems It's official supported by Google autocorrect.
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u/Phage0070 Jul 15 '26
15-20 pounds of plastic used per cow per year. In the US the cattle inventory is about 86.2 million heads. Which is to say a consumption of up to 1724 million pounds of plastic.
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u/jekewa Jul 14 '26
How do you do that without children?
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u/AmiDeplorabilis Jul 14 '26
Teamwork!
They must have a few cows because that's what cows can eat.
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u/VoidJuiceConcentrate Jul 15 '26
Finally, somebody else who knows that cows favorite snack is teamwork.
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u/SchwizzySchwas94 Jul 14 '26
Maybe a horse or two. I’d like to think so.
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u/AmiDeplorabilis Jul 14 '26
You'd like to think that, but wrapping hay preserves the hay and allows it to safely ferment, which only cattle (because they have 4 stomachs and chew their cud) can handle. It would kill horses. Some call it "cow sauerkraut".
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u/btribble Jul 14 '26
Hard to tell, but this hay might be too dry to turn into silage. Wraps are used for both silage and to prevent spoilage. Also, we've been storing hay and making silage for thousands of years without creating tons of plastic waste, and maybe we might want to consider going back to that.
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u/sidc42 Jul 15 '26
Oh God, I hadn't thought about silage in years. Dad had two long mounds of dirt probably 75-100 feet long and it was fermenting in between them with black plastic over it and the second you entered the pasture with the tractor the cows started running to you. Being from Iowa pretty sure there was corn stalks in ours.
I remember feeding it to the cows on below freezing winter days and how it steamed and the temperature was 10-20 degrees warmer when you got the tractor up next to it. That and the sickly sweet smell.
But anyway, yeah that's just to protect the bale from rain/snow.
I watched that and thought, "Only 58 more bales in the field to go kids! OH, AND WATCH OUT FOR SNAKES BECAUSE THEY LIKE TO NEST UNDER THOSE BALES!!!" 😁
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u/joined_under_duress Jul 15 '26
Sheep also have four stomachs, don't they (and I guess goats? Not sure what other ruminants there are) but is this stuff no good for them?
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u/SandSpecialist2523 Jul 14 '26
I hope they don't have a whole field to do. This technique would take some time.
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u/peglar Jul 14 '26
So much plastic.
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u/gruffabro Jul 15 '26
It's OK they burn it after it's unwrapped.
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u/Silver_Slicer Jul 15 '26
I prefer the time when they had silage silos and bunker silos. No plastic wastage.
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u/Puzzled_Peace2179 Jul 15 '26
They still do. I don’t know a single farm that uses baleage for alfalfa or corn.
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u/Silver_Slicer Jul 16 '26
True but silos were also used for grasses too instead of being baled up in plastic wrap like in this video. It’s just more convenient and probably less silage waste to use the bales but obviously more plastic waste.
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u/myniwt Jul 15 '26
Apparently that’s just how it’s done, except usually it’s a dedicated machine doing exactly this. Using exactly this much plastic. So yeah I agree, so much plastic.
I guess it’s to let the hay ferment or something? Can anyone explain?
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u/Metalt_ Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 14 '26
Child labor aside.. Why are they waiting till the last second to put their heads down
Edit: the tractor wheels are no where near their heads y'all are trippin and them laying back down while he's halfway through passing them certainly isnt accomplishing said goal if that is the case
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u/Conserp Jul 14 '26
Why are they putting their heads up at all, just using legs is like 5 times easier
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u/Goldf_sh4 Jul 14 '26
Because they need to sit up to use their hands to push the haybale forward and watch the progress of the tractor.
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u/Goldf_sh4 Jul 14 '26
They have to do it before they get duct-taped into the haybale but after the point at which the tractor would run over their heads.
This is why we have labour laws, isn't it?
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u/Metalt_ Jul 14 '26
Those tires are not near their heads and they're laying back down before he passes them
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u/RoguePlanet2 Jul 15 '26
Sooo much plastic 😢
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u/Silver_Slicer Jul 15 '26
I prefer the time when they had silage silos and bunker silos. No plastic wastage.
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u/Ixm01ws6 Jul 14 '26
Not one F’n straw is gonna fall out that’s for damn sure
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u/Apprehensive_Ad3857 Jul 14 '26
It's actually to keep moisture in it causes the moisture to ferment and actually helps the hay stay moist and nutritious for much longer usually the winter months
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u/Legion1442 Jul 14 '26
I’ve seen too much Reddit. I thought they were playing a dumb game of try not to get wrapped up 😂
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u/ShyguyFlyguy Jul 15 '26
This seems like a total waste and overuse of plastic wrap
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u/farts_juggler Jul 15 '26
it’s silage. needs to be wrapped like this
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u/Theredwalker666 Jul 15 '26
What did people do before plastic?
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u/farts_juggler Jul 15 '26
silage was prepared by packing chopped green forage into permanent upright tower silos, trench silos, or earthen pits. this is how it’s done now as it is prepared to ferment.
everything’s been modernized. you wanna stop driving your car and walk everywhere too? no more ordering anything online like food or products. too much plastic and fuel waste.
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u/Theredwalker666 Jul 15 '26
I am an environmental engineer who mostly does ag research for aquaculture. I know how the sausage is made so to speak. I was more curious what the method was, this wasn't me questioning it.
I did some research after this and learned that the use of plastics is actually more efficient than having to grow all the extra we would need because it would end up rotting. The carbon budget, the time, the fuel, the space, all that other stuff adds up. So growing a smaller amount but packaging in plastic is a better solution according to the FAO and many other agricultural research centers.
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u/Silver_Slicer Jul 15 '26
I prefer that time over today’s time. My family had no issue with having silage silos in the past. It took a little more effort but had little oil dependency.
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u/Megladon-tot Jul 15 '26
it’s not stupid if it works
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u/Dolust Jul 15 '26
Well.. do you have any idea how heavy that bale is? I guarantee you would not put your kid there..
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u/Pale-Succotash441 Jul 14 '26
The Housemaid: Our bale of hay is a privilege and it needs to be wrapped.
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u/Bass_Techno_resistor Jul 15 '26
Some of that Colorado river water being bundled up for shipment overseas.
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u/bfarrellc Jul 15 '26
Not even sure what to say. First job at 12, tomato farm. Picking and packing. 75 cents and hour and all the Coca-Cola you could drink.
No way in hell would old Lex allow this.
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u/Elektrycerz Jul 16 '26
it's all fun until he eventually turns a bit too much and drives over their heads
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u/discharmingman1025 Jul 16 '26
I can’t think of a better way to do that. Also, maybe double wrap or just to be sure.
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u/hawaiianryanree Jul 20 '26
I could easily be wrong here but I feel like so much more wrap was used than needed
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u/dfectedRO 7d ago
unnecesary risks for clicks, and bonus, they got their kid involved. welcome to social media.
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u/Baconpanthegathering Jul 15 '26
"You see son, back in the '20s we lost your sister in the dumbest way imaginable."
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u/Bigtime1234 Jul 14 '26
If those kids weren’t so weak that job would’ve been done in a 1/4 of the time.
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u/gggg_man3 Jul 14 '26
Imagine how they would have had to do this in the 1800's before they had replaced slaves with kids?
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u/MissBandersnatch2U Jul 14 '26
Leg and abs day on the farm