Tillers International Small Scale Hay Making Class

http://www.tillersinternational.org/farming/classes_270_smallscalehaymaking.html
Feeding livestock through winters or dry seasons is essential in most regions of the world. Tillers' Small Scale Haymaking students explore tools and techniques to harvest better forage, improve efficiency, and store hay, converting otherwise difficult feed into a product animals will eat and enjoy. Starting with a grass scythe and sled and moving through to a powered forecart and baler, this class is useful for the owner of a small herd of goats, cow dairy, or beef herd.

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• tillers
• international
• education
• small
• scale
• haymaking
• hay
• making
• class
• oxen
• ox
• farming
• appropriate
• technology
• low-tech

[ivankinsman]

Wow - where do those oxen come from - they are huge!

And that's an amazing machine for moving the grass; I've never seen anything like it ... not even here in Poland where the small farmers still use a horse and cart.

[TillersInternational]

These oxen are Milking Shorthorns, which average about 2,000 lbs fully grown at four or more years of age. The machine is a hay loader. Thanks for your comments!

[damijan72]

Great and superinteresting video! Who produces such machines, that you can see at 3:40?

[c33r0k33]

I like the hay mow... I saw that for the first time by a group simply scything. I don't think you can get any smaller scale than scything and using a hay mow. Do you know any groups in the US teaching scything/putting up hay (especially using the European scythe)? By the way I really like your video, well done!

[cancerianodiablo]

the way you guys tie the bullls is wrong ,.there is better ways to do that

[itrancesoul]

randament=0 . the tools are vrey good and interesting, cool clip

[suchandradasi]

It's cute how the boys are eating their "labor" in the back

[seancarm]

nice to see the oxen working, they clip along alot faster than people are lead to believe. Is that a 4'bar on the mower? Put my fjords on a six foot and it was too much for them. Raked hay with them last weekend, that was fun first time for both of us.