Making Hay

Had always vaguely wondered how they got from fields of grass to those huge black plastic-wrapped rolls of hay. Well, with a hay field opposite the house, I've now had a chance to see it happen, from the cutting of the grass, to gathering it up into lines along the field - missed the 'rolling' bit unfortunately, but caught the final stage. The video below shows the apparatus picking up its first 'roll':

Once 'on board' the apparatus starts 'wrapping', but stops to pick up a reserve roll on its way back to the stacking area. The second video below shows the tractor dropping off a finished roll, and starting to wrap its 'reserve':

I thought this was just the coolest piece of kit (or maybe I'm just easily impressed!) - mind you, can see why we don't have a large farming workforce anymore, one man with this must be doing the work of ten at least!