Back 30 years ago I worked on a small farm in Alabama with donated machinery. The rake didn’t work on the bailer so we were running behind it with pitchforks shoveling g the hay in.
Thanks! The IH-47 is a good, reliable square baler when properly adjusted and with good twine. I realize that controlling the ground speed while baling with a small baler, either round or square, is an art... Watch the feed on the baler and slow down the ground speed when the baler starts to bog down because of thick windrows, like when the hay is heavy in the windrow. In the 1960s and 1970s some farmers would buy rather old twine (for a low price point), but it would often not knot properly or would break as the bale kicked out of the back. I'm happy that you lost so few bales! It tells me that you have the IH-47 tuned up "just right". Please continue, sir!
Thanks for sharing! Couldn't say how many thousand bails I've stacked behind an IH bailer, think it was a 27, didn't have the screw feed, but plastic forks, 2 sets if 3 on cables that cycled back and forth where the screw is, and fed directly into chamber. Can remember vividly neighbor sharpening knotter knives and plunger knives. 70's into early 80's, fond memories you brought back👍👍👍🍻😎
Did you mention in one of your videos that you have a roto-baler, that would be cool. When I was a kid in the 60s my folks would take a family vacation in the summer and would almost always head out to the Dakotas, Blackhills and Badlands. I seem to remember seeing a lot of the Allis roto-balers in that area of the country.
KC, thanks for sharing. You have me very jealous here. We’ve got an old 47 that my dad bought when he first started farming and it’s the classic tale guys share with them balers… HATED! Lol. It sits rusting away now, I hope someday to swap out our 24T JD for a 47 and then have the rusting in peace baler become parts. Hope to see more of the 47, and we need to get you some mounting gear for more action shots!
Hi Kyle we had a New Holland same size bailer we used to pull a skeleton type sled behind and trip out the bales in 2 or 3 rows across the field. it made carting the bales much quicker.
We have 2 AC tractors; a WD and a WD45. While not the most ergonomic machines ever built, they do have some features I like. We use the WD for mowing fields with a 5’ brush hog. The hand clutch is nice for when you get in thick stuff and you want to let the mower “chew” a little before moving on. I imagine you did the same when the windrows were thick and you wanted to let the baler catch up. I know other tractors have that feature as well but it seems to work nicely with a hand lever independent of the main clutch pedal. Another good job with your baling. So, what do you do in your spare time? Lol. 🥸👍🌞💦🌱🔧💥✅
if you have a wagon to put behind, you should get the person receive the free hay to stack the wagon, rat least get it off your field (even if it is family) any how thanks for the trip back down memory lane!
The 47 IH bailer is hands down the best square bailer ever produced in my opinion and I have loaded hay behind most of them !!! John deer 🦌 newholland Oliver . Mf . Ford . And the 47 caused the least amount of trouble !!!! We used to run our 47 with 300 IH 400 . 450 . 826 . And a 856 . The 826 run it the best and then the 856 !!!!! 😊😊😊😊😊🌎👍
I've had good luck with it, my only complaint is that I can't make super tight alfalfa bales, but its because the string breaks. The knots hold together well, so I just back down the pressure and it works fine
Back in the day i used to work for a cartage company in University vacation over summer... We had a gang of stackers for this type of hay bale, mostly in haybarns.. the meadow hay was fine.. about 30-40lbs per bale was getting heavy for that... the lucerne.. that's alfalfa to you, was heavy, and we used to hate one particular farmer who always set the baler to make long bales (paid cartage per bale) and we used to get 60+lb bales... hard on the hands.. we never wore gloves... and hard on the body when stacking up the top of the barns....
In my mind the worst thing you could call any uncooperative machine is a hay baler. The knotters alone can cause you to simply lose your mind when getting them adjusted, and then one will snap a hook...
Only 3 so far, 1 at the flywheel and 2 on the forks. One of those was from picking up a piece of old rusty wire fence, it amazes me how things still work their way up out of the dirt
@@kylechrist I remember baling as a teen back on the farm every so often the baler would get a slug of hay and shear a flywheel bolt on a John deere baler we pulled with an Oliver 1655
