JT that is a old hay rake. My grandfather had one still down at the place too, pulled it up in front of the barn along with the covered wagon that the cover has left, but yeah that’s what that is.
My Dad drove a super duty Ford like that for our DOT, it was a plow truck,1969 with a 391 5 speed with a ruxle.I,am sure this back alot of fond memories for ya.
Looks to be a steel wheel trip rake hay rake. The one we had when I was a kid had a seat to ride on and hit the trip with your foot. Others had a rope that went from the trip lever up to the tractor so the driver could pull it to trip it. I was told the ones with the seat were old horse drawn rakes. Hay work is MUCH easier today.
Another great crop tour video JT. That Ford does need your attention. Was that a JD 494A planter? We used one on our farm my whole childhood. And that last implement looked like an old dump rake. Thanks again
We have the same kind of ground here around Saranac/Clarksville area. Clay knobs and flats sitting on very coarse sand. I know what you’re talking about in the same field and different results. Thanks for sharing, great video!
2nd thing by the abandoned planter is a dump rake for raking hay into windrows. Hay was then put up in loose stacks, instead of baling it. It's what we used on the farm when I was a kid. Baler didn't come around until I left home at 18.
That is a dump rake. As a kid i rode one half the summer . You hold the pedal down until you got in line with the windrow than stomp on the trip pedal. Man if you missed my brother would yell like a mad man . 😂😂😂
The old rake is an old horse drawn sulky rake from the time frame before hay was baled. It had a trip gear that raised the tines and dumped the hay leaving a pile to be forked onto a wagon and hauled to the mow in the barn. Still see a couple in the fields around here but more of them as yard ornaments.
Best way our family farm dealed with weeds like that, is to lay it under the cultivator for about 3-4 weeks after harvest, and let the weeds just grow up a little bit again, hit it with cultivator, let it lay for a couple of weeks again and then plough it under and after that plant winter wheat, it sure kills off a lot of weeds, and then do it again next fall but then plough it and let it rest over winter and seed whatever you want, for example corn is as you said a wise choice
Old buck rake. More than likely it was originally drawn by horses or mules. I just parted out my grandfathers old buck rake that had been on the place for 75 years.
That unknown is called a dump rack, it’s pulled cross ways across the field to create windrows. You travel some distance gathering hay then dump the hay forming windrows. It sounds redundant
😁Some rotten wood chips and manure in a spredder can fix that sandy ground. NOW is the time to apply after you combine. You could use that old horse drawn hay rake for yard art. good looking beans. thanks
That one is a rake. Alot of people use them for lawn ornaments or the Amish still use them. On that field with your problems have you actually tried to plow the field to turn them weeds under. We went through the same thing until we plowed it under then went back to normal weed control and what a difference it made the next year.
10:02 You wouldn't necessarily need air pressure to release the brakes. Cage them instead. It's a mechanical lockout mechanism that frees the brakes in the absence of air pressure, locking the brake shoes out of contact with the drums. Usually there's just a bolt you tighten on an axle-mounted canister near each individual brake. Used for towing air-braked vehicles that have damage to the air system.
I'm not too interested in the Ford dump truck, but in that ground. Maybe it is the same as the back part of that soybean field. I think with a big tank of liquid ammonia and corn that ground would amaze me in productivity. Tis an old old hay rake. Maybe even horse drawn like one of those seated cycle bars.
Cool. Get that old Super Duty running. Will it start ... 😅 So question. Why don't you'll take the top lift bar loose when mowing? Let the lower arms control front height and the rear dolly wheel do the back - so it will terrain follow ... Out here with rolling ground if you run it rigid you will get all sorts of odd weed heights 🙃
That old ford should have a 391 in it. You can still find engines/parts for them. Tough old engines, even though they have a really stupid intake manifold design.
A good frost would help alot in those bean fields. JT do you plant any weat? The old Ford truck in the weeds looks pretty good for sitting that many years. The red paint is still on it. I'd say the paints better than the truck. JT all those weeds? Why aren't you farming that ground?
nice video. Interesting truck restore possibilities, especially if that county truck has a 427 in it, would love to see that one made useful again, even the dumper. Why do they call MF tractors the Canadian International?
@@brentbell9543 i dont know much about tractors of any brand but am more familiar with IH. I was just wondering if the were a rebranded for Canida IH because they are very similar
Enjoy your day and I would have backed the brush hog in along side the trucks just for curiosity to see what the other truck looked like and do you sharpen the blades on the brush hog I did mine a couple years ago and it don’t look any different then it does now
Jt is that 165 a perkins gas? The 180 i had was a perkins gas it multi power and a independent pto. I had to have the pto rebuilt took it to the massey dealer north of vassar all the clutches were shot in it.
JT I think you just need to sell all that old equipment including the trucks for scrap. Looks like the tractor needs front tires. Could you put some winter wheat in that first field? I'd like to see you start doing hay.
Enjoyed that video.. Like i.ve said, we farmed 650 acres and grew a lot of soy beans. So it brings back memories. Good ones. Mostly corn for silages and hay. Course it took quite a bit . We milked 150 cows. Thanks for letting me ride along.
I bushog with a 175 Massey and a 6 ft woods for a very dear lady that I can call Mom. She has an 8 acre horse farm with no horses. So I cut the pastures 3 times a yr for her.
