Looks like your set for winter. Ain't that a great feeling. Your equipment held up real good. I bet that barn smelled like heaven the next morning. Good work!
Nice! I love to see old equipment working good. I use a little old Massey Ferguson 35 Deluxe with a New Holland 273 Hayliner with kicker and a wagon. Some would say that's not enough power... but she works and sure gets the job done. I was a bit on edge watching that one section where it looked like your ground speed was too fast for the heavy windrow. Whew!
Koda, my 10 year old son, was watching this with me. He was fascinated about how it worked. Then he realized it came out the back. It just made him laugh so much! Thanks for your videos!
I started pulling the 66 with a Massey 235 with 2 stage clutch, man it sure is easier then clutching that Ford and putting in neutral to let the baler catch up
Those old New Holland bailers work great , did many a bail with one when we had horses . Yes on the tools !, never had call for a metal detector but great idea to find parts that might fall off. Good on not making the bails too heavy or tight , less chance off a hot bale starting a fire . And yes it's always the hottest time when doing that and I itch just thinking about it !! And try bees wax instead of grease on the tieing mechanism.
Baled and loaded many a bale with a NH Model 66 that was powered by a V-4 Air-cooled Wisconsin motor instead of PTO. It was a great machine and could really push out the bales.. Pop liked ‘em heavy and cranked the tension down so they were about 40-50 pounds or more. We pulled the baler and wagon with a Stylized ‘38 JD Model A that cast steel wheels and was rubber tires. Remember those tires well, they were all Firestone brand! Also when you were discussing the knotters, you show the star-wheel... you adjust the bale length by removing the screws and nuts and repositioning the “fingers.” Making them longer increases the star-wheel diameter and makes longer and heavier bales. Ours bales were sized to fit two length wise on each side and one perpendicular in the center giving you a 5 bale tier. That was the first tier. We then alternated the long bale from side to side, with two bales width wise. This stacking tied the load together... usual load was stacked 5 tiers high this way and then two bales centered on top lengthwise.. Pop Drove. I loaded. I rarely used a bale hook. Thanks for bringing back some fond childhood memories... Ed Belledin
Fluty Lick Homestead Yes, had many hours in the seat of that old JD.... wish it was still ours, too , but Pop traded it in on a new 4010... Sure do understand light bales; I had no choice; Pop said he’d rather handle 50 heavy bales than 100 light ones. Being a kid, I had little input, lol. By the time I was in my early teens, it didn’t much matter; lol.
DAng, I remember that baler. My bro put dad onto it and he bought it. The wheel bearings were shot, and I got caught by that wad board without the shield, same as yours a couple times. Dang thing would not miss a bale on the L side, and not tie one on the right. I had to walk beside it and tie the bales on the R side. I hated that thing.
Haha I feel ya! This one is the same way, left side I don’t think has missed a knot in the last thousand bales but the right side acts up all the time! Fixin to tear into it and try to fix it. It’s a tough old machine all in all though
I live in Tn. we got plenty of them copperheads to, if you leave the bales over night you better watch picking up next day copperheads will get under them bales at night to stay warm ask me how i know.
Loading square bales of hay and unloading in the barn sure will wear a man out most people don't realize how hard of work it is. that was good looking tight bales of hay also
How long do you wait between cutting and baling? Do you check your hay for moisture level before you bale it? Just wondering because I helped a gentleman bale hay for years, and knowing when the hay was either too moist or too dry was always a challenge.
Milk and Honey Homestead usually I mow one day about lunch time, then I’ll Tedd it the next day and sometimes if it’s thick Tedd again the next then rake and bale. I usually take it in my hand and twist it if it sounds crispy I bale. My old baler won’t bale it if it’s damp at all. So usually takes me 3 days. Thin hay could do in 2 if weather is right
Mark Mortensen we keep it all, my grandpa has 1 horse and I have 1 horse we keep in the same barn. Hope to get a cow this spring so I’ll have to keep more
Hey buddy, first time ive seen your channel, looks like i got some catchin up to do. I live in southwest virginia i knew right off you was an Appalachian American as well. Yall got some right nice hay fields. Hey i say a good snake is a dead one especially round the house with the youngins. God bless brother i subscribed and ill share your channel with some of the other homestead channels i watch.
Mighty fine video on the ways a hay baler can work, and as you said not work with the small breakdown. Jared, you are so right on having a way to carry every type of tool and a magnet to find baler parts. A question on the round balers , have you given thought on upgrades, or just not enough hay to bale at this point in time? God Bless all the Homestead.
We’ve talked about buying a belt driven sickle and would consider a new baler but long as these are working for now they will do! We don’t bale to much, a piece at a time we will upgrade eventually
My son has one that is a reasonably late model. ( I am not smart on this) ; I think his sickle moves normal, but there is another part which moves back and forth under it. I think it is belt drive ?
Wow, what a nice little operation you have going there! And a beautiful area as well. It amazes me with all of the haying videos I've watched in the last 2 years, the ones I don't see like this one, until they just randomly pop up. Glad this one did as this is identical to what I'm trying to accomplish. I already had a Massey Ferguson 50 tractor on our farm in rural NY on the Pa border. I picked up a decent NH 68 Hayliner baler last year, and a Ferguson DE-20 rake this year. Working on an old IH 100 balanced head sickle mower that I pulled out of the weeds. Just finished brush hogging the field that I want to hay this summer if I can get ready in time. Like you, I only need about 200 bales to feed my 2 horses for the winter. May I ask what you use to cut and rake with? I'll definitely check out your channel. Thanks for posting and please keep them coming!
Howdy, sounds like you got a good line of equipment! I use a Ford 501 sickle mower and my rake is an old international 35, I’ve got some other hay videos with them in it. They all are old but pretty easy to work on and dependable
Summer of 2017 and 18, I paid $3.00 a regular square bale off of the field, and he was asking $4.00 after he had it in the barn. I'm in rural upstate NY on the Pa border.
Amanda Patton we buy jugs of water to drink, make coffee, cann and cook. For washing and bathing we use the city water. And animals get water from a spring
Ya'll should have thrown those broken bales over in the windrow. Then you would have made your 200. It will easily turn it into a regular slightly heavy bale.
