Baling hay in 2008 with a John Deere 630 tractor and 336 baler. At the time the video was taken, the tractor was 50 years old, the baler 34 years old, and the thrower attachment and wagon 20 years old.
That is awesome. The guy who invented that baler is a genius. It allows one man to drive a tractor and collect the bales of hay at the same time. These small tractors and the implements that go with them all seemed to be designed with the one-man operation in mind.
Nothing better than cruising around the field on a beautiful summer day. Been a long time since mah behind graced the metal seatpan of a classic tractor.
Sounds good, I've put a lot away with a 730 diesel and 336 with kicker. Fun to run and good on fuel. I'd use about 1/4 the fuel with the 730 that I'd use with the fuel sucking 4020. I hope she keeps going
How can anyone "dislike" this video? Maybe 'cause it's not long enough? The only way that this video could be "improved" would be a 730 with a side-mounted 7' sickle bar mower pulling the same rig! But, it's great the way it is!
wow...thats a nice deere. we got a 70 i restored a couple years ago. we bale hay with a ford 6700 and a 14T baler. do about 2000 a year. no kicker though so we gotta pick them all up off the ground....
We have a 336 baler with a pan kicker too and it is the best baler campaired to any other the bales are nice and clean and neat I had to replace a bill hook this year the first work that has been done on the notters sence it was new and we put in from 8,000 to 10,000 and a few years more , and our baler is about 35 to 40 years old my grandfather had a t14 with a kicker befor the 336 we run ours now with a 856 we need big iron beacuse of the hills not fun when you cant make it up the hill
Youe baler is working pretty good... I'd a had a couple of loose ones by now!!!lol Either not tied properly or a banana bale that would probably explode when the kicker went(we didn't have that of coarse) but I can just imagine!!!!lol
@echovector We never had the kicker, I rode a Stooker behind the baler....15 bales in a triangle stook.... sometimes when you pulled the trip to let it off the stooker and it would upset!!! Then after we had a fork on the tractor we could pick up the stook with and take it to the stack where we hand piled them!!!
If my "I used to be a dairy farmer from NE Pennsylvania" eyes don't decieve me, that sir looks like a "Meyer" body on a gehl chassis. But then, I'm old and stupid and to me the "cyclone head" on your john deere "A" sounds like music.....(even though they called it a "630".
Well, I guess this sure beats standing on a skid or a hayrack stacking them like I did in the 50's and 60's. Saves manpower. But I guess you still have to stack 'em by hand?
John deere sells the needles. As for why they broke, could be multiple reasons. Our baler broke it's needle because the pin that connects the plunger head to the connecting arm moved out, and so when the knotters tied(with the plunger in the full compress position), the pin would hit the needle, snapping it like a twig.
Well, he puts about 8000 bales of hay and straw in the barn every year. So, in the 21 seasons that the thrower has been on the baler, it's somewhere between 160,000 and 170,000 bales that the 336 and 630 have put in the barn. The baler was used without the thrower for 15 seasons before that for an additional 120,000 bales or so.
Would you have a video on her on how to put the needles back on a JD 336 baler? Or know where I could find one??? Not sure why they got broke, but we broke the old set then when we put the new set on we also broke them... any help appreciated.
There's a 14t and a 14ws, the latter being wire ties. JD had 14t's and 24t's which were very popular. JD also had 214t's which were heavier built models. I think they also had a 224t model? All could have twine or wire ties, and a Wisconsin motor power or PTO power drive.
My 336 will explode bales if you run it above 7 , I can put two wagons together behind mine and still go over the back wagon if the bale holds together its always been that way ,and I run a bit more hp in front of mine and it still pushes my around a bit on some of the steeper spots on my farm
I remember that exact combo on granma's farm in VT 25 years ago. On a good day I got to ride in the wagon and stack......bad days I had to chase the over-throws.......on REALLY bad days the kicker would break and I'd hafta toss em ALL..........LOL!
@iloveduchess i think that is the best way my friend has something that runs on pto and it is pulled with a tractor it is like a hay baler it picks up square bales and stacks them it cost aroud 7-8 thousand dollars
grew up with a jd 14t behind a 3010 diesel, anybody know what years the 14t were built? I'm betting that baler was 20 yrs old when I was born (77), and it still puts up 10,000 a year with barely a lost knot.
Sounds like your baler is out of time or there is some thing in the chamber that they hit , never broke one yet on mine its about 40 years old I thing ?
wow that is cool, how many bales does the wagon hold and do you have much trouble with broken or banana bales? I have spent a lot of time with a international harvester B47 baler, picked up 1000s of these things and am always the guy stacking in the top of the barn in the heat and dust :)
Fine JD 630 & 336! How may bales did you put in the barn with the 630/336? First time I have ever set eye on a bale thrower attachment. Hope All Is Well, John
them tractors will turn on a dime lol and get stuck like chuck in a little mud puddle...you should get back there and hold onto one of those square bales and see how far it will shoot a person lol
BTW, if you even compare a NH baler to a Deere, you must not farm much. Deere will NEVER miss a knot. NH, good luck with those. Stupid knotter, stupid belt thrower....junk. Deere costs more for a reason. However, a NH 56 rake is the nutz, deere loses in that department..
