I am only 13 years old and watching this brings me back to the summer. We mow our lawn with a 1954 Super C. We also have four more tractors that I drove all summer doing all sorts of things. It is almost Christmas now and I can’t wait for next summer. Old tractors can last forever because we still use them and I will use them as an adult as well.
Boy for a second I thought you were talking to me when you said you got hay on your butt! But seriously you made a great video from start to finish no details were missed thank you! I also totally agree with the last comment to hear the M running does my soul good to I couldn’t have said it better!! You know the way you calmly handle each part of the equipment from hooking up putting the PTO shaft on emptying the corn bags unloading into the plastic barrel, it was very graceful. I bet if you hired me for one day it would be a gong show it would take me all morning just too back up to the mixer and get it lined up! Anyway God Bless you and yours 👍
as a kid i scooped many loads of ear corn and milo into dads belt driven Montgomery wards hammer mill, powered by the M farmall, when I got dads old farmall regular running again we used it to grind with also. nothing sounds like a farmall under a good load.
Growing up on a pig farm, Saturday was feed grinding day. We had a New Holland grinder and a 585 Case Ih tractor. As I got older this became my job to do every Saturday. Going to the grain bin, loading a gravity wagon with shelled corn, picking protein supplement from the feed store and then grinding/mixing and filling feeders. Thanks for the video.
My father owned a mobile feed grinder that was bolted to a F-700 Ford, started that business back in 1968 of 69 can't remember. He worked it six days a week all day long for the local dairy farmers in western NY( south of Rochester NY). What a lot of memory for me I worked from 5th grade 1968 thru 1982 with him every chance I could, that thing finial gave out after a couple of rebuilds, we were a simple family and you no the only thing I regret is We don't have any pictures or at least I can't fine any like I said we were simple not a lot of things like cameras. I love the feed grinding and your New Holland was one of the best for self starters. Are you using a 1/4 inch screen or smaller, we know those pigs love there feed ground small and good for there body's. Thanks for posting the video.
So nice to see an actual working farm these days! The amount of work that has been put into it clearly shows. Great video !Thank You ! God Bless you and yours !
Spent a lot of time grinding for hogs with an old M, but we used the flywheel and belt. It had the rebuild kit for the bigger engine, but it didn't have the "super" decal. Looking down the engine hood reminded me of the hours spent plowing and disking with it. 20 gallons of gas in the morning, and 20 after lunch. Glad gas was cheap. ;)
be glad that you didn't have an Allis Chalmers D19 Gas. An absolute holy fright. I've been told by people that they would burn through 55 gallon drum of gas in a single day.
New suscriber. I'm almost 80. My granddad had a M. We weren't allowed near it. I ground feed with the Massey Junior. Good to see a hard worker. Eaglegards 🦅...
God Bless you Sir !! You do more work in ONE MORNING than most people do in a week !! I was raised on an 1100 acre Dairy farm in Vt so I have a "clue" what it takes to do your kind of work. It's back breaking but satisfying if your built for it !! Take care and keep up the good work. It IS appreciated when it gets to our table !! I'm retired now so I'm just an old man dreaming of what it takes now !! LOL !! God Bless you and your family Sir !!
"Come and eat, you got hay on your butt." Like your video. Looks like a nice gestation ration with the hay mixed in too. I used to grind a few bales of alfalfa hay in the sow ration too years ago. Makes the feed have a sweeter aroma and adds fiber and protein too. Appreciate your video!! It takes hard everyday work to keep a farm going! Take care, be safe...
I loved this video because I have an M and a New Holland like yours as well. I learned some things from your video because I have not yet used my New Holland to grind feed. This spring will be the time.
That brings back so many memories. My Granddad had a NH 351 mill and ran it with a JD 1530. He took the auger off that loads the hammermill because we had grain bins storing the corn. Every week, we would grind a full tank of feed for his hogs. He ran mostly corn but would sometimes run wheat also if he had a really good wheat crop.
I really like your new Holland grinder. Say in that hay, I'm over 70, and when I was your age I thought I would never stick my feet or hands in a screw conveyor but having seen the result ya'll should have a short forked stick for ya'lls hay grinding. Boy does the m take a hit when the hay hits the grinder. Do the hogs like it plain? We sold our cream so we had skim milk and the hogs went wild over that when added to the grain.
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Thanks for the memories! We had a grinder that was just a bit older than yours. Ours didn't have the auger to feed the hammer mill. When you spun the flywheel to engage it I instantly recognized that sound of the hammers flipping over. 😉 We ground feed every Saturday with a Super 90 Massey.
My Dad had a 1953 Super M, that we rebuilt around 1970, with modified head, intake and carburator, went from a 3 bottom plow to a 4 bottom, at night a pretty blue flame came out the stack.
We had a similar rig back in the 1980's. We ran it with a Super W6. Worked really great. Tried to run it with my Oliver 2050 one time, and wrecked the PTO on that tractor. Who would have thought the PTO on a 120 HP tractor couldn't handle the work a 45 HP tractor did every day? As for the Super designation on the tractor, the farmer explained the previous owner had up this engine with a kit. My dad had done something similar to our Super W6 in the early 1960's by upping the compression ratio and displacement with new sleeves and pistons and by upping the operating RPMs. After that, the tractor pulled more like a 56 HP tractor (4 sixteen inch bottoms) verse the 3 fourteens we had previously pulled.
You can put 450 sleeves and pistons in a Super W-6 with fire crater pistons would give you 56hp. My Super W-6 has standard sleeves and pistons and does good, too.
@@tyfrank3427 When I tore down our W6 engine, those pistons were flat tops. That head had enough space I could fold my fingers over and fill the wells for the valves. Never did try to figure out the compression ratio, but I suspect it was around 8:1.
Pto shaft an gears at the back for feed auger no covers it only takes once and those Hogs aren't going to come to your rescue when you get wrapped up an hurt think about it 🚜👍
What are you telling me I ain't a real farmer because I want my safety shields in place.... you do realize there is only one of me. Are you gonna feed my family and provide for them if I am not willing to protect myself?
Please do something with that PTO shaft, my friend. I can't express how dangerous that thing is. We lost a good friend, because he got caught, he wore bib overhalls, and carried his pocket book in the pocket in the front, it broke the credit cards in his wallet. My Dad was caught in one, but he was lucky, it took his clothes completely off, even his socks. Please do something with that shaft, if only to put a length of plastic tile over it. OK?? Be Careful.
Wow, nice to see man Old Super M Still working with a Belt... those are very hard to come by Majority of people took the belts off and put loaders on them. I think the Super M was made 1952 - 1954 But I see what you mean by the engine rebuilt and designation, Just found your channel and already loving it. !
Nice to see those red tractors getting a workout. I worked for a man that did custom feed grinding before my military days. Used a 706. He was a Vigortone product distributor. Am curious though, you added hay to the feed. Never heard of anybody doing that. Cob corn yes, but not hay. Thanks for the video.
We always call adding the hay "roughage". It increased the volume and was supposed to make the animal digest it better than just the pure starchy corn.
The first Super Ms didn't have live hydraulics. They all had disc brakes which yours doesn't have. They made 3 types of Super M and 3 types of Super W-6 as well.
Todd Caskey I will try and make that happen. I have since built a larger feeder for the bigger hogs that will hold just about a whole grinding and moved the one in the video to the small pig lot.
Great video.I just bought a grinder like yours today. Never used one before so Iam going to do my homework on it before i use it.What HP is your tractor?
That M is probably just under 50 HP by now with age. It pulls it fine, and we have run it with a Ford 8n (because we had to) and with smaller input it did fine.
And nobody mentioned there's no fenders between the driver and rear wheels.. LOL I have PTO shields, and use 'em, but I hate the damn things - miserable to get at the zerks to grease it. I always figure if a person's not smart enough to be aware of and stay away from a spinning shaft (no matter where it's located) then that person should be baking bread. JMVHO.. and YMMV.. Stay safe, all.....
Hi Elllis Farms NC, Great video. Really enjoyed it. So much I have liked it and subscribed to your channel. I like seeing old iron working.I particually like at 4:00 seing you set up the feed grinder. I thought you put the point across well. I was as I was growing up raised on a mixed farm of arable, pigs and beef.Like yourself I like sharing skills and knowledge. i have had apprentices and young people work with me. To share some of my knowledge I have set up my own you tube channel. You should check out. Well many thanks for a great video. Keep the good work up. Look forward to future videos.
Just because it doesnt have live hydraulics doesn't mean it wasnt a super m. There were a couple different levels of super depending on what your needs where if you bought it new such and brake options hydraulic options and so on
That NH portable hammer mill is surely an improvement over our old stationary mill run by a crossed flat belt and Massey Harris 44. We’d grind a mixture of ear corn, wheat, Milo, soy beans and alfalfa for grain feed for the Holstein (mostly) dairy cows. Our ground feed bin was lined in tin and ten by twenty feet so we didn’t have to grind so frequently. Very good video sir. I liked everything about it !! Even the motorcycle sticking its nose out of the lean to as you pulled away. Btw... what is it ?
Tractorman44 Actually there was two in there, a 1300 Kawasaki and a 1200 Goldwing. The Kawasaki has been wrecked and the Honda hasn’t been ridden in several years. Both belong to my dad.
I had to use a Farmall M, to grind feed for dairy cows,when all the other tractors were in use. God I hated that thing. The shock absorber was missing under the seat, which caused the seat to sag down to where the top of the steering wheel was above my eye's. We parked the feedmill in a shed I had to back up hill to get the mill into. I could barely reach the brake peddle and clutch, and had to hold myself up by pulling on the steering wheel. All the while trying to get the mill in it's bay. BTW, get a cover for the PTO before it kills you. Not something you want your wife and kids to find when they have to look for you for supper time.
@@ASPCOT The tractor wasn't mine. I only worked for the guy that owned it. I had asked him several times to fix the seat. I finally refused to use it,and used the JD 60 to grind feed when it wasn't being used for anything else. If nothing else was available I didn't grind feed.
How do you determine how much supplements/minerals to add to your shelled corn when grinding up the chop for your hogs, by the bushel or do you weigh the corn. Also I was kind of surprise when you added a half bale of hay, what is the purpose of this? Back in the day, 50's and 60's we had all of our chop ground at a feed mill, corn, wheat, oats was weighed to determine the amount of supplements added. Enjoyed the video, thanks!
Dan Kinnard Since I was grinding bagged corn I knew how much weight was going in and I add 150lbs of soybean meal for protein. I don’t add a mineral mix because our hogs are on pasture and get what they need from the dirt. I do have my feed tested by the state lab from time to time to make sure the protein content is where I want it.
Put some guards on the shafts and chains/sprockets and don't hand feed the hay. "it could never happen to me" is only true till it does, i know two people who are missing fingers and one who is missing his whole arm.
You can get oversized sleeves and pistons for the M to make it a 264. But you can't put 264 sleeves in a 248. The parent bores are different on a 264. The overbore kit just uses thinner sleeves. The C281 block I believe is the same as the C-264, but with thinner sleeves and bigger pistons.
J.T. Robbins We have a scrape blade that mounts there and has bars that go back to the drawbar on the rear. It doesn’t work very well and came off as soon as we purchased the tractor.
Wil Gabbard Actually two working Bs and one parts tractor. You will definitely see them this spring, one spends the majority of its time planting and the other is a cultivating tractor.
I also have two b's they very good little tractors. One of mine is a 39 hand crank and other a 41 or 2. I'm currently trying to find some equipment for them.
William Christopher No it is not original. I had a guy machine that for me several years ago because I also own a Meadows Mill model 85 stationary hammer mill that I used years ago to grind wood scrap for mulch. I tried grinding with the it but it was aggravating and that was about the same time I came across the 351. I still have the flat belt pulley and have just never put it back on.
The 1952 and 1953 Super M's did not have live hydraulics only the 1954 with the battery under the seat had live hydraulics. Pig feed with hay in it??? You are lucky your hand did not go into the hammer mill hammers. Hey man there is a updated tall black fuel tank cap for that tractor.
You're no fun you didn't show us the super m the startup that large grinder flywheel. I know we did it with the 560 Farmall we basically had an engine drawdown and the clutch made a few noises
Those go to a scrape blade and that is the lifting mechanism. We haven't used it since we bought the tractor but left the mounts on just so we would know where they were. LOL
@@ellisfarmsnc7548 good idea, lol. im trying to plan out my own brackets for a middle mounted ripper on my M but i only have one hydro cylinder like you do. do u have any videos of that scrape blade or have any idea what is called ?
@@ellisfarmsnc7548 cool, thank you i have a loader on my narrow front m, im either gonna add a center mount blade like a grader would have or just make a middle ripper to break up hard ground
Yes please put a shield on that PTO... you have never seen a human body ripped apart on one... it only takes a second for injury and or death to take place over that
glenn s You know why I’ve never seen a human body ripped apart on one? Because I have enough sense not to be near it while it’s running. I’m 45 years old, i grew up with my uncle farming. I’ve been logging since my teenage years and still do. I was in the fire service for over 10 years and I drive a truck. I’ll be fine.
@@ellisfarmsnc7548 well I tell you what... I know to stay away from it too but a second of forgetfulness and its over... had a supervisor of mine forget safe one second next minute he was crippled for the rest of his life... reached into a chopper box and got pulled in... lost use of his right arm and lost his farm and his livelihood in the process over a second of disregarding safety around farm equipment... keep in mind we just concerned about you and weve gone through the farm safety course when we was in high school... safety remains no accident it remains deliberate choices to be safety... dont become a sad statistic...
This ain't no Super M: they wern't made that year and it don't have disc. brakes. hope ya didn't pay for a super m when ya bought it. I've seen a lot of chumps who pay big money for a tractor with the wrong DECALS. CMVHighPriest
I know the tractor is not a Super M, I said that in the video. What they did when it came time to freshen the motor was to put a "super kit" in it which made it the same bore and stroke as the Super M and changed the decal on the side. This was common back in the day and was also done to the H model tractors.
