Hay baling 2024 

Well your video made it to the manufacturer family of that One Wheeler. The old one you have was made in the early 70's. Everett Rankins designed and built about 300 of them. The Keith was Keith manufacturing from OR that helped build the first several. Amazingly my Dad just passed away last month at 96 and still lived alone and was still welding up his feeder bar kit and knotter latch kit for the 500 series baler about a year ago! He designed or helped design over 15 patents in hay equipment since the 1950s.

That baler will work a lot better and make better bales if the hay is raked right.

Must have been such a sweet sorrow when the jerking plunger progress went away on the change to round bales... all smooth action in one rolling direction except for the round bale ejection.... I helped with small square bale collection off paddocks in the 1960's, 1970's and 1980's. hot summer days, sweat and dust... and ice cold drinks with a huge farm lunch....

I guess they still make balers with engines on them. My grandpa and dad bought the first NH self tying baler around these parts. Pulled it with a 9n ford. It was back in the early 50’s. Soon after Dad bought a 881 ford diesel and pto drive NH baler. I think it was a 68 hay liner. Like to this reminds me of growing up.

Amazing Video and Balers Greetings from Germany

As old as that kit is, it still manages to get the job done and doing it well too. Interesting design, that three wheeler job.

I baled a lot of alfalfa and wild hay on our Montana cattle ranch, back in the 1960s, 70s and early 80s, first with a JD 216T and NH 280, and later with a NH 285, all tractor-pulled. We later acquired a used NH 1282 and a used NH 1283, both self-propelled. The 1282 was a pleasure to operate, but the 1283 ran at a higher plunger speed and had all types of problems! Interesting video. Thanks for sharing!

Failure: that is really slick Self propelled unit. Great video…

Sorry. Just getting here. Now i got to see the entire process! Never before in my life! Thanks for doing these videos. Buzz

Actually the patent for the one wheeler was from the father Everett Rankins who just passed away about 3 weeks ago. Keith Rankins was the son. They had a custom hay service in southern end of San Joaquin County and for years his shop was on Union Island out on Tracy Blvd, then in the late 90’s he got his own place where Mountain House development is now. Rankins also built a better cross feed system for new Holland balers that you see, built a quick release kit for the knotters as well. They also had their own self propelled hay rakes as well with the one wheeler, I believe they had 6 of them. They probably had 20 balers in their custom fleet, another local south delta custom bailer was Kenny Joseph that had about 15 balers all set up by Rankins. Everett Rankins also patented his own automatic bale wagon that was more complex than what Gordon Grey had on his unit, but had each layer 90 degrees from the previous layer, New Holland bought out Gordon Grey and the rest is history. The first squeeze was also produced by Everett and Cardoza

Brings back memories of my dads old NH290 baler. I also noticed the broken bale…Between the needles and knotters that was a source of many cuss words!

Morning that is so cool I’ve never seen balers like that we don’t have anything like that around me. I like new holland makes the best balers.

You must of had one heck of a rain after it was cut to be so bleached out. Too bad. It still takes the same amount of work. Thanks for sharing how other hay growers do it.

I enjoyed this video. Many boys I grew up with would bale hay in the summer for extra money. I haven't seen a field that big.

Never seen one of those balers. Would be sweet to have one

I have never seen a one wheel,Cool

Dude, 50K views, You Go Girl!!! 😂😅😊

How many cuttings do you get in a year?

Very interesting. Couple questions. What is the engine used on the Ford pulled baler? Where is this at?

Looks like the mower needed an adjustment...whether man or machine?😁😁

With the mixed bales, why didn't they just do a short bale to empty it out?

Will you pin that comment from Keith Rankin....?

Morning that is so cool I’ve never seen balers like that we don’t have anything like that around me. I like new holland makes the best balers.

Morning that is so cool I’ve never seen balers like that we don’t have anything like that around me. I like new holland makes the best balers.