thats a great sound when a old tractor is under load going through trees you can hear it pinging of the trees back at you. thanks wes that brought back some memories....
JD Two cylinder music / banjo. Nostalgic of hard work baling hay and stacking in the haymow on grandfather and Dad's farms in the 50-60's. Dad always said the Good Ol Days are NOW!
great video Wes I have did all what you guys are doing with the little bales when I was growing up. Nothing like listening to poppin Johnny up close and personal. Thanks for posting.
Imagine a hay day like this on my friend farmer farm;we had 6 wagons and i was carrying the last full wagon when outta nowhere a thunderstorm was approaching;15 minutes later using only a Farmall H all 6 laods were in the shed and it started raining!The cold beer my friend brought me was really good!!! ;)
that brings back lots of good childhood memories. I always liked the smell of fresh baled hay. looks like the guy on the wagon was making you work at one point
Ahhhh...being in the top loft of a barn in the midst of summer. Can't say enough about the 110+ degree temps, bees, wasps, hornets, birds, critters, and the fact I'm allergic to being around hay. My body may have disliked the idea of stacking hay, but my heart loved every second of it. Also had great friends to be with up there and we made it fun... oops, I meant dys"FUN"ctional. ;-)
Just looking at your video of them it makes me have blisters on my hands again and the thistle pricks in the hay, at least you have an elevator I guess so not the worst lol
Have you ever bailed any with snakes in them...Thank God for leather gloves and hay hooks... Don't remember exactly how many I've grabbed that had a snake in them...Not fun...
lets see a ressurection of the tr 96, bet it hasnt been started since it was last used lol. you should sell it and use the money to fix the dozer and other projects you have.
what happened to the stacker on the wagon. we always stacked the bails so we could load it till the axles. broke. not really but we did break a few axles in chug holes. with a full wagon of course.
You're becoming famous Wes, I see Messicks have put up a Y/T video about you! 'Krone Big Pack 1290 Baling in the Field | Messicks & Onelonleyfarmer' ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KS0rVF73DcY.html
Ahhhh road gear. Can't you just see the clutch facing wearing away? I have an antique JD bale wagon. (They don't use them out here any more.) It has cable actuated mechanical brakes. Pretty cool set-up. It may or may not be a collection of episodes some day.
Big spread between road gear and the next lower gear. Full load of hay on the wagon and you want to go down the road. You can't start in 3rd and shift up, ( or 4th to 5th, I don't know my "Poppers") so you just start in road gear and keep riding the clutch until the engine can handle it!
We use to put a new clutch in our 1948 John Deere A every 5 years from pulling bale wagons and chopper boxes Jeff may not know 2 bangers but he knows clutches
Video idea. Take the bale chucker off the baler, make a sled, you've plenty of lumber and show people how it used to be done. Lot of work for a few minutes video, but I'm sure a lot of the younger people would like to see how hard it used to be.....just a thought.
Brought back a lot of memories, just to put up 35/45000 bales every year, The further away we were from home the bales got heavier and were hand stacked in the wagon, then 3 wagons hooked together and dragged home buy a 3/4 ton Chevy, no problem pulling them, stopping was a different ball game, sure was glad when we switched to haulage. Silos were quite pricy, Had 3 30X80 Harveststores.
Hi Wes, I have a suggestion for you regarding the baler: Use a camera and monitor so you can monitor the baler without having to twist your neck every few minutes to check it. You could probably use an aftermarket vehicle backup camera, but that might be a bit small. Alternative is to just by an appropriate sized monitor and camera that you can mount on the back of the tractor. Thanks for sharing these videos.
this is exactly how we stacked hay in the barn back in the 50's when I was doing it. Yes, plenty hot and humid but when you are young no big deal.Loved this back in time farming.
The sound of that 30 jd reminds me of a steam engine at low rpm... Sounds like the deutz d20 that my former boss owned and i think its a great little tractor, made like they don't make them anymore. Thanks a bunch for the vid. I assume these bales will be used for horses or cows?
Isn't backing the trailers with the Skidsteer kinda cheating. I remember using the 1948 B for that. BTY dad did not buy a bailer till I left home. We always handled the hay loose. There was no good place to be. In the barn was hot and dusty and on the trailer was covered with dust and hay.
You all have a tough job moving that hay to that large barn and getting it up there and layered properly. I know everyone was tired and that old tractor sounds like it was on it's last leg as it pulled that trailer to the barn. I still remember picking up square bales years ago and riding to the barn and having to throw them in the barn where someone else stacked them. We didn't have a system of getting the hay in the large barns other than by hand. The lower you got in the trucks, the harder it got to get that hay up there.
God, You Just brought back the memories of my childhood. We used to put up a thousand to twelve hundred a day . felt like someone kicked your nuts in. Miss them days.
hay you dam picker get to pickin again will ya . claw pickin that is , oh the sounds of summer picken and clicken farmers picken banjo and the deere clicken in the fields god I miss the country side of life
I was wondering if you could do and update/story on the 4010? Older tractors from that era are some of my favorite no matter color and thanks for the great videos
Damn. I was missing my friends farm. Then you small bale. Miss those days baling and eating and drinking. Such fun and was so satisfying after a week of baling 2nd and 3rd crop in August Weather in Wisconsin.
That brought back some great memories. stacking bales, we used to stack them on to a flat bed trailers in the field and then stacking them again in the barn. I do miss them days.
