I love watching these old farming equipment documentaries...farming equipment back then seemed much more reliable...without all the bells, whistles or sensors to break down.
Very cool video. I like all this old equipment. That Allis Chalmers B is nice and so is the Oliver. I think it was a model 70. The John Deere towards the end is a High Crop model. Those are highly collectible
Those old tractors handling two rows was a big deal. My dad use to harvest corn silage with a 40hp Ford, maybe a 3000. Said the whole tractor would shake.
It's a great film - but bailing is what you do when your boat is sinking - or when you are threatened with jail! Packing straw into smaller packages is called BALING and it's done with a baler. Please put it right, you are leading the youngsters astray!!
Hi Greg, this is a New Holland promo film about the Model 800 forage harvester (their heavy duty model), year ~1958+ and the ensilage carrier attachment that could be fitted on their manure spreader. It was pretty innovative for the time - New Holland had the most advanced R&D department of all the big agricultural manufacturers but they were not building tractors back then. Ciao, L (FoMoCo engineering).
Hi Greg, NH made an incredible number of prototypes and unusual products especially when they came under the Sperry Corporation (1947~1986). Back then, engineering and manufacturing was relatively cheap compared to modern times - that is when NH really took off ahead (innovation-wise) of much larger established companies. We had a lot more farmers back then that used smaller machinery, this provided the ag-manufacturers with a large market with plenty of room for improvements. I wanted to be one of their engineers while in college - but unfortunately times/agriculture changed. Ciao, L
@@lancelot1953 It is always fun to think up new agricultural machines. The current machine that I think could revolutionize agriculture is 360 Rain autonomous irrigation. It only irrigates the rows, and can do the entire field on far less water.
I don't like the idea of using the shit spreader as a silage wagon. You're contaminating the silage with manure, and fecal microbes. Can't imagine that did much for silage quality or disease prevention. That's what they make chopper boxes for.
Ever heard of washing something out? The silage wagon part would be used once a year, summer into early fall. The rest of the time it would be a manure spreader. Back then cows were put out to pasture so there wasn't manure to haul year round. And then if someone's really concerned with it.. wait for it. You park the tractor and spreader facing up a hill near a water outlet, usually in the barn yard somewhere, pick up a garden hose, and your wash it out. It would be summer time at that point so there won't be anything freezing. In case you couldn't figure that out :)
