A few pics from today’s square baling

[Paystar]

Very cool pics everyone!

 

[cqaigy2]

Very cool pics everyone!

For sure.

 

[Thomas]

Bring back of lot yester years memories.

 

[Hay Dude]

Post up more pics!
Here’s some feed hay in one of my many leaky, creaky condemned hay sheds. I swear by plastic pallets to reduce bottom spoilage.

Here we are making some 4x4x8 big squares and some 4x5 round bales in the background

Typical 1500 pound bales

Setting up to bale another field

 

[deserteagle71]

Looks like your dad was a Ford man.

Not really. Whatever it took to get the job done...and that he could afford at the time. Only one Ford - an 861 model that was just super handy around the place - like a more powerful, updated (power steering!) 8N. But in addition to the old Oliver, he drove a Farmall H, David Brown 1200, and a Massey Ferguson 285 (I think).

Raking hay that had been rained on in 1972:

Chopping corn in 1969...my brother was riding shotgun on the chopper because a lot of the corn had been blown down in a storm and he had to clear the throat of the chopper whenever it plugged.

 

[Hay Dude]

I saw the Ford pickup in the one picture with the Ford tractor….
Terrific pictures, btw

 

[deserteagle71]

I saw the Ford pickup in the one picture with the Ford tractor….
Terrific pictures, btw

My Dad LOVED his Ford pickups - but he owned only 3 in his whole life. Kept each one for years.
This is his first. I believe the photo had to be taken about 1951; I'm the little guy in the back shading his eyes. Wish I had that truck today!

This is the "High-boy" you mentioned in your post. Photo taken in 1972; my Mom is up on a platform on the back of the truck picking apples. The tree was so overloaded with apples one of the branches was splitting off the tree - the David Brown is holding up the branch on its bucket.

 

[VroomVroom]

Thought Id share a few lawn mowin…..I mean large square baling pictures with y’all. Share some of yours, ifins you got any!

From the cab of my Case-IH MX-270….sorry about the dirty windows! It was 98* and very sunny.

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In the middle picture you can see my son in the raking tractor.

Do you have to fertilize those fields once in a while?

 

[Hay Dude]

Do you have to fertilize those fields once in a while?

10-4

 

[Hay Dude]

My Dad LOVED his Ford pickups - but he owned only 3 in his whole life. Kept each one for years.
This is his first. I believe the photo had to be taken about 1951; I'm the little guy in the back shading his eyes. Wish I had that truck today!
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This is the "High-boy" you mentioned in your post. Photo taken in 1972; my Mom is up on a platform on the back of the truck picking apples. The tree was so overloaded with apples one of the branches was splitting off the tree - the David Brown is holding up the branch on its bucket.
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Mind me asking where in PA your farm was?

 

[Citydude]

Wow, Desert those are great pics! Thanks for posting.

 

[deserteagle71]

Mind me asking where in PA your farm was?

Northeast corner - just south of the New York State border.

 

[VroomVroom]

10-4

Every couple years?

 

[Hay Dude]

Every couple years?

Yes. Most land owners don’t want intensive farming and most hay buyers don’t want a lot of chemicals

 

[ultrarunner]

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Yep... memories for sure and where my love of tractors began... family dairy farm in the family for generations...

A wonderful experience spending summers with my Grandparents and cousins and a window into another way of life...

That tractor was part of the family and my Grandfather sold timber over several years to raise the money to buy and opted to go hand crank because the electric start was a costly upgrade...

Single Cylinder diesel with a glow plug lit with a match...

Still remember the sound of the motor as it started...

The drive belt was used a lot... moving hay with a blower, buzz saw, pumping the manure pit.. etc.

 

[Hay Dude]

Great picture Ultra. Cant believe there were people that recently making loose (un-baled) hay! Thought that was gone by WWII.
I have access and permission to use a huge barn, but it was designed for loose hay, not bales. Still in excellent shape, but virtually useless to modern hay bales.

 

[ultrarunner]

Great picture Ultra. Cant believe there were people that recently making loose (un-baled) hay! Thought that was gone by WWII.
I have access and permission to use a huge barn, but it was designed for loose hay, not bales. Still in excellent shape, but virtually useless to modern hay bales.

I think 1948 is the year model...

Bringing in the hay was labor intensive later all done by one person and much quicker too...

Some of the equipment was simply adapted to be pulled by the tractor from horse/oxen.

Always remember Grandma in her spotless kitchen baking on her enameled wood stove...

Simple life but healthy and alert into their 90's with plenty of organic fresh food before the word organic existed...

Grandma did everything with her egg money...

 

[Hay Dude]

I can rake and bale 30 tons of hay by myself, IF there’s excellent weather and no break downs.

 

[lman]

We used a McCormick baler and I remember when I was a kid about 10, my dad taught me how to tie a square knot and I sat on the twine storage area as we baled. When a bale did not tie, I would tie the twine while we were moving. That baler had a knotter problem, but we still used it for about 30 years. The picture below was taken in 1954, pulled by an Oliver 77.

 

[Sidney71]

I thought square bailing was a thing of the past. Labor intensive and a great deal of storage needed, plus danger of burning barn to ground if hay is too green. Really good pictures though.