A few pics from today’s square baling

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Bring back of lot yester years memories. 👌
 
   / A few pics from today’s square baling
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#24  
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.

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


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Typical 1500 pound bales

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Setting up to bale another field

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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:
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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.
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   / A few pics from today’s square baling
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I saw the Ford pickup in the one picture with the Ford tractor….
Terrific pictures, btw
 
   / A few pics from today’s square baling #27  
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!
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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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   / A few pics from today’s square baling #28  
   / A few pics from today’s square baling
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   / A few pics from today’s square baling
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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?
 

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