Hay! Lets make some hay.

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Hay! Lets make some hay.

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Some of you may remember I was trying to get this baler back into service. I had bought it at auction about 3 years ago with no information on it.
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I’ve been tinkering with it here and there. Well we had a perfect day to make hay today and I already had my test patch cut when I tried out the sickle mower so here we go!

I hitched the old rake up to the older Farmall M and made some rows.
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It’s got a lot of ware but it can still make windrow!
The hay was a little damp so I left it in the sun till afternoon. Then it was time to try out the baler. Who knows how long it’s been since it’s been in the field. I was a little nervous pulling out to the field. I got lined up and started baling.
Here is my first bale!
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I had to pull back to the shop a couple times to make adjustments, but I ended up making 4 bales off my test spot!
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I still have some work to do. It will miss a tying a knot sometimes, I need to adjust the bale size, there a little too long, and I broke a couple of sheer pins so I still have some adjustments to make, but we’re making hay!
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He he, don't you like it when a project turns out working like this and is actually really useful!? This is great @JSinMO ! :thumbsup:
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I would of liked to be there when that was happening, for the sounds and smells. Use to be all hay fields behind my parents house. Sure liked hay time.
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Congrats on your first bales - proof of productive tinkering fixing things up :worship:
Thanks for sharing the photos :cheers:
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propane1 wrote: Mon May 08, 2023 3:34 am I would of liked to be there when that was happening, for the sounds and smells. Use to be all hay fields behind my parents house. Sure liked hay time.
All :cuss: houses now.

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My buddy worked for several farmers and got me my first paying job baling hay with him. Still have fond memories of that ;) Loved the smell, not so much the chaff down the shirt though. Lunch and supper and a beer or 2 after the work was done and $2.50 a hour was big money back in 1976 :69:

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OH hard to believe he is making hay already :O They are small, but I still have snow piles in the shade of some pine trees :headbash:
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propane1 wrote: Mon May 08, 2023 3:34 am I would of liked to be there when that was happening, for the sounds and smells. Use to be all hay fields behind my parents house. Sure liked hay time.
All :cuss: houses now.

Noel :headbash:
You’d be welcome! :thumbsup: nothing like the smell of fresh hay.
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Gordy wrote: Mon May 08, 2023 11:40 am
OH hard to believe he is making hay already :O They are small, but I still have snow piles in the shade of some pine trees :headbash:
I did this so early just to start testing my junk! I could cut the fields now and bale it they are pretty well ready but, it will be 3 weeks to a month yet before hay season really kicks off in this area.
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We’re having great hay weather. Everybody is out bailing. Time for me to get in gear!

My first pass I spooked up a newborn deer! Mom was not happy with me! Pawing the ground and stomping around.
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The old mower did pretty good. I did break one of the pitman arms I made but I was able to switch it out pretty quickly.
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Other than my crappy driving leaving skips things went pretty well.
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With day time temperatures in the 80s and low humidity it should be ready to rake and bale quick!
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The pictures really do show the nice weather. That must've been a lot of fun! :thumbsup:
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Eugen wrote: Sun May 28, 2023 12:45 am The pictures really do show the nice weather. That must've been a lot of fun! :thumbsup:
Almost all of my equipment is is at least 40 years old and some of it is well over 80 years old. I do the best I can to maintain it but running this old stuff always makes me a little nervous!

When its all running smoothly though for me it’s about the most enjoyable way I know to spend a day. I don’t know of many people around here that still use this old equipment, other than for demonstration at a fair or tractor show. It seems there fewer people all the time that understand why I do all this, especially my age or younger. Sometimes that really makes me sad. I think my generation is probably the last that actually used this stuff on a daily basis when we were younger. I guess that’s the way it goes. You’d be hard pressed to find someone using a team of horses or steam engines anywhere but a show these days. I guess this stuff I mess with will be next.

There now, that’s my melancholy old junk ramble for the evening! :)
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