Dad needed something he could narrow up less than 55 to 60 inches wide to pull our John Deere model R manure spreader thru our one hog finishing shed, we had a 1939 FARMALL H that was narrow enough but we didn't want to narrow up our new to us very clean low hour 1954 FARMALL SUPER H. NO WAY COULD A Farmall M get narrow enough. Skid steer loaders had not been in production yet, Dad investigated putting a DANCO loader on our 1961 IH Cub Cadet till he found out how much the loader cost. We finally stopped finishing up hogs in that shed. Dad welded up a push blade on an old 2-wheel garden tractor and pushed all the manure to one end then shoveled everything into the spreader. We had a big hay barn in the far end of the farmstead that all the cattle and a few head of hogs could spend the winter. We were able to load that out into the spreader with the FARMALL M loader tractor. All the hogs and cattle were able to roam the 40 acres of hay or pasture land. But Dad bought a 1940 B to pull the manure spreader which it did ONCE you messed around with the B to get it started. I used the B to rake 20 acres of hay one day This B only had 4 forward speeds and 4th was between 4 and 5 mph, and my Super H with the Fast Forth was 6-1/2 mph. So after about 20 minutes I parked the B and finished raking with the Super H, eventually I started hooking both our rakes together so I raked 14 ft into each windrow or turned shorter on the headlands and raked two passes into one windrow, total of 28 feet in a windrow. I had a David Bradley 4 bar rake and an old tall steel wheel New Idea rake, the big drive wheels 5 feet in diameter, the New Idea rake was the only rake with a hitch on the back to pull another rake. We mowed hay with our 6 ft wide Brillion rotary mower with the right side and right rear diagonal side piece removed, 6 ft at 5 mph and NEVER had to stop to unplug, I could have pulled a wider mower but you use what you have. I used the same two rakes raking straw from combining oats with our #25 or #30 Deere combine. That's when those 14 ft wide passes with the rakes really saved time, and since only the tops of the oats were cut with the combines the straw didn't pile up real fast.
Love hearing the olds ones purring
@@TonyMartin-nz8gn I know it I’m the same
Love the old ones
Thanks I like the older rough ones too!!
@@lanelukefahr1184 miss my grangmas john deere A such class
@@mikeandcolleenk9831 you bet they where the best I love my A models thanks so much for watching!! 🙌
Dad needed something he could narrow up less than 55 to 60 inches wide to pull our John Deere model R manure spreader thru our one hog finishing shed, we had a 1939 FARMALL H that was narrow enough but we didn't want to narrow up our new to us very clean low hour 1954 FARMALL SUPER H. NO WAY COULD A Farmall M get narrow enough. Skid steer loaders had not been in production yet, Dad investigated putting a DANCO loader on our 1961 IH Cub Cadet till he found out how much the loader cost. We finally stopped finishing up hogs in that shed. Dad welded up a push blade on an old 2-wheel garden tractor and pushed all the manure to one end then shoveled everything into the spreader. We had a big hay barn in the far end of the farmstead that all the cattle and a few head of hogs could spend the winter. We were able to load that out into the spreader with the FARMALL M loader tractor. All the hogs and cattle were able to roam the 40 acres of hay or pasture land. But Dad bought a 1940 B to pull the manure spreader which it did ONCE you messed around with the B to get it started. I used the B to rake 20 acres of hay one day This B only had 4 forward speeds and 4th was between 4 and 5 mph, and my Super H with the Fast Forth was 6-1/2 mph. So after about 20 minutes I parked the B and finished raking with the Super H, eventually I started hooking both our rakes together so I raked 14 ft into each windrow or turned shorter on the headlands and raked two passes into one windrow, total of 28 feet in a windrow. I had a David Bradley 4 bar rake and an old tall steel wheel New Idea rake, the big drive wheels 5 feet in diameter, the New Idea rake was the only rake with a hitch on the back to pull another rake. We mowed hay with our 6 ft wide Brillion rotary mower with the right side and right rear diagonal side piece removed, 6 ft at 5 mph and NEVER had to stop to unplug, I could have pulled a wider mower but you use what you have. I used the same two rakes raking straw from combining oats with our #25 or #30 Deere combine. That's when those 14 ft wide passes with the rakes really saved time, and since only the tops of the oats were cut with the combines the straw didn't pile up real fast.
NIce B. Sounds pretty good.
Thank you so much
What state are you in?
Какой штат Калифорния?
What's with all the tinkering
@@michaelvalentine629 All the time