@Ken Day only 4 high??? Dad built an extension so we could go 9 and 10! Wonderful DAD had to custom build four hay wagons so the bales would lock w/out in short or overhang with 4x8 angle irons all the way around the front and sides! UGH!!
I worked with a universal four Nuffield tractor and the international B 55 wire tie baler with the Wisconsin motor in the 1950,S ,boy, that's when bales were bales, tight and bloody heavy, cheers from Tasmania
Oh my this brings back some memories... Dad had a New Idea sickle mower just like that. We'd have a 2nd tractor towing a crimper over the cut hay though. Raking with a JD side delivery rake. I spent many a hour riding the rack stacking bales behind a new holland baler of that vintage. Ours was PTO drive instead but the rest was exactly the same. Lots of hot dust for sure. Glad your family was able to make this film!
I love those memorizes. I spent many of younger summer days tailing the baler, either stooking or on the wagon. Worst of all was "mowwing" farmers will know it, for the rest "m" as in Mary, "ow" as in ouch add "ing". I love the fact he is piling on the wagon and jumps off to do the filming and the better half is driving. How many more of these pictures and film media still undiscovered?
Lovely! We still use that vintage hay equipment yet today. Only our 66 baler was PTO. My brother has it now. I use a 77 New Holland when help is avilable, other wise it gets rolled up.
I ran a small dairy farm of 35 head when I was 13 and 14 during the summer. The farmer would buy old broken-down farm equipment for cheap and restore it so he could keep the old dairy farm going. He was running a restaurant in town and needed help on the farm. I slopped the hogs, milked the cows, cut the alfalfa, tilled the corn fields, raked the hay, combined the oats, and helped bale hay. Great memories!!
Fun watching that NH 66 running. We have a PTO one, but is funny to see that they apparently all have that goofy herky jerky bounce when being ran across a field.
A New Holland 68 Hayliner is the closest model I know of to this baler but the one in the video is still an older model I think which I do not know the model number of.
My Grandpa had purchased one of these balers new in the same era as this film. I'm pretty sure it's a New Holland model 66. My Dad ended up with the baler when he took over the farm and had nothing good to say about the 2 cylinder Wisconsin engine. He eventually changed it over to a home brewed PTO drive but that gave problems as well as there was no slip clutch used.
We also used a NH 66. Ours was pto driven, had a shear bolt on the connection from shaft to flywheel. Had to keep a supply in the toolbox. It wasn't the fastest baler, but it would spit out all I wanted to put up@
Great northern, I have to agree with your father , I worked contact baling with the international B 55 wire tie with the Wisconsin motor, great while it was running but God help you if you stopped it because it was impossible to get it started while it was hot , if you had to stop it to refuel you may as well have your lunch ,I got so frustrated with it I had a twelve gallon tank fitted ,it certainly helped to keep me sane , apart from that it was a fantastic piece of machinery, cheers from Tasmania
Interesting that the CA has white front and rear wheels instead of the orange painted from the factory. What a great video showing my favorite tractor in action.
I remember back in the late 70s early 80s I helped a farmer that used a AC Roto baler, I had to lift them up and he stacked them on a wagon. To bed down just cut the string and give it a kick and they unrolled them self.
Never shut that baler engine off or let it run out of gas! Once it gets hot, they never start till they are completely cold. My dad trying to start that engine when it was warm, invented words I never knew existed. Finally unhooked the baler and belted it up to the belt pulley on the tractor.
Finally learned the trick from an old farmer on how to start the Wisconsin after dinner or when hot. You pour water on carburetor to cool it off so the gas stays liquid. The heat would boil the gas (vapor lock problem) and prevent a successful start. Remember this as it’s even worse with ethanol added to gas.
Allows the baler to run at a regular speed regardless of the tractor engine speed. You can't have the baler PTO running too slow with hay moving through it else it would bog down the engine and stall, then the baler would be plugged full. The Allis Chalmers WD was a good tractor for baling in its time because it had a hand operated transmission clutch to start and stop forward motion while the PTO stays in gear. If you stopped the tractor, the baler had to remain running for a few moments to clearout the hay inside else it would plug up. The Allis only had 4 forward gears that could only be changed by the foot operated engine clutch and when pressed the PTO would stop. The hay conditions in one field might change from heavy to light again and not enough tractor gears to handle the speed variations. So it was popular in that time to run a baler with its own engine keep the speed regular while variing the ground speed with the tractor engine and transmission as needed. Later tractors with more advanced PTO clutches and much more gear speeds made the baler engine unnecessary, though it is still possible to buy one so equipped brand new.
I Remember them days well! Great video!👍😎
Really makes me miss my Dad and Grandpa
That is a beautiful video. Nice to have those old movie camera films recaptured like that.
Pulling bales off the chute and stacking on the hay wagon. That was my job!! Great memories!!!
Mine too! 4 high and tied. 1000 bales in one day.
Oh yeah, and a penny a bale.
Yeah buddy I was the one on the dumb end all the time too
@Ken Day only 4 high??? Dad built an extension so we could go 9 and 10! Wonderful DAD had to custom build four hay wagons so the bales would lock w/out in short or overhang with 4x8 angle irons all the way around the front and sides! UGH!!
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I worked with a universal four Nuffield tractor and the international B 55 wire tie baler with the Wisconsin motor in the 1950,S ,boy, that's when bales were bales, tight and bloody heavy, cheers from Tasmania
What a lovely piece of film all the best from Henry in the UK 🇬🇧
Oh my this brings back some memories...
Dad had a New Idea sickle mower just like that. We'd have a 2nd tractor towing a crimper over the cut hay though. Raking with a JD side delivery rake.
I spent many a hour riding the rack stacking bales behind a new holland baler of that vintage. Ours was PTO drive instead but the rest was exactly the same. Lots of hot dust for sure.
Glad your family was able to make this film!
We had the same baler with the Wisconsin motor on it! That brings back lots of memories for me too!!
Look's like very solid bales easy to stack ...... Enjoyed your vidios.
That brings back memories, we had that exact same baler.
The square baler was and still is an amazing invention, very nice video
I love those memorizes. I spent many of younger summer days tailing the baler, either stooking or on the wagon. Worst of all was "mowwing" farmers will know it, for the rest "m" as in Mary, "ow" as in ouch add "ing". I love the fact he is piling on the wagon and jumps off to do the filming and the better half is driving. How many more of these pictures and film media still undiscovered?
Lovely! We still use that vintage hay equipment yet today. Only our 66 baler was PTO. My brother has it now. I use a 77 New Holland when help is avilable, other wise it gets rolled up.
I was raised on a small Wisconsin dairy farm, best memories ever. You couldn’t buy that lifestyle now.
I ran a small dairy farm of 35 head when I was 13 and 14 during the summer. The farmer would buy old broken-down farm equipment for cheap and restore it so he could keep the old dairy farm going. He was running a restaurant in town and needed help on the farm. I slopped the hogs, milked the cows, cut the alfalfa, tilled the corn fields, raked the hay, combined the oats, and helped bale hay. Great memories!!
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Fun watching that NH 66 running. We have a PTO one, but is funny to see that they apparently all have that goofy herky jerky bounce when being ran across a field.
We were using that same model of New Holland baler till a couple years ago
A New Holland 68 Hayliner is the closest model I know of to this baler but the one in the video is still an older model I think which I do not know the model number of.
We still run one on our small farm. 3rd(?) owner I believe.
My Grandpa had purchased one of these balers new in the same era as this film. I'm pretty sure it's a New Holland model 66. My Dad ended up with the baler when he took over the farm and had nothing good to say about the 2 cylinder Wisconsin engine. He eventually changed it over to a home brewed PTO drive but that gave problems as well as there was no slip clutch used.
We also used a NH 66. Ours was pto driven, had a shear bolt on the connection from shaft to flywheel. Had to keep a supply in the toolbox. It wasn't the fastest baler, but it would spit out all I wanted to put up@
A lot of cuss words were spoken at those Wisconsin engines. God help you if the engine stopped hot.
Great northern, I have to agree with your father , I worked contact baling with the international B 55 wire tie with the Wisconsin motor, great while it was running but God help you if you stopped it because it was impossible to get it started while it was hot , if you had to stop it to refuel you may as well have your lunch ,I got so frustrated with it I had a twelve gallon tank fitted ,it certainly helped to keep me sane , apart from that it was a fantastic piece of machinery, cheers from Tasmania
Interesting that the CA has white front and rear wheels instead of the orange painted from the factory. What a great video showing my favorite tractor in action.
Thank you. I still have that tractor and mow machine. Working on rebuilding it to get it running again.
I raked the hay with a WD, in Nebraska.
Reminds me of my youth.
Great video 👍🇬🇧
I remember back in the late 70s early 80s I helped a farmer that used a AC Roto baler, I had to lift them up and he stacked them on a wagon. To bed down just cut the string and give it a kick and they unrolled them self.
I remember working on the baler engine, there were hundreds of them back then
We still use a rake like that to this day.
This was a time when men were men and women were glad for it.
Never shut that baler engine off or let it run out of gas! Once it gets hot, they never start till they are completely cold. My dad trying to start that engine when it was warm, invented words I never knew existed. Finally unhooked the baler and belted it up to the belt pulley on the tractor.
Finally learned the trick from an old farmer on how to start the Wisconsin after dinner or when hot. You pour water on carburetor to cool it off so the gas stays liquid. The heat would boil the gas (vapor lock problem) and prevent a successful start. Remember this as it’s even worse with ethanol added to gas.
What was the reason for the power unit on the bailer verses the PTO? Non-farmer asking.
Allows the baler to run at a regular speed regardless of the tractor engine speed. You can't have the baler PTO running too slow with hay moving through it else it would bog down the engine and stall, then the baler would be plugged full. The Allis Chalmers WD was a good tractor for baling in its time because it had a hand operated transmission clutch to start and stop forward motion while the PTO stays in gear. If you stopped the tractor, the baler had to remain running for a few moments to clearout the hay inside else it would plug up. The Allis only had 4 forward gears that could only be changed by the foot operated engine clutch and when pressed the PTO would stop. The hay conditions in one field might change from heavy to light again and not enough tractor gears to handle the speed variations. So it was popular in that time to run a baler with its own engine keep the speed regular while variing the ground speed with the tractor engine and transmission as needed. Later tractors with more advanced PTO clutches and much more gear speeds made the baler engine unnecessary, though it is still possible to buy one so equipped brand new.
The main reason was that a lot of older tractors didn't have pto.
Courteous, is that a Briggs, or Wisconsin on the bailer
Wisconsin 2 cylinder.
Either a THD or TJD Wisconsin. We have a TJD on a gen set and it has been verry reliable.
Was that mum driving the tractor? Good on her.
My kids would ASK were is that guys Blue tooth on the Tractor.🙄 and they have it rough…
If i had a nickel for every square bale ive touched in my lifetime id be rich