You know back in the early 70's when my brother and I cut and baled hay, we use to cut with the haybine facing the outside of the area we were cutting. I asked my brother about a month ago why he always did it that way, he said, because that's the way dad wanted me to do it. I did all the baling and very little cutting back in those days. When my sons and I started doing hay in the late 90's, I would cut with the cutter sickle on the inside with the tractor to the outside of the field. We have so many trees around our fields that I didn't want to break the sections as frequently, so we continue that today. I guess my thoughts are, what ever works best for a person, then that's the best for them. I think that's a great field of hay, would love some of that kind of stand in my fields today. Good job, enjoyed watching you cut, hope your having a good week.
I love mowing with my Ford 501 wooden pitman driven sickle mower, amazingly folks think that a sickle mower is much slower than a disc mower or haybine in which they are a little slower but you can’t beat the quality look of a sickle mower!!!
The combined machines did well. We had a MF150D and we cut (or tried to) with a Ford 601 3 point mower which did poorly followed by a New Holland 451 mower which did even worse. Even the dealer couldn't get it to work right. Finally. under the treat of a mutiny on the part of my brother and I tired of running along behind pulling hay off the clogged cutter bar he finally broke down and got a NH 479 mower/conditioner
I like your tractor! I have a 1964 65 diesel multi power high arch I use for hay farming. A tractor as yours would be the perfect little brother compared to my earlier gas 50s.
Looks like a lot of hay to cut with a sickle bar ! You are a patient man !
I really enjoyed this video... something so soothing about listening to and watching the older equipment cut hay.
Thx!
You know back in the early 70's when my brother and I cut and baled hay, we use to cut with the haybine facing the outside of the area we were cutting. I asked my brother about a month ago why he always did it that way, he said, because that's the way dad wanted me to do it. I did all the baling and very little cutting back in those days. When my sons and I started doing hay in the late 90's, I would cut with the cutter sickle on the inside with the tractor to the outside of the field. We have so many trees around our fields that I didn't want to break the sections as frequently, so we continue that today. I guess my thoughts are, what ever works best for a person, then that's the best for them. I think that's a great field of hay, would love some of that kind of stand in my fields today. Good job, enjoyed watching you cut, hope your having a good week.
Thx!
great work 👍👍
I enjoy watching these videos. I’ve learned a lot watching them!
Thanks!
I love mowing with my Ford 501 wooden pitman driven sickle mower, amazingly folks think that a sickle mower is much slower than a disc mower or haybine in which they are a little slower but you can’t beat the quality look of a sickle mower!!!
I also like your idea with the truck flap to keep the hay from wrapping around the driveline!! Might hafta give that a try!!!
The combined machines did well. We had a MF150D and we cut (or tried to) with a Ford 601 3 point mower which did poorly followed by a New Holland 451 mower which did even worse. Even the dealer couldn't get it to work right. Finally. under the treat of a mutiny on the part of my brother and I tired of running along behind pulling hay off the clogged cutter bar he finally broke down and got a NH 479 mower/conditioner
I like your tractor!
I have a 1964 65 diesel multi power high arch I use for hay farming. A tractor as yours would be the perfect little brother compared to my earlier gas 50s.
Thx!