Cutting Hay with the Farmall H and Sickle Bar Mower
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- Опубліковано 3 сер 2022
- Today I'm cutting hay the old fashioned way! There's nothing better than spending an afternoon on the Farmall H cutting hay with the International 120 sickle bar mower.
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Thank you Pete! For reminding me of my Father and how we cut our hay with an H tractor and a sickle bar mower! Brings back lots of good memories!
When I was a kid, my neighbor did all his farm work with a Super H, and a Super C wide front, with a loader. They even had a baler with a Wisconsin engine to power the mower. He also had a F-22, that they used to blow silage in the silo, using a pro pulley belt. This looks and sounds like home to me
That Model H is 82 years old and keeps on going. I love tractors 👍
Anyone who's made hay with an H knows it's one of the best hay tractors ever made. Thank you.
The sounds of my childhood. We used to cut hay with a 1950 9N and sickle bar. The only thing that comes close is watching the Barn Swallows pick off the bugs flying out of the grass.
So many wonderful memories of helping my grandpa on his farm. Thank you!
I can relate
Pete your farmall tractor looks SWEET and is nicely pair with the sickle. Thanks for the ride. have a great day.
What a wonderful piece of nostalgia Pete! Kudos on your editing again-and whoever handled the drone did a first class job! Some of the best ten minutes of my day-thank you so much!
I love your videos! I have been watching them for about a year now! You guys do wonderful work!
Thanks Pete, for bringing back great memories of cutting hay with an H when I was young boy.
The sound of that engine is music to my ears. My Uncle had two H's and a Super M. As a kid from the city, I loved going to the farm during the summer for a few weeks. His kids being farm kids always loved coming to spend time in the city.
Ditto here! Man, you can make some speed in 4th gear. That
S-bar Must be finally tuned! Love your old "trike" H.
Hi Pete as chairman of a local steam and vintage rally here in the UK I love watching you work on and with your wonderful vintage machinery thanks
Grandpa used to have a old Massey Ferguson, after he passed away the tractor was sold to a filming company which produced a show called Jake and the kid! Sure miss grandpa and going for rides on that tractor.
So satisfying to watch that first burdock fall😁
I enjoyed the noise of old tractors and sickle bars. Thanks Pete. Ed
Brought back memories of when I was growing up on my uncle's farm. we had 300 acres and a dairy herd of about 50 milkers. I remember doing the haying with a Ford 8N. He and his children would use a Massey Harris 44 for bailing, I would use the 8N for windrowing. You remind me of those days. Love to you and your family.
After hearing your description of heaven and knowing that it so closely coincides with mine, I'm looking forward to meeting you there some day..... but not very soon, hopefully! I'm a 68-year old man who can still hear and feel the sounds and sights of working at my grandfather's farm in upstate Vermont as a boy. I wasn't old enough to mow, rake or bale, but I learned to drive on Grampa's old H and spent many hours with my left foot on the axle, right foot on the draw bar, left hand on the light bar, and right hand holding the seat edge as he did his field work. I never, ever grew tired of being on that tractor with him. And I remember how he would hand-sharpen the blades on the sickle bar or replace them in his blacksmith shop, peaning the rivets when he installed the new blades.
Thanks for the ride down memory lane.
My wife just walked in and said, "That sounds like Pete's tractor". Hmmm, maybe I watch too much Pete. We love your videos, thank you!
Loved the high-altitude view of the whole layout. Had no idea the farm was laid out so symmetrically.
My favorite way to cut hay. I grew up with tricycle front ends only green, the good green, Oliver’s. A super 77 and two 770’s.
Green video 👍
Pete the old H just sounds great and the mower works as it should.Thanks for the memories of 70 years ago for me.
I love watching your videos Pete. This one brings back beautiful memories from long ago of my brother and I riding and driving our Grandpa’s tractor in his fields almost 6 decades ago in Wisconsin. God how I loved being on that tractor with him! You’ve brought me to tears as those wonderful memories have come flooding back. Thank you for sharing your world with us. Don’t change a thing!
Farmalls were great tractors 60 years ago and still great today. Thanks
Thanks Pete for going old school! I love it.
I just love your evil laugh that you gave to the weeds!
Oh the glory of the Farmall
That is a beautiful (!?) and efficient old tractor. Thanks for letting her strut her stuff for us in the 🐓 field.
Pete you're like a Dad to me man! Love ya sir and thank you for all the great things you share with us. How does it feel to be loved by thousands of people you don't even know? It's awesome huh 😁
I love your show. Particularly your Farmall H episodes. I was a pain in the butt kid and my parents sent me up to my maternal German grand parents who taught me to drive a Farmall H .I drove at the age of eight, while my Dad and my grandpa picked up square bales. My granddad had an operation much like yours 13 miles East of Lincoln, NE .Cattle,Hogs, chickens, and he raised hay, milo, corn, winter wheat, soy Beans and milked. My favorite memory was the slop bucket where my Grandma dumped sour milk and any thing else that spoiled.
When it got too rank my Grand dad would haul it down to the hogs to the hog’s trawf I would love to watch them fight to gobble up all
of the slop as if it were nectar ! Keep up the good work.!
Excellent footage Pete! Thanks for sharing this vintage equipment in action!
I think your farm your family and your videos are awesome you hang on to the real strength backbone of America. You made a comment a few videos back about the kind of mechanic that you are. Mr Pete as far as I'm concerned you can hold your wrench up to any mechanic that I know plus some. You are precise attention to detail. Keep doing what you're doing you and Hillary and the kids and have a great day.
Thanks Lyle! You have a great day too!
Thanks for uploading cutting hay Pete!
WOW.... That brings back so many memories when I worked on my Dad's farm.... I love how you bring back these old tractors and the equipment that goes with them back to life...A treasure to be sure.. Thanks Pete....God Bless
For this transplanted country girl, your ASMR on the Farmal was a song that can never be found in the city.
Thank you for letting the "H" sing so beautifully in this video. Blessings.
love these types of videos!!!
Took me awhile, but, I went back and watched all of the videos. I'm all in for the hard work and philosophical bent.
Greetings from Nova Scotia
Just listen to that old Farmall purr! Now THAT is a manly tractor. 😁
Thank u for your amazing blogs, I am from Southern New Mexico, & back when I was a little girl my granpa had a small farm to & he use to work for a Co. called CASE, & he dealt also with digging wells, & fixing tractors but I dare not be arou d when he was busy he would be annoyed by distraction, so when I see u restoring your tractor, oh which my uncles now have that property & 2 of his old tractors which were rebuilt, I remember them when I see u working your farm, God Bless.
Thanks Pete! Music to my ears. I’m only 33 but I’m old at heart for this old equipment. We appreciate you. My 14 month old and I enjoy watching your videos before bedtime.
There's great character and nostalgia to this vlog.
Thank you Pete. Yes, I enjoy the sounds. There is nothing like it.
I love the H Pete, it just purrs like a kitten.
Big Panda Bear Hugs from a 68 yr old grandma in Texas, USA 🐼 ❤ 🎀 👍 🧚♂
Well you can bet your sweet Bippy Pete ! you are not alone in loving how that Old H sounds idling. I still get a thrill out of listening to that chug. thanks for another great video and a trip down memory lane for a lot of us. ECF
That high drone shot was magnificent.
Old farm equipments are a dream for the right to repair movement. Buying these new machines is like getting into a lifelong subscription/engagement with the big corporations.
With all the craziness and stupidity going on in the world today, it is so relaxing to just watch someone mow a field with a 70+ year-old tractor. So well done sir.......
Pete my toddler LOVES your channel. You are all he wants to watch l, he begs for pete. It doesn't matter the content he loves watching you Hillary the cows pigs chickens and tractors
That evil laughing at 5:27 was awesome!
😂 Your Evil Overlord laugh while taking out the burdock is my laugh for the day.
Watching this video I can almost smell the hay. I remember cutting fields with the sickle bar on the family farm many years ago. I always found it relaxing to sit on the tractor and mow on a warm summer day.
Great memory of using the H and sickle bar when I was 13, 14 &15. I loved working the fields. dnp
Hi Pete. I’m from Wisconsin and recently found your channel. I support local farmers. We go to the farmers market that is down town west bend. It doesn’t run all year like yours does. I’m 43 and grew up on a 10 farm set up. We had chickens, rabbits, pigs, some steers. Other farmers would rent the barn yard with their dry cows. At the end the place was cleaned up and we got a horse and boarded horses. I was Diagnosed with stage four brain cancer last year and your videos bring back a lot of good memories. Thanks.
Next-best thing to being there. Thanks for the memories.
LOL... this machinery you call "old" is what I grew up with as a kid - and to me it still seems in tune with the times...
Love it that you work the old equipment, and I also appreciate the earplugs you wear in many of your videos. Hearing loss is no fun!
Trimmed my weedy hay field a couple days ago with my H and a NH 455 sickle mower. Love watching the barn swallows follow the tractor around the field
Thanks for the ride. Field looks good.
Ah, nostalgia. Thoroughly enjoyed the scenes and sounds. Grew up to those sounds on an Iowa farm.
Fantastic! The Farmall H is my favorite tractor of all time, and thanks for sharing the audio! The sickle bar mower is just mesmerizing to watch. Thanks Pete!
Spent many hours cutting hay with a wheel driven JD sickle bar mower, back in the day. Fond memories 🤠
Awesome vid today! I love old tractor sounds too :D. We bought "just a few acres" in Tazewell Virginia this past week. Can't wait to get our chickens and bunnies up and going! Good thing rabbit is popular in Appalachia! Have a great week and thanks for the cutting hay video.
Thanks Pete! That's music to my old ears!
Haha that's how my Lil brother cuts all his hay. Gotta love the old H
Hey… big Thanks…. I worked with this type ..over 50 years ago…. Memories… ahhh I can remember the smell…
I love that old tractor working sound! Great video Pete.
Pete, it was a pleasure meeting you at the Farmer’s Market last Saturday. Just have to let you know we loved your bacon. The whole chicken was fabulous as well.
Keep the videos coming. We look forward to every one! Every time we pass the Lewis County Courthouse now we think of you. Joe and Barb, Subscribers from the Lowville area.
I love seeing the old tractors and equipment out run the new stuff u cant beat old tractors
My dad bought me a Super H when i was 13, used to take it to the Steam and Gas show every September. Was a great old tractor !
Thanks for all your amazing videos! Hope you and everyone watching has a lovely day!
Ohhh, I love your hay videos! I can almost smell the cut hay, such a comfort.
thanks for explaining how things work, I did not know how these old machines work and your vids are often helpful and interesting
Those drone shots were very soothing and the H looks and sounds fantastic.
Pete mate I agree with you There is nothing like seeing an old tractor on action the sound is unreal, very good video
I absolutely love those Hs what a pinnacle time of farming simplicity
Although I'm not very knowledgeable in any farm equipment let alone some way before my time, I still really enjoy watching amd learning about it.
Also, drone shots of you mowing are beautiful, the one from a few weeks back where it was literally just you mowing was also great shots.
Man, almost made me cry, Pete. My Grandpa did all his farming with H tractors, although none of his were ever that shiny.
Used to go to his farm every July and help with the hay. He used a similar sickle bar mower, but would be lucky to keep moving forward in 2nd gear, let alone 4th.
I would love to see you bale hay with an old square baler, if you still have one. It was always so much fun on the wagon, getting in tune with the plunger so you didn't bust your but when the wagon would rock.
Thanks for the memories 🙂
The first tractor I ever drove was my Grampa’s ole far all it was like this one. Not sure if it was exactly the same one it was 1980 and I was only 8. It was fun. Grampa was behind the tractor on the, hmmmm, cant remember the name but it was in the garden making rows. It had a big wheel and handles. He told me to go straight and not to go too fast cause it would knock him over. I knocked him over, or pulled him over. Memories come to life watching your videos. Thank you Pete.
I Love the "Seat Time" on my old 1940 H.
Nothing like the sound of a Farmall to take me right back to my childhood and our small farm in Northeastern Pa.. Thanks Pete!
An 'H' was the first tractor I ever drove, fifty years ago. :) I've forgotten the brand of sickle mower, but remember the baler was New Holland.
Yes love that sound, enjoy watching the H work, drone shots are a treat.
Love that old iron! Really enjoyed seeing it used!
What fun. H and Ms all have that sound.
I enjoy watching you restore and put the old equipment to work. I would really like to see your old New Holland square baler back out in the hayfield sometime.
You're absoulety right about the sound of old equipment, there's something soothing about the sounds. You're one with the machine.
Good video Pete. I really like the way you show how you turn at the end of a row.
Thursday morning tractor therapy, with a cup of coffee in hand. What can be better? Hope you get some rain there Pete.
What a clean cut those mowers make , and mated to a Farm all H , I have two H's my self , so simple and easy to operate and will Handel most jobs , we all love the Farm all H .
Just got home from a day at our county fair in Bowling Green, Ohio and watching the antique tractor pull. Lots of old iron - Olivers, Cockshutts, Minnie-Mo's, Farmalls, and the green things...
The Natioal tractor pullers will be in town in a couple of weeks, but that's a whole 'nother bag of action!
Pete, thank you for the tractor ride. Felt like I was on that tractor with you. Soooooo relaxing. Hi hillary.
We are just beginning our homesteading journey; thanks for sharing your knowledge and encouragement!
Hello Pete your old H reminds me of our old next door neighbor. He had a H and it kept breaking down. He would come over and borrow our John Deere. The john Deere saved the day. Have a good one.
That makes for a pretty relaxing day mowing hay! Nice running H
Brings back old memories!
I remember my dad and older bother using the sickle mow and l usually follow behind the hay conditioner. This was back in 60's and 70's
Started raking hay with this tractor and a New Holland rake when I was 11 yrs. old. That was 1968. Dad made me wait till I was 11 as I started mowing when I was 9 yrs old (that was with a John Deer B ),and was eager to begin raking. Raking takes a little more skill than mowing in order to keep the windrow right for the baler.
marvelous dawling marvelous I have long many times to watch a full video somewhere of continue cutting and mowing in fields and listening to
the sounds of a regular farm. well done It's just too bd it only had to be 10 minutes. I could sit and watch and listen for a very long time.
I am a city slicker from way back and I just appreciate your sharing of your daily farm chores. Thank You sir from a greatfully 80 year old!
Pete , you get way too much enjoyment yelling at the weeds to die!!! Great video!!!!
A nice relaxing video watching that awesome restored equipment still doing a great job. By the way, I have a sickle mower in my front yard on the acreage. My husband totally restored it before he passed, and I have repainted it to preserve it. A great functioning piece of history👍🏻👏🏻❣️