A visit from MAMABEAR’S HOMESTEAD AND MORE!

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[@rosstheoliverman]

So apparently I screwed up the editing on this one and there’s music in the background for the first half of this. I’m not smart enough nor motivated enough to fix it so you’ll just have to bear with it. The original footage is long gone so there’s no way I can easily fix that problem.

[@tomhalver3]

At least it's decent music

[@apollorobb]

I actually like the music

[@MaclearieFarms]

🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

[@jonathancrissinger2301]

Hahahaha, I wondered what that was, hahahaha. I just thought it was something new you were trying, 😂. I enjoy whatever time I get to spend with you on your videos. It's never a dull moment, 😂😂😂😂. Got a tad bit dark at the end, but what the heck, it's all good. Thanks for sharing. See you soon.

[@ThatOliverGuyChris]

I thought I had a Big Tractor Power video playing in the background

[@johnkissack5295]

Good to see that I’m not the only one that works in the dark! Good video.

[@rosstheoliverman]

🤣 thanks John!

[@MikeJensen-wo7oh]

Nice to see you sending Orange parts to a good home.

[@rosstheoliverman]

Thanks Mike!

[@user-is1cb5me8v]

great video

[@rosstheoliverman]

Thanks!

[@pagrainfarmer]

Nice to have visitors occasionally and you were able to get rid of some orange parts too.

[@rosstheoliverman]

Thanks Charlie!!

[@markflick1641]

Always better with a little bit of Ross in your day . See ya tomorrow .

[@rosstheoliverman]

Thanks Mark!

[@brianhayes7618]

Hey Ross I just happened to see the school bus in the background. I know you do that as extra income. God bless you for being able to put up with those kids. You should take us along with you on one of your routes. If you don't want to film the kids that's ok. Take us along when your driving empty. I think it would be interesting and spark some memories for some viewers.

[@rosstheoliverman]

I’ll have to check whether the school would even let me do that. The kids haven’t been very good this week so it may not be appropriate language 🤣🤣🤣

[@Scott-qj1pm]

Another great video Ross

[@rosstheoliverman]

Thanks Scott!

[@user-rd7jn6uz4h]

Andy here If you take the drive chain off of that Oliver rake that would make pulling it down the road not a problem, even if the gear box is in gear without a load on it would just be spinning. I like your Allis planter parts.

[@rosstheoliverman]

Thanks Andy!

[@tomharrington1393]

👍👍

[@rosstheoliverman]

Thanks Tom!

[@MaclearieFarms]

The 1755 is one of the most beautiful tractors ever made

[@rosstheoliverman]

55 series!

[@geoffotto3840]

I know money doesn't grow on trees but if you'd peel the used car tires off of those rakes and put traction tires on like from factory they won't skid and they'll work perfectly.

[@rosstheoliverman]

Yeah, if I had unlimited money I’d probably be more worried about that 🤣

[@michaelsheeder148]

Ross, I was actually surprised that you had background music playing 🤣🤣 you always seem to have an adventure going on 🤣🤣 thanks Michael

[@rosstheoliverman]

🤣 Thanks Michael!

[@danw6014]

The time change off of daylight savings kills me. My sheep are on pasture until the snow is to deep or shearing time before lambing so i only get to really see them under tractor light or my head lamp for the next five months. Most everything else is done inthe dark too because I work off the farm during the day. I leave for work in the dark and get home after dark and that sucks the life out of me.

[@rosstheoliverman]

Yeah, we need to do away with the stupid time changing

[@jackmanatee3162]

The 550 purrs right along, don't she. Pretty versatile little unit.

[@rosstheoliverman]

It’s a great little machine!

[@opasvintagegarage]

OK, I'm glad to see I'm not the only fella with bad luck using 6 volt batteries. I remember them lasting at least 5 years, now 2? I forget to take back for a minimal credit during the 5 minute warrantee so I get to pay full price when replacing. I might try an Interstate....I don't know....Johnson controls probably makes all of them now. Also, I should do my own tire repair today- nope, I think I'll watch the mighty whitey video again, watching you do a tire repair! 🤣🤣

[@rosstheoliverman]

Yeah, batteries are kind of a rip off but you got to have them. Thanks!

[@stephenandert6154]

Charge your 6volt batteries on a low amp for a couple days, you will be surprised it can bring them back to life. I've gotten a couple more years out of them.

[@rosstheoliverman]

I had them charged up but then every time it gets cold they go dead again. I also disconnect them when I’m not using the tractor and they still go dead sadly 😭

[@duanecreativemachine]

I never used to understand the anger towards net wrap but. Now that I have enough animals to need to do a few bales a week.. Yeah. F#$&# net wrap. Especially in the wind. Man that stuff is agravating.

[@rosstheoliverman]

It’s very frustrating!!!

[@larryklostermann5779]

Great video Ross, nice to have friends stop over.

[@rosstheoliverman]

Thanks Larry!

[@user-is1cb5me8v]

it will interseting to see if he canbuild a planter out of them parts

[@rosstheoliverman]

Hopefully he can get use from them!

[@hacc220able]

thanks for sharing

[@rosstheoliverman]

Thanks for watching!

[@darweb3417]

working in the dark is always challenging

[@rosstheoliverman]

It’s no fun :(

[@Ham68229]

Wheel rakes are extremely nice for Clover and Alfalfa. Bar rakes, more for Timothy, Brome hay. I had an old NH 850 chain baler, actually liked it with the exception of how expensive that apron chain is. Once I changed mine out, it ran a lot smoother and quieter. To be honest, the belt balers are far superior to the chains. On those rakes, I had 2 left hand side delivery rakes, 1 JD the other was a NH Super 55. Both were 5 bar rakes. Used the cheapest teeth available, (TSC). Yea, rubber based and if you didn't set the rakes just right... yea, they'd snap off and the next thing you knew, front tire on the baler tractor picked it up, the joy of sadness. LOL I traded both that JD and NH rake for a big wheel rake, I'll tell you this, once you go with one, you'll never want a bar rake again. They work quite well for all grasses, just more gentle on the more finer grasses, such as Clover and Alfalfa where you need the leaves to stay on. I really miss my farming days, health issues but, getting better each day. Ross, when I fed my livestock, specially at night, I'd feed them range cubes first, then the bales, made life easier. Great video as always. Cheers :)

[@rosstheoliverman]

Thanks!!

[@jasonandholliehuffman8291]

Great video👍👍👍👍👍

[@rosstheoliverman]

Thank you 👍

[@neilkratzer3182]

55 rake was the straight, 56 and 256, 258 had offset axle. I remember we bought 256 rakes for around $875 brand new.

[@rosstheoliverman]

I know dad bought one brand new, but that was before my time so I don’t know what he had to pay for it, but it was the worlds better than that five wheel rake we had.

[@baileyattheoliveracreage]

The 260 rake is the mate to the 258. We have a 260 and I wish we had a 258 to be able to hook them together.

[@zacharylindsay2178]

Love your channel Ross in April im buying chicken sell eggs be profitable rancher

[@rosstheoliverman]

Thanks! That’s awesome, hope it goes great for you!

[@MaclearieFarms]

So it’s on the “Electronic Bay”

[@rosstheoliverman]

Yup

[@jamieebersole6755]

It looks like you have the same problem i have. I need a bigger shed or more sheds 😂😂

[@rosstheoliverman]

🤣🤣🤣

[@bigun447]

Just think, instead of being a farmer who does not know what a time clock is, other than the seasonal one, you could be living as a city slicker, working at a temperature-controlled factory, doing some specialized job making $90 an hour making $3,600 a week with 2 weeks paid vacation ($187,200 a year before taxes). Or you could buy yourself a job with the State of Indiana and make good money for not having to work hard. One of those highway jobs where you just lean on a shovel with 4 others looking at something on the ground. You would have so much free time that you would go nuts. Having 40 head of cattle would be a part-time thing as you would buy your hay, pay for a vet to do all of those dirty jobs, and only have to have one new tractor with a loader and a cab to put those bales out every couple of days. You could be driving a new dually pickup and have a big 5th-wheel camper, go camping, and take Buddy with you. You would have women dripping off you simply because Buddy is a real babe magnet.

[@rosstheoliverman]

Buddy is definitely the star of the show 🤣

[@apollorobb]

That offset rake has the Vermeer style teeth i hate those things i bet ive put 1000 of them on .SEE

[@rosstheoliverman]

Yeah those rubber things I’m not a fan.

[@frankwurth5375]

Yeah , my 1206 and 806 use those narrow 6V batteries as well. They only last a year or two. The Deere 4850 uses a shorter pair of 6V, and they do no better. I wonder if I could just put a pair of 12 V batteries in parallel instead and get better results? Lately I just use one large 12V on the 1206 now and it's ugly but works! One tractor that you have , caught my eye. What is the old tractor in the shed in front of where the loader was sitting? Looks interesting. I guess that like you, we have too many things out in the weather, never have enough storage sheds. Taxes here are really high, so we couldn't afford to build much storage.

[@rosstheoliverman]

Are you talking about the 88 that’s in pieces?

[@frankwurth5375]

At 28:30 in your posted video, it's on the left in the view. wide flat fenders looks like an old time standard tread tractor.@@rosstheoliverman

[@dylanhockaday9878]

Hew Holland 55 rake is like the 107 and the new Holland 56 is lie the 108 the 56 came out before the 256

[@rosstheoliverman]

Yup

[@Nick-tz2vl]

Do i spy a john deere combine out back?

[@rosstheoliverman]

Yes! There’s actually videos about them coming up in the next few weeks!

[@harvestingharrolds1086]

My 1456 has the 2 6 volts and they are junk again. I don't want to spend money either lol.

[@rosstheoliverman]

If it wasn’t for the fact that the battery box lid fits around them, I wouldn’t even use them. But I like to have it original. 😭

[@harvestingharrolds1086]

@@rosstheoliverman same with the IH, it has the original lids still.

[@user-rd7jn6uz4h]

Hello Again Ross Instead of using 3EH batteries you could go to 3ET batteries. They are the same exact dimensions and the 3EH 6 volt batteries, but are 12 volt. John Deere used them in the sixties on there diesel tractors. John Deeres of the time had a 24 volt charging and starting system, but still used 12 volt lights and other dash board components. It was a crap setup. Unless all the connections where perfect, the charging system was prone to boiling out the acid on one battery and killing the other. Later JD offered conversion kits to ditch the 24 volt starter and generator in favor of a 12 volt starter, alternator and some wiring components. In either case, with some strategic battery cable maneuvers, two long skinny 12 volt batteries would fit just wonderfully in those large frame 55 series olivers you have. Have a good day Andy

[@burrridgefarms]

I was wondering about the music, it's not too distracting. Are those 6 volt batteries 3ehs? I have 3 sets of them on different IH's. I'll check what brand they are they have been excellent. You just have too many toys, and those Fiats were so distracting from the Charles City tractors... not that they weren't interesting. Oh I did make the deal on that 5400 plant aire, and now maybe a 508 4x16 plow too.

[@rosstheoliverman]

Yes they are 3EH. I thought I sure watch this video before uploading it but I guess I must’ve overlooked it somehow. That music really bothers me but there’s nothing I can do about it now 🤣

[@user-rd7jn6uz4h]

Hey Ross. If you wanted to ditch the 3EH batteries you could go to 3ET batteries. They are identical in size and post placement, only they are 12v. John’s Dear used them in the 60’s on there diesel tractors. They were 24 volt. Fabulous idea, I wonder why most of them got converted to 12v style like dear themselves did in the early seventies? Strange??

[@glennschlorf1285]

Ross you really for safety sake need to turn that spike on the bale spear down... we really dont want to find that you stabbed yourself in the dark on that thing

[@rosstheoliverman]

I never even gave that a thought, and I’ve done that for years, but now today, I’ll probably end up spearing myself 🤣

[@bigun447]

Shish-A-Ross would make a great chain food store name.@@rosstheoliverman

[@MaclearieFarms]

Ross are you married

[@rosstheoliverman]

Is your mom needing serviced? Otherwise what is your fascination with my personal life?

[@stevethompson1130]

Not funny had to close out to figure what I did wrong.

[@rosstheoliverman]

🤣 sorry about that!

[@paulprillwitz9901]

👍👍

[@rosstheoliverman]

Thanks Paul!