Baling Hay with Farmall Super M & 276 Hayliner New Holland

[@keithchrysler3732]

When I came back to my farm and started doing beef, I bought a 265 NH baler that was in amazing shape and a J D 640 hay rake and went to it! Pulled it with my old IH 400 gas! Sold them all and got a wheel rake and a round baler! I enjoyed making hay more than anything! Retired now. Thanks for sharing!

[@silvershelbygt500]

Love the Super M. My dad restored a 53' with the wide front before he passed away 8 years ago. My brother has it. I have a 46' H that was my grandpa's first new tractor that my dad got when gramps passed.

[@tripticker09]

Great video. Brings back some great memories back on the farm when I was a kid (teenager). Worked many a day and got some good exercise working with Farmall H's and M's. The M's were Dads favorite. Thanks for sharing the video. After I left home Dad started haying with the round bales and retired the old Holland. It went to the junkyard crusher around 2007.

[@RMSpeltzFarm]

Thank you for the kind words of support for our video

[@MrMarshallday]

Finally a hay baling video where someone knows how to use a bale hook. It's soooo much easier. Each member of our hay making family had their own hook.

[@ni1469]

I’ve never used a hook but we’ve always built over wagons close enough and low enough for the bale to come out on the wagon and had a good system but the driver and stacker when curves were coming up to make sure they weren’t coming out mid turn. They can become a pain when only having 1 person on the wagon trying to keep up in a tight space

[@semtech30]

I ran a Farmall M back in '74. Just had opportunity to purchase a super "M" here recently. Considering the cost of Gas now, I passed on it. I'm still working my 276 hayliner. Great rig. Thanks for the demo.

[@azbdizzy4176]

Thanks for this video. The first $5 dollars I ever made was doing exactly this with my cousin in Iowa. Standing on a wagon behind a bailer exactly like this. My uncle had a M and a super M.

[@tkguyok]

Good video! Nice Super M and New Holland baler! Good crew on the wagon!

[@geraldskaggs3903]

My Dad and I ran a custom baling operation in the '60's and early 70's, using a NH 268 baler, pulling it with a Case 530 and one afternoon he baled 1200 bales in 4 hours. We were dropping it on the ground of course. I raked it with a 1952 John Deere Model M and a NH 256 rake. I still have the little John Deere. My Dad bought it new.

[@msredneck001]

Made me remember why I only make round bales. Lot of work stacked up in that barn:-).

[@americanmade1435]

Those are some tight bales!

[@jayss10]

Spent a lot of time as a kid behind a M (bored over to a Super) and a New Holland 68 putting up hay the exact same way you guys were. Flat wagons and all. We would normally get about 500-600 a day. Could have gotten probably 800 or so if we actually had help unloading the wagons. It was only me, little brother, and Dad.

[@azbdizzy4176]

My uncle in Newell Iowa owned a Farmall super M and the same bailer. I remember standing on the wagon with the hook stacking bails of hay. The pay? Five dollars. Not five dollars an hour. Five dollars for the field and we were glad to have that.

[@icutwood2473]

Brings back great memories

[@Mark-uq9km]

Two things about the Super M: 1) It had no live PTO. When you would depress the clutch, everything stopped, even the PTO, 2) The Super M had an 8 volt battery!!! Who ever heard of an 8 volt battery? It became a serious issue when the old battery gave up the ghost. I can't remember if it had a magneto or distributor. With the magneto a battery wouldn't be a necessity. With the distributor a battery was a requirement. On the NH baler if you let the twine run out you had some work cut out for you. I loved the power of the Super M. It had some serious lugging power.

[@deborahflint5164]

Great video. Writing from Australia, we had a similar Newholland baler with the numbers 317. That machine could bale 300 bales an hour. Great fun until the shear pin broke on the flywheel.

[@Warny1969]

That's some fine looking bales.

[@ni1469]

Just picked up one of these balers a few weeks ago. Just had a rebuild done on it and dry running it seems the work on it was done correctly. The hitch pipe isn’t as long and yours and is more under the chute I do think I’m going to copy your placement location when I put the quick hitch on off the old baler because that would be so much nicer not holding a wagon tongue and avoiding the chute

[@toddjacobs5660]

Great video 👍

[@timblum1]

My father had a 273 that spent a few summers behind an IH 826. The Super M ran the elevator into the barn. About 2600 bales to fill it.

[@andypetrovich2155]

Great video! I want a Super M.

[@Brad1962Fisher]

1,000 bales a day! I know for a fact with a crew of 7 and 4 - 16' hay racks & our new Holland baler we baled and mowed 2,000 bales in a day. 1 baler tractor driver (Mom), 1 on hay rack bucking (3rd son), 1 hauling in (4th son oldest twin), 1 on load of hay setting hay forks (1st son), 1 on hay horse tractor (4th son youngest twin) and 2 mowing in the barn (dad & 2nd son).

[@jessetymcio7730]

Nice baler!

[@greenwoodcountyemscadrepor5610]

I just bought a new Holland 276 baler can anyone tell me what kind of twine I can use and where to buy it at

[@johnt7232]

Yes I had a older model an 68 which could punch out in a long day 2000 good bales , you'd be driving by the seat of your pants though , I loved every minute of it

[@vtecpreludevtec]

Hi from NZ,when I was 21 I fainted throwing bales up on to a truck,still I had been going 13 hrs...lol.

[@mnfirefighter813]

Do you have any trouble baling without a live PTO?

[@RMSpeltzFarm]

I dont but very use to it=)

[@stepabove2136]

What gear was you in

[@johnsavoy4784]

I have A '62 Farmall 560 and a '73 534 Ford baler I can average 500 to 700 bales in an afternoon with 600 being the average. These older machines are just fine, just a little TLC and respect for the age, My competitors all have new equip with a 40,000 $ + bank note , Mine paid for themselves the first season in use . and have been going 15 years since purchase, do the math!!5000 initial investment!!!

[@wyattearp6883]

I can remember in Chokio Mn plowing with my grampa's M wishing it was a Super M.

[@spookyskeleton6086]

power steering? Whats that? Words from a farmall h owner

[@brokenwrench1]

i worked for a N H dealer when this was new and had to un crate them and set them up they were delivered in a wood crate on edge and shipped on a flat train car.. two of us would go to the siding with the 20ft rollback and get the order of ten and unload them in the assembly shed. i liked these units better than the IHC units the dealer sold the knotters were better and the units stayed in time better the IHC 470 models were always breaking needles.

[@hairymanonetwo]

Question ? Why the bale hook ? They were meant for round baling...loading and unloading them. Not for small rectangular bales ! Why spend so much effort pulling the bales up and out of the bale shoot ? Yah get a much better......tight bale if you allow the bale to come to you. It adds pressure to the remaining bale in the chamber.

[@perrycrozier8805]

Wait til the bale comes to u. No need for gloves or a bale hook. Gloves just make your hands sweat. In all the years of stacking bales on a small dairy farm in Wisconsin, never saw a bale hook. It would just get im the way. Had callous hands from doing all the barn chores.

[@JBlavl]

Very nice!

[@robertlong7033]

You may have rebuilt the M but I bet you still have the slow PTO and wicked ckutch but no matter it still comes down to the guy on the wagon getting his brains shaken

[@chrishall-fc6fp]

nice equipment !!!!!!

[@jimfarmall2898]

But you have to admit, that New Holland baler is the noisiest baler on the market with that feeder mechenism they used !

[@OnePieceatatimeranch]

I've got a Super 68 that had been in an open field and it only missed 5 of 860 bales for us this Summer and its a 1960. It can be as noisy as it wants 😂

[@johnanderson2451]

I have the same set up

[@CougarLand]

2 adults stacking? Oh please. Any 14 year old kid should be able to do that themselves.

[@ffjsb]

Whatever...

[@perrycrozier8805]

14 year old kid in the hay loft as well.