Classic TRACTORS Making Hay

[@RJ1999x]

That Allis Chalmers 185 was in great shape

[@bigtractorpower]

😁👍👍

[@GMdieselman]

I can't express how awesome it was in the beginning to see that old timer still hard at it in the field on his AC 185.

[@EvrydyJay]

Allis-Chalmers will always be one of my favorites, they are what I grew up with. Still have a 190xt diesel that I love to hear and drive, bring back nostalgia of driving in the fields as a young boy barely able to reach the pedals 😄

[@prairietomoutdoors8360]

I like the Allis-Chalmers also. We had a D17 on our farm when growing up. Love the 190xt.

[@hankelrod7315]

When I was a kid mowed with a sickle bar behind a Farmall H, crimped with Cunningham crimper pulled with IH 340 diesel, raked with Oliver side delivery rake with same 340, pulled IH45 small square baler with Farmall SMDTA; later upgraded to NH balers with IH 656 hydro diesel pulling PT-10 haybine & same tractor pulling NH small square balers. Loved SMDTA roading wagons up steep hills with flame blowing out muffler at night. Sure miss everything about those days, wished we had ability to take pics back then

[@interman7715]

Looking at these beautiful crops ,America is a very blessed country, here in Australia 90% looks like the surface of Mars and a lot of areas are running out of drinking water and we have terrible bush fires ,hope for a good 2020 👍

[@74superglide]

I have wondered why all the countries with water bombers aren't coming to help yall!

[@Georgeshawwaiancousin]

good 2020, welp that went out the window before it even started

[@farmtoycollector998]

Great video! My grandfather bought his Allis Chalmers 185 brand new. He put a year round cab, and duals on it. He used it to feed his hogs and do his tillage. I am glad you found one to film. They are one of my favorite tractors.

[@bigtractorpower]

Very cool. That is a nice set up with a cab and duals.

[@ksufarmer5319]

I sure like that Allis. We had a 180, 185 and 200. Great tractors. I wish we still had the 185.

[@jacobb3446]

Great video I spent a lot of time cutting hay on the same setup Allis 185 and new Holland 499 in the 1990s when we were dairy farming sure miss those days.

[@bigtractorpower]

Very cool.

[@jankotze1959]

Great tractors and equipment, always a special to see big open station tractors

[@bigtractorpower]

The big open stations from the 60’s and 70’s were cool tractors.

[@mtpocketswoodenickle2637]

The various tractors and implements used was interesting, but the star of the show was the beautiful barn in the background towards the end. What a behemoth!

[@bigtractorpower]

That barn is actually a new construction. It is a conference center with a big hall for annual meetings and chamber of commerce events. It is called the Silo Event Center in Hopkinsville, KY.

[@robertmeek8252]

Love the 185. That’s what we use to mow with a 472 or 478 New Holland haybine. The 1850 is major overkill on that tedder. We use a 64 Ford 4000 for tedding and raking with a 256 New Holland. I don’t care much for the wheel rakes as he was raking as much dirt as hay. I love the videos of the classics. Keep up the good work.

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for watching. The Oliver 1850 owner really likes that tractor. Any reason to run it 😁

[@nellsonstout7001]

I remember being a kid (currently going on 23) and my great uncle and cousins using a 2-105 to run the tedder

[@Scott-q6q]

May be classic still working great

[@alexshields1520]

Love the older equipment and hay making of the era when I was a teenager growing up on a farm in northern Ky. Dad ran mostly Case and New Holland equipment. The owner could actually work on and repair this era equipment without having to deal with all the possible issues today's computerized equipment present.

[@mrourcanada8964]

You said it nothing beats the smell of fresh cut hay

[@aaronwarr34]

Great video. My father and I started a small hay business after I got back from college, I bought a jd4020 was the biggest tractor on my grandfather's 30 cow farm. I work for a large farm also and run 100 to 600 hp tractors everyday but still prefer my 4020.

[@jgsmith1624]

Love the allis chalmers

[@bigtractorpower]

😁👍👍

[@matthewdowd4686]

Oh the second this video started I was grinning ear to ear! Thank you BTP from a super tractor nerd!

[@peanutsmith1462]

I like the way you do the videos this way!!! Thank you for sharing

[@littlerougue]

I just love seeing old tractors out in the field doing work.

[@stephendunford3430]

I grew up on these old tractors. First tractor I ever bought was a 48 8N. Now we only run big Deeere tractors and Fendt. I'm in my early 30s but I still have a soft spot for those old tractors in my heart. I still have my grandpa's two old 4020s. Both have canopy ROPS and one has a loader. I could watch this all day. We in the dairy business and it's amazing how tractors and hay equipment has changed. Now we mow with a Krone Big M. Keep up the good work.

[@bigtractorpower]

Sounds like you have a nice operation. The 8n is one of the all time classics. A Krone Big M is an impressive mower.

[@stephendunford3430]

@@bigtractorpower The Krone is a very good machine. We love ours. We are in southwest Virginia. If u ever down this way let us know.

[@jonnyjetstreamer997]

Probably handled a million of those bales...Our farm name was ‘haymaker farm’ and that’s all we did all summer long. In the later years mostly used a John Deere 336 baler pulled by a John Deere 3020....all hand stacked...Earlier years ran a jd 630 on a 24t baler. Started out with a side mount sickle mower towing a conditioner and ended up with a nice jd haybine. Those were the days!

[@v3124]

Sounds a lot like my childhood in the 80s and 90s. We had all JD equipment. 6300, 2155 and 2040 tractors pulling 338 and 348 balers, 1600 moco and a pair of 1209s. I'm sure I never handled a million bales, but a couple hundred thousand, sure.

[@scruffy6151]

I mowed with a sickle mower raked with ground driven new idea hay rake. I know old school stuff but, I was born in 1956 so none of this was not available when I was growing up. It is still enjoyable to watch.

[@bigtractorpower]

I had a neighbor in the late 70’s and early 80’s. that used an IH haybine and an IH pitman sickle bar mower. They normally cut the out side rounds and a quarter of the field with the sickle and then the rest with the haybine. I always wondered if they wanted a different kind of bale from the non conditioned alfalfa.

[@scruffy6151]

@@bigtractorpower horse hay maybe just a guess.

[@jeremyswindell7460]

Thanks for sharing! Great line up of tractors!

[@1DirtyMutt]

VINTAGE TRACTORS!!!??? WTH? There’s no way I’m that old!! I grew up with an Allis Charmers -WD, WD-45, 170, 185. I never cared for Tedder’s, they knock all the leaves off.

[@kuuktuu4414]

I want thay New Holland Stack Cruiser in FS19

[@kacowboy]

You really need to come to Kansas during haying. Hardly anyone bales small squares anymore, it's all large rounds. We also don't run Tedders we rake 2 or more windrows into 1. On our farm we stacked loose hay until 1986 and still have 95% of the equipment to still do it

[@gregj7916]

amazing that all the old tractors still have no ROPS fitted,,,, nice video....

[@Ron-rs2zl]

Nice to see I'm not the only one who has to still use this "vintage" equipment.

[@bigtractorpower]

Classics are my favorite to find. I like and respect the farm’s that keep these machines in the field.

[@robertmeek8252]

Me too

[@timjorden8329]

I enjoy all of your videos. This is definitely one of my favorites.

[@funnrun3399]

I like the 185 Allis Chalmers and the 499 NH Haybine my Father Carl nearly bought a NH 499 12 ft Haybine he needed a 40x80 tractor shed for his farm equipment he currently has a NH 492 9 ft Haybine

[@larrykrise3609]

love watching these vidieos.the way i used to do it.thank you.larry

[@jamieshields9521]

Great classic hay vid👍we have TM125 pull 12ft NH conditioner, next windrow with 8 tine rake been tow by IH 574, IH 574 pull very old IH small square baler, last piece equipment is IH elevator that hooks to side of International AA160 truck with two people on back grabbing n stacking hay bales. But our family hasn’t done small bales since 16 years ago, this year was all round bales done by MF tractor/baler then loaded onto TLiner International semi that holds 30 bales. Our McCormick MC130 doing loading/unloading of round bales.

[@bigtractorpower]

That IH bale loader is a rare piece of equipment. Very collectible.

[@riamriam6758]

And here I am complaining about the dust coming inside the cab when the door is open😂 respect to the old boys, you teach us young bucks well.

[@bigtractorpower]

😁👍👍

[@dafarmer3721]

I do that too dust in a cab is way worse then dust in open station

[@scottkaercher1733]

My great grandpa built oliver tractors when they first came into existence in southbend indiana. He worked for oliver over 30yrs.

[@bigtractorpower]

Awesome history.

[@scottkaercher1733]

@@bigtractorpower i never knew my grandfather worked for oliver until my mom told me a couple days ago. I was surprised and proud of that.

[@foxacresfarm7595]

Love these classic tractor videos makes me can’t wait summer to cut hay with our 3010 and John Deere haybine rake hay with that same tractor and a small rake and then bale with an international baler

[@bigtractorpower]

Very cool set up. You don’t see IH balers too often anymore. What model do you run?

[@foxacresfarm7595]

bigtractorpower don’t know haven’t looked at the model in years I’d have to look at it makes damn good bales all wire

[@tradcatholiccharles7923]

The Allis is a sweet running machine. We live in southern Indiana and used a IH 966 with a Heston 1010 hydro swing 9’cut, making hay was fun as a teenager, miss those days.

[@mxzjim]

Spent a lot of summers on a wagon behind a baler stacking hay. No kickers or stackcruisers, just hand hay hooks.

[@festus512]

You started the new year off right. Love the classic tractors

[@augustreil]

That first tractor, the Allis -Chalmers is working in what looks like a field the size of Montana ! And that New Holland Stack Cruiser had to be the best thing ever invented, since sliced bread at the time ? Love the older iron, thanks BTP. Thumbs up always !

[@JeremyBenoit81]

Nice to see something different. We see mostly Case IH, John Deere, and New Holland these days in rice country. Nothing like the 70's, 80's, and early 90's tractors in my opinion.

[@bigtractorpower]

It was a great time for big iron. At least 8 different tractor brands to chose from.

[@danslawncare8594]

I love the case tractors. My grand dad always had case. Great video. Thanks.

[@joehusnik4337]

A Ford 7700 runs my 648 new Holland round baler 930 case runs my 411 discbine farm all 400 pulls hay rakes. Owned 400 for over 40years also have a G allison I've had for 50years. You've been knocking it out of the park with the vids thanks for all the effort

[@bigtractorpower]

Nice tractors. The 7700 and 930 would be neat to see in action. Thank you for watching BTP.

[@strangefruit8776]

My dad used to have an old NH 499 haybine he pulled behind his MF 399 then baled with a NH 650 twine tie. I used to sit behind the seat and just be hypnotized by the reel bars. We have a MF 6180 and a NH RB460 now and he definitely thinks he’s gone to heaven running it. Back in the day he worked full time as a welder and when he got off at night he’d go to the hay field and do it all again the next day. He would haul 10k small squares a day with a couple other guys and always had a day job. I have some health issues but I don’t think I could handle what he did in my best shape. I have to have some sleep.

[@stuartleis9079]

As always, I enjoyed this video. I grew up with open station tractors just like these. I also made hay just like that too, up here in Saskatchewan.

[@nicholasbrown7068]

I know an old Farmer that has an open station Massey 165 and a Ford 5000 tractor, has used the same New Holland 488 (or maybe it's a 479). For about as long as I've been alive (40 years). All his equipment is old but runs every summer. International bar rake, Massey 124 square baler as well as on old New Holland 273 baler for backup.

[@tlspiker5341]

So easy not like we use to do it. Thanks for the video.

[@mikestock6461]

I spent hundreds of hours on one of the AC 185's along with the D-17

[@bigtractorpower]

😁👍

[@mrourcanada8964]

He is definitely one of the best things to do on a farm the smell of it I love it

[@bigtractorpower]

😁👍👍

[@dr.michaelr.foreman2170]

I agree. I love hay season. In Indiana, I did all the hay for two farmers. One farm alone was 10k acres of hay. I would no sooner get one farm done and it was time to do the next farm. Since I was a kid on the farm, I have loved hay season. For me, I find the smell of fresh cut hay to be intoxicating.

[@dehavenfamilyfarm]

Great video! I really enjoy seeing the old iron.

[@larry4082]

Nice group of tractors. Not my favorite farm task though. I was usually stuck on the hay rack behind the bailer. None of those fancy automated contraptions on our farm :)

[@scruffy6151]

I agree these tractor were not even made in my childhood.

[@kevingrahl1801]

New Holland made the 499 haybine for over 30 years. I grew up running a 1495. The self propelled version

[@bigtractorpower]

Very cool. I always liked those 1495s. I sure would like to find one to film.

[@apatchofheavenfarm2814]

Grew up on a dairy farm made hay every summer we never tedded used a super m and new Holland mower conditioner and a JD side rake then a case 500 and new Holland baler for small squares

[@bigtractorpower]

Nice line up of tractors.

[@dwightl5863]

Always thought the New Holland balers made the squarest bales.

[@deandanielson8074]

Love them. Thanks. Any chance to go back even further to say the 1950s to see John Deere As and Bs doing hay cutting and baling? Thanks!! - Dean from Minnesota

[@tooez90]

We never liked to use a hay tedder, I know sometimes it was necessary but it makes the crop lose a lot of leaves, especially in alfalfa...nice video Jason

[@bigtractorpower]

The Tedder is helpful but it seems most like to avoid them if possible. Where I grew up they were very necessary because stringing a few sunny days together in May and early June to bale first cut where tough. Thank you for watching.

[@jamesharber7820]

tooez90 . Exactly. It was sad to see so very many leaves becoming airborne.

[@williamsamuelbruce4744]

I've got a very similar, if not identical, Kuhn tedder here in Scotland..... Lower rpm would help reduce the losses, especially as the crop dries out.

[@williamsamuelbruce4744]

Kuhn GF5001T

[@bradolsen9981]

Yes please absolutely more videos like this the job

[@bigtractorpower]

😁👍👍

[@minenotyours9031]

You get a like from me based on the title. I love hay making and the old gear

[@bigtractorpower]

😁👍👍. Thank you.

[@garybarrett6581]

starting off with an allis 185 great job old oliver minnie and case !!!!!

[@dirtcop11]

That looks a lot easier than bucking and stacking bales of hay. Guys in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s made money every summer doing just that.

[@heatmoon]

Oh yes, the smell of fresh cut hay, sweet smell of summer. Even mix in the faint smell of a dairy farm in the distance

[@max5629]

Cool equipment!

[@bigtractorpower]

😎👍👍

[@PG_Living]

I like this video. Probably paid off and proud machinery.

[@bigtractorpower]

Each of the owners of these tractors are loyal to their classic brands. They like to keep them out in the field.

[@craigmiller5372]

Never seen that stack cruiser before that’s pretty neat how that works.

[@bigtractorpower]

It can gather a bunch of bales in a hurry.

[@jimmystrain5943]

Oliver tractors was the thing in its day

[@bigtractorpower]

They were good tractors.

[@7viewerlogic670]

Great video!

[@noahater5785]

I think I might have seen the Case 770 Agri-King, the New Holland BC5070 Hayliner, and the New Holland 1069 stack cruiser (and maybe the second Case 770 agri-king that unloads it afterwards) before in a few separate videos you uploaded a while back (a couple years ago iirc), i find it hard to believe its been that long since then. What a nice blast from the past :)

[@Deandeere4020]

Like the video! I will be making some drone videos with John Deere equipment in the spring! Can't wait

[@bigtractorpower]

Very cool. Drone views are awesome.

[@garywest8901]

Thanks b t p . Lots of hay operations out there. Enjoyed.

[@davidmiller4863]

Well it brought back a lot of memories

[@Samschannel-xi2ev]

That opening shot looks like our farm did in the late 70s

[@bigtractorpower]

😁👍👍. Great time in farming.

[@Fundy55]

Nice. Enjoyed seeing that 1850. I always thought it was a good tractor.

[@bigtractorpower]

I like finding Olivers. It was neat to find a Fwa Oliver.

[@michaelshurtleff2465]

All the tractors are neat and classical but my favorite was the AC 185 with the haybine . Always thought the old allis chalmers were neat tractors .

[@bigtractorpower]

It sure is a nice tractor.

[@michaelshurtleff2465]

Be neat to see an 856 international out mowing hay too ! The AC 185 is a dandy tractor too !

[@515bucko01]

This brings back memories, only we didn't use as many high horsepower tractors. The hay was mowed with an A John Deere with a #8 sickle bar mower, raked with JD rakes that had big steel wheels into a window, and bailed with a JD 4010 pulling a 214W baler connected to a low boy with another man with a hay hook pulling the bales out, and stacking them. As loads were made, another JD or Ihc would take the loads in to be stacked in the hay mow in the barn.

[@bigtractorpower]

Great line up. I wish I could capture haying like that on digital video.

[@dwightl5863]

Assuming the 214W was a twine and not wire baler?

[@andrewterleckey9834]

I usually bale but I think Mowing is the best/most fun part of the process

[@rhoadesy_6567]

Can’t wait to get out and mow some hay with the 200 Allis

[@bryanblood7063]

This video was great reminded me of doing hay at my family farm 3 30 acre fields. My uncle had a ford 5000 and a an international 586 then we pulled the hay wagon with a farmal f20 we would also use a john deere b. Its wierd to me cause everything on farms when I was a kid was old. Now farmers have expendable equipment it seems to me. Even the farmers i knew had 60s or 70s trucks and I grew up in the 90s maybe its was just the farmers I knew

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for sharing your tractor line up from the past. An F20 is a great classic.

[@bryanblood7063]

@@bigtractorpower I love that tractor it's been in the family since new. It has the steele wheel on it now but it also has rubber wheels for the back 2 but steel front wheel. But about 8 years ago the head cracked and my uncle will not let me mess with it. The john deer b was a 40s something and it still runs but the 586 and the 5000 are still used all the time just not for farming anymore my uncle is 78 and retired from gm he still farmed for 20 yrs after he retired now he is permanently retired. Thanks for the response I have a lot of different channels I'm subscribed to and farmer or tractor channels are the only channels who you can rely on are response back thank you

[@andrewinbody4301]

I spent the Summer and Fall of '89 at a huge cattle ranch in Montana. They did make some small bales and had a stack cruiser but most of the alfalfa went into giant stacks the size of an elephant. When it came time to feed the cattle (5000 head) there was a machine that worked like a bread slicer on those big loaves.

[@bigtractorpower]

Sounds like they had a Hesston Stack Hand. This are neat machines.

[@andrewinbody4301]

@@bigtractorpower Yup. That's the one. I never got to operate it. I did follow it with a stack mover to take them to the hay yard.

[@SimonKL11]

That remembers me when we baled hay with our kramer tractor and an old welger baler. Thanks for the video.👍

[@davidhintz1]

Grüß aus Stuttgart. Ich liebe this channel.

[@Man-cv5ws]

Would love to see similar video with the large square baler. And handling equipment. There are only a couple in our area western NC. I live Near North Wilkesboro Motor Speedway. Dry storage keeps round bales relevant in our area.

[@tomp3981]

We had to stack the bales on a flat rack. I prefer the smell of corn silage myself. Cool videos like to see the old school tracters.👍

[@freedomring4813]

LOL, in my day we picked up the hay bails and carried them to the hay wagon where someone would stack them ,I was around 8 or 9. 1968

[@dwightl5863]

Remember that being done in the 1950's.

[@jamesjackson7463]

How many acres of hay does it require before the expense of owning such equipment becomes cost effective?

[@karanjakamau57]

Happy new year from africa

[@CS-Benji2020]

Excellent video.

[@davesfarmforestvideos8395]

I like the Oliver 1850, that is a great tractor!

[@bigtractorpower]

😁👍👍

[@rodneyhickman598]

Awesome video Mike Awesome.👍👍👍

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for watching.

[@rodneyhickman598]

@@bigtractorpower You are very welcome i love them all..

[@randymaylowski2485]

499,s are decent haybines we have one and my uncle has 1. But nowadays it seems they don't make 499 anymore which i guess it sucks sides we ain't able to find newer models of 499. But inerways thanks for sharing! .

[@johnrutledge1463]

BTY, Your audio is always. Any technical advice on that and you also have a great voice announcers voice as well.

[@mythreesonsfarms]

Oh no, they have to stop because of a bad computer sensor. NOT. Love the videos.

[@michaelbaumgardner2530]

Sure do wish Dad would have had a stack cruiser when I was growing up.

[@bigtractorpower]

They can move a bunch of bales.

[@74superglide]

He did....it was you LoL

[@michaelbaumgardner2530]

@@74superglide Mr Oakley you are exactly right...lol.I still had a good time picking up bales with my friends,and we had a little money to spend at the local country store...good memories.

[@dafarmer3721]

The guy on the white has that thing revved to hell when I rake with my 4320 I normally run in 6th gear at about 1300 rpms never paid attention to how fast I was going just making sure it’s picking it all up

[@jimmystrain5943]

Love those old ALLIS CHALMERS

[@bigtractorpower]

👍👍

[@ericrice4156]

Neat way to do hay, to bad we didn't have anything like that when I was working on the farm 30 something years ago!!!

[@bigtractorpower]

The Stack Cruiser can really move some square bales.

[@Mudmowerdiesel]

Amazing farming video

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for watching.

[@garywendeln7114]

Back in the good old days when life wasn't such a ratrace like now folks worked MUCH harder but there wasn't all the stress like there is now with text Twitter Facebook and whatever and everyone is always in such a damn hurry now but they ain't going anywhere !!! Lol

[@andylieffring3987]

Gary Wendeln amen to that brother!

[@darrelstinson4737]

Love those Case tractors!

[@tjlqk3]

A 94HP tractor for tedding? What a waste of fuel

[@bigtractorpower]

Smallest tractor on the farm and the farmer likes his 1850. No need for a smaller tractor for just one job.

[@class8garage308]

good stuff did not realize miny moline was also White tractors. IH 656 row crop hydro ??

[@nellsonstout7001]

Well they were bought out by white but only one field boss had any real moline dna, and that was the 2-150

[@class8garage308]

@@nellsonstout7001 copy that god stuff like david brown, steiger, cockshoot, massey harris, ford ferguson plow

[@tonyburelle6633]

This is great

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for watching.

[@iowainternfarmer6095]

Nice video keep it up!