CLASSIC TRACTORS Baling Hay & Straw

Summer time is a great time to see classic tractors in the field baling hay and straw. Big Tractor Power has 11 tractors built from the 1950's to the 1990's to share with you square baling, round baling and big baling.
1. JOHN DEERE 4255 & JOHN DEERE 348
2. CASE International 7130 MAGNUM & NEW IDEA 4865
3. CASE 770 Agri-King & New Holland BC5070
4. OLIVER 1855 & NEW IDEA 4865
5. JOHN DEERE 7810 & HESSTON 4760
6. INTERNATIONAL 1086 & HESSTON 4570
7. JOHN DEERE 8300 & JOHN DEERE 348
8. INTERNATIONAL 1256 Farmall & INTERNATIONAL 430
9. OLIVER r 770 and New Holland 276
10. JOHN DEERE 4430 & JOHN DEERE 568
11. Massey Ferguson 471 & New Holland 276
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[@t-rex558]

When I was in my teens back in the 70's I helped the neighbor on his farm. He had a Farmall 400, International 666 and an International 1466. I drove all three but really fond of the 1466. Fit a lot of ground with it as well as plowed. We used the 400 to mow and rake hay/straw. Then use the 666 to pull a International 430(?) baler. I and my brothers would buck the bale's and run the 400 back and forth from the field to the barn. Good old days. We worked our tails off but we had fun! Sure miss those days.

[@tomnugent845]

Thank goodness for tractor cabs.

[@rustyrelicsfarm2406]

And Air Conditioning.

[@bigtractorpower]

They were big advancement.

[@richardburkeen2020]

Loved the old 770. That brought back memories. I have sit on the fender for many hours, and have set in driver’s seat many hours as well!❤

[@ppomm]

That 770 was a great rig .. looked like they were in a pretty high gear and really moving across the fiel too! Funny how the sound of those old engines gets imprinted in our memories forever :)

[@michaelschonauer7100]

Really love watching the square balers run!

[@scottgragg6587]

The last 2 gentlemen earned my respect. I have done that job many times over and my stacking skills would not come close to that on my best day. Happy 4th of JUly!!!! I am proud to be an American!!!!! The best country in the world without a rival to be found!!!!!!!!! Get Some!!!!!!!

[@Snowtruckdriver]

Back in 1968 Dad did custom haying for a guy on 1000 acres of alfalfa 4 cuttings a year. Sister at 14 ran the new John Deere 880 swather and knocked down 100 acres a day. Mom Brother and Dad baled at night with the dew on with three John Deere 215 Wire tie balers. I ran the HaroBed and could stack 4000 bales a day. He paid me .03 per bale.Not bad wages for a kid in school

[@thecountrybunkins8896]

That 770 Oliver brings back memories. Used to stack hay behind one as a young teenager. The guy I would help always set the baler to 90lbs, so many strings broke and he carried the water right next to the transmission so it was nice and warm. Oh what memories.

[@thecountrybunkins8896]

I also learned to round bale driving a 4430 John Deere.

[@PATRIOT_Acronym69420]

I still contend to this day that baling hay midsummer in the Midwest is one of the best character building things I’ve ever done.

[@JBfarms2022]

I love watching tractors bailing, especially when they are older types of tractors👍

[@bigtractorpower]

👍👍

[@JayOberholtzer]

Brings back memories. 47 years ago I baled hay and straw with a 175 Allis Chalmers and John Deere 336 baler Lancaster County, PA, used the straw for bedding and sold the alfalfa over the winter at local auctions.

[@theblindredneck747]

For many years my dad bailed with an 850 new Holland baler behind many tractors. His dad bought it new in the 70s and dad ran it till 2009. The most memorable tractors he ran it with included an 884 international my uncle had, a 1210 case David brown, 930 case, but the itchiest award goes to the 570 Cockshutt, but that tractor had a nice pto setup for bailing with.

[@jimmymunny]

The John Deere 348 around the 9:45 mark sounded like it was baling up scrap metal, not the usual mechanical noises that hypnotize like most small square balers.

[@bigtractorpower]

Heaving straw cut from a 30ft head.

[@carlwolf4865]

That brought back memories especially the IH 430 same baler my dad had, used to bale 7 or 8 thousand bales every summer. Would not have traded those memories for anything thanks for another great video BTP !

[@MrGeroth]

In 1964 I started picking up these square bales for half a cent a bale. In 1968 was getting two cents a bale. Sure made appreciate the better jobs later in life.

[@marknewman1971]

Brings back a lot of memories, balling hay on the fourth of july. when done for the day homemade ice cream, And fireworks.. Thanks for sharing.

[@ronzezulka6646]

The 1256 looked super good.

[@bigtractorpower]

Very nice 1256 Turbo to see in the field.

[@constructionwatcher5381]

It was nice seeing all this new-fangled bale handling equipment in action, and also traditional methods including the two hand-loaded trailers. Even some open-station tractors, including one with the umbrella that brought back memories of hot summers in the Sacramento Valley. Too bad you didn't find any of the old tractors we used at work. I suppose there aren't many still in action.

[@johnmcenaney1814]

When my parents were farming we ran a ford 530 square baler on a Oliver 550. Great memories.

[@bigtractorpower]

Very cool combination. Was the 530 red or blue?

[@johnmcenaney1814]

@@bigtractorpower blue, we bought it off a neighbour.

[@SimonKL11]

It's always neat to see a baler at work😁👍 that brings back memories of my grandpa and dad baling with an old welger baler. It's still sitting in the shed, waiting to get used again, maybe someday🙄

[@bigtractorpower]

Neat. Welger is a brand I have not heard of before.

[@joelawrence56]

Welger were extremely popular in NZ being German quality!

[@ram_diesel_power6039]

I miss bailing square bales. It’s been 41 days since I could make dry hay in Maine. Wth 😹.

[@marknicholson2718]

I used a 2840 and a 335 w/kicker. You could turn the pressure down and load the front and angle it to load the corners. It was a sweet combination!

[@SomedayTooPulling]

Kickers were great, just like you mention, could load up a wagon. Sometimes we had a person in wagon stacking, could put 110 bales on wagon

[@aidanbrennan7389]

That's a cool spring device for firing the bales. Greetings from Ireland 🇮🇪...

[@John-jg5dh]

Great video! Love seeing the older equipment still doing its job!!

[@jefffraser6666]

I'm my day a 2130 ran that baler, when the ford 6610 was cutting with a JD haybine and a 7710 4x4 was chopping. The ih 886 was on the silo blower. The ford 4000 was on silage wagon duty when it wasn't running a 499 haybine. Big time operation. We did a lot of acres of hay and corn with those units.

[@AkbarMoncongloe]

Amazing video 😱

[@nathanalmond8280]

Thanks for sharing the video. I really miss baling with my 1066 and New Holland 575 with a kicker. Now days I am just round baling and I like baling with my 5088 and New Holland 7070.

[@anthonydevito4450]

We still run older IH tractors on our hay equipment. Bale with an 856 open station on a NH 273 and a 5088 on a 565 with a thrower. We bought a Vermeer 504R last year and we run that on our 986

[@bigtractorpower]

What a very cool hay team. I am an IH fan 👍👍

[@Snowtruckdriver]

We had a neighbor in the 60's that did the International tractor and baler and the wagons. Good memories

[@anthonyhengst2908]

This is my life.... Without the cab and no bale ejector. My workout spa. Still use a John Deere A and 14T baler.

[@bigtractorpower]

What a cool classic baking team. 👍👍

[@brentwyler7168]

Great video. Reminded me of all those hot summer days with my dad driving my John Deere 4010 diesel pulling a New Holland square baler and me stacking the wagons. We pulled the wagons in with our John Deere A and B tractors and unloaded them in the morning when it was cooler. It is such a shame we are losing small family farms. I hope you do more videos like this.

[@bigtractorpower]

Very nice on a 4010. Those were days. I grew up 7 miles from town and there were 7 dairy farms on the way to town. Every one was a different brand. Today there is only one dairy and one grain farm.

[@brentwyler7168]

I can say the same thing. There were a lot of small dairy farms around the area I grew up in back in the 1970s and early 1980s. Our local cheese company got all of their milk from these dairy farms. Today that same company gets no milk from the area and has to have it all shipped in from other states.

[@bigtractorpower]

@@brentwyler7168 it’s a shame how it has changed.

[@thomashanke6750]

1978 886 w/ROPS only and a JD 327 baler with model 40 ejector. Many bales with that combo.

[@jamesbuck3818]

The 'ol 770 does Well! .... Them New Holland "kickers" are the Best! We had a self propelled N.H. Kicker when I was a kid. + 20' wagons.... powered by 400 D Farrmall..

[@latus-rectum45]

Anything 55 series deere is quality craftsmanship and the pinnacle of these small frame tractors.

[@intveldfarms5529]

I love that baling setup in the beginning.

[@bigtractorpower]

The 4255 is a nice tractor with a 348 baler and 42 kicker.

[@chrisfoulk4715]

We have a New Holland Super 68 square baler, and we pull it with my uncles JD 4320. Good old baler, and I bet it's done over a million bales.

[@bigtractorpower]

Very cool. Thank you for sharing.

[@ernesthouse4706]

Love the 7810 awesome machines

[@bigtractorpower]

One of the top 10 best built by Deere in my opinion.

[@johnthompson4162]

The only outfit I would assist here is the IH 430 baler and 1256!!!!! Baled lots of hay a d straw with a 430 and an IH 806. ❤❤❤ Great video. John T.

[@andylieffring2461]

The guy with the Magnum was baling in road gear!!! The 1855 was sweet

[@buddymartin7923]

Pulling that square baler is a LOOOONNNGGGG day. I'd rather sweat an itch loading by hand or putting it in a barn than to be bored to tears

[@Washington-rf5id]

we own a 4255 great old tractor

[@404nitro]

This was way cool. That 1256 was oh so nice.

[@bigtractorpower]

That is a nice 1256 Turbo.

[@jaykettlewell3922]

Thanks for another great video

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for watching.

[@piperdoug428]

we just picked up a 2nd 568 with net, i love seeing vids on bale bunching, gathering and carting, all the different inventions or ideas on the same challenge, especially rounds

[@bigtractorpower]

Allot of history to covering in hay and straw collecting. 😁👍

[@piperdoug428]

@@bigtractorpower we really appreciate all the work you put into these videos and their great info

[@rocksandoil2241]

Thanks! I cannot imagine how difficult it is to unsort flung bales from the trailer and into the barn....would never have such a set up. Gimme a drag type bale accumulator if I cannot find a bale wagon. Love those old tractors and still amazes me how much work a 50+ year old tractor can do. Love those old Olivers -

[@ppomm]

I suspect there's a fair amount of bale breakage too. I do love that kicker on the back of that John Deere baler though ... flicks then back like don't weight anything!

[@SomedayTooPulling]

Did up to 18,000 bales a year, wasn’t difficult to unload. Maybe a couple broken bales a day. 1 person baling, 1 driving wagons back n forth, 3 in barn, 1 in wagon! Two in mound stacking.

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for the $5. That is very kind. Kick balers we’re very common where I grew up in WNY. It’s not too hard working through the jumble. Stack wagons and accumulators are the way to go.

[@user-kc5rl8xr3h]

Greetings. Our farm is located in east central Wisconsin. We bale a large amount of dry hay into small square bales. We have modern equipment hay equipment for our operation, except one tractor. We use a 1980 2wd open station Ford 7700 on the main baler. The baler is a 2022 New Holland BC5070. It is equipped with hydraulic pick-up, hydraulic swing, hydro-formatic tension, and a model 72 thrower with hydraulic steer. We have a moisture sensor mounted in the bale chamber. We also added another amenity. We have a 12 volt electric motor on the bale tension adjustment and have that control on the tractor. It's a great feature.

[@craigsibley8161]

Excellent video once again big T 👍👍👍 Love watching the Kickers flick the bales. Never saw anything like that over here...

[@outbackladas]

Loved watching the old Oliver still hard at work, good video. Regards from Down Under.

[@bigtractorpower]

Very nice 770. Even older Oliver tractors were raking ahead of the 770. Stay tuned to see those.

[@garlandhenry6792]

I use a Farmall 544 Diesel with a New Holland 565 Baler. Enjoyed your video, as always

[@bigtractorpower]

Very nice baling team.

[@markkeister6057]

Ya haven't lived unless you stack a wagon behind one of those John Deere kickers. Lol We ran a 6080 Allis Chalmers and JD 327 baler. Pulled wagons with the 4020.

[@MidwestFarmToys]

It's funny to see like a 1958 Oliver pulling a modern baler + bale trailer just as well as a 1988 John Deere with 120hp

[@Snowtruckdriver]

Good big windrows to start filming with.

[@carloscordova6934]

Nice tractor 🚜

[@michaelbaumgardner2530]

Ole hayliners chugging along,can't beatem

[@bigtractorpower]

It has been neat to find two 276s still hard at work.

[@tugboat2739]

Howdy bigtractorpower Hope you had a Happy Independence Day

[@michaelshurtleff2465]

They are all pretty tractors and balers . Lots of fun history in this video ! Great Video !😊👍👌

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for watching.

[@AlextheDutchDairyfarmer]

Did my share of getting small bales off the field with a pitchfork... Do not miss it at all😂

[@canadianHAWK3]

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for watching.

[@timnichols9015]

1977 4430 ( COLD AC) and 535 with net wrap. Meticulous maintenance makes an enjoyable haying season!

[@bigtractorpower]

Very nice 👍👍

[@marcelocunico5341]

Great vídeo Jason.

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for watching.

[@grantmagnuson4883]

1947 DC case with a 1957 new Holland 268 baler. Sometimes we use the a John Deere 1952. We also had a 1949 silver king.

[@Hinesfarm-Indiana]

Awesome video Jason

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for watching.

[@huntingandstuff9489]

I did some baling with a b John deere and an s 69 new Holland. Live power sure is nice

[@dickfitzwell4920]

I run a 4755 3x3 baler behind a 7410 all day and all night, never a problem.

[@ReadingAreaRailfan]

I love the euro spec john deere 7810 we have one near us it passed us one day on a back road

[@bigtractorpower]

Very cool.

[@marcelopessoa8418]

Top vídeo👌👌👌👌💪💪😊

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for watching.

[@chrismarklevitz5217]

JD 3020 14T JD baler 70s, 4020 24T in the 80s. Good hot work.

[@bigtractorpower]

Two classic baling teams. Big time baling in their day.

[@bobnistler]

👍👍

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for watching.

[@johngourley741]

I liked the very first one. JD 4255 with the JD baler with the kicker.

[@bigtractorpower]

It’s a great baling team for sure.

[@Snowtruckdriver]

The final scene with wagons of straw loaded in field and seeding soybeans in the background.shows the whole harvest cycle

[@davidrogers0717]

So much for the days when we would have to find every high school kid needing some extra money to help bail.

[@frankscruggs4749]

Good video.

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for watching.

[@scottpykare801]

Sure brings back memories of doing hay & straw. Hard work for sure but the best work!!

[@bigtractorpower]

Good summer hard work 👍👍

[@davidbohner6218]

We used a John Deere B and 77 New Holland with a V4 Wisconsin on it. We had to throw the bales into the hay loft until we finally got a elevator . Good Ole days 😂 !

[@bigtractorpower]

Now that is some serious hot work. My first job at 12 was stacking bales in the loft at the end of an elevator. Very handy farm tool.

[@dwightl5863]

Sad you had the V4 Wisconsin engine on that baler. I'm sure you know why I say that.

[@davidbohner6218]

Yep once you got it started you dare not shut it off until you were done !

[@dwightl5863]

@@davidbohner6218 My Dad would start it and not shut if off until done for the day.

[@clinthochrein888]

Whew! I’m just about breaking a sweat just watching the video.

[@bigtractorpower]

Summer time 😁👍

[@clinthochrein888]

@@bigtractorpower 😄👍🏾

[@nellsonstout7001]

For my great uncle and cousins that I help, they/we use a 569 premium. Wether it’s on a 4430,4455, or 7800 depends entirely on what’s running correctly 😂 also an Oliver 620 square baler on a Deere 4040 or an Oliver 550 gas

[@duncanblanchard334]

Just how many of these machines had the PTO guard shaft not properly fitted, seeing the pto shaft spinning round at 540rpm and nobody seems to consider it dangerous enough to fix, astonishing really. But really enjoyed seeing the tractors.

[@benkpsnyder]

Hey jason. We use our ih 756 and john deere 348 with #40 kicker.

[@bigtractorpower]

Nice tractor. I am a kick baler fan 👍👍

[@Blackwellll3066]

The best ones are ones with accumulators

[@bigtractorpower]

Real time savers.

[@Blackwellll3066]

@bigtractorpower yea saves time and also makes it easier if ya sell bales to have the customer come pick them up from the field, making less bales having to hauled back to the farm

[@tylersharp5345]

Love this video

[@jamesbuck3818]

We also had a 77 Oliver.. OOH SHE was sweet..

[@jaybernieschoep3491]

we used a 1974 oliver 1655 gas and a 1974 oliver 1755 oliver gas tractors on a new holland 269 baler. hated bailing hay and straw lol.

[@JamesClark-fy9lm]

We have 2 roll belt 450 round balers, TS110 on one, and TL100A on the other. The square baler is a new holland 575 with a koyker accumulator on the back. We run that on a 9700 ford.

[@RBK_3]

That 8300 on the small square baler is a little overkill lol

[@bradolsen8629]

John Deere 100%

[@craighamilton6678]

my papa ran 5207 deutz and massey ferguson #12 baler filled all the barns before any hay would get rolled

[@bigtractorpower]

Very nice. I am a Deutz fan. A dairy farm I grew up new ram Deere tractors but had a Deutz Allis baler with a belt thrower.

[@rustyshank912]

Always found a 100hp and bigger tractor to be overkill for small square balers. Case in point one year we were baling hay and the only tractor we could use was our Deutz D 100 06 my brother was baling and got curious he put the PTO into 1000rpm and ran the tractor a little faster than idle didn't have any issue running the baler like that.

[@leviduff2740]

With most balers that's probably true. My neighbor has a Hesston inline baler and it sounds like his mtx135 has its work cut out for it on the hills around here

[@gwgillman1]

I remember Dad had bought a JD square baler with the thrower,always asked Dad if we could jump up in there to ride the bale,he just looked at us and shake his head

[@user-snowman5]

You’d probably never do it again

[@heavyhauler79]

I operate a John Deere 3010 diesel with a John Deere 335 round baler.

[@bigtractorpower]

Very cool. I wish I could film that.

[@farmerb4587]

Im out in WY and I use a massy 1100 and a inline Heston to bale

[@bigtractorpower]

Very cool baling team. 👍👍

[@lesliethiel2171]

MM 335. on the baler and MM UT with G conversion on the wagon.

[@ppomm]

Great collection of classic balers! can someone tell me what the fluid tank on the New Holland baler is for? I've never seen that before.

[@kraigjohnson2110]

I believe it sprays a preservative (propionic acid) on the hay at the pickup so you can bale when the hay is a little greener.

[@bigtractorpower]

The tanks have a citric acid in them that acts as a preservative to prevent mold.

[@ronzezulka6646]

We had an 856 with New Holland 273.

[@bigtractorpower]

Very nice. Tough tractor.

[@johnclarkkitner9556]

JD 730 and 68 new holland.

[@bigtractorpower]

Very nice. The 730 is my favorite two cylinder.

[@logansmith2439]

Allis-chalmers C with ih 1100. Allis chalmers wd with new idea rake. 40hp Kabota with ih 445 baler

[@TheRealJesseStoltzfus]

We used a 4030 pulling either a 276 or 378 baler. It’s been 17 years since it went down the road, so the memory is a little foggy.

[@bigtractorpower]

Nice baling team. Thank you for sharing.

[@scottlanghoff8729]

What’s the purpose of the liquids tank on top of some of the balers shown? We never had anything like that on our New Holland baler on the Farm in Wisconsin where I grew up in the 60’s & 70’s!

[@bigtractorpower]

The tank has citric acid in it to prevent mold.

[@scottlanghoff8729]

@@bigtractorpower Thanks!

[@johnjohnson9093]

Didn't need a weight room in those days.

[@nikolaiploug5519]

That bring back memories........ in 1990 we made 27000 bales from barley, and 8000 from hay to the cattle......damn it was hard work...

[@bigtractorpower]

What did you run to put up all those bales?

[@nikolaiploug5519]

@@bigtractorpower a volvo valmet 605, and a new holland 945 baler.......we only had 80 cows, but used it for bedding and feeding....... All stacked in the barn by hand.....🥵

[@enrico7852]

I never understood what those cans on the balers are for, like the one on New Holland, and what they contain

[@deronlogterman2951]

International 826 and New holland 315 baler with chute. Stacked many of bales.

[@spike3082]

We have an ih 826 sitting in our barn right now I remember using a super M ih 656 ih 1456 ih 1066 for baling just depending on who I was helping lol

[@bigtractorpower]

Very nice. The 826 is a good tractor.

[@spike3082]

@bigtractorpower my dad is the second owner and I will be the third my grandfather bought it straight from the factory