FARMALL tractors at work making hay

Farmall tractors doing what they do best: working hard and getting the job done! This video shows Farmall tractors at work making hay. A Farmall 656 diesel hydro and a Farmall 504 are doing the work: cutting with an International 990 haybine, tedding, raking with a New Holland 258 rake, and baling with a Gehl 1860 round baler. There is nothing like the sight, sound, and feel of Farmall tractors working in the field!
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[@shannonstewart181]

Best video you have done, for an old man like me, you are an intelligent brave man with a great family. Living my dreams.

[@wjgoh653]

Some people like the sounds of a stream or some exotic birds chirping...I didnt watch much of the video, I fell asleep to old familiar sounds. Thanks Pete for my new nightly sound therapy when I cant sleep.

[@SuperWhatever55]

I helped my Grandpa do this work on the farm when I was a kid. I went to college and got an office job so I would not have to do it anymore. Grandpa has passed on now and I wish I could go back to doing this type of work. No phones, emails, or angry bosses with this type of work, just summer air, the smell of fresh cut hay, and some sweat. The biggest worry was if it was going to rain. I miss those days.

[@billybubbabaisden783]

I could watch this all day .. lol

[@ashleyflint3501]

I just love watching that haybine , great job !

[@olewillvarner]

Love the sounds of the engine and transmission on that 656. Great old RED Iron!

[@brenterickson1695]

28 minutes of pure enjoyment.....I love hay season...and red tractors....Thanks Pete.....

[@jdfras9041]

There is something relaxing for me to watch these types of videos Thank you.

[@erictarver7091]

Excellent camera shooting I like all the different camera angles.

[@AutoCrete]

That brings back memories.Thank you! Now you have me wishing I had a smell function on my monitor. Fresh cut hay smells good, raking even better but baling smells the best. I miss those smells.

[@lonniealexanderjohnsonsr.7057]

I am extremely happy to have stumbled across your videos. Your videos helps me throughout my day. Thank you for all the hard work and feeding your community!

[@mokpot]

Thank you Pete... I loved this

[@rowanprice2304]

Nice transition at 9:44, I’m loving farmall week so far!

[@theburnhams2925]

Man! that's some beautiful forage! And yes, we all KNEW you'd go back for that "whisker" there at the end....

[@arlodewald7423]

There's many millions of people who never smell , what it's like cut rake and bale hay ! I grew up on a farm in North Dakota , we mostly that International Harvesters tractors Another great smell is plowing the soil !

[@jjflywithme9834]

Very Soothing!

[@keithmcallister4917]

Some very nice looking hay.

[@barbaravickroy7563]

The only thing missing is the smell of newly mown hay. Nerdy word origins : ''Old English *teddan; Old High German zetten to spread''

[@alanfujimori1127]

Never realized the number of steps needed to produce that bale of hay. The smell of freshly cut grass must drive your cattle nuts. I enjoy all of your videos. Keep em coming.

[@ricksomeonethatpaidattenti8110]

Satisfying to the last pull! Thanks

[@tjmcmurtrie5756]

I just love ur 656. Such a cool tractor my cousins have one they pull their 6-row cyclo-air IH planter with it

[@gipsysmith3383]

I remember at 12 when we got our first tractor. A bright orange Allis Chalmers I do believe. Hard to believe that was 63 years ago. I still liked the horses

[@bradpoppe1801]

Your hay quality looks really good! You have that old equipment dialed in!!!

[@frankcadillac9151]

Wouldn't it be nice if every field was a perfect square.

[@gertjandikboom2234]

And thats what we in the netherlands do have ( some regions don't)

[@CosmosArchipelago]

Your channel is growing pretty fast it seems. Good for you! Look forward to (this) video.

[@sdrailfan892]

Love listening to the sounds of the equipment. Takes me back to my middle and high school days sitting on a tractor and sickle bar mower, rake, or behind a square baler riding the rack and stacking bales. On a dairy farm we did a lot of that all summer long.

[@terrymabrey1467]

Thanks for sharing. I really enjoy

[@markvittorini5163]

That was fun to watch!

[@thierrypattyn1291]

Thank you! Just what I needed, so relaxing.

[@pameladooley3858]

I worked at the plant where that tractor was built (David Bettendorf Iowa)

[@jamesritter2976]

I enjoyed that. Thank you.

[@randywilliams9531]

I like your collection of international harvester tractors. We had cub super a ,that's a workhorse for small tractor

[@leonmaritz2598]

Very interesting ....Tasks on the farm....

[@ottocarr3688]

A good operator is looking back regularly to see that whatever you are pulling is operating normally. Then there is listening for anything unusual. Then there is the competition with ones self to do as good a job as possible, as fast as is safe. Poetry in motion Pete! Now if there was enough time to change those pesky ball joints!

[@paulreed6340]

Not sure what it is about making hay but I sure do enjoy it

[@camundson3]

Makes me think of better days in the mid 80's with 1959 340 raking hay and conditioning. 1959 460 hi utility with six foot sickle bar mower and allis Chalmer Rotobaler(little round baler.

[@sonofabutcher8411]

I thought I was watching big tractor power for a minute!! Love watching your IH tractors work!

[@richardbohlingsr3490]

That was enjoyable and fun listening to the equipment do it's thing. The Gehl didn't leave much cut hay on the ground. I don't think anyone misses standing in a hay rack stacking bales, then unloading and stacking again in the mow. That was hard hot work during the summer.

[@fredbos5997]

It reminds me of my youth, because of the nabours farmbuilding right behind our house. He had International tractors as well. Greetings, Fred p.s I like your roundbaler ( no plastic waste)

[@ruthmeow4262]

The video for all of us who don't have our own hay fields...

[@larrymoore6640]

It was great to see hay balling front the start to the first. There seemed to be an extra step (dual rake that spread the grass out) guess it was to help dry the grass. I just love watching the old equipment moving along still doing the job without missing a beat.

[@donaldthomas5852]

Nice video, I like the New Holland rake they do a great job, Gehl made a good baler I used to have a 4x5 Gehl 1475 baler with the gathering wheels baled a thousand bales a year with it. They sure can take a big window. Now I got a 458 mega wide plus John Deere 4x5 baler

[@joeehenger6156]

I enjoy watching old iron still at work. Great video. Thanks

[@goflyfishin]

Thanks Pete! I needed that....Now just to find that 50 acre plot that says 'home' to us...

[@edwestell9576]

Your camera angles would make Cecil B. DeMille proud

[@johnrosier1686]

Another good video Pete. This video shows that there is a lot more to haying than the average non-farmer realizes. Way to show off the old equipment.

[@marcikrause3462]

That must smell sooooooooo good!

[@faniefaze]

We all were listening, and from different angles too, to hear if any bearing was playing up, (like you said in another video), but we're happy to report everything went smooth ;-)

[@mikecorrado4971]

Very interesting! I’m 82 years old now and I have never made hay but I would love to do it! It is such a worthwhile use of the land. I’m not sure I would like to do it like the Amish do it though. Too much physical labor. I prefer the machinery! 😁 Thanks for a great video Pete. It’s nice to watch you and your wife enjoying life. 😅

[@duncanosborne4871]

Pete i just love your channel keep it coming please, harvest is finally over here in the uk and some have done direct drilling for nexf year

[@robertmeadows7508]

I really enjoyed this from start to finish ! Also noticed some large birds (around 5.40 ) riding the thermals ! Thank you !!

[@philipingram1667]

Hydros will run circles around a gear drive tractor when used on PTO work - I had a dealer that had one of the largest populations of 656/H70/H86 hydros anywhere - they were used in vegetable production in the Salinas Valley. I know the sounds of those machines well - I enjoy all your videos and this was a special one - keep up the good work.

[@clembuck6006]

Awesome to watch.. Always made square bales with my dad. Roll bales is the way...

[@fundsfordad]

shiny tires and shined up moving parts always means things ran long enough without breaking to get some work done ! That's what i always thought anyways ! a feeling of a real productive day ! The 656 rules ! we had a beauty on our little farm in upstate NY for years , also had an Allied bucket on in the winter for loading silage , ours was gear with TA Though , keep on Farming that looks so fun !

[@jakespoon8723]

I was wanting to know if you could do a video on how to hook up and unhook the haybine, hay Tedder, hay rake, round baler, and square baler and how they work and operate and how to operate them and how to get them ready for hay season and a walk around and an overview of the tractors and hay equipment this summer?

[@markstokes6075]

Great video I know that's alot of work on and off the tractor moving that camera at all those locations, ole 656 sounds good love them old farmalls you got a couple gooduns that gas burner brings back alot of memories with that sound to keep up the great work bud .

[@redcanoe9810]

Beautiful field! Nice going!

[@robertmoore6700]

Pete, just a thought. Have you ever considered because they are in such good working condition refurbishing the 656 And the 504 (especially the 504). I realize both are working tractors and much in use, maybe just your great paint jobs would be all that's needed. The blue arms on the front loader of the 504 need painting. Just talking out loud. Bob

[@crazycoyote1738]

I’m so happy to finally see some harvest from this previously dry field, I was worried. (I really hope it’s a recent video from this week, and not an old collection) God bless.

[@JustaFewAcresFarm]

Unfortunately it's still dry here. I recorded this earlier in the year.

[@alwayschooseford]

God bless this man.

[@ArmpitStudios]

I’ve been going back through the stuff that came out before your first video I watched (how a Haybine works), and I really need this Summertime warm weather hay-making video. Summer can’t come soon enough here in MN this year.

[@Rosegardener-12]

Love the different angles

[@markgamble8377]

Thats bout the best ive seen a sickle bar haybine mow.

[@SeattlePioneer]

n 1838, the American Cyrus McCormick invented the mechanical harvester. Two of McCormicks inventions are on Pete's haybine, and almost every mechanical harvester ever made: 1. the cutting action that cuts the grass/grain 2. the reel that stands the gras/grain up to be cut. Before that, grain was harvested by a man swinging a scythe all day long --- and a good man could cut an acre of grain per day. No women applied for that work, to my knowledge. An additional in novation was that instead of a man doing the heavy labor of swinging the scythe, a horse could do the heavy labor for the first time, and productivity increased massively. A sickle bar doesn't use a reel to stand up grass. But sickle bars mowers have been heavily replaced by haybines and other equipment using both of McCormick's basic inventions. Another great invention used by Pete came along in 1875 ----- the horse drawn, mechanical manure spreader!

[@CharlesWT-TX]

I put quite a few miles on a New Holland rake in the 1960s. The rakes, compared to some other brands, are a compact, maneuverable design that works very well.

[@JustaFewAcresFarm]

IMO, New Holland is the Cadillac of rakes.

[@T_157-40]

Appreciate just watching.

[@tinkerinbruce6560]

Great video! I used to square bale a lot of hay each year with a 300 Farmall, what a great tractor to bale with! Get in heavy hay and the governor would really gat a work out! Nice lookin round bales!

[@garysheftic6523]

Like the shows

[@randywilliams9531]

Looks like the 856 is strong and can get the job done

[@lukemiller5529]

Pretty cool I am 14 and some day I wanna do hay on a farm

[@mr.happyfunguy3772]

Excellent idea, Pete. GOD bless

[@markwest1922]

We enjoy watching your videos. Tasteful informative and full of hard work. We should all remember to watch the adds to completion it takes money from u tube and gives it to the small hard working business owner Thanks

[@sandymaholik5506]

Great filming that tractor work. Maybe add the pickup of your round bails.

[@daviddjerassi]

This is not live because your fields are in drought and this is a beautiful grass mix loved the video thanks.

[@JustaFewAcresFarm]

No, not live. Thankfully we got 1 2/3” rain yesterday.

[@threeangelsdiesel]

Pete I love it i miss baling hay and straw

[@bretdavisdmd]

I can’t believe there’s no airbag on that tractor! Cheers, Safety Sammy

[@JustaFewAcresFarm]

I can't believe I've lived this long without one!

[@gary24752]

@@JustaFewAcresFarm Having almost turned a tractor upside down there is no protection other than a roll bar which I did not have at the time. I want to be able to pile off the tractor if need be. I made the mistake of pushing the clutch in going up a hill. I instantly realized my mistake and let the clutch out which was mistake no. 2. The tractor started pivoting on the rear axle like wild horse rearing. I was glad I had good brakes. Can't remember how I got out of it now as it has been too long.

[@alexandert6489]

My uncle has a couple really old farmalls that he uses that was bought in 1950's by my grandfather

[@TheStormisComing24]

Loved it thank you.

[@dustycreekfarm6093]

keep on farming

[@jaypino2642]

Awesome!

[@Mrs245262]

I too could watch this all day the only thing missi g is the smell of the hay and the dust in your eyes no chance you could hook my lounge chair in behind i guess 😁

[@brandoncaldwell95]

If only i could get my field that smooth. Right now is between 1 and 2mph shredding. 1 section was plowed a while back but never disk harrowed down. Darn disks are expensive too. I need a heavy 8ft pull behind.

[@alanerickson2391]

Very good vid

[@rockeerockey6941]

Thanks Pete, been watching your videos on autoplay, so far I've made it here! Great content indeed! Reminds me of the old days of my youth 60's & 70's. Can you make a video (perhaps you have) about safety, we should remind ourselves that farming is the most dangerous occupation there is. Thanks Rock

[@MaynardFamilyHomestead]

Man I didn’t know goldenrod grew in New York state! It is in full bloom here in northern Florida too.

[@pixaxeprepper384]

Pride in what your work is rewarding. It must take time to move the camera to get those close up videos. The appearance of coming up to the camera looks like you will run over it. Excellent footage. Must have a supply of camera batteries? I saw a video of a bailer catching fire. Hope that never happens. Excellent Sunday video with coffee.

[@greatnorthern706]

Is this older “stock” footage Pete? Those fields don’t look so dry to me!

[@JustaFewAcresFarm]

Yes it's from earlier in the year.

[@charlesthomas5737]

Pet, do your self a favor and get a four star tedder so you can do two windrows , it is faster and it will do a better job scattering the hay and you know the hay is going to dry a lot faster after two or three tedding's. Your window of dry weather to get hay in is most of the time is only three days.

[@JustaFewAcresFarm]

Yes, wanted to buy one at auction this year but auctions were few & far between with Covid!

[@canadianHAWK3]

Very nice.

[@press2701]

Very relaxing. I imagine wistfully, this same tractor, perhaps, was doing this same job in 1939, as WWII was getting started....

[@CharlesWT-TX]

The tractors in the video are more of the Vietnam war era.

[@press2701]

@@CharlesWT-TX Pete mentionned his was ca 1929. www.tractordata.com/farm-tractors/000/2/9/290-farmall-h.html

[@charlienorton2337]

@@press2701 his farmall f20 is a 1939 but the tractors in this video are late 60s/70s

[@theburnhams2925]

These haying videos are fun to watch, but honestly, would YOU want to be one of Pete's cameras?!?

[@bradpoppe1801]

Awesome video Pete!

[@pinesedgefarm1155]

Awesome footage, it's always fun watching someone else make hay. Is that 656 a gold demonstrator? Thanks for sharing.

[@jasongoltz9026]

I used to use a Gehl 1400 on a John Deere 730 diesel.

[@good_king_guitarman1334]

I find this to be rather therapeutic.

[@jimh1369]

Santa or a wealthy benefactor needs to bring you a 3 or 4 crown tedder.

[@JustaFewAcresFarm]

I would love that!!

[@jacoblatshaw3004]

Great video

[@joebarwick7779]

love to see old IH equipment in use my dad used to work for our dealer here in enid before they closed business because here its all the green money pit everyone uses i had a old IH pickup man was it a horse im looking for another pickup that's a IH

[@leecarroll1817]

Like you my late Dad swore by Farmalls, loved the sound of them and despised the sound of John Deere. Yes we had a JD and was a good ole dog but Dad did not like it and in its defence made good power, it was a 1938 A JOHN Deere.

[@theburnhams2925]

....and aren't side-delivery rakes a WONDER?!