81 road loader and 77 big baler

[@haywhatbringsyouhere]

Baler was built in 1977 Video taken 1981 Baler made 10 wire bales 90”W x 96” Long weighing 600lbs in wheat straw. Powered by 377 Perkins MF combine engine 2-100GPM hydraulic pumps operating the plunger. Loader was constructed in 1981 powered by 6v53 Detroit and 643 Allison automatic transmission

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[@lukestrawwalker]

That's an amazing machine... VERY cool. Did it only do straw or hay as well? Last time we did small squares was back in about 79 IIRC... Grandpa and Dad paid for the Shiner farm (160 acres) doing up to 40,000 small squares a year... LOT of work back in the old days it was all by hand except for the old hay elevator to go into the barn with it, but all picked up off the field, stacked on the trailer, unstacked onto the elevator, then stacked in the barn BY HAND. They sold a LOT of their hay to the Hagen's cattle auction barn in nearby Hallettsville, TX and that basically saved the farm, because cotton farming on it was a bust LOL:) I was about 9-10 last time we handled small squares, but I remember it well... no fun at all, particularly in SE TX in 100 degree plus heat in summertime. Lots of manpower required and even feeding was a pain-- Grandma drove the truck while Grandpa and I cut twine and flaked bales apart off the back of the trailer as she puttered around the farm slowly. Hired help to pick up bales off the field and stack into the barn was getting hard to find even by the late 70's as people didn't want to do that kind of work anymore for the going rates. Grandpa decided in 79 or 80 to trade off the old Ford 532 small square baler on a Ford 552 (Gehl 1400 painted blue) round baler... night and day difference! Good thing too because he passed away in Feb of 83 and Grandma and I basically ran the farms within a couple years after that. Load up hay at Needville haul it 90 miles to Shiner to feed cows, pull the bales off the trailer with a rope and tractor. NO WAY we could have done that with small squares. Had something like this been available we might have stuck with squares. Rounds DO have their drawbacks-- transport and storage losses primarily, which can add up. Only real benefit is low HP requirements for round baling and no-hands-on-required hay making, moving, stacking, transport, and feeding. That's HUGE right there. Another biggie is "no barn required-- outdoor storage CAN work" reducing overhead costs, taxes on buildings, and upkeep, but the losses to the hay are higher outdoor stored than indoor, though we take steps to mitigate it as we can. If we had these modern bale accumulators and grapples to stack, we might have stuck with small squares... But these "medium squares" make a lot of sense. Too bad it wasn't commercialized and didn't catch on in a bigger way. Later! OL J R :)

[@makingithappen9722]

The driver has long hair and wide jeans. This should be in the 70's.

[@haywhatbringsyouhere]

Making it Happen Not quite 1981 was the date Baler used 10 wires to tie bales Powered by Perkins 377 combine engine. Plunger hydraulic using 200 gpm pump. Loader powered by 6v53 Detroit/ Allison 643 transmission

[@markrskinner]

Two VERY cool machines.

[@ginggur17]

Never seen either of these kind of machines before.

[@verncutshall5950]

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[@jankotze1959]

Very nice machines, never seen these before, really great

[@herbhouston5378]

That's an amazing concept!!!

[@ginggur17]

Nice

[@craigsimon935]

I made a lot of hay with a truck mounted loader. I have to wonder what was the set up of the loader truck - was there a reverse driving system in the cab so that he didn't have to look backwards and were the multiple gears in reverse/loading position? The loaders I used had the transmission and seating and controls reversed so that the driver was always looking toward what was the back of the truck. The reason for doing this instead of a loader on a tractor was that you had the dual wheels and suspension to support the weight, could go 30+ mph and had a suspension ride. Made haymaking much faster.

[@haywhatbringsyouhere]

Craig Simon Yes it has reversed driving 2 steering wheels dual controls Cummings 5.9 from a 2000 school bus, Allison automatic,hydraulic lift 5th wheel for semi trailer allows moving and spotting trailer in field without leaving seat

[@user-bc3pc5gu2y]

I've seen lots of modern trucks that seem like they only have reverse drive, because it always seems the driver is looking backwards, especially when driving forwards.

[@johnt7232]

Great to see machinery like that operating , but it must be ancient as the quality of the film leaves a lot to be desired

[@farmcentralohio]

lol kids today are so clueless

[@user-bc3pc5gu2y]

@@farmcentralohio seriously! They don't know that in the early eighties the cellphone cameras weren't even close to the quality of those today.

[@lukestrawwalker]

@@user-bc3pc5gu2y There were no cellphone cameras in the early 80's... back then you had a car phone IF you were lucky and could afford to pay the BIG bill back then to have cellular service. Digital cameras were basically laboratory experiments when this was filmed, probably this was taken on a camcorder probably VHS or Beta back then and transferred to digital to upload to KZbin... Later! OL J R:)

[@haywhatbringsyouhere]

luke strawwalker an early can corder

[@haywhatbringsyouhere]

You are right Luke!

[@piperdoug428]

Funny you could still use that truck/loader today following a bale accumulator

[@haywhatbringsyouhere]

PIPER DOUG we still use the loader/ semi for 10 bale Accualator packages and 3x4 bales, 2500 lb lift capacity 18’ reach height.

[@ericlakota6512]

Nice set up but must say the man operating it is dam fast it wouldent be as efficient with just any one runing it

[@craigsimon935]

Interesting concept but I find the bale size strange. If you are going big why not go taller as well and pack more in each bale.

[@haywhatbringsyouhere]

Craig Simon the reason for the height was no big square balers existed in 1977 so we obtained standardized 16” chamber tying parts and just multiplied the width to 10 ties or 5 -18” wide 2 tie bales feeding hay from the bottom had not been done before so to make a taller bale seemed to difficult. The 8’x8’ x16” gave us the same dimensions as 10 small bales and stacks were very stable. Also curing was better than thicker bales. We built 3 of these between 1977 and 1996

[@haywhatbringsyouhere]

Also it didn’t require a double knot system that is used on most big balers.

[@batcoifgaming7815]

@@haywhatbringsyouhere did you ever consider making a very high capacity small baler with this concept?

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