Hay Making 1950's Part 2

[@rocket78able]

Love all those uncovered shafts, belts and fly wheels. Men were men in those days. My uncle had a 50T, always had trouble getting the engine started. I Had a B46, 47 and a 440 in my time. They got more reliable with each model update. Got to love the music you got with these old movie clips.

[@jimtwisted1984]

I love that dog running around.

[@OldDogNewTrick]

Part of my life. I baled hay with a similar McCormick baler in the 1950s. It had a small engine in front instead of power take-off from the tractor.

[@danielheckmann4898]

I love these old Equipment. Thanks for upload 👍 👍 👍

[@casedoumasr656]

Great seeing this we had a 3 wheel McCormick baler had a single wheel on front and hitch with the stationary engine I think it was a t45 crank start worked and great tie on the bales .🇺🇸🤔👍

[@johnrohr246]

the first baler I owned was an IH 45. Never did work very well. Second was a Case. Worked a little better but a lot of work to unjam hay from the pickup through the bale chamber. Last one was a Ford 532. This one was the best. Pretty much the same design as a New Holland. I still have it, but not used in a few years.

[@wichywoo]

we used a b46 and an mf 701 right until my father retired 10 years ago and both balers worked very well indeed despite their age . i found they worked better with the old type string opposed to the nylon stuff . great vid , thanks for posting :o)

[@phillipcleaver7063]

Nice to hear someone else has done this , with the same balers , your sisal string tied better in the earlier knotters possibly because it was thicker diameter , I had to get British Ropes field engineer involved to get our Massey 124 to tie plastic string , some original parts were damaged or slightly bent , but it worked for many years afterwards , & very fast through the crop . Best sisal we used was Wahlbeck's Pressgarn , but could only get it for one summer . What engine did you have on your 701 ? , Happy Windrows .

[@Antiquetractorsetc]

Very cool video. Makes me wish it was summer and I could bale hay.

[@mikegroat7732]

How much longer did it take someone to realize if you hooked a wagon up behind the baler, you could eliminate that truck and conveyor. LOL

[@arthurdewith7608]

ive falln off a haywagon 5 layers high on a rough field

[@mikegroat7732]

@@arthurdewith7608, I remember, sitting on top of 5 high one time, going up a hill...and the back support broke off..lol...went head over heals

[@arthurdewith7608]

so many ways to pick up bales bale thrower is ok if u have lots of wagons or 3 men handling and driving but who has 3 men usually it's 1 or 2 if ur lucky the method in the video has been modified to were hydraulics live bales to make a stack on the wagon with one man and piled into a bigger stack without touching a bale or use a loader grab to lift 8 bales onto and unload from the wagon and stack one man not touching bales except to straighten up bales in the stack one man

[@fredkorth9715]

The 45 baler was a time consumer, the baler missed so many knots, so you spent ground time redoing the knots, I had one with a WD allis chalmers, the normal baling time per 80 bale load averaged one hour in field.

[@arthurdewith7608]

baler was nothing special loose bales

[@leslieholman3121]

Looks like haying season at my farm. Mow with a j I case 475 mower conditioner rake with a farmall 200 and 2 point fast hitch rake and bale with a McCormick 46 baler .

[@jwhitley101whitleyfarms9]

Good heavy hay even way back when

[@arthurdewith7608]

loose hay was much easier on the back to handle the worst invention was the small square baler and the best was the big round bales

[@louwesjeroen]

What type of international pick-up truck was shown in the film? The little blue one. Nice video thanks!

[@absoluteauthority08]

it's spelled "baling" "baler." "bales" "baleage", bale being root word, not bail LOL. Sounds like english class all over again. Whenever our 46 had problems, we would borrow my uncle's 45. I dreaded seeing that machine come into the yard because dad wouldn't change its settings, it made monstrously long heavy bales compared to the settings on our 46.

[@br927]

I hooked loads of hay off a IH#46

[@ArmpitStudios]

Bitchen loader that attached to the truck for 1950s.