Norfolk Haymaking Exclusive

[@johndeere1951a]

My cousin still operates my uncles D2 Cat which was the first new tractor my uncle bought in 1950. The hay elevator has been sleeping under an Oak tree for many decades now. The 300+acre farm is still selling 4x5 round hay, Hammondsport, New York. The finger Lake Region. Wine country now. I love your channel. Vintage is very relaxing. Cheers from New Hampshire 🇺🇲✌️💚

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Many thanks for your support.

[@stephenpoessl5464]

You can't beat the smell of new hay it brings back memories of my youth.

[@Casterton-Vintage]

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[@paulflynn9351]

Once again a brilliant video thank you

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Thanks again!

[@pauldeacy9989]

Feeling honoured that through you we all got an invite to such a special event! Many machines that I've never seen before. Great vid as always. I was getting that hay smell watching it

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it.

[@alexthomson719]

Thanks again that was excellent and brought back very happy memories from 70 years ago 😀🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Glad you enjoyed it.

[@johnd7288]

Nice to see the old machines at work ! Great video again thumbs up !

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Many thanks!

[@Phil-The-Gardener]

This is amazing. The early implaments I have seen in action behind horses at dorset steam fair, The baler etc I remember from growing up in the 70s early 80s. I spent many happy hours loading trailers with bales before the flat 8 came along

[@Casterton-Vintage]

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[@philipcounsell4709]

It a time when everyone could enjoy haymaking, and did it more for the pleasure of working hard. And enjoying the cider and the tea laid on by the farmers wife . That pleasure is now gone. 👍👍

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Haymaking in this changing climate is becoming a real challenge! Glad you enjoyed the video.

[@charleshart6992]

Another excellent video. I was lucky enough to live on various RAF bases during my childhood and saw many of the machines on display here - great memories

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Thanks for sharing

[@IanPothecary-dx1jd]

Great to see the machines in action doing what they were made for. Thank You for sharing with us, Cheers Poth.

[@Casterton-Vintage]

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[@rare_wubbox360]

This was a Great video. Thanks!

[@Casterton-Vintage]

You're very welcome!

[@paulthompson8467]

Good video the small square baler saved the farmer alot of work i think they're a very underrated invention 👍

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Agreed.

[@casto-]

What a cracking day! Always like seeing the old haymaking ways and count my self lucky I’ve a baler and flat 8😆. I remember as a kid on holiday behind my grandparents in Austria, helping (as much as and under 8 can) load hay onto a trailer from stacks (or even from wires between poles) being pulled by a 2 cylinder steyr tractor. The farmer still made hay the traditional way out there

[@Casterton-Vintage]

I remember when we changed to a flat 8 and it was much better!

[@johndeere1951a]

My grass cutter is a 1951 John Deere "A" with a JD No5 7-foot sickle power mower. I clean up fields on our 1790 farm in New Hampshire 🇺🇲 ✌️💚

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Very nice!

[@noelstractors-firewood57]

Great hay making video. There is still a Taylor Forbes, I believe that’s the name of it, horse drawn sickle mower in the woods on my land. That’s a way before my time. But I remember the square baler , and hay wagon came along after and the bales were loaded by hand from the field to the wagon. Thanks very much for the video.

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks.

[@MrBusdriver63]

A excellent video. I am a retired Dairy Farmer. Hi from Australia.

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Thanks for watching. Glad you enjoyed it.

[@ishure8849]

G'day CV, we crop about eighty acres of lucerne, I mow it with a Ford 2600 and a Taarup 204 then rake it with a 1962 Fordson super dexta I have a MF 35 as back up so it was great to see them both on your video. a contractor presses them into small squares then I have two Acco 610A International trucks that we attach a mobile load paddock elevator to . The 62 year old Dexta pulling a New Holland super 56 rake without any computers burns a gallon an hour. the turning circle of those little tractors and the wonderful action of the old rake allow me to plat windrows and maximise recovery 👍.

[@Casterton-Vintage]

I bet that would make a great video. Thanks for sharing .

[@ishure8849]

I've recorded a few over the last five years you never know👍🇦🇺.

[@Steeps1969]

When I was a lad! 😅 On the farm we had a sled towed behind the square baler, and I used to stack the bales in whatever stack was good for the forklift grab... Too long ago now for details, I'm afraid! But when the mini stack was good, pull the lever, the stack was left behind and on we went to do the next. At the close of the day, the farm owner often would tip up with one of those big cans on beer. A party seven? long time ago, but we'd all have a beer. I was about 14 at the time. Happy days!😀

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Great memories

[@Dextamartijn]

Very nice to see the vintage equipment doing its keep

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Thanks. There is a lot more old equipment on my channel.

[@simongleed]

I simply love content like this 😊

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Thanks. I try to capture as much like this as I can.

[@simongleed]

Thank you and please do keep up with this fantastic interesting content.

[@TheHertfordshirefarmer35]

When is Carrington rally going to come out because I was there on the tractor on tour stand with a Mf 35 and grey Fergie

[@Casterton-Vintage]

You are getting ahead of me now 🤣 Carrington will be in a number of parts and the first part will be from the working filed. Hopefully that will be this Sunday at 6pm. Glad you enjoy the videos.

[@TheHertfordshirefarmer35]

@@Casterton-Vintage yeah looking forward to it if you were there on Sunday I was the kid on the 35 cultivating

[@andrewwilson6085]

I remember using a Nicholson side delivery rake in the late 1960s. We used it with a David Brown cropmaster. The rake had a habit of flying in pieces, ( but being young lads, we were probably going faster than in your video!) 😂

[@Casterton-Vintage]

👍😂

[@lewisgardner1660]

Very enjoyable video thank you

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@lewisgardner1660]

@@Casterton-Vintage do you come down Sudbury way to shows? I normally find they have been and gone

[@Casterton-Vintage]

@@lewisgardner1660 Depends what the show is but haven't been that way recently.

[@shirleydrury5565]

The drawbar is way to low!! Thank you for some great memories ❤much enjoyed😊regards❤😊

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks.

[@jckhinks253]

the video keeps stopping momentary, dont know if you do otherwise brings back good memories, thanks

[@Casterton-Vintage]

I've checked it and I see this near the end. Is that what you see? It must me something KZbin related because I checked the original file and it is good. Hope this didn't spoil it for you.

[@bobpaterson1845]

Good video 👍 think a few of the niggles were caused by equipment being well restored with paint to preserve them when back in the day all the metal tines etc would have been bright shiny metal preserved by a light coating of goose fat or similar 🤔 was surprised that the dexta which looked quite an early model was actually a live drive which enabled the tractor gearbox to be clutched but allow the pto to keep running 👍 we ran one of these McConnell bale slaves and often thought the amount of work involved in piling up the bales for it was just as well done by forking the bales directly onto the trailers 😁

[@Casterton-Vintage]

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[@John-rr4zz]

They needed a decent garden rake issued to all of the blokes. There seemed to be more hay left scattered on the field than they started with. still it gave the machinery a run.

[@Casterton-Vintage]

😂

[@JoTa8389-gu9vi]

We had a group of young men in our area that would work, so every summer we would pick up square bales for neighbors. Word was spread about us and we had all the work we wanted. So we had money for the rest of the summer. Then came drivers license and cars and part time jobs and girlfriends so I only helped the neighbor across the road after that.

[@Casterton-Vintage]

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[@michaelcoker3197]

Private?

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Invitation only.

[@glennlingard7851]

Things could have gone better for them lot.

[@Casterton-Vintage]

Yes they could of had more luck but they put on a good demo and we enjoyed it very much, including the little problems.

[@glennlingard7851]

@@Casterton-Vintage yes they absolutely did, thanks again!

[@alanmitchell7322]

No place in a hay padock for a crawler tractor

[@Casterton-Vintage]

I'm guessing it a case of using what you have.

[@TMxl-w5t]

A bit to much hay, for the machinery they were using, but it's still good to how things were done 👍

[@Casterton-Vintage]

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[@glennlingard7851]

Remember my dad using a converted horse drawn hay rake and then using his mechanical hay loader but the next thing l knew was he bought a vicon acrobat and an international b45 baler, mum was on the sledge, Nuffield universal with a loader and Bamford bale grab, everything was slow but they got it it done🙂

[@Casterton-Vintage]

@@glennlingard7851 👍👍

[@alanak3210]

Good job this lot does not have to earn a living doing this - they would have been sent packing from the farms I worked on.

[@Casterton-Vintage]

🤣 We enjoyed watching them though!