Small baler out of hibernation, will it work?

[@graemebowyer4901]

Flat 8's, takes me back to the mid/late 70's Farmhand F 12 and Ford 5000 cabless, great days, miss them terribly.

[@ronaldlucas5360]

Looking good 👍

[@justinglenn1844]

Great video Andrew,just wondering if you have time to give a review on the new Massey,but also wondering you could give the history on the 165 and the,don’t know the number ,but the two wheel drive cab Massey on the square baler too ,thanks again and have a blessed evening

[@paulwilliams3494]

Beauty..........! Actually as satisfying or more pleasing than spending a fortune on a new shiny one and parading it around the parish................. without the mortgage ! 😎 Great little set up 😉

[@nook788]

You are right. It’s hard enough to make a profit without spending it on fancy gear. Farming must be one of the only professions that can’t name a price for their produce and have to take what they are offered.

[@farmercornwall]

Thank you.

[@nook788]

When we were kids we used to ride on the hay load back to the barn. How things have changed with health and safety.

[@julianhawker7672]

My first memories of haymaking as a child, in the steep fields above St Morgan (not to far from you I suspect) are of a red newholland baler and sledge operated by a rope that just left bales in windrows across the fields . We then stacked these in 6 uprights, they were lifted onto small trailers with wooden headboards with a perry loader grab with a old Zetor loader and stacked interlocking (by hand) then back to the barn sitting onto the trailer for more manual unloading, stacking. Tea in the field sat on the bales, happy but hard days. I remember thinking I had died and gone to heaven when flat eight arrived! Round bales later again were manor from heaven, with all tractor work. 😉😆

[@nickbeer2658]

Yep I was a kid in the 70s and did much the same in N Devon - for fun! I loved it (I guess 'cos it was optional for me). I tended to be on the bale trailer with older lads picking/forking individual bales or groups from the sledge up to us on the trailer for us to stack.

[@nook788]

Yes I remember the harvests in the early 70s on our family farm In Fryup North Yorkshire all the neighbours pitched in. Harvest teas in the field . Such community spirit back then . Farming now seems to be a very lonely occupation.

[@Dave.w-ev9qn1962]

Yes hay making was very labour intensive before the round baler came along. And very stressful too! Remember my uncle tapping the barometer in the hallway every time he walked past the thing 🤣

[@farmercornwall]

Being able to wrap bales had made it much easier, we make less hay every year, seems more difficult to make every year. My father always used to do the same with the barometer.😂

[@mikeclifton7778]

Great video as ever. I worked at the farm where my father worked and they had a Welger AP12K, a Cook sledge laying 4 in a line endways and four in a line on top, then we had to rearrange them into square 4 on top of square 4 to be picked up with a Saunders One Man Bale Loader on a 1967 MF 165, good times.

[@farmercornwall]

Thank you.

[@Rye-Mad-Loc]

Awesome video, very tidy stack. Looks good. Just curious on how many and what animals you run on farm and how many acres?

[@farmercornwall]

Thank you, we have approximately 120 cattle, 150 ewes and about 300 acres.

[@AnthonyRoberts-e6z]

Many years ago had take put on front and back of mf 35 24 bales a time quite a load for small tractor

[@farmercornwall]

We had take puts on the front and back of a 135 years ago, we mostly just used one on the front loader and loaded trailers.