Hay Basket

An ol' boy up in South Dakota took this picture of a nice old Farmhand hay head. Those were the days. :>)

Allan

I've never seen one of those before.

Now that you mention it, it is snowin'. :>)

Yep, these old things were a lot of work, but they were light years ahead of the darned small square bales.

Ever get your hydraulics figured out?

Allan

Once I find a chance, it's going to get new fluids and filters, and I'm going to try to get a friend to come turn her injection pump down a little.
Based on what I posted, I have reason to believe it's a clogged filter that isn't intalled right, since it drips a little around the cover plate.

It wasn't even autumn before I was tired of winter!

If ya have a neighbor move in 100 miles away, it is really gettin' overcrowed. :>)

Winter just started and I'm sick of it! :>(

Allan

Allan,thought you couldnt wait for winter to try your open air snowplow.

steveormary

Aw yeah, we had one of those "X" braced Farmhands too early on and it was kind of a ritual every summer to keep the darned teeth in those old things.

My dad had it hung on the M and it was after blowing three tires on that single front end in one day, that he started buying the wide front ends. :>)

The day the new F-10 came with those three hydraulic controls and the big steel hay sweep, I remember thinkin' how utterly lucky we were in those days to have that kind of technology.

Boy! There were a lot of changes in 50 years. Then later on, I thought those NH 850 series balers were the absolute cat's meow.

Allan