Hay Press Pickup

Nebraska Cowman · May 16, 2010

talking to Jack Preston at the Farm & Ranch museum at Gering NE and they are featuring corn this year. But we got to talking about hay. The museum has a rubber tired late model IH hay press and he claims there was a ground driven pickup attachment made for it. He would really like to find one to demonstrate. The museum has their show every year in sept and does a lot of demonstrations they always dig potatos and beets. One year my friend Larry took his double mowers and cut hay. Like I said this year is corn. Picking corn, husking corn, shelling, grinding binding and shocking and ensilage cutting. And if I left anything out they will be planting and cultivating too.

Sam#3 · May 16, 2010

I can't tell you anything about the pickup attachments to which you refer but you do bring up an interesting discussion topic.
Dad worked out a lot in my early years doing a lot of farm work including feeding a stationary hay press (balers they were called here). He once spoke of seeing a baler with a pickup but still a manual tie.
Over the years questions would pop into my mind about how the whole process took place. The big question was about the tie and backwire guys. Did they ride or walk along side? How did they retrieve the tie blocks if they were riding? Were the machines horse or tractor drawn?
Has anyone here seen one of these balers in operation?

Athol Carr · May 16, 2010

The IHC No 15 hay-press had a close relative in the No 15 baler. The basic baler unit was the same as the hay-press but there were seats on the side for the person tying the wires and the pick-up was ground-wheel driven on the right of the press. There was another person required at the back of the pick-up unit to feed the hay into the baling chamber. the unit was powered either with the IHC 5 HP LB radiator cooled single cylinder engine or a Continental Y-69 four cylinder engine. These connected via belt drive to the press. The pick-up unit could be disconnected and attached to the back of the unit for transporting. They generally seemed to be fitted with four rubber tyred wheels for the press unit and another smaller rubber tyre on the outside of the pick-up. A minimum of three men were required a tractor driver, a man feeding the hay from the pick-up to the baling chamber and at least one wire tyer.
There is photograph or two in Wendel's book "150 Years of International Harvester" pages 38 and 39. I have a copy of the operators manual somewhere but not close at hand.

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