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bubbaobait · May 12, 2011

Will a farmall b run a 24t hay baler

sflem849 · May 12, 2011

I say no, it would be even worse since it would be under powered and you couldn't push the clutch in to let it catch up.

SouthernFarmall · May 12, 2011

A B would be hard pressed to pull that baler. Definitely not with a wagon hooked behind it. I'm not saying it can't do it, but to run that baler on such a little tractor would be a huge load.
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LMack · May 12, 2011

No way unless the bailer has its own power unit. You definitely need live PTO to run a bailer and the B does not have live PTO. You also need about 32 horses to pull a square bailer. The B will handle a pull behind hay rake fine however.

bubbaobait · May 12, 2011

i didnt think it would either my dad thought maybe it would so i thought id ask tanks everyone

sflem849 · May 13, 2011

(quoted from post at 19:26:56 05/12/11) No way unless the bailer has its own power unit. You definitely need live PTO to run a bailer and the B does not have live PTO. You also need about 32 horses to pull a square bailer. The B will handle a pull behind hay rake fine however.

Yep, the rake is where the B fits just perfect. Truthfully, unless you have all the special B only attatchements that is about the only place where a B is handy to have.

gene bender · May 13, 2011

They baled a lot of hay in their day. You dont need live power to bale hay how do you think we baled before live power. You got to remember in those days we didnt have all the new seed,fert and so forth so a single 7ft windrow was the way it was done and the B could handle that.

gene bender · May 13, 2011

If you do a good job of raking a single swath you can. I have a friend who said they even pulled an A-C 5ft combine with theirs. In their day those little tractors did tons of jobs on the farm. I can remember three neighbors farmed 80A and the B was the only tractor they had.

Bspauld · May 13, 2011

I spent many hours loading bales on wagons behind a 8N, about the same power, My brother in law farmed several years with a JD D and a Farmall B ,he farmed 360 acres

teddy52food · May 13, 2011

Back in the days we were farming, we made many bales with a B. A single 7 foot windrew & dropped them on the ground. That was with a IHC 45 balor. The best we did was a thousand bales one day.

Chadd · May 13, 2011

You definitely DON'T need live PTO to run a baler. Is it preferred... certainly. I bale at least twice or three times a year with our W6 with no hydraulics and a non-independent PTO on our MF 124 square baler. In heavy first cutting or with multiple windrows raked together, 1st gear is a must, but under normal conditions second or third are very do-able. Will it compete in productivity with my 806D? No, but it sure can be fun to see what that old iron is capable of. I'd much rather use our W6 than our 574 with the C-200 4 cylinder.

My grandfather used a Farmall C for several years with a 50T pulling a wagon along behind, but both balers had pony motors. Only problem was that the tongue weight of that heavy baler bent and/or tore the drawbar repeatedly.

IH fan · May 13, 2011

We sometimes pulled a NH 77 with a C, but not with a hayrack behind it and the 77 had a 21 HP Wisconson motor on it. If it had been pto or we had tried to load behind the baler... no way!

sflem849 · May 13, 2011

Sorry, I didn't mean to say you MUST have live power either for a baler. When you are way under powered (ie Farmall B on 24T baler) it starts to become pretty handy.

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