gcreekrch
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..... we should take up a collection and buy RA a motor powered baler before he dies of heat stoke or frustration. 
Wonder if......
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leanin' H
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Sure! :???: He gets a baler and i beat myself to death fencing but my so-called pals won't cough up a powered post pounder? :lol: :lol: I see where i rate around here! I will send money to the "Bailout a Baler" program!
I will send money to the "Bailout a Baler" program! rancherfred
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Sorry H, we just know a lost cause when we see it. You have posted too many pictures of rocks for us to waste our money on a pounder for you. Besides, building fence the way you do builds character. It also gives you time to contemplate the sins of ranching you have committed. Namely, goat herding. Just think of your fence building as penance.
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gcreekrch
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R A said:I'll pitch in for such a worthy cause!!!..hehe
That's funny, gcreek!
Maybe if I went and got a town job I would have money for better equipment
True, but then your kids wouldn't have a parent at home. :wink:
leanin' H
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rancherfred said:
Those 2 dang goats were paid for years ago! :???: :lol: But i probably have other stuff to repent for ya'll don't know about! :shock: I know, you thought i was as pure as the driven snow. And you're right, if the snow was driven through a hog pen and then took a lap around mud bog! :wink:
gcreekrch said:R A said:I'll pitch in for such a worthy cause!!!..hehe
That's funny, gcreek!
Maybe if I went and got a town job I would have money for better equipment
True, but then your kids wouldn't have a parent at home. :wink:
Exactly! That's the number one reason I stay at home!!!
Hayguy
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maybe get a job at the JD store as a baler mechanic, :wink: already you probably know more than their "technician's". and your wages can go directly to the parts department :lol: :lol: makes one consider one of the "stringless" hay systems doesn't it :wink:
I'll grab an app today while I'm there. just kidden I don't know crap yet about this baler, but find it odd I can already talk over the heads of some of these farmers around here that have ran one for many a year. :???: I'm not trying to brag at all!!!...they just must not of wanted to mess with them???
I have an idea of putting up a cheap long lean-to someday where I hay the cows in the winter. Then just mow and rake the hay. Use a specially made oversized pitchfork on the front end loader of a tractor to load the loose hay on a flat bed trailer, then push it off the wagon and up in the shed with it. I'd love to use something like those beaver slides up north, but I think I would lose a lot of hay to weather here.
Love the picture of using a team to rake that hay!!!
just kidden I don't know crap yet about this baler, but find it odd I can already talk over the heads of some of these farmers around here that have ran one for many a year. :???: I'm not trying to brag at all!!!...they just must not of wanted to mess with them??? I have an idea of putting up a cheap long lean-to someday where I hay the cows in the winter. Then just mow and rake the hay. Use a specially made oversized pitchfork on the front end loader of a tractor to load the loose hay on a flat bed trailer, then push it off the wagon and up in the shed with it. I'd love to use something like those beaver slides up north, but I think I would lose a lot of hay to weather here.
Love the picture of using a team to rake that hay!!!
loomixguy
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R A said:
It's called an F-10 FarmHand loader with a hay sweep head. I grew up on that thing.
katrina
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Man.... We've all been in RA's shoes at some point in time on ranchers... Oh the memories! loomixguy
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katrina said:
I learned how to drive running a D-17 Allis Chalmers with an F-10 mounted on it, bucking up little round bales baled with an Allis Roto-Baler. Musta bucked several jillion of 'em in piles. The little rounds shed water pretty good.
That old Allis and a '62 Chevy pickup taught me how to drive, cuss, dip snuff, spit, and how to let one roll down hill and let the clutch out to get 'em to start. Dad was too cheap to put a good battery in either one of those machines. Some of those memories ain't all that great, Katrina... :x :x
Thank God for Round balers, If I never see another square baler again be fine with me, Dont get me wrong square bales definetly have their place on the ranch if you have help and time just dont work for what I do..................good luck
katrina
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loomixguy said:katrina said:
I learned how to drive running a D-17 Allis Chalmers with an F-10 mounted on it, bucking up little round bales baled with an Allis Roto-Baler. Musta bucked several jillion of 'em in piles. The little rounds shed water pretty good.
That old Allis and a '62 Chevy pickup taught me how to drive, cuss, dip snuff, spit, and how to let one roll down hill and let the clutch out to get 'em to start. Dad was too cheap to put a good battery in either one of those machines. Some of those memories ain't all that great, Katrina... :x :x
Sorry...... I was just thinking about all the times the guys and girls her on ranchers have come to my rescue in some form or way whether from words of acvice or comfort.... Sorry...
Hayguy
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loomixguy said:katrina said:
I learned how to drive running a D-17 Allis Chalmers with an F-10 mounted on it, bucking up little round bales baled with an Allis Roto-Baler. Musta bucked several jillion of 'em in piles. The little rounds shed water pretty good.
That old Allis and a '62 Chevy pickup taught me how to drive, cuss, dip snuff, spit, and how to let one roll down hill and let the clutch out to get 'em to start. Dad was too cheap to put a good battery in either one of those machines. Some of those memories ain't all that great, Katrina... :x :x
funny how two people so far apart have the same work experience, uncle had D17,farmhand,roto-baler and his was 61 chevy. spent my summers getting to know each piece and bale personally. truck had a battery though,all of his tractors had hand crank's :lol: :lol:
loomixguy
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katrina said:loomixguy said:katrina said:
I learned how to drive running a D-17 Allis Chalmers with an F-10 mounted on it, bucking up little round bales baled with an Allis Roto-Baler. Musta bucked several jillion of 'em in piles. The little rounds shed water pretty good.
That old Allis and a '62 Chevy pickup taught me how to drive, cuss, dip snuff, spit, and how to let one roll down hill and let the clutch out to get 'em to start. Dad was too cheap to put a good battery in either one of those machines. Some of those memories ain't all that great, Katrina... :x :x
Sorry...... I was just thinking about all the times the guys and girls her on ranchers have come to my rescue in some form or way whether from words of acvice or comfort.... Sorry...
It's OK. I just remember killing the tractor or pickup once in a while and then enjoying the fresh air and 100 degree heat while walking to somebody's place who might be home so I could use the phone and call for rescue. Then Dad chewing my azz for a while, generally from where he picked me up til we got whatever it was started. Dad would have been 90 today, and I'd gladly take one of his chewing outs now at anytime. It's been too long since I've had one from him.
loomixguy
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hayguy said:loomixguy said:katrina said:
I learned how to drive running a D-17 Allis Chalmers with an F-10 mounted on it, bucking up little round bales baled with an Allis Roto-Baler. Musta bucked several jillion of 'em in piles. The little rounds shed water pretty good.
That old Allis and a '62 Chevy pickup taught me how to drive, cuss, dip snuff, spit, and how to let one roll down hill and let the clutch out to get 'em to start. Dad was too cheap to put a good battery in either one of those machines. Some of those memories ain't all that great, Katrina... :x :x
funny how two people so far apart have the same work experience, uncle had D17,farmhand,roto-baler and his was 61 chevy. spent my summers getting to know each piece and bale personally. truck had a battery though,all of his tractors had hand crank's :lol: :lol:
Did Unk's 17 have a positive ground, or had it been converted?
Generator or alternator? Our 17 had Fred Flintstone brakes, too.
Hayguy
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can't really remember the electrical system.....had the old style farmhand with basket.his had power steering, other uncle,his brother's didn't. they were allis men model B's wc, wd's wd45's d17's
jodywy
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when I was a kid there was 2 wd45 one turned around backward with a sweep or buck rake for loose hay. Dad said never anothe AC on the place, then be bought a 200 cab and all. Well after that there was never another AC on the place.
loomixguy said:
Just googled that...if it is the loaders that completely incage the tractor that I seen....that's quite the deal! Looks like it would do the job of picking up the loose hay nicely!
I believe I have a working baler now!
I found out I live less than 5 miles probably to the area baler expert. I put the thing all back together, he showed up and walked me through the timeing, I pretended I was a bale of hay by grabbing the two pieces of twine keeping tension on the string while he turned the fly wheel, we had to bend a wiper arm a touch and I'm good to go! He then layed out a ton of info on all things putting up small sqaures. Between everything said on here and him, I'm a lot better off than I was just a week ago! I apprecaite it! Can't wait to hit the hay field and start picking up windrows and see what happens!
