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Hi everyone, I am new so, here i go. I own two Farmal cubs, and I am going to get a bigger farmall soon. My biggest debockle is, well I want a Mccormick Deering Baler the T-50 or something close that has the cub motor on it. I really like the style Im good with the issues on my cubs, I am going to bale my grass I have 18 acres and i love the tractors. i have a small farm with some animals and I would like to grow and make my own feed. The issue is i cant find one, Im in washington state and there are not any near here so Im kinda bummedbut i havent given up, so if anyone knows of one great or if you have one i would like to know what you think of them.

Thanks
Casey
 
Welcome to the forum. No solution from me, but I baled with one for several years. (long turned into scrap) we are a diverse
bunch and try to assist when we can. Jim
 
I still have a 55W baler. It's PTO,pull it with a SuperM.Fine old machine.slow moveing,never misses a twist.quiet as a mouse. Will make 100lb bricks if you want.
 
Welcome also.....I didn't know they exist! Must be "old" machines? I would take one if you find two good ones! Excellent
forum.....many of these guys have helped me alot.....fine bunch of guys. Good luck to you !
 
The '50'was made in the late '40s/early 50s.They were a big monstrous machine.It was harvester's first 'modern' baler.It(and the 55;56;57) made an oddball 15"x19" bale.The 55;56,and 57 balers could also be had with an engine,but they were an 'A' motor.
 
Dad bought a brand new Cub C-60 powered 50-T baler and a brand new Farmall H in 1947 when he got home from
3 years overseas in WW II. He ran a custom baling business for several years baling 100,000's of bales per
year. Neighbor we traded help with had a 55-T baler with the C-113 engine we baled with for many years.
Dad really knew his way around those old balers. Knotter troubles were common with them. Rest of the baler
were trouble-free. But our baling crew was two men and a small boy so I could drive the tractor on the
baler, Neighbor would ride the rack, and Dad sat behind the knotters and trouble-shooted and tied missed
bales.

I really like IH equipment, Tractors, Trucks, Cub Cadets, Axial Flow combines, plows, disks, planters, I
worked at IH's Farmall Plant in the late 1970's and early '80's, and the East Moline Plant for 6-7 weeks in
early 1977, but I would buy a New Holland baler.
 
Say Casey, i hate to threw cold water on you, but you don't wants a baler with a engine on it, they were grossly under powered,You say you are getting a bigger tractor, use that one on a PTO of baler,you will be much happier.The first years out of high school i use to custom bale, flax straw, straw, and hay. New Holland used a Wisconsin engine, that too was a short lived fad.I am a IHC man on most equipment, but always liked the john Deere square balers.
 
We call our's the "dinosaur baler". Because it's as old and big as a dinosaur.LOL! We sometimes(jokeingly) call it's bales dinosaur poop.LOL
 
Hey everyone,thanks for all the
comments,i still think its one that i
want,im really into the older stuff
and i like the looks of that baler and
its functionality,i dont mind the
work, i enjoy it if i happen to get a
bigger tractor i might get a pto
version,but i still like the 50 t
style. If i get a bigger tractor for
the pto what size farmall would be
idea?A?B?
 
No, you`d need something a little bigger than that and one that has live PTO. SMTA, 400 or 450 would be the smallest I`d want to go. A nice 656 would be good, too.
 
My Dad and uncle bought a 50t after WW II.It had the Continental flat head engine.They were using 8n Fords at the time but had to borrow a neighbors H or M to pull it. They then bought a Jubilee Ford,but sold it after 3 yrs and bought a 300u.And that is what I drove while someone,usually Dad, walked behind the baler with a pitchfork picking missed hay(waste not!),and watching for missed ties.We baled all over for many years with that baler,but was very heavy.I was taught not to go down hill with the back tires on top of the windrow,in case I had to stop,because it would skid on the hay all the way to the hollow!That baler would push you!Mark
 
The 50-T with the C-60 Cub engine was under-powered, I suspect the balers with 69 cid Continental were underpowered too, but the 55-T with the C-113 engine had good power, you could really feed them hay, big thing to watch for was to not feed them slugs, they would shear the shear bolts right now.

I really don't see why everybody says you have to have live pto to run pto equipment. I ran our 6 ft Brillion rotary mower (bushhog) over hundreds and hundreds of acres every year with the Super H I have out in the shop.. Baled one afternoon with the SH on the neighbor's IH #37 PTO baler. It spit bales out as fast as we wanted with just Me and Dad baling 20 acres of hay. Got just over 1000 bales of 2nd cutting alfalfa. There's some things live pto is nice for, but there's also some things I think it's a real nuisance for.
 
(quoted from post at 16:38:58 10/28/17)

I really don't see why everybody says you have to have live pto to run pto equipment. I ran our 6 ft Brillion rotary mower (bushhog) over hundreds and hundreds of acres every year with the Super H I have out in the shop.. Baled one afternoon with the SH on the neighbor's IH #37 PTO baler. It spit bales out as fast as we wanted with just Me and Dad baling 20 acres of hay. Got just over 1000 bales of 2nd cutting alfalfa. There's some things live pto is nice for, but there's also some things I think it's a real nuisance for.
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I wouldn`t say you have to have live PTO to run a baler, but everything else being equal, for baling I would for sure take the tractor with the live PTO.
I agree there are instances where I liked not having it also. I remember when filling silo and unloading chopper wagons with our Super C. It was nice to sit on the tractor and when a big bunch of haylage would come over the top ofthe beaters, you could "feather" the clutch to start and stop the apron to keep from plugging the blower.
 
I ran the 55W for years on the nonlive SuperM.I learned to shift on the fly,to kick the tractor out of gear if needed......Then added a M/W live pto hand clutch.The difference was amazeing.
 
But you have to make hay when the sunshine's, you cant be looking for parts etc when a breakdown happens,Go a head and buy your hobby baler, but have a good baler to bale your hay on time.
 
(quoted from post at 20:35:37 10/27/17) Hi everyone, I am new so, here i go. I own two Farmal cubs, and I am going to get a bigger farmall soon. My biggest debockle is, well I want a Mccormick Deering Baler the T-50 or something close that has the cub motor on it. I really like the style Im good with the issues on my cubs, I am going to bale my grass I have 18 acres and i love the tractors. i have a small farm with some animals and I would like to grow and make my own feed. The issue is i cant find one, Im in washington state and there are not any near here so Im kinda bummedbut i havent given up, so if anyone knows of one great or if you have one i would like to know what you think of them.

Thanks
Casey
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Hey everyone, so I went and bought a 1947 Farmall with two plows and the liftall system with a 56 twine baler , the person I bought it from used it for years and is 2nd owner, so im the 3rd, he said the starter switch doesnot work, but it hand cranks it very easy and starts right up, pretty excited. I noticed when I got it home the - cable was on the + side so im guessing ill get a battery on there and test it.
 
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