The dealer said I needed to update my equipment

Jason S. · Jun 25, 2013

I was down at the dealer the other day and he told me I needed to update my equipment. Namely my rake. I was down there getting teeth for the one I bought at an auction a few months ago. I've looked at fields that have been raked with newer wheel rakes and V rakes and I can't believe how much hay gets left in the field. Granted they may be faster but they don't rake as clean.

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Inno · Jun 25, 2013

Yeah, newer is often not better. Not only that but the equipment that is being sold nowadays probably won't be around in another 50-80 years like a lot of the gear, tractors included that we run. So what if you can do it faster, if you are leaving a lot of hay in the field it kind of defeats the purpose of making hay in the first place.

Jason S. · Jun 25, 2013

That's kind of what I thought. The rake I was using there is the old D-EO-20 I bought at the auction a few months ago. It was made in November of 1949 but it still works good. I like using the old stuff and more importantly it's stuff that I can afford. I see everybody around using new equipment and making big payments and I just don't understand it. Although I have to admit I enjoy my seat time on my Ferguson and I enjoy some of the comments and looks I get using it and the equipment. I got some really strange comments on the disc plow, they were never popular around here and very few were ever sold in this area, but I've done made up my mind. I will not go back to moldboard plowing again. The disc plow is easier to pull and it doesn't leave the hard pan that the moldboard plow does.

Gearhead210 · Jun 25, 2013

We bale hay with equipment that would have been new about 50 years ago or so, the barn is still full and the wallet is much of the same. But then again, it would be different if we were trying to feed a big dairy operation with it.....

Tony in Mass. · Jun 25, 2013

Yeah my old New Idea side delivery couldn't go as fast as more modern stuff, and had 55 grease fittings, but it combed the field like yours does.
The dealers around here have so much old stock, and most lost their big brand franchises, so they like it when we ask for parts that were sitting on a shelf for 30 years.
So my disc plow is working out well for ya? You going to get another one for yourself soon?

Jason S. · Jun 25, 2013

I finally found all the brackets I needed to mount the A-151 disk plow on my Farmall Super A, but considering it takes about 2 1/2 hours to mount one I probably won't be using it very much. I have to keep a look out now for a Ferguson disc. I've seen several of those in this area and I'd like to have one. I saw a subsoiler laying in a scrap pile the other day that had a big curved beam to it like the Ferguson subsoiler did. I need to go back and look at it and see if that is what it is and if they want to sell it if it is.

Inno · Jun 25, 2013

If ever the wife and I get a piece of property big enough to grow some hay on I think.........I think I would definitely enjoy doing it. Older equipment like yours is likely all we could logically afford.

Jason S. · Jun 26, 2013

I enjoy it...until something breaks anyway...lol, but that's part of farming. I wish I was old enough to remember when the square baler that I have now still had the Wisconsin motor on it. They pulled it with a TE-20 my grandfather had back then. I've got a notepad he kept in the baler back then and they baled from 6000 to 10000 bales a year with that set up. I always loved square baling hay...especially the sound and how it rocks the tractor back and forth. If your ever down my way I do know where there is a Massey square baler that still has the wisconsin motor on it. The guy told me he would probably sell it.

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