MM 4 Star Video Link & 2 More Photos.

Southsider · Jun 25, 2016

I've uploaded 2 short videos of '0649 to my Facebook page...which I think can be found if you copy and paste this link into a new browser window:

https://www.facebook.com/daniel.vandenberg.5836

Also here are a few more photos.

All of these photos and video clips are courtesy of Jonathan Pratt. Thanks dude!

Alan K · Jun 26, 2016

Very nice pictures. Thank you for posting them. Ive always liked the 4 Stars. They sit
a lot better than the 445s.

Southsider · Jun 26, 2016

Thanks Alan. This 4 Star has one of your battery covers installed. So you've played a part here. Pardon the dust in the photo. She sat around a lot the past few years while I and my bro-in-law attended to life's obligations.

I am a minor tractor history buff, and in my eyes the MM 4 Star is the best looking farm tractor of all time. Of course I must be biased by having spent time on the grandparents dairy farm as a young kid in the 1960's. Grandpa Henry Van Farowe had a 4 Star. I have never gotten over my love of that tractor.

gtractorfan · Jun 26, 2016

The picture with the wagon hooked on behind-- looks to me like the baler chute has a section missing or at least when we used to bale like that the bales would drop onto the wagon. Also looks like a long wagon to drag the bales to the back. One time I baled hay by myself, the bales pushed to the back of the wagon, then I had to stop and stack them.

Alan K · Jun 26, 2016

I wondered if you had a battery cover lol. You have it painted up nice. Do you mind if
I "borrow" the photo for my advertising page? Ive only sat on one 4 Star but was amazed
at the comfort with the position of everything. Is the dash one of the newer
replacement dashes? Nice view down the hood in that photo.

Southsider · Jun 26, 2016

(quoted from post at 16:27:56 06/26/16) I wondered if you had a battery cover lol. You have it painted up nice. Do you mind if
I "borrow" the photo for my advertising page? Ive only sat on one 4 Star but was amazed
at the comfort with the position of everything. Is the dash one of the newer
replacement dashes? Nice view down the hood in that photo.

Alan...my buddy Jonathan Pratt took all these photos, including the installed battery cover (which was photographed in Sept 2013). He says it's fine to use the photo. It's pretty low resolution and the cover is dusty in the photo. Sorry I don't have a better image for you.

The instrument cluster is indeed one of the newer replicas. It's only partly hooked up. I've got an original, beaten up cluster (salvaged from another tractor) that I intend to have restored & repaired. Doubt it will be cheap. The originals have a higher quality look to them.

The 4 controls around the cluster are all new.

Southsider · Jun 26, 2016

(quoted from post at 15:52:26 06/26/16) The picture with the wagon hooked on behind-- looks to me like the baler chute has a section missing or at least when we used to bale like that the bales would drop onto the wagon. Also looks like a long wagon to drag the bales to the back. One time I baled hay by myself, the bales pushed to the back of the wagon, then I had to stop and stack them.

gtractorfan...good observations. This baler has been used mostly with a kick attachment. It was just removed this spring. Then most of the baling was done just letting the bales drop to the field for later pick up. The photo is the first time that bales were stacked on the wagon directly from the baler, so an extension to that delivery tray is needed. And yes it's a long ways to the back of that wagon.

MMDEL · Jun 27, 2016

Great looking 4Star!!! I have one, but it don't look that good. Not to be critical but the hay rack is not centered on the running gear. Your bale chute would probably be long enough if the rack was moved forward. If I tried to load a setup like that with my MM Bale-O-Matic bales starting at the back with that much overhang over the back axle the front of the rack would be airborne.
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Southsider · Jun 27, 2016

Del...you may not believe it after these years...but I'm still coming for the hood ornament & speedometer cable that I purchased a couple years ago and never picked up. It's for this tractor. Thanks for holding it for me.

Southsider · Jun 27, 2016

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Del...on the haying set up...I agree with your observation. This baler and wagon belong to the gentleman who has graciously hosted my tractor during this whole fix up project. He boards horses and bales thousands and thousands of the old time square bales very summer. Paul has the ability to get old gear working and gets all sorts of implements basically for free that way.

Were the baler and wagon mine they would be optimally arranged, painted, etc. But Paul is much more productive and knows what he is doing and pulls it off. If you saw the videos I linked above you would see him actually see him riding on the back of the baler. Which gives me the willies.

Alan K · Jun 28, 2016

Ive rode on a baler that way. A little dusty but as long as you dont fall off or stick
your hands where they dont belong it is ok.

fastfarmall · Jul 1, 2016

There is suppose to be 1 more flat section before the incline starts,anyway that the way my balers have been.

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