Floyd County Museum, slide baling hay

J.Wondergem

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Rockford, Mi.
From the Hart-Parr/Oliver/WFE/M-M/Cockshutt color slide archives at the Floyd County Museum in Charles City, IA. An Oliver 1650 tractor in the field with 520 baler and wagon, The Oliver 1650 tractors were built from 1964-1969. The 520 balers were built 1965-1970 in Oliver, Cockshutt and M-M (1520) colors.

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Art Smith has a super sharp 1600 with a narrow front coming up on an auction up by Big Rapids in June. I don't know if I'll be caught up enough to go or not,but I'd sure like to be there.
 
almost looks like back in time here my uncle baled with a 1650 swept back and a 520 with the thrower (it is still here) had two wagons with homemade racks that were electric gears hate to think I had to put hay that way today, one uncle mowed a day ahead the neighbor rake, uncle baled, my cousin hauled, my dad and two other uncles were in the loft with another hired man and I sat where the bales transitioned from one elevator to the other. Nobody but me and my cousin left now and that would be too much work to feed a bunch of scrubby old cows.
 
I always thought the roto flow on an Oliver baler was a neat design though I never baled with one, we didn't like to bale with 50 series Oliver tractors as they had slow pto's, it always seemed you had to run the tractor engine too fast to keep the baler at proper operating speed, our 830 case usually did the baling, an 1850 sure would pull a silage cutter good though!
 

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