Great Haymaking video. 1920 to 2004 Lots of changes!!!

JDseller

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I just keep finding interesting things to watch. Here is a video of making hay in Northern Colorado starting in the 1920s and goes up to 2004. It shows guys riding a old baler hand twisting wire. Then a more modern twine baler that self ties but still had a seat for a guy to ride to tie the missed knots. Then guys building a hay pile of lose hay with a cable hay lift. Then on to chopping and later modern LARGE square balers. Finishing up with showing hay being tub ground. All in all a very interesting video.
Hay making form 1920 to 2004 in No. Co.
 
Dad had a Case wire hand tie baler that we used from 1947 to 1957. It took a strong arm to pull out the needle driver and load the needles before the baler tripped. I hated sitting on the other side tying the wires together; it was the dirtiest job on the crew. When I was 15, I volunteered to ride the wagon and stack those heavy bale; it was the cleanest job on the crew. Bales varied from 100 lbs. to as much as 120 lbs.

Lots of people wanted us to bale their hay, but we only baled for those who would work on the hay crew.

When that V4 Wisconsin got hot, it was real difficult to start.
 
My uncle had one of those Case balers. My brother and I worked for him doing custom baling. Riding that baler, hand-tying wires was a hot, dirty job. That baler at the time was hailed as the latest and greatest!
 
The Case hand tie wire baler was built like a tank - except for that lousy Wisconsin engine.
 
Pop: "You make sure the gas tank is full on the baler. You know that thing won't start when it's hot!"

Wouldn't know why that Wisconsin got hot. Had the shear pin bushing driven out and used a 5/8 bolt for a shear pin. Doubt if there is any motor ever made that took more abuse than those V-4 Wisconsins. Super 77 NH baler and the V-4 Wisconsin. Kinda goes together like milk and Oreo cookies.
 
(quoted from post at 07:05:01 08/01/15) Pop: "You make sure the gas tank is full on the baler. You know that thing won't start when it's hot!"

Wouldn't know why that Wisconsin got hot. Had the shear pin bushing driven out and used a 5/8 bolt for a shear pin. Doubt if there is any motor ever made that took more abuse than those V-4 Wisconsins. Super 77 NH baler and the V-4 Wisconsin. Kinda goes together like milk and Oreo cookies.

Ain't that the truth!
 
Dick, dad and a neighbor jointly owned a Case hand wire tie baler from about 1950 till 1959. I was born in 1951 so I was just a little guy then but I do remember watching them bale and I can still hear that Wisconsin. Had a long tube to hold the wire. I think I still have the goggles the tiers wore.
 
I spent lots of time helping my uncle with hay. At first he hired the baling done with a New Holland 77 and the old Wisconsin V-4 engine. Neighbors owned the baler and they pulled it with a John Deere R diesel. They belted the Wisconsin to the R to start it and when they came to bale the Wisconsin was running when they came down the road. It was never shut off until the last bale was done. I also helped a neighbor many years later who used a Case baler with Wisconsin 2 cyl. on it. That thing always started on the second crank, hot or cold.
 

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