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53 ford jubilee at work haying.

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Don Welshans

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My wife and I have a small farm and we been cutting hay ( when it is not raining) And I shot some video of our old 1953 ford jubilee and a NH 66 bailer at work. You can see the video here. We are still looking for a bigger tractor and bailer.

http://www.greene-acres.com/2011hay/index.htm
 
Your hay doesn't look too heavy, and maybe your ground is very dry, but we have to be sure that the rake lifts every leaf of hay or we get wet bunches. You want to be circling clockwise so that your rake is depositing the hay on already raked ground. Sounds like you could have a symphony if you ran all three at once.
 
(quoted from post at 13:00:37 06/20/11) Your hay doesn't look too heavy, and maybe your ground is very dry, but we have to be sure that the rake lifts every leaf of hay or we get wet bunches. You want to be circling clockwise so that your rake is depositing the hay on already raked ground. Sounds like you could have a symphony if you ran all three at once.
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Thanks for the advice on the raking. Yea that field is light in places. It needs limed. other parts of it are very thick and hi. I had grass over the hood the the Jubilee and so thick you had a hard time walking in it in other places. I'm new to this and still learning.
 
Does that rake have any kind of transmission? It looks like it is traveling extremely fast for the groundspeed you are traveling. Maybe someone put a high speed sprocket on the rake?
Not a big deal in grass hay but that thing would just about peel alfalfa.
Congrats on putting together a good little hay outfir for very little cash. I think you have to hold the record for least dollar hay operation in America.
 
Nice video. Thanks for posting. I did not hear that Jubilee grunt one time so looks like you have a good match of equipment for it. Gotta love those old NH 66's that were introduced in 1952 I believe - well ahead of anything the competition had to offer at the time and still look somewhat modern for their age.
 
Is,was that rake a 3 pt mounted pto driven Ford rake.

If so doesn't that Ford tractor have the lever to set the pto to turn the same as your ground speed.

The lever is under the seat along side the transmission. Set one way it is engine speed, middle is off and other direction is ground speed. That ground speed option is there to use with the ford mounted rake.

Gary
 
(quoted from post at 09:20:00 06/21/11) Is,was that rake a 3 pt mounted pto driven Ford rake.

If so doesn't that Ford tractor have the lever to set the pto to turn the same as your ground speed.

The lever is under the seat along side the transmission. Set one way it is engine speed, middle is off and other direction is ground speed. That ground speed option is there to use with the ford mounted rake.

Gary
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The rake is Massy Harres ( I think I spelled that wrong). The only lever under the seat is for draft controw.
 
(quoted from post at 19:09:41 06/20/11) Does that rake have any kind of transmission? It looks like it is traveling extremely fast for the groundspeed you are traveling. Maybe someone put a high speed sprocket on the rake?
Not a big deal in grass hay but that thing would just about peel alfalfa.
Congrats on putting together a good little hay outfir for very little cash. I think you have to hold the record for least dollar hay operation in America.
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No Transmission. Just two pullies and a v -belt that looks as old as the rake. :) If some one changed something it was long ago. Yea I don't have a lot into it. The Jubilee came with the farm. I got the rake for 500.00. I got the bailer for 300.00. The tedder /rake I pick up lst year was the most. It cost me 900.00. :lol:
 
Gary, I don't know about the Ford but my Massey-Harris 50 has a ground speed PTO. Instead of pulling up on the lever for PTO you push down on it for ground speed which is geared to the forward speed of the tractor.
 
When we got started with this there was one field that was 1/2 way any good and that was the field you seen in the video. All the other fields were just left go for about 10 years. I brushed hogged them for about 2 years and last year I got some good hay off them. This year the other fields are comming in real nice. ( as to what there were. ) All so we are now up to about 12 acres of hay. So now I'm looking for a bigger setup. Most of what I have is on hills and I need heaver tractor. Some parts I just don't do because it is to much for the Jubilee with a bailer on it. But we are getting there. You can check out the farm at
http://www.greene-acres.com/ Green is spelled that way because that is how greene county is spelled. :) We call the farm that because it remindes us of the old TV show Green Acres. :lol:
Thanks all for the help I have gotton on there.
 
When I was a kid we would mow, rake, and bale 40 acres twice a year. Plus we custom bale for neighbors.

We had a 7 foot sickel mower, rake smiliar to yours and a 66 Baler.Pulled the baler with a 40 horse 460 IH.

That 66 baler would bale 5000 bales for us and about 8000 bales for 4 neighbors every year.

I think you have enough equipment for 12 acres.

Gary
 
(quoted from post at 19:09:50 06/21/11) When I was a kid we would mow, rake, and bale 40 acres twice a year. Plus we custom bale for neighbors.

We had a 7 foot sickel mower, rake smiliar to yours and a 66 Baler.Pulled the baler with a 40 horse 460 IH.

That 66 baler would bale 5000 bales for us and about 8000 bales for 4 neighbors every year.

I think you have enough equipment for 12 acres.

Gary
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Well now I know she can do the job. :lol: That's a lot of bails.
 
(quoted from post at 07:49:40 06/20/11) My wife and I have a small farm and we been cutting hay ( when it is not raining) And I shot some video of our old 1953 ford jubilee and a NH 66 bailer at work. You can see the video here. We are still looking for a bigger tractor and bailer.

http://www.greene-acres.com/2011hay/index.htm
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Hello I saw your blog while search to see if my 1953 ford juilee could work a bailer. Iwas hoping to see your video. I have a New Holland bailer I am not sure what model or year at the moment.
 
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(quoted from post at 07:49:40 06/20/11) My wife and I have a small farm and we been cutting hay ( when it is not raining) And I shot some video of our old 1953 ford jubilee and a NH 66 bailer at work. You can see the video here. We are still looking for a bigger tractor and bailer.

http://www.greene-acres.com/2011hay/index.htm
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Hello I saw your blog while search to see if my 1953 ford juilee could work a bailer. Iwas hoping to see your video. I have a New Holland bailer I am not sure what model or year at the moment.
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If you bailer is a NH 273 , or a 66 or JD 24 you should be ok. That's the good info I have got from the people on these boards. Just keep it off steap hills. A NH 273,66 are all most the same weight asa Jubilee. And it will push down a steap hill fast. If you are on the flats you should be good to go. There is a 2ed video I made last year here. http://ytforums.ytmag.com/viewtopic.php?t=726898&highlight=
 
(quoted from post at 10:19:32 06/22/11)
(quoted from post at 08:53:24 06/22/11)
(quoted from post at 07:49:40 06/20/11) My wife and I have a small farm and we been cutting hay ( when it is not raining) And I shot some video of our old 1953 ford jubilee and a NH 66 bailer at work. You can see the video here. We are still looking for a bigger tractor and bailer.

http://www.greene-acres.com/2011hay/index.htm
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Hello I saw your blog while search to see if my 1953 ford juilee could work a bailer. Iwas hoping to see your video. I have a New Holland bailer I am not sure what model or year at the moment.
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If you bailer is a NH 273 , or a 66 or JD 24 you should be ok. That's the good info I have got from the people on these boards. Just keep it off steap hills. A NH 273,66 are all most the same weight asa Jubilee. And it will push down a steap hill fast. If you are on the flats you should be good to go. There is a 2ed video I made last year here. http://ytforums.ytmag.com/viewtopic.php?t=726898&highlight=
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Thankyou for the information on the baler. the baler I have is a nh 275 do you think that just one size to big. the feilds I have to cut are pretty flat. I just don't want to wear out my awsome tractor.
 

The 275 is a bit heaver then the 273. But if I remember right the hp to run it was higher then the 273. Not sure why. You should be all right as long as you are on flat ground. you will know if you are working the tractor to hard. How many acres?
 

Here is more good info I got on these boards.

http://ytforums.ytmag.com/viewtopic.php?t=529829&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
 
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