NH68 and Farmall 706 haying photos.

My NH68 worked the best it has ever ran. Not one miss tie or any broke shear bolts. That's a first for me.

Got to do a field non stop. Not quite as shinny as she used to be when I 1st got her rebuilt.

400 was there to cover the raking duties.

Still have it.Trying to decide if I want to put forth the effort to get her into shape. I do plan on moving to a thrower system as my wifes alergies are worse now and she cant run the baler.

So for now its just me. Cut it, rake it. Pick them up, Stack em,
Should have good Poppey arms by the time 1st cuttings done :-)

4 bale baskets would sure be nice right now. $6,000 to get them would not.
Going to start converting my flat racks to thrower racks soon as I sell some hay. Then look at that 268.

Pete

I agree. Those darned 6-pop gassers will make your ears bleed by their high fuel comsumption.

I'm puttin' mine back under a loader and will find another diesel somewhere.

Thanks for taking the time to post the pictures. Always enjoy your farmin'. :>)

Allan

[img src="pic location"] [p] [img src="pic location"] [p]

... And so on and so forth. The [p] will properly situate the pics for vewing.

Well I knew she used gas when I purchased her. I had been told. 7 gal a hr seems to be true.
If I dint have another to use I would just chalk it up as a cost to save the extra $3000 to get a 706D.

Man my back is howling at me this morning. 6 acres all by your self seems like more. I am not 20 years old any more.

I have a route that runs on all township and County roads so I mabe only get passed by 3 cars the whole trip.
I would not ever concider pulling any of my stuff on a state rd or any thing like that.

I used the 68 last year behind my 871 Ford. I had problems making banna bales in grass hay, so I tried fat windrows and that helped some. This year I added an extra set of tine bar forks since I saw where Kelley had done it in his baler. My question for Kelley is, did it work? I have set the tine bar forks equally spaced at about 10 inches. I set my tension springs equally using a measuring stick and the bale length is about 3.5 to 4 ft. I also have the books.

Those bales of your look really good.

The only Issue I have with it now is. I need another pick up assembly for it. The one I put on from my parts machine is wore out. The pipe holes are all wobbled out and the cam is so thin it dents like tin foil. Have to take a big hammer and a pipe to whack it back into shape if she digs dirt any time.
So I am on the watch for another parts machine with a good pick up assembly.

I did 186 bales of orchard,alfalfa, and clover mix. Dry stuff lots of chaff. I had two bales that didn't get tyed when it switched twine balls for each knotter (I guess my knots between twine rolls still not small enough to pass through the needles)and the help pulled the string off three bales. After about 40 bales I got it figured out on how to make them square by alternating the tension springs, tighter for the long side. Good bye bananna bales! The addition of an extra tine bar forks seemed to have helped to. Chain on the left side between the plunger drive and the knotters broke on the first round - just old, but luckily I had a spare on the S67. No problems after that.