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F14

07-20-2003 04:53:14

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Les...fortunate, who posts over here now and then, put together a small tractor show at his family's campground in Woodstock, NH. For me, the hit of the show was this IH hay press. Recently discovered in a local barn, the new owner pulled it out, topped off the grease cups, oiled it here and there, and brought it to the show. We belted it up to a Farmall H, busted up a couple of square bales and started feeding her. After the gentleman with the pitch fork showed us a couple of things, it started making bales just like new! We even hooked a dump rake to a Farmall C and managed to scrape up a few loads of new hay from the field we were working in. Unbelievable for a machine that is somewhere between 80 and 100 years old!

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J Kirsch NY

07-21-2003 19:51:22

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Re: Making Hay in reply to F14, 07-20-2003 04:53:14

My Dad told me a story about his cousins using a hay press on Thanksgiving. It seems that the hay was put loose into the barn with a hayfork attached to a track near the peak of the barn during the summer haying season. Later in the year, it was run through a hay press to make bales that were sold. On this particular day they quit for dinner which lasted longer than usual, being Thanksgiving. When they returned to the task of pressing hay they discovered that it had snowed in their abscence and things were generally wet. The fly wheels were set to spinning, but when they engaged the dog type clutch to start the plunger, the plunger didn't move. It seems that the moisture expanded the hay in the chamber keeping the plunger from moving and causing the bull gears to be stripped of their teeth.

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wish I'd had that this we

07-21-2003 07:44:52

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Re: Making Hay in reply to F14, 07-20-2003 04:53:14

Never got my NH 66 baler fixed, so the wife and I carried in our hay loose yesterday, by the forkful.

Half of one hay mow in our old barn is piled to the rafters, looks like something from 100 years ago. The old baler in your pic would have been a big technology boost for us!!

Tom A

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HaySam

07-20-2003 16:07:51

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Re: Making Hay in reply to F14, 07-20-2003 04:53:14

What is those square things laying on the ground by the baler wheels?

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Sid

07-20-2003 16:39:05

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Re: Re: Making Hay in reply to HaySam, 07-20-2003 16:07:51

I believe your are talking about the blocks, they go in when a bale is complete so the man on the wire can put it in and tie the bale.

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here, try this

07-20-2003 05:23:37

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Re: Making Hay in reply to F14, 07-20-2003 04:53:14

yes i know all about that. the president of our tractor club has a Dain press and quite often i help tie bales. always draws a nice crowd.

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