WOO HOO!

Bryce Frazier · Mar 21, 2014

I am very happy today! Not only did I get my new to me, New Holland 66 home today, but I got to go drive to get it!!!!!!

I have had my learners permit since June ish (drivers ed) but I haven't been driving all that much because I never really go anywhere! Got to pull it home about 30 mi with the 95 chevy, a good first experience for pulling a wide load! Now, I know what you are thinking, gosh darn, there is another hooligan on the road, but contrary to what some of you might think, I am a VERY good driver, and have a LOT more experience than the average 15 year old!

Anyway, back on topic... As some of you know I bought this New Holland 66 with a TF-D Wisconsin for $130. The motor turns over and has spark, but the carb was stolen from it (I have a spare). The baler is all complete except for a break in the bottom compressor of the bale shoot in the back, but I think it can be fixed... I am going to powerwash the snot out of it tomorrow, and then I am going to put my good running engine on it, then I am going to see if I can get it moving! Currently, the baler is actually tying a bale (although the bale isn't there??)

I will get some before/after pictures for you guys to drool over tomorrow!

Bryce

Nancy Howell · Mar 21, 2014

Good for you! Looking forward to seeing your pics.

MarkWV · Mar 21, 2014

congrats , sounds like you are heading in the right direction, always good to hear younger folks interested in working the old iron

DeltaRed · Mar 21, 2014

Good for you! Now there will be no limit to the stuff you can haul home!

Dr. Walt · Mar 22, 2014

Bryce:

". . . the baler is actually tying a bale (although the bale isn't there??)"

Makin' one of them new AIR bales for keeping Cattle lean & mean, HUH !

LOL!

MJ in the UK · Mar 22, 2014

Well done Bryce, keep collecting the old stuff. The way you are going I can see you will be the new Lance around here, good luck. MJ

ASEguy · Mar 22, 2014

It's good to see young people excited about life and learning experiences. Keep it up. And yes we need pictures.

Stumpy(NH) · Mar 22, 2014

>>> I know what you are thinking, gosh darn, there is another hooligan on the road, but contrary to what some of you might think, I am a VERY good driver, and have a LOT more experience than the average 15 year old!<<<<

I actually am not thinking what you are thinking. I have had my Daughter driving for two years, she's 12 now. Early experience in hay fields and around the property make for excellence on the road.

Good story, good on you. Keep it up kid!

Stumpy

greygoat · Mar 22, 2014

Wisconsin motors corp. is still in business
making 1, 2 cylinder, and V4 engines, and you
can still get most parts, however they are priced
as if they are gold plated.
You can get gasket sets, valves, piston rings,
carb kits, fuel pumps, from NAPA auto parts, and
the prices are fair. You"ll want to find an
"Owners and Parts Manual", just look in ebay
under category "Wisconsin engine parts", or
"Wisconsin Engine Literature". Or, go to the
factory website: www.wisconsinmotors.com and you
can download an owners or parts manual free,
(they are about 60 pages). If you need magneto parts, like a cap,coil, points, condenser, they
are available from a number of sources, but try
www.bransonenterprises.com, you"ll need the
magneto brand,(wico,or Fairbanks-Morse) and the
model number off of the magneto nameplate.
Instructions on replacing points, and setting them, (and timing the engine, should you take
the magneto off), are in the owners or service
manual.

Northvale - PA · Mar 22, 2014

suggestion - get the owner's manual and read it first. 2nd - oil and grease everything before you start moving stuff. The figure out what is broke, gone or worn out.

Adirondack case guy · Mar 22, 2014

Just a word of CAUTION. If the baler is in the tieing cycle now, be sure that it doesn't, or hasn't, jumped time on you. Check knotter timeing before you power it up.
Loren, the Acg.

johnlobb · Mar 22, 2014

My 7 year old grandaughter has been jumping on to my lap and driving on our private road for the last year. It's good to get them started early. She practices making the turn from the road into our driveway.

Bryce Frazier · Mar 22, 2014

Yep, thats the same as me... I was skidding logs when I was 10, and have been driving cars since before then! I have a lot of experience around the house, and just basic piddling along, the HIGH speeds of the HIGH way are what spook me a little, but I have been doing just fine...

Just to make you all smile, on my third drive after getting my learners permit, mom and I were coming going down a well traveled road to a friends house, about half way there, a State Trooper lives right next to the road, and there is ALWAYS a ST car there. Well, we went by going out to the highway to come home, and she pulled out right behind me. I was going along in our little white car (Chevy Corsica) and I found a little patch of dirt on the right side of the road, my tire picked it up and it created a LARGE cloud of dust behind me, SHE PULLED ME OVER!!! Asks me what happened, I said nothing, she said it looked like I swerved off the road, I said I just hit a patch of dirt in front of that last drive way (this is a North Idaho road, lucky it's paved!) She decided that "I am in a good mood" and let me off with a warning for reckless driving...

I'll get some pictures later, I promise!

Bryce

Bryce Frazier · Mar 22, 2014

Yep, thats the plan. It is a little stiff, so I am going to try and power wash all inside it and lube it up and see if I can turn it over. (by hand) and if everything goes okay, then I'll stick the other engine on it! Bryce

Bryce Frazier · Mar 22, 2014

I know right, who said that our technology is better today than it was back then.... Heck, this is like Jenny Craig for cows!

I am honestly not sure how they did it, or why for that matter, but there is no twine in the box, or strung between the box and the knotters, but each on the needles has a 3-4 foot piece dangling on it and the knotters have grabbed it and are literally "tying a bale" that, well, doesn't exist!

Bryce Frazier · Mar 22, 2014

Here are a few pictures of the baler, last one is of the break in the bottom side of the squeeze in the shoot... It is directly below the spike roller that triggers the knotters... What do ya'll think?? Bryce

David G · Mar 22, 2014

I just remembered the feeling of doing that with my dad when we went to pick up things. It was one of the most exciting times.

Just remember to make WIDE turns when pulling a trailer.

Bryce Frazier · Mar 22, 2014

Here are a few more, Bryce

Ron in NS · Mar 22, 2014

Lots cops don't understand country driving, because they're from the city. Clods of mud are commonplace on asphalt wherever farm equipment is moving. If she couldn't tell you were on the asphalt when you hit it, she needs glasses. Just saying.

T in NE · Mar 22, 2014

Just be careful who you let know that. When I was living in Ohio (01-02), some old busybody up north and west of Dayton called the cops because someone was letting his 13 yr old graddaughter drive the truck in the pasture when they took hay out to his cows. They showed up in force and arrested him for endangerment, abuse, multiple other BS charges, and child protective services carted her off, don't know how long it was til she got back to her parents.

I moved away before I heard what the outcome was.

Janicholson · Mar 22, 2014

Early drivers of farm machines and even toy cars and push carts are fine drivers at every comparison to those that learn in one drivers training class.
You will be a superior driver until you can no longer function safely behind the wheel.
(by the way that includes the moment you have 2 beers)
Welcome to the road.
Nice looking baler. If the crack can be pulled together easily, the best fix in my opinion is to patch over the outside with a slightly thicker metal plate and weld that plate to the chute.
I would use a 7014 rod because it freezes well and is easy to start. Tack weld in 4 corners, then skip weld for 1 inch on opposite ends alternating to reduce possible warping.
Bolting it on with countersunk screw heads on the inside is also a workable solution. staggered row of 5/16 screws spaced about 2 inches apart would work. Jim

55 50 Ron · Mar 22, 2014

Where are you located??

Brent in IA · Mar 22, 2014

Back in the early 1990"s my best friend had already been driving tractors for 3-4 years when at age 15 the local policeman pulled him over going down main street in a JD 4x4 all dualled up pulling a field cultivator. The policeman called his father and made him come to town to the scene to read him the riot act....well my friend"s father wasted no time hustling to town and telling the policeman (whom he knew by the way...) that his son was WORKING and also he probably had more hours behind the wheel of that tractor than the policeman did behind his squad car wheel...and he didn"t appreciate his son getting detained between fields when the weather was good for working ground...about that time the policeman got the hint and said have a good day to them both...

Brent in IA · Mar 22, 2014

Both of my sons started driving the dually with gooseneck in the hayfields before they were 10 so I could walk alongside the trailer and load bales...and they were raking hay by 12 or so and driving between fields with implements. Farm kids may be seen as more aggressive by some by I think it is just more confident because they have been driving much longer, and in more variety of vehicles/tractors and with various transmissions, and in more types of situations (blacktop, gravel, grass, plowed fields, etc..) so I think they are much better from the get go than the 16 year old who just learned from the driver's ed teacher in a brand new car with an automatic transmission on a tar road....

Keep the faith young man!

T in NE · Mar 24, 2014

I went to school with a girl, got stopped hauling her dad home from a bar 3 times by the time she turned 14, she asked if they"d rather see her dad driving, passed out in the back seat.

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