memories of the past

billfromwisconsin · Jun 8, 2019

I ran across a disc with some old family pictures on it the other day. Started to look through them and came across this one. It's of my mom and oldest sister in 1952. Dad bought the Ford 8N and an IH 50T baler that year. I still have the tractor, along with original bill of sale. And I also have the wagon. The baler is long gone, but I have one that is the same model I need to get running. I think it is kind of cool to still have this stuff. Mom has been gone 10 years in August and Dad will be gone 44 years on Monday.

Hope you guys like the picture.

Josh-nhihguy · Jun 8, 2019

I really like the picture. I haven't really gotten into balers much but that one looks huge. Very interesting with the small dual tire and big flywheel. I assume late 40's?

JimB2 · Jun 8, 2019

Nice picture, brings back memories of the 1950s to me. We had an IH SC and a 45T, later 300U with 45T. Dad baled a bumble bees nest once when I was stacking on the wagon. Got stung many times before I jumped off the wagon and ran into the corn that we were baling next too.

danofarming · Jun 8, 2019

Great Photo, Great Memories for you!

billfromwisconsin · Jun 8, 2019

its funny you say you latter had a 300 utility, Dad got one of them in 55 as the "big" tractor.

r.w.b. · Jun 8, 2019

Great photo

billfromwisconsin · Jun 8, 2019

They were made late 40's to early 50s.

Ken Loewenhagen · Jun 8, 2019

Very nice picture.

Janicholson · Jun 8, 2019

Turn the flywheel until the plunger is tight, turn on the gas, pull out the mag kill button, set the choke, (look at the sky for help), grab the spoke pointing to 12:30 with your right hand, and the back of the flywheel with your left, step on the front most spoke, lift your left leg, and stick it out toward the tractor, and put your whole weight into spinning it forward. That is if it was cold. Hot, repeat all but the choke and turning on the gas 12 times. Jim

Paul from MI · Jun 8, 2019

I baled a lot of hay with an IHC 45T. Had it for 32 years and got more out of it at the scrapyard than I paid for it. It taught me a lot about fixing knotters. Pulled it with a JD A& JD D. No live PTO, learn to plan ahead and shift fast.

ditchwitch · Jun 8, 2019

Thats a awesome picture of your past Bill ,thanks for sharing . Amazing how much that little ford did back in its hay days (pun intended)

pete 23 · Jun 8, 2019

One of our neighbors bought a new 50T in about 1948 and did custom baling. The thing of it is, no one around had a combine so it was straw piles he baled. Pitch as much straw as we wanted bales into the baler. Not me, I was a little too young. Man, you could store a lot of straw in a small area compared to loose straw.

It was also very common to put up a straw shed for the young stock over winter. I helped my uncle cutting willows with his neighbor down in the creek bottoms to build one as the guy didn't have a barn. Then blow the straw onto the shed when threshing grain. Cosy.

Old weldor · Jun 8, 2019

I have loaded a lot of hay racks behind a 50-T. If you killed it when it was hot it wouldn?t start for one hour so we got a nice break!

flying belgian · Jun 8, 2019

Would you care to share a little more of your family history. I used your sisters birth year and Mom and Dads year of death, I threw in a couple assumptions and concluded that Dad must have died while still actively farming. So was Mom able to keep the farm? Who farmed it and is it still in the family today? It is none of my business and I ask these questions in a most respectful way.

Dsmythe · Jun 8, 2019

billfromwisconsin;
Thank you for the picture, our farm had a 55 W (I think) we pulled it with an H Farmall. I have a "spec cast" model of it in my collection. Dsmythe

SVcummins · Jun 8, 2019

Neat picture . That looks like a big baler for the day

Mike(NEOhio) · Jun 9, 2019

My father in law had one, my first experience baling was working behind it. Bought it new in '49. Lots of dust from that open auger and large bales. He converted it from the dolly wheel to a drawbar mount because out fields are crowned and it would jackknife on the downhill turns. Pulled it with the JD A because it was so heavy.

Brian G. NY · Jun 9, 2019

What a great picture!
Don't we all wish we had pictures like that from the times of our youth?
The first farmer in my area to have a baler had one of those....I think that engine was the same as the one in a cub.
He pulled his with an Allis WC but could never have pulled the wagon behind it in these here hills.

jddrawbar · Jun 9, 2019

That is a great photo.....never seen a baler like that.

MARK ROBKE · Jun 9, 2019

WOW. My Dad and Uncle bought the same baler,along with an 8n Ford in 1948 too! They borrowed a Farmall M for a while to pull it. But one day they tried the 8n and used it until they got a Jubilee in 1953. Then in 1956, the year I was born, they bought 1955 300u, which is my earliest memory pulling it. We never had a pic of the 8n pulling it. and they never pulled a wagon-too many hills. On the road they would follow with a Model A p/u with a wooden bumper and use it to push against the bale chute up hills,when doing custom work. Mark.

Old Scovy · Jun 9, 2019

A neighbor had a 55 W and it had a engine like is in a Farmall A an OHV engine. We laughed at him because of all the trouble he had with that thing . But here we were stuck with a 116 W JD side winder. Just as big a laugh when going up hill it would tip over backwards. It had a pipe by the right wheel to stop it from going all the way over backwards. Would have made a circus wagon. . Old Scovy

ChuckMa · Jun 9, 2019

Boy does that bring memories of working Grandpa's Farm in the Western Maine mountains, with a 50T and 350 utility back in the 60's. Spent every summer up there cutting raking bailing and maintaining the equipment. Remember the plastic twine they came out with then could never get the knotters to tie it properly. Had to sit on twine cans and tie bales by hand when the knotters misted Beautiful farm overlooking a very large lake, some fields had frontage right on the lake. After long day Haying run down the hill and jump in the lake. Boy did that feel good.

billfromwisconsin · Jun 10, 2019

Sure I will share. Yes Dad did pass away while still farming. The next year it got rented to my sister boyfriend, a neighbor who wanted to farm. Another neighbor rented it after that, then he bought the majority of workland about 5 years latter. Mom kept the buildings and house, she had them until a couple years before her death, the nursing home got all the money. Our family originally bought the farm in 1885 and sold it in 2008. 123 years in the family.

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