A couple old hydros

SVcummins

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I bet so . I can still remember riding the hay rack behind that 100 feeding Cows and the sound of the old hydro and ihc engine when Charlie would shove that lever ahead .
 
I've owned 3 over the years. A 1026;Hydro100;826.Still have the 826.In the spring it is hooked to the 'Mormon creaser' cleaning water marks in hay fields.I make a lot of money in the spring custom marking local fields.In the summer it spends most of it's time hooked to a CIH 8530 inline baler baler.Funny story....a few years ago I has helping a friend bale. He had a 4430 and a 348 baler.I 'smoked' him. This guy bleeds green so he not happy with me. But we are still good friends. :)
 
Id like to own that hydro 100 some day it used to have a loader but it broke off . Do you think it was cuz Of the hydro or cuz of the Hesston capacity? I borrowed a inline baler one time and that thing could eat hay like nothing I have pulled before.
 
The problem was the loader.And maybe the operator a little bit too. That tractor is plenty strong. A Hydro can develop more 'push' that a gear transmission.The loader was most likely abused too. there are still lots of Hydros out there with loaders that funtion well without trouble.
 
IH had a good niche market for the hydro's here in the NE. They were a favorite of vegetable farms here especially for transplanting and harvesting. Then the demise of IH happened along with the introduction of JD's 15 speed Power Shift in 1983. I remember the story of one vegetable farm trading off 4 Hydro 100's for 4 JD 4050's back in 1984 as the farmer was concerned about product support on IH tractors.
 
My next door cousins have a 1066 hydro they bought back in the late 70s. It excelled at jobs like running balers and forage choppers for their feedlot. Soon as they put a disk on it, it was worthless. But they kept it for the livestock operation. Now it just sits in the weeds with a weak hydro, and doors missing off the cab.
 
Yea, livestock folk loved those, still some running around here.

Also popular for the old Vermeer tiling machines, had to drive very slow to trench, worked really nice not having to set up the winch, just run a hydro tractor.

Paul
 
Hydro 100 with 4 bottom in the ground and 4 bottom out of ground. At the plow demonstration @ H C O P in Illinois. He was plowing both wheels on land ,not in furrow which seemed somewhat unusual w/ 4 bottoms down. Hydro 100's a scarce tractor in Corn Belt where we are and MFWD on this one even more scarce..
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hydro with a loader... best danged hay hauling loader around..

never grind a gear and didn't have a sore leg at the end of the day from pushing the clutch
 
Have a 1066 hydro here that is super handy loader tractor. Pop the loader off and can really pound out the little square bales. Nice old tractor have never tried much tillage with it.
 
agree. we run a 666 gas on a nh 315 and load by hand on flat racks. just an absolute sweetheart there. takes about 3 times the fuel that the 5000 ford D did that we used bale with. But I don't care. the extra fuel is worth it .
 
Thats the reason I like the powershift back and forth all day nice and smooth and never touch the clutch
 
We have 2 186 hydros best loader tractors ever. Also great for haying wouldn't give them up for anything out there, I haven't found a new model comparable.
 
Absolutely. Have a 656D Hydro on the CIH 8530 square baler and a 966 Hydro on the JD 330 round baler. 656 also works well on the Bale Wrapper.
 
This one unloaded and stacked about 500 Ton of hay in 4x4x8 bales for 40 years before it broke off
 

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