Farmall 350 Backing Hay Wagon and More

Hope I am not wearing out everyone posting a few videos

Still getting to know our Farmall 350 and with hay customer coming, used it to haul out a jag of hay from our barn where it was starting to get muddy. Video is of this and backing the 4 wheel wagon into the barn.

Enjoy!
Farmall 350

My brother had a 300 for a chore tractor. I always thought it was handy on the feeder wagon. Front hitch is definitely the easiest way to back a wagon. I always tell trainees when backing a wagon to remember that the part you are controlling is the hitch pin. Where does the hitch pin need to be to steer the wagon where you want it to go? Think of it as if you were steering the wagon by hand and the tractor drawbar is your hand.

Nice video and nice tractor ! Youll find all kinds of uses for it ! What is the story with the gas cap ? Dont think Ive ever seen one like it ! Pic of my 300 taken today. Had some blown in snow to clean with the blower I use on it. Little slippery and Im getting ready to put the chains on.

Nice job! But you were hooked to the front of the tractor--That's cheating!!

Actually, the front hitch IS a lot nicer. But we usually didn't have that luxury when I was growing up, so I learned it the other way. I'm still pretty good at it, although I don't get many opportunities to practice it any more. Probably just as well, as the old neck doesn't turn as good as it used to.

The gas cap has a fuel level gauge built in it.

Ok thank you ! Still havent ever seen one ! Neat !

I've told this before, and I'll tell it again.

When I was about 15 or so, I and a couple of other guys were picking up hay for an old farmer, and a nasty looking black cloud was rolling our direction. The old man was driving the tractor - a JD 40 - and us boys were running hard, trying to beat the storm. We got the last bale on the wagon and made a hard run for the barn. Just as we pulled up in front of the barn the big raindrops started falling. The old man jumped off of the tractor and hollered for me to back it in the barn. I had never successfully backed a four wheeled hay wagon to a designated spot, and I had never been in the seat of a JD 40. I jumped on the tractor and backed the wagon perfectly up the incline into the barn on the first try, just like I knew what I was doing. The old guy was grinning from ear to ear. He told everybody for miles around that I was the best wagon backer in the community, and I've had requests all of my life to help someone learn how to back a wagon. I always stare off into the distance and change the subject, or sometimes just act like I didn't hear the request. I'm a complete phony, but I hate to bust up all of the embellished stories that have been told about my splendid abilities.

That one time was the ONLY time that I have ever successfully backed a wagon, and I've tried many times since, with every try ending in failure.

Yea - learning to back a a trailer or wagon in some ways is like learning to play an instrument - you really need to learn it when your young.

Great story - kind of like a one hit musician or movie star, ride that fame forever!

That is a nice tractor, I would not mind trying a wide front like yours. The gas cap was an option. It has a gauge driven with a cork that rises and turns a twisted piece of metal and that turns the dial. You can buy these aftermarket, YT probably has them.

I like how he calls it tractor for light duty work. When it was new it was the second biggest tractor IH built.

It will be a light duty tractor on our farm just because of its age and being new to us, I need to have some time to see what we have got before we drift into mash the pedal to the floor territory. FWIW, my wifes grandfather ran a mom and pop dairy their working career and the tractors he used was a Farmall H and Super H. Im sure those tractors saw continuous heavy use often.

Nice job. Though not a farmer, I can normally back anything anywhere I want (including a compressor behind a extended cab pickup). But, I can't back my hay ride wagon up not matter what it is hooked to. I only have 1 tractor with a hitch on the front but, an 8n has no creeper and still presents too many challenges.

Actually, both the 450 & 650 were bigger, so 3rd biggest.

For playing around like on the video, I'd leave the TA ahead, the trans seems to shift really well after only pushing the clutch in for a couple seconds even with the TA ahead.
The 350 engine was rated for 1750 full load rpm, no load was 1850 If I remember right, maybe higher.
Two things I'd do different, remount those frt tires to the narrowest position, I think they're in the widest position now. And I'd use 4th gear direct TA for moving your hay. 3rd gear is 5 mph, 4th is 7 mph.
Neighbor had a 350 as his only tractor for quite a few years. Pulled an IH #8 3 bottom plow, 10 ft disk, only farmed 80 acres but increased to 160 when he moved to his father-in-law's place. We were getting ready to bale at his farm one afternoon. He was late getting ready, he's raking in the low side of 5th.

There was about 3-4 years I basically LIVED on a Farmall 450 all spring & summer. Dad ran it to combine 40 acres of oats but if any fall fieldwork was done, I did it with the 450. Had an IH #25 Fast Hitch rotary chopper, bush-hog, this thing was built like a tank. I chopped corn stalks wide open in hi side of 4th gear, and could pivot turn and take the next 2 rows back across the field.