Re: Post your hay pictures!

Posted by Banditfarmer on February 20, 2015 at 15:45:08 from (75.186.9.25):

In Reply to: Post your hay pictures! posted by Banditfarmer on February 20, 2015 at 07:17:37:

Guys these are a bunch of great pictures! I don't know why but when I look at pictures like this it brings back memories from years gone by. When I was a kid I don't think anyone ever had more than 5 acres down at a time to put up. I did spend a lot of time on an Oliver 60, AC WD and a Farmall H raking hay and I do have to say I always loved to rake hay. I raked 3 or 400 acres on this H for Waldo and really like this H.

Hear is a little history on the Farmall H in the picture. This H was bought new in 46 or 47 by Walldo Corwin (he was our neighbor) and he was a total IH man. When my uncle Jerry was young he was hired by Waldo to rake hay on this H and it was the first tractor he had ever run. In the late 60's Waldo hired me to rake for him using this very H and was my first IH to drive. Waldo passed on years ago and 15 years ago his daughter passed on and they had a sale. My uncle Jerry bought the old H with plans to restore it. he got it home and put it in the barn ware it sit for 15 years. My uncle passed unexpectedly and to settle the estate they had an auction. This H was part of the sale. The week before the sale I helped move machinery and go threw stuff to load wagons for the sale and get tractors running. I spent 4 hours on the H and had it running like a top! Not bad for sitting for the last 25 to 30 years. Jerry's son Mike wanted the tractor because of it's history. The picture is Mike on the H taking it out to line it up for the sale the night before the sale. You can see how this was wareing on him that night. The day of the sale things were going high and Mike and his boy were worried about not getting the H bought. Well he did buy it for $2000 and its still with him and his son and like he said I gave to much for it but it was dads and I wanted it for me and my son. They are making plans to restore it even thou it's a completely original tractor. I had fun working on it and getting it running and I sware I could hear Waldo hollering at me to slow it down once I got her running and reved it up. Bandit

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