Re: city boy looking for tractor advice

Posted by wdTom on September 13, 2004 at 18:49:12 from (155.212.223.71):

In Reply to: Re: city boy looking for tractor advice posted by RAB on September 13, 2004 at 12:37:14:

The farm I worked on as a kid farmed with a AC B for years. Pulled a New Holland 77 bailer with it too. Only reason it could do this was it had a mower center mounted and front axle counter weights which would keep the front end down. They used this tractor for everything from 1939 to 1956, putting up up to 8 to 10000 thousand bales a year. In 56 they bought a AC WD-45. With those two tractors this farm handled the 160 acres of the home farm and rented as much or more around town for hay production. And did some custom baleing. When I started working there in about 1964 the NH 77 was getting on, and by the time I was old enough to be on the hay crew and be driving tractors and trucks it was replaced with a JD 24 T which the 45 powered with ease. If you fed it too much hay the governor would just open and shear a shear bolt. All I am saying here is for a 10 acre field you don't need more than a 20 hp tractor. Could plow it, harrow, plant, mow, cultivate, rake, and bale unless the baler was a PTO model in which case I would say you could use 30 hp. Live PTO and hydraulics are more important here than power.

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