2020 Hay Season Starts!

First fields baled on Wednesday. Orchard Grass

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Charlie

'48 B, '51 CA, '56 WD45 '61 D17, '63 D12, '65 D10 , '68 One-Ninety XTD

I am jealous. Weather has been cold and rainy here in Indiana last several weeks, but maybe next week! 190xt looks and sounds good too!

80 7010, 80 7020. 67 190XTD Series I w/500 Loader, AC 2000 Plow, Member Indiana A-C Partners, Member TAC

1968 B-208, 1976 720 (2 of them)Danco brush hog, single bottom plow,52" snow thrower, belly mower,rear tine tiller, rear blade, front blade, 57"sickle bar,1983 917 hydro, 1968 7hp sno-bee, 1968 190XTD

Nice hay pics! It was a nice hay week, we missed most of the showers here in so. va. Those new hollands seem to make a perfect bale every time! Everything has to be perfect for my MF 3 , [including holding your mouth right] to make a good bale!!

In the last picture, the man on the rack looks very happy. Is he dancing? I also like the picture with the WD45 and the 6080.

2-8070FWA PS/8050PS/7080/7045PS/200/D15-II/2-WD45/WD/3-WC/UC/C

Apparently, not all NH balers are the same. The NH 273 appears to be one of the good ones. Gent who helped me rebuild my NH 315 has about 40 years experience setting up NH equipment, has been to NH knotter school and knows every nut and bolt on the things......favors the 273.

Nice looking line of equipment and nice looking hay. My hay is starting to head out / bloom and is ready to go, but waiting on a weather window. If you are starved for entertainment, get ready to travel west. I'll find some strings for you to pull!

I would not want to stack that much hay!

Charlie

'48 B, '51 CA, '56 WD45 '61 D17, '63 D12, '65 D10 , '68 One-Ninety XTD

Eight kids, 18 year spread Charlie so we had all the help needed during the 70's plus one kid we hired most summers in Upstate NY.

All of us leaned out for 3-4 weeks during haying as it was truly balls out when we started and "the ol' man" was pretty darned good at knocking down a good 1500 bales continuously. Watched the Today Show for weather in WI, MI and OH and played it by ear, usually mowing by 9:00 am with heavy dew leaving the tires wet on the tractor and NH haybine which held up just as well as that 273 Hayliner.

Can only remember a couple times when we had down hay get wet; mow all day to get started, mow 4-5 hours each morning thereafter and start baling by 1:00 pm on hay knocked down the day before, bale till dark if humidity cooperated.

Somebody raking with a D15 started about 10:00 am on prior day's cut and if we started baling and the 15 was needed to haul wagons, CA was put on the rake until the ol' man said stop.

Boys hauling/unloading got to take a quick dip in the pool as took turns roading wagons 2-3 miles away at times but I didn't care as I preferred staying in the field stacking, sometimes coming home in the dark with the last load but hey, I got out of milking that night and had my time in the pool.

Good times and we always had a big party with other families when 1st cutting was done, unless they needed help as whoever was done first offered to help others get their's in, it was different back then as everyone helped each other out.

Brings back memories of all my summers, late sixties thru the seventies.

The highlight was stacking wagons behind a WD and Case baler driven by a neighbor's daughter in her bikini. I only helped them a few times but that pan seat was quite distracting.

I always liked stacking the wagons and usually was able to get that assignment. Sadly in my college years the kicker balers had taken over end I ended up unloading twisted bales from the wagons instead.

I was taught to put one endways in the middle like you show in the pic then move that endway bales to either end on the next two tiers, always 5 total on each tier. That endwise bale on the end was a problem sometimes though and you could not place it there until you had the next bale to immediately throw on top of it before it bounced off. If there were enough wagons to keep up we stopped there and put only four bales across on the fourth tier and just capped with a single row down the center on top, spaced a half bale to the front. Like I say the kicker balers took all the finesse out of it and they just jammed the bales in a big jumbled mess.

Edited by Rick of HopeIN - 21 May 2020 at 8:30pm

1951 B, 1937 WC, 1957 D14, -- Thanks and God Bless

DougG wrote:

Nice pics for sure ! But in my opinion- and experience- please move the tongue over on the baler so the hay is not getting run over,,

Tongue is all the way over. The 273 has a short tongue. Normally we move the drawbar over on the tractor.

Charlie

'48 B, '51 CA, '56 WD45 '61 D17, '63 D12, '65 D10 , '68 One-Ninety XTD

I think the longer tongue was an option, also super sweep pickup and wider flotation tires. Very good balers.

'49 A-C WD, '51 A-C WD, '63 A-C D17 Series III, 1968 A-C One-Seventy, '82 A-C 6060, '75 A-C 7040, A-C #3 sickle mower, 2 A-C 701 wagons, '78 Gleaner M2

Every 273 I've ever seen had the longer hitch and 3 knuckle pto shaft. It's a nice set up with a pretty 190 like that.

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