The Blue side has claimed my brother

That sure is a SHARP looking Ford. I always liked the looks of them.

Charlie surprised me by showing up at my retirement job! As you can see its not a job, just having fun helping my best bud. He square bales around 25K per year and round bales around 5K round bales. Use a Bale Barron and 2 NH square balers for the squares. NH 210 discbine to mow. I will always bleed orange but these Ford 8600’s are pretty good tractors. He flipped the front end around to give them short wheelbase. They are heavy and well built. He has 3-8600’s, a TW10, 5610, 4000SU and several others. A Massey. 4WD with loader and he still has his first tractor, a AC 175 diesel with a 500 loader that he started his hay business with 30 years ago. I will be using it tomorrow to load round bales at a remote farm. I bought his AC 160 last year when it blew a head gasket and did a full engine rebuild. The Krone rotary rake I’m running is a amazing tool. Ive never seen a rake clean the field as well as it does. What the video doesn’t show is me wearing my AC shirt!!!

Edited by AC720Man - 21 Jun 2022 at 9:44pm

at least it isn't weed green

Ky.Allis wrote: That sure is a SHARP looking Ford. I always liked the looks of them.

Agreed. That Krone hay rake doesn't mess around. Thanks for sharing the video.


Edited by AC7060IL - 22 Jun 2022 at 6:31am

My buddy Gary loading his wagon while I wait to load mine. Normally we would be using the road tractor but it’s at a farm 25 miles away hauling the 390 bales home. Using the 4WD Massey to load there.

Just 1 NH round baler. No few Monday so Gary was able to start around 9 sm as I had been raking for 2 hays to stay ahead of him. We run 2 NH BC5070 Hayliner square balers at the same time when doing square bales. All balers have have Silo King additive machines on them. While we round baled yesterday the other crew square baled 900 bales of wheat straw. I finished transporting round bales this morning and am baling straw as I write this. When our local Allis dealership switched to Ford after AC went out of business that’s when Gary switched to Ford so he would have local dealership support which is only 2 miles away.

Thanks for reminding how much my round balers SUCK.  LOL!!!  It takes me.....I don't even know....

Nice.  We looked at a TW 25 and TW 30, and.....8670 (?)  before we ended up with our 7045.

If I’m not mistaken, did JI Case manufacture a few models for Ford?

Hi all i have a few blue ones that have sneaked into the toy box  sooner be blue than green JD's are painted green and yellow so when they break down you can park them in the gorse fence and no one can see them ha ha

Growing up, there was a Ford tractor dealership in Verona Wi, (Town&Country Ford?) about 15 miles away. Always had a few Fords on the lot, not hardly any Fords tractors nor implements on any farms in our area. Dealership was also a NH, and Heston implement dealer. We only went there when needing parts for a Ford skid loader. Very lackluster sales Dept., was there over 20 years, wondering how they lasted that long.

I'm still on 45 seconds per bale