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MN Scott

03-09-2008 15:16:20

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I have a couple vintage pictures taken in 1950.

This picture shows from the left my grandpa, my uncle Earl, My dad, neighbor kid, and my Uncle Carl. The New Holland baler was their first baler and the M was a 1947. It was one of the first self tie balers in the area. These are the only color pictures I have of the period as my grandparents did not have a camera. My Uncle Carl loved cameras and always had the latest equipment.

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LenNH

03-12-2008 11:22:53

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Re: Vintage Pictures in reply to MN Scott, 03-09-2008 15:16:20

The old pix are fun. I have a few that might interest somebody. How do you get them to this
site? I have a scanner and a photo program in my computer, have sent photos in e-mail, but don't know how to poste on a site like this one.
Any help would be appreciated.

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Hugh MacKay

03-10-2008 18:23:03

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Re: Vintage Pictures in reply to MN Scott, 03-09-2008 15:16:20

Scott: Great photos, those old slide chutes for loading wagons bring back some fond memories. My dad always said, "once I pick hay off the ground, I'm not wasting that energy by putting it back down again." Once the hay loader picked it up, hay went to the wagon. He always declared those first old balers weren't a lot faster than the hay loader. Bear in mind, his first baler was an IH 45, and those definitely affected ones thinking. I've seen him threaten to get rid of the baler more than once.

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LA in Wi.

03-10-2008 07:44:41

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Re: Vintage Pictures in reply to MN Scott, 03-09-2008 15:16:20

Great pictures. Since I"m an old dude, this brings back good memories of our Iowa farm in those years. Yes, that M or more commonly an H often was the first tractor many farmers bought (some never bought the F series...they weren"t ready for tractors yet). When that first tractor came, most of the horses were sold...but 2-4 of them were kept for raking, mowing, planting, etc. I"m guessing that MN operation had about 240 A, because an H was often bought for a 160 A farm. I recall a lot of pulled implements had a very long hitch (tongue), since that hitch had recently been used for the horses. While at my grandpa"s farm in about 1949, my one uncle was cultivating with their JD A (2 row) and the other was cultivating with a team of horses. The horses were resting and my uncle looked over the field and said to me "Yep, this field should yield up to 90 bushels per acre this year". This was black soil near Waterloo.
I think that is why the H and M have such slow field gears, the implements were still designed for horse speeds. I"m astounded that IH put such a fast 5th gear in them, that must have been like flying in those days; was fun to watch the dirt fly high off the rears when we pulled out of a field and onto the gravel roads and shifted to 5th. Got cooled off, too!
LA

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Janicholson

03-10-2008 06:21:12

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Re: Vintage Pictures in reply to MN Scott, 03-09-2008 15:16:20

The windrow spacing, and size, show a very nice crop. Great early color. JimN

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Idaho Ron

03-09-2008 18:30:10

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Re: Vintage Pictures in reply to MN Scott, 03-09-2008 15:16:20

Those are great pictures! Thanks for showing them to us. Ron

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Al in Mn

03-09-2008 18:13:09

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Re: Vintage Pictures in reply to MN Scott, 03-09-2008 15:16:20

That picture reminds me of the baler my uncle had. It was on just like it and pulled by 1950 Farmall M which I still have. My uncles and my dad baled alot of hay with an outfit just like that.

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Dave Sherburne NY

03-09-2008 17:05:31

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Re: Vintage Pictures in reply to MN Scott, 03-09-2008 15:16:20

Looks like the rear end of a side delivery rake in the top picture and then a dump rake behind the horses. Thats the way my father did it to, went over the field after it was finished, to get the "scatterns" Used to have an Oliver on a baler like that.

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Vito

03-09-2008 16:32:38

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Re: Vintage Pictures in reply to MN Scott, 03-09-2008 15:16:20

Thank you for sharing those pictures.That must have been a real exciting time for them with a new baler and tractors.Poor horses proably got retired shortly with all that new iron showing up.
Vito

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Steven f/AZ

03-09-2008 16:19:05

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Re: Vintage Pictures in reply to MN Scott, 03-09-2008 15:16:20

I can't imagine only having one tractor and having to run ahead of it with a team pulling the rake...

Of course, having an M probably meant they were "big" operators back then. :)
Thanks for sharing the pics, I'll have to look this summer when I'm home to see if there are any of Dad and Grandpa working.

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gene bender

03-09-2008 17:40:36

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Re: Vintage Pictures in reply to Steven f/AZ, 03-09-2008 16:19:05

You werent around then i take it but thats the way is was done. You should have seen the stationary baler they put on wheels used a Model A engine pulled a hay loader behind it to put the hay on a platform beside the plunger. The person who tied the bales used a pitchfork to move the hay from the platform to the plunger. Was the only baler around but it got the job done. They made the chassis and pulled it with an old JOHN DEERE tractor. Husband and wife and the Dau drove the tractor. Customer provided the hay loader. You didnt use a buck rake. Used a side delivery rake for the windrows.

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Red Mist

03-09-2008 15:50:33

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Re: Vintage Pictures in reply to MN Scott, 03-09-2008 15:16:20

Man, I wish I had some photos like that of my times on my great uncle's farm in South Carolina circa 1951 - 1958. Great photos. Do you remember the horses' names? (No big deal either way, just curious.)
mike

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MN Scott

03-09-2008 19:36:40

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Re: Vintage Pictures in reply to Red Mist, 03-09-2008 15:50:33

No, I didn't come around till 1972. I know at the time they also had two F20's and an H but my grandpa loved horses and kept a team for light work into the late 60's when he retired. He died in 1974 so I never knew him.

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