Re: Found old film of our IH tractors at work!!!

Posted by Ron in Nebr on March 28, 2004 at 20:45:23 from (65.165.16.53):

In Reply to: Found old film of our IH tractors at work!!! posted by Tim Malin on March 28, 2004 at 11:53:09:

I've got tons of similar IH memories(and even a few pics), but they don't involve any plowing. Mostly they involve hay...I have a distinct memory of helping dad move 6-ton haystacks when I was VERY young with our new 656 and a 560. We moved them with about 50 foot of heavy cable with a large steel I-beam in the center. One end of the cable hooked to each tractor, one went on either side of the stack, and when the cable got tight, pull the T/A's back and away you'd go, dragging the stack accross the meadow to the stackyard.
I remember feeding with the 656 pulling a haysled in the wintertime, in a cab my dad made out of angle iron and plywood. Going on sidehills I just KNEW were gonna tip us over, but we never did. I remember having to unhook the haysled and winching it through tough spots in the hills when the snow was deep...
I remember one very cold 3-mile trip with dad in our new 886, had it less than a week, to pull my grandad and brother out of a snowdrift(this happened before the plywood cab got built onto the ROPS on the 886). I remember the 886 pulling stacks on a chain-type stackmover through snow up to the oilpan, bucking and jumping as the chained tires fought for traction...
I also have more memories than I can count of mowing, raking, etc. on A's, H's, M's, etc. Also have an old super-8 movie from the early 60's of our WD-9 going out to feed hay, and another one of my dad sweeping hay on a reversed Super C haysweep, which also interestingly enough shows probably the last team of workhorses we had on the ranch being used on the haystacker.
Sorry this was long, but those are great memories.

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