Re: If it can go wrong it will.

Posted by Hugh MacKay on May 12, 2005 at 17:44:21 from (64.228.11.94):

In Reply to: Re: If it can go wrong it will. posted by Van in AR on May 12, 2005 at 16:44:27:

Van: My dad bought a new Farmall 300, narrow front, in 1955, and he bought it mainly for baling. Even after we got the 560 wf, he still liked the 300 for baling. With the NH S-69 with thrower and 4 - 20 wagons, the 300 clocked up 9,000 bales total in two consecutive days, and the hay was all in barn. Only had Farmalls 300, 130 and Cockshutt 540 in those days. But then I always say harvesting small square bales had more to do with manpower than horsepower.

Later on I added Farmalls 560D and 656D to the lineup, never duplicated that two day total again. Mainly due to availability of labour. I have baled and stored 4,500 bales numerous times in a given day, but was never able to do it two days in a row.

My dad started farming with a team of horses and a Fordson. I don't remember the Fordson but he claimed it only added to the horses workload, tow starting it. For all it achived when going horses were faster. In 1942 he bought a new W4, traded that off for a new H in 1951. He said it unbelievable the difference between the standard and row crop with basically same power train. H was twice the tractor W4 was. The 300s are no different. IH thought that swept back axle was the cats meow. I suppose it could have been had they built a good steering system. I take notice, there has not been a lot of swept back axle tractors built in the past 20 years. About as usless as a pig on ice is what they were.

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