Re: double wheel weights on farmall h good or bad?

Posted by Hugh MacKay on December 11, 2005 at 09:32:03 from (209.226.106.47):

In Reply to: Re: double wheel weights on farmall h good or bad? posted by Allan in NE on December 11, 2005 at 06:19:55:

Allan: I can see where your coming from and what you used those old Farmhand loaders for. I only ever saw one of those loaders and it was on a W9. Further it was noted for being one of the most clumsy outfits in 4 counties.

Here in the east we all get 36" plus of annual rainfall. Storing hay outside in stacks or round bales has never been an option. A few folks tried stacks here, and found them to be water saturated by the time they went to use them. In 1975 the first year I had my round baler, I left about 1/2 dozen bales outside to see what would happen. Come March they were a mass of mould. Piling round bales on ground with one of those large tarps over them is some better, but the bottom layer will still be water saturated from ground moisture.

That anual rainfall also dictated we could not house livestock outside as you folks do. Some folks tried, usually they didn't last more than couple of years.

Having said all this, we required a loader vehicle that would work inside buildings. It had to be compact and it had to be agile. When I went to round bales my only storage was second story that had been used for small square bales. Square bales had always been stored directly above the livestock to reduce labour. At the time I had a Case 1737 skid steer loader and 560 with IH 2000 loader. Those second floor storages were basically 12' spans with 2x12 floor joists on 16" centers and floored over with 2" lumber. I had to reduce my bales to 4' diameter and under 1,000 lbs to keep from breaking through floor between floor joists. 560 wouldn't even work in there, but would have broke floor just as much as skid steer.

Having that skid loader around back in those days we soon found out it would out perform most tractors in any situation. By todays standards my skid steer was not large yet it would load most material we had to load in half the time it took the 560. My dad was loading some excess fill one day with 560 and unto dump truck. My dad was a good operator going back to his first loader on an H then 300 followed by 560. He was known as one of the better tractor loader operators in the area. I came up the other side of dump truck with skid steer. We both agreed I had put 80% of the load on, when we were done. Within two years I purchased a second Case skid steer and the 2000 loader from the 560 was packed away in the shed. 5 years later I sold it. The 560 went back to where it was most productive, drawbar and pto.

Right away Lekander is asking if he dare put 55# air in tires rated for 35#. I hope you tell him he needs new tires. Also tell him how many clutches the H will go through in next ten years. We used to get two years per clutch on the H doing loader work. My skid steers each went 10,000 hours before any major repairs. As I see it in an area the size of Nebraska shouldn't be any need to pile round bales 15' up. It really wont hurt you to know a little bit about the world outside those 8 states.

Replies:

• Re: double wheel weights on farmall h good or bad? Allan in NE 06:53:15 12/12/05 (1)
  • Re: double wheel weights on farmall h good or bad? Hugh MacKay 22:22:48 12/12/05 (0)

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