I spent quite a few years helping my dad bale with a 50 T International in West Central Indiana. We got to where we had near 100 Herefords, (and some corn and bean acreage to boot), so we did a lot of bales each season. Ours did not have the optional front wheel. I remember that there was so much tongue weight on our JD 50's drawbar that the whole unit would bounce up and down when it sat idling, due to the reciprocating motion of the baler. I also remember that the Cub engine was very hard to start when it was hot, so we got to where we did not stop the engine when we stopped for lunch. (I heard old-timers say the same of Fordson tractors.) There was a very short crank that went on the output shaft of the engine, and I was sure I was going to have a heart attack (in my teens!) from cranking over that engine. (Their later model had a larger C engine with electric start.) It would start great when cold, though. The thing I liked best was that you could easily run up the tractor's ground speed when the windows were light, and slow way down when the hay was heavy, due to the independent Cub engine. This doesn't work with a PTO baler. I'm starting to do some fencing so I can buy a few head of cattle, would like to buy a usable 50T or similar if I can find one.
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Today's Featured Article - A Lifetime of David Brown - by Samuel Kennedy. I was born in 1950 and reared on my family’s 100 acre farm. It was a fairly typical Northern Ireland farm where the main enterprise was dairying but some pigs, poultry and sheep were also kept. Potatoes were grown for sale and oats were grown to be used for cattle and horse feeding. Up to about 1958 the dairy cows were fed hay with some turnips and after that grass silage was the main winter feed. That same year was the last in which flax was grown on the farm. Flax provided the fibre which w
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