Joe, back in the early 1950's when we got our first hay baler it was a fairly heavy Dearborn model with a 25 hp 4 cyl. Wisconsin gas engine. We pulled it trailed by a wagon on which the hay was stacked with an 8N Ford at the time and most of the hay fields were fairly flat. The only real problem I recall was when we got into a wet spot in the field the 8N would get stuck if it was very soft. We would have to pull everything out with chains and another tractor on drier gound. Grandpa upgraded his tractor in a couple of years to a larger tri-cycle front end Ford which was a model with the transmission neutral being in a verticle direction. Don't recall the model number but it was much more capable and shortly there after we went to a PTO driven baler as that Ford had a two stage clutch with quite a bit more hp. There were a lot of IH hay balers in the neighborhood being pulled with Farmall H's which seemed to handle them fine. This post is like a short story but heck that was 60 years ago, Hal.
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