Making Hay w/520H and Loader

[leeave96 487]

Last summer I sold this 520H and front loader

to one of our fine members. I used the proceeds to buy this:

and this...

So we could do this:

And this:

At a time when I needed less junk to work-on, I waded in deeper! Got great deals on the equipment and ALL of it needed wrenching to go into the field - and am still wrenching on it this winter - so haven't had much if any time to post to this fine forum. But we made over 1,000 square bales, we'll see what 2015 brings.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!

Bill

[AMC RULES 36,945]

Congrats on your first thousand bales.    

[Challenger 27]

Great story and photos.  

 

Just another benefit of owning a Wheel Horse.  When it comes time to sell one, the proceeds can be used to fund a new chapter in your passion for all things tractor related.

 

Perhaps this thread or a new one can be expanded to share other member photos/stories of calendar year 2014  Wheel Horse related projects undertaken and or completed.

Edited December 31, 2014 by Challenger

[boovuc 1,090]

That's great Bill! How many mowings did you get this year? 

[Jrblanke 840]

Great pictures Bill! Thanks for the update! The loader is enjoying it's new home

[pfrederi 17,147]

My Horses aren't big enough to handle the mowing and pick up but...They make it a lot easier to put the equipment in the tight spaces of the barn.  I have never mastered backing up a 4 wheel wagon, the front hitch makes it much easier.

[SousaKerry 500]

 

I have never mastered backing up a 4 wheel wagon, the front hitch makes it much easier.

 

Nobody ever has... front hitch is the only way, but turning brakes help tremendously especially on loaded grain wagons.

 

My dad even mounted a front hitch to his zero turn to move empty hay wagons used in the green house for moving bedding plants.

[pfrederi 17,147]

Nobody ever has... front hitch is the only way, but turning brakes help tremendously especially on loaded grain wagons.

 

My dad even mounted a front hitch to his zero turn to move empty hay wagons used in the green house for moving bedding plants.

 

I watched my 25 yr old neighbor who runs his family dairy farm back up his square bailer with a 4 wheel wagon behind it.. awesome

[stuppy62 58]

Did you actually use that hay loader, they we're outdated in the late 50's?

[pfrederi 17,147]

Did you actually use that hay loader, they we're outdated in the late 50's?

 

 

The Case VAC is 1951, Cut the field with a 1953 Case DC3 and a 1951 Case Sickle bar.

 

Unloading is teh problem all hand work.  I pick up enough for mulching and compost.  Then borrow a roll over rake and rake the rest up.  My neighbor bales it and takes it for his cows.