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Gary, it looks like you have a very nice stand of oats. I also like your new deck on the bundle wagon. I have three hay racks but need to redeck one. Things take time but I’ll get there. My oats is all bundled up into square bales and stacked in the sheds now. Just finished yesterday picking up the bales. As soon as it started to turn, I knocked it all down with my 12’ haybine. It seemed like it turned in two days this year and I had to be on the ball. This was my view from the 560 Farmall, my IH tractor on a Montana farm! ? It dried very quickly and I only flipped it once with the roll-bar rake to dry the bottom before punching out the squares of pain. I got 535 bales on my 18 acres and 292 on the neighbor’s 13.5 acres. The problem with all this was I was given 24 additional acres of grass that had to be cut at the same time as my oats. And that field gave up 579 bales. So I was spread thin but managed. Plus the dreaded baler breakdown that cost $500 for a USED part ($2300+ new). This was the best veiw of them all. The last empty field of the season. I put up 2,835 square bales over the last 6 weeks and cut/raked another 150 acres that a friend rolled into 175 round bales. Our production isn’t the greatest but we get what we get from the land without irrigation. The elk took a noticeable toll on both of my fields. Each had an area closest to the woods that was pretty much eaten to the ground. I’d say I lost 20% to the animals. Maybe more, who knows. Can’t do anything about it so I go on. Here is an albino ground squirrel. I had never seen one before and this field had three of them. The hawks will likely get them now that their cover is gone. I also cut about 10 acres of oats and peas for a friend. The mix grows extremely well and is actually about 5 feet tall. The problem is that it lodges easily also. So my haybine helped pull it up and the conditioner rolls allow it to dry faster. The pea pods pop as they go through! Lol. I wish I knew how to post a video, the pictures really don’t show how tall and thick it is. Sorry about the green tractor. My 560 started to make a metallic noise in the PTO, I think a bearing went. Just something else to fix now in the off season!

A new enterprise perhaps? Vintage Custom Baling LLC But: If you have to fab parts,layout and setup is most of the work and cost. And the second baler needs the same parts......?????

Post puller could not pull them, didn't want to put loader on the 656 so I don't know how much hp it takes but I know how much I'm going to use. Pulling t post in preparation to side...

they have either a crane or a blower with a automatic spreader in the hay mow Loose hay handling equipment development continued in Europe while it almost disappeared in North America

Oh please don't even plant those thoughts in the universe! But that would look awesome !

how about a 560 with 656 fenders LOL

I remember that view. We had one of those loaders. Hard to climb in. Put the ear plugs in the night before and it was still loud

I rolled up and picked up the hoses we use for irrigating oats today at Silver Creek. Mike got home from his three week Tennessee military school about 10:PM Monday night. He called last night after work and supper. He'd ridden around the oats patch on his 4-wheeler. He told me about some telltale sign he found on the upper side. These aren't "black olives" on the edge of the oat field. I know some of you have elk in your areas and some of you don't. Silver Creek has a roaming herd. They cover about a 20 mile circle, around the neighborhood. I know Matt has the same issue in his part of Montana. I spent much of the afternoon in 90 degree heat and 10% humidity working on the Case steam engine. I'm trying to take some minute slack out of the valve mechanism. I finally just quit and came home at 5:00. I dropped everything when in the house and took a cool shower. That kind of heat just about melts me. I've tried to understand why so many people in Montana (and Canadians go through here with their motorhomes too) go to Arizona for the winter. The winter is my chance to cool off. I wear necessary clothing to stay warm. The sad part with this unbearable heat is, you can only take off about so much without getting arrested. Gary?

Wow absolutely unreal how nice they look for being outside

Baled enough for us and the neighbor comes and takes the rest. Our NH square baler had no issues baling behind a rotary combine.

Remember , You have been issued bidder card # 1. You'll need to come help the widow with her convalescent home money . Tony

My parts supply arrived today. i ran an add on West coast equipment magazine, AG SOURCE, and after Two and half months I got my only phone call . Man said he has been in hay business in Diamond Valley Navada . Said he had run many type balers but never #71 IH but he knew they were scarce . Said,These two machines had been taken to a Utah steel mill to be melted , He bought them from mill and brought them to his ranch. Thinking They look to good and being scarce someone may need them for parts . That was five years ago , and here I come and bring them to my yard . He sold them very reasonable. Trucking added to cost but I did not want to drive 600 miles one way to chase parts .lol. Trucker was his Son so pretty easy deal. The high desert 6000 ft . elevation ,has preserved them very well and they had no hay left in the chamber . BTW , Engines are NOT Stuck. According to seller balers sat approx. 15-20 years before going to steel mill and then 5 years at his place. Now Starts all the work finding the one best to restore and harvesting all the good parts and WASH, WASH, WASH ! Now I own Serial # 62-16, 63-29, 63-36 Probably only three in existence . lol lol. I am assuming those serials are the year and number in assembly line. Today's pic's 7/30/19 tony

It's still a winner. Different. I went to a car show last night. Just a local by the River every Monday night gtg. Still probably 2-300 cars and trucks there. If I saw one Ididit steering column I saw thirty. The standouts were cool. A LaSalle,Corvair Monza, some WOMEN DROVE a forties quarter midget, notchback Barracuda, a couple original drop axle gassers.

Falling falling for my new dog

Rule of thumb on hyd truck brakes is to run the star wheel up until the brakes lock and then back off 3 clicks for used shoes 5 for new. This usually is the back axle. Front axle assuming it is the cam design with the hex nut on the out side of the backing plate turn in direction of forward rotation until wheel locks and then back off until just free to rotate. Start with the furthest wheel from the master cyl and work your way to the closest. RR LR RF LF is normally recommended way to bleed. I usually try to bleed the hydrovac first and then go to the wheels. Most of the Alison transmission that I have been around do not have a vacuum modulator they shift by throttle linkage position and pressure. What you have been describing does sound like brakes that are out of adjustment.

Those where super cool trucks, Who knows if anyone still supplies parts for them.

Hydrovac's need the shoes really close to the drums to work right. 1 1/2 pumps means the wheel cylinders require too much fluid to move far enough first pump.

Nice looking machine, hope it serves you well. Keep us posted.