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Haven’t been able to post much lately, wife’s health isn’t good but had a bright spot today, 5 year old grand daughter came over and wanted a tractor ride, built her a grab bar and took off, way safer than when I was growing up, she loved it

Lisa got her an Aussie puppy. He’s 11 weeks old, who is full of energy. The only thing of Dolly’s that is off limits is a Teddy bear that Lisa gave her old dog for Christmas. Dolly says that is hers and hers alone. Shadow travels REALLY WELL. Let him out every couple hours and he does his thing and never makes a mess in the vehicle.

Finished cutting the hay field yesterday. Bushing on the cutter bar went out on the haybine once and it was slow going, low one!

Been working outside and no one else on the job but dad last week, so I figured I would give Jinx a shot. She stays close but gets antsy by the end of the day. Shes got big shoes to fill, we will see.

Pulled the haybine up to the shop with the 300, greased and oiled it and replaced a couple sections. Laid down a couple acres of hay as a "test" plot for the #37 baler. I recently put a radio on the tractor, and it made mowing go by a lot faster it seemed. The 85 degree weather helped some too. The grass was very thin this year, but fluffed it right behind the mower so it'll hopefully dry by Monday. I'm shooting for about 100 bales, but i dont think it will make that. Will probably have to fluff again tomorrow to get it dry, but I think I'll let the 340 take care of that. Also need to get the rake greased up, replace a couple tines, and then bring the baler in and install the new twine knives and give it a general once over. Will probably do that tomorrow afternoon. Mac Photo was from last year, forgot to take one today but you get the idea.

From yesterday, raked the last cutting of alfalfa for this field with the 766 I grew up with, and my brother’s Vermeer R2300. Nice combination, if overpowered. Much nicer to run than my high strung Rowse pulled by a gutless 706. My Rowse is down at the moment for a rake wheel rebuild.

More disking with the 1456 and then my Dad harrowed with the M. I have decided to do some YouTube videos. It's more of a let's record our farm life and than anything that I think will go anywhere. Check it out you're interested. https://m.youtube.com/@harvestingharrolds8106

I guess this is how IHC dealerships worked on the Six Speed Specials? This was a Greg Druffel photo from very early in this IHC thread of mine featuring an International S Model. Sacked grain in the Palouse country. Dad and his brothers had the regular four cylinder Six Speed Specials and this S Model six cylinder International truck. This was an International S Model Truck at the Great Falls Toy Show in 2020. This was it's fancy interior. The six cylinder engine in the Toy Show truck was a "Lycoming"! Same company as the air cooled aircraft engines I used to depend on in my flying days. I have some International literature, just a little pamphlet that shows this International dump truck. This was "pre-OSHA" too. This information was included in my pamphlet. These accessories are a part of my pamphlet too. The Yaeger Implement "black baby" truck was put together by none other than Roger Byrne, when 20 year old Jacob and 18 year old Heather were quite little. Roger has one awfully huge heart. The Model T Ford Roadster Pickup was painted "Any color you want, as long as it's black!" The Yaeger International dealership apparently ordered after market disk wheels, to better navigate the deep snow and often deep mud in the Helena vicinity? Roger is a talented little dickens, even if he won't let me possess that 1912 IHC AutoWagon of mine. Gary😉 PS: I hope you all have a great Labor Day Weekend!

Moved my portable scaffolding with the 560. 🙄

My project for the day/weekend

Gave the $5 C-22 mower a rattle can restoration. And mounted it to the demo Cub. I have the sickle and the pitman arm but the new pitman stick showed up too late to mount. I have a parade today in Plains, MT so she’s loaded and ready!

Baled with my 186 and 648 NH 5 acres wet marshmallows (4X5) for the deer for a landlord today. I then baled 58 bales of straw and 28 of second cutting with the LBX432 3X4 baler and hauled them in before going to a landlords labor day picnic/party . Didn't get any pictures besides these while going by the sunflower patches

We had been visiting about crawler tractors recently. I didn't put this photo in with the Special Model International "Red Baby" trucks. It is a CleTrac tractor with a patented snow blower, boasting a large engine to drive the blower and an up front set of wheels and a steering wheel to guide it. I'm betting with an operator driving it up front, it still had to have an operator on the Cletrac to shift and clutch it. I don't think it was Rube Goldberg who patented it though. He wasn't from Minnesota. Gary😉

runs good

Got started on our spring wheat yesterday. Have 200 acres to do. We got it in late this spring. Seeded it last week of May. But someone was smiling on us. It has been dry all summer. This area caught a couple little showers nobody else got. Opening truckload of field was 704 net bushels and right at 12 acres combined. I think that came to 59 bpa. Had 31 acres done last night and rough avg for start of field was a bit over 55 bpa. Hopefully yield holds out through the rest of field.

These are some pictures from around my place that I won a couple photo contests with.

The 1928 International Dealer truck in the picture posted by twostepn2001 is a 3/4 ton S. The S stands for Special Delivery and was built from 1922 to 1928. Some were equipped with the fancy coupe type cab and others were roadsters or wood cabs. If they were ordered by IHC dealers for their own use, the factory would paint them red and featured company logos and advertising. As far as the being "1 of just 200 built" . . . well if that is true, then it would only refer to the ones ordered that year by IHC dealers because there were 4,417 S trucks built in 1928 alone. Total production of the 3/4 ton S Model IHC trucks was over 37,400 from 1922 through 1928. The first photo below is a better photo of Wendel Kelch's (an expert in early International tractors and trucks) Red Baby that was posted in Gary's photos. By the way, in Gary's last photo . . . maybe ?? some IHC dealers used Model T's as service vehicles before International came out with Red Baby??

Still got mine Lorenzo but it wasn't a 100. HP

When my oldest was the right age my neighbor offered me a PW50 IIRC for $100 that his kids had rode the wheels off of. It still ran good but needed the frame welded up in a few places. I set it up in the shop bench and was doing just that when it struck me. If I bought that، Cade would never walk any where again. I finished welding it up and took it back saying appreciate it but no thanks. Bought /raised horses for them instead. Would have been cheaper to buy em the bike😄

I sure do, remember it well, i must have put a million miles on mine.

Brace yourself its the first tractor i ever drove - i was the designated driver of the hay wagon - 1st gear at a slow throttle i could pull the hand clutch and stand on both brakes as needed lol - no clue what brand cultipacker - maybe brillion? - obvious disc - used atv seeder - alfalfa - clover - wheat food plots for deer - and this wonky deer showed up i named him jester

I got the mill in place and all put together and wired. The spindle motor was replaced not long back by the seller. These variable speed heads run a little noisy but I was hearing a little too much. It looks like the pulleys are out of alignment a bit so I’ll correct that next.

We jack one side up slightly, use a line up dowel and then lean the tire up using a ground bar to line up the hole . On Magnum duals we have always timed the valve stem at the same place so inner is easy to find by looking at the dual. They have a hole in the rim opposite of the valve and we park tractor with the hole up and set dual with a small chain or strap in place to finish it with the bar

And most of us don’t take selfies wearing an Allis Chalmers hat either 😂

they wouldn't buy me one. I got all my brothers hand me down hay burners

We just drove the Cub Cadet 100 all over the farm....

Today was my last day. Gotta start cutting rice. They will make more next week.

I keep seeing those, foolish idea, but evidently someone is buying them. Why anyone would go to the trouble to wrap a conex box with logs is beyond me. personally I would feel like i were being trafficked if i woke up every day to the inside of one of them.

Maggie got 4 this spring. 9

Got him!

I use low fairly often. And I like manual hubs....

Seth...what Hardtail was sayin'... "we ain't laughing with you.....".....more like at you..... That sort of 'incident' has happened to most of us ...at some point...no doubt ..... Mike

Got home from HCOP Sunday . Never unloaded the Farmall C .Monday morning ,took the Farmall C over first to the Great Geauga County Fair. Then the Fordson was next . I’m not letting them sitting around ,if there’s a local show I can get them into ,they’re going .

Got a nice regular next to me

I am going to put this here for lack of a better place. The oil cooler gets blasted when you pull the drain plug, so i was getting sprayed a little and tried to rearrange drain pan when the whole thing tipped over on top of me, then the oil coming out hit the board the drain pan was on and made a sprinkler effect and rained the rest of the oil on me. I couldn’t get away from it. Then just to add insult to injury I put my clothes in a bucket of degreaser and realized I had left my wallet in my pants. At least the oil was warm.

Again I hate to sound like a old dude but 4 spd manual tranny in a 75 4wd F250.It would pull hay wagons,( I would hook two full kick bale wagons together 130 bales or so each) up the roads to far away barns or straight to horse people. Up and down hills,4 wd low for the steepest and to hold me back going down other side.Never destroyed the transfer case in it or any others we had..Crazy 16 year old boy I was.Never rolled or lost one.i would NEVER do that now myself let alone a leave 16 yr old boy to do it.Its a wonder my dad was as calm as he was. The truck was simple, crank up windows, power brakes and steering. You could camp out under the hood. Fuel pump changed in minutes not hours. Nothing hidden,all easy access

Never got one, but then again they weren't my thing growing up, and money was tight growing up. I was naive enough to not understand (or care) then, but we never went without. Nothing extra, but just enough. But that would have been fun

Finally made a usin pickup out of my '19 today (shucked the box in favor of a new flatbed)

We are going to do a harvest day again this fall. Everyone and their equipment are welcome.

twostepn2001, That's a neat photo of one of the short fancy Red Baby trucks. Thank you for posting. I have a variety of Red Baby IHC trucks and I don't know if they are all authentic or not? But I'd make a home for any one of them. Now this one must have been pre red paint on the IHC service trucks? Gary

Planted some Alfalfa today. Was originally going to do this first part of the month but the landlord wanted to do some clearing in a few places so by the time he got done and with Weather delays and us bailing hay it brought us to today getting it done

I wish Peterbilt would start building pickups?

Bottle jack is much easier than a couple boards. Just get the tractor high enough to allow the rim to align so the bolts can start properly. After you get them started and the top one or two tight you can raise the jack to clear the dual and torque the bolts. Be careful!

Didn't know these ever existed. Found this pic on FB.