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I wanted to be able to handle bales with my 510 Thought about building a grapple fork But kinda wanted pallet forks too A wild idea hit. Wonder if I could attach my 3pt bale fork in the bucket somehow Set it in the bucket and against all odds the top link pin slid right in a lug that I used for a clevis to hook a chain in I am never this lucky Guessing I used up my luck for the year on this one😄

Funny how you many times don’t see some of the historical things right in your area even though you’ve lived there all your life. So Dawn and I decided to take a drive a couple days ago on a road before it closes for the winter. Everyone drives I-90 through Montana and Idaho across Lookout Pass. There is another pass north of there near Thompson Falls that has some history, Thompson Pass. Never been across there before. Needed some groceries so we went to Kellogg, Idaho and tossed some things in a cooler. Also stopped at Tractor Supply for a couple items. Went a couple more exits west and then northeast up the Coeur d’ Alene River towards Murray, Idaho. Crossed some old iron bridges along the way. Murray, Idaho was a booming gold field in the late 1800s. Now it’s just barely a small town of rundown buildings. The entire valley is a mess of mine tailings for miles and miles. Looks like they got every ounce of gold possible. The last few miles went very steeply up to Thompson Pass. This is Granite Peak and the pass is to the left of it at nearly 7,000 feet. Someone had installed a pipe along the road if you needed a drink. Ice cold. The road was steep and windy just below the pass. Winter maintenance stops with the first heavy snow until it melts away in the spring. Hard to believe wagons made this trip daily to the gold field in Idaho from the end of the rail line in Thompson Falls. At the top of the pass was this placard with a little history. We saw a cow moose on the way down in Montana. I wish I could have got a picture of the base of Thompson Falls where the bridge crosses but there was no space to walk on the bridge. It’s just something you’d have to see when passing over. We finished the 200 mile loop home with a stop at Quinn’s Hot Springs for dinner. We didn’t see any Bighorn sheep near Thompson Falls on the cliffs but saw plenty of deer and a few elk. It was a nice drive with the fall colors, such as we have in Montana. Thanks for riding along!

Had a great talk with the owner and did a short interview with him on his 7788. Should have a video up soon hope you enjoy.

Got the 5288 cleaned up and serviced yesterday. She cleans up good I would say.

Hello, everyone. I have been absent for a little while on this forum. Wanted to share what is going on in my world. My parents have been declining rapidly health wize in the past year. This winter has been particularly rough. Dad can no longer drive safely. I think his days operating a tractor are done. Not sure whether he will even be able to mow his lawn this year. They are both using walkers/ canes to move about the house now. Together, they get along well and function okay in their home. They eat well, bathe and the house is clean. Local volunteers from the church transport them to important appointments. They are okay where they are for now. However, they require daily help from me for all kinds of tasks and for their shopping needs. My stress level has been rising, hard to sleep at night. Almost no time to deal with the day to day of MY life after looking in on them every evening on my way home. The last several years, I have been proud to operate the farm for the family. (We did hire the neighbors to harvest our crops and haul them to town.) I have been increasingly concerned that I may not be able to operate the farm as efficiently and timely as I should with my life as busy as it is now. If I do a poor job raising crops, Dad makes less money off the farm. I proposed to the family that for the first time in 5 generations, we rent the ground to the same neighbors that have been harvesting our crops. It was sad to break the family tradition, but I felt it was the best decision. I can devote time to looking after my parents and allowing them to remain in their home for the foreseeable future. I can keep the lawns mowed, trim the road ditches and play with old tractors. The neighbors offered competitive rent and will be good stewards of the land. My parents will receive reliable income from rent. The neighbors are going to let me raise alfalfa on about 6 acres of rough clay hillside, so I will have some hay farming to do each summer. Enough work to get me out in the field awhile and give the tractors a little exercise! In my mind, that still makes me a Farmer. On my family's ground. Someday, I may take over the row crop again. That option remains as we still own the land. So, changes taking place, but I feel it is for the better. Thanks to everyone on this forum for your support. Means the world to me.

I can’t believe it’s been three years since my last post, no doubt due to old age (mid 80’s) & medical issues causing me to retire from farming my little 80 acre farm & spending the past three years selling off my antique farm equipment on Craigslist, I’m doing better there than a farm sale I think, as so far I’m getting back what I paid 33 years ago for everything I’ve sold, but then a dollar is worth a lot less than 33 years ago!! I had no idea how big the demand was for old farm equipment, folks belonging to tractor clubs wanting machinery to show with their tractors. Three examples, I had 2 different folks come about 300 miles from Nebraska to Southern Kansas, one took home my 1PR one row corn picker and picker wagon & the other took home my two row mounted cultivator off my 1947 Farmall H, another came 100 miles from here in Kansas & took home my 1958 A model Gleaner combine . I still have my 5 Farmall tractors, a 1947 H, two 1953 Super H’s, A 1950 M & A 1970 826 Gold Demonstrator. My dad was an International Harvester dealer until he started farming full time in 1953 so these old tractors are dear to me, in fact the one Super H is the one he taught me to farm with as a child

One week ago today, Dt Fan and I drove down to Lacona, IA to help a good friend pick his 10 acres of ear corn on his small farm. He has 3 picking rigs: 706 LP wheatland on a 2 PR, Famall H on a 1PR and a 234 on a 400. His fleet is mosty IH wagons. He sells the ear corn to a neighbor, who hauls it home with a truck or 2 big wagons. So, the small wagons are dumped into them with an IH elevator ran by a 606 utility. We used his Grandfather's 706 to dump the ear corn into the elevator Gene used the 234 to open the field for the pull pickers. I ran the 706 Wheatland and 2PR for 4 1/2 hours. Mike wore his butt off dumping wagons as Gene and I picked! With our efforts, we picked enough corn that He finished on Monday.

When it’s going good, I enjoy few things more than mowing a nice field. 766 on the 9ft 1100. Cole is in the background with the 966 and the 10ft disk mower. It is plenty wet but I need to start spraying my beans tomorrow. Heat index was 102f today but it wasn’t bad.

There was a vintage tractor show locally this past weekend, unfortunately I didn't get to go, but a good friend of mine sent some pictures over for me this morning to cheer a girl up and I figured, what better place to share the red ones?

After dragging the New Holland swather home, going through it and giving it a test run, it was time to get it to the field. The tow hitch and the dolly cart were done so now I had to load up and move it 10 miles away. Getting the swather up on the dolly wheels definitely is not a one man job. There isn’t much room for error to get the wheels in the buckets. But everything fit. Just folded the ramps up and strapped it all down. Signs, flags and away we went! A friend was my pilot car and he blocked traffic on a bridge going into town. I think the dolly is 13.5’ wide so I took the whole bridge up. I didn’t set any speed records at 15 mph but we made it. The route was the back road which is gravel part of the way and pretty steep in a couple of areas. Everything worked as planned and the setup pulled well. To unload, we left the tow bar attached to the truck and used it along with the swather to back out of the buckets. Once on top of the ramps, we unhooked from the truck and backed down the ramps. Again, not a one man job to stay straight on the ramps. Safely on the ground and cutting hay. The swather is a huge improvement for speed and comfort. I can say I was very lucky to find a machine that was basically field ready.

With my parents health declining, we rented the farm out this spring. I mentioned this in another thread awhile back. However, we kept 7 acres of rougher ground to make hay on for our calves. It was rougher ground and and a 25 foot wide strip to access the field. So, I will be a hay farmer for awhile! This weekend was finally dry enough and it warmed up. So, I woke the 1486 from its slumber and blew up a couple low tires. Rounded up the disk and hit the field. The 25' strip was already worked up by our renters, so I just smoothed out the soil. The no-till cornstalks took 4 passes to be ready. Tomorrow, I seed oats and alfalfa. Videos: Enjoy!

I have been contemplating for the past few years about building a shop.the older I get , the harder it is to work on things on a dirt floor . I know there was a previous posting about this topic, but I couldn't find it. So I'll start a new one.

350 Diesel, Super M, 400 all part of friend's fleet... also jd 2 way, 1940 Dodge coupe with Grand pas carpenter tools in trunk..

I actually finished sometime ago but left a 5 acre patch of wheat I didn’t get to until now. Both combine and truck are 1976.

As I have turned 70 this year I am trying to cut back form 60-70 hrs a week to 30-40. We have fired/refused to work for quite a few customers. We still have one large and two medium dairy's, two small dirt contractors and one feed yard. Momma says I should cut back more, I have known all these people their whole lives and I told her to pick the ones to cut off. She said I can't do that. I am trying to coach a couple of them to do more of their own repairs and its seems to be working. As far as the pulling trucks and tractors we still do it for a shop that services our trucks ( that way I don't have to wait in line to get my stuff fixed). We have stopped all the aluminum boat repairs, last year I think that was over 40. We got through silage chopping season without major work and now if we can get through combining beans and shelling corn I hope it slows down more. I have starting completive pistol shooting again once a month after a 20 year layoff, steel plates and they don't have to use a timer with me just a calendar. Momma and I have started going to breakfast and lunch together when our schedules allow and that's nice.

I may have one in the family in a few years😍😄

Looking through some old pictures i took when i restored the ol gal.

Hi you guys. After my son had surgery last year and all the other little issues before and after his recovery. The hospital referred his name to make a wish. And as a wish he chose Hawaii and wants to visit Pearl Harbor is go snorkeling. We got delayed a day yesterday due to a frozen plane in minot nd. Then today in Denver we were delayed again for a couple hours. But it is really nice here. Looking forward to a couple days of warmth. We are staying at the Disney aulani resort in Oahu

I’m on the road to the Midwest for my annual trip to sell fishing lures. Already scanning Craigslist for potential tractor parts stops. 😂 I packed up in the rain on Friday. Woke up Saturday morning to 4” of snow, closed the gate and headed out. Headed northeast to Conrad, which is in north-central Montana. Dawn had spent Christmas with her mother there and my Christmas with them was a few days late. Going over Rogers Pass wasn’t a peach. The wind blowing 30 mph created a whiteout. I was driving 25 mph at the top and down the east side until getting out on the flats. But at least the road was plowed pretty well. I took off early Sunday morning from Conrad at -9 degrees. At least the sunrise was beautiful. The shortest route across the state is diagonal from Great Falls to Billings. Right through a member’s old stomping grounds. Eddie’s Corner was where Gary Yaeger’s (Old Binder Guy) wife used to work when Gary and Sharon were a young couple. This is near Moore, Montana. This is the land coming into Eddie’s corner. Gary had said Sharon’s parents farmed the land on the left side, north of the highway. Headed south from there is Judith Gap and a large wind farm. The mountains create a perfect funnel and the wind is always blowing here. I believe these are part of the Crazy Mountains near Harlowtown. I’m glad the 30-40 mph tailwind was pushing me east. The highway comes into Billings along a ridge above town. It’s our largest city at 120,000. Not much to look at but there you go, ya saw it. I-90 rolls southeast from Billings. I cut across Highway 212 to Belle Fouche, South Dakota before getting back on I-90. Saves a lot of miles if the weather is decent. About a mile off I-90 is Custer’s battlefield. The rectangle on the ridge line is the monument where the battle ended. Hard to fathom this happening almost 150 years ago when you can just drive right by it today. The landscape is mostly rolling hills with scrub pines in this area. Pretty poor part of the state. Right before you leave Montana is Alzata. Not the most eastern town in Montana but pretty close before crossing into Wyoming. Not much but a bar and the last chance to buy gas. Or maybe the first, depending on direction of travel! I slipped out of Montana right at sunset. That covered close to 800 miles. I’ll be glad to be back on the farm in two months!

So loooong story cut short because I dont tend to speak on it much; but I had cancer when I was 25 and as a result of treatment and operations, I developed lymphoedema in my left leg - its progressively gotten bigger and bigger ever since, for the most part I ignored it, as I do most things when it comes to physical ailments. Anyways, they gave me compression to wear 24/7 in the initial stages - and since then the care has increased and improved. I now (usually) wear a fully personalised stocking which is made to my leg measurements every six months, I have bandaging at home to self treat, and I was also given this amazing machine - called a Lymph Assist/Lymph Flow machine - my leg goes into the full cuff - and it moves excess fluid up and out of my leg, it has multiple settings for pressure and different cycles - anyhow, the cycles take 45 minutes+ and as a busy mum, I never really stuck to using it regularly. Just lately, since May, I decided that I had to start looking after myself better, I'd been given this second chance and frankly I was wasting it in a lot of ways. I've started walking daily, sometimes up to 10 miles on a good day with supportive walk mates, I have started swimming AND I've started using my pump- every single night without fail. I had a 6 month check with my nurses today and I'm absolutely over the moon with how it went - I was 45lbs lighter than 6 months ago AND my leg has improved so much, they have now changed my full length stocking to one that only goes to my knee and I know that medical science is partly to thank for it, I cant imagine how people suffered before these technologies and its been 9 years since I've been able to walk around without a full leg stocking on, I'll never not have lymphoedema but the progress is extraordinary, my nurses were amazed. 😭🥳 If you know anyone with lymphoedema in either their legs or arms, whether it is secondary to a cancer treatment, or they were born with it - I cannot recommend this teeny tiny machine loudly enough. There is a lot of things in my life that still need to change, but the progress is starting to really tip the scales over here 🤩 (My machine is a Haddenham pulsepress - I'm not sure if they supply the US or not, but I'm sure if not they'll have companies that do make them very similar)

Linda posted my picture in the Afton Memorial Day parade. 1926 Regular. A friend replied "did he buy it new?" She had my back though- replied that a BTO bought it first and asked him "was it you"??? Good woman!

This one came in next door to work. Family that jockeys some equipment that works alongside us at the yard. I drove past it and stared at it for a week. Told myself that I did not need it. But, it was in such nice shape for its age... a second look and a third. The owner was hanging around the office yesterday, researching an upcoming auction. I asked him what he would sell it to me for. "For you, $650. Has a cylinder that goes with it. I ordered new implement tires and tubes that I will include." Well, I could not say no to that! IH 37 disk. Decent paint. Decals are almost legible. Bearings and blades are nice. Very little signs of wear in the lift and hitch. Only welding is where the cylinder attaches to the lift mechanism. Needs new hoses in my opinion. Have lots of washouts and waterways that need work next spring. Good chance to give both disks a workout.

Life has been crazy busy the past couple years! It’s hard to get time to post stuff on this great forum! Last year I met a guy at the local farm show who makes videos on YouTube. I called him this summer and told him I’d like him to come to film me while I make hay, he was so busy I had to wait until the 4th of August before he could come! So I left one of my best fields until he could come, it was a nice rectangular 52 acre field that I thought would be perfect for the video. My friend and forum member @Hot Plug came to drive the baler for me that day, you will also see the girl next-door driving the skid steer to accumulate the bales and my full-time employee cutting hay with the 7120 magnum, raking with the 3688, driving the second truck I just bought this year and the MX 110 on the loader that I just bought this year also. Hope you enjoy the video. and like they say on all the videos… Like and subscribe.

Hey everyone im not new here to the forum but I will be assisting as a moderator. Looking forward to working with everyone in the future.

Got a set of matched duals in for the 1256 to plow on land this fall. Hung a quick hitch in preparation. Dealership decals from where it sold new added.

...have a bunch of pictures ..old and new of our back country,,,and the wonderful year round hunting that we have ..... The first picture is the Rainbow Valley....early morning, went up to drop off two hunters...'.Beau ' and his Dad..they took some of these pictures..including the old Hi=Lux beating out across the creek... The mountain, alight with sunrise is 8 miles up that valley... You can see the 'fly camp' ..late in the day..then the morning mist at daybreak.... The country is typical of NZ high country....and unless one has a big wallet.....one walks up these tops..(The ''big wallet '' will buy a helicopter ride...providing the destination is not a National Park...__) more to come... Mike

It’s a 1973 1466 that had a lot of issues so it got a transformation a few years ago. It’s 466ci, still has a Ambac pump. Rules have us running a box 2.4” charger. Makes passes in road gear and 1 tooth over road gear. Been driving it for a few years but it is still a thrill to turn it loose. Have a great bunch of guys to run a round with and it is so much fun traveling with them. Everyone needs a good hobby!

Almost ready.

36 years ago, a guy that I worked with was going to ask his girlfriend for her hand. He asked me if I'd help with the diabolical plan and once I heard it, I felt honored to. He was big into boating, skiing, parasailing.... ALL of this was preplanned and choregraphed a bit. He asked his GF if she'd like to go out on the lake. She of course said yes. So they're motering around on the water. Meanwhile, myself and a second cohort were in a different boat keeping eyes open from a distance to spot them....and did so. We drove ourselves to "Island "A"" on the lake. We had supplies with us. Got to the island, gathered some firewood. Walked up to a clearing and started a campfire. We then set a nice table for two with gold silverware, goblets, white table cloth... Over to the side, we had a boombox we setup with taped music to a nice background level. Glancing out at the water, we saw our buddy in his boat doing his thing.... but unknown to his girlfriend, HE was also watching US, waiting to see when our boat would leave. We started a grill, set table....full meal. Off to side, set a video camera. Once the meal was roughly halfway done, we turned the camera on....scrambled to boat and drove to "Island "B"" down the water a ways. Mark saw us leave.... so now he asks his GF if she'd be ok going over to "that island" and taking a rest, a walk....I have no idea what he told her. She smiled and said yes. They go over.... they get out of boat. She hears music ahead and timidly tells him there's someone here and they need to leave. He brushes it off because he knows what reality is. They go up, "stumble" onto the nicely decorated table for two.... ultimately, they sat down and ate dinner. MEANWHILE, we drove to Island "B" and found the beach spot. Set some blankets on the ground, pulled out the other cooler and prepared some strawberry shortcakes for them. When done, we got back to boat and headed back to island "A" where dinner was. We were going to wait for them to leave, but they had left. They were going (unknown to her) to island "B" for desert..... and this is where he proposed to her. Meanwhile again.... we go back to Island "A". Grill was still hot so we then cooked ourselves a dinner. Ate, cleaned everything up, packed it and put it on the boat and we were now done for the evening. Mark proposed, she accepted and today they're still together. This group of friends that I had found myself intertwined with had evidently pulled this stunt before. They simply call it the "Lake Dinner" and as best I can recall, it was reserved for a special occasion, not just because someone wanted to drag their friends all over the lake such that they're driving back to the dock in the dark using a poor flashlight to help guide them. (if anyone is familiar, this is on Norris Lake in TN) There was essentially zero development there at this time so the lake at night was pitch black. Was a fun night, surprised the heck out of her and it was an honor to be part of this scheme.

Planting dryland pasture and dryland alfalfa. A little grease and some love, good to go. Thanks for the rice hulls Acem. Running it through the grain box.

Just got home a bit ago, The old binders made it with no issues other than to dump a can of gas in along side the road. Bucked wind both ways. 540 miles round trip. I had about 5-10 test miles on my white travelette after getting it running. It last had tabs in 1978. Did a bunch of work to it before we made the trek.

My friend Danny Anderson showed up at Lilley International on Thursday 4-16-2026 for a quick visit. A long ways from Pine Island Minn.

- he would be 103 today. Local farmer. Worked for him when I was in high school. At graduation he made me an offer to join him. Grew sweet potatoes as main crop. For several years he also kept 12 to 15 sows. Finally quit that and just grew potatoes. Following service as a MP in ww2 he came home, married and farmed. He and his wife never had any children. They are both gone now. I called them my adopted parents. Told everyone I was lucky enough to have 2 sets of parents. They were great to work with and be with. He loved to quail hunt and fox hunt. Was a man of few words but when he spoke, it paid to listen. Was very wise. This drawing was made by one of the workers we hired to ride the plant setter. She took a picture looking up at him from the setter and did the drawing from that. She and her sister worked for us in the summer while going to college. Both very talented. The one that did this drawing teaches music at a college Missouri. Happy birthday Jack!

Well today was the day, record high of 67 degrees and the ol gal is back up and running. Not trying to start a fuel additive argument so just remember im just stating what i did . Tractor sat too long between usage, wouldn't start and had no fuel coming from the injector pump. At the advice of a company in Iowa that rebuilds these style pumps the thought was to remove the top cap and pour in some Stanadine, let it sit and try it after a couple weeks so thats what i did. Today was warm so i tried it and it started.

Drove 3-1/2 hours to pick up son’s 656 Hydro project. New seat on Christmas Day to break the news. Definitely excited. Interesting that the hydraulic filter is different from our other tractors.

Took my rifle for a walk yesterday. All I’ll say is that it got zeroed again today. 😫😫 Not a fun hunting trip. Anyways, the snow stuck up high and thought you all would enjoy some pics. A crew is logging across the way. The snow line was at about 3000 ft in the valley. The fields down below and in the distance are owned by a good friend of mine. I was just above his property line on the side of the mountain.

I am infatuated with old barns. Dad’s place had an old horse barn that was built in 1921, I believe. As far as I know it was only used for horses a few years before tractors took over. He didn’t maintain it and it fell in shortly after my brother bought the place. I loaded a load of corn and found this one. Please post your picture of barns!!

Retirement Now that the two A’s (Age & Arthritis) have caused me to retire from farming my little 80 acre farm (2/3 of which is mature woodlands) after 32 years, I have taken time to go back over my 32 years of production records to see what I accomplished. I ran a one man haying operation for the first 22 years on my 26 acres of hay meadows, putting up 21,025 small square bales of hay, I walked the fields picking them up, putting them on a trailer a 100 bales at a time & took them to the barn, then spent each winter taking them back out of the barn for my hay customers. I never cut more hay at one time than I thought would make about 200 bales so I could rake then bale the next day & take the bales off the field before the end of the day, so by doing that I never got a bale rained on in the field the whole 22 years!! I did get some hay rained on in the windrow a few times though. The last two years I went to large round bales due to arthritis & rolled up 69 round bales before giving up the haying operation. Production from my 8 acre deer food plot for 32 years was 54 deer, 23 bucks & 31 does, 11 turkeys, 285.5 bu. of wheat, 554.5 bu. of soybeans & 120 gunny sacks of ear corn that I sold the ladies in town to feed their squirrels. A lot of work but I sure miss doing all of it!!

A special present... for the welders in your life 😂😂😂

Made a dozen of these today.

I'm in a similar boat. Getting older and don't really enjoy working in the wind and snow. Nor on the dirt. Had a building put up this last spring. Saving now for concrete and insulation/ interior lining ect. It will be nice for you when it's done.

Sometimes small events are like what you need to make a big memory. Wife said granddaughters are coming over this afternoon. I didn’t think to much about cause I was doing body work on the truck . So when they came I was in the driveway working on the truck. They unloaded and I see granddaughter toting a bucket tackle box and poles. They went in the house . I made a mistake, never used duraglas and put to much hardener in it . And started to grab. I stopped ,got grinder out and clean up the mess , put my stuff awayall discussed. Went in the house , relaxed awhile. Asked Kate if she wanted to go fishing , said yes ,with a nice smile. We got to dig up worms ,ok ,. She chipped in and got worm out of the clumps from the shovel. We got almost two dozen , fixed some lures and off we went to the pond in the park. We hooked up for blue gill and started casting ,she was do pretty good casting ,I figure just let her do it ,if asked I help. We used up all the worms ,they were stripping worms off . But at least we were fishing , and I forgot all about the driveway duraglas failure. Walking back to the house ,she turned around with a smile , SHE SAID, “ THANKS FOR TAKING ME! My other granddaughter said to my wife that Kate was talking about going fishing for a long time. So I’m going to remember that . Out failure come something that you will never forget, A great family event ! my story , had to share.