Country Boy Work Quiz

[moparguy]

I think we sometimes take everyday life for granted. Especially those of us who have a rural way of life with it's country details. I suspect many a urban dweller has never seen the thing I'm doing in the attached images in person. So, who can both identify the activity and for extra points the brand and model of the thing barely visible in the second image. My brother and I have been doing the activity for a LOT of years together. I was lowly paid labor not skilled or senior enough to be allowed on a tractor back in the mid 60's as a teenager. I bet the country folks can guess my job.

Funny thing is now that I'm by some measures too old for this sort of work, it's one of the things I most enjoy in the summer. Strange how that works.

Keeping the old ways alive.

RonR

 

[RBeard]

Your Raking hay on a John Deere tractor with a New Holland rake. not sure what model tractor, but exhaust pipe isn't very big.

 

[Deleted member 995608]

Johnny Pop

I have all the Johnny Pop's in model scale

 

[Killer223]

I miss bailing hay, don't miss the loading and stacking of it. but driving the tractor up n down the fields with a little radio, and an umbrella for shade.
That said this looks like a rake, we didn't use them. Id seen them used a few times. usually the swather put the hay into rows for us. then a week or so later we would bail. some times we had to use a tedder if we got rain while the hay was down.

Sure do miss those days.

 

[moparguy]

Yep on the New Holland rake, a very experienced 256. Brother and I have been doing this for more years than most on this forum (I suspect) have been around. We laugh and say we're cutting edge 1968 when it comes to our equipment. The old 51 Chevy 3600 got a bit of work too. That's me in the hat coaxing a bale to the top. Wasn't that long ago I was tossing em up. At 66 I feel lucky and blessed to just get in the field though.

RonR

 

[RBeard]

I don't think that's not a poppin' john tractor hood

 

[TFucili]

I was thinking the hood looked more like a 50 Series(Yanmar)CUT, but I think the exhaust was on the other side.

 

[Larry Willard]

I remember doing some of that about 50 years ago. Some times stacked straight onto the wagon, sometimes had to pick it up off the ground.
Larry

 

[crispyboy]

New Holland rake.
Tractor has me guessing. Definitely not JD, Ford or IH. At first I was thinking Farmall 300 but the exhaust is wrong. I don't think it a Massey so I will go out on a limb and say an old David Brown or Duetz.
The other tractor looks to be a late 80's JD 2155.
We have a late 80's JD 2355 and 04 5205. I also have a 27 D in a basket.
Your fields are soooooooooo flat! I am used to sliding over a hill when in the hayfield.

 

[promisedland]

Not a 2155, i have one. Mine had the exh pipe come up through the hood... Had because i added a turbo and now my exh is moded like most other stuff!
Is it a Yanmar built John deere? 1650~?

 

[moparguy]

LOL, great guesses. Luckily our fields are sorta flat. I custom bailed (square hay) for a few years many years ago. Most fields could have used at least one more disking and a couple more passes with a drag or leveling disk. Rough fields sure take the fun outta the day.

The image below will likely solve the puzzle.

That little tractor's story goes like this. Back in the late early 2000's lit'l bro and I put a roof on a neighbor's barn. He bought the metal roofing. Little bro milled redoak that we used to build the trusses we installed on the concrete block building after stripping all the old rotten wood and metal.

The tractor was payment for our labor and the site built trusses.

The little tractor ran great, but was pretty ugly. Not long after I couldn't take it any more and sanded, prepped and painted it John Deere green and yellow. Theory being if I ever sold it at auction, it'd be worth a few hundred more just due to the green paint. It's been worth the effort over the years just hearing folks guess at which model John Deere they're looking at.

 

[Killer223]

I think it's an ih.

 

[Lynx0849]

Looks like a Ford - not blue anymore. When I was a kid we had a pair of model N grey fords and a new blue one with a loader on it.

 

[promisedland]

2x its a ferd :-laf

 

[BigPapa]

I'll say it's a late '60's-early '70's vintage White. Maybe a 1200 series.

 

[moparguy]

Nope, it's a Long. I "Think" a 380 Long. Haven't looked in a long time but as I recall the were made in Romania. Imagine 1960 tech in 1975 USA time. We had a local dealer and it's been a nice little tractor. Zero problems.

 

[Bill Lins]

Nope, it's. Long.

I remember those- they looked like a "generic" Ford/New Holland. We had a dealer here also.