Ford 3000 baling

[Southern]

Dad was on the Ford 3000 and 276 baler. After I got done raking hay. He was baling. And I was stacking up the bales.






Video of him in action

[70ds]

Nice pics. Those are some big windrows. Looks like it is going to make a lot of hay.

[hoss]

oh man i feel for you havin to pick the bales up, it dont bother me to much its just the fact that there is an easier way lol...i work for a fella time to time and he drops them on the grounud its understandable when you only have a few people but when you have 4 ffa kids running after bales then why not pull the wagon behind the baler and only use 2 of them...half the people you have to pay and half the time and fuel just never understood the resoning behind it

[Southern]

I picked up all that with my uncle and aunt. Aunt drove the truck. The rest was done by my uncle and myself. We picked up around 130 bales that day. Last summer we baled around 500. I good 200+ I picked, loaded and stacked alone.

Get kids to help you? That is not a easy factor out in my area. FFA kids, those don't exist in my parts either. Heck FFA is non existent in my area. Most kids in my area you won't catch dead doing this kind of labor. Good thing is you get a good work out of it. Specially went it hits 90+ plus humidity.

[hoss]

May 23, 2011 16:41:34 GMT -5 Southern said:

I picked up all that with my uncle and aunt. Aunt drove the truck. The rest was done by my uncle and myself. We picked up around 130 bales that day. Last summer we baled around 500. I good 200+ I picked, loaded and stacked alone.

Get kids to help you? That is not a easy factor out in my area. FFA kids, those don't exist in my parts either. Heck FFA is non existent in my area. Most kids in my area you won't catch dead doing this kind of labor. Good thing is you get a good work out of it. Specially went it hits 90+ plus humidity.

yea its reaonable when you have limited help lol i also noticed you didnt have the hitch on your baler...that sucks lol if you lived a lil closer i would come help ya man i kinda like pitchin hay, and ya never leave a man with hay on the ground, never know when the rain could hit these days

[Southern]

Right now, I don't have a decent wagon to pull behind it. I'm using a 16ft trailer behind a truck to gather it up. My haywagon is shot and needs a full rebuild. I plan on dragging it to the shop and get it rebuilt. Then I can hook the wagon up to it. I don't have a hitch on the baler. But a little work on some metal can produce me a suitable hitch.

Here is the trailer loaded. This is from last year's haying.

[hoss]

we have wagons like that too...lol i think these just need to be hauled to the scrap yard tho lol we lost the uprights out of one pullin a hill one year talk about s##tin your pants...thought we done died...