After a couple of glorious days of sunshine, and no rain, the grass Chris cut at the weekend was ready to bale yesterday afternoon. Les Wilson came along with his tractor and baler to help out. The tractor is a Fordson Major which was built in 1945. In 1966 it was put into a shed and never moved until Les bought it in 2008. It had flat tyres and needed new spark plugs but once this was done the engine fired up and it was driven out and back to life. The Massey Harris baler was built in the 1950s. In those days there wasnt anything on a tractor, PTO shaft, to drive machinery and so the baler has its own engine and is self propelled. It baled in excess of 200 bales yesterday and amazingly it didnt throw one loose bale out.
David Pennock came along with the big baler and made everything look easy and I still think his way is the best as the bales are moved by tractor!!!. The small bales Les did all had to be moved by hand, by Chris and I last night, and stacked into the barn.
David sat on the old tractor but I doubt he will be contemplating getting one for himself any time soon!!
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