Another Day on the Mower!
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- čas přidán 22. 08. 2024
- It's another day on the mower! Except today, I'm using the Farmall H with an International 120 balanced head sickle bar mower. Sickle bar mowers are lots of fun to run, if they are adjusted properly. Today I have to mow under our electric fences to keep the tall grass from grounding them out, and a sickle bar mower is the perfect tool for the job. I also have some new calves to show you!
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The drone shots are looking great Pete! keep up the amazing work!
Small farms are the heart of America. It's sad how much it costs and how government regulates small farmers. I enjoy your videos early in the morning and makes me go outside on my 7 acre place here in Virginia.
It's the sound of those Farmall tractors that keep bringing me back to this channel. Nice equipment you have on the farm.
Allis chalmers sounds just like the farmalls
Put a straight pipe on it and it sounds even better
Growing up I spent time on my uncles dairy farm. He had 2 Farmall H tractors that he bought new when he returned from WW2. They had came off the production line one right after the other. After driving the John Deere H at our place it took me a little bit to get used to the foot clutch on the Farmall. That being said those Hs were a very easy tractor to drive. My cousin and I used to race them while cultivating corn, but that's a story for another day.
that sounds like it went over well 😂
Well. Its another day. Lets hear the story lol.
I just love his videos. He use old equipment and takes care of them. I like seeing old equipment being use to its best abilitesy
Just a family and their farm. A hard simple life that’s hardly simple.
I've never heard it better put!
I love the sound of that tractor! I’ve only driven one ☝️nce!
As a teenager in the 70s ran a sickle bar mower.., also used buck rakes and a hoist to make stacks..
Love them old sickle mowers I like you show and your chokes or jokes
Pete you know what is the most beautifull thing of farming? We have different machines, different posts, wire, barns, cars, everything.
But cows sounds just like ours when calf is outside of pasture.
Greetings from Slovenia!
Mr pete you have no idea how much I love your videos. Im starting into the hay business and its nice to see you working old equipment just as I will be
"Cattle are like Sand People..." Love the Star Wars reference Pete! I knew you were pretty cool but didn't know you were that cool! Haha
I grew up in the 60's and 70's in Upstate NY. At that time the sickle bar mower was the main mower of choice. It was used to not only cut fields but the local highway department used them to cut down the grass on the side of the road. In my area the main tractors were the IH Farmall's and the old Ford tractors. We had a bunch of the Farmall Cubs which were really great for mowing because of the offset body design.
Bought a nice IH 1300 for retro purposes recently , tested in heavy Fescue grass and well satisfied. I've ran every major brand of mow and crimp machine in the past 56 seasons. Wish we had one back in 65' when I started mowing.
Keep the jokes coming! We find your delivery hilarious! Thank God for our nation's farmers!
I admire your patience cutting without live PTO and hydraulics. I could not agree more cutting with a sickle mower is a unique experience.
I used to cut our fence lines with a scythe. That was a workout.
sheep?
@@Seriouslydave no it was a cow pasture similar to what Pete was cutting.
That takes me back.
My earliest memories of sitting on a tractor was on a H, on Dad's lap while he cut alfalfa.
The mower was a Minnesota built at the penitentiary in about 1948.
Thanks for posting Pete.
What a great combination of a nose-wheeled tractor an sicklebar which has a backward motion when making a turn! No modern equipment can do the same without a big deal of hydaulics. Of of the few reasons i envy you Americans, is the invention of those nose wheeled tractors and keeping that delight to yourselves! I have only seen a tractor like that ones in the Netherlands. Probably taken home by a returned Dutch immigrant... Thank you so much for your positive video’s!
I am ginuinely addicted to these videos and I wish you the best!
My grandfather and my dad used that type of more with a team of mules - grandpa love mules - thanks for the memories
While my parent's dairy had long before switched to a mo-co, dad still had the No 10 mid mount mower that mounted on our 3020 gas tractor for clipping pasture and roadsides. Usually was mounted at least once a summer, couldn't be used with the front end loader. Got to run it a few times, the hardest part was adding/removing the transport rod..........
That's a pretty slick move on those fence lines. Enjoyed the video. Have a blessed week.
I really enjoy your video's even though I'm a vintage john deere guy I learn a lot about farming from u ty for that keep them coming God bless!!!
Awesome mower, wish I had one to put on my H. And boy are you right again. New born calves are the cutest.
I agree with your comment about how peaceful the sound of the sickle bar mower is. I wish I had more land available so I could use the sickle mower that's mounted on my cub.
Man, this brings back memories. My grandpa used H model tractors and always mowed his hay with a sickle bar. Used to love going down there and bailing hay in the summer.
One of my favorite jobs on the farm growing up - going around the edges of the fields and the ditches with the sickle mower.
Nice 👍 prob those horns have something to do with why patty is the boss ! Lol ! I have a 100 balanced head with fast hitch also ! I found a guy in Maryland who has tons of parts for those mowers ! I needed a whole gear box he had one no problem ! Enjoy the nice weather !
info@ihpartsandequipment.com. The link to mike with the IH mower parts if u ever need him , he also sells IH tractor parts , sheet metal , engines , etc a nice guy ! He has a D 236 engine I’m thinking of buying to swap into my 460 utility
Sir, I thoroughly enjoy your videos. I to am an old school guy.
That set up is exactly what we use to use to mow hay. I think our mower was a 27V with a pitman though. I spent so many hours sitting on an H farmall. Great video Pete
You are pushing my memories away back for sure as a 12 or so young Lad Grandad turned me loose on the M and a sickle mower a few times, I didn't brake it.
Great video and so nice to see those great cows out in your wonderful looking pastures.
I love the old sickle mower. We used to put the sickle mower on grandpa's Cub. It did an excellent job mowing along the side of the road as well as the creek bank.
You have the best grass for your cows 🐄
Great job showing and telling,love to have me one of them sickle bar mowers .well great video showing telling farmer sickle bar mower farmer man have a good one see ya next time see ya bye.
Lets face it Baby's in any form shape or animal, are cute. and adorable. who can't love and infant 's face. ! great video Pete. thanks for sharing.
Keep the jokes coming. 🤣😂
The mommas and babies are sweet.
That's a different way of trimming fence lines. The farm I grew up on had permanent fencing. Have a good day! 🙏☝️
The daily insight on running a well run farm. Honest and respectable. So nice to watch farming not infomercials. Thanks Pete.
We passed a property called Almosta Farm. Had to laugh and thought you'd appreciate that farmer's humor.
A neighbor of mine named his Oleo....... he said it was the cheap spread!
We do about the same thing, except we use round-up around the Tee-post. That way you don't have to get to close to the post.
Cool just poison the planet with cancer causing chemicals because you are too lazy to do a little extra work.
@@Luckingsworth Its only poison if you drink it!!! If you use chemicals correctly with the proper safety equipment you won't get cancer. It's untrained people using the chemicals wrong that gets a bad name for the chemical. As a farmer (I) have to have a license to get most chemicals used on my farm. But if want chemicals to go away then you better be ready to starve, as yields you go way down!
@@Luckingsworth I'm sure you're quite welcome, to cut around the fence posts by hand for free LOL
@@jefffirefighter12106 it’s amazing the effect lawyers and bogus class action lawsuits have on the industry. Meanwhile people are buying Chinese products like crazy, supporting the real polluters.
@@jeffgootjes8418 I do my damndest to not buy from the Chinese either. But Roundup is litteraly a poison.
There is no ifs or butts about it, it is a poison.
You can make the argument that the ends justify the means when growing real crops (i personally disagree) but to simply avoid a little extra work cutting around a post is just assanine.
It would cost practically the same to just pour a thin layer of concrete level to the ground around the post as it would to buy a few gallons of roundup and then you never have to take time to spray.
looks great, my fence row mower is my 504 and No. 5 JD mower
Always enjoy your videos, and learn from your experiences. Even at 72, I'm still, learning. Thank you again for your video.
Nothing beats the sound of a farmall tractor
Really impressed by your Technic of mowing Pete. Love your jokes, keep them comming.
So much info , thanks
Sickle mowing brings back good memories of making hay, memories of times past.
Hi Peter. Thanks for sharing. And those jokes aren't too bad.
I cut my hay with a JD 60 and JD NO 8 sickle. Thanks for the video 👍
I'm really enjoying your drone shots.
Me too
Good evening, always interesting miss them days helping my grandma 50 some years ago. Thank you so much for taking the time to video Steve from N.B Canada
Tonight I started out for my garden, I came around the corner and a little rabbit took off across the yard. That's when I knew you had influenced me. I immediately said Run Run Run Run ;)
Great to see the old sickle bar mowers running. I had two uncles that had a Super C and a Cub with sickle bar mowers they used to cut hay with. I remember running them as a youngster. Keep the jokes coming!!! I love'em!!!
Great job Pete and Hillary always a pleasure great explanation of farming some folks need to hear that God Bless happy Fathers day Paul from NH
I work for a farm here in Vt.that had a farmall super c with a fast hitch cutter mower,it worked great
The sound of a sickle bar mower is relaxing!!
Great video. Those old Farmalls sound great, but I also like the sound of old John Deeres. Thanks for sharing.
Where does a Dad keep all of his Dad Jokes?
In a Dadabase.
Pete, it's always so refreshing to watch your lovingly put together videos. We had a particularly stressful day picking up meat from the butcher today (truck problems, worrying about making it home before three steers' worth of beef thawed). My wife and I have been stewing for several hours and are finally getting over all the stress. Watching and listening to your sickle bar mower clear the fence line was just the vibe we needed to get back in a positive state of mind. Thanks, as always, for sharing your wisdom and positive outlook.
love the look of older equipment Pete
So glad I found you I reaky enjoy everything you do
Hey Pete.
I’ve ran A bar mower so many times on the ends.
Love that sound. 🐔🚜💨
I've always loved to cut with a cutter bar it's so relaxing like you said I've always cut our second and third cutting with a cutter bar but we also had a tow behind crimper to pull at the same time it would cut drying time in half, I like your jokes it always gives me a laugh God Bless you and your family
Please don't ever stop the jokes I'm loving them.
The endless bread is a good one. 🤣
Agreed. I liked the one about the pen that wrote under water.....(it writes other words too) blaaaah. 🤭
Dad jokes are awesome. Keep them up! Thank you.
It is nice to see someone else having the same problem with their pasture and what to do. We are truly a few acres (3 acres pasture with 20 paddocks) with 12 head of sheep rotational grazing.
Perfect weekend for dad jokes .
Old tractors with narrow front end makes it easy
Pete reminds me of time spent on a John Deer B with a mounted John Deer sickle mower - started mowing at about 10 years old but wasn't allowed to work on replacing guards or knives
until about 16 - great videos - always bring back fond memories - !!!
When I was a teen, I used the swoop method a lot with our disk mower when maneuvering around obstacles in the field. It was fun and i got pretty good at it.
I have a Farmall Super C with a mounted mower that I added a simple piece of rod to that extends the length of the bar just in front of the cutters. It's removable and used when I'm doing fence lines. It keeps me from getting the bar into the posts and knocking teeth off. Just a simple thing that keeps me from a lot of down time. Doesn't really detract from the mowers performance either.
Tractor like this makes a man long for a simpler time. Absolutely love seeing old iron working like new. 👍
I run the same setup on my '43 Farmall H. It is a nice little unit when you get it tuned right!
As a chef I truly appreciated the oven joke. Your channel is amazing and I appreciate what you’re doing.
OMG Chills when you back up to the mower and bolted it to the drawbar of the H. This brings back lots of memories. My Dad bought the first model 120 balanced head mower our IHC Dealer sold. The second day we had it I mowed a 40 acre field of grass hay. That little Super H had a has 4th gear that would run 7 miles per hour. The hay was tall enough when I was opening up a land the hay was coming over the hood and flipping past the radiator cap. The hay was not falling on the ground for several feet past when I cut it off running at 7 mph. Loved that mower. We had lots of road side mowing to do and the unlimited angle the cutter bar would work was great.
Thank you for all you do on the farm.. I enjoy watching the cows and calves.
Those are some very good looking cows. It shows that you're taking very good care of them.
Clean up videos are so satisfying
I always loved that sound. The clacking and watching the grass fall.
Pete, you crack me up.
Pete, keep up with the dad jokes because I turn around and tell them to my kids and wife and when I get done they just moaned and tell me to stop with the dad jokes, I love it.
Whenever I recycle one of these jokes, my wife tells me I've had enough Internet.
I realize that this was from last summer I really enjoy listening to the cows eat the grass in the hay
Nice job. Taking longer for a nice "finished product" is what it's all about. Anyone who is in a hurry don't need to be farming. LOL
Dad and i spent allot time doing this very job. It's been a while. Would like to learn more about your pasture process. I remember you quoted it how you learned it .
Keep the jokes coming. Love sharing with my grandkids
Love those old tractors! As I said before, I drove them on the baler in Iowa…. Many years ago… I agree! Calves are much cuter than piglets
Man the millennials comment hurts haha. Great videos anyways. i love how there is no bs or clickbaiting. Keep up the good work sir.
After Watching You And The Sickle Mower I Have To Find One To Add To My Line Up With My H Love The Sound Of A Farmall Quality Thinking Time When You're Riding A Farmall
Always enjoy your videos. This reminds me of my dad's first cousin, Wes Shafer, who was always mowing around his electric fences, so he could rotate his cows. Wes had a 35 Ferguson with Ford 3 point hitch sickle mower. Man and machine - I can tell you've done this many times before - you drive that Farmall like Stradivarius played the violin. Thanks for sharing.
2:57 favorite line yet lol
Great videos Pete. I grew up raising cattle and horses in Texas. Love the old tractors.
that is just beautiful
I love that iron!!
Love watching the sickle-bar 👍👍💚🐃🐃🐃🐃🐃
I like the jokes so keep them coming since they're extra credit for being clean.
I too am amazed of the Drone shots and videos I think it's a great production by those that produce a video and their crew.
Excellent video Pete :) also excellent Drone Video too and remember my late Dad told he some live barb wire in Sickle Mower gave shock him on tractor hit hand bad ! But learned from too also had fix fence up to and had tool on hand also! No problem jokes Pete :) all clean ones!
More great camera angles there!
I got a real kick out of this video from 40 to 48 seconds! I laughed and laughed. Keep up the great videos Pete. You are doing what you love and raising a family on the farm while getting to spend quality time with them. Things that the "public" work sector has taken from us. You are one lucky individual and it will pay dividends in the the future.
Beautiful equipment. I work on a farm in upstate new York. I wish we had this.
Best joke I've heard you say in all of my binge watching. Thank you!
Your cattle are so beautiful and shiny!
Beautiful cows. They shine like polished riding boots. :):):) The best!
All ur animals seem so happy......