hay season and harvest pictures

it is a nh 310 baler we were trying to find a nice allis baler but ran out of time last year and a nh dealership had this one. parts are definately easyer to find for an nh baler. it was a learning curve like any new piece of eqiument to get the bales how we wanted them.

i am the forth generation to farm/ help on the farm. 

our farm has had a c ca 2 wd and a d14  my great grandpa bought the farm in 1939 and he started farming with a allis c that they used to haul manure every mourning, cultivated corn with, planted and all the other jobs

after that they got an allis ca and that was used to cultivate corn and plant with and i am sure many other jobs. my grandpa was born in the 40's ,and when he was in high school or around there in the 60's they bought the second wd, which they wanted to trade off for a wd45 but that never happened. around the 60's my great grandpa bought a DC case and a MM jetstar 3 which we still farm with and it has over 10,000 hours and the 3 or 4 engine overhauls. my great grandpa then bought a few year old d14 that they had until the early 80's. when the farm switched over hands to my grandpa owning it. he kept the mm jetstar three, but not the d14 because it was a gear jumper and the transmission heated up. there are still reminance of the old allis tractors around the farm. when i was looking though some of my great grandfathertools and belonging i found the old tools to move the spin out rims, and the spark plug tools that still had a bit of orange paint on them. we are primarally a dairy farm but we have crops also.my dad also raises a few beef cows and steers to  and to turn into meat for our family. i also raise 10 chickens for their eggs. up until a few years ago i knew nothing about allis chalmers or their tractor until we drove by a big allis collector near me and we saw that he had a d14 and a plow for sale and that was our first allis tractor on the farm since they sold the d14. the ironic thing was that when i was 7 or 8 i liked to draw/copy tractors out of books  i drew/traced allis chalmers b and i gave it to my grandpa before i knew anything about Allis Chalmers.

here are some pictures of the d14(that was my dad when he was younger hethough that picture was taken in the late 70's) and jetstar 3 and one of my grandpas other MM tractors. if only he would have kept it  he said the d14 was still at the same place that they sold it to 30 years ago.

 

 the tractor that we are running the baler with is our d17 the baler is a 310.  i think pulling the heavy wagons is what really pulls the tractor down. not so much the baler. it does a pretty good job straw is easy it will make good bales for that, and hay it was a learning curve for us because it was our first year running this baler. because of the restiror plates it made heavy squishy bales. we ended up taking all of the resterictor plates out and it started to make light tight bales. allisbred has some great info in one of the earlyer comments 

we don't collect tractors either we only have a few project tractors that don't get used much like our c and ca the ca because it has a bad miss in the engine and it has a belly mower. the c because it has probelms in the wireing and the battery has to be disconnected every time it is shut off. that jet star is my grandpas pride and joy i don't think he would sell it for a million dollars. he allways teases me that he thinks the jet star would out pull my d17 have not tried that yet but may be someday it would be close but i think the 17 would out pull that jet star any day