Video of CA Cutting Hay using 80R mower
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Topic: Video of CA Cutting Hay using 80R mower
Posted By: DennisA (IL)
Subject: Video of CA Cutting Hay using 80R mower
Date Posted: 27 Feb 2019 at 7:53am
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https://youtu.be/_RPkaoPONT4" rel="nofollow - CA Cutting Hay ------------- Thanks & God Bless Dennis |
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Posted By: tomstractorsandtoys
Date Posted: 27 Feb 2019 at 9:01am
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Wow cutting nice square corners. That is something I always found impossible to do. Tom |
Posted By: Charlie175
Date Posted: 27 Feb 2019 at 9:35am
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Nice! ------------- Charlie '48 B, '51 CA, '56 WD45 '61 D17, '63 D12, '65 D10 , '68 One-Ninety XTD |
Posted By: festus51
Date Posted: 27 Feb 2019 at 10:41am
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Nice looking CA. Dad had one back in 60 or 61. ------------- We the unwilling Led by the unqualified Doing the impossible for the Ungrateful |
Posted By: Cernunnos
Date Posted: 27 Feb 2019 at 11:02am
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After another morning of clearing the driveway of snow during this never-ending winter, it really is nice watching your videos for the "summer" effect. I can just smell that fresh cut hay! ------------- 1951 CA, 1952 CA with cultivator, 20 Series 8' disc harrow, 2 bottom pick-up plow, forage blower, 2-row rear mounted drill corn planter, Allcrop grain drill, No. 80T sickle mower, MN No. 130 barge box |
Posted By: Gary Burnett
Date Posted: 27 Feb 2019 at 11:17am
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CA is a good mowing tractor I spent a lot of hours on a CA mowing with a No 7 trailer mower back in the 60's.
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Posted By: tractorboy
Date Posted: 27 Feb 2019 at 2:25pm
| Nice video! Gotta hand it to him Ol boy knows how to cut them corners!! I watch your other hay videos all winter, still can't cut them corners like that. Keith so.va. |
Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 27 Feb 2019 at 2:41pm
| Used to mow hay with a CA with mounted mower when I was a kids about 12 or so, that tractor plowed have loader to load manure, planted and cultivated the corn then had mower to mow all the hay and pulled wagon for round bales to be gathered up |
Posted By: Sugarmaker
Date Posted: 27 Feb 2019 at 3:38pm
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Thanks for sharing! I liked how it snorted at each turn!:) Great looking tractor, doing a good job of mowing quickly! Makes me want to get a CA someday! Regards, Chris ------------- D17 1958 (NFE), WD45 1954 (NFE), WD 1952 (NFE), WD 1950 (WFE), Allis F-40 forklift, Allis CA, Allis D14, Ford Jubilee, Many IH Cub Cadets, 32 Ford Dump, 65 Comet. |
Posted By: old farmer
Date Posted: 27 Feb 2019 at 3:54pm
| It only takes lots of mowing to get corners like that. You can do it with a pull type also. When I was learning to cut hay you heard about it if you didn’t have square corners. |
Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 27 Feb 2019 at 4:06pm
| As a kid, Grandpa was always the one who had to drive the Farmall F-20 when running the binder, as he was the only one who cut the square corners like that. I can do it fairly well with an All-Crop, but not with my belly sickle mower on my B. |
Posted By: old farmer
Date Posted: 27 Feb 2019 at 4:30pm
| Narrow front ends works best for square corners. |
Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 27 Feb 2019 at 5:27pm
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What we usedta do with the 82T, was to make inside turns, on the first 6 or so rounds, then went to the farmer's turn (3 lefts to make a right), lifting the bar, on the turns, till the farmers turns took more time than the short side cutting time, or the headlands had like 12 rounds made, for turning, then went to long side cut, back to back. Guessing the middle of the field became an art, unless you had a back or dead furrow, to tell you where to make the first middle cut... Still do kinda the same thing, with the drum mower...
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Posted By: Dave(inMA)
Date Posted: 27 Feb 2019 at 7:12pm
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Fun to watch! Looks like an idea setup for the job - the CA can do almost anything short of the big land tilling jobs. I wonder if the rhs brake band wore out a lot faster than the other! ------------- WC, CA, D14, WD45 |
Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 27 Feb 2019 at 8:04pm
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Dennis, that is one GOOD looking CA. It's a shame to get it dirty.... Ya, those corners are easy when you've done it a thousand (million ?) times.... Are you cutting in 3rd? Seems like it from the videos. (OH YEAH, nice videos too!!) Thanks, you've shortened up this winter a little bit... ------------- "Allis-Express" 19?? WC / 1941 C / 1952 CA / 1956 WD45 / 1957 WD45 / 1958 D-17 |
Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 27 Feb 2019 at 8:33pm
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A narrow front and not being afraid to lock that inside wheel up with a rear mounted mower. The only one I ever did that with was not orange,just O'L put put JD. But it had a brake you could lock and pivit on the that wheel. There was one old boy with IH m that was the first to show the sidehill boys to do that here,from all the stories I heard in my youth. I don't remember anybody with a belly mower thinking they could make a square corner without going around left. But most were Fords that did't have that much brake.
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Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 27 Feb 2019 at 8:41pm
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Ray, it was easy. You just stomped the right brake and held the hand clutch for a count of 2, to allow the front end to swing around and let em both loose and away we go.... That's why most of the early tractors right brake was about worn out... It got so I could let off the gas, slip the hand clutch and give it gas and never hit the brakes. ( you get your butt chewed enough, you learn NOT to use them brakes ) ------------- "Allis-Express" 19?? WC / 1941 C / 1952 CA / 1956 WD45 / 1957 WD45 / 1958 D-17 |
Posted By: DennisA (IL)
Date Posted: 27 Feb 2019 at 8:54pm
I cannot use the hand clutch in that manner. On my CA the hand clutch is on the left. ------------- Thanks & God Bless Dennis |
Ted J wrote:Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 27 Feb 2019 at 9:01pm
Ted , I think I use to know how to do it, but who knows anymore. I got "Speedrower" in 82 and have not touched that old mowing machine since. And I didn't have to look back when I was cutting nether. An having more sun than rain didn't rake any hay for 30 years ether.  Then the dang drought and I had to rake about 5 of them little fuzzy row together on ground I could not pasture so there was a row to follow with a baler |
Posted By: Dusty MI
Date Posted: 27 Feb 2019 at 10:15pm
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I had a red C with a sami-mounted red 7' mower. That C had a 4 speed transmission, I mowed at full throttle in 3rd gear. I did square corners. Dusty ------------- 917 H, '48 G, '65 D-10 series III "Allis Express" |