Friends Farm
- wilder11354
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- Location: Montrose, Pa.
- Hand Fed Coal Boiler: Harman SF260 Boiler
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Hitzer 50-93
- Coal Size/Type: nut or pea, anthracite
- Other Heating: crown oil boiler, backup.if needed
So i sold my baler, tedder, elevator, and hay wagons. Now i am helping an 82 yr old friend on his farm. Going thru newer equipment hes bought last 9 months and servicing. Not all is as claimed to be by sellers of such. NH7330 mowers good, a 2016 model year its ok, serviced, and ready to go. JD6415 tractor, its high time, but all seems to be good, serviced and ready to go. NH BR740 baler.....thats another story.. it has issues.
Hay season is here.... crap lots to do coming week. Then hope electronic monitor systems for baler are up to snuff.- freetown fred
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Damn Bill, you'll be thinkin ya died & went to heaven with all that newer stuff. Tranny fluid & kero mix for rusted chains.
- wilder11354
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- Location: Montrose, Pa.
- Hand Fed Coal Boiler: Harman SF260 Boiler
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Hitzer 50-93
- Coal Size/Type: nut or pea, anthracite
- Other Heating: crown oil boiler, backup.if needed
Yea i\m not in heaven... but abused equipment is still Chit that needs fixing! if ya don't want mid season bale..."why the F_ did this happen to me".poor, poor me i'm ignorant! I got someone else's laziness at a good price. Electronics aren't working from NH tech/service manager...let the fun begin!freetown fred wrote: ↑Sun. Jun. 03, 2018 5:35 pmDamn Bill, you'll be thinkin ya died & went to heaven with all that newer stuff. Tranny fluid & kero mix for rusted chains.
- freetown fred
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You want some cheese to go with all that WINE-in!! LOL
- wilder11354
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- Joined: Sat. Jan. 29, 2011 10:48 pm
- Location: Montrose, Pa.
- Hand Fed Coal Boiler: Harman SF260 Boiler
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Hitzer 50-93
- Coal Size/Type: nut or pea, anthracite
- Other Heating: crown oil boiler, backup.if needed
i finally got to make some hay start to finish. Another fella has been working on it while i did maintenance of equipment to get all bugs worked out. Here's photo of last of first cuts i did past few days. In addition to top dressing fields with pot ash for second cutting.
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- Joined: Sat. May. 24, 2008 4:26 pm
- Location: Chester, NY
- Hot Air Coal Stoker Stove: LL AnthraKing 180K, Pocono110K,KStokr 90K, DVC
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Invader 2
- Baseburners & Antiques: Wings Best, Glenwood #8(x2) Herald 116x
- Coal Size/Type: Rice,
- Other Heating: Heating Oil CH, Toyotomi OM 22
A local used equipment dealer who died always said the farmers that make it are the guys running around with old gear and no bank debt. Pete K near Chester is now pulling a 1500 Gehl with his AC 190XT gasser and I am buying his hay. He bought that 1500 thirty years ago (my guess). It makes a 5 by 5 manual tie (rope pull). He also has a spare 1500A that has hydraulic tie and 6 inch wide belts and last year he bought a 1500A for parts (I think). So far unused. Most parts (except for the gear boxes or the big drive roller at the top) are off the shelf at TSC. I think he gets about 400 rolls a year with this antique. Good simple cheap machine. No debt, no computer chips, it's just not worth it. What were you cutting in Florida, coastal hay crap I suspect. There is one AC for sale for next to nothing near here. Frankly, newer gear is never worth it. How do I know? I am helping him design his own hay dryer from scrap parts. Progress so far ... not so good.... but we are trying.
When it is good weather you are not as fast (assuming you have not broken down waiting for outrageously priced parts) but when as is crappy weather so often that sitting out the rain watching debt mount up is just not good.
When it is good weather you are not as fast (assuming you have not broken down waiting for outrageously priced parts) but when as is crappy weather so often that sitting out the rain watching debt mount up is just not good.
- CoalJockey
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- Location: Loysburg, PA
- Stoker Coal Boiler: Several EFM 520 refurbs...one 900, one 1300 mega-stoker
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: (2) Warm Morning Stoves
CN I am here in the heart of dairy country and the only family farms that are still milking other than the Old Order Mennonites are the ones who never spent money when times were good. My dear friend who I worked for previous to my truck driving addiction milked 150 head and farmed 600 acres at the time of my arrival there in 1999. He built 75% of his own equipment in-house during the Winter months. Likely another factor that has kept him on the farm.
He fabricated and manufactured 3 of his own 40-foot self unloading semi-trailers that unloaded from the front into a silo-blower. This was 30 years prior before anything like it was introduced to the market by the manufacturers for the big time operators.
The man could build anything and never had need for an engineers degree. A natural born mechanic with nothing more than a high school Ag class in the mid-60’s and an FFA membership. Those were real men.
He fabricated and manufactured 3 of his own 40-foot self unloading semi-trailers that unloaded from the front into a silo-blower. This was 30 years prior before anything like it was introduced to the market by the manufacturers for the big time operators.
The man could build anything and never had need for an engineers degree. A natural born mechanic with nothing more than a high school Ag class in the mid-60’s and an FFA membership. Those were real men.
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- Location: Chester, NY
- Hot Air Coal Stoker Stove: LL AnthraKing 180K, Pocono110K,KStokr 90K, DVC
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Invader 2
- Baseburners & Antiques: Wings Best, Glenwood #8(x2) Herald 116x
- Coal Size/Type: Rice,
- Other Heating: Heating Oil CH, Toyotomi OM 22
The trouble with horse hay around here is that it is rarely dry enough. Once upon time, when I had a life, I used to design and operate pharmaceutical dryers. We found a 1.5MM btu drier at an auction and we are modifying it to dry hay bales. Actually, it will be operational next season. All this and I am not even a real man.