That fergi with the mid mount sickle bar is the exact same as my dad had in the late 60’s . I learnt how to drive and cut hay with it when I was 8. Great memories, thank you. I’ve now moved on to 6-7 hundred horsepower tractors in Australia but I still get on a tea 25 whenever I can ( my mates tractor)
Hi Paul great to hear It’s amazing how far tractor size and hp has come since the 50’s. it’s great that the little Fergie’s still have their places though 🚜
i have never seen a side mounted cutter bar like that before , we had a rear mounted one years ago on a Fordson Major , it was hard mowing with that , we changed to a drum mower eventually , but nice to see one like that , great Ferguson kit you have
They're quite common in Europe in Germany and so. Especially on older tractors like a Deutz D25 or so. And fun to know they've got their own power takeoff in the middle instead of taking power of the rear PTO.
I enjoyed seeing the PZ hayrake operating. Dad was still using one for my first season out of school when I worked for him. We also doubled up the outside row to make room for the 2nd round of the paddock. It created a big row that was hard to dry- especially as it was often against a hedge and had been the last part mown when we cut the backcut. So Dad would bale the outside row last to give it a bit more drying time. We never realised just how useless the PZ was until it broke one summer and we bought a new Invader rake which threw the hay everywhere and sped up the drying no end. Perhaps our hay crops were just too heavy but the PZ used to leave the hay wrapped up like a rope- not spread out very well at all.
Yes I found the same problem with the really heavy outside row which was hard to get dry. Also I found after I’d turned the hay a couple of times I had to start from the middle of the paddock and work out from there as it was just moving the crop further and further away towards the outside of the paddock. I find it works ok for the small amount of hay I go in conventional bales but we have a modern fella Tedder for doing the rest of our hay. Dad hates using it, he still remembers using one in the 70’s in pastures full of lotus major and it just spun it up into a long rope like you mentioned. Rotary rakes really were a revelation when they came along. Thanks for watching!
We always alternated between starting on the outside then inside next time.After watching your video I rushed out and checked the tires on our rake. You were right! 'Made in Sweden.'Wow. @@ballymullinfarm
Thanks so much brings back memories worked as a boy for a farmer You are in such a privilaged position in life to be able to make hay with these old machines and tractors maybe if we had stayed closer to this method of farming life food and mental health would be alot better to much greed in the farming community and come at a very high personal price
Thanks mate We try to get the old gear out as much as possible. We plan to keep our farm small. We like that we can run the farm as a family and have the kids involved.
@@ballymullinfarm Better a small fire that heats you than a large one that burns you keep it small and you will be here when larger ones are gone and you will enjoy your farming God Bless
Thanks! Yes your folks are great people. It was great to see your dad got his spud planter working this year 👍 I really like the old gold belly, don’t get it out enough really. You need to get it painted, looking forward to seeing video of it in the future 👍
Dad used a Featherstone mid mounted mower 1946/ 55on the grey Fergie tea 20 ,early fifties. It wasn’t that difficult to take it on and off, the more you did it the better you got at it. This mower looks a lot better and safer. What could happen with ours was that the connecting rod would drop down in transport if you didnt tie it up, also you had to make sure your fingers were out of the way when lifting up the bar manually for transport. But on the whole it was easy to use and with better visibility could see when a blockage was likely to occur and stop fast.all the best from England.ps you have a very nice set up with that 65 and baler, we also had a 65 with multi power, much better that the fordson major which we sold to buy it.
Thanks Alan There are quite a few types of mid mounted mowers around New Zealand. I’ve seen a few featherstones, also mortls and one by brusartis. I really like the idea of a mid mounted mower, I definitely prefer using it to a rear mounted sickle bar mower. I love the 65’s. really great tractors. Thanks for watching!
That Chain rake from PZ was first manufactured by the German manufacture Fahr, but the machine was invented by someone in Switzerland. Ironic thing is PZ would one day be bought up by Kuhn group which is owned by the Swiss Company Bucher Industries (originally known as Bucher-Guyer) awesome video. The Chain rake developed later into a Beltrake using V belts, they can be used to ted hay but also to swath hay as well, when tedding one would change the height of one of the wheels of the machine
Wow that’s some great history! Thanks I didn’t know that. I have seen a few different brands around though. I have seen photos with one wheel lower than the other and wondered if it was used that way for tedding. This one also has an adjustment to the tynes that can make them “flick” the hay more while tendering. Thanks for watching!
@@ballymullinfarm my grandfather had a very early model of the Fahr chain rake but sold that after he got a walk behind version which was better for the hill farm he farmed, that unit was used from the 60s to about the early 80s when it got traded for a rotary hay rake which was invented in the 60s by Bucher-Guyer but their factory in Niederweningen Switzerland was far to small so there subsistary factory Kuhn in France started to make them same with Fahr in Germany (the Fahr and Bucher familes where related because Bucher sold Fahr equipment in the late 1800s)
Good day from Canada Back in 70-80's those rakes were sold over here, not many. After we sold farm there was 1 for sale private for $75.00 I didn't think they were being made anymore. To bad. Thanks Did they do a good job?
@@donvoll2580 Belt rake as they are called now are still being manufactured by two Swiss companies and they do a good job raking and windrowing hay and also turning hay over
Hi from Ireland , my father purchased a tef 20 in 55/56 new along with a rear mounted ferguson mower , same as ......... late sixtys early seventies in took over to mow etc. then we got a MF 35 three cylinder and I knocked the heaviest of meadows that grow here with 35 in 2nd high no problem I found the bigger the feed on the mower the less chance of blockage , super strong mower , all been idle for years now with bigger machines taking over
Hey John! I found the same with the mid mount mower actually. I started pretty tentative at first but found it definitely went better once I got some speed up. It also helped once the cutter bar got a polish on. Thanks for watching and keep an eye out for future videos 👍
My dad had a 35 (golden engine) with a gasoline engine, like the one you have. This is back in the early - mid 70's and the thing was old back then. Oh, and it was in Denmark.
Hi, thanks so much for watching! The gasoline engine 35’s are also very common here. It’s actually hard to find a grey/gold that’s diesel. I have 4 of the gasoline 35’s but red/grey models. They are a great tractor 🚜
@@ballymullinfarm interesting, I ever only saw the one my dad had. Also back in the 70s people (farmers) had moved on to the 65's and 135's as the 35 was too small as the farms go bigger.
Petrol Fergie’s were very popular in New Zealand because we had quite cheap petrol as well as a rebate on petrol tax for petrol used in agriculture, this was carried on into the 35 era and there was also quite a lot of petrol 135’s sold here
I didn’t mention it in the video but I did find that it was best to alternate between clockwise/anti clockwise each time I turned the hay or it just keep throwing the hay further and further towards the outside of the paddock Thanks for watching!
That fergi with the mid mount sickle bar is the exact same as my dad had in the late 60’s . I learnt how to drive and cut hay with it when I was 8.
Great memories, thank you.
I’ve now moved on to 6-7 hundred horsepower tractors in Australia but I still get on a tea 25 whenever I can ( my mates tractor)
Hi Paul great to hear
It’s amazing how far tractor size and hp has come since the 50’s. it’s great that the little Fergie’s still have their places though 🚜
@@ballymullinfarm for sure 🙂
American machinery at its finest in the day
Enjoyed the ending seeing the children out with Dad in the real world. Wonderful memories. Thank you.
It’s one of the best parts about farm life.
Wow that gave me some awesome memories, the 35 fergi, the rear mounted sickle bar mower and the PZ, Spent hours and hours on these in my youth. 😀
Hi mate thanks for watching! Yip they are great machines, the best part is they’re still capable of putting in a hard days work
4:19 what a lovely mountain view in the BG.
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i have never seen a side mounted cutter bar like that before , we had a rear mounted one years ago on a Fordson Major , it was hard mowing with that , we changed to a drum mower eventually , but nice to see one like that , great Ferguson kit you have
They're quite common in Europe in Germany and so. Especially on older tractors like a Deutz D25 or so. And fun to know they've got their own power takeoff in the middle instead of taking power of the rear PTO.
I enjoyed seeing the PZ hayrake operating. Dad was still using one for my first season out of school when I worked for him. We also doubled up the outside row to make room for the 2nd round of the paddock. It created a big row that was hard to dry- especially as it was often against a hedge and had been the last part mown when we cut the backcut. So Dad would bale the outside row last to give it a bit more drying time. We never realised just how useless the PZ was until it broke one summer and we bought a new Invader rake which threw the hay everywhere and sped up the drying no end. Perhaps our hay crops were just too heavy but the PZ used to leave the hay wrapped up like a rope- not spread out very well at all.
Yes I found the same problem with the really heavy outside row which was hard to get dry. Also I found after I’d turned the hay a couple of times I had to start from the middle of the paddock and work out from there as it was just moving the crop further and further away towards the outside of the paddock. I find it works ok for the small amount of hay I go in conventional bales but we have a modern fella Tedder for doing the rest of our hay. Dad hates using it, he still remembers using one in the 70’s in pastures full of lotus major and it just spun it up into a long rope like you mentioned. Rotary rakes really were a revelation when they came along. Thanks for watching!
We always alternated between starting on the outside then inside next time.After watching your video I rushed out and checked the tires on our rake. You were right! 'Made in Sweden.'Wow.
@@ballymullinfarm
Thanks so much brings back memories worked as a boy for a farmer You are in such a privilaged position in life to be able to make hay with these old machines and tractors maybe if we had stayed closer to this method of farming life food and mental health would be alot better to much greed in the farming community and come at a very high personal price
Thanks mate
We try to get the old gear out as much as possible.
We plan to keep our farm small. We like that we can run the farm as a family and have the kids involved.
@@ballymullinfarm Better a small fire that heats you than a large one that burns you keep it small and you will be here when larger ones are gone and you will enjoy your farming God Bless
i love the old hay machinery, we had an old JD hay baler that used wire not string
Some nice looking bales there!
Thanks 👍
Great video. I believe you know my parents. After seeing your gold belly painted makes me want to get our petrol gold belly painted.
Thanks! Yes your folks are great people. It was great to see your dad got his spud planter working this year 👍
I really like the old gold belly, don’t get it out enough really. You need to get it painted, looking forward to seeing video of it in the future 👍
Dad used a Featherstone mid mounted mower 1946/ 55on the grey Fergie tea 20 ,early fifties. It wasn’t that difficult to take it on and off, the more you did it the better you got at it. This mower looks a lot better and safer. What could happen with ours was that the connecting rod would drop down in transport if you didnt tie it up, also you had to make sure your fingers were out of the way when lifting up the bar manually for transport. But on the whole it was easy to use and with better visibility could see when a blockage was likely to occur and stop fast.all the best from England.ps you have a very nice set up with that 65 and baler, we also had a 65 with multi power, much better that the fordson major which we sold to buy it.
Thanks Alan
There are quite a few types of mid mounted mowers around New Zealand. I’ve seen a few featherstones, also mortls and one by brusartis. I really like the idea of a mid mounted mower, I definitely prefer using it to a rear mounted sickle bar mower.
I love the 65’s. really great tractors. Thanks for watching!
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That Chain rake from PZ was first manufactured by the German manufacture Fahr, but the machine was invented by someone in Switzerland. Ironic thing is PZ would one day be bought up by Kuhn group which is owned by the Swiss Company Bucher Industries (originally known as Bucher-Guyer) awesome video. The Chain rake developed later into a Beltrake using V belts, they can be used to ted hay but also to swath hay as well, when tedding one would change the height of one of the wheels of the machine
Wow that’s some great history! Thanks I didn’t know that. I have seen a few different brands around though. I have seen photos with one wheel lower than the other and wondered if it was used that way for tedding. This one also has an adjustment to the tynes that can make them “flick” the hay more while tendering. Thanks for watching!
@@ballymullinfarm my grandfather had a very early model of the Fahr chain rake but sold that after he got a walk behind version which was better for the hill farm he farmed, that unit was used from the 60s to about the early 80s when it got traded for a rotary hay rake which was invented in the 60s by Bucher-Guyer but their factory in Niederweningen Switzerland was far to small so there subsistary factory Kuhn in France started to make them same with Fahr in Germany (the Fahr and Bucher familes where related because Bucher sold Fahr equipment in the late 1800s)
Awesome info thanks. Some really great hay making equipment came out of that part of the world 👍
Good day from Canada Back in 70-80's those rakes were sold over here, not many. After we sold farm there was 1
for sale private for $75.00 I didn't think they were being made anymore. To bad.
Thanks Did they do a good job?
@@donvoll2580 Belt rake as they are called now are still being manufactured by two Swiss companies and they do a good job raking and windrowing hay and also turning hay over
Hi from Ireland , my father purchased a tef 20 in 55/56 new along with a rear mounted ferguson mower , same as ......... late sixtys early seventies in took over to mow etc. then we got a MF 35 three cylinder and I knocked the heaviest of meadows that grow here with 35 in 2nd high no problem I found the bigger the feed on the mower the less chance of blockage , super strong mower , all been idle for years now with bigger machines taking over
Hey John!
I found the same with the mid mount mower actually. I started pretty tentative at first but found it definitely went better once I got some speed up. It also helped once the cutter bar got a polish on.
Thanks for watching and keep an eye out for future videos 👍
My dad had a 35 (golden engine) with a gasoline engine, like the one you have. This is back in the early - mid 70's and the thing was old back then. Oh, and it was in Denmark.
Hi, thanks so much for watching! The gasoline engine 35’s are also very common here. It’s actually hard to find a grey/gold that’s diesel. I have 4 of the gasoline 35’s but red/grey models. They are a great tractor 🚜
@@ballymullinfarm interesting, I ever only saw the one my dad had. Also back in the 70s people (farmers) had moved on to the 65's and 135's as the 35 was too small as the farms go bigger.
Petrol Fergie’s were very popular in New Zealand because we had quite cheap petrol as well as a rebate on petrol tax for petrol used in agriculture, this was carried on into the 35 era and there was also quite a lot of petrol 135’s sold here
@@ballymullinfarm interesting, as it was the one and only tractor I ever saw running on gasoline (apart from tiny garden tractors).
34:14 When was the last time you cleaned your air filter? lol 😂
Be better anti clockwise then clockwise on eact swath
I didn’t mention it in the video but I did find that it was best to alternate between clockwise/anti clockwise each time I turned the hay or it just keep throwing the hay further and further towards the outside of the paddock
Thanks for watching!