My grandpa had one of those Allis Chalmers pull behind haybane, we still have it, he had a John Deere A & D, my brother has the A at his farm and the D is at my place, my grandpa died at the age of 93 in Aug 82, can't believe its been 40 years already, I was just 6 years old, thanks for the video Dave 👍🚜🇱🇷
I would hate to guess how many of those “Tootsie Rolls” I picked up and put in the barn for my dad. Naturally he waited till I went to college before buying a big round baler.😂
Quite a few farmers in the vicinity of our South Central Iowa Farm had AC Roto-Balers when I was a teenager in the early to mid-70's. I helped one of our neighbors who had one with his haying one summer, and then a year or two later I started a business of picking up small round bales that farmers just let drop out behind the baler and never picked them up. I had a small crew and I charged 15 cents a bale to pick them up, haul them to their barn, and run them up their elevator into the hay mow and stack them up there. That was pretty good money back then, at least for a teenager it was. We were John Deere people on our farm but my Grandpa liked Allis Chalmers and he had either a D-15, D-17, or D-19 AC tractor. I was too young to remember for sure what it was. I do remember it had a wide front end and a white steering wheel. Grandpa took good care of it and it was like new. Of course it probably wasn't very old because my memory of it was in the early to mid-60's and those D-models probably came out in the late 50's or early 60's.
@@crazydave4455 -- You just built them one layer at a time and the second layer would lay in the "crotch" between the bales of the first layer. We used a hay hook in each hand to grab them and move them. They laid in nicely in the hay mow. I remember one day our little crew picked up 1100 bales. That added up to a little over $150 for that day. I felt rich. LOL. I think I kept 5 cents a bale and then I paid my crew of four high school classmates 2.5 cents a bale each.
We had an old AC 66 combine we bought back in the early 70's. Just sold it to my mechanic friend Joe. It was just sitting outside here and hadn't been used in in 6 years and I hated to see it deteriorating and not being used. Joe will use it and keep it inside. It was good seeing the old AC machines still at work. Nothing cleaned grain like that AC 66 combine.
thanks for the video!! that show is on my bucket list!! ran AC all my life. now collect a few!!! had a couple olivers too and followed your channel!! 1800 and 1750 brother had a 1850 with year around cab and eagle air.
I met folks who traveled from all over to go to that show, it was fun talking to them. I had no intentions of making a video, but the field demos were to cool to ignore. Guess I’m saying I didn’t do the show justice. Thanks Gary.
My grandpa at two all-crops back in the day. I had a 72 all-crop when I had my farm about ten years ago. I used mine for doing canola one year. My grandpa said they were the best combines for doing clover which is a very fine seed.
Our neighbor owned a Rotobailer. We hired him a few times to bale our hay. The bales were awkward to load onto a wagon and into the mow. Dad had a clamshell hayfork which he used the grab several bales at a time to lift into the haymow. Using hand hayhooks we could stack the bales more easily. One big advantage using the round hay bale was that our dairy barn was designed with a raised aisle way down the center of the barn with the cows facing each other. After feeding them with grain we then dropped the round bale of hay down into aisle way from the mow, then rolled it down the aisle so the cows could eat the hay. Todays round balers must have been designed from the Rotobaler concept.
Hi Dave! Thanks for sharing video of the Orange Spectacular! I really enjoy seeing vintage farm machinery in action. Monica and I enjoyed meeting and talking with you at Nowthen! Hope to see you again at another show down the line! 🇺🇲🚜👍
Nice meeting you and Monica. I saw you in the parade behind Kenny, the sunburst was looking sharp 👍 and if you end up in MN this time of year, you will find me at show! Thanks Hyatt
Pretty cool Dave!! Only ever seen the pull type AC combines here.. there were a lot of them. Next was the gleaners... And there were a lot of them too. Thanks for the video!👍😁
Was first my time at Orange (always a ton of shows this time of year) wasn’t going shoot anything, just enjoy it. But than I got restless and thought how often do you see something like this?
Amazing the you could buy every piece of equipment from the same manufacturer. Moline, Allis, IH, Deere, Oliver, etc. All put out a full line of farm equipment back in the day.
What a fun watch! It was very neat to see all that equipment in action especially the self propelled all crop and the roto-baler. My dad said after he bought the farm there was a couple of bales from one of those roto-balers up in the hay loft of the barn still!!
Roto baler was an Interesting idea, but seems like a much slower way to put hay up. The allis square moved much faster. The only benefit to the little rounds is they shed water?
@@crazydave4455 I agree, and the unpredictable automatic stopping I feel would make it easier to lose hay that would slip under the pickup if you didn’t grab the clutch fast enough. Not much good for anything other than like displayed in the video, for fun or for show.
Grandpa had 3 Allis Chalmers pull behind combines, I never seen them get used. He talked about pulling them with a John Deere R and Oliver 770 we had in the 70's and 80's. He complained it took all three combines to get 40 acres done, they were very problematic. I would imagine he bought bought them wore out and used up from a neighbor of his back in the day who was an Allis guy. The only memories I have of the combines is salvaging parts from them in the early 2000's. We finally did cut them up for scrap about 2014. The neighbor had a roto baler, grandpa talked about how it was a lemon, they could put up twice as much hay in a day with nearly zero broken or missed bales from a new holland square baler. The neighbor traded the roto baler to grandpa for straw one summer and grandpa picked it for parts for his combines and scrapped the rest before I could remember it.
Some of these combines moved right along others were a bit slow. I really don’t know much about them, but it was a cool demonstration! I have heard similar about the roto balers, constant tweaking and adjustments but an interesting concept. The Allis square was knocking them out without missing a beat. Thanks Bill
Pretty cool use to be some around here back in my dads day. We have one old-timer around who collects old Allis Chalmers lawnmowers and he’s made a few of them into pulling lawnmowers
The orange spectacular!!🤦🏻♂️ I've been there once lol . It's a good show ! My Dad,his brother and me went to a show one year . My uncle was like a kid in a candy store!!! 🤣😂🤣 It was fun but boy does he have way too much orange in his blood??😂 Thanks for sharing Dave!!
Was my first time, the field demonstrates were cool and they run a dyno which nice to see. Those Orange guys are serious! My uncle has an Oliver logo on his golf cart and was getting side eyed 👁🤣 Thanks Shane. PS little log cabin power show is next weekend, it’s a good one. You should take a few hours off and come by. It’s just south of Hastings. 👍 I’ll buy ya a beer 🍻
I’ve always wanted a Rotobaler. Totally unpractical but I think it was amazing mechanical piece of technology. Watching how it works it’s amazing someone could think that up.
@@crazydave4455 🤣🤣🤣 You know my motto: Safery 3rd. Lol. The dealer I worked for said the older models without the shielding worked better than the later ones. They had a lot of problems with the white top 2nd run rotobalers
@@rosstheoliverman I witnessed that first hand. (The one in the video) My uncle has one and we were crawling around in it restringing it until a club guy came and helped. There was also a self propelled one there I didn’t get video of. Interesting units.
I've seen them operate they were quite impressive to watch work. I totally agree it took somebody some quite imagination to come up with that I do believe.
@@crazydave4455 any machine around here that guards and shields on them, they usually wound up in the junk iron pile. And you need to forget about being in a hurry. If you do , you might as well stay at the house. If the hay goes through it will keep. They will not bale hay that green. And you need a good rake person. Or they will make your life hell.
I can smell that dust from here and feel the itch too! 😄 Dad never straight cut small grain and very rarely had wheat. Oats for livestock feed and small square straw bales. Stacked many racks of those! Usually it was never dry enough for straight cutting. Our farm was about 30 miles west of Hutch. They must have got that wheat in pretty early. I am surprised there is some ready for harvest already.
When we had dairy it was oats as well. These guys were chomping at the bit, the plows were lined up and just waiting for them to get the straw out of the way! Thanks EE
My late father had worked the wheat harvest one summer from central Texas to Saskatchewan. A chest x-ray some time after resulted in a tuberculosis diagnosis. It must have been scary because his mother died of TB. It cleared in a few months. Just a lot of inhaled dust.
Hey that's pretty cool. Boy I think my leg would get tired running that rotobaler. There was an old boy here that would make those little bales like that and just leave them out there all winter for his cows to find.
All the allis tractors had a good bark to them. Even though we are farmall guys. Had a neighbor who did all our baling for us with the roto baler. Pulled it with a wd45. Later with a D17. Wasn't geared as good for the baler. He didn't like the hand clutch as good as on the 45.
Man, Wish I knew you were there! I was there with my cousin! My cousin is a roto baler guy, he bales whenever he can with the roto balers. He was helping to get the white top roto baler, trying to get it to run the twine correctly on Friday. he said the porcelain twine tubes were broken out on that baler, not letting the twine feed correctly.
It was actually my first trip there, I am usually at a fair the Oliver club does machinery hill at. Would have been cool to catch you there. About a 6 hour drive for you? My uncle has one and helped restring it once, when I was walking away they were blaming the twine.
@@crazydave4455 same here for the first time. Cousin had been there 15 years in a row 😳. Mom side of the family bleed orange. I'll have to see if I can catch him baling hay with a roto baler sometime. Get a video of it. He's got a white top, lhe says he likes to hear the governor kick in when electric overdrive clutch kicks in haha. Yep, 4-5ish hours for my brother and I, we live an hr 20 away from our cousin, he had about an hr longer drive then us, Met up at 3:30 in the Morning, and headed up north. Got there about 8.
My uncle was an Allis guy and I remember well working for him in the summer when I was in high school. I HATED round bales. They were impossible to stack.
Never had to deal with the roto bales ! Had many a summer with the squares . Most of the bales weighed more than me! Hot it those Texas fields and barns! And I don't miss the occasional rattlesnakes getting bales up! Kick the bales over and check before you pick those bales up !
we baled I don't know how many bale's with the old rotobaler the first one was all orange ac the second one had the white top came that way new we had a d17 a 66 and a 101 those were the days I hated to cut beans and Milo with them sure was glad when we got or F model with ac in the cab best thing we ever did
we found out with the rotobaler if it wouldn't bale the hay was still a little damp so we would do something else for a hour or so and come back to the field it would bale like crazy in heavy hay I would have to walk ahead of the baler with a pitch fork and hold the hay at the head on the ground because it would suck in a big bunch but it would bale like crazy I remember. a few. times we would bale over 1800 bales a day a bale come out about every. 15 feet maybe 20 it was really good grass hay we would. stack the bale's at the end of the field and cover the bales with tar paper they keep very good or if it was really late we would just leave them in the field and let the. grass grow up some and used that for winter pasture worked great
My grandpa had one of those Allis Chalmers pull behind haybane, we still have it, he had a John Deere A & D, my brother has the A at his farm and the D is at my place, my grandpa died at the age of 93 in Aug 82, can't believe its been 40 years already, I was just 6 years old, thanks for the video Dave 👍🚜🇱🇷
Time flys.
I would hate to guess how many of those “Tootsie Rolls” I picked up and put in the barn for my dad. Naturally he waited till I went to college before buying a big round baler.😂
Thanks for sharing. When I was a kid living on the farm dad had several pieces of harvest equipment that was in the video.
Thanks Michael
It’s interesting equipment. I never see Allis square bakers around here.
Never saw a roto baler before! Thanks for filming this!
They are an interesting idea, but kind of finicky balers.
Cool show! Yeah, those tiny round balers are pretty neat. When they work. 🙂
Quite a few farmers in the vicinity of our South Central Iowa Farm had AC Roto-Balers when I was a teenager in the early to mid-70's. I helped one of our neighbors who had one with his haying one summer, and then a year or two later I started a business of picking up small round bales that farmers just let drop out behind the baler and never picked them up. I had a small crew and I charged 15 cents a bale to pick them up, haul them to their barn, and run them up their elevator into the hay mow and stack them up there. That was pretty good money back then, at least for a teenager it was. We were John Deere people on our farm but my Grandpa liked Allis Chalmers and he had either a D-15, D-17, or D-19 AC tractor. I was too young to remember for sure what it was. I do remember it had a wide front end and a white steering wheel. Grandpa took good care of it and it was like new. Of course it probably wasn't very old because my memory of it was in the early to mid-60's and those D-models probably came out in the late 50's or early 60's.
Thanks for the story, was there a special way you stacked the bales ? I’m trying to picture a hay mow full of those little round bales.
@@crazydave4455 -- You just built them one layer at a time and the second layer would lay in the "crotch" between the bales of the first layer. We used a hay hook in each hand to grab them and move them. They laid in nicely in the hay mow. I remember one day our little crew picked up 1100 bales. That added up to a little over $150 for that day. I felt rich. LOL. I think I kept 5 cents a bale and then I paid my crew of four high school classmates 2.5 cents a bale each.
There's a lot of vital equipment that helped feed America at one time.
They were a fascinating company.
We had an old AC 66 combine we bought back in the early 70's. Just sold it to my mechanic friend Joe. It was just sitting outside here and hadn't been used in in 6 years and I hated to see it deteriorating and not being used. Joe will use it and keep it inside. It was good seeing the old AC machines still at work. Nothing cleaned grain like that AC 66 combine.
Better going to someone who will use it. 👍 thanks Charile
I'm not really an Allis guy, but that was freakin sweet!! Keep up the good work boys!!!
thanks for the video!! that show is on my bucket list!! ran AC all my life. now collect a few!!! had a couple olivers too and followed your channel!! 1800 and 1750 brother had a 1850 with year around cab and eagle air.
I met folks who traveled from all over to go to that show, it was fun talking to them. I had no intentions of making a video, but the field demos were to cool to ignore. Guess I’m saying I didn’t do the show justice. Thanks Gary.
Good times during the "good 'ol days.
Beautiful. I love the variety of harvesters.
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My grandpa at two all-crops back in the day. I had a 72 all-crop when I had my farm about ten years ago. I used mine for doing canola one year. My grandpa said they were the best combines for doing clover which is a very fine seed.
Our neighbor owned a Rotobailer. We hired him a few times to bale our hay. The bales were awkward to load onto a wagon and into the mow. Dad had a clamshell hayfork which he used the grab several bales at a time to lift into the haymow. Using hand hayhooks we could stack the bales more easily. One big advantage using the round hay bale was that our dairy barn was designed with a raised aisle way down the center of the barn with the cows facing each other. After feeding them with grain we then dropped the round bale of hay down into aisle way from the mow, then rolled it down the aisle so the cows could eat the hay. Todays round balers must have been designed from the Rotobaler concept.
Thanks for sharing. Was an interesting time when all ideas were on the table.
Hi Dave! Thanks for sharing video of the Orange Spectacular! I really enjoy seeing vintage farm machinery in action. Monica and I enjoyed meeting and talking with you at Nowthen! Hope to see you again at another show down the line! 🇺🇲🚜👍
Nice meeting you and Monica. I saw you in the parade behind Kenny, the sunburst was looking sharp 👍 and if you end up in MN this time of year, you will find me at show! Thanks Hyatt
Pretty cool Dave!!
Only ever seen the pull type AC combines here.. there were a lot of them. Next was the gleaners... And there were a lot of them too.
Thanks for the video!👍😁
Was first my time at Orange (always a ton of shows this time of year) wasn’t going shoot anything, just enjoy it. But than I got restless and thought how often do you see something like this?
That looked like a fun meet. Liked the Roto Balers.
People come from all over for this Allis show. Was my first time, lots of interesting stuff.
Dad swore by those round bales, us kids just swore at 'em. Tough for 10 year old kids to handle those things!
Thanks for sharing your videos and keep them coming please.
Thanks Charley
That sure is a good show. We were actually going to go there or the fair. The fair was a good choice. Good seeing you guys.
Was a nice night, glad we could catch you. 👍
Amazing the you could buy every piece of equipment from the same manufacturer. Moline, Allis, IH, Deere, Oliver, etc. All put out a full line of farm equipment back in the day.
It’s funny how every thing old is new again. When combines went to a feeder head it was big improvement. Now the Draper head is the big improvement.
A lot of new ideas are old ideas. I’m working on a 1917 Waukesha and it has an aluminum engine base and roller lifters!
We had an Allis Chalmers pto hay rake. Dad had a neighbor do the roto round bales in oat straw one year about 73 or 74.
What a fun watch! It was very neat to see all that equipment in action especially the self propelled all crop and the roto-baler. My dad said after he bought the farm there was a couple of bales from one of those roto-balers up in the hay loft of the barn still!!
Roto baler was an Interesting idea, but seems like a much slower way to put hay up. The allis square moved much faster. The only benefit to the little rounds is they shed water?
@@crazydave4455 I agree, and the unpredictable automatic stopping I feel would make it easier to lose hay that would slip under the pickup if you didn’t grab the clutch fast enough. Not much good for anything other than like displayed in the video, for fun or for show.
Grandpa had 3 Allis Chalmers pull behind combines, I never seen them get used. He talked about pulling them with a John Deere R and Oliver 770 we had in the 70's and 80's. He complained it took all three combines to get 40 acres done, they were very problematic. I would imagine he bought bought them wore out and used up from a neighbor of his back in the day who was an Allis guy. The only memories I have of the combines is salvaging parts from them in the early 2000's. We finally did cut them up for scrap about 2014. The neighbor had a roto baler, grandpa talked about how it was a lemon, they could put up twice as much hay in a day with nearly zero broken or missed bales from a new holland square baler. The neighbor traded the roto baler to grandpa for straw one summer and grandpa picked it for parts for his combines and scrapped the rest before I could remember it.
Some of these combines moved right along others were a bit slow. I really don’t know much about them, but it was a cool demonstration! I have heard similar about the roto balers, constant tweaking and adjustments but an interesting concept. The Allis square was knocking them out without missing a beat. Thanks Bill
Pretty cool use to be some around here back in my dads day. We have one old-timer around who collects old Allis Chalmers lawnmowers and he’s made a few of them into pulling lawnmowers
There was a whole shed full of mowers here, including pullers. People are going nuts for mowers these days.
The orange spectacular!!🤦🏻♂️ I've been there once lol . It's a good show ! My Dad,his brother and me went to a show one year . My uncle was like a kid in a candy store!!! 🤣😂🤣 It was fun but boy does he have way too much orange in his blood??😂 Thanks for sharing Dave!!
Was my first time, the field demonstrates were cool and they run a dyno which nice to see. Those Orange guys are serious! My uncle has an Oliver logo on his golf cart and was getting side eyed 👁🤣
Thanks Shane.
PS little log cabin power show is next weekend, it’s a good one. You should take a few hours off and come by. It’s just south of Hastings. 👍 I’ll buy ya a beer 🍻
I am planning on using the AC roto baler this year.
Beautiful equipment boys
That's funny me and my cousin and my grandpa used to use a Allis Chalmers roto Bailer every summer..
That must have been Friday. I was there Saturday when the rain came through.
Thanks.
Yep. That east side of the field was probably plowed and disced by Saturday.
Very cool Dave
I’ve always wanted a Rotobaler. Totally unpractical but I think it was amazing mechanical piece of technology. Watching how it works it’s amazing someone could think that up.
They are interesting, the older models had like no safety guards either. They are finicky and you like working on stuff, perfect match 😁🤣
@@crazydave4455 🤣🤣🤣 You know my motto: Safery 3rd. Lol. The dealer I worked for said the older models without the shielding worked better than the later ones. They had a lot of problems with the white top 2nd run rotobalers
@@rosstheoliverman I witnessed that first hand. (The one in the video) My uncle has one and we were crawling around in it restringing it until a club guy came and helped. There was also a self propelled one there I didn’t get video of. Interesting units.
I've seen them operate they were quite impressive to watch work. I totally agree it took somebody some quite imagination to come up with that I do believe.
@@crazydave4455 any machine around here that guards and shields on them, they usually wound up in the junk iron pile. And you need to forget about being in a hurry. If you do , you might as well stay at the house. If the hay goes through it will keep. They will not bale hay that green. And you need a good rake person. Or they will make your life hell.
I can smell that dust from here and feel the itch too! 😄 Dad never straight cut small grain and very rarely had wheat. Oats for livestock feed and small square straw bales. Stacked many racks of those! Usually it was never dry enough for straight cutting. Our farm was about 30 miles west of Hutch. They must have got that wheat in pretty early. I am surprised there is some ready for harvest already.
When we had dairy it was oats as well. These guys were chomping at the bit, the plows were lined up and just waiting for them to get the straw out of the way!
Thanks EE
My late father had worked the wheat harvest one summer from central Texas to Saskatchewan. A chest x-ray some time after resulted in a tuberculosis diagnosis. It must have been scary because his mother died of TB. It cleared in a few months. Just a lot of inhaled dust.
Hey that's pretty cool. Boy I think my leg would get tired running that rotobaler. There was an old boy here that would make those little bales like that and just leave them out there all winter for his cows to find.
Like an Easter egg hunt 🤣
All the allis tractors had a good bark to them. Even though we are farmall guys. Had a neighbor who did all our baling for us with the roto baler. Pulled it with a wd45. Later with a D17. Wasn't geared as good for the baler. He didn't like the hand clutch as good as on the 45.
I can watch that video 24 seven
They do a great job with field demos 👍
Man, Wish I knew you were there! I was there with my cousin! My cousin is a roto baler guy, he bales whenever he can with the roto balers. He was helping to get the white top roto baler, trying to get it to run the twine correctly on Friday. he said the porcelain twine tubes were broken out on that baler, not letting the twine feed correctly.
It was actually my first trip there, I am usually at a fair the Oliver club does machinery hill at. Would have been cool to catch you there. About a 6 hour drive for you? My uncle has one and helped restring it once, when I was walking away they were blaming the twine.
@@crazydave4455 same here for the first time. Cousin had been there 15 years in a row 😳. Mom side of the family bleed orange. I'll have to see if I can catch him baling hay with a roto baler sometime. Get a video of it. He's got a white top, lhe says he likes to hear the governor kick in when electric overdrive clutch kicks in haha. Yep, 4-5ish hours for my brother and I, we live an hr 20 away from our cousin, he had about an hr longer drive then us, Met up at 3:30 in the Morning, and headed up north. Got there about 8.
@@cjfarms2239 👍
My uncle was an Allis guy and I remember well working for him in the summer when I was in high school. I HATED round bales. They were impossible to stack.
great video
Thanks Jeremy
Just think about one of these old pull type combines and the new John Deere X9!
Come along ways in a short time!
Never had to deal with the roto bales ! Had many a summer with the squares . Most of the bales weighed more than me! Hot it those Texas fields and barns! And I don't miss the occasional rattlesnakes getting bales up! Kick the bales over and check before you pick those bales up !
No snake problems where I’m at, we do have timber rattlers but only in the SE corner of the state in the bluffs.
we baled I don't know how many bale's with the old rotobaler the first one was all orange ac the second one had the white top came that way new we had a d17 a 66 and a 101 those were the days I hated to cut beans and Milo with them sure was glad when we got or F model with ac in the cab best thing we ever did
we found out with the rotobaler if it wouldn't bale the hay was still a little damp so we would do something else for a hour or so and come back to the field it would bale like crazy in heavy hay I would have to walk ahead of the baler with a pitch fork and hold the hay at the head on the ground because it would suck in a big bunch but it would bale like crazy I remember. a few. times we would bale over 1800 bales a day a bale come out about every. 15 feet maybe 20 it was really good grass hay we would. stack the bale's at the end of the field and cover the bales with tar paper they keep very good or if it was really late we would just leave them in the field and let the. grass grow up some and used that for winter pasture worked great
2.49 min
What's that machine called?
Is it on sale??
Is it easy to buy
Allis Chalmers All Crop Combine. You would have to search for one, they haven’t been made in 50+ years
@crazydave4455 thank you