Cutting Hay

rusty6 · Mar 27, 2023

We are months away from cutting hay but here is a jigsaw of my dad cutting slough hay back in the 1970s. Cockshutt 50 tractor and Cockshutt 15AS semi mounted
mower. Slough hay was better than nothing when you were short of hay but always interesting trying to avoid getting stuck. You can see the tires are wet.

Hay Cutting With the 50

Bruce from Can. · Mar 27, 2023

Thats a really nice picture. Love those Cockshutt tractors. I have many happy memories riding my dads 35 Deluxe.

Paul from MI · Mar 27, 2023

Like one of my neighbors said It all feeds better than snowballs

rusty6 · Mar 27, 2023

(quoted from post at 16:33:16 03/27/23) Like one of my neighbors said It all feeds better than snowballs

Its true but I guess mine are so spoiled and fussy that they complain if I give them anything less than top quality hay. Makes me think of the stories of guys baling russian thistle for feed way back in the dry years. Or hauling straw from the threshing pile to feed their cattle.

55 50 Ron · Mar 27, 2023

rusty,
What did you do to get the Cockshutt mower advertisement attached to that old picture? It's probably something pretty easy in the digital world, but I'm too old fashioned to know or try.

rusty6 · Mar 27, 2023

(quoted from post at 17:51:30 03/27/23) rusty,
What did you do to get the Cockshutt mower advertisement attached to that old picture? It's probably something pretty easy in the digital world, but I'm too old fashioned to know or try.

Hi Ron. Pretty sure I used an old program called "Photo Soap" to put one photo on the other. Its a great photo editing program but I only have it on my windows XP desktop. Not sure if it is compatible with the windows 10 laptop. I have scanned numerous old vintage ads from farming and other magazines I have.

stevob671 · Mar 28, 2023

Most windows systems have a program called Paint. To do that picture you would open the manual picture, click Select and draw a box around the manual and click Copy, then open the mowing picture and click paste. Can drag it around to where you want it. Then Save as and rename as you go.

Mike(NEOhio) · Mar 28, 2023

I have a 15 A with rope lift my father-in-law used since new behind an E3. I need to go over it and get it working again.

rusty6 · Mar 28, 2023

(quoted from post at 11:06:56 03/28/23) I have a 15 A with rope lift my father-in-law used since new behind an E3. I need to go over it and get it working again.

This one had a rope lift originally but I converted it to hydraulic which was a lot handier to use.

55 50 Ron · Mar 29, 2023

My Dad had a mower like that with the rope lift. I remember helping change that rope as it took quite a beating and needed a few changes over the life of the mower. During that era, Dad didn't own a tractor with hydraulic lift, so the rope was welcomed.

rusty6 · Mar 29, 2023

(quoted from post at 07:33:20 03/29/23) My Dad had a mower like that with the rope lift. I remember helping change that rope as it took quite a beating and needed a few changes over the life of the mower. During that era, Dad didn't own a tractor with hydraulic lift, so the rope was welcomed.

Yes, that rope on the lift could wear out from the friction. Since all our tractors had hydraulics it made sense to convert this mower. Did the same on the Pollard wheel rake and the JD Van Brunt seed drill.

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