Grassland 1970's style.

Pacoa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stLh0-Sz9jI

Just found this and thought it was interesting. Should jog a few memories

merryberry

Pacoa wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stLh0-Sz9jI

Just found this and thought it was interesting. Should jog a few memories

too young to remember but really interesting to see how agriculture has evolved. I had no sound so wondering what the ford was doing in the first sequence of the video.

Sam Kade

Not many machines like those here in the 70's mostly drum mowers vicon lilly and side rakes. What was that machine at the start?

blue5000

Sam Kade wrote: »

Not many machines like those here in the 70's mostly drum mowers vicon lilly and side rakes. What was that machine at the start?

Never saw anything like it, but my guess is that they sprayed ammonia on the grass before cutting it, it might have added crude protein and or made it more digestible.

The yoke at the pit looked a proper ballsup, I suppose it was designed for filling tower silos.

Nekarsulm

blue5000 wrote: »

Never saw anything like it, but my guess is that they sprayed ammonia on the grass before cutting it, it might have added crude protein and or made it more digestible.

The yoke at the pit looked a proper ballsup, I suppose it was designed for filling tower silos.

Blue, the Irish Sugar Company trialled that blower setup here in the 70's. They suggested the grass didn't need much rolling afterwards. They couldn't keep engines in the pit side blower.

Remember the time they trial fitted a chopper/blower onto the beet harvester and made beet top silage? We're you at the drawing of it that time?

frazzledhome

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Blue, the Irish Sugar Company trialled that blower setup here in the 70's. They suggested the grass didn't need much rolling afterwards. They couldn't keep engines in the pit side blower.

Remember the time they trial fitted a chopper/blower onto the beet harvester and made beet top silage? We're you at the drawing of it that time?

Your right about the beet top silage. Blower fitted instead of the top slide on the back.

Draw home tops massive pit that would be 1/3 the size by morning with a flow of effluent that would make the Nore look like a field drain.

They also had a whole crop harvester for fodder beet. All came up the rail and tops and root were chopped into a trailer driving along side. Right mess

freedominacup

There was one of those trailed new Holland mowers here back in the seventies. Also have a vague memory of those five gallon drums of sulphuric acid as well. Mainly filling diesel into them to bring out to combines if the bowser was going elsewhere, probably to the silage crew. Oul boy always said machines had to be tough that time. Mowers esp as they were often double jobbing as land levelers/destoners.

One lunatic in particular decided to let the oul boy use a single chop to roll up three strands of barbed wire and a blast of stakes. He was 16 at the time. First time he swore at an adult was that day. Lunatic came out complaining about getting done as harvesting was charged by the hour and there hadn't been any load in for a while......

Bullocks

freedominacup wrote: »

There was one of those trailed new Holland mowers here back in the seventies. Also have a vague memory of those five gallon drums of sulphuric acid as well. Mainly filling diesel into them to bring out to combines if the bowser was going elsewhere, probably to the silage crew. Oul boy always said machines had to be tough that time. Mowers esp as they were often double jobbing as land levelers/destoners.

One lunatic in particular decided to let the oul boy use a single chop to roll up three strands of barbed wire and a blast of stakes. He was 16 at the time. First time he swore at an adult was that day. Lunatic came out complaining about getting done as harvesting was charged by the hour and there hadn't been any load in for a while......

They reckon in those days if a new mower got a good review from Ireland that it was a good enough machine for anywhere else because of some of the crap that was put through them not to mention that some of us waited till the silage was almost woody compared to the lighter stuff they would cut on the continent

td5man

freedominacup wrote: »

There was one of those trailed new Holland mowers here back in the seventies. Also have a vague memory of those five gallon drums of sulphuric acid as well. Mainly filling diesel into them to bring out to combines if the bowser was going elsewhere, probably to the silage crew. Oul boy always said machines had to be tough that time. Mowers esp as they were often double jobbing as land levelers/destoners.

One lunatic in particular decided to let the oul boy use a single chop to roll up three strands of barbed wire and a blast of stakes. He was 16 at the time. First time he swore at an adult was that day. Lunatic came out complaining about getting done as harvesting was charged by the hour and there hadn't been any load in for a while......

Remember finding a sledge crowbar and posts with a doublechop farmer was delighted as he'd couldn't find them anywhere.

Nekarsulm

Remember coming out of the grass with a double chop, lifting the machine, and watching in horror as a flail, complete with its hangers, went like a morter round down the field right across the path of the tractor and trailer returning......