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Yes it would

 

Free range drives me nuts. They get into everything and shit everywhere. We do a system with a mobile coop on wheels, with rotational electronet fencing. This way they have a quality life, but not at the expense of ours.

 

Mine are in chicken tunnels so no crapping al over and get to Walk around the garden

 

Anybody use a hydraulic top link? I got a birthday soon and may get one.

 

The top link on a three point hitch system, typically they’re a twist adjust, similar to jack screws for scaffolding, used to adjust the lift height/angle of attachments.

 

Back in the day on the farm in East Earl, PA they used to pull a two axled trailer behind the baler. The farmer's SIL and grandson would work in tandem catching and stacking the bales on the trailer rather than leave them in the field. The old JD would be used to haul the trailer off to the barn while the Alis Chalmers tugged the baler around the field. Don't recall if it was an AC baler or not - it was orange I remember.

 

Those prices are cheap for top links. I looked on Bailey and Surpluscenter and they aren't even close. Looked on Agri-Supply and found this insane cheap price ($38.75) on a 3"x16" cylinder. Not a top link but Dang! that's cheap. https://www.agrisupply.com/asae-red-hydraulic-cylinder/p/57588/

 

I had one on a back blade and I liked it. You could adjust the cut easily. A neighbor runs one on a JD quick hitch.

 

Not personally but would love one if my tractor already had the plumbing. Adding rear ports wouldn’t be cheap at this point

 

The Ford has dual rear remotes already, one side is used for the loader and the other side, I don't have anything to plug into it so I figure why not a top link?

 

Why not is right.

 

One of the mods on mytractorforum said he was gonna have some keychains made and asked me to send him a pic of my GTs. I sent him a couple and I got these in the mail yesterday. They are really heavy, feel quality made and the guy who did them obviously takes pride in his work as they were inside cloth bags wrapped in 18" of paper. Such a thoughtful gesture from MarkLI. I really appreciate the tractor community. Great folks.

 

That is pretty cool!

 

We did that soon after, we don’t have a dedicated hay wagon so I put some cattle panel walls on my double axle trailer. It soon became apparent why a hay wagon with a pivoting tongue and clevis hitch is more ideal. The issues we had were that the joint in the bale chute was right over where the ball hitch coupling latch was and kept catching..we had to replace the coupler latch cause it got jacked up.
also since the trailer tongue is hard fixed to the trailer, the plunging motion of the baler rocked the trailer with every stroke, which makes it difficult for the stacker to stack nicely. On a traditional hay wagon the pivoting tongue I imagine absorbs that movement. We’ll still try and work out kinks to make it work though because that’s definitely way more efficient.

 

So that's what it's called and you described the one I was familiar with to a tee. I was about 9 or 10 YOA when I worked/stayed on that farm; I was a city kid sent to PA for 2 weeks each summer. Best time of my life, I hate to admit it! I remember having to hoe/weed the rows of chewing tobacco and the cutting and harvesting of said plants too. Used the same 'hay wagon' but with a frame added to it to hold the stakes (sand dune fencing stakes) with the tobacco plants impaled on them. The tobacco was transported to the barn and then off loaded up high into the rafters of the barn to air-dry. If you ever pass a barn and see sections of the walls slightly open that means they are allowing air to circulate and dry out whatever is hanging in the rafters. Offloaded the hay bales into the hay loft from the hay wagon as well.

 

We never had a hay wagon when dad was square baling, he bailed it in the field and we would pick it up and throw it on a trailer when he got done then go to the barn and unload it up a conveyor into the top of the barn where it was even hotter and stack it again. If we weren't in the hay field we were in the tobacco field or getting wood up. Was so glad when he went to round bales in my early 20's. Kids these days don't know how easy they have it

 

I used to go to my uncles farm and did the 2 week during hay season. He had a square baler and would tow hay wagon and it would shoot into the wagon except on the turns. I remember going and swapping wagons and picking up the misses in the farm truck, climbing the hay elevator and stacking hay, my arms still feel the salt bag he had to put in between layers . I was 8 first time and did it till I was 16. Favorite memory was at 10 and my uncle asking me to drive the farm truck, Manual Jeep pickup flat bed grind it till I find it

 

Combining the wheat was fun too. The combine was pulled by the Allis Chalmers tractor. Burlap bags were manually filled with grain by the farmer's SIL or grandson and then dropped down a U shaped chute with a trap door at the bottom. When there were 3 or 4 bags piled up they would open the trap door via a rope operated mechanism and they would drop onto the field for retrieval (how many times that trap door failed to open I can't remember). There was no auto-loading into a hopper truck like now-a-days. They used an old Ford PU truck to load the burlap bags and transport them to the barn.

 

I have drag marks from mine Set to low and my new area is way to uneven