Bale elevator and tractor

[IAfarmguy]

I thought you might like to see the power source for the bale elevator. You can see the speed jack the tractor is belted up to and my 1936 model A. I can claim to have owned this tractor longer than anyone else as I bought it a few weeks out of high school in 1980 and I don’t believe I am the second owner. Yep, just over 45 years ago! I don’t know when I got this old. I’m sorry the tractor isn’t restored to showroom condition but it runs great and I’m not afraid to get it out to use.

 

[used red MN]

I thought you might like to see the power source for the bale elevator. You can see the speed jack the tractor is belted up to and my 1936 model A. I can claim to have owned this tractor longer than anyone else as I bought it a few weeks out of high school in 1980 and I don’t believe I am the second owner. Yep, just over 45 years ago! I don’t know when I got this old. I’m sorry the tractor isn’t restored to showroom condition but it runs great and I’m not afraid to get it out to use.

I am right there with you, 45th high school class reunion coming up in October, yes I know there are guys here that are 10 - 20 years older. I have placed some bales on an elevator driven by a belted speed jack. Not sure what brand it was but the first elevator we had was wider and a bale could lay flat on it. That was the one that used the speed jack. Later we got one that looks to be the same brand you have, I think it is a Kelly Ryan, it had a jack shaft mounted right to it that was driven by a PTO. It was narrow like that so you had to set one corner of the bale down in it. If you had to set it real steep to reach the stack or barn door you had to place the edge cut by the knives firmly against the flights or they would come sliding back down to you.

 

[Janicholson]

Nice Setup! I have done similar things. The elevator was (and could be yet) for cob corn into corn cribs. They do work for bales and beat hand lifting into a mow by a mile. Jim

 

[paul]

What brand elevator is that? I have the same brand. Mine is too narrow to put bales in. It handled all the ear corn on our farm from before I was born until the early 2000’s.

Paul

 

[matthies]

What brand elevator is that? I have the same brand. Mine is too narrow to put bales in. It handled all the ear corn on our farm from before I was born until the early 2000’s.

Paul

Kelly Ryan, made and still are in Blair Nebraska. Still have an elevator like that also made to run with a speed jack, remembering Dad sold the speed jack, thought there would have been a conversion to make the elevator pto drive.

 

[paul]

Kelly Ryan, made and still are in Blair Nebraska. Still have an elevator like that also made to run with a speed jack, remembering Dad sold the speed jack, thought there would have been a conversion to make the elevator pto drive.

Mine is pto driven. The pto gets rather high when extended all the way up, as the pto is near the crank handle. Dad had to modify it a bit, moved the lower anchor points down by the wheels, and added short extensions to the top of the back vertical rails. That made it pretty steep for the ear corn, but we have hills as obstruction's and only way an elevator would fit to the crib in the given space.

The crank to raise it is on the other side, but same crank and chain just flipped.

It was repainted silver at some point.

Paul

 

[Vito]

Love seeing the old iron earning it's keep.

Thanks for posting the pictures.

Vito

 

[Ray,IN]

One man loading bales on the elevator can keep four men busy in the loft. Seemed like I always got the loft work.

 

[IAfarmguy]

One man loading bales on the elevator can keep four men busy in the loft. Seemed like I always got the loft work.

When dad was living and we worked together the person on the rack would drop a bale on the elevator when the previous one disappeared. That was with the two of us. If we had more help we could go a little faster.