new CK30 cutting hay pics

[bluecarpenter]

here are some pics of my pretty new CK30 cutting hay for the first time. I gave up waiting on the tiller and BH to get in and brought it home.

I picked up an IH belt drive mower for $50.00 and Dad and I spent a day cleaning it up and lubeing it and to get the spring on the bottom worked free. it had a 9ft sickle on it and I cut it down to 7ft. sharpened the blade and away I went. The CK30 handles it very nicely. We also had to fabricate a couple of knife pins as it didn't have one. (It is the pin that connects the sickle bar to the wobble head.) I heard they might be close to $80 for new ones.

This is one SWEET tractor. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif I really do like the hst too. I know when I was looking at tractors I wasn't sure I wanted it. KNOW i'm glad i got it.

 

[bluecarpenter]

pic #2

 

[bluecarpenter]

pic #3

 

[bluecarpenter]

pic #4 The wife went nuts with the digital camera. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[bluecarpenter]

The same day I also picked a PTO driven side delivery rake. Ford model 503. Got to use it today. but no pics. It works very nice. Now if I could only find a good used cheap square baler. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif Sure would beat picking it up loose and putting it loose in the barn. O well that is the way we have done it for years. this is still quicker that rakeing it by hand like we used to do.

 

[RedRocker]

I sure like mine, I'm still learning what it's capable of doing. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Dachshund]

Nice pics, Mark! You might think about making a "hay fork" for your FEL. Works way better than a pitch fork! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[depratt_equip]

Lookin Good!! /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif Congratulations on the purchase!!

 

[KiotiJohn]

Very nice. Love the action shots. Thanks.
John