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Read articles →This is a personal story more than a tractor review: Papa Chad helps a neighbor's family put up hay, running a hay rake for the first time in over 30 years after growing up on a Kansas dairy farm. It's light on tractor specs for the raking equipment itself, but includes casual commentary on old John Deere 4430s, ROPS cabs, balers, and how haying technology has changed since his youth.
Posted by the Papa Chad channel, an individual sharing a personal, nostalgic hands-on experience rather than a structured equipment review.
You let the wings down and it pulls hay from each side into the center to form a windrow. Unlike old side delivery rakes, it does not need a PTO shaft hooked to the wheel, it drives itself once the pinwheels touch the ground.
Newer balers do not require weaving back and forth to get the hay head under the first roller like the old Ford baler did. They also have monitors that show bale size, so you no longer need to watch between the belts.
Yes, the video shows a field in its second year of cutting with no spraying, where keeping it mowed helps control briars, and they hoped for a second cutting by mid-August after good rain.
