I love how it looks and sounds just like the 966 that we had on our ranch. We cut our hay and alfalfa with that tractor, but we used a good old Rowse Double 9 sickle bar mower and then got put on a H&S 16 wheel V-rake right after that every season. Great video and great memories. Thanks Jason 😊
Loved that clip with the ih 966 and haybine. No music or distractions. Just all good stuff. I, m in the middle of the silage season on my farm here in Ireland. I mow with an NH TM140 and a Krone 3201 cv trailed mower
Man, what a great old tractor and haybine! That's the way things were done when I was a kid and working on a farm. Actually, the farmer I worked of for used a Ford tractor and a sickle bar. Worked fine and we put up a lot of hay every summer. Simply great to see this set-up. Two more videos and you'll hit the 2000 video milestone. Congrats They've all been excellent.
This is the tractor I learned to operate at 8 years old love how confined the cab was makes it easier for young kids to learn how to operate great tractor
Just put down hay, yesterday, with my Farmall 560D, 120 sickle mower & 2A hay conditioner. Worked great. The weather has been hot & dry enough to have it ready to be baled today. First time making hay in a little less than 24 hrs. I can deal with that. Regards, Jason!
Nice tractor! In 1975 Dad purchased a 966 and a 574 new. Our farming operation in Indiana was mainly cattle so we cut a lot of hay. I spent many days driving the 966 mowing hay with a Heston 1010 hydro swing (9’ cut). We then stacked the hay with a Heston 10 Stakhand. Thanks for the memories 👍🇺🇸
Dad and I were in partnership a few years, after I finished high school. "I chose " a new John Deere 4020 gear drive, with a JD five bottom plow. A year later " dad chose " the International Harvester 966 Hydro with a five bottom plow, International also. There was no comparison, the International plowed / worked circles around the 4020; it wore its plow points down to almost nothing. A spectacular tractor, Thank you International Harvester! Tim. ( - :
I do all our mowing with the exact same mower conditioner. Down here in Australia they were designated NH 489. They’re a great little mower that can go the distance. I only wish I had one of the 66 series IHC tractors to pull it with. Love the looks of them more than the 86 series tractors. We use a Case 2290 or a good old Aussie made Chamberlain C 6-100, 110 hp, a Chamberlain Countryman, 80 hp, or a Inter AW7, 55 hp. Cut, rake and round bale around 450 acres each year. Its a credit to the owner of these two machines how well looked after they are. As per, another great vid. The best on You Tube.
When my parents use to dairy farm dad had a new Holland 467 haybine an had it hooked up to a late 60’s Case 730 comfort king diesel tractor. Loved operating the tractor.
I love those old Case comfort king tractors. I'm saddened by how many comments I see from people who used to farm or who's parents used to farm. It's a bummer everyone builds houses in the middle of every field they can find and then those who want to be farmers often struggle to get started because the land is at such a premium. I know it's hard to believe when you look around at all the farmland that seems to be everywhere, but someday we'll be importing our food just like we do with foreign oil, and we all know how well that has worked out over the past few decades. It's going to be much worse when it's the food supply. I think a federal law needs to be made that if it's farmland now it will remain farmland and cannot be developed. The owner of the land will get some kind of tax breaks or some sort of real good incentives to make up for him not being able to sell his own land however he wants and he'll have to sign up voluntarily. It seems a bit anti-freedom, but something has to be done now rather than later. Once it's certified productive agriculture land, no taxes (or low taxes) and no development other than agricultural development can be performed on that land for eternity.
@@jtoddjb thank goodness in the township I live in do not allow to build houses on farmland but the other surrounding townships do turned them into subdivisions .
@@clinthochrein888 you are very lucky. Around here they cant wait for farms to go under so they can sell it off in 5 acre lots. There's not much left here anymore. I wish I could move, but have family with health problems, some are getting old, and I have kids. They are grown, but still.
How pleasant. Like I've said before, this is just the kind of tractor I like 👍. And some nice scenery around there as well (if you can see past the wind turbines 🤨)
Jason, another great video. When I first started watch BTP I was slightly disappointed if the video didn’t have the latest and greatest Combine, tractor, tillage tool, etc., however I’m really enjoying the diversity now. Great video, great work! Thanks
A cab has it place but it would be a pleasure mowing hay like this man is nowadays you can go so fast you have to hold on for dear life. Without a cab and a perfect day that's not work that's relaxation.
Looks like a great way to spend your day. Also thank you for these videos, I've always wanted to go to Wisconsin but I know I never will. However with the sharing of these videos it's almost like I'm there. What a beautiful area
We had two of those 966s. Dad bought the first one when I was still in college with 34” rear tires. I bought another in 1974 when I came home and started farming with my Dad and it had 38” rears. Both were tough, torquey and reliable. We put a lot of hours on both and mine we used on a 5 yard Reynolds dirt scoop. After several thousand hours on the scoop, I removed the bull gear housings and swapped sides with the bull gear and brake pinions and run it several thousand more hours. Those were the days! Grading land for furrow irrigation with a 5 yard bucket. The only downside to a 966 as a non turbo engine is they were hard on the hearing if you didn’t wearing ear protection. I’m retired now and to my knowledge, both tractors are still being used on other farms!
Nice setup. I'm keeping my eyes open for a 966 or 1066. It seems like the 966s go quite a bit cheaper than the 1066. We still mow with a sickle bar mower, a Hesston 1090 using a JD3020D. Then tedd or rake with the Farmall H. And bale with the 3020 and a JD336 square baler.
The 966 is a good tractor. It is less popular than a 1066 and offers less horse power but would be a very good hating tractor. You have a nice hay team with H and 3020. I have a video with an IH 460 and HESSTON PT7 mower conditioner posted at th-cam.com/video/gy24Km03O5U/w-d-xo.html
The haybine was a big seller from the 1960’s through the 1990’s. I like getting to feature classic equipment. This 1465 was built from the 1997 through about 2006.
I like that IH tractor. I didn’t know they had a hydrostatic transmission in the 66 series. That was I think the precursor to the CVT transmissions tractors have now. Relaxing seeing that tractor mowing hay.
Great video, my grandpa uses an International 666 with a New Holland haybine. I don’t know the model number of the haybine but it’s similar to the one in the video. Thanks for sharing this, my grandpa also has a 966 and it the biggest tractor on our farm
Finally a video I can relate with. 😹. My biggest tractor is a 4230. So I don’t get to experience much of the big tractor power. But i did use a newholland mower conditioner for 20 years. Was a good machine but didn’t like clover much at all. Good video.
Nice to see a IH966 in action cutting hay. I use a Massey Ferguson 4243 with cab and Hesston 1007 Disc mower to cut hay IH 574 to rake hay with and Massey Ferguson 383 Rops with canopy pulling Case IH 8480 baler.
Farmal/IH were the best tractors in the field, IMO. 806, 1206, 1456... would give anything to own each of those three, parked out in the Quonset and clean up to near new condition again....
I love the 966 internationals my dads Friend Paul owns a international 1066 row crop he uses it on his farm in Sunderland Ontario Canada 🇨🇦 and for Tractor pulls as well
Great tractors. My uncle has a black stripe 966 he bought brand spanking new. You’d have to add up the tachs to know the true hours on it. She’s all original, a nice wax job and I’d bet she’d shine up nice
These were among the best looking tractors international ever built.
Nah, I've run the 966 before, nice tractor, but the 856 is much more classic
@@eugenecrabs3954 Yeah my family had a 966 and a 856 i always like the 856 more.
@@eugenecrabs3954 yeah the 856 looks a lot better i love all the 56 series tractors
And that my friends, is how you get a farmers tan. Great video Jason
Most of today’s farmers wouldn’t be a farmer if they had to use tractor’s without a Cab on the tractor with A/C-Heat.
@@bige9055 about like the kids going to school now if they had to walk like years ago..huh ?
@@bige9055 most couldn’t beanhoe, walking half mile rows for a day, let alone 10 straight days.
I love how it looks and sounds just like the 966 that we had on our ranch. We cut our hay and alfalfa with that tractor, but we used a good old Rowse Double 9 sickle bar mower and then got put on a H&S 16 wheel V-rake right after that every season. Great video and great memories. Thanks Jason 😊
spent many hours on 966, thanks for the memories!!!
Loved that clip with the ih 966 and haybine. No music or distractions. Just all good stuff.
I, m in the middle of the silage season on my farm here in Ireland. I mow with an NH TM140 and a Krone 3201 cv trailed mower
$18,000 brand new and I bet that tractor in that condition on auction right now would damn near bring that price now.
Man, what a great old tractor and haybine! That's the way things were done when I was a kid and working on a farm. Actually, the farmer I worked of for used a Ford tractor and a sickle bar. Worked fine and we put up a lot of hay every summer. Simply great to see this set-up. Two more videos and you'll hit the 2000 video milestone. Congrats They've all been excellent.
This is the tractor I learned to operate at 8 years old love how confined the cab was makes it easier for young kids to learn how to operate great tractor
The 66 series are great IH tractors. Very cool you learned on a 966.
Just put down hay, yesterday, with my Farmall 560D, 120 sickle mower & 2A hay conditioner. Worked great. The weather has been hot & dry enough to have it ready to be baled today. First time making hay in a little less than 24 hrs. I can deal with that. Regards, Jason!
My dad still has our 966. Such a good old tractor.
Nice tractor!
In 1975 Dad purchased a 966 and a 574 new. Our farming operation in Indiana was mainly cattle so we cut a lot of hay. I spent many days driving the 966 mowing hay with a Heston 1010 hydro swing (9’ cut).
We then stacked the hay with a Heston 10 Stakhand.
Thanks for the memories 👍🇺🇸
Dad and I were in partnership a few years, after I finished high school. "I chose " a new John Deere 4020 gear drive, with a JD five bottom plow. A year later " dad chose " the International Harvester 966 Hydro with a five bottom plow, International also. There was no comparison, the International plowed / worked circles around the 4020; it wore its plow points down to almost nothing. A spectacular tractor, Thank you International Harvester! Tim. ( - :
I do all our mowing with the exact same mower conditioner. Down here in Australia they were designated NH 489. They’re a great little mower that can go the distance. I only wish I had one of the 66 series IHC tractors to pull it with. Love the looks of them more than the 86 series tractors. We use a Case 2290 or a good old Aussie made Chamberlain C 6-100, 110 hp, a Chamberlain Countryman, 80 hp, or a Inter AW7, 55 hp. Cut, rake and round bale around 450 acres each year. Its a credit to the owner of these two machines how well looked after they are.
As per, another great vid. The best on You Tube.
We use a 766 and a 1066 for are Hay making, Great Tractors and very little problems threw the years, Red Power👍
Classic hay cutting right there! Awesome!!!
Farmed back in the '80s in central KY with an IH766 Black Stripe and a 7 ft. New Holland Haybine. Thanks for the video memory.
When my parents use to dairy farm dad had a new Holland 467 haybine an had it hooked up to a late 60’s Case 730 comfort king diesel tractor. Loved operating the tractor.
I love those old Case comfort king tractors. I'm saddened by how many comments I see from people who used to farm or who's parents used to farm. It's a bummer everyone builds houses in the middle of every field they can find and then those who want to be farmers often struggle to get started because the land is at such a premium. I know it's hard to believe when you look around at all the farmland that seems to be everywhere, but someday we'll be importing our food just like we do with foreign oil, and we all know how well that has worked out over the past few decades. It's going to be much worse when it's the food supply. I think a federal law needs to be made that if it's farmland now it will remain farmland and cannot be developed. The owner of the land will get some kind of tax breaks or some sort of real good incentives to make up for him not being able to sell his own land however he wants and he'll have to sign up voluntarily. It seems a bit anti-freedom, but something has to be done now rather than later. Once it's certified productive agriculture land, no taxes (or low taxes) and no development other than agricultural development can be performed on that land for eternity.
@@jtoddjb thank goodness in the township I live in do not allow to build houses on farmland but the other surrounding townships do turned them into subdivisions .
@@clinthochrein888 you are very lucky. Around here they cant wait for farms to go under so they can sell it off in 5 acre lots. There's not much left here anymore. I wish I could move, but have family with health problems, some are getting old, and I have kids. They are grown, but still.
How pleasant. Like I've said before, this is just the kind of tractor I like 👍. And some nice scenery around there as well (if you can see past the wind turbines 🤨)
Jason, another great video. When I first started watch BTP I was slightly disappointed if the video didn’t have the latest and greatest Combine, tractor, tillage tool, etc., however I’m really enjoying the diversity now.
Great video, great work!
Thanks
I love raking with the 966 hydro, the hydrostatic makes it easy to choose a speed without shifting
Great IH FARMALL in action, always enjoyed hay season , growing up had 560 diesel cutting crimping and baling,great equipment.
I wish I was in his shoes!
A cab has it place but it would be a pleasure mowing hay like this man is nowadays you can go so fast you have to hold on for dear life. Without a cab and a perfect day that's not work that's relaxation.
My favorite tractor the 966.
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Vintage equipment still getting the job done. Love it
Nothing beats an open station tractor when you’re mowing some alfalfa
But it’s still a good one always appreciate classic truckers
Amen to that my friend!
Looks like a great way to spend your day. Also thank you for these videos, I've always wanted to go to Wisconsin but I know I never will. However with the sharing of these videos it's almost like I'm there. What a beautiful area
We had two of those 966s. Dad bought the first one when I was still in college with 34” rear tires. I bought another in 1974 when I came home and started farming with my Dad and it had 38” rears. Both were tough, torquey and reliable. We put a lot of hours on both and mine we used on a 5 yard Reynolds dirt scoop. After several thousand hours on the scoop, I removed the bull gear housings and swapped sides with the bull gear and brake pinions and run it several thousand more hours. Those were the days! Grading land for furrow irrigation with a 5 yard bucket. The only downside to a 966 as a non turbo engine is they were hard on the hearing if you didn’t wearing ear protection. I’m retired now and to my knowledge, both tractors are still being used on other farms!
The 66 series are solid tractors. Thank you for sharing. I just filmed several 66 series including a 966 High Clear at the 2021 Red Power Round Up.
Reminds me of my childhood, riding on the fender of dads 966 cutting with a NH 492.
Very cool.
This brings back memories, awesome video. Love hay season
cutting hay is my happy place, i run a NH HW340 with a 16ft discbine header
Nice setup. I'm keeping my eyes open for a 966 or 1066. It seems like the 966s go quite a bit cheaper than the 1066.
We still mow with a sickle bar mower, a Hesston 1090 using a JD3020D. Then tedd or rake with the Farmall H. And bale with the 3020 and a JD336 square baler.
The 966 is a good tractor. It is less popular than a 1066 and offers less horse power but would be a very good hating tractor. You have a nice hay team with H and 3020. I have a video with an IH 460 and HESSTON PT7 mower conditioner posted at th-cam.com/video/gy24Km03O5U/w-d-xo.html
Good Sunday Morning from New Zealand, Thank you for the Marvelous BigTractorpower Video, Thanks for sharing, Have a great week
Red power still going strong. Good looking tractor
This is a cool mowing implement. I've never seen one like this before. Thanks fir finding it.
The haybine was a big seller from the 1960’s through the 1990’s. I like getting to feature classic equipment. This 1465 was built from the 1997 through about 2006.
Wow
Fantastic video and one great tractor.
I like that IH tractor. I didn’t know they had a hydrostatic transmission in the 66 series. That was I think the precursor to the CVT transmissions tractors have now. Relaxing seeing that tractor mowing hay.
Mowing hay with old equipment is always great to see😁👍 nice video again👍😉
We’ve pulled an 1190 IH haybine with our 966 for a lot of years. Still using both, just pulling the 1190 with a Case Ih 885 with a cab now.
Gorgeous tractor
Enjoy these tractors with the farmer exposed to the weather. Really toughened you up at an early age.
Sounds good! Thanks for the videos.
Great video, my grandpa uses an International 666 with a New Holland haybine. I don’t know the model number of the haybine but it’s similar to the one in the video. Thanks for sharing this, my grandpa also has a 966 and it the biggest tractor on our farm
Grew up with the similar setup, you can definitely tell it’s first crop with the canary grass, alfalfa and quack grass...
That is a good old tractor. Great video.
Love mowing hay always interesting to see farmer still use haybines instead of disk mowers
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@@bigtractorpower looks like he cut some of the field and then cut some for the video
We mow with a Case 1070 and a New Holland 489
Finally a video I can relate with. 😹. My biggest tractor is a 4230. So I don’t get to experience much of the big tractor power. But i did use a newholland mower conditioner for 20 years. Was a good machine but didn’t like clover much at all. Good video.
My biggest tractor is the 87 hp IH 844S and 85hp CaseIH 4230 and finally the 65 hp674
Nice tractor , had chance to buy a 966 , but already had 1256 and 806 now wish I had
Nice to see the old girls still going strong
J.i. Case 970 with NH 499
J.i. Case 1070 with NH 495
My grandpa had a 766 thhese was the best era of IH
Like the video I like the 1066
Nice to see a IH966 in action cutting hay. I use a Massey Ferguson 4243 with cab and Hesston 1007 Disc mower to cut hay IH 574 to rake hay with and Massey Ferguson 383 Rops with canopy pulling Case IH 8480 baler.
Hi Jason
We miss some 2021 winter wheat harvest!
Just started today.
Farmal/IH were the best tractors in the field, IMO. 806, 1206, 1456... would give anything to own each of those three, parked out in the Quonset and clean up to near new condition again....
Very nice 👍
Bit of trivia for you ,the 966 and 986 tractors built in Australia had 358ci turbocharged Neuss engines.
We don't do hay anymore but when we did we used our 1066 and farmall 400 for bailing and running wagons.
I just got done mowing grass.😂Great timing Jason. As always GO BTP!💪👍
I love the 966 internationals my dads Friend Paul owns a international 1066 row crop he uses it on his farm in Sunderland Ontario Canada 🇨🇦 and for Tractor pulls as well
I have a 1066 hi clear I may a garden and cut grass with.
Great tractors. My uncle has a black stripe 966 he bought brand spanking new. You’d have to add up the tachs to know the true hours on it. She’s all original, a nice wax job and I’d bet she’d shine up nice
Growing up our 966 was the heavy tillage plowing tractor.
Good as always 👌🇵🇹🇵🇹
Man looks like a great day to make hay kinda looks like first cutting with a few weeds in the mix
In which country is this tractor? ਵਾਹਿਗੁਰੂ ਜੀ ਕਾ ਖਾਲਸਾ ਵਾਹਿਗੁਰੂ ਜੀ ਕੀ ਫਤਹਿ
The good ole days
We use a Deere 5525 pulling a Deere 1360 discbine to mow about 60 acres of grass hay for horses at my uncle's place 👍
We have two hay mowing setups a 4320 john deere with a newholland 3 point mower and a case puma 150 with a newholland 15 foot discbine
Very nice.
Growing up we had a back stripe 966 with a year round cab and international 990 9’ haybine....
Looks like a lot of weeds in that alfalfa.
I think this is the shortest video you ever put up OK
My IH set up for cutting hay would be this.
766 rops and canopy with IH haybine
I saw a 766 tricycle front end cutting hay one day while driving and decided that is probably a better hay tractor than our 1066.
Those windmills sure destroy the looks of the beautiful landscape.
I use a New Holland 499 12 ft pivot tongue haybine pulled by a 1973 1066 Hydro.
Very nice combo. I am a 499 fan.
Currently got a massey ferguson 275 tractor on a 1983 hesston 1091 haybine
Baled hay with one of these... Great tractor.
I would like to see a video on the farm all letter serious tractors...
I made one called 80 years of Red Power that covers the 1939 Farmall M to the 2019 Magnum 380 CVT.
We use either IH 674/844S/Case IH4230 on our Case IH 8330 haybine
If tractors this small can gst on Big Tractor Power we need to see a 706!
I agree. I like the 706 allot. I hope to find one to film like this. Right now I have a one minute clip of a 706 here on the channel picking ear corn.
Like I said special machines need experienced people.
Lot of weeds in that alfalfa!
We mowed hay with a 1954 mm zb and a mm cutter bar that bolted to the tongue it had pto
We use an Oliver 501 swather.
Have 2 1086 1 1586 way back when farming.
Looks just like massy ferguson 1100
Similar era in tractors. The 1155 was sold along side the 66 series.
I use a Ford 5600 tractor and a John Deere 1219 haybine
IH 1066 and a NH 488 what have used for several years
Very nice. I think the 488 replaced the 1465 around 2006.
A 966 sure has the power to run a Discbine, I wondee why this farmer hasn't upgraded.
I am glad to have a chance to feature a haybine. They are harder to find these days.
I us a 1979 IH 986 With New Holland 1411 Dicbine which is a 10.4 Cut
In 1971 you could buy a bare bones 966 for 10 K or less. They did indeed go up thru the years. But 18k for a bare bones 966 in 1976 sounds high to me.
In 1975 a 966 with TA could be bought for $14,000. That included ROPS and canopy.
We used to use a hay bine just like that until we bought a swather
New Holland hay equipment for me
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Liked the video, thank you! Sad to see beautiful countryside littered with wind turbines.
I run a 666 with a 489 mower
Very nice combo. My neighbor mowed hay with a pair of 489s powered by a 686 and a 656.
lotta weeds
Hello!
Hi. Thank you for your enthusiasm to watch the video first.
@@bigtractorpower It's always a pleasure. Five decades ago, my father had a IH tractor. And I, happily, rode on it...
2030 John Deere, 608 New Holland
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