baler on a farmall C

Hey if this guy can bale with a A and pull a wagon. A C should be like heaven.

I'm not sure what other people's experiences have been with the 37 and 47 balers, but other than one summer when I was a kid (that summer we had all kinds of troubles with it, fixed them all and have had no troubles since,) it has been a great piece of machinery. I can't even begin to imagine how many bales it has thrown out the chute in it's lifetime.

As far as the tractor that I used, Dad didn't want to wait around to allow me to troubleshoot the electrical system on our SMTA, so he hooked it up to our 1086. Obviously, that steel horse didn't have any idea that baler was behind it.

Chad

So for real bales of 80 lbs tied tight, I guess only 200/hour.

Re IH 45, yes the knotters and the pickup were a problem. The outside knotter on ours rarely ever missed but the inside was a different story. Like someone else said I did my duty riding on the twine box tiing the missed bales. I eventually convinced my Dad that the problem with the inside knotter was the needle was mis-aligned. The needles on a 45 were a tube with cast pionts. So we swung the knotter up out of the way, and adjusted the inside needle with 3 ft of pipe. It tied perfectly after that fine adjustment.
In 1958 Dad traded SC for 300U and he could not bale any faster than with SC because the 45 pickup did not turn fast enough to pick up the hay.
Then in 1960 the neighbor on the next farm bought an IH 46 and he ran it with an 8N Ford and could bale twice as fast as we could with 45. Then in the fall of 1961 IH had just release B414D and had a good $$ promotion, so Dad traded 300U and IH 45 for B414D and IH 46.

So that is my story.
JB

In 1958 my cousin and her husband opened a New Holland dealership, about 15 miles away. Now there was a formula for business success. 80% of the farmers in the area had an IH 45 baler they were so fed up with it was going down the road. My dad traded his 45 for a NH Super 69 hayliner in 1959 and in the spring of 60 he took a new thrower to go with it. I had that baler until I went to round bales in 1976. And what a nice baler it was , took so little power to operate it. I have baled a few loads with the Farmall 130, and yes pulled the wagon and operated the thrower. By the way, when my cousin and her husband retired they had about 5 acres of 45 balers. Some of them had seen as little as 3-4 years use. I know there were balers in that bone yard that had baled less than 20,000 bales total. They used to joke and say their profit was the yard full of 45 balers. It got to the point where they just wouldn't take one on trade.