Old wire tie bailers

biggerred · Oct 17, 2012

Does anyone still use wire bailers, and if so where does one get the wire? I still see these old bailers for sale. Just wondering.

LMack · Oct 17, 2012

Why? It would be fun maybe but wire was a pain to deal with. You do not absolutely have to remove the string when feeding string tied hay. All wires have to be removed before feeding and wire is more expensive. A wire unit would be of little practical use. I think you can get the coils of wire just about any farm supply . . . called electric fence.

DeltaRed · Oct 17, 2012

Anyplace that sells twine should sell wire.I still have an old wire baler(IH#55W).It is semi-retired,but is ready,willing and able to work when needed....

ihman73 · Oct 18, 2012

Electric fence wire would never work in a baler, it isn't the correct tensile strength and most of it isn't annealed which will cause it to break when twisted tight. I remove my strings anyway so they don't get eaten, trip me up, get wrapped up on tractor axles and spreader beaters etc. My wire baler is much simpler to use and work on than my stringer, much less finnicky. I prefer wire on straw anyway since mice won't chew through wire. If wire wasn't so high I wouldn't even own a string baler. Our local farm store carries wire.

James Williams · Oct 18, 2012

If my father caught a string left behind or found one in a manure spreader,God help me

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mkirsch · Oct 18, 2012

All the local Tractor Supply stores had plenty of baler wire on pallets in the store all summer long.

Brendon-KS · Oct 18, 2012

New wire tie balers are still being made (the Deere 338 is one example; it can be had in twine and wire versions) so the correct wire should be readily available.

John Fulton · Oct 18, 2012

Are you refering to the old Allis Chambers SMALL ROUND balers that used wire ties? I haven"t seen one of those in 40 years. What a pain they were... wire cut into your hands making them bleed, to say nothing about cleaning up wire to keep out of cow"s stomach.

And speaking of wire ties, I used to be a technician for local Soil & Water Conservation District, laying out watering systems in pastures. We had one producer that fed regected large cotton bales to beef. He just dumped them in pasture anywhere. These bales were tied with dozens of wire ties. He made no attempt to clean up wire after bale was consumed. We had to be very careful not to drive over these clumps of wire risking getting drive shaft of truck caught up . I often wondered what stomach of cows looked like!!

Ron W · Oct 18, 2012

You can get the wire for modern day cardboard balers....it is a little heave and a couple feet longer, but works very well, and not badly priced. It has the eyes already twisted in.

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