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Chris

10-13-2002 18:24:42




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What size rolls are made? Are there any downsides? I was just wondering why they are so cheap. Thanks




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John

10-15-2002 20:07:43




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 Re: Allis Chalmers Rotobaler in reply to Chris, 10-13-2002 18:24:42  
We went through 3 of these balers on the farm. We bought one new in '48, '55, and '70. The last model for the most part was identical to the '48, with a few more safety shields. We baled anywhere from 25,000 to 45,000 bales annually with them. I always prefered stacking the small round bales. You stacked them like cordwood. We pulled the balers with a WD, WD-45, and then later with a D-17. The roto baler did its best behind an Allis tractor with a hand clutch or power-director. A tractor with a live PTO would work, but this was pretty much an all Allis operation. I never got to run the baler much, but we had an old black man that worked with us on the farm that knew this baler inside and out, he made it look easy. The windrows had to be perfect or it would clog the baler. I still have one of the balers and it is a pain in the a** to adjust and operate.

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JMS/MN

10-15-2002 00:17:45




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 Re: Allis Chalmers Rotobaler in reply to Chris, 10-13-2002 18:24:42  
Roto-balers were made in the 40s-60s. Bales were 36 inches wide, 15-18 inches diameter, typically weighed 40-50 lbs (hay), straw was lighter. Diameter was somewhat adjustable. Very dependable baler, not much to adjust. Used binder twine to wrap bales, no knotter. Dad had one new in 48, sold in 65, only one repair (one piece, a casting, several times) in all those years. Lots of custom work in the early years, up to 7000 bales in later years. Bales are excellent at shedding water. Little difficult to stack- if they pushed out a barn, it must have been a weak barn.

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RayP(MI)

10-14-2002 18:09:23




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 Re: Allis Chalmers Rotobaler in reply to Chris, 10-13-2002 18:24:42  
The bales shed water well, and if you're unable to get into storage immmediately, the weather damage won't be near as great as square bales.



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Dave

10-14-2002 12:27:55




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 Re: Allis Chalmers Rotobaler in reply to Chris, 10-13-2002 18:24:42  
After sometime using an AC round baler I can tell you that they are a nightmare to keep in adjustment should they need adjustment. Very touchy



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Dave

10-14-2002 12:27:44




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 Re: Allis Chalmers Rotobaler in reply to Chris, 10-13-2002 18:24:42  
After sometime using an AC round baler I can tell you that they are a nightmare to keep in adjustment should they need adjustment. Very touchy



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Mike (WA)

10-14-2002 12:14:40




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 Re: Allis Chalmers Rotobaler in reply to Chris, 10-13-2002 18:24:42  
Size of the bales was about the size and weight of a small square bale- so the time comsumed by stops to tie each bale was significant. My uncle lost the sidewalls of his barn in the late '50's, when a stack gave way and rolled to the side and pushed the walls out.



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Jerry A.

10-14-2002 05:26:40




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 Re: Allis Chalmers Rotobaler in reply to Chris, 10-13-2002 18:24:42  
Allis Chalmers made almost 90,000 of those balers (according to a book on AC equipment I have).

A lot of folks didn't like the round bale...a little trickier to stack (I happen to prefer the round bale to the square; it's a lot easier to keep a hay hook in a round bale with just one hand).

The biggest drawback was that you had to stop the forward motion of the tractor each and every time the baler kicked out a bale. Very slow when compared to a standard square baler.

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DAVE M

10-14-2002 03:20:18




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 Re: Allis Chalmers Rotobaler in reply to Chris, 10-13-2002 18:24:42  
It seems to me they were made back in the mid to late 1930's They did not catch on, until Vermeer
came out with the big round baler in 1971



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Dick Davis

10-16-2002 06:30:22




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 Re: Re: Allis Chalmers Rotobaler in reply to DAVE M, 10-14-2002 03:20:18  
At a "Gathering of the Orange" a few years back there was a "Brand New" Rotobaler that was discovered at a dealer auction still crated up in the back room. They had assembled it and only took it to shows.



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