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New round baler arrived

formerly ny bill

formerly ny bill

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I picked up my new round baler today. Its in decent condition for the age. Even has twine in the can. I was told the old guy that had it used it close up to when he died, stored it upstairs on the hay mow drive floor. I'm looking forward to trying it this summer, maybe about 5 or 10 bales worth.
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Was not uncommon for a farmer to bale up a pasture in June and just kick the bales out onto the ground. Then allow the area to regrow and turn the cows onto it in sept. When the grass and the bales were cleaned up, move the cattle up near the barn for winter. I picked up bales behind a roto baler. I was young and strong so with a hay hook it wasn't a big deal. Would not want to handle rounds like that now. The baler I worked behind would have bales with one end bigger than the other. Was told it was a combination of operator error and baler quirks. have fun learning to operate your NEW baler........gobble
 
My neighbor across the road had his dad's that was in better shape than that one. He sold it to some guys from southern Ohio who had a couple of more and actually used them regularly. They brought extra wheels and stuff to tow it home but went nuts when they saw how good it was. He was tired of picking them up and bought a 273. Told me he would have kept it but didn't have room the store it.
 
Thats a nice looking machine, and a match to the one in my shed. Bales will come out even on both ends if the windrow is heavy and even.. only kinda Baler my dad ever had, and I got to handle thousands of those bales.
 
My father-in-law had one well after he had modern balers. OK but tended towards ice cream cones as he called them. PIA to pickup off the ground and try to stack in the haymow.

Ken
 
May I suggest you get the books for that thing.
I have two of them. One is parts machine.
I got the one to bale, but I haven't tried to wrap/tie a bale yet.
One catasterophy at a time!!
 
Make sure the brake is not stuck before you start to bale,if its stuck it'll tear up the baler.Also the two big springs need to be unhooked when the baler isn't being used.Dad baled all his hay for 20 years with a Roto Baler.
 
Those crazy things show up everywhere. Nearly as ubiquitous as the All Crop Harvester! There was apparently one at home. But it must have been despised, and traded off ASAP. There was never any mention of it, until we took down an old barn, and there were round bales in the bottom. And then when I rebuilt the hand clutch in the WD, Dad complained about wearing it out on that baler. The earliest baler I can remember was a JD 214W. It was around so long, I ran it a lot, and the sheet metal where the auger crowded the hay/straw next to the bale chamber was worn thin! My cousin still has the 1950 WD.
 
from looking at the ebay manuals available, it seems there may be different manuals for different serial number balers. I haven't found the serial plate yet. Any idea where it is located?
 
I don't remember and apparently my book is out in my shop file.
It's pretty easy when you know where to look.
I'll get back to you.
 
we had a neighbor that was baling next door with a rotobaler in the early 60s. I forget what happened, but he lost both arms in the thing. He got metal hooks for arms, and drove an F350 cattle truck, dealing cows and calves to the auctions.
 
Thats a nice piece of history. As a ten year old , I hated ours. Never seemed to work right. Hated stacking and handling the bales. Dad liked it. He built a wooden sled and was happy not to lift the bales. Except when you fed them from the sled , theyd walk onto it with you . 150 hungry angus beef cattle. I liked the square baler better. And preferred the big round baler that sent the roto baler down the road. It was my least favorite implement to deal with.
 
Might add looks like its missing some some bars on the pick up chain be good to have them to make it feed the hay in right.Also a spring kit is available for those balers and without the right springs in the right place it won't bale like it should or bale and put the twine on the bale at all.
 
S/N is located in the rear, on the upright angle iron on the right side up under the roof. It is stamped into the metal and can be hard to read. Grew up with one only Dad and I on the farm and that bailer allowed us to get hay dry and bailed with our WNY weather. We would leave them in the field 2 weeks to sweat out and haul them in as we had time. 45 yrs later I bought one for our small farm and made 250/yr with a D14 allis ,they use very little power to run.
 
We didn't have those balers in my neck of the woods in northwest Iowa. I did see some in the hills of southern Iowa in the 60's. The ones I saw just left the bales lay in the field.
 
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