Roto-baler.:. found the family baler and hauled it home

My grandpa purchased a model 10, new from the dealer in High Point, Missouri. My uncle still talks about the troubles it gave before it was converted to a regular baler. When it was converted, the dealership left off one very important part, the arm/rope that you pull to turn the conveyer on to feed a little more hay and to ketch the twine. (He swears that's what wore his knees out.) We found it in the woods, on a farm 15 miles away. The current owner had removed a lot of parts and had left it for dead along with 5 other balers. (He still has two in operational condition and they are stored inside.)
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The baler isn't much, but it was saved from a one way ride to china
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Where the missing arm would go
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Now on the farm we have 2 white tops that are fully operational, 1 parts orange top, 2 converted model 10s (c398 and grandpa's c1008) and another converted 10 to go get. I hope to have a converted model 10 with grandpa's serial number fully operational (high speed tie) for play hayin' next spring.

Here is one of the white tops, I took this one to the local show, spur of the moment, to clean up the wheat straw from the thresher.

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Tommy
 
Looked like a lot of effort to load that shell. I can see sentimental value, but some would say that was stretching it. We ran a Roto Baler for several years, lot of work and great bales.
 
The old baler isn't bad to handle, if you have the right equipment. It will get slipped inside sometime, soon as more important chores get taken care of.
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Picked up the other converted model 10, serial "C739" the roof was torched off for a WD canopy
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The orange truck is a Chevrolet hybrid. '51 cab, '52 doors, '84 c-30 chassis, '02 bed.
COEs are like rotobalers you can't just have one. (5 more are hid away for the future)
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Tommy
 
Hope to see picks when you get it going again. Very cool that
you knew the SN in order to find it again. On one hand wish
we had something else my Grandpa bought to use with his
WD45 but we must settle for his WD45 and Allis equipment
like his. On the other just thankful we saved the tractor (even if
the tractor is like your baler- bout the only thing on it that
grandpa bought new is the serial number)!
 
Running a AC round baler surely aged me beyond my years. Who could forget one latch coming open prematurely. It would look like you had ruined it forever. But all it took was a well placed kick and it would spring back together again. We pulled ours with a 50 JD. The pto is about 100 rpm slower on a JD compared to a WD. Finally got a WD45 a lot better. Even pulled it with a 4010 JD, used the 1000 rpm shaft and idled it along. It would wrap the bales a lot faster.
 

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