Nice Roto-Baler at Goessel, KS Threshing Days

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I was told that this Roto-Baler was purchased as a total basket case. The talents of the restorer are obvious given it's now like-new condition.

The same person also owns the nicely restored Cub Lo-Boy in the background.
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We used one of those when I was a kid. Had to stop to tie each bale and if you didn't have a live PTO, you had to shift out of gear and then when the bale spit out you had to shift back into gear to go until it was ready to tie again. You couldn't haul them with out end racks on the truck. They wouldn't go up an elevator. And they pushed out the ends of many a barn.

Other than that, they were a fine machine.
 
my same thought process,
I bought one once many years ago when I had my D14,
I got it all looking good and even got a copy of the factory operators manual for it,

but, I was never able to get it to bale hay.
so I just sold it for twice what I paid for it.

was a real challenge to pull down a normal width road.
 
My Thought Process! Ran dads when I was 16 years old. Pulled it with a WD. Never saw a owners manual. Baled with it year after year with out a break down. Just had to pull on that had clutch like it was a slot machine lever. For the road just pull a pin grab the outside corner of the feeder house and pull it over and drop pin in to hold it. Only one rule, (be sure and loosen the friction brake every night).
PS When finished baling about dark and a big black rain cloud in the west. Just take tractor and baler to shed and go to house.
 
(quoted from post at 06:09:46 08/01/15) We used one of those when I was a kid. Had to stop to tie each bale and if you didn't have a live PTO, you had to shift out of gear and then when the bale spit out you had to shift back into gear to go until it was ready to tie again. You couldn't haul them with out end racks on the truck. They wouldn't go up an elevator. And they pushed out the ends of many a barn.

Other than that, they were a fine machine.

I spent every summer during my high school days picking those round bales up, stacking them on a hay rack without ends, and then stacking them in a barn. Every single one of those bales went up an elevator and into the barn. Never had a problem.
 
Do you mean a open flight elevator, like for ear corn, or what, we never had a round baler, but, some of the neighbors did, and they used the chain elevators, even to load them out of the field.
 
We always tapped the brake with a hammer to make sure it was loose before we used it as a stuck brake will tear it up for sure.We use one now sometimes those small springs it has on it are the biggest problem now as they have to be almost exactly like the originals
 
We had a Case elevator with a Wisconsin engine. You could fold the sides up and make a square tube out of it to run grain or open it up for hay. The chain that ran in the bottom had "paddles" on it that was supposed to catch the bales. I think the biggest problem was that the paddles were about 12 inched apart for use on grain, so the bales would lie flat on the chain and not catch the end and they could bounce on the chain. Once in a while the round bales would get crosswise on there and would roll down the elevator.

We were hauling loose bales one time that wouldn't go up the elevator in the field. When we got to the barn, I was on the truck and Dad was on the ground making sure the bales started up the elevator. I saw a bale that was rolling down the elevator right for Dad and I reached out and grabbed it with the hooks as he was bent over right under where the bale was coming down. When I grabbed it, it pulled my 12 year old frame right off the truck and I landed with my hands outstretched. I wasn't able to do anything with my hands for 2 weeks and today 50+ years later, I am looking at the probability of surgery, because if I use my hands for shoveling, wrenching or most anything that requires me to grip I am in misery for the next 2 to 3 days. Thus my disdain for the Roto-Baler.
 
That was a very nicely restored baler..In the 1960's I baled many a bale with one like it...I currently own a white top AC baler that has only baled 1641 bales in its life.
 
I just bought a 1957 roto baler that was some what fixed up. cant wait to bale a bit with it. I learn to drive a tractor better when I was 12 and 13 baling hay for my dad with a roto/round baler. we used a 1950 WD tractor. I was 13 when this baler was made. just need to find binder twine near here to use it.
 

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