bale twine cutter

Have a local online auction that ends tonight. Item listed is a CASE twin cutter. Wood handle with a hook type cutter and near the other end is a spring thing? not sure what for. Is this a real CASE item or just something with some orange paint. Sorry, cannot provide any pictures.
 
They were made to cut the twine off the bundles before they went in the smaller thresh machines. Some guys used them to cut the twine off the beaters on their manure spreaders.
 
Yes Sir they are I have a nos one
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Thanks for posting that ad! A little off topic, but I had never seen our fencing/wood hauling manure spreader before the beaters and apron were ripped from it. We do have a couple of the long belts around. One is wrapped around a rafter in the machine shed as the main component of a swing and the other is brand new and effectively a spare for the swing. Dad always told me the belts were from the Case spreaders, but I never saw one still together. I attached best picture I have showing our spreader. Has gotten a lot of use in its current condition over the years and I like how it matches the 430 so well.

Dan
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I've seen a few of those cutters in my travels. Never knew what they were, now I know. Now I have to remember where I saw them. I think one was being used to clean the crap off of a barn floor scraper in a cousins dairy barn. Now I'll have to make a visit to see if it is still there.
 
If you haul fire wood with the spreader, why do you not put the chain back in? Imagine how nice it would be to just stand behind the machine and have the wood come to you. I haul my fire wood in several 10' retired silage wagons, and retired trucks with hoists that are made into trailers. I cannot imagine unloading wood without the wood making it's own way to the rear of the trailer.
 
Well yes that is genius to leave the apron in to bring the wood to the back. When dad removed the apron I was barely walking, so I had no opinion to voice. Years later when we were throwing wood in the house I asked dad why he removed the apron, saying we could use it to move the wood to the back. He had never thought of it but acknowledged that would have been a good idea. By that time the chain and most of the angle irons were already in use on other projects.

In dad's defense this was our second Case spreader used for hauling wood. The first one burned in a hay shed fire. I am sure grandpa had the apron out of that original, so dad copied that strategy with this "newer" spreader. Dad made a lot of things easier on the farm compared to how it was a generation earlier, but this was a miss on his part. No one is perfect.

Dan
 

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