I had a IH 46 and a IH 47 baler that worked well for me. The 440 was a newer baler with more capacity, I never had one, but I knew guys that did and said that they were good baler.
 
I have an early 50s model 55wire,pto drive.Bulletproof.Never misses a tie,can make 100lb bricks if desired.Wisper quiet while running.Together with the SuperM,we have made thousands/millions of bales.It is now 'retired',but ready for action at a moments notice.....It has my vote.
 
Some guys on here will tell you IH never made a good baler. I have a 46 and like it but I have to admit other balers had knotters that didn't need as much fussing around with to work right.I don't know when IH changed the knotters on their balers but I would think their best balers came a bit latter than a model 46.
 
I too have heard good about 440/445.But the 440 my brother had 30+ years ago was a first class POS!It got traded for a BRAND NEW jd 336.He still owns it.
 
Hi slifnom, Your asking for the best baler and
that is impossible to answer. We were New Holland
dealers and we had to bring any trade in IH baler
to an auction to get rid of. One farmer only
bought IH stuff. He had just bought a 430 and was
baling along the highway. I stopped and rode with
and it missed almost as many bales as it tied. He
said IH had a serviceman from the company out but couldn't help to improve it. Being all IH he
said: Well I guess I'll have to put up with it. Chuck
 
AMEN on that!!!But it's really not an IH.It just has decals.....imposter!!!
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Hi Steve, in the early 1970s I used to work a UK built B55 wire tying baler behind a B450 tractor. It would average 28 hay bales to the ton and at the end of each season it needed a new bottom in the bale chamber. I then as a salesman for the loual IH dealer and sold a lot of 440 balers. These balers were built at IH Doncaster works here in the UK were they started making them in 1972. The first year production all came back to be modified then they all went very well in the next years. MJ
 
I've been running a wire tie 440 for afew years now and I love it! Only misses maybe 1 out of 1000 bales and that's usually only when I have to splice in a new box of wire.
 
Our 440 (bought new) was a first class POS when we bought it. Problem was the guy that set it up in the field had no clue what he was doing. After jacking with it ourselves and the dealership sending their guy out several times we came to the conclusion it was no better than the 37 it was replacing and we ran it that way for two years.

Operating far from home my dad called a different dealer local to the area and they sent out their baler man. He spent about an hour working on it, than another hour walking behind it and making fine tuning adjustments and it was like a totally different machine. It would literally run thousands of bales through without breaking one when before it might go 100 then break 3 or 4 in a row then go another hundred or less. That thing had another 10 years of HARD use (20K-30K a summer) and never gave another major issue before a majority of the baling was switched over to big round bales.
 
I have a 47 wire tie and have had a similar experience - the wire knotters work and it reliably shoves out bales. The problem is the 47 is maybe half the capicity of a 440 (in the real world - I know they are "rated" much closer). I spend all my time baling in first gear with windrows 7' apart (good brome).
 
unquestionably the 425-435-445,It had a Deering knotter, wide pickup with narrow teeth, made a decent bale and tied flawlessly, had a 37 before the 425-no comparison between them
 
You can thank me for that ( Ha ha) I trialed a 445 with the Deering type knotter (Made by Rasspe) for IH on our farm just before they went into production. Yes it was a very nice baler!
On the other hand...... A few years later IH tried some prototype balers out on our farm (Including one little one that the engineer described as "A cheap and nasty thing designed for The American market!" )It was a range built to replace The 425, 435 and 445. They had lots of trouble with them and even when they did go into production (Actually they moved the production away from Doncaster to the Vicon factory in Holland) They were utter rubbish.
 

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