vscummins

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Yes it is. If it is a rear unloading one you just run the apron chain backwards and the entire back panel pivots up so it can unload.
 
I have never seen a Ford forage box but collect sales brochures and the Ford wagon was built by Coby which I have a dozen or so over the years. Tom
 
My brotherinlaw has had Ford balers for 30 years. A 542 and 530. Pulled em with a IH 300,later(still) a 400.No telling how many hundred thousand bales those things have made.
 
That video of it behind the case tractor is taking in hay pretty good and that's a really small baler it looks like
 
The one pictured above is a 542.The tire tucked under indicates 542. 530 has the tire outside the machine.The two look practically identical.
 
The machinery built by Coby and sold through Ford dealers was branded 'Big Blue'. I can remember my Grandpa having a forage box and a manure spreader. They also had running gears.
 
It may be that it is a 542 but the 532 also had the right wheel tucked into the frame as pictured. The only real difference between them was the plunger as the 542 was supposed to have a heavy duty plunger. Both as far as I can tell were 6 dog balers with the same pickups. I know the 532 we had would bale my present Deere 327 clear into the ground. Capacity was hardly comparable. The 532 wanted hay.
The problem is that parts are not cheap or available...

Rod
 
What, no comments on the 8 wheels under the wagon. I have seen wagons with tandem rears but never seen one with tandems on the front. I bet the steering linkage on them would be a nightmare to work on and keep up.
 
Since about 1972, mother bought it used at an auction. I've been replacing some of the rubber mounted teeth last few years. Kind of spendy though. But pretty reliable otherwise.
 
(quoted from post at 11:27:03 04/10/16) Question never had any Ford balers in our area mostly NH or IH but did Ford make there own notters or did someone else.

Don't know who built them but the knotters on mine were virtually identical to NH
 

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