lastcowboy32
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Was having a discussion with my father in law last night about our baler. And where it fits in the New Holland lineage.
So, our current baler is a NH 276. We used to use a baler that a friend owns. His is a 269.
When I was growing up, my father had a 273 (as an aside, that baler has to rank up there with total bales...dad did 30,000 small squares a year and he used that baler for about 30 years), and then about ten years after my older brother took over; he sold the 273 and bought a 575.
My uncle had a 315
I've seen other balers around with other model numbers, and I always tried to piece together the pattern.
During most of my lifetime, it seemed that NH made baler series with two or three contemporary models with varying capacities.
This is my guess, and I'm wondering if anybody could set me straight:
The 269 was part of a family, wasn't it? Wasn't there something like a 267, 269?
Dad's 273 was...I thought...the middle in a family of 271, 273, 275?
My 276 was the big model of the 272, 274, 276 family?
The 315 gets a little fuzzy. Wasn't there like a 305, 315, 325?
Within the family, the higher number was the higher capacity, right? For instance, the 276 had the highest capacity of its family?
Then what about order in time?
I put the families in the order that I thought they go (oldest to newest)
269 is older than 273...is older than 276...is older than 315...is older than 575
I also recall people talking about very old models...like a 66 and a super 66? I have no clue as to their approximate age.
The very newest model numbers also escape me.
So, our current baler is a NH 276. We used to use a baler that a friend owns. His is a 269.
When I was growing up, my father had a 273 (as an aside, that baler has to rank up there with total bales...dad did 30,000 small squares a year and he used that baler for about 30 years), and then about ten years after my older brother took over; he sold the 273 and bought a 575.
My uncle had a 315
I've seen other balers around with other model numbers, and I always tried to piece together the pattern.
During most of my lifetime, it seemed that NH made baler series with two or three contemporary models with varying capacities.
This is my guess, and I'm wondering if anybody could set me straight:
The 269 was part of a family, wasn't it? Wasn't there something like a 267, 269?
Dad's 273 was...I thought...the middle in a family of 271, 273, 275?
My 276 was the big model of the 272, 274, 276 family?
The 315 gets a little fuzzy. Wasn't there like a 305, 315, 325?
Within the family, the higher number was the higher capacity, right? For instance, the 276 had the highest capacity of its family?
Then what about order in time?
I put the families in the order that I thought they go (oldest to newest)
269 is older than 273...is older than 276...is older than 315...is older than 575
I also recall people talking about very old models...like a 66 and a super 66? I have no clue as to their approximate age.
The very newest model numbers also escape me.