I always used to say "you couldn't run fast enough to give me a NH baler"LOl.But,I once let a JD dealer talk me inti a 283 NH baler about 20 years ago.The biggest pos I,ve ever owned.Turned out it had a bent bale chamber.That's story for another time. Before the 'smoke cleared',I ended up owning 5 of those SoBs.A 78;282(2);283(3) and a425. True,they wern out when I bought then.But they baled a lot of hay for me over the years.Mostly custom work.. Some only lasted a year(or less!)But I had lots of partsLOL!.But more importantly,I learned so much about balers.I also read/studied the books often.I could probably fix em with my eves closed. You might say I got very intiment with NH balers,especially knotters.About 5 years ago I got a CIH 8530 inline.Acctually it kind of fell into my lap you might say.The absolute best baler ever1The NHbalers are all gone now. Sold;parted out; junked/scrapped.I couldn't be happier!