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Mark-Ia 12-02-2012 07:15:38 207.177.117.7 Report to Moderator	If you Google "John Deere 14T Knotter" there are several videos on YouTube. [Reply]   [No Email]
Tim S 12-02-2012 07:55:00 68.75.23.93 Report to Moderator	Re: 14t Baler - dealer/knotter issue in reply to Mark-Ia, 12-02-2012 07:15:38   I just watched some of those, they are good but still don't show the things that are needed to be seen,,,I wonder who and when made the knotter that we use today was?? It really is a fantastic invention... [Reply]  [No Email]
caseanonymous 12-02-2012 19:38:23 75.205.8.88 Report to Moderator	Re: 14t Baler - dealer/knotter issue in reply to Tim S, 12-02-2012 07:55:00   John appleby from wisconsin invented the knotter in the late 1800s I beleive, it was first used on grain binders and his billhook design is basically the same as used today. His prototype was carved out of wood. He was a young man when he invented it and his parents farm where he lived at the time is between elkhorn and whitewater WI on hwy 12. There is a plaque on a rock stating this at the location of the farm. The first appleby knotters were manufactured in nearby beloit WI. [Reply]  [No Email]
Tim S 12-02-2012 20:22:40 68.75.23.93 Report to Moderator	Re: 14t Baler - dealer/knotter issue in reply to caseanonymous, 12-02-2012 19:38:23   Interesting,,he must have had some very forward thinking going on, I have heard it said that there were a couple of different versions of knotters but the one Deere and most every one else uses is the only one i know of, ,,Deere has made very little changes in the knotter and balers for a long time.. [Reply]  [No Email]
Tim S 12-02-2012 08:00:18 68.75.23.93 Report to Moderator	Re: 14t Baler - dealer/knotter issue in reply to Tim S, 12-02-2012 07:55:00   I cam up with this but still not much.. In 1936, a man named Innes, of Davenport, Iowa, invented an automatic baler for hay. [Reply]  [No Email]