Got the 520 baler home

Well I finial got the Oliver 520 Roto-Flow Feed baler home today that I bought last fall. Only took 2 1/2 hours with the skid steer to get it out of the barn it had been sitting in for the last 12 years unused. This is one of the last Oliver 520 balers made and was bought new in 72 and was used till he retired in 75 and had only baled maybe 1800 bales total and then it sit in the barn. My uncle baled about 400 bales of straw with it when the gear box on his baler locked up about 12 years ago. So the baler has baled no more than 2500 bales in its life. The owner had passed away several years ago and his son just wanted to clean the place up and get rid of it and a set of plows and a disk, So I bought all 3 to keep them from going to the scrap yard. Well I got them home after replacing both tires with spares I had and I cleaned the bale chamber out looked her over good and put her in the back barn with my other 520 baler I have. Funny thing is my old one has a short toung and the new one has a long one. I did notice that the long one is MM yellow under the green paint so who knows? I did have to take the side panel off to get the tire on one side, Guess I'm going to have to buy a new 6.40x15 or something close to that size because of the mounting bracket for the side panel. A 235/75x15 misses that bracket by 1/2" with the panel off and the bracket pulled forward. Well anyway hear are a few pic's of her today. I bet no one else has 2 good 520 Oliver baler sitting in the barn! Bandit

Nice clean looking baler.

I struggle with the bale count. Balers with 50,000 bales run through them have more paint than this one in the pickup and chamber.

Hear is a picture of the chamber feed fork and it still has square edges on it. Ernest bought it new in the spring of 72 and I was there the day it was delivered to him, It was the first new baler I had ever seen in my life. My aunt and uncle live acrossed the road from him and my cousins were the ones who stacked the bales on the wagon behind it and they both said they loved to work for him because he never baled more than 3 wagon loads (125 bales on a wagon) at a time. In 1975 he retired from GE and he rented the farm out in 75 and sold the cows in the spring of 76 and the baler just sit in the barn till my uncle bales about 400 bales of straw with it. You have to remember its a 43 year old baler and it sit in a 3 sided barn with the side doors opened all that time. So to me the paint looks real good to be original on a 43 year old baler. Bandit

Thanks, I will buy every baler I can find in this shape to keep them from going to the scrap yard. I can afford to buy good used ones but I cant afford a new one. So good used it is for me. Bandit

Who is saving the Case manure spreader?? Looks to be in good shape.

I saved it from a barn that was being torn down as I pulled it out of it. Its a Case #95 that still has green paint on the web chain and looked like it had not been used much. I used it last fall to spread horse manure for my neighbor. When ever I find good equipment like this I buy it and most of the time I am saving it from the scrap yard. It has even made it to a show behind my old D17, You would be surprised how many people have never seen one like it. Bandit

My 520 baler has the short tongue. I bought it for scrap price several years ago and the seller had me drag it over the scales to calculate the selling price. I do remember that (at the time) replacement needles were available for it and, IIRC, it shared the same needle as a Hesston baler. I think the early needles were cast iron and the replacements are aluminum.
It's interesting to see a later model that has the "White-Oliver" decals instead of just the regular "Oliver" decals. Thanks for posting.

you could order them with long or short hitch. My 62-T has the short hitch, would rather have the long but then you wouldn't be able to reach the speed adjustment lever for the thrower.

for whatever reason the Clover white that Oliver used didn't seem to hold up. Seen plenty of original low hour tractors where the green paint just needed a buff and looked real nice but then the clover white on the grilles and wheels had surface rust coming through.