BANDITFARMER
Well-known Member
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