Question for Case guy and others on case balers?

JOCCO

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What was some of the issues they had that got corrected? (in the early days 1950's 60's) There were not to many around me. I had worked on IH, Deere and NH. Been around a few others but did not work on them to any degree. What models were good and not so good? What did they use for knotters?
 
I'll put my 2 cents worth in here....have a instruction manual from the Pope manufacturing company that made a knotter attachment for the Case NCM baler. Not the most successful attachment made...had lots of problems. Case later bought the rights to the knotter assembly and improved it some. Still don't think it was real sucessfull until a design change when Case came out with the 130 and 133 balers. The 133 was a excellent tieing baler as Dad bought a brand new one in 57. Dad bought his farm from a fella that made improvements to the 130 and Case paid him some cash and the 133 was there next baler.
 
Case had a some tying issues with the fist 130 balers, Case made all of their own knotters, at that point, the only time they did not was on the baler before the 130,a NCM-t that had IH knotters but this was not produced long. the 135,140,160 200 series and 330's were all good enough balers, they did have some issues right at the start of 330 production, but that was fixed that season at no charge to customers, Case balers would tie as good if set correctly as any NH baler we ever sold and we sold LOTS of those from 73-76, Case had been making binders for many years before the self-tie balers came to be, they also help the hand tie baler market for many years
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I use a Case 230 baler. The knotters are very similar to NH and when adjusted properly, with good twine (not a given as I learned this year) they work very reliably. The overall baler is very simple and easy to maintain, but it doesn't feed very fast and will jam or clog if you try to feed it too fast. If you are not baling many acres, it is a good serviceable baler. If you need to get 20 or 30 acres a day baled, you need something else.
 
It seems there were consistency manufacturing issues with the 130's, some tweaking of certain parts, and developing the proper troubleshooting methods on these early models. Breaking needles and missing ties on the top knotter seemed to be a problem on the N series and into the 130's. Here's a couple bulletins that indicate what would appear to be less than obvious solutions to some of these issues, including heating and stretching some rods to proper length.

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(quoted from post at 16:07:25 03/18/19) I use a Case 230 baler. The knotters are very similar to NH and when adjusted properly, with good twine (not a given as I learned this year) they work very reliably. The overall baler is very simple and easy to maintain, but it doesn't feed very fast and will jam or clog if you try to feed it too fast. If you are not baling many acres, it is a good serviceable baler. If you need to get 20 or 30 acres a day baled, you need something else.

The 200 series were low capacity balers. You only needed one person to stack bales on a wagon behind them. I loaded a lot of bales behind a Case 200 baler when I was a teenager. I was put behind a JD 14T one day and had to really hustle to keep up with that baler. It didn't take as long to fill a wagon using the 14T. I was really happy to load behind the Case baler after that experience.
 

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