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McCormick Model 45 Baler

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fordson6

01-29-2006 15:23:29




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Just pulled out of a barn,looks to be in great shape,fair paint and decals. I have no use for it and no space to store it. Hate to see it go for scrap, but the owner says it has to go. Anybody out there that could use it? Located in SE PA.
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hardscrabble

02-20-2006 14:10:00




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 Re: McCormick Model 45 Baler in reply to fordson6, 01-29-2006 15:23:29  
DITTO! I also spent many an hour on the twine box of a POS 45, tying every other bale. Our IH dealer even admitted the 45 was the poorest excuse for a baler there ever was. The aforementioned 45 sits in my scrap heap now. All I've salvaged from it is the tires.



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Massey 1080

02-01-2006 08:14:11




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 Re: McCormick Model 45 Baler in reply to fordson6, 01-29-2006 15:23:29  
In case you are wondering, the very WORST balers ever built, are the 45T, 50T and 55T balers built by IHC. There is only ONE good use for a 45T baler. IF you are the "proud" owner of a IHC Tractor of the same vintage, and have it nicely painted up for tractor shows and parades and that sort of thing, a 45T makes a GREAT, static display to go with it. The only possible machines more impressive for such a display would have to be either a combine or a mounted cornpicker.

If it had a really nice paint and decal job, so long as NO ONE asked for an actual demonstration of how well the machine worked, everyone would be impressed!

Otherwise, scrap the thing!

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Hugh MacKay

01-31-2006 03:55:43




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 Re: McCormick Model 45 Baler in reply to fordson6, 01-29-2006 15:23:29  
fordson6: The very best thing that can happen to a McCormick 45 baler is send it for scrap. Don't have it on your conceince of burdoning some soul with that baler.

I know a NH dealer that sent 50 of those 45s for scrap 40 years ago. Don't let it spread whatever you do.



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r leroy

01-31-2006 22:07:55




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 Re: McCormick Model 45 Baler in reply to Hugh MacKay, 01-31-2006 03:55:43  
Boy I second that motion! Send it to the scrap yard. I picked bales off one of those many years ago as a teenager to stack on the wagon and it seems that every other bale one or the other of the twines would slip off as I grabbed the bale. They made a terribly shaped bale with very rounded corners which let the twines slip off very easy unless you grabbed both twines VERY carefully. McCormick's way of putting the tension on the hay (from the sides) just encouraged the rounded corners and twine slipping off. New Holland and John Deere put pressure on the hay from the top and bottom and inside of the twines leaving the outer edges to move freely and form a more rectangular shaped bale and hold the twine way better.

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r leroy

02-01-2006 11:45:46




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 Re: McCormick Model 45 Baler in reply to r leroy, 01-31-2006 22:07:55  
I better qualify what I said about hay pressure on the John Deere and New Holland balers. I was only speaking about a few models I was familiar with. That may not be true about all of their models.



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Hugh MacKay

02-01-2006 02:18:50




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 Re: McCormick Model 45 Baler in reply to r leroy, 01-31-2006 22:07:55  
Leroy: One of the major career endevours of guys my age, who's dad owned a model 45 IH balers, was his posterior parked on the twine box of the 45, hand tieing all the bales the knotters missed. Sometimes one even had to ask dad to stop so he could keep up, not often though as the 45 really didn't have the capacity to out produce hand tieing.



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Quebec Red

02-01-2006 15:02:12




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 Re: McCormick Model 45 Baler in reply to Hugh MacKay, 02-01-2006 02:18:50  
Yes, Hugh. The memory is faded when it comes to a 45 baler. (too young). My Father purchased one when they just came out. Apparently it left a lot to be dsired. He traded for another 45 after 2 years. This one was as good as anything else on the market at that time. In 1958 when the 46 was introduced, my Father bought one in the winter and prepaid, to be sure to get it. For a number of years the local IH dealer sold all he could find!!!!! I remember well this 46. Rebuilt it several times. I traded it for a 336 JD, as IH could not supply a 440, and I still had a bunch of hay to make and a 46 that was worn out. One farmer here bought a 45 in 1957, and used it until he retired in 1975. He ran that with a MH 444 standard tread that he had brought in from Saskatchewan in 1958. His farm was all steep hills and almost gullies. Sometimes my Father would work for hom. We always widened the rear wheels before going. Never had a problem. QR

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wally b

01-30-2006 08:02:01




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 Re: McCormick Model 45 Baler in reply to fordson6, 01-29-2006 15:23:29  
Could you possibly post a picture? Is it a stationary press?

wally b



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