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I've got 2 bad things about NH chainers, and we've only had one on our farm. It was some hay that we had to get off the field so we could use it for parking, and all we own is a small square baler and we didn't have enough time to handle it all. We called a neighbor with a chainer to come and bale it for us. He came, got 2 whole bales made, broke a chain and had to go home. Where he dumped the bales (really nice 2nd crop, lots of leaves) there was a huge pile of chaff and stuff the baler knocked off. I actually picked the bales up with the tractor, then went back and baled up the piles with the square baler. No way to know how much good stuff was lost in the fields with that baler. We then called my uncle who live about 30 miles away who had just gotten a Gehl 1600(?) round baler, but he really didn't have much land to use it on. He brought it out here, we bought more twine for it and started baling. Couldn't use the MF 285 for some reason, think it had a bad PTO brake, so we had to use the Oliver 1755 w/ loader on it. It worked good, and we got it done and off in time to make some money parking cars. Only way it could have been better was if we coulda used the 285 on the baler. the tires were a little wider apart (had to run over some of the hay) and that tractor is a little more reliable. The 1755 had a bad engine and wouldn't restart when warm, so if you had a problem and had to shut down, you were walking back home to let it cool down. Dad coulda picked up the bales while I was baling too... Donovan from Wisconsin
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