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We had a pair of them at one time, and they drove my father nuts at times, but once the bugs were out of them, few thousand bales per year was not that bad, that is about what we did each year. I also remember both working pretty good at times, but don't get me wrong, until one of his friends helped him straighten them out, not sure if he would have recommended them even when new. We had a ford dealership and sold many of them, but I can remember seeing a few taking space in old barnyards or fencerows in the late 80's only to be ID'd by our dealer sticker, a lot of people said they were ok, but remember that when the hay is down, and it screws up, rain coming, can't find parts ...., you know where that is going. You really need to know what shape it's in and how it's working, if not what the others said about other balers might be best, especially with the parts being so obsolete, one of these might just be best for a restorer and show. Even if it's in good shape, everything working and like ours used to often enough, it will screw up on you at the worst possible time, I grew up thinking all balers were like our 532's, but that is not the case though. I don't know the technical problems inherent with them, was just too young, my father would switch places and I would bale to give me a break from stacking. Do remember a good friend of my dads could always adjust those knotters and keep them working. That is why we had 2, get some nice hay or alfalfa down, something goes wrong, you have another or can take a part if you need to. Had 2 ford moco's too, and one MF pto rake, that MF never broke down ! I took it all in for trade '85, have not baled on this property since. We had one with a kicker and that thing just about had my father fit to be tied, breaking bales, tossing belts, just never worked after that, maybe a few seasons, we took it off and slid the bales on the wagon tongue, it broke too many or tossed too many belts, always wondered what happened, but what a pain, he told me once he almost went back to the house to grab a gun to put it out of it's misery, I think he was serious, another time he stopped hard in the windrow while I was stacking the wagon, and I fell right out the front of the wagon, baler did something wrong, he never even knew I was on the ground, I quickly rolled to one side, was a smart kid, knew enough to get out of the path of the wagon stay the h@ll away from that baler at all times.
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