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Is an international 440 baler a good baler?

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Ron

09-18-2001 20:32:37




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I have the oppertunity to purchace a 440 bailer says to run great. Bailed 13 tons last season and lost two bales. It comes with a rake and I can get it for around 750.00. Please advise me on this. Also are the parts easy to find are they easy to work on and can you attach a thrower to it?
Thank you for all of your help and advice,
Ron




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Tim(nj)

09-19-2001 18:44:14




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 Re: Is an international 440 baler a good baler? in reply to Ron, 09-18-2001 20:32:37  
My neighbor has a 445. It works well, but according to him IH balers need a little bit more attention in the way of adjustments than a JD or NH. I've run that baler for him, and one big difference compared to the JD balers of my own that I've run is the IH has a slower plunger stroke. I found that if you travel a little slower, it can make a nice, uniform bale. When he runs it, he stuffs as much hay as he can into it, which makes for ragged, uneven bales, and more missed ties.

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Paul

09-19-2001 14:17:52




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 Re: Is an international 440 baler a good baler? in reply to Ron, 09-18-2001 20:32:37  
We started with a International 420 with a kicker but we wore it out, bought another International 420 without a kick, good baler but it is small and light. We were at an auction and they had a International 430 about the same as a 440 just a little smaller. Bought it for 50 dollars brought it home and have been baleing like mad with it. We like it because it is a nice and heavy and easy to work on baler. I would rather have a John Deere but the price was right. We put about 10,000 bales throught it, it misses 1 a 100. I am not complaining about that. Just my 2 cents.

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Lazy Horse

09-19-2001 08:15:53




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 Re: Is an international 440 baler a good baler? in reply to Ron, 09-18-2001 20:32:37  
I had an old IH baler that I used for a couple of years on our small place. Worked OK for me but missed a lot of ties. I don't have experience with the model your talking about but from what I gather on these boards, most guys will only reccomend New Holland or John Deere Balers. International was never very popular, and seemed to have a lot of problems.



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Jim.UT

09-19-2001 08:31:51




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 Re: Re: Is an international 440 baler a good baler? in reply to Lazy Horse, 09-19-2001 08:15:53  
Agree with everything you said. I don't have any experience with IH balers either and have heard less than glowing opinions about them. But, for the money it might not be a bad deal if the rake is a good one! (I could use a good 3pt pto rake).



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Alan Farley

09-19-2001 14:02:49




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 Re: Re: Re: Is an international 440 baler a good baler? in reply to Jim.UT, 09-19-2001 08:31:51  
$750 sounds like a good deal for just the baler itself. Plus a rake. That is, if it has been shedded. I stacked behind a 440 this summer a couple of times for a neighbor. He paid $2,200 for it 5 years ago. It's a 78' model. I remember it missed 2 bales of of 300 one day. He says it's a good machine. I wouldn't worry about parts, from the late 70s, early 80s it's not that old at all.



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Ron

09-20-2001 00:19:36




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 Re: Re: Re: Re: Is an international 440 baler a good baler? in reply to Alan Farley, 09-19-2001 14:02:49  
Thank you for all of your inputs. I did buy the baler. I now need to buy a manual for it so I will know the in's and out's. Again,
thank you



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Larry

03-29-2002 18:44:54




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 Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Is an international 440 baler a good baler? in reply to Ron, 09-20-2001 00:19:36  
case IH can git all the parts you need for your 440 baler.



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