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Bob

01-13-2003 10:10:27




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A friend has a Ford baler sitting in the weeds. She bought it at auction cheap about five years ago and never tried to use it. Everything seems to be there except for the pto shaft. Needles ok, nothing else obviously broken. Plenty of rust, but nothing has rusted through. Tag says series 504-I component I4-80. Thought I might drag it out of the mud (when it thaws) and try to get it working. The price is right: free. Any parts still available for these? Anything in-particular I should look at before going through all the trouble of hauling it home? Were they any good to start with?

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Errin OH

01-13-2003 12:29:53




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 Re: Ford baler in reply to Bob, 01-13-2003 10:10:27  
Bob, I have & run one of these, can't justify spendin the big bucks for just 400 bales a year. Parts are going to be costly because most are obsolete. New knifes (obsolete) were $50 a piece. Pickup teeth can be matched up with a NH and can be had fairly cheap though. Haven't look into other parts because I haven't needed them. As far a operation goes, they work ok. Biggest flaw seems to be the auger feeder. At least on mine, when you first start out (surface rust in pickup chamber) it doesn't feed very well and you really have to watch it. It will either wrap a buch up on the drive shaft above, or drop a big load in the knifes and take out a shear pin. If you can keep the bulk of the wind row towards the middle/inside of the pickup and let the plunger do most of the work. Just take it slow and let it work. If I understand it correctly, the baler was not designed to operate on a true 540 pto, and was made to operate at something like 330 Plunger strokes per min. On my tractor the comes out to roughly 1000 rpms (engine) reguardles of ground speed. I tend to run mine in first gear using a 53 Ford NAA. Seems to be a good match (ground speed - pickup rate - baleing) all the way around. Let me know if you decide to scrap it. Might be interested in some spare parts.

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Jim.UT

01-14-2003 11:09:34




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 Re: Re: Ford baler in reply to Errin OH, 01-13-2003 12:29:53  
330 plunger strokes per minute? Are you sure? That would be almost 3 per second! My crummy MF 124 baler does about 80 strokes per minute @ 540 rpm.

I've got a Ford 542 baler that I got for free. I've been able to get plunger rollers from NH but I haven't tried to get any other parts yet.



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