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Need a manual for a Cunningham Crimper

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T.J.-N.J.

03-12-2003 04:56:34




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Hi I just picked up an old Cunningham crimper at a sale last weekend. I have been looking for one for a while . I would like to buy a manual or a photocopy of a manual for it. It seems that it would be simple enough to figure out by trial and error but a manual would sure cut down on time. thanks T.J.




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MD Karl

03-12-2003 10:27:18




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 Re: need a manual for a Cunningham Crimper in reply to T.J.-N.J., 03-12-2003 04:56:34  
I can't help out with a manual but we did have a cunningham crimper a couple of years ago before we bought a haybine. We only have 40 acres so time was not a factor in haymaking unless it was going to rain. We mowed with a Farmall Super C and pulled the crimper with a Farmall 300. The crimper worked good. Sometimes hay would get wrapped around a shaft but not too bad. We could bale the hay sooner than we can now with our haybine. That crimper really made the hay dry quicker. Hope you have fun with yours.

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Mike (WA)

03-12-2003 09:04:34




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 Re: need a manual for a Cunningham Crimper in reply to T.J.-N.J., 03-12-2003 04:56:34  
Can't help with the manual, but a handy tip from my youth. Worked for a guy who bought a crimper (we called them a "hay conditioner") in the early 60's. We had nothing but trouble with it, winding grass around the roller. Go awhile, then get off and cut off grass with a pocket knife. Dealer made every adjustment possible, no help. Finally hit upon the solution by accident. We found that if you let the cut hay "wilt" at all, it would wind up, but if you kept the crimper right behind the mower, we never had another problem. So the obvious way to use it-- cut the field, then go back and crimp it-- didn't work. Had to stay right with the mower and get it "fresh". Makes it a two man job, unfortunately.

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T.J.-N.J.

03-12-2003 09:58:27




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 Re: Re: need a manual for a Cunningham Crimper in reply to Mike (WA), 03-12-2003 09:04:34  
Hi Mike I plan on pulling the crimper right behind the mower and crimping the last pass of cut hay while the mower is cutting the next one. I will be using an Allis Ca and should have plenty of power on level ground. The farmer who owned the land all around us as a kid used a Wd45 with an Allis mower and a WD with his son on it pulling a JD crimper behind him.They used this combination until about 10 or 12years ago when something fatal happened to the crimper and they couldn't either get parts for it or it was just to expensive to fix.From what I remember He didn't pull them together because they both required hydraulics to operate and he only had one valve on each tractor. He bought a used haybine but he says that he felt the mower and crimper made better hay. The crimper I bought doesnt have any hydraulics on it and only the right angle drive box to maintain, everything else is standard off the shelf bearings sprockets and chains. Thanks for your reply T.J.

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