NH 69 with a thrower, need info please..........

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sold it a couple of years ago for$700. it was in near mint condition. always greased and kept under cover. I can say it never spent a night outside or saw rain except for what may have dropped on it while taking it back to the barn when we had been trying to beat the rain.

Would rather have a 311, but a cheap 69 would be ok with me ;-D Our one farm is real hilly so I can't make good time anyway, so a lower capacity baler is ok with me.

By the time the next season rolled around, NH had done a recall on those throwers. My understanding at the time was everyone got a complete new pto thrower. That new thrower was never on the market until the 269 baler was. We really didn't see why they changed the complete thrower as seeing the two together they were identical, except for the drive.

I think the thrower should fit, as I remember there were very few changes to 269 over the S-69. I think the pickup was the big change. The main frame and dimensions will be the same. The S-69 was quite hard to improve on, I saw figures last winter indicating the S-69 had the fewest warrenty claims per unit of any NH baler ever produced. Both the S-69 and the 269 were hard to match in the field for performance.

After the 3 broken rods, my dad had every intention of doing away with the thrower next season. He told the dealer so and told him he would erect the thrower at roadside with a sign on it telling what a piece of junk it was, unless he got his money back. I personally don't know of any others being changed as other farmers in area waited to see how we made out and indeed if the pto thrower would be any better. I can tell you this much, there were some skeptical older farmers in the area. All I know on the recall is what the dealer told us. I can see a dealer footing the bill on this one himself. This particular dealer was having a hayday taking IH 45 balers on trade. 5 years after this guy started his dealership, in our area it didn't matter color of tractor the balers were NH.

I once in a two day period baled 9,000 bales of onto thrower wagons and put it all in the barn with Farmalls 300, 130 and a Cockshutt 540. 130 did raking, 300 on baler and Cockshutt pulling wagons. We were not overloaded with horsepower. My brothers (4 of them) and I did this when dad was away, we were suposed to get ready for haying, but not start. Dad came home early just as we were getting started baling, I being the oldest took the brunt of his wrath. Having 9,000 bales of hay in swath or windrow was just a bit more than dad could take, and most of it alfalfa. We were in a high rainfall area.