David Brown baler

WIZZO · May 22, 2015

David Brown tractors also owned an implement manufacturing plant called Albion. They made ploughs, cultivators, mowers, manure spreaders and this baler.
Unique design with the ram & bale chamber running sideways rather than lengthways, the bale shute had to be removed to go through narrow gateways & on the road! Not many were sold and very rare to-day

Brendon Warren · May 22, 2015

That's pretty cool. I like the bale tensioner crank.

showcrop · May 22, 2015

was there a provision for pulling a wagon behind it?

Dick2 · May 22, 2015

JD made a cross-wise baler once; It went over like a lead balloon!

massey 333 · May 22, 2015

Yes JD did,but for only 10-20 yrs.and were the largest selling wire tie baler at that time.

Leroy · May 22, 2015

Designed like the JD 116 built 1946 to 1956 and the JD 114 built 1950 to 1956. John Deere did not design a way to pull a wagon but a local company did design and build a way to pull that wagon, Deere found out about it and as the designers never had applyed for a pattent Deere completely coppied it with very slight changes that a big company could do with tooling but a local blacksmith shop could not do. I have 2 of the 116 balers, both a early and a late version and have the local made hitch and chute for both and also the side drop quarter turn chute. Balers are just for show but have not been able to do that for a few years.

Tech 7 · May 22, 2015

Nice picture, thanks for the history too. I remember the Albion decal on the neighbours DB loader...didn't know what that meant till now.

Alan K · May 22, 2015

Very interesting. Never seen one or heard of one before. MM made a straight through baler back in the late 1950s and in the early 1960s, but never seen a side discharge one.

Tim(nj) · May 22, 2015

That's why there were thousands of them around.

01gentdc · May 22, 2015

sure looks british made ,, .. all that enginweering to accomplish what ? db made more than just tractors

Bob Bancroft · May 22, 2015

So I wonder who borrowed the idea from whom? JD or DB? I remember my uncle, who had all red tractors, had a JD sidewinder baler. We had a JD 214W as far back as I can remember.

Dick2 · May 22, 2015

Thousands? Only one was sold in our area; the buyer used it one season and traded it in to a dealer. It sat on the dealer's lot a couple years; nobody would buy it. Last I saw it, it had just been put on a semi flatbed with other machinery headed for Mexico.

tim s · May 22, 2015

I wonder how dependable the knotter was ??

Tim(nj) · May 22, 2015

are we talking about the same thing? Deere sold thousands of 116W (aka sidewinder) balers from 1945-54. Reason they were popular is because Deere's twister didn't cut little pieces of wire off when others did.

Old Scovy · May 22, 2015

They sure did come with a wagon chute and hitch. we got a new 116 w with a wagon set up. The right front corner of the rack would hit the bale chamber when turning to the right and the dumb thing would try to tip over backwards going up a steep hill. There was a tube of 3 inch X 2 feet long pipe by the right wheel that you could pull out to keep it from going over backwards. It made a nice bale and the knottier was not much trouble. Ours had the Wisconsin engine. A VF4d what a miserable thing to start. Would sometimes start and take the crank with it. Would throw a rock at the crank and it would fly way up in the air. Yep JD stayed awake nights dreaming up that thing.

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