Re: what size baler should i get for the M

Posted by Hugh MacKay on July 03, 2007 at 18:01:02 from (216.208.58.164):

In Reply to: Re: what size baler should i get for the M posted by chuck46 on July 03, 2007 at 08:51:45:

Chuck: Did you read my original post on this thread? If you go back to my original thread, responding to jonnny, I did say, no one held a candle to New Holland through the 50s, 60s and into the 70s. I do believe by the mid 70s other manufacturers like IH and Deere were fast catching up. I never had a small square baler after 1976, but from talking with other farmers, I believe NH actually slipped in the 80s, maybe thought they could live on their reputation. I know my neighbor 35 cow herd changed from NH to MF in the early 80s, and I also know he didn't have that NH very long. He was one of the two farmers that drove 120 miles in the early 50 to buy a new NH baler.

On numerous ocasions I have baled one hundred tons of hay in a single afternoon, probably 8-9 hours baling. In fact I baled 100 ton each day on two consecutive days pulling the S-69 with Farmall 300. The baler had a thrower and it took 15 men and boys to take care of hay at the barn. I've seen the S-69 go for hours making 40" bales on 3 plunger strokes. On those two days I mention we completely filled a 36' x 110 conventional dairy barn, enough hay to feed the 50 mature holsteins our entire 7 month stored feeding Canadian fall, winter and spring. I have also used my 560D and 656D on that S-69 baler, however they never baled anymore hay than 300, and never two days in a row. I wouldn't fault the tractors, it takes a lot of manpower to handle 100 ton of hay from 20' thrower wagons. And labor was the reason I went to a round baler.

I haven't a bit of doubt about you claims on the IH 430. I've heard a lot of good things about them. But don't brag up an IH 45 to me, they had no capacity, poor reliability on tieing and thousands of then got cut up for scrap having baled less than 12,000 bales, lifetime. I am a relative of the New Holland dealer I dealt with, he showed me his 5 acres of 45s, some of them stacked two high. There were balers in there, didn't have the paint wore off the pickup. He told me of going to a meeting of New Holland and the standing joke, "How large is your inventory of IH 45 balers?"

In this entire post and other posts I'm talking about balers that were bought new by the users.

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