Testing out our 60 year old Hay Baler
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- It time to go through the hay baler test it out. Our hay baler is 60 years old. It is a New Holland super hayliner 78 wire tie baler. I bought this baler for $400 over a year ago, hopefully it works.
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Yeah, those machines need a bale in the chute to push against before everything gets balanced out. Most people don’t take the last bale out between baling during the summer. I imagine there are those who leave one in all winter long too. Our daily baling operation was me greasing everything while the dew dried, then mowing the next patch. Then crimping what I mowed that day. Then raking what I mowed yesterday. About halfway through raking, Dad would come home from work and start baling. I’d usually finish about 30 minutes ahead of him. Since you don’t have a conditioner, you may need two days of drying, maybe rake on day 2 and bale day 3. I remember getting the little roller-crimper, but don’t remember operations before that. Those are 50-55-year-old memories! You’ll figure it out, and of course have to adapt to heat and wind. Good luck with all of it!
It had a bale left in it to push against. But it still doesn't like to tie starting off.
Weird. But if consistent, you can work around it. Just a little re-baling to overcome.
A trifecta of working hay equipment pulled behind a tractor you fixed up. You have proven that you don't need high-dollar implements with a fancy paint job. You are a true American farmer getting buy on what he can keep working.
cant watch enough of people working hard to earn a living.
Grandpa had one just like it when I was a kid. Old equipment was all we had and it did the job
Those NH Units run forever !! Todays units are very popular and shipped all over the world !!
My Dad bought a # 68 Hayliner new in 1958 ( twine tie). It has baled tens of thousands of bales over the years. Still runs trouble free. You can't go wrong with New Holland hay equipment if you take care of it! Still using the new New Holland hay rake he bought at the same time too.
We have an old JD (50?) Model my grandpa bought nearly 70 years ago. He was an IH guy, but they didn't have a square baler with the bale kicker that would kick bales into the wagon so John Deere he went. My German family when visiting would take home movies of that baler kicking out bales into the wagon as they seemed fascinated by the engineering that went into it. Every year we put up square bales my Dad would point to the perfect knot tied into the twine on a bale and say "Imagine the engineering that went into figuring that out." These old mechanical machines will still be around whenever all this electronic laden newer stuff will be in the scrapyard. Dad still small round bales with the old Allis Chalmers Roto-Baler.
Since I had 5 daughters,no sons ,I ‘m adopting you. I am so proud of you,so glad to see that big smile on your face.Now I am just waiting on the next video.God is good to us all the time.
Check out the wire's path. Odds are a guide or the feeder mechanism rust a little over over winter. Oil or WD40 it before you put it up in the winter and maybe again in the spring.
My dad shared a new Holland twine baler with his 2 brothers (each had their own farm) back in the 50's. He got tired of taking turns so he bought his own international twine baler about 1960. It was a big problem when it was new; sometimes the knotter would miss every 4 or 5 bales. Remember my dad getting anxious, waiting for the mechanic from the implement dealer to show up as the sky was getting cloudy. It took about 3 failed attempts at getting it to work right but the mechanic finally got it to where we could live with it. It still missed on the average of 2 times per load of about 100 bales. The new holland balers had a better reputation among farmers back then. My dad and my uncles told me about the wire baler they used to have that had a seat on both sides of the bale chute where 2 guys sat, twisting the wires on each bale as they moved along. You had to have heavy leather gloves to handle those bales and if some of the wire somehow got mixed in with the hay, you got cows with hardware disease. We pulled a wagon with a guy that had to be tough and strong stacking the bales in a skillful manner so the load wouldn't fall off the wagon on the way home. If they made it, the next job was getting them up in the hay loft. 1 or 2 guys had the worst miserable job of pulling the bales off the elevator and stacking them in the hay mow which was at the temperature of over 100 degrees typically in July or August. The guy outside loading the elevator always tried to load the elevator faster than what the mow workers could handle just to be mean, ha ha. A Bavarian farmer used to reward his mow workers with an ICE COLD beer after every load. Limited to 1 per load; otherwise the stack started to lean and get crooked. Another farmer in our township wasn't in a hurry to bring his bales out of the field. He was the only farmer thereabouts that had a Allis-Chalmers (I think?) round baler. It made weather resistant round bales but not like the BIG round bales you see today. They were the same size as the small squares, 50 to 100 pounds each. That kind of bale never caught on but it seemed like a good idea to me,
The baler may be old, but it works and that is the key. Now you can cut, rake and bale your hay.
My husband, who is now 75, remembers his uncle having the same bailer. It brought back loads of memories for him. As a child he was “farmed out” for the summer so got early experience with the various farm equipment. At 13 he was allowed to drive the rake. Farming was not in his blood, though. Today he plays golf and has a 6 handicap from the green tees. However, he keeps his farm (Wisconsin dairy farm) memories near to his heart.
I am 78 and was doing a little garden work this morning till I checked utube and saw your video on the old baler and had to stop. I believe I enjoyed it almost as much as you did. It brings back memories of handling those wire bales as a teen on a very hot summer day.
I'm 74 and handled many wire tied bales. Hand toss bales onto hay wagon then from wagon into hay loft in barn. Back then baling wire was the duct tape of the time. It was used to repair everything on the farm.
Machinery is only old if neglected by laziness or someone unable to maintain it. At one time old machinery were the state of the art and something to be marveled at.
I guessed the year of the baler was 60,s model. Like the ones I ran, and loaded the hay wagon, as the bales came out the end. A wagon is what you need next ,so the bales will get off the ground right a way. You will need to have some strong fellas to help stack the bales on the wagon. Man! You are surly making me go back to my younger years of hard work. It brings back memories of the smell of fresh dry, scratchy, dusty , heavy bales and blisters from lifting the hay bales all day. Get the bales off the ground right away.
So glad the baler didn't need much work to get it baling. Square bales might take a bit more work than the big round ones you see, but I think they're more versatile.
You want the pickup to just graze the ground. Make sure tires are even with tire pressure as well. Also be sure to grease every nipple a couple pumps each time you use it and I let it “warmup “ for a 5 minutes before starting to actually bale. Enjoy the journey! Nothing beats the smell of fresh made hay. :)
Tighten each side the same amount of turns. After you bale about 10 or so go back and pick up one of the bales and make sure they are tight . They stack better and your hay crew will love you
I used to have a NH 68 which is very similar to your baler. It worked very well. I now have a NH 69 which has been refurbished a few times by an Amish baler expert and it works perfectly. I use a Kubota M5700 tractor and have a Kuhns accumulator attached to the baler. Mine is string tie. Last week I baled 170 small squares of good hay after mowing 10 passes around the field with a 3 pt Farmking (Enorossi) double action 7 ft sicklebar mower. I use a grabber on the front of the tractor to pick up the hay and stack it in the barn. I am a 76 year old woman and do this all by myself. If you have good tools you can do it.
You're gonna "get over" bein' "happy" that thing works.
Not sure why this popped up for me but I like it.
I grew up with a 68.
The 78 is the heavy duty larger size machine.
You can STUFF that baler full of hay and nice bales will keep popping out the other end. Seriously, you don;t need to feel like you are being rough on it. We ran our 68 with a Case 1030 a couple years(we had a thrower) and if that monster didn;t break it your Case certainly won;t break a 78.
Remember, in the 50's, dairy farmers cut hay twice, maybe three times total per year and hay was a mix of alfalfa, timothy grass and clover. It was common to let first crop grow three feet tall before cutting. You needed to fill the barn, my grandpa used to tell me. Later into summer(midwest) generally meant dryer days also, which helped.
you should pick up ground speed or merge windrows. You should have that thing full enough you can;t see the forks, but can still sort of see the hay moving as it gets shoved into the chamber. If the tractor chugs just a bit when the plunger is on the pack stroke that's about where you want to be. The reason you need to make a few bales before it works is because the chamber was 100% cleared out, that machine needs the pressure on the whole chamber to make a proper bale and tie it. If you store it in a dry shed out of the weather there is no reason to clear the chamber out unless you are going to store it for several years. We NEVER cleaned our 68, there was probably chaff that was 40 years old on it and the thing ran perfect year after year. Keep it DRY, keep it greased, don;t sweat the dust, and stuff it full! Those crooked bales are because you didn;t stuff enough in there for the plunger to make an even slice!
If the issue persists, check the length of those forks. They should be similar length. It is common for the one closest to the chamber to wear down and this will cause it to not push hay fully into the chamber. Banana bales!
If you haven;t done so yet, changing the teeth can be a bear if the cap screws on the pick up have rusted. Hose them a few days in a row with penetrant first. With our 68, they came out easy. With a used 268 we bought in the 80s that sat on a dealer lot in the weather for two years, we had to drill out a few.
Fix that guage wheel, you don;t want to know what NH wants for a new one! Straighten the axle with a pipe, and replace the bearings in the hub if they are bad. The hard rubber "tire" costs a fortune and if you run it crooked like that it will split after a while.
I love seeing the old stuff work yet. Hope you are enjoying it.
Colin Reed U.K.
Good to see the old baler working. In my youth I used to ride on a bale sledge attached to the rear of the baler to stack up the bales. The first bale does not have any resistance hence there is no compression, the second bale is better and so on the density increases. As you know bale density is controlled by the two adjusters down stream of the trip wheel. New Holland had a plant in Aylesbury U.K. manufacturing balers. All U.K. balers that I have come across used sisal then later polypropylene twine through the knotting mechanism The sound of the ram, trip wheel and knotters still ring in my mind. Keep up the good work. Colin.
Hiya, it works better than me & I'm 63... Thank you for a great video... Stay safe... Steve...
Brings back many memories of working in the hay fields of my neighbors, throwing square bales on the hay wagon, then putting them in the barns. Made a little money and earned permission to hunt on their property. :)
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I picked up many bales in the field following a baler just like that in the late sixties. Me and two friends using my dads 1948 Dodge curved window pick-up. We got six cents a bale for picking them up and stacking them in the barn, we thought that we were rich, of course gasoline was about 25 cents a gallon then. Wow this video brought back many memories, thank you for sharing it.
I’m a 17 year old kid who knows absolutely nothing about tractors or anything like that but I found this video entertaining 😂 got a like from me man
I`m a 60 year old kid who knows a little bit about tractors, but i`m learning a good deal from these videos. Got a like from me man too. :-)
72-year ol man here and I am as you are Farming knowledge "O" farming skills test "OOO" so now I suppose we learn.
I’m 22 who runs tractors and heavy equipment 12 hours a day everyday, and I’m tired of it🥱😳
Kailin Gassett if you don’t enjoy farming and are not happy ,as young as you are,then don’t waste your life working at something that you are hating .You need to be enjoying life. I am 83, been there done that. God bless you young man.
@@csnanny1882 I will "amen" that, Mr. Gassett. Figure it out and get some training. Your local community college is a great resource. Most of all, make sure you know the Maker of the universe, as your personal savior ... His name is Jesus. And from the looks of things across this world, time is running out.
Personally I'm surprised seeing people amazed by 70 year old equipment still working, there is plenty of horse drawn equipment 100 years old been left to rust outside for 80 years with a bit of lube replacing broken/worn maintenance parts and work like new, some of the mechanical things they did were pure genius... aside from all that, love watching your stuff, you are such a humble, hard working, courageous man, it really shows in your vids and really gives me hope for the future, seems you aren't afraid of anything... remember, old stuff is best, you can actually see what's going on, analyse it and make it work... keep up the good work. From the comments seems like there's a lot of old codgers like me (70's) watching you..
Awesome video and thanks for sharing! To see these old machines work again is a testament to what America was. Strong and Proud!
We regularly use a 70 year old new holland bailer to bail several hundred bails a year. Keep it greased and fix what breaks and you can bale for the rest of your life with it easily.
From another 78 year old ex farm boy. I remember how excited we was when we got one similar to this brand new, had its own Continental motor on though. Pulled by the old Fordson. Same time the new Massey Harris six foot wide combine harvester, with bags that the grain went into. No more hay ricks, stooking sheaves of barley etc. Throwing the sheaves up onto the top of a loaded trailer to take and stack in a stack yard at the farm. No more threshing drum/engine later in the year! . Fuel was short in and after the war so we had brought the horses and the old traction engines out of retirement. It would be perhaps mid 1950 s before such mechanical marvels became common in the UK. The average mixed farm may have had twenty workers full time, now perhaps just the owner and one son plus contracters.
But Evan's such a "can do" personality, one cannot avoid being glad to be "along for the ride!"
There should be a spring to set flotation of pick up. You’ve got a good baler and your friend gave you a good deal. It might help to pour some used oil on wire spools. This should aid in wire feed. Try to feed hay near middle of pick up. This gives baler a chance to spread and even feed rate.
The tying mechanism looks a lot like the Masseys from the same era. When we got through baling and the bale chambers were all polished up we wold make a swab with a long stick and some rags and use some used motor oil and swab them all down good to help prevent rust.Also poured oil over the twister assembly. Make sure you have the right shear bolt and is tight in the flywheel. And always bale clockwise around the field with those offset balers or you will get bales in your way.
Spent many hours riding a sled behind a baler like that. I always hated hay season as I ran the mower,the rake, rode the sled behind the baler, haul to barn, feed to cattle, and as a dairy farmer I had to shovel after digestion, then load and spread back on feild
One of You Tube's "Happy Warriors" without a doubt. My back aches just watching Evan work. Rebecca's warmth and love of what they're doing (accomplishing) shines through every moment she's (I started to say "filmed"...but realized that'd show my age...) featured. Kudos to you!
You've probably figured this out by now, but you don't have to spread the broken bales out. Just pull the baler up near them and throw the hay in.
Our baler seemed to have issues with timing. My dad ended up baling the forks a couple times. He was able to weld the forks back together and they worked. I think he ended up replacing a worn part to fix the issue.
Now you need to hookup a hay trailer and get some school kid to stack it as it comes off the baler, I did that for years growing up in the 60's, it's a lot quicker and easier than picking it up from the ground and then stacking it. Good luck be careful and take care of your back.
If you have cats, make sure you check each year that the cat did not have kittens in the shute. That was my job when I was little.
I’m enjoying watching this old equipment work. You’ve got an amazing place there, always look forward to your vids.
Genrrally making a sharp right turn with the tractor will help get the baler tounge into transport location, and a sharp left turn to set up to bale, without blocking the wheel.
From an old agricultural fitter in the UK, when you're finished baling for the year give give the bale chute a covering of old engine oil so it doesn't rust when it's not in use. This will also keep the sides shiny and ready for the next year, it will take a little cleaning to sort out. The sides can and do wear more quickly letting it rust. Hope this helps keep it working longer for you.
NEVER EVER try going into the chamber to remove hay. Remove stoppages from the exit. I've seen it done and the guy lost his forearm.
You and Rebekah are the only reason hubby and I have not given up on the internet nonsense! Thanks for your great research and read skills! Great video as always!
The excitement over a working hay baler is written all over your face.
I admire the person who worked out how to build the machine part to twist wire around the bales.
My relatives live in an area in Germany which is famous for producing wire, and it is stored in big rolls outside to rust all along the road.
My Dads 78 baler had a Wisconsin engine on but was a super dependable baler but it is a commercial machine putting out 16 by 18 inch bales. Good to see your machine run especially behind that Case tractor.
I’m so happy for you , that the baler works. It looks very familiar to me; like one my father had when I was a child. It’s hard to know what to call times on a farm; challenging, work, or just fun!😊❤️❤️
Thanks for ur videos. I love watching these old machines work. Takes me back to when I was a kid helping my Grandpa bail hay and work on equipment.
The old machines always seem to work, not really complicated but reliable
I think you scored. I hope you bought your friend a nice Christmas gift.
That's awesome happy farming and safe travels 😀👍
Great stuff, well done, by the way 60 is not that old I’m 70, ha ha!
You and me both is older than that Baler lol. I made a lot of money working behind one of them things tho
What kind of hay baler’s where there back in the old days?
@@mmd.618 My Dad and an uncle both dairied, and they were "half and half" in a John Deere 116W wire tie baler. It was a beast and took about a half an hour to set up and grease before baling. But once we got started, it would eat hay with the best of them. Most of our neighbors had twine tie balers from several manufacturers such as New Holland, Case, and IH. The wire tie balers packed so much more hay into a bale was the reason Dad and my uncle went with wire tie. You really got a workout handling them.
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Cannot wait see you do the hay cutting and bailing soon cool video
Very enjoyable and informative video. Thanks.
That is so cool. Like many others on here I remember that equipment being used to cut, rake and bale alfalfa. It's amazing to see older equipment still being able to get the job done. What the best part is is the fact that much of that equipment is pretty "simple" and easy to figure out/fix.
And Steve they have no bloody computers on them hay 🇦🇺
We used to live on an old farm and the barn was huge!! Those squared bales fit so much better. Around here, there's mostly round bales they cover with plastic - talk about an eyesore!! Glad the old girl is working out for you!!
Sold a Superhayliner 78 last summer. Fought it for a season and a half after it had sat for 20+ years. Was a great baler when I was a kid. Was close to being right when I sold it, just had fought it long enough. Made a good solid bale when it would tie
we are baling hay now. We still have our square baler. sometimes we will bale a load or two to sell to folks with horses or sheep but for the most part have moved on to round baling. Just like you though... started off with this kind of equipment and as time and finances allowed, got a good tractor with a front loader, a haybine for cutting rather than a cutter bar, and finally a good smaller sized round baler.
Getting ready to go bale some hay this evening.... always find myself watching videos.... it's like watching sports center for country boys. Thank you for posting!
This brought back many memories in my childhood! My Dad was a hay dealer and passed it on to my brother that still does it today! His job sites require the square bales that are hard to find today so he buys the round bales and rolls them out and then bales it again with a square bales to makes the bales his clients need so it is a year round job! Until he told me what he is doing I could not figure out how he was baling in December here in Ohio!! Growing up bailing hay and straw was a family summer job for all 8 of us kids! 😊
This is the one I used when I was a young boy. 1960’s. 👍👍👍
Your bale tensions need to be tighten the same number of turn down on both sides to get a straight bale I seen one side was tight than the other side good luck don't forget to oil the chains too
Started baling with a new holland hayliner 68 when I was approx 15 years old ( 1960 ) baled many thousands of bales with that machine over many years. Great machine and good memories !
Spent a couple years on a stooker riding behind this very model baler. I'd suggest keeping a bag of flywheel shear pins handy...these balers do not like ANY dew at all, on the hay.
Man that is fantastic!
I have been where you are, making hay with vintage gear.
Mainly it was fine BUT have a back-up plan................. Think about who you can borrow gear from if yours blows up! (I had a haybob blow up mid field once and had to go beg a machine from a friend of a friend as rain was due next day)
Good luck with the haymaking from the UK. :-)
Enjoy watching your video
This is a very educational video. Thanks!
Nothing like testing a crucial piece of equipment and finding it works, especially the very first time. The relief and satisfaction are evident at the end of the video. My favorite moment was at 10:22 when you got the pucker face. Were you running over the windrow? Just a funny face that everyone that operates any equipment has made at least once. I am really enjoying this series of equipment fixes and getting your hay done. I hope you have the good weather you need to finish. Thanks for letting us follow along.
My Pop-pop had that same baler. Lot of summers working with that thing.
I have a 280 New Holland wire tie baler that is around 60 years old as well. New holland balers are known to make banners shaped bales if they get out of time or not feeding enough hay in the chamber. There are three points of timing on the baler, start by putting the plunger arm straight up at 90 degrees then check the sweep arm timing it should fully in the mouth of the chamber if that is correct check the wire twist timing. There are timing marks on the wire twist and they need to be within a 1/4” of each other at time twisting is to begin. I had the same issues that your having and correctly timing the baler along with new chains and sweep arm fingers fixed mine also keep the wire oiled (a lot of oil) hope this might help.
we use my grandfathers newholland hayliner 69 as our full time baler here in aus. theres a ton of em still running in our area. built to last
Block on the tire happens with all of them......every farmer I have helped in the fields always has a block to put on the tire......I'm only 34 and love to bale hay
Evan....I am more impressed with you all the time. Like seeing your patience and diagnostic skills. Seeing old equipment like us old goats still working is a testament to their quality.If I recall...both the tractor and baler are New Hollands.....Nice.
Thank you for your video. .like some on here took me back also..we had 350 acre. . farm...all our equipment was all horse drawn. .modified to take the PTO..except the New Holland Bailer..ours was twine wrapped. .and that out side knotter was a mess..it would knot. Three bails..then the sheer pin would break..hubby would stop and go tie the twine..change the sheer pin and do three more bails..this was so hard on him...but what we did do was have that back drop extended to meet the hay wagon..so much better..had that hay shunting onto the flat wagon. ..two boys loading, and when full ..he stopped we switched out to another empty wagon and the full one I took back to the hay loft. And we unloaded. With the help of a hay elevator. .when done switched out agian..until the whole field was put away..we done this for a week..such asa great feeling. Knowing the hay is not on the ground. Exposed to the weather..and all put up.., our four children and two neighbor boys came in handy...lots of hay was safe and stored...after each afternoon we had pool time. And great barbecue. ..hubby gave 25.00 dollars each.to the boys..and our kids got the same. ..they where every great full. .being back in the mid seventies. ..I hope all goes super smooth for you..and you get your hay cut and brought in...I am alone at this stage of my life..only have one horse...but very hard to find anyone doing squares anymore..they have all round rolls..I can't handle that..I live on one acre with my horse up on a mountain. .and I myself at seventy.. can olny handle a bail.....but you really took me back to my
Younger life in my twenties. .thank you for those memories. ..
Chris Underwood. I agree, reminiscing about our youth working on the farm. Haying was a chore, something I didn’t look forward to. Hot and sweaty, then the hay fever would kick in. Not a fun time. That was back in the 60’s. 71 now, only have a small garden to take care of.
We're working on our equipment, really slow compared to you, to do our own hay and all that. Love the videos. Next is finding an old small bayler for the tym to handle.
Nice to see this old iron running still. We always square baled on our farm. I think that's why my dad preferred twine over wire because if bits of plastic or sisal twine ended up in the hay and you didn't recover it all, it couldn't hurt the animals. I know you had no choice on this and what a deal for $400 and it works! BTW you may want to watch over-greasing the PTO shaft as it might sling grease everywhere. This old baler reminds me of the hay equipment my dad had way back in the early to mid 1970's. He started out with an 8N & a 9N Ford tractor, an Oliver sickle mower and an old rake with iron spoke wheels and all rusted so didn't know what it was. He had someone come and bale it until he bought the baler from the guy he hired to do it. That thing was old then - probably from the 1950's. It was self powered New Holland and had a Wisconsin 2cyl engine. I was really young but remember it had the old packing arm up top that shoved the hay down in front of the main packer. He ended up selling it. The valves kept sticking on the engine and had a hard time keeping it running. It was about 4 more years of hiring people to cut and bale until he could get his own equipment that was new. It was getting hard to hire out for a decent price. In Western Washington, you couldn't really use a sickle mower or swather because the grass had a tendency to lay down due to all the rainy weather. My dad was happy to have a new rotary mower. Thanks for sharing.
Use to spend my summers staring at the back end of square baler they are a lot of work lol
some times the old equipment is the best. screw a old belt to your block to hang it on the back of the baler, might raise the pickup and put a cable winch (come along) on the wheel to staighten it good luck on your hay
I really enjoy watching the older equipment still working. Thank you for sharing.
I have a baler just like that one. About the same vintage. Works like a charm. Just keep the knives sharpened and it should work fine. Mine is a twine tie. Growing up we had a baler with a Wisconsin V4 engine. It made huge bales, probably was responsible for my back problems.
My Dad had a Mpls Moline combine with that V4 Wisconsin engine. Started pretty good when cold but if it stalled when hot you could call it a day until it cooled off again.Yours have the same issue? That engine did test my Dads religion!
The old stuff is the best all machines nowadays r all computers now can't wait to see these hay equipment this hay season
Love the video, brings me back in time 😀
Yes, you should be able to polish up the metal on your prelim area will keep you from having as much of a problem in the alfalfa field.
Great job. Took me back to my teenage years dragging a bailer round just like that on a neighbour's farm in England. BTW, we always carried a big block of wood to drag the bailer into the working position then reverse it back into the lock position to get out of the gate and onto the road.
Look at you, baling hay! Well done.
I have never seen a "twister" type baller.
When I was in Jr high and high school friends used round bales for adult cattle, but square bales for the barn.
He always had Amish boys chuck them onto the wagon, but my friend and I had to stack them on the trailer. Of course it was always hot weather.
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Please don't this as negative. Maybe, six-seven years ago I bought a NH269 for $300 a farmers "parts machine" to make run again. It was a twine machine PTO driven. Well after $2000 in parts and two years working on it, I finally got it to bail/tie again. It just really wore me down. I sold it and bought a Hesston 4550 inline baler. I ran that for two years and then sold ALL my hay equipment. I'm just TOO OLD to be baling hay and don't have the patience and money it takes to keep hay machinery runnin'. Hayin' takes good weather timing and if your broke down when you need to be baling, then you've lost that crop. Now, I truly do wish you "GOOD LUCK", as you'll need it.
Your goats will like the crappy hay better than nice beautiful hay always remember that .
Awesome it work, God bless
Those new Holland's are great old balers! I have a super hayliner 69 which does an amazing job for its age. Once you get the rust off of the knotters, it never skips a beat!
My hubby found your site and just loves your set up. I have to say that I am enjoying seeing you fix up and restore your machinery and admire your patience and enjoy the explanations. It was so thrilling to see those bales lining up before being pushed off. Oh and before I forget, I so enjoyed seeing you both cleaning out the barn and happy that I only had to watch. Strangely so satisfying :)
I had a similar new holland baler as yours. A little bit younger one. I had the same problem when he was empty that he didn`t knot the first bales. Problem was solved by leaving the remaining hay unready knoted inside the machine until next season. So the machine can continue work with no problems and you will not have unknoted bales. Greetings from Europe.
Guaranteed if the wire ties system works properly you will out bale most any new baler was on the market today. We had a hay liner on twine and it would take hay as fast as you could feed it. It made 16 x 18 bales if I remember it right. It was a hay monster,,
Love that you rescue the old equipment, keepin it real!
Glad to see you got most of the hay baler adjusted correctly.
That' s a good thing about this "classic" equiptment:
You can repair a almost everything by yourself.
And after that it will run for a looooooooooooong time... 😊👍🏻
Wow back n time old school equipment better then junk today / because today equipment is to flashy / u doing 👌
I enjoy watching your farming videos . I have a 841 Case gas tractor . It's fun watching you put yours to work . Farm on !
Good to see the ol' Hayliner pumping out bales. Looks like you're getting the basics figured out. Suggestions, put some grease on the on the plate the rests on the hitch of the baler. Just a thin coat to help the hitch slide from transport to the bale positions. Replace the rope for the pin that holds the baler hitch in the transport & bale positions. That way you can remain on the tractor when trying to change the baler positions. Yep, keep a block of wood handy for this also as you've realized. When you're done & before you put the baler away until the next use, blow all the loose hay chaff out of the baler. Just some advice from a "Hobby Farmer". LOL Good luck with the hay baling. Stay safe.
crslyrn very good advice. I like to use the spray on white grease where the hitch slides.
Also the yaw angle of the baler looks like it has contributed to the splay of the pickup support wheel.
Best wishes