Help me remember a baler

As I recall, it had an engine on it, with a single wheel at the front end to support the weight of the hitch and the engine. I have been thinking it was a 45 baler...was there such an animal? I also sort of think a 45 would have been a PTO baler, assuming there was a 45 at all.

The other thought is that it was a 50-T...again, was there such a baler?

Please help un-fuddle this old memory.

Stan

Thanks for the reply.

Stan

Thanks for the reply. You're both right...I expanded the story a little bit in my reply to Allan. At least that year I didn't drive the tractor pulling the wagon and hayloader into a bee's nest, as I had done a year or so earlier. Grandpa's BeechNut chewing tobacco made a great poultice to take the hurt out of all those stings.

Stan

Maybe your dad's concern about the mower flying to bits was legitimate...after all, it was a McCormick...LOL!

I remember breaking a young filly to a mower, paired up with an older, well-broke mare. Fortunately the mare was sensible enough to hold the filly back a little.

Stan

Was it one of these 50-T outfits? The 445 was PTO like you say.

Wonder if it was the same custom guy my dad hired?

Ran that joker off in a hurry. Who would ever want to put up hay in small square bales? :>)

Allan

Yep, that's the one, alright. It was the first time we'd ever baled hay. We put 1000 bales in one bay of the haymow, whereas we'd put that much loose hay in the barn spread over three bays. You guessed it...we broke down the stringers that held up the mow.

Dad went out and cut some 6" dia. walnut trees (with a crosscut saw), trimmed them up, used a screwjack to raise the floor, and fixed the problem.

Those logs held that floor up until the barn was torn down in about 2001.

Thanks for the reply.

Stan

Stan

Stan