Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: baler on a farmall C

Posted by Hugh MacKay on August 20, 2003 at 17:13:17 from (209.226.106.70):

In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: baler on a farmall C posted by FC on August 20, 2003 at 13:59:16:

FC: My dad bought his 45 baler in 53 or 54 not right sure witch, but I think we baled two summers with the H and in 55 he bought a new 300. He struggled along with the old 45 until 59. I can well remember every morning my brothers and I would be off loading several wagon loads of hay, and dad would be tinkering with that baler, trying to figure out why it wouldn't tie. He had a McCormick binder since long before I was born in 42. It was a great tieing machine. It was probably on the strength of that old binder that he bought the 45. I remember he looked at other balers, MH, JD, Oliver and New Holland. New Holland was his preference in 1953 but the dealer was 100 miles away. 100 miles was a long way in 1953.

In 1958 my cousin and her husband opened a New Holland dealership, about 15 miles away. Now there was a formula for business success. 80% of the farmers in the area had an IH 45 baler they were so fed up with it was going down the road. My dad traded his 45 for a NH Super 69 hayliner in 1959 and in the spring of 60 he took a new thrower to go with it. I had that baler until I went to round bales in 1976. And what a nice baler it was , took so little power to operate it. I have baled a few loads with the Farmall 130, and yes pulled the wagon and operated the thrower. By the way, when my cousin and her husband retired they had about 5 acres of 45 balers. Some of them had seen as little as 3-4 years use. I know there were balers in that bone yard that had baled less than 20,000 bales total. They used to joke and say their profit was the yard full of 45 balers. It got to the point where they just wouldn't take one on trade.

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