Re: IH Baler Question

Posted by JB on October 04, 2003 at 17:28:00 from (66.48.146.127):

In Reply to: IH Baler Question posted by Bill on October 04, 2003 at 08:17:37:

As a 6 year old kid I got to ride on the twine box of an IH 45 baler tying all the knots that it missed. Our 45 only missed on the inside knotter the outside never missed a knot. After about 4 years of this on a very hot a dusty day I decided to watch the 2 knotters closely and find out what was wrong with the inside one. I noticed the inside needle didn't always place the twine in the twine disk properly. I convinced my dad to adjust the needle and it worked great from then until we traded for an IH 46 in 1962. The 46 had a problem with the inside knotter as well. The IH service man worked on it two or three different times without improvement. I found the problem to be a flaw in the casting in the guide for the billhook tension arm, a few minutes with a file and the problem was corrected. Traded the 46 for a 37 in the 1980s but then a 430 in 1990s but kept the same #10 kicker from the 46.
The IH knotters are more complicated than the Deere or NH as they tie a double bow knot where as the Deere and NH only tie a simple knot with no bow.
I remember the IH service man saying the IH knotters were a 5 phase knotter and the others were a 3 phase knotter.

The bottom line is if you have 2 good IH knotters they will tie just as well as a JD or NH. But if you have a bad one it will take an old IH service man to fix it. The IH 46 and newer had a better pickup than JD.

My 2 cents.
JB

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