Posted by donjr on March 24, 2012 at 17:31:41 from (71.248.68.169):
In Reply to: Balers posted by Dave Sherburne NY on March 24, 2012 at 14:24:55:
Never have seen a Freeman baler, but a friend had a roto. Easy to stack, pain to put on a wagon, and the only one I have ever seen used. My first baler was a 77, identical to the one in the picture, with a VE4. What a pain. If we sheared a shear bolt, we had to shut the engine down to replace it. Then, the thing wouldn't start again until it cooled down, or we threw a bucket of ice on it. We finally figured out how we could hook a belt from a MF mower over the engine sheave to the mower drive sheave, drop the mower lower on the three point and start the Wisconsin by removing the outer drive belt (the 77 had four). The other nasty point of it was the 70 or 80 pound bale it made, and it was not adjustable. I did find a double-earred cam to make the bales smaller by half. So, we ended up going from a baler that made bales that were killers to pick up, stack on a wagon and have to handle again in the barn, to a small bale that was nice to handle, but impossible to stack on a wagon or in the barn. I gave a guy $100 for it, and it went to an auction in Lancaster county where some Amish guy bought it for $500. I was happy to see that old machine go...
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