Well the baler is a Claus baler built for Gehl. It is just a bunch of drums with shafts sticking out the sides driven by chains. The bale pressure is made by the bale forcing the door open against the hydraulic cylinders. Simple and will bale anything you can get thro0ugh the pickup. The only thing Gehl on that baler is paint and decals. They where sold as MF and OMC too. The main parts are just sprockets and chains. Nothing special. The pickup teeth are easy to match at about any tractor supply place. Actually being a Gehl, OMC, or MF makes the parts easier. The drum shafts are turned down to the next smaller US size rather than metric. When I had my Claus baler it had metric bearings and back in the 1980s they were not easy to find.
As for the soft core. They will squat some but if you learn how to run them they will make a pretty good bale. The ley to making a good solid bale is when the bale gets about full slow your ground speed down and let the bale turn longer in the chamber under pressure. That will make the outside rock hard and it will shed water great.
I had several Claus Round balers. Bought two new ones just for the mesh wrap feature. Never owned a JD round baler until a JD 566.
So for just a few bales of grass type hay they can't be beat for the money you can buy them for. They do take more Horse power to pull/turn the baler when they are full of hay. I ran mine with a 100 HP tractor and had now issues but a 75 HP tractor would have it's hands full. I would buy a Drum baler any day over an old NH chain baler. Just many fewer moving parts.
James Howell has a drum baler he pulls with his Two bangers.
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