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Re: Ford baler


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Posted by Billy NY on July 13, 2019 at 11:09:08 from (74.70.87.149):

In Reply to: Ford baler posted by Grandpa love on July 12, 2019 at 19:40:48:

We had a pair of 532's new from our dealership, same with 535 mower conditioner (New Idea 290 in ford colors ) and would agree with what most say about them. There must have been a lot of them made as I have seen a few here as of late and even saw a set of needles for sale recently. We did 3000 bales a year then and it's not to say there was no downtime, but once in good repair it was a great small capacity baler. The issue with parts would concern me. I would not want to steer you away from some small scale baling small squares, I always enjoyed the work on a small scale. About 2 years after my long time friend and farmer passed, all of his equipment went up for sale, kind of regret not going for his well kept NH 315, went for 3K, and though he did bale a fair amount with it in the time he had it, it was a clean one owner, low useage baler when he got it. I baled hay I bought from him for our horses with it, it did a great job. Me and his son put up 600 bales in no time one Saturday afternoon, a heavy 1st cut field that I tedded and raked into very nice, thick and uniform windrows. When we had the 532's, our back up was an old trade in, of all balers for back up an IH 45 !!!! -- still have it, rusted to heck, hard to believe I can remember putting up hay with it, and it was a rarity, darned thing actually worked right !!!! I had to ask my father, as I recall balers were always trouble and it was old and rusty looking then, (70's) but we did use it when one of the 532's was down or used at another farm.

The thrower on the one 532 became problematic, we took it off, went with a chute instead. I can recall the 532's doing quite a bit without much trouble just the same, but that was after a friend who was a really at working on these looked after them. I can recall my father wanting to shoot the darned thing and put it out of it's misery one day ! LOL . Hit or miss with all of these sometimes.

Farmer friend had a IH 440 I believe, well definitely IH and he put so many bales through it, that he wore through the bale chamber eventually. I think he did upward of 20K in bales in those days, always pairs of wagons going by, he filled our older barn with a huge mow and his dairy barn mow, + another building. Hay was a big thing around here for a long time, nothing like it was then today.


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