Re: Question for David in England re: accumulator

Posted by Roy in UK on June 28, 2006 at 22:51:31 from (86.128.232.74):

In Reply to: Re: Question for David in England re: accumulator posted by David in England on June 28, 2006 at 14:49:12:

When we got our Howard Bigbaler in 1975 my father said "It would be better if the bales were a bit smaller (they were 8 long feet by 5 feet wide by 5 feet high ) and a lot denser. I think he was ahead of his time! We had all sorts of fun with that. The knotters were not very reliable , that oh so long PTO shaft on the mk1.was a joke! They were just beginning to get the the thing right, the mk.2 was much better than the mk.1 when Howards stopped production and everyone went round baler crazy. I am from Yorkshire by the way, not far from the McCormick factory in Doncaster. Your remark about Internationals been popular made me smile, yes they were but in the late 70's the rot seemed to set in. The last IH tractor we had, a 674 was a dog! it spent more time in Platts (the dealers) than it did on the farm.As you say the old 634's B450's etc. were such wonderful reliable old sloggers. My neighbour 'lived and died International' for years , he went all Ford in the 1980's, as he was having so much trouble with Doncaster made IH stuff. We bought an Accord drill from Platts, when the dealer came to set it going for me he told me how they cursed the unreliabilty of the home built tractors at the time, it cost them no end in sales.Yes I do know how to post pictures, I have put one or two on here in the past. I wish I had taken some of dad using our first drum mower, a Fahr KM4 in the late 1960's,a lot of our friends across the pond think this is new tecnology! By the way, we got out of farming in 1996, talk about perfect timing!
Cheers
Roy

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