Does the baler look something like this? Thanks to Fawteen for the photo.
Some folks call those stationary balers, but in the days they were working, they were known more commonly as hay presses. Not a lot of small parts to them, so it is often a fairly straightforward process to clean and lube them up and get them running.
They didn't have knotters. The bales were tied by hand. It ought to have a mechanism on the plunger that runs up and down to stuff the loose hay down into the chute that lets you stage a block to separate the bales in the chute. When your bale is the length you want, you put the block into a holder on that plunger and it will ride down with the plunger and stay at the front of the chute, at which point you go back to dumping in more hay. Then what could normally be called a plunger on a more modern baler, the one that runs of the cam driven by the BIG flywheel(s)horizontally and compacts the hay into the chute, will press the hay up against it and sandwich it between the bales.
The blocks are fairly simple to make -- a few 1x6s a little shorter than the chute is tall oriented vertically, edge to edge and trimmed so that the outside edges are just a little narrower than the chute is wide. Goin' horizontally on BOTH sides of the vertical pieces, you take some more 1x6 and run them crossways. The trick with them is to cut a bevel on the edge of all four boards. When you fasten them to the vertical pieces, put the beveled edges toward each other so as to make two channels that you can drive your binding wire through from one side to the other. You need to do that on both sides (so it takes eight pieces with beveled edges) as the block that is at the back of one bale is at the front of the next one and both of them need to be tied.
The one I'm most familiar with, the guy buys bundles of wire used in those hydraulic compactors that recyclers use to bale up cardboard. Comes in different lengths, I guess, and is handy. Has a ready made loop on one end. While the bale is still under pressure in the chute, you feed the unlooped end through the block on the front of the bale (the nearest end to where it's going to come out), then back through the front of the block at the back end of the bale, run the loose end through the loop, double it back and give it a couple of twists. Works real slick!
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