has anyone used jones balers?
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multi power
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You mean why is the mk 10 better? Much much faster
Very seldom break s a shear bolt
Thinking about it dad's is star not a super star, I think, it's not the same as your blue one
Brenin Moelfre
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Old archive film of the Jones baler company https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-golden-harvest-1959-online
Selectamatic
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Ah. Fair enough.
Really, there is not that much difference between a Mk10 and a Star. But the Super Star was some baler, twice the baler a Mk 10 was!
Boohoo
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MF introduced the sure tie knotter when they launched the 120, 124 and 128, earlier balers such as the 15 and 20 use a different design
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- Central Scotland
Had a Minor Mk4 - used it with a B250 and it pushed the tractor all over the field as it had no live pto.
Would work all day on sisal - but it absolutely hated nylon twine and the knot would never come off the bill hook.
Retired it to the back of the hedge and replaced with a John Deere 224T. Now that was the Rolls Royce of square balers. Had a lubrication system and everything.
Would work all day on sisal - but it absolutely hated nylon twine and the knot would never come off the bill hook.
Retired it to the back of the hedge and replaced with a John Deere 224T. Now that was the Rolls Royce of square balers. Had a lubrication system and everything.
Tha Ulsterscot
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Dad bought a Jones Star baler back in the sixties, and after couple of years it was changed for a Mk10 t . He liked the groove that the twine lay in, compared to the others, but eventually he did buy an international 440. They all gave trouble now and again, but the Jones was as good as any. I got the chance of this one some time ago. £200 and she has baled every year since. 2500 this past summer with no trouble. I remember dad bought the Jones instead of an Allis the first time because there was a better deal on the Jones although the dealer was further from home.
I believe they used rasspe knotters when they badge engineered the riviera casalis balers known as the MF no2, 3 and 4
I'd forgotten about the deep grooves the Jones baler put the strings in - so good for keeping the strings on. The neighbouring farm got a new baler ( possibly and A C ) and it barely put square corners on the bales , with the strings on a flat bale surface - lots pulled off.
Roy_H
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We had a baler exactly like the one in the second picture an AC 300 (in other words a Jones in Allis Chalmers clothing). It was a good little baler and very well made compared with the "tinny" New Hollands of the period. We had a Claas Maximum at the same time and OK it has to be said the bales made by the Jones were a bit tidier than those from The Claas but as for sheer output The Claas ran rings around The Jones. It would have seemed slow compared with today's machines but in it's day that Maximum couldn't half gobble it up! (cf A Claas Matador combine compared to a Massey 788 ).
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There's a mk12 Jones baler here that my father bought before I can remember, it's a terrible baler! Never worked properly, despite being seen by a couple of baler experts over the year, it didn't get any better.
It was a happy day for me 4 years ago when the ram met the needles! !!
Dad wasn't so happy and is still thinking about repairing it
It was a happy day for me 4 years ago when the ram met the needles! !!
Dad wasn't so happy and is still thinking about repairing it
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Or it could be a mk10 maybe
Selectamatic
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Thanks for this link
My stomach churned when I saw the chap doing the inspection at 7 minutes into the film wearing that loose white coat though
Roy_H
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I went to a vintage tractor show some years ago and of course there was the usual working demonstration of a threshing drum . Of course being an old machine there were no guards over the belts etc. and the young girl they had raking the chaff out from under it had beautiful long hair almost down to her waist but she wasn't even wearing a hairnet! It made me cringe every time she dived underneath the thing to rake it out!Thanks for this link
Roy_H
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The IH baler didn't leave grooves in the bale unlike The Jones or Claas
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Was it you, @Selectamatic who posted a link to a youtube film on the Jones factory a few years ago? At the end of the film it showed two new balers being taken to the railway station. One behind a Major and the other being towed by a DB tug. Pretty sure the title was "Jones Baler factory, Mold 1958-59" but it isn't on there anymore.