- Location
- Shropshire
And the grab in the background
ADVICE ABOUT OLD BALERS PLEASE
- Thread starter Little Karoo
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grainboy
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- Location
- Bedfordshire
no sorry, Roscoe had that,
- Location
- south norfolk, uk
Little plug for the group if your on Facebook?
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A face book group for small/Conventional balers. Pictures, setting tips,problem solving etc. whether a new welger/Massey inline or an old welger trusser. A group for the fans of idiot bricks!
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What do you want , enough spares up the road for 50 balers .
Exfarmer
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- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
Will bow to your knowledge
Billy Whizz is the man
- Location
- North West Wales
No, don’t think there’s anything specific available for them apart from bearings and chains and whatever can be welded or fabricated!!
That one came here brand new apparently and next door had an identical one! Next door had issues with theirs and in the end someone from Bamford had to come out to it. They fiddled with timing etc and it was then a much better baler than that one with much nicer and firmer bales. Fast forward a generation and that one broke down and the neighbours one was offered free to collect. It had been standing a long time but was freed off and baled fine. Unfortunately metal work was not the best. It went to scrap few years ago now but we kept needles and few things. There’s a pto shaft with a blue PTO guard somewhere for it but I’ve never seen a flywheel guard for it unfortunately. Dad never re fits anything that’s not critical to the operation of any machine after a repair, you know like windows, covers, floors, mats, cladding, bonnets, side panels, exhausts etc!!!
I think that one baled and knotted a bale about fifteen years ago! It’s not stuck, I checked last week when I came across it at the back of shed!!!
hope they have plenty of needle's cus they eat em
Oliveau
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- Location
- Indre et Loire, France
True story:
Many years ago a mate was a factory service engineer for Bamfords. He was driving across the field to look at the offending baler when he noticed in the distance that it was towing a manned sledge. He-also saw that every time a bale appeared said man would fall off the sledge. Once he got close up he could see what was happening they were towing the sledge with a rope tied to the needle yoke……..!
- Location
- Lorette Manitoba
I admire your enthusiasm and willingness to give it a try but to be brutally honest if you know nothing about baler fixing buying a used cheap baker isn’t the way to make cheap hay. Waiting for parts or even a mechanic to fix one will most likely spoil your hay. Hay is good only once if you’re lucky with the weather Waiting a couple of days for a breakdown will send you crazy. Even the most hardened well organized man can loose his sh!t making hay.
- Location
- sw scotland
A hot day with the bales dropping out the back of the old baler you get out from under a pile of bags once a year - best day of the year.
Hot day with itchy hay, sweat and grease and trying to find why it doesn't knot every 5th bale - worst day.
I bought an old baler once which did 300 in a day but needed drums of water left in the field to cool the ram bearing every 30 minutes. Got my ÂŁ20 back as scrap
Hot day with itchy hay, sweat and grease and trying to find why it doesn't knot every 5th bale - worst day.
I bought an old baler once which did 300 in a day but needed drums of water left in the field to cool the ram bearing every 30 minutes. Got my ÂŁ20 back as scrap
- Location
- S. Staffs
Don't even think about a Bamford - designed by idiots and made of cheese, the one we had was the worst single machine I have ever had to use in my life !
What do you want for the sledge? All working OK?
As a schoolboy I remember a lot of stress at haytime with an IH B 45 Mk2.
We have an IH 440 now which bales hay reliably.
That is because we have a local expert who can set it up correctly.
In general terms most of the old balers will do a job with the right person looking after them.
If our expert was a NH specialist we would have a NH baler. During F & M in 2002 we baled half the farm with a B47 and it did a great job.
We have an IH 440 now which bales hay reliably.
That is because we have a local expert who can set it up correctly.
In general terms most of the old balers will do a job with the right person looking after them.
If our expert was a NH specialist we would have a NH baler. During F & M in 2002 we baled half the farm with a B47 and it did a great job.
- Location
- Central Scotland
JD 224T was a great baler and i think JD still provide parts for really old equipment.
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
I used to have a B47. I called on an old boy one day and he had a B47 in his yard. We started discussing baling. He said the only problem he had with the baler was it tripping to tie the bale, but he solved that by having one of his kids sitting on the back to manually trip it. I told him how to correct that and always congratulate myself that I've probably saved a child's life for doing so.
grainboy
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- Location
- Bedfordshire
Delivered ?
grainboy
Member
- Location
- Bedfordshire
What do you think, ??
Do you want cash back, and warranty too, !!
on your bike.
Do you want cash back, and warranty too, !!
on your bike.