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- Welshpool Powys
Here's two long gone names
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- Thread starter Kevtherev
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Here's two long gone names
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- Welshpool Powys
borderterribles
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- South Shropshire
My first baler was a blue Super Star , short drawbar model, then I bought another, but a red , long drawbar model, and ran both. Both were great balers , and baled hundreds of thousands for me, square as bricks, with a groove for the strings to sit in. Slow by today's standards though.
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- Welshpool Powys
Yes they used to import laverda combines
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- S. Staffs
Before Laverda, Bamford Claeys (Clayson now NH ) then BM Volvo, I wonder if there are any of those still about?
beef 1
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- north yorkshire
Selectamatic
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- North Wales
borderterribles
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- South Shropshire
Interesting @Selectamatic , my blue baler had a small reel , above the pickup reel, which helped feed the crop into the baler, and was very useful. The red one, however, didn't have this. Can't see it on yours?
I'm getting muddled now. We had a horse drawn combine in a shed which I never saw working. I think we had a BM Volvo (yellow?) after that. Dad always called it the Bamford. I think. Maybe got my memories mixed.
I think we had a NH after that. A recall helping our mechanic (John P) fix it and sticking my elbow in the air inlet whilst running. That was interesting.
I think we had a NH after that. A recall helping our mechanic (John P) fix it and sticking my elbow in the air inlet whilst running. That was interesting.
FonterraFarmer
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- Waikato, New Zealand
Aktiv sicklebar mower
I can remember using one like that for cutting thistles .(dashels) Bustattis I think
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- Welshpool Powys
llamedos
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Spent bum numbing hours as a kid wuffling the hay. Did we really have summers back then? cos my memory says we did.
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- Welshpool Powys
Yes I remember summers that went on all summer!!
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- Lincolnshire
Spent bum numbing hours as a kid wuffling the hay. Did we really have summers back then? cos my memory says we did.
We had a Nicholsons "Robin Hood" wuffler not that long ago, used turn about with a Vicon (I think) walking stick hay turner.
Turn it damp side up onto dry ground then wuffle it up. Theory was alright but without good weather they were all useless.
The haybob replaced them both but doesn't really turn the swath over but can move it across a bit and just about do what the wuffler did although it tends to lump it.
It's easier but not necessarily better.
The turner, with its two castor wheels and one fixed wheel could get into a right old mess in a corner. The wuffler didn't like rig and furrow.
Roy_H
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We Had Allis Chalmers 300 baler which was a rebadged Jones. Much better made than the tinny New Hollands of the time and the bales were perfect but compared with The Class we had it was slow.
Another name long gone "Bamlett" . l seem to remember their equipment was painted purple and white!
Selectamatic
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- North Wales
Roy_H
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Yeah that's what l meant to sayI think you'll find you had a Jones Super Star baler rebadged as a AC 300!
The name "Howard" seems to have gone here but l think it is still used in Australia where indeed Mr. A.C. Howard originated from
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