Is this the first round baler

[bobk]

 

[Scruffywelder]

Yup

 

[7610 super q]

Or cigar maker.......

 

[spin cycle]

@ulsterscot

saw some bales from one of these balers for sale in suffolk last year

 

[youngscot]

Video made by the first portable camcorder also

 

[Sid]

Thanks for sharing that,
My Grandfather had an allis round baler in 1950/60's, use to pitch them up in the tallet.

 

[bobk]

Thanks for sharing that,
My Grandfather had an allis round baler in 1950/60's, use to pitch them up in the tallet.

Bet that was fun .

 

[Sid]

Bet that was fun .

me being a 70,s babe, i have no idea

 

[ColinV6]

Very cool to see how things used to be.

Is it ISOBUS?

 

[bobk]

me being a 70,s babe, i have no idea

Pitched '000's I have .
Still hand ball squares ...

 

[Sid]

Pitched '000's I have .

is that the only one AC made?
Don't know what type it was here.
Had a bagger combine that wrapped around a tractor too. Remember it being scrap in the corner of the field for years

 

[Henarar]

chap next door had one, Mum used to work for him she said they were not easy to make a rick of

 

[bobk]

is that the only one AC made?
Don't know what type it was here.
Had a bagger combine that wrapped around a tractor too. Remember it being scrap in the corner of the field for years

No idea , we had a bagger , jesus that was work picking them mothers up , I was only 6 .

 

[Sid]

No idea , we had a bagger , jesus that was work picking them mothers up , I was only 6 .

west of england sacks?

 

[Sid]

west of england sacks?

West of England Sacks and Sack Needles

Talk turned to the West of England sack, with which some of our older members are familiar. Thankfully a thing of the past., These sacks were made from a coarse material called hessian, which is still used for the same purpose today. Hessia

www.museumsincornwall.org.uk

talk turned to the West of England sack, with which some of our older members are familiar. Thankfully a thing of the past.

These sacks were made from a coarse material called hessian, which is still used for the same purpose today. Hessian being favoured for the storage of potatoes. Hessian is commonly made from the skin of the jute plant and was imported from India from the early 19c onwards.

Hessian also backed linoleum, rugs and carpets.

The West of England sack was so called because it could be hired from the West of England Sack Company. Used for grain storage it was designed to hold 4 bushels. As bushels are a volume measure, the weight of a full sack was determined by the grain it held:-

Oats weigh on average 42lbs (19.05K) per bushel so a full sack contained 1.5 cwt (76.2k) of oats.

Barley weighs on average 56lbs (25.4k) per bushel so a full sack contained 2 cwt (101.6k) of barley.

Wheat weighs on average 63lb (28.6k) per bushel so a full sack contained 2.25 cwt( 114.3k) of wheat.

 

[bobk]

west of england sacks?

2 cwt .ffs

 

[colhonk]

His rows are all wrong for the Allis baler,they were made to pick up the wide full grass cutter swath,not a narrow heaped up swath of today. Also, people are putting too much / too big a swath in it,that is why they are crap bales he is chucking out. We had one in the day. Set up properly and with a dual clutch 35 on the front, it made tight proper solid bales. They were easy to stack in the shed when made properly,stack just like square bales, sold many a wagon load of them, never moved in a stack. Mind, after a month or two they came off the stack looking like shreded wheat shapes. Easy to use in the byre, just roll out along the floor .Easier on the hands as well,one hand in the centre at the end and a bale hook in the other hand. Aaaah, happy days, and yes, they did shed rain if left in the field.

 

[Tha Ulsterscot]

colhonk is correct about the rows for the baler, I have one. (for fun) , and they do make good bales when set up properly, They wrap twine round the bale, and you do have to stop to wrap and eject the bale. They were made from 1946 up to around 1960, and later versions had an attachment which mean you could bale continuously without stopping.

They went out of fashion here because they were slow compared to conventional square balers. If they had persisted with development , Who knows?
PS. the wrap around combine mentioned above is probably a JF.

 

[bobk]

colhonk is correct about the rows for the baler, I have one. (for fun) , and they do make good bales when set up properly, They wrap twine round the bale, and you do have to stop to wrap and eject the bale. They were made from 1946 up to around 1960, and later versions had an attachment which mean you could bale continuously without stopping.

They went out of fashion here because they were slow compared to conventional square balers. If they had persisted with development , Who knows?

Why couldn't the baler make them bigger , it's got belts ?

 

[colhonk]

You could alter the size,