New Holland 945

Hesston4860s

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Location
Nr Lincoln
Put 1000’s of thousands of bales tho one of them back in the late 80’s early 90’s. Pretty good baler tbh just look for wear in the feeder fork bar, it’s a telescopic affair and used to be expensive to replace.

The model after it’s even better ! (545 ?)
 

tr250

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Location
Northants
Remember dad had one when we were kids seemed to go well he sold it in 94 to someone a couple of miles away and they still got it last I heard they just get it out the shed and it never misses
 

essexpete

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Location
Essex
For some reason they were not well liked around here but we had one for 10 years and it was good for the amount we did in those days. Funnily enough it was 10 years old and well used when we bought it from a dairy farm in Cambs and it would be worth as much now as a 32 year old
Some parts are compatible with the 376 and similar. The weak link on ours was the crappy over run pawl system. I could never keep the centre bolt tight and the pawl unit was poor. I swapped the whole shaft complete with slip clutch with a shaft from a 376. The flywheel mounts are the same.
We did have a problem with banana bales for a time and it turned out to be a worn twice tension plate by the string box.
 
I'm on my second one now. We had one back in the 80s and I never really took to it like the old hayliners, but it was soon replaced by a round baler so it never did enough to give it a good sort out each year. It always needed more spent on odds and ends than the few bales I did so I was going to ditch it, but a decent one came up nearby for not much money and that has been great and I have been increasing the small bales. The old 945 is there for parts. I have built up a stock of allie feeder fingers as they can snap and also cause banana bales if slightly out of adjustment. I had the same trouble as essexpete with the twine tension, too. When we had the new one in about 82, the knotters were set up wrong, so the mechanic from SCATS had to come and make a bit of a bodge modification before it would knot properly. The newer one doesn't seem to have had it done, so I guess it was built with the mod in place
 

forblue

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Put 1000’s of thousands of bales tho one of them back in the late 80’s early 90’s. Pretty good baler tbh just look for wear in the feeder fork bar, it’s a telescopic affair and used to be expensive to replace.

The model after it’s even better ! (545 ?)
The model that replaced the 945 is the 575, machines made about halfway in production had several mods that improved them even better, a customer we had changed his every 2-3yrs when going one had to trot to keep up, they have hardened knotters, the frame the where the billhook roller runs on is replaceable, needle eyes hardened, feeder is better, have never been to any with banana bales, string runnage is better, later ones have galvanized string eyes instead of ceramic, less rollers on ram they have two hardened steel blocks, knotter frames can be removed without taking off whole assembly, overrun clutch can still wear helps if kept greased it was sold as a contractors machine, the 570 which replaced 940 is not so good, but still better than previous. am doing a 945 at moment.
 

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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