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<blockquote data-quote="Idaman" data-source="post: 756701" data-attributes="member: 14119"><p>If I remember correctly they put out bales to the side with the plunger going sideways. Don't get me started on balers. The first one we used that picked up windrows from the field was a Minneapolis Moline that was pulled by a Cletrac crawler and had seats for two men who tied the wire in the back. This baler was so heavy that it was always stuck or rutting our soft meadows. The pickup was a series of small two pronged forks that pushed the hay up a slick steel ramp and into the plunger. The next baler was the first in the country and was a New Holland 76. It had self tying knotters but still had a seat for an observer to marvel at the knotters. It was pulled with a Ford 9N that was not nearly big enough and getting stuck was a real threat. My dad used to ride on the seat on the back and just shake his head because he couldn't see how the knotters worked so quickly. I drove the tractor countless hours and I was 9 at the time. Next came a MF 19 baler that was truly a piece of junk in our thick often damp grass hay. I was finishing up baling a small bog patch before we were to go bighorn sheep hunting and the baler just broke in half in the middle of the chamber. We welded up the chamber and sold the baler to a relative of Ned JRS, Chuck Kidder.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Idaman, post: 756701, member: 14119"] If I remember correctly they put out bales to the side with the plunger going sideways. Don't get me started on balers. The first one we used that picked up windrows from the field was a Minneapolis Moline that was pulled by a Cletrac crawler and had seats for two men who tied the wire in the back. This baler was so heavy that it was always stuck or rutting our soft meadows. The pickup was a series of small two pronged forks that pushed the hay up a slick steel ramp and into the plunger. The next baler was the first in the country and was a New Holland 76. It had self tying knotters but still had a seat for an observer to marvel at the knotters. It was pulled with a Ford 9N that was not nearly big enough and getting stuck was a real threat. My dad used to ride on the seat on the back and just shake his head because he couldn't see how the knotters worked so quickly. I drove the tractor countless hours and I was 9 at the time. Next came a MF 19 baler that was truly a piece of junk in our thick often damp grass hay. I was finishing up baling a small bog patch before we were to go bighorn sheep hunting and the baler just broke in half in the middle of the chamber. We welded up the chamber and sold the baler to a relative of Ned JRS, Chuck Kidder. [/QUOTE]
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