1960 Roto-baler with Overdrive

I found a slightly better candidate for fixing up than the $50 Roto-baler I bought last year. This one is a 1960 white top with overdrive.

They actually made fewer white tops with overdrive than number 10's. I have some barely used spliced bales if you need some

and the over drive does?

Isn't that the Reversing Gear?

wjohn wrote: It kicks in to increase the speed during the twine wrapping cycle, then kicks back out when ejecting the bale. It just sped up the wrapping by a few seconds. I'm pretty sure I've seen a video of one in the field on YouTube but I'm not sure I could find it again. They talk about it briefly during the Roto-baler history walk at the Orange Spectacular: https://youtu.be/O1a9mwi2nUQ?si=tKdffDsm1bfWGfFw&t=1395

IBWD MIke wrote: Speaking of Hutchinson, are you going to be in attendance this year?

wjohn wrote: SteveM C/IL wrote: The need for speed is just part of a man.... Ha! Ideally the bales would shoot out the back quickly onto a rack too and I'd be baling in record time... but can't have everything. I have always wondered if anybody ever made a tow behind sort of drag accumulator to group a few bales together in the field.

wjohn wrote: IBWD MIke wrote: Speaking of Hutchinson, are you going to be in attendance this year? I hope so! I won't be bringing anything to show, but I'd like to get up there and see folks again and buy another truckload of parts. It will depend on how much vacation I have left after farm activities. You going to be up there again?

There is a thread we started a while back about a bale loader made by hansen. The only one i have ever seen was on a 1/16 model made by the guy out in Arizona who makes those amazing precision models. I think it might have worked ok with a number ten but with a standard rotobaler the guy on the wagon would probably be on the ground by the end of the first round

IBWD MIke wrote: Oh yeah. Booked my room the day I checked out last summer. probably drag the 45 and a 73 plow up with me again. Wish it was feasible to remove the wheel weights so I could pull it in more than one class. I suppose I could take the NFE tractor, easy enough to strip 1000 lbs. off of it.

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I mounted a Hansen loader on my number 10 and used it at Hutch. It did not work to well. The bales fell back into the belts. I gave up on it and it now resides on Gary Agrimison's number 10 engine drive baler which is displayed every year at the Hutch show. 

Lon(MN) wrote: I mounted a Hansen loader on my number 10 and used it at Hutch. It did not work to well. The bales fell back into the belts. I gave up on it and it now resides on Gary Agrimison's number 10 engine drive baler which is displayed every year at the Hutch show.

wjohn wrote: Lon(MN) wrote: I mounted a Hansen loader on my number 10 and used it at Hutch. It did not work to well. The bales fell back into the belts. I gave up on it and it now resides on Gary Agrimison's number 10 engine drive baler which is displayed every year at the Hutch show.  So, that means I must have seen it in person last summer and didn't register it... I must have been too busy learning all I could from the guru of breaking down and hauling Rotobalers on trailers. I'll have to pay more attention this year. Yep, we walked right by it. The good news it will be there again this year.

Theres actually a good chance this baler rolled off the assembly line as a #10.  There was a number of balers sitting in inventory at the LaPorte plant that were never sold.  When they realized it was a flop they converted them to fast wrap balers, gave them different serial numbers and repainted them to the current colors.  Notice it has the #10 axle.  There were some leftover #10 baler parts that were assembled as fast wrap balers.  Once all of the parts were used up there was no longer a fast wrap option.