here is a link and the description below he posted. I liked the part about original tires and running 60mph going home. Sounds like something I would do and then go OH CRAP!
You are viewing a Allis Chalmers Rotobaler that I have for sale. I bought this from a local farmer that bought it new. He used it very little and then stored it in a shed ever since. The first time it was ever rained on was when I pulled it home last week!
This rotobaler has a white top and was new in the 1970's when for a few years Allis Chalmers made these balers again. The older ones had orange tops. This white top baler has the newer improvements such as a normal pin hitch instead of the ball hitch used on earlier ones. It also has more guards and shielding on the sides for safety, spring teeth on the pickup bars, a top beater roll above the pickup for helping feed in large windrows, and endless belts.
I pulled the baler home and it pulls great down the highway at 60 mph. I think both the tires are original, so they are old, and have age cracking, but I had no problem with them.
I hooked the baler up to a tractor when I got it home and it all took right off when I engaged the PTO. All the belts and chains and everything turn fine like they should. The baler has always been stored inside and so it is not all rusty. The paint is really good on the baler and you can tell from the amount of paint on things like the chains that it was hardly ever even used. The baler even still has the original jack in good working condition! The only thing on the baler that the farmer added was hydraulic lift for the pickup. I also got the original hand lift lever for it as well.
The former owner even loosened the belts and the friction brake on the side like they tell you to in the owners manual when you store it. My dad used to every night before we went to the house loosen that friction brake and take a old galvanized bucket and flip it upside down on top of the twine box to keep rain water out. This baler still has a ball of twine in the box and the whole thing looks like it was well taken care of.
These balers had the serial number stamped on the rear of the baler on part of the frame. This baler is serial number 75651.
It kind of felt wrong to have it hooked to a green John Deere tractor instead of a orange Allis Chalmers WD like we used to use on these balers. My uncle was a Allis Chalmers dealer from the 1930's until Deutz bought Allis Chalmers in the early 1980's so we were always around these balers. My first "important" job growing up was to sit on my dad's right knee while we were baling hay and operate the hand clutch on the WD tractor. You would hear the distinctive sound these balers make when the bale is full size and the twine tube drops. I would disengage the clutch and wait for it to tie, then when it would kick the bale out the back, I would pull the clutch back and away we would go again! One of the fondest memories I have of my dad was getting caught in a sudden thunderstorm with him while we were baling and diving under the baler pickup to stay out of the rain. He told me stories and I ended up taking a nap under there. I can still smell the lespedeza and clover hay!
These balers were great because you did not have to pick the bales up off the field as soon as you baled them for fear of rain like you do with square bales. We used to bale up a field and often leave them in the field until winter and never pick them up. We would run a electric fence down the row and allow the cattle to graze the grass and eat the bales in that section until it was gone, then we would move the fence over a couple of rows and let them start eating that section. We would start the fence at the area of the field that had the water supply and just move away from it with them eating as they went. Often we would never haul any hay at all, we just left the bales in the fields and fed them that way. Even if it snowed heavy, they would root through the snow cover and find the bales of hay. We have tried this in the past with big round hay bales and it does not work very well as they gang up around one bale and if the ground is wet, they make a big muddy mess around the big bale and mess up the field. With the little bales, it spread the feeding area around so much that this was not a problem. As soon as we were done baling, one of us kids would walk around and pull bales out of low places like terrace channels so the bottoms would not get wet during a heavy rain. We had a neighbor that every two weeks would go out with a Honda three wheeler and drive down the rows of bales and roll them over by brushing against them with the bumper so they did not kill the grass under them. We never felt like that was worth the trouble - Dad used to laugh at him and say that doing that was "not enough sugar for a cent".
I measured the baler and it is 14 feet long, 9 feet wide, and 6 1/2 feet tall.
While I am in a story telling mood, we once were baling hay with one of these balers and it was the older style that had a removeable cover for the pto that clipped into a slot on the back of a Allis Chalmers WD tractor where you stepped on and off the tractor. Well, of course we had lost off the cover so the PTO shaft was bare and spinning so you had to be careful. We were baling on the side of a field next to a fence between us and the neighbor (the one with the three wheeler), when we came across a big cloud of mad, mad, mad ground hornets. We had just raked the windrow and they were all out and looking for a fight. They swarmed on us and in a split second, dad pushed the foot clutch in, jammed the tractor into road gear, and popped out the clutch. The tractor was running wide open as we were baling, so the tractor did a little "wheelie" shot out a cloud of smoke, and away we shot across the field away from those hornets. The only thing dad forgot was to turn off the PTO. We had an old black, white, and yellow collie dog named Caesar. Caesar was also getting torn up by the hornets. In fact he got stung first and tried to jump up on the tractor with us to get away from them. He just knew we would make them go away. He slipped when he jumped up on the back of the tractor and fell down against that exposed PTO shaft spinning at 540 rpm. It grabbed his long hair and flipped him around between the PTO shaft and the tractor drawbar and flung him out the other side! I remember seeing him flying through the air as he went sailing over the fence and landed way out in the neighbor's field! He broke a leg and lost half his fur, but was fine in a few weeks. That afternoon my dad drove to my uncle's Allis Chalmers dealership and bought a new cover for the PTO and installed it before we baled another bale. I was always glad it was the dog and not me!
This baler deserves a good home. You will have to look for a long time and even then I doubt if you will find one in as good of condition as this one or one that has been used so little. It is in excellent condition. You are welcome to come look at it.
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