The roof is slightly bowed in from someone probably storing something on top of it, and the safety shields over the intake are missing. Otherwise it seems to be in good shape and has spent most of its life inside. I am going to have to break down and get belts for it - they didn't look bad from the ad, but the lowers are delaminating.

I must be nuts to put $800 worth of belts onto a baler so I can bale and hopefully sell $100 of straw this year?

That is an interesting point - supposedly 750 white tops with overdrive, vs. 1500 #10s? Of course, an unconverted #10 would still be much rarer. I'll send over a PM about belts.

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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?

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.

Back when I was farming, I took a 4 wheeler with a snowplow, start in the middle of the field, and drop the plow to an inch or so off the field, start pushing the row of bales toward an edge.  When I couldn't push no more, I turned around and pushed toward the other edge.  Then pushed from the edge toward each pile in the middle, the resulting piles might be 30, might be 50 bales.  Sure saved a lot of labor and walking...

Later, Dad got an F20 to mount the Farmhand on.  It was better suited for the task beings it was heavier and you sat up higher. (forget any semblance to “speed-shifting”)

 We stacked a lot of hay using that rig, then later we stacked chopped hay in a cage.  The D17 Diesel & #50 chopper did the job.

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.

You know, I have a Farmhand F11 on one of my D19s. That's not a bad idea... I could build some sort of accumulator for the front of it and gather up bales that way.

Just put some big old wing nuts on the bolts for tool-less removal and we'll get as many guys as we can to help hold everything when the weights fall down, ha!

I found the thread of Armand's model and that is neat. In the last post a guy says they had one at Hutch once. I wonder if I can find any footage of it from prior year Hutch videos on YT.

You know, I have a Farmhand F11 on one of my D19s. That's not a bad idea... I could build some sort of accumulator for the front of it and gather up bales that way.

We just used the standard “sweep” on the F11 to accumulate the bales and bring them into the Sandwich elevator, thence up to the hay mow.

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.

Many roto balers have a dent in the hood, it is believed to be from a knot in the twine catching as it got caught in the guides in the roof.  I have heard it happen and makes a loud noise.  

There are a few Hansen bale loaders out there.  I have one, it came off a standard baler.  Allis-Chalmers did offer it as an option but only for the #10 baler.  I'd have to check but I believe there was a guard that could be installed to prevent the bale from falling into the belts.

Congrats on a great find!  

Jim

What makes the axle a Number 10 vs. just a later production normal Roto-baler axle?

And where should I be looking at for the pick up feet difference?

Drp asked me to post these pictures. 

#10 shoe

Usually an tell a conversion because the gearbox still has pulley for second conveyor 

Regular axle

#10 axle

I wrongly assumed the axle was a later production Roto-baler thing, but now that I look at pictures of some later non-overdrive balers, I see they don't have the two square tubes for the stub axles to bolt into. The front square tube position must have been for better balancing the #10's additional weight up front from the extra conveyor?

I have learned a lot from all of you wise folks on the forum. JimIA, the twine knot theory for the dented roof also makes sense. I wonder if I can pop it back up with a little effort.

As far as the roof, I am not sure how well it will pop out.  That era of equipment was built with very good quality iron so it is plenty thick and strong.  

Thanks for confirming the axle positions. My thinking on the roof is to put a 4x4 post on a jack, take it slow, and see if the roof will pop up any. You may be right and it won't want to go back very well.

Not yet. I have been focusing on the combine but did spend the evening getting another WD-45 running. I need to unwrap a bunch of twine from the rollers, grease everything, and see what will spin by hand.

Guess I just have to hope my gearbox is okay?