My "new" 303 baler w pics
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Topic: My "new" 303 baler w pics
Posted By: Skyhighballoon(MO)
Subject: My "new" 303 baler w pics
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2012 at 4:54pm
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Back on Memorial Day weekend I got my new to me Allis 303 wire tie baler hauled home. I am the 3rd owner. I bought it from Terry(MO) in Wentzville, MO who had bought it from the original owner in New Melle, MO. Terry didn't use it and when he posted it for sale earlier this year I jumped at it. I wanted a wire tie mainly for putting up wheat straw bales in storage for multiple years and not having to work about mice eating the twine. I missed hay season on my place this year by about a week or else we would have tried it out on a little patch of clover & timothy. I also want to teach my boys what hauling small squares was like when I was growing up so likely we'll bale about 50 bales each year. The baler is in great shape and has little wear from what I can tell. Paint still on the pickup and paint on all the chains. I think the tires are originals (and will hold air). It includes factory options like a jack, dual wheel on the bale chamber side (dustin tells me it the same as an all-crop dual), and the extended bale chute to reach a wagon. I originally planned to tow it home about 120 miles but Terry talked me out of it and turns out it loads on a 18 foot car hauler fairly easy. We put a couple pallets on the pick-up side and stuck that wheel out over the trailer bed past the fender. But that wheel & spindle just bolts on so when you remove it it will fit flush with the trailer fenders. This let me drive home down I-70 instead of the back roads. Terry helped me load it with a big backhoe on the bale side and a skid loader on the pickup side using straps. Once lifted we just backed the trailer under and set it down. I also went overboard with two 3/8 chains and three 10K straps to cinch it down. To unload, I did the reverse with my loader & forks on the 180 using two straps and just picked it up and drove the trailer out from underneath. Here's some pics after loading at Terry's and then after unloading at the farm. It's new resting place is my dad's old garage that later served as the chicken house for new chicks. Without the dual on it tucks in with a few inches to spare on each side. Mike       Wire twisters:  Pickup area  New home:  ------------- 1981 Gleaner F2 Corn Plus w 13' flex 1968 Gleaner EIII w 10' & 330 1969 180 gas 1965 D17 S-IV gas 1963 D17 S-III gas 1956 WD45 gas NF PS 1956 All-Crop 66 Big Bin 303 wire baler, 716H, 712H mowers |
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Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2012 at 5:13pm
That's a great find Mike. So do you use hay hooks for handling wire tied bales? Seems like it might be hard on gloves Glad you can take the time to show the boys what life was like "in the old days"
------------- http://www.ae-ta.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.ae-ta.com Lena 1935 WC12xxx, Willie 1951 CA6xx Dad bought new, 1954WD45 PS, 1960 D17 NF |
Posted By: Rick
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2012 at 6:50pm
| That is a nice find there,Mike! Looks dang good! I remember bucking many a bale of wire tied hay (not straw) when I was a kid. Heck,we only got payed .02 cents per bale when we helped the neighbors buck bales. You probably couldn't find too many young ones now-a-days to work for that! Guess that might be one of the reasons everyone went to round bales! LMAO! Good find! Rick |
Posted By: jlogli
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2012 at 7:12pm
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Wire ties are the bomb! ------------- 1945 WC on full steel, WD wide front, WD45 power steering, 1966 D-17IVfactory 3 point.1967 D-17IV SC. 1973 rotobaler white top. orange top roto, model 90 combine,82S, four bottom plow.302 baler. |
Posted By: Ryan Renko
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2012 at 7:15pm
| I'm jealous!!! Thats one fine looking baler Mike!!! I hope to add one to my toybox someday. Ryan |
Posted By: Don(MO)
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2012 at 7:16pm
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Mike you have one nice AC baler!!!!
So let's see you have a AC mower, AC rake and now a AC baler so all you need to put up hay is AC "Flight-Line" Elevator to complete the set.
That 180 with a good loader on it will come in handy for all the new to you stuff you come up with.
GOOD JOB!!!! ------------- 3 WD45's with power steering,G,D15 fork lift,D19, W-Speed Patrol, "A" Gleaner with a 330 corn head,"66" combine,roto-baler, and lots of Snap Coupler implements to make them work for their keep. |
Posted By: Ky.Allis
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2012 at 8:21pm
| Is baling wire available many places and wonder what it costs? Had a NH 269 wire baler some years back and the twisters looked exactly like like the ones on your 303. I really liked the wire bales in straw. Don't matter how long you store them-When you need them they are still bales and not a pile of loose straw. Good with your 303 baler--It looks great!!!! |
Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2012 at 8:34pm
And if you need to tie a gate shut, you'll probably have a piece of wire handy  ------------- http://www.ae-ta.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.ae-ta.com Lena 1935 WC12xxx, Willie 1951 CA6xx Dad bought new, 1954WD45 PS, 1960 D17 NF |
Ky.Allis wrote:Posted By: ctbowles58
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2012 at 8:58pm
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i have a 303 and a 302 both good bailers but mine are twine tie i use the green "rodent restsnt twine" and have good luck i cleaned the loft out last year and there was some 4yo straw and no broken string.i guess the stuf works. ------------- 190XT 2WD45 WF D15 D14 CA BIG10 302 & 303 bailers 77G rake 80R mower 6 plows and alot more |
Posted By: Oldoug
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2012 at 9:07pm
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Great looking baler Mike. I'm always loved oats season. I picked up serveral of those square bales behind Grandpa's old 302 baler back in the day as a kid, it was always alot of work but alot of fun also casue we got to drive the tractors around some and do farm work and be one of the big men like Dad and Grandpa. ------------- Matt Folkers FOLKERS RESTORATION Restoring vintage things to last so the future can enjoy our past. |
Posted By: allischalmerguy
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2012 at 9:18pm
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Nice one! Just saw one like it today! ------------- It is great being a disciple of Jesus! 1950 WD, 1957 D17...retired in Iowa, |
Posted By: CAdon
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2012 at 9:27pm
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sweeeet setup, mike. thanks for the pix and the inspiration. ------------- 52 CA, 41 B and a little B1 oh, yeah... and an 8N ford snuck in there, too. |
Posted By: Skyhighballoon(MO)
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2012 at 10:26pm
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Charlie - always just used good leather gloves for wire bales, no hay hooks. Hay hooks were for rotobaler bales from what Dad told me but I did see a new people use them to pull bales up stacking in barns. But yes when I was a teen and hauled for people who liked to bale 100lb green bales, it hurt your hands. Rick - I was rich - I got a nickel a bale! Ky.allis - I think AC bought the knotters and wire twisters from New Holland for their balers. Mike
------------- 1981 Gleaner F2 Corn Plus w 13' flex 1968 Gleaner EIII w 10' & 330 1969 180 gas 1965 D17 S-IV gas 1963 D17 S-III gas 1956 WD45 gas NF PS 1956 All-Crop 66 Big Bin 303 wire baler, 716H, 712H mowers |
Posted By: Don(MO)
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2012 at 6:48am
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Mike I think I can still remember how to load a hay wagon and no hay hooks for me.lol
Call me the next time you bale and I'll try getting over to help load the wagon (or watch) you bale. I'm thinking there's one good wagon load of hay left in me! lmao
Don ------------- 3 WD45's with power steering,G,D15 fork lift,D19, W-Speed Patrol, "A" Gleaner with a 330 corn head,"66" combine,roto-baler, and lots of Snap Coupler implements to make them work for their keep. |
Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2012 at 6:54am
Come on Don, you got way more than that in ya. Heck I pulled empties to the field, brought loads to the barn and helped unload 2 loads a couple weeks ago and I'm still alive ------------- http://www.ae-ta.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.ae-ta.com Lena 1935 WC12xxx, Willie 1951 CA6xx Dad bought new, 1954WD45 PS, 1960 D17 NF |
Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2012 at 6:57am
We always got paid by the hour, like $1.25 or so Neighbor can't get high school kids to help at all now days. I guess it's had to play a video game while riding a hayrack across the field ------------- http://www.ae-ta.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.ae-ta.com Lena 1935 WC12xxx, Willie 1951 CA6xx Dad bought new, 1954WD45 PS, 1960 D17 NF |
Posted By: Rick
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2012 at 7:01am
| Yeah,Don...come on! Surely you can load more than one wagon of hay! I'll even sit back and count the bales for you! LMAO! Rick |
Posted By: Don(MO)
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2012 at 7:17am
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OK, OK, I might have two or up to three big wagon loads left in me! LMAO
But you guys have to match me load per load. lol
Or better yet I'll load all the wagons and you can unload all of them in the barn. lamo
Mike can you put a buggy top on the wagon for me and a big fan in the barn for the guys in the barn to stay cool. ------------- 3 WD45's with power steering,G,D15 fork lift,D19, W-Speed Patrol, "A" Gleaner with a 330 corn head,"66" combine,roto-baler, and lots of Snap Coupler implements to make them work for their keep. |
Posted By: Rick
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2012 at 7:24am
| Boy...this is getting interesting! I'll run the video camera,but I don't know how it'll come out,since I'll probably be rolling on the ground laughing my ass off watching you old men load the wagons! LMAO! Rick |
Posted By: Don(MO)
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2012 at 7:49am
------------- 3 WD45's with power steering,G,D15 fork lift,D19, W-Speed Patrol, "A" Gleaner with a 330 corn head,"66" combine,roto-baler, and lots of Snap Coupler implements to make them work for their keep. |
Posted By: Skyhighballoon(MO)
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2012 at 8:33am
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We've had plow day & even a disc day...now we'll have a hay day!! LOL! Now another comment to tell on myself. Back in the day (early 80's) when I was an older teenager and hauled hay to make money, one of my friends and I gave ourselves nicknames....I was "Conan the BARNbarian" and he was "RamBALE", lol. Can you tell what movies we'd seen????? Mike ------------- 1981 Gleaner F2 Corn Plus w 13' flex 1968 Gleaner EIII w 10' & 330 1969 180 gas 1965 D17 S-IV gas 1963 D17 S-III gas 1956 WD45 gas NF PS 1956 All-Crop 66 Big Bin 303 wire baler, 716H, 712H mowers |
Posted By: Don(MO)
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2012 at 11:56am
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Mike I will bring a new par of the John Deere gloves I have. lol ------------- 3 WD45's with power steering,G,D15 fork lift,D19, W-Speed Patrol, "A" Gleaner with a 330 corn head,"66" combine,roto-baler, and lots of Snap Coupler implements to make them work for their keep. |
Posted By: Lars(wisc)
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2012 at 7:38pm
| WHAT!!?? 50 bales a year to see what's it's like!! Why you ball-busting son-of-a-youknowwhat(gotta tease you little). Try 6 dairy barns per year of hay bales! That baler looks a darn good find. |
Posted By: Hubert (Ga)engine7
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2012 at 8:11pm
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Good find, Mike. Fifty bales won't even work that baler half a day. Go for about 500. Have never used a wire tie baler, always ran twine tie New Hollands. I don't think there were even any AC balers in our area.
------------- Just an old country boy saved by the grace of God. |