[AT] IH 440 Baler

Cecil R Bearden crbearden at copper.net
Wed Oct 26 05:55:20 PDT 2011


On 10/26/2011 6:48 AM, Cecil R Bearden wrote:
> My old IH 440 baler has given up twisting wire.  It should be noted that
> it probably had a million miles of wore run through it.  It is the Lok
> Twist wire knotter.  I can find parts listed from IH, but it would cost
> about $1500 to rebuild just the cutter parts of the knotter.
>
> I tried out the Hesston 4600 baler in place of the IH I was trying to
> get some hay baled for a customer who had to have small bales.  After an
> entire day of trying to get it to bale without shearing a pin, it
> appears it needs about 2 days work and an additional $1000 of parts.  I
> bought this baler 2 years ago while Dad was bedfast and I bales about
> 100 bales with it and gave up because the bales were bowed terribly.  I
> have a former baler mechanic working with me for a few weeks, and he
> found the problems with this newer baler that were never taken care of
> by the dealer I bought it from.  I was assured by the salesman that this
> baler had been through their shop and was ready to go to the field.
> Looks like tI have a different definition of ready to go to the field.
>
> Does anyone have a source of parts for a 440 IH baler?.  Used or New.
>
> Cecil in OKla
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