[AT] new to me baler

[Cecil Bearden]

A neighbor has a JD 24W baler that I have pulled a few times.  I 
borrowed it one time to bale some bermuda grass during the drought when 
small bales of Bermuda were selling for $10 ea in the field.  It had 
bands nearly 5 inches wide.  It was also missing 4 of the bands in the 
pickup.   It was so old the pickup was very narrow, so I had to rake the 
hay nearly into a rope and make sure the knives were sharp so it could 
cut the hay rope.

At 6:30 am on a Sat Morning, I put an ad on Craigslist for $8/bale 
telling the location and I was baling in the field.  I started baling at 
7am.   At 5pm that evening, I had a flat on the tractor, but I had $2500 
in cash and checks in my pocket!!!   I tried that again the next year 
and had nothing.  The horse hay market had crashed.   No one could 
afford Horses here...

Cecil in OKla



On 7/17/2016 8:03 PM, Ralph Goff wrote:
> On 7/17/2016 1:21 PM, Greg Hass wrote:
>> In the day when narrow bands were started New Hollands official name for
>> them were Super-Sweep pick-ups. Our baler, a 268 had wide; our 770
>> forage harvestor had super-sweep. Just a little trivia.
>>        Greg Hass
> I remember it well. Our old 270 had the wide spaced teeth and I used to
> wish it had the
> Super Sweep. I think my round baler, NH 847, has the narrower spaced teeth.
>
> Ralph in Sask.
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