[AT] Allis Model C handle a Rotobailer

[Mark Johnson]

I don't think we ever even tried running the Roto-Baler with a tractor 
not having live power...typically we used a JD 730 or 620, either of 
which had absolutely no problem powering the machine.

My dad used to say "We never went to the field without having some kind 
of a failure with that baler. But then, we almost never failed to finish 
the job in spite of that."

I have to admit I got a bit spoiled about being able to fix machinery - 
my grandfather was pretty much a natural-born mechanic (would have made 
one hell of a mech engineer if there had been enough money for him to go 
to college like his brothers) and my dad, trained as an engineer, was 
nearly as good. We only took really big repairs or warranty work to a 
shop. A little bit of that did rub off on me, though not as much as I 
would have liked.

Mark J

On 10/23/2019 1:47 PM, Greg Hass wrote:
> I think a C would run the roto-baler. Not as fun as with live power 
> but possible. My dad ran an IH 45 baler for many years, including a 
> lot of custom work, with an IH Super C and that did not have live 
> power. My uncle, who was a little behind the times, ran an AC 
> Roto-baler for several years with a Farmall F-20 and that for sure did 
> not have live power. I was not aware that an engine option was 
> available for the Roto-baler, but about 60 years ago my uncles on the 
> other side of the family put a Ford engine from a Model A on their 
> Roto-baler and ran it that way. My uncles on my mothers side were 
> always careless and did stupid things and I was little but remember my 
> dad being mad at them. He did not have his own baler yet and hired my 
> uncles to bale 20 acres that he had cut and raked. Being careless they 
> had lost the gas cap and instead of getting a new one they stuffed an 
> old rag in the tank. Well, it fell in and got sucked into the fuel 
> system and they spent all day trying to clean it out while my dads hay 
> sat and it was to ran that night; I was too little to remember if it 
> rained or not. I always thought roto-bales were neat so 5 or 6 years 
> ago I bought one. A guy my brother knows had bought it at auction for 
> junk price; he already had one but did not want to see it scraped. One 
> day he was talking to my brother about the baler and my brother 
> mentioned I was looking for one. I bought it for the same price the 
> guy paid for it as he just wanted it to be used. I no longer have any 
> livestock so each year I bale about 50 bales of straw and give them to 
> a neighbor for his horses. I don't charge him because as I told him I 
> do it for fun and just want someone to get the bales off the field.
>              Greg Hass
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