John Fulton
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Does anyone remember the small (40-50 #) round balers? I think they were wire-tied. What was the make of those balers? I vaguely remember them from the 1950"s. Pain in the a** to handle, had to use hand forks.
(quoted from post at 14:35:18 01/15/14) The roto baler was obviously a love hate relationship with people. I have been feed roto bales to calves in one part of the barn and squares to another. Were loosing a fair amount more hay through the squares because the calves are dragging more hay out of the feeder versus the rotobales. Also there are always stems leftover from the squares and the rotobales are being eaten to the last bit. The bales Im feeding came from the same crop in the same field. The feed quality from the rotobales is 2nd to none.
(quoted from post at 12:54:33 01/15/14) A "hand" clutch, multi plate, running in oil, gave the WD live PTO.
It was then called the "power director" in the D series when it was doubled into a lo-neutral-hi lever.
(quoted from post at 16:24:40 01/15/14) Rotobaler failed? With 77,200 of them sold from '47-'74? What
mainly held them back, was strike with commie run union local.
As for the IPTO, Ac was an innovator of that, too, although not as
early as some others, they were masters at making new patents,
like Rubber tires,
narrow torque tube,
spin out wheels,
first rear engine cultivating tractor,
power adjust front axles,
first turbocharged production tractor,
And many others I could post, if I had any memory left.
I managed to farm with them for about 35 years, so far, maybe I
have better hand/eye co-ordination!
(quoted from post at 18:28:05 01/15/14) OT, I don't have too much more time tonite for rebuttal, But as I
said, the D-19 always will be the first production wheel tractor,
with a turbo diesel, 12/61. The G has been copied 3 times, that I
know of, and new copies are available, yet, today. AC sold 27,970 of these, how Many JD rear engine cultivating tractors
were made ( I know the answer, do you?)
Have you ever operated a rotobaler? I doubt it or you would
know that the tying was a part of the cycle, and the bale was
ejected, by a string pull, not hydraulics.
Further discussion will likely get your bp up, and I wouldn't want
to contribute to that, LOL
(quoted from post at 18:38:31 01/15/14) You weren't stopping, you would slip the power director lever
just enough to slow the feed of hay, 7 seconds to wrap the bale
with twine, kick lever back as you eject the bale, start the next.
Main attraction then as now, with round bales is twofold. First,
they are waterproof, baling to beat a rain, and your bales are
undamaged, if they get wet. Second, the round baler, then, as
now, wraps up the entire hay stem, in a circle, whereas the
square baler cuts a percentage of the hay, on each compression
stroke. ?
(quoted from post at 06:47:07 01/16/14) My FIL had 3 D17s that he did everything from hay to his lighter field work. The PD was a much more useful option on those tractors than the mechanical TA that IH had similar sized tractors.
ike others said , too many errors in your posts to address them(quoted from post at 21:12:59 01/16/14)
(quoted from post at 18:29:05 01/15/14) The Allis Chalmers had the power director clutch which they designed for the round baler. If I am not mistaken the power director was first used on the WD-45.
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