NH 68 Picture!

Alright guys, here is a NICE picture of my baler... I think that if I get that wagon I was talking about, I am going to restore it and this baler.. As you can see, this one was factory ordered with the wagon hitch, and the two part bale slide at the end of the chute (don't have the 2nd section on)

It is a pretty baler, it works good, and it brings back a few memories a an old friend... Can't beat that right?

Bryce

P.S. I am sure that you all can tell, that is my 1949 Farmall C, it handled the baler VERY well!

P.S.S. The bales are running about 20 inches long. Some a little more, some a little less...

Nice!

What kind of engine is on the baler? The one we used at home(that my brother still uses) was a PTO drive.

A neighbor had one years ago and it was a hand crank Wisconsin

My Dad had the same baler when I was a kid, used a B Allis on it most of the time. I drove on the baler many a time, enjoyed the picture, thanks.

It should have a 2 cyl Wisconsin TFD Engine, 15-18 horse.

This one is a 2 cyl Wisconsin TJD Engine, it came off of a 272 New Holland, it is rated at 25 horse...

Same speed, same rpm, same mounting equipment, but a little more power!! Heck, the engine was free, and NOTHING beats free... Bryce

(quoted from post at 18:07:25 07/09/14) It should have a 2 cyl Wisconsin TFD Engine, 15-18 horse.

This one is a 2 cyl Wisconsin TJD Engine, it came off of a 272 New Holland, it is rated at 25 horse...

Same speed, same rpm, same mounting equipment, but a little more power!! Heck, the engine was free, and NOTHING beats free... Bryce

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I've got a PTO drive Super 68. Haven't used it in several years. Ran when parked kinds thing. I may sell or scrap it out. BIL/nephew have a real nice, much newer JD idiot cube maker that I can borrow as needed. Other than that I round bale.

Cool that you got that old thing going.

Rick

Great looking set up Bryce!

I might be interested in a PTO 68, where are you? Bryce

Bryce,

I have a super nice PTO 68 baler in NE IA. Depending on your location, we may be able to work something out.

Brian

Nice looking baler and tractor. I bet that the baler kept that "C" rocking back and forth. LOL

Great Uncle had a NH baler, I think a 66 or 67 engine driven, that he pulled with a 2N. In heavy hay he would have to run the 2N at about an idle to not plug the baler. The plunger strokes would actually drag the tractor back and forth on the ground when he stopped.

Keep learning/having fun. Bryce

Actually, I was surprised at how well the C handled it! Like anyother baler, it did cause the tractor to surge a little back and forth...

I got the baler set to go using the JD 40T (pictured in previous post with rake) and the NH pushed that tractor around really badly, I was actually a little scared that it might snap the drawbar from all of the shifting movement.

The C with the wide front on the other hand had just a little rocking... I had it in 1st gear, and at times idle was just a little too fast... However there were times when I put it in second, but that was for little blobs, not a full windrow... Out of the entire meadow picture, you can see that I basically worked it all into 2 VERY nice sized windrows, and in the aftermath of it, they were probably too big, but it did do a nice job...

I had never pulled an implement like this that hung off to the side, I am use to round balers. These take a little bit different driving style to operate!! Fun either way though! The neighbor has 15 acres on the ground and they HAVE to have it put up as rectangular bales, not rounds. They have a MF 124, and about 5 bales in the right knotter quit working, and they haven't been able to make it work right.. Soooo, I might end up running up there and helping them for a change!!

Bryce

By the way, thanks for the offer on the baler, but I am in North ID...

Bryce, I would be leary about picking up a baler with pto for that tractor. Those C's are tough little buggers but lack live pto. I worked for a guy in high school that had one, we sometimes put it on NH 36 green chopper. It was fun, but also you had to be quick to pop it out of gear when it got into think stuff. Good luck, be safe.

Bryce - a couple of things you may or may not know - just picking up on things you typed here.

All you need is an overrun clutch and a pto shaft and you can run your baler by pto (probably want to pull the belts off, but may not HAVE to). The clutch just screws right to the flywheel.

The pto shaft has a bracket that mounts to the tongue of the baler... if you look at a picture of one, it'll be obvious.

I've got the whole clutch/shaft assembly, but unfortunately just promised it to somebody a few weeks ago. Otherwise I'd send it to you to play with.

Another thing - you'll rock less using the wisconsin engine. When you're running it with PTO, that'll put a sort of repetitive load on the tractor, adding to the sea-sick feel. I'm sure on a C you'd feel it pretty good.

And last - you said you were in 1st gear at idle... makes me think you weren't running the wisconsin engine at top speed like you should be.

Maybe somebody else can chime in here because I can't remember the number - but they always rated those old balers in strokes per minute. I can almost guarantee you won't naturally open up an engine that fast and hard on your own to get the baler up to the right speed.

But if you count the plunger strokes, you'll find you've really got to crank that little engine for all it's worth.

Running at the right speed, you'll be able to move around better, probably in 2nd gear with no trouble. Depends on the hay and windrow size of course, but the baler speed really makes a BIG difference in performance. You might even see the bales come out a little more consistent, but I'm not sure about that.

I think a bit far, west MN>

Rick