formerly ny bill
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I saved this baler, courtesy of the scrapper who called me about it. Serial number is 975- 101. Anyone have any list that would tell the year of manufacture? Google MH 101 mostly goes to the MH 101 MH tractor.
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gtractorfan
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Back in the 1950's our neighbor had one of those and baled on our farm. I remember someone riding along and tying the bales. At least that's how I remember, I was young then.
Paul from MI
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I helped a neighbor bale hay with a Case baler with the knotters on the side like that. Never missed a knot but a pain to load behind having to twist every bale.
Majorman
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Looks like a Massey-Harris 701 baler. Side mounted knotters had a blower to keep the chaff from building up. In my youth we had one with a four cylinder engine with four stubby exhaust that glowed red as it got to dusk. Think it was a Coventry-Climax.
Other versions had an Armstrong-Siddley single cylinder diesel which were much sort after. A further power unit used was a Standard Motor Company four cylinder Industrial similar to the Ferguson TE 20, I have the same engine in a Fordson Petrol Dexta.
One year, the boss sent me to turn three rows of barley straw together, with a rake, behind a 12 ft Ransomes combine, on a large estate. He then hired a contactor with a power drive version of the 701, behind a Fordson power Major. I got the job of stacking the bales on the towed sledge and have never worked so hard in my life. The baler was throwing a bale every minute it seemed and as fast as I got one stacked, the next one hit me behind the knees.
Other versions had an Armstrong-Siddley single cylinder diesel which were much sort after. A further power unit used was a Standard Motor Company four cylinder Industrial similar to the Ferguson TE 20, I have the same engine in a Fordson Petrol Dexta.
One year, the boss sent me to turn three rows of barley straw together, with a rake, behind a 12 ft Ransomes combine, on a large estate. He then hired a contactor with a power drive version of the 701, behind a Fordson power Major. I got the job of stacking the bales on the towed sledge and have never worked so hard in my life. The baler was throwing a bale every minute it seemed and as fast as I got one stacked, the next one hit me behind the knees.
NHbalerman
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That is a nice looking baler to be so old down here most old stuff is rusted out from the high humity looks like the copied New Holland on that design but why not New Holland was and still the best
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