I was born in the 50's, child of the 60's, and in the area I grew up, the marginal lands were still being used for beef cattle, and folks still maintained a crop rotation of corn, soybeans, winter wheat and hay. Cattle (and hay) went away in the mid 70's.....and wheat went away in the 80's.
But back then, hay was still being put up. There were tractors, mowers and rakes of all colors, but in that neighborhood, the only square balers were JD. The only other baler used back then was an AC rotobaler....bales left in the field where they dropped.
Go to Tractorhouse today and you may find 30 different brands of balers. JD and Massey combined will not equal the number of NH balers. Take out the JD and Massey and all the rest will not equal the number of NH balers.
When I bought the NH 315, I wanted some shear pins for it, so went to the local NH dealer. Was visiting with the young man behind the parts counter.......he uses an AC square baler. Says they hold their breath every year, but it keeps working so they keep using it. Dealer has a Ford baler in the yard that has a broken needle they can't find parts for......and has been sitting outside for 10 years, so is probably not much more than parts itself by now.
Have never seen an IH baler run. See a few of them on used equipment yards, but nobody seems to want them. I have heard they work great or not at all. I still remember even the hard core IH/Farmall guys in our neighborhood used JD balers.
I think I have seen enough of the kicker balers to know how they work and why they are used. You eliminate the need to pick up the bales and it keeps them off the ground so they never get wet. Critical issue in some areas. But you also need enough kicker wagons to keep you going or else a crew unloading them as you go.....so constantly swapping out full wagons for empties. And it slows the baler down a bit. And as for unloading, you still need the manual labor to unravel them out of the wagon, an elevator to the barn and a crew inside the barn stacking. And a really good baler making really good bales that can survive the abuse.
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Today's Featured Article - Harvestin Hay: The Early Years (Part 2) - by Pat Browning. The summer of 1950 was the start of a new era in farming for our family. I was thirteen, and Kathy (my oldest sister) was seven. At this age, I believed tractor farming was the only way, hot stuff -- and given a chance I probably would have used the tractor, Dad's first, a 1936 Model "A" John Deere, to go bring in the cows! And I think Dad was ready for some automation too. And so it was that we acquired a good, used J. I. Case, wire tie hay baler. In addition to a person to drive th
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