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I dunno if I have posted these before, missus was chucking old photos out, salvaged the two that were mine, well one mine one Scouts.


this was my personal unintended little collection of red inters, and I only just realised that my Inter b45 hay baler, GL hay rake and Sickle bar mower are missing, all in good working condition. The truck ex PMG tipper was sold off (ACCO replaced it), Header went for an unexpected Holiday tractor got sick. Loader & hay rake still here, baler retired mower sold. and


This was Scouts office for a while, I got to go along on Melb Adelaid run as spare driver, then my yet to be missus came too, the cab suspension bottomed out every bump, yet the three of us combined would barely weigh 150kg.... work for him fun for me.

I always liked the little B45 balers
They are sort of odd looking thing from the past with twine boxes on the side of the chamber

A old bloke told me apparently you can put 10 ton a hour thru them, according to the brochure
Neither him or I could ever imagine doung that

Paul

With cereal hay fifteen wads a bale was needed to make a decent one, at sixty strokes a minute that gave 240 bales an hour. Forty to the ton = six ton per hour. Any tighter and the anchor string would be pulled from the knitter.
Would probably have a better run these days with mower conditioners, with mowed and raked a couple of days later the juices from the baler knife cut would build up on the side of the bale chamber. Moving bale density clamps to top and bottom helped this.
A survey at the time found some people had a good run with their machine, others doubled time lost in repairs grizzling about it.
David.

Sarge ,What Model is the header?

Seed the header was an A8-2, old bloke next door acquired it and I helped get it going, v4 Wisconsin hammering away next to ya ear, told him the trick (only trick he didn't know ) of putting a dob of honey or treacle on the drive belt. It went well, steering excellent, but neither of us had enough experience setting daughts and riddles, so spewed a bit out the back or rubbish in the bin. Old mate gave it to me in exchange for old AL harvester in mint condition and some other stuff. I did a few seasons with the inter then old mate died, a year or two after the son moved onto dads 80 acres built a house then repossessed the header. Not worth the fight, i just said righto. Meanwhile my tired old Horwood Bagshaw no2 has been out in the weather rotting away. And now I got no header or harvester. Only the rusty shell of the HB.

And the B45, I can fix those knotters blindfolded. I needed to be good as the 3 my BIL and I shared all gave up after 100 or so bales. Mostly oats, fix and go again. Traded up to a New Holland 69, it did do 800 to 1000 bales without a fault but last 2 yearS lots of trouble, fixed the timing but now dropping one knot every 6 or 8 bales, reduce the tension and get 20 sloppy bales. Got the job done but need to sort it for this season. Was told the B45 was not a great baler even when new. Completely different knotter to New Holland.

I only do it for a hobby, so I can afford the luxury of old crappy equipment if Mrs Sarge is not helping. She helps a lot these days.

I just checked mr google to be sure the header was A8-2 and found this pic... from nt govt history collection I believe

Nice to have a visit out our way. On light duties today.
Looks and sounds A1, hope the owner doesn't mind sharing on here.
Smooth start off at an uphill intersection. Impressed!

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Swishy, When i try to clickety, etc. I get a message saying Beamish.Beamish.biz etc has been blocked because of a Top level domain.

Works great for me.
Thanks Swish.

wee-allis, I suspect it is another attempt by my anti-virus software to con me into paying for a higher level of "protection" than the free version my computer repair man set up.