Allis Chalmers roto bailer

Little K Wheat Harvest using Allis Chalmers tractor and roto bailer; July 1, 2007

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[rightyred]

@bodryn This rotobaler, has a shunting mechanism attached so stopping would be not needed. The conveyor table above the pickup would divert the hay or straw back round to the front in a loop until the bale was tied and ejected from the bale chamber. You can see it work in the last few seconds of this video. I understand that machines so fitted were in minority.

[guitardavid79]

I have a question...although I'm no farmer. Why does the baler have to ride back there offset from the tractor? Doesn't seem like the tractor would disrupt the rows of piled up hay or anything if the tractor and baler were inline with each other.

thanks

[bodryn]

We had one like this in the '50s, but each time we had enough hay for a bale, a metal arm would fall down with a clunk, signalling that we had to stop and let the thing tie before moving on again.

[darkninetailedfox]

got a 7000 a 185 and 3 d-17

[indy498]

got an allis 160

[Hemihappy]

Yep he sure is and the pick up is set a tad high for running in stubble. We have 4 of these but they are all the white top(later model) with the teethed pickup. Also that windrow looks a little wide. These things are great when they work and awful when they dont.

[underwmj]

My grandfather has one of these, as he is an Allis collector, and we had it out last spring baling straw... I will say it's in better condition than this baler, and worked a lot faster with a WD-45 pulling it

[farmall560m]

ya keep stickin ur hands in there that would look real nice on camra

[beckmanb72]

Is that a D-14?

[nejkolo]

yeah, coz its old machine