Vintage tractor-pulled hay baler - GIF

Vintage tractor-pulled hay baler.

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Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...458#post135642
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...618#post132696
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...796#post129110
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...692#post128788
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...1905#post75375
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...997#post109225
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...443#post104318

I helped my brother-in-law work on the knotter of one of these last year. It still works!

That was modern when I worked on my Father's farm. Still perfectly usable. How would they build straw bale houses without these?

I remember those. My dad would have thought that pulling that gatherer was sacrilege though - anything that make it easier was no good and not to be trusted. I graduated from high school on crutches because I sank a hay hook in my leg the day before. Maybe cattle and horses like it but I hate hay.

I would not consider that vintage, it is my newest baler and uses a special disc knotter instead of the old bill-hook system that everybody else still uses. Made for synthetic twine and mine has never missed a bale.