Hay baler

[Johnny Meloy]

A lady is headed to the scrape with a stationary baler. I did see the baler but did not look it over that well. It has a gas motor mounted on it and is free spinning at the flywheel. Do not know the make but it is all there and was last working 30 years ago. I know this is very little to go on but hate to see this one lost. What would a ballpark price be. Would it be worth more than scape. Thanks for any reply.

 

[catman13]

whats it worth to you?
a picture would help , give scrap price and save them the trip to town it saves them time and gas.

 

[El Toro]

It may have a Wisconsin engine. Hal

 

[WellWorn]

Johnny, while a scrapper may pay slightly more than someone who has to fix whatever is wrong / might be missing from this baler, to me it's more of an ethical question than a financial one. I believe that farm equipment that can be fixed and used with little work, should be fixed and used. I've been guilty of fixing and using stuff that really should have been (or still should be) scrapped, but my Scotch ancestry runs strong.

There's a reason this 60+ year old stuff is still around when newer stuff isn't likely to make it past 20 years with the same use and treatment: "they just don't make it like they used to".

A neighbor has an old New Holland baler been sitting in his barn for about 20 years. It's massive, and not really suited to the heavy soils around here, but would be fine as a stationary unit for the Amish, or on courser / better drained soils down on the flats. Not sure what model, but the knotters are on the side, and it has a Wisconsin engine on it that still spins, though the valves are probably stuck. He was going to scrap it, but I think I've got him convinced to see what kind of offer one of the 'local' Amish machine fixers will give him for it. If it happens soon enough, I'll post back here with a price.

 

[paul]

Yup, pay what it weighs plus a little or save her so etching somehow, if that is agreeable to her.

What is it worth? Probably about scrap iron what it weighs, with elbow grease and time and parts thrown in it might be worth a fair amount more, but there is a difference between running and good looking and 'well it spins free'.

Paul

 

[JRSutton]

here's a typical two cylinder wisconsin engine. Pretty easy to find parts for them. I wouldn't be surprised if you could get it running pretty easily - they're hard to kill.

 

[Leroy]

Any stationary baler is now a collector item and they are now quite scarce. some could be worth a few thousand to collectors, even just the IH engine could be a thousand.