OLIVER BALER

[karlinpa]

THOUGHTS ON AN OLIVER 720 BALER GOOD BAD KNOW PARTS WILL PROBALEY BE HARD TO COME BY MAYBE SOMEBODY MADE THEM FOR THEM

 

[Timmycornpicker]

Oliver built it. After White quit the hay & forage business, Hesston bought the tooling and made it as the 4500. What parts availability is like, I don't know.

 

[fastfarmall]

So that cant be very old then, maybe 20-25 yrs, the first Oliver square baler i remember had a miniature side deliver rake up there, to fill the bale chamber,right?

 

[rrlund]

Correct. The roto-flo was like a parallel bar hay rake instead of an auger or fingers.The 720 was the largest and last of the Oliver balers. They were the Cadillac of balers.

 

[Traditional Farmer]

I have a 62-T with that set up think it was the first model to have it,works very good BTW.

 

[Timmycornpicker]

Oliver balers ceased in 1975, so it's at least 46 years old. Hesston made them another 5 or so years before they went to centerline balers.

 

[SVcummins]

 

[karlinpa]

PIS ON IT NOT VERY GOOD BUT DID SEE ROTO FLOW DECAL ON IT PAINT AND DECALS ARE NICE FOR OLDER MACHINE SO HESSON PARTS MIGHT FIT BUT THEY DONT MAKE SIDE PULL BALERS ANYMORE IM A NEW HOLLAND GUY LOOKING TO MAKE SMALL BALES AGAIN FOUND THIS AT DECENT PRICE FOR MY AREA THANKS FOR YOUR THOUGHTS

 

[Case Nutty 1660]

never seen one like it here ever.. lots of the later inline ones

 

[agonair]

Is it ironic. White sold their hayline to Hesston. IH sold their hayline to New Idea. CaseIH then purchased Hesston. New Idea merged with White. CaseIH sold Hesston to AGCO and White New Idea was purchased by AGCO. So, AGCO owns the Oliver hayline lineage

 

[fastfarmall]

Sometimes the truth is funnier than fiction !!

 

[rrlund]

Same thing with Rollin White founding Cletrac, Oliver buying Cletrac then White buying Oliver.

 

[JK-NY]

I owned a 520 Oliver baler a few years back and a friend of mine also had one, they were the 720’s little brother. I think they were about as good as the NH and JD balers of that era. If it is in decent shape I would go for it. As you mentioned parts may be an issue.

 

[SVcummins]

That’s when nobody knows who the real daddy is and the real doesn’t want to claim it

 

[SVcummins]

I never have either .

 

[DoubleR]

We brought a new 520 back in the day. Oliver made aa 720, 620, and a 520 which was the smallest model. We had good luck with it and it would keep you as busy as you wanted stacking behind it on a wagon. We baled about 10,000 bales a year with it until it was sold in my Dad's auction in the early 70's.

 

[Case Nutty 1660]

Interesting Info on these everyone Thanks for Sharing it, I was wondering when they came with them, Oliver I mean,, from__?_____ to 1975,, Here I cant say I have ever seen a Oliver version either and just in lit have I seen the Hesston ones, the way the center line balers seem to be I am surprised the 4500 was not seen here, I would not mind having one of the versions
cmt

 

[GarryinNC]

Are the bale chambers all the same size in the 520,620 and 720? 14x18? 16x18? What about plunger strokes per minute? Just wondering. Thanks

Garry, a 1250 gas owner

 

[Traditional Farmer]

I have a 1250 gas parts tractor.

 

[rrlund]

I'd have to look it up, but off hand I'd say late 60s was probably when the 520-620-720 came out. There was a two part article in Oliver Heritage magazine not long ago that was in two issues and covered the complete history from the time that Oliver bought the Ann Arbor Hay Press Company in the 40s.

 

[Case Nutty 1660]

Thanks for the info again,, I had forgot they bought Ann Arbor, seems like they were the first to offer a auto-tie baler,, always liked Oliver equipment,,

 

[rrlund]

They were the first pick up baler. I think they beat Case by a year or two on that. I'd have to look, but I don't think they had auto tie until after Oliver bought them.

 

[Case Nutty 1660]

I was always told ann arbor was the very first with a auto-tie,, good frined lives right where they were built ,, I just took his word for it CASE had a pickup baler before anyone, but it was a hand tie, NCM model,, they held a HUGE baler market share for years with them before the auto-tie came to be,, Case could have had that also and I would guess would have held onto much of the sales market but like a number of other Blunders the then president Leo Clausen refused to build what the customer wanted when he "Knew" what they needed, the man had some great ideas but far more bad ones with his ego, CASE was offered the three point hitch by Harry fergeson first,, Leo grabbed him by the seat of the pants and the nap of the shirt collar and THREW him out of his office and said he would whip his butt if he came back in with that Cheating System no one would want, I cant even think where CASE would be today if he had chose differently,, he was also the one who would not put Eagle Hitch on tractors until 1949 on the VA Series and 1951 on the D/S Series,, he alone cost CASE billions in sales