Quite right you do'nt get off on the land side,into the furrow or mower or anything else when we had a manned home sledge and bar we stacked tidy. My rating for small balers:-- New Holland ,Jones (earliermodels) International Class Welger Allis Chalmers Massey Ferguson Bamford. Later Jones became Allis/Bamford large ans sort pf ok Welger got better then a bit cheap,NH remained fairly constant quality and later MF's could be more reliable.,but it came down to particular models and production runs. The worsed NH in uk was a model not long after the 68 hayliner, can't remember the model but it did'nt gobble the crop up and had odd corner construction above the pickup /near the feed to the chamber, Farmers hated them as under certain conditions with hay they bungup. At farm sales nobody would bid on them and scrap men soon cleared them. I never owned one,but one farmer tolde they baler straw no problem bur still slow.

​​​@@simonworman7898IH balers it has been said is one of the best ways to put up loose hay.