Walked many miles by the side. Of one of these, dad would have me cutting hay off roller, reset string feed, picking rocks or sticks off apron. Have mercy when the thing throwed the back roller.. hauling those things was only workable with a hay hook. Old wd45 was a good little horse. Now I'm 71 yrs. Memories of the past.

Love the process of making "Baby" round bales! Thanks for sharing John! 🤗

4:45 Yep, we use the broiler pan for broiling, all the time. Nice vid.

The secret of them working right was the windrow. But the driver needed to know how to work the windrow- this guy flunked badly

There is a bracket that will stop running the belt off on narrow winrows. Not hard to make. Been on our roto for years.

Although I've been to Esko, and seen several videos I've never attended that show. Thank you for the video. By the way there was a collector in New Ulm who had several Marshall Field Marshall tractors. It's a complicated starting procedure. He passed away 2 years ago. We weren't friends, but he tolerated me because I'm married to one of his daughters. Maybe some year.

Can't say I've ever broiled anything. Allis Chalmers really had good paint. It's rare to see any rusty Allis. Nice tap & die set. Thanks.

Well, now I know why there was only one rotobaler in the farming community where I grew up.

Good video, I have the metal universal type that you showed. It doesnt work well in heavy first cutting alfalfa and grass. The crop falls back on the uncut and cloges up the mower on the nest pass. Ive tried bending the grass stick different ways, but no improvment.

When I was a kid, we and most of our neighbors used conventional small square balers. I know of only one old -timer that used a rotobaler. I recall seeing his funny-looking little round bales lying in the field, but never got a good look at the machine itself, nor the baling operation. All I knew was that he had Allis equipment. Thanks for bringing this to KZfaq!

Mydad had one of those old roto balers. But he had many other names for it when it didn't work, which was quite often. It's still setting behind the yard in the trees along with a bunch of other old machinery. He baled with an "M" International for quite a few years. No live power. So when the twine arm dropped, he had to step on the clutch, stop, shift it out of gear to neutral, let the clutch out so the baler would run and wrap the bail with twine and eject the bale, step on the clutch again, shift the tractor back into gear, let the clutch out, and go until the twine arm dropped again, and do it all over again. For every bale. On a normal hay year, he made about 15,000 bales. Do the math on how many times he stepped on the clutch on that M. Then, add in all the times for stopping because the baler (or whatever he chose to call it at that moment) malfunctioned.....Then, after some years of baling with the M, he bought a D19 Allis Chalmers on a farm auction. Live power with the Power Director shift handle! No more clutching! He thought he died and went to the big hay field in the sky! It's still setting in the trees behind the yard with a bunch of other old machinery. One piece being an old Allis Challmers one row silage cutter with the reel on it. That thing actually worked pretty good.

I tend to do that the hard way too. Evidently you have rock, and gravel too We're on the way down from the show at Almelund. Thank you for the video.

Looks like my dad would have come up like that one north Carolina

Just imagine if AC had the vision to take the rotobaler to the next level eventually becoming similar to today's big round balers. Could've been a game changer for AC.

Thanks for sharing.

Awesome. I enjoy watching videos. I probably missed something cool . I understand crowds. People are fine in small groups. My brother had a roto baler with a WD45. Thank you.

I'm impressed how good the condition of the gaurd, and apparently original pitman is . Thank you.

I like your Spaulding file handle.

So cool for me to see the dye process! I'm glad you were able to keep the whole jack original 🤗😊

I have 2 of those mowers. I was never sure of the model number until now. One was given to me by an old neighbor when he moved to town. Im sure the only time its ever been outside was when he was using it. He ran it with a Farmall H. The other one I bought at an auction to save it from the scrappers! Its in good shape, but is missing the swathboard and stick. I plan to copy the other one and have what it needs to be complete.