New baler in the neighborhood

[flusher]

My neighbor showed off his newly acquired SELF PROPELLED baler yesterday.

It's an NH Hayliner 500 three-twine baler (late 1970s vintage) with an interesting front end instead of a hitch.

Alfalfa ready to be baled (almost). Had a rain shower Sat morning that's slowing things up around here. Lotsa storage space for twine bales. Note the bale rotator at the output end.

Big Deutz engine to run the whole shebang. Pretty sure it's factory installed.

There's a dual hydraulic pump arrangement on the engine shaft. The smaller pump runs the steering. The larger pump drives the hydraulic motor on the front wheel.

Googled the manufacturer with no luck. Looks like this is a piece of real collectable farm stuff.

Hope it works as good as it looks.

 

[ddivinia]

Dude...that is all I can say.

D.

 

[Grrrr]

Never seen one of them before

Dunno how the one wheel drive would like our wet hay fields though.

Cool find.

 

[chadincolo]

I don't think that's NH factory, the NH's had the cab back over the plunger, just behind the wheels, driving one of those with a 2 wheel arrangement up front to steer. Looks like an aftermarket conversion to what was a pull type. NH didn't use Duetz engines either, mostly Wisconsin gas motors, some industrial Ford 4 cylinders, I think.

 

[flusher]

I don't think that's NH factory, the NH's had the cab back over the plunger, just behind the wheels, driving one of those with a 2 wheel arrangement up front to steer. Looks like an aftermarket conversion to what was a pull type. NH didn't use Duetz engines either, mostly Wisconsin gas motors, some industrial Ford 4 cylinders, I think.

Thanks for the info. I suspect you are correct. The stuff painted yellow certainly is an aftermarket conversion. I'm not that well versed on NH balers and on the engines that were used on the various self-powered models.

 

[tjkadar]

That is an interesting chunk of equipment. Pretty cool!

 

[dgl24087]

From what I could find, the NH Hayliner 500 was manufactured from 1976 to 1982, made a 16x23 bale, 70 inch pickup, plunger speed of 93 spm, came with a 172 cid 59 hp Ford 4 cyl gasoline engine. A Deutz 3 cyl., 173 cid, 55 hp diesel was available as an option on the Hayliner 505, beginning production date of 1983, and the 515, beginning prod. date of 1991..

 

[chh]

Quite a setup. I showed the pics to my wife and she thought it was something out of "Mad Max" or something similar.

 

[flusher]

From what I could find, the NH Hayliner 500 was manufactured from 1976 to 1982, made a 16x23 bale, 70 inch pickup, plunger speed of 93 spm, came with a 172 cid 59 hp Ford 4 cyl gasoline engine. A Deutz 3 cyl., 173 cid, 55 hp diesel was available as an option on the Hayliner 505, beginning production date of 1983, and the 515, beginning prod. date of 1991..

Thanks for the info. Since the baler is labeled as an NH 500, my guess is that the Deutz engine has been cannibalized from a 505.

 

[flusher]

Thought I'd update this thread with photos of that baler in action.

It moves pretty fast. That 10 acre field was baled in about 30 minutes.
Poor lighting conditions due to early start (5:30am) and lotsa smoke in the air from the wildfires still burning in the foothills and mountains that ring the North Sacramento Valley.