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Massey Harris #1 Special Baler

This one is a Massey Harris Hay Baler approximately early 1950s no sure on that exact date.
It was powered by take off or by motor. This one did have motor on it and in the restoration process we did not have a motor so we are waiting for that. The motor sat in this area in here and when it did not have the motor there would be a powered take off shaft that ran through that hole in their, that is closed up and would power it that way. This one the motor would sit here and the big drive belt would go around here and around the big pulley and drive the machine again picked up the hay or material you are baling with a pick up and carried it up into the transfer chamber to read over to the plunger. We are going to have a demonstration on how the machine actually moved as the hay came in from the top this huge plunger from the top pressed it down and then you can see the needles getting out of the way and as that pushed the hay down then the main plunger that went forward is no going to start moving back pushing the hay into the major into the camber where the baler will actually take place. You see the big plunger coming forward here pushing forward and this one will lift up out of the way and as it goes back the hay is pressed into this chamber. After enough hay got in the needles then are triggered and they go back around. And take the baler twine around the baler and finish the tying process. We've completed once cycle and tied the bale.

Filming: Marty Haldane
Filming: Alison Marshall
Voice: George Campbell
Editing: Jon Thomson

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Tractor power to cut wood
2000
Sunnybrook Farm Museum Red Deer Alberta Canada