302 square baler?

I believe the 302 was one of the US made ones. There were a few models of Allis square balers. I could be misremembering, but I think the 442 and 200 were the British ones while the rest were US. All were built along similar principals, used some similar parts, and for the most part all had great reputations. Although never officially confirmed, you can see a pile of similarities between the Allis balers and the British-made Long balers, which also had excellent reputations. I suspect there was some back-and-forth between the two companies.

They used Rasspe knotters, as did New Holland and Deere, so they were good knotters and parts are readily available. Just look up what New Holland models were built in the same year range and knotter parts are most likely the same. The needles, however, are unique to the Allis balers, so you want to make sure they're good, and that you're in-time with the plunger stop working well to prevent shearing a needle.

I have a 442 and have done a lot of work to a neighbour's 303 - both have served us very well. Only irksome part was the plunger bearings for my 442. The Allis used 3" and 2" diameter rollers, while the common ones that other manufacturers used were all 2.5". There was enough adjustment for me to use the 2.5" in place of the 3", but for the 2" ones I had to use a cam follower/track roller from my local bearing supply. See link below. Note that this was for the 442, and the 302 has quite a few differences, but principals are the same.

Hard to go wrong for $300. Just maybe make sure you've gone over it and have tried it out before relying on it. It would be bad to get 300' into the first windrow of dry hay with a storm coming on and have it blow apart.

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Toddnwil....If you pass on it let me know...And if its gets on my trailer, I will buy you lunch...Thanks...Dale

Thanks for all the info. Prolly go and look at it and pull it home. The nice part is we have a really nice round baler so it won't have to be to reliable. My brother and I are decent mechanics and like a good challenge!

dr p wrote: For 300 dollars you can get a rotobaler. Then you can use all your free time to practice your swearing

you can also practice your swearing with an IH square baler.

Hopen to go look at the baler tommorow if it rains. We really don't need a square baler but my kids have a couple show calves tied up and it would be nice to have a couple hundred small squares a year. It would also be fun to show my kids and my brothers kids how we baled hay when my brother and I were young. We made alot of money stacken hay for our neighbors! My thought was we could expand our AC collection!