Farm Equipment - Optional pick teeth on roto-balers

Print Page | Close Window

Optional pick teeth on roto-balers

Printed From: Unofficial Allis
Category: Allis Chalmers
Forum Name: Farm Equipment
Forum Description: everything about Allis-Chalmers farm equipment
URL: https://www.allischalmers.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=209164
Printed Date: 04 Feb 2026 at 6:52am
Software Version: Web Wiz Forums 11.10 - http://www.webwizforums.com

Topic: Optional pick teeth on roto-balers

Posted By: dr p
Subject: Optional pick teeth on roto-balers
Date Posted: 30 Nov 2025 at 2:37pm

Anyone have any experience with the pick up teeth that bolt onto the pick up bar. Spent the day building a new pick up conveyer chain with these teeth and i was wondering if they work any better. Never really noticed a problem picking up hay.

Replies:

Posted By: Gary Burnett
Date Posted: 30 Nov 2025 at 8:31pm

If you have rock they are a big plus and they are good anyway.

Posted By: PaulB
Date Posted: 01 Dec 2025 at 2:54pm

To use them the covers on the triangle roller must be removed. A lot of short stem hay will fall back to the ground with those covers removed.

-------------
If it was fun to pull in LOW gear, I could have a John Deere.
Real pullers don't have speed limits.
If you can't make it GO... make it SHINY

Posted By: wjohn
Date Posted: 01 Dec 2025 at 8:34pm

dr p thank you for asking this. I have been interested in them ever since I noticed that a lot of the very last production balers I see for sale have those pickup teeth on them. Still need to get those belts on you sent me - I didn't end up attempting to bale straw this year since the wheat crop was pretty pitiful.

You used some original AC teeth and clips you found?

My older baler does not have the holes drilled in the conveyor slats but my converted #10 does have the holes. I presume they started adding them to all the slats at some point in production so that they could just be bolted on if a customer wanted them. I was hoping to add them someday but hadn't done any research on availability of something off the shelf that would work. I have lots of rocks here so they seemed like a no-brainer in my hay fields. It also seems like getting the pickup a couple inches off the ground might help avoid some issues, but it's interesting to hear that drawback mentioned, PaulB.

-------------
1939 B, 1940 B, 1941 WC, 1951 WD, 1952 CA, 1956 WD-45

Posted By: dr p
Date Posted: 02 Dec 2025 at 6:45pm

Good to hear from another rotobaler enthusiast. Always next year to put those belts on. Think i am on year three of this rotobaler project.
When i searched the vast wastelands of nos allis parts, i was only able to find two springs and a handful of mounting clips. However, Alex at a&w in Wisconsin had a source that was able to make 100 of them for me at what i thought was a reasonable price. My local machine shop was able to make the clips though i decided to increase the hole size to 5/16 from 1/4. Paul is right that you have to remove the guard over the triangular part but i have never seen the guard on any rotobaler. I wonder if i use the teeth, will it take some stress off the conveyor drive. If you use the slats and allow them to contact the ground, as the manual says, every once they get caught on rough ground and then the conveyor slip clutch kicks in.
Sorry about your wheat. My oats were the worst i ever grew this year too. Had to buy a load of peanut shells to bed the cows this winter