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This thread reminded me of a hay baler I fixed. It had been hit by a car in the chute. Was declared a total loss.

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I cut the chute off of a John Deere baler and grafted it onto the New Holland. Worked like a charm.

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Excellent. The deere part probably tripled the value lol.
Which is lucky, coz one of Randy's best days was when he sold his conventional baler.
 

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I like New Holland hay liners, my uncle had one and we put up 5500 squares a year and his 455 hay liner hardly ever had issues or missed a knot. He kept it cranked down too 80-100 pound squares.
 

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I like New Holland hay liners, my uncle had one and we put up 5500 squares a year and his 455 hay liner hardly ever had issues or missed a knot. He kept it cranked down too 80-100 pound squares.

This baler was a great one. I replaced a couple of bearings, a slide, and the knot wipers. After that, hundreds of bales without any issue.
 

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I have zero experience with new Holland implements. I do have more than one family member / friend with bad experience with their tractors since Fiat.
I haven’t kept up on it but last I knew New Holland became part of case. CNH and the guys I know still love them. Used to like the old stuff they had when Ford owned them seemed real well built
 

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I haven’t kept up on it but last I knew New Holland became part of case. CNH and the guys I know still love them. Used to like the old stuff they had when Ford owned them seemed real well built
Guess I bevy realized fiat had their hands in it from the point case acquired new holland.
 

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Just realized I’m like everyone else and have way to many projects. I still have a 1978 hodaka sl250 that originally was my uncles then passed through a couple owners after and I acquired it in a state of neglect. But maybe this winter I’ll sand it down repaint the tank install new graphics and rebuild the blown top end. People don’t realize you can’t ride an air cooled enduro bike like a yz 250 power shifting at 8000 rpm.
 

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this is like the other one he had and I have yet to track it down, the guy that had the 250 also owned this one but sold it separately in running shape. Just wish I would have had the 600$ for them when my uncle offered them both to me still in nice shape and both running
 

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Chrome or orange tank? They had the hotter 100cc engine in them with a better pipe than what my uncles road toad had. Also made the 80 dirt squirt, 90 ace, 100 ace, 125 wombat and combat wombat, 175 sl and 250 ed thunderdog.
 

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Chrome or orange tank? They had the hotter 100cc engine in them with a better pipe than what my uncles road toad had. Also made the 80 dirt squirt, 90 ace, 100 ace, 125 wombat and combat wombat, 175 sl and 250 ed thunderdog.

Chrome tank. Was a cool old bike. But I wound up with a YZ100 and the Super Rat wasn't as fun.
 

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Chrome tank. Was a cool old bike. But I wound up with a YZ100 and the Super Rat wasn't as fun.
I could see that, little different class of bike. The combat wombat 125’s had a little more grunt. Fuji made all the hodaka engines. Kinda funny how many 2 cycles Fuji made and now they don’t make anything but Subaru cars. The built all polaris star engines from 1971-1997 along with all the polaris atv’s engines same time period. Also built these hodaka engines and several other smaller snowmobile manufacturers engines plus golf carts ect.
 

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Chrome tank. Was a cool old bike. But I wound up with a YZ100 and the Super Rat wasn't as fun.
I think my dad still has his 1976 yz100. I remember trying to find a few parts for it being very difficult. Pretty much everything was toast on it. Engine had who knows how many hours. I doubt it was ever rebuilt. Had hardly any compression left but it wouldn't die. Gotta do some work to my 1989 cr125. Just got new fork seals and bushings in the mail today. I got that bike in 2009. Was a basket case... had to split the case and rebuild the crank. Found a sleeved cylinder for it on Ebay and it needed bored 1mm over. Let my friend borrow it and he damn near killed himself. He was riding on asphalt with it balls out in 6th gear and hit a pregnant whitetail. He broke his arm and was covered in road trash. Bike didn't fair to well as it bent the wheel, forks and buckled the frame. Luckily I had a parts bike I bought years ago. Pretty much just needs seals and bushings installed to be ride able again. I have a 2015 rmz450 but, I still like my old beater cr
 

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One good (or bad, depending on how you see it) thing about Mini's is they usually don't have that many hours on them. If you have the patience to work on them, most can be put back to work with not much expenditure.
 

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Last thing is painting the plastic air filter cover with the yellow the powder coating was matched to.
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Apply the custom decal made by John @41FanForLife from pictures and measurements I sent him.
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And last was a couple coats of clear to seal the decal in hopes it stays there.
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I'll be letting this cure in the house fir quite some time before installing it. Once installed I'll mount up the bar and get a final pic or two. What comes after that, well probably more setting and polishing than using it but have no fear, it will get run time at least a couple times a year. One for sure at Kevins GTG in East Jordan.

Freakin' awesome Steve! I knew it would go to a good home when I sent it!
 

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Last thing is painting the plastic air filter cover with the yellow the powder coating was matched to.
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Apply the custom decal made by John @41FanForLife from pictures and measurements I sent him.
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And last was a couple coats of clear to seal the decal in hopes it stays there.
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I'll be letting this cure in the house fir quite some time before installing it. Once installed I'll mount up the bar and get a final pic or two. What comes after that, well probably more setting and polishing than using it but have no fear, it will get run time at least a couple times a year. One for sure at Kevins GTG in East Jordan.
Slick!
 

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I had a Hodaka Super Rat when I was a teenager. Pretty cool bike.
Randy, I was the proud ( maybe a little unlucky) owner of a Hodaka 125 Super Combat Wombat back in the early 80's. It belonged to my step dad. It taught me to respect ( read=mind numbing fear) old 2stroke dirt bikes and kick starting the beast. Boy that sucker could fly. Bent the forks jumping a spillway at the lake in our neighborhood.
 
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