AUSSIE SURPRISE
Eurwyn Morgan from North Wales has a stationary baler, but its identity has long been a mystery. He has spent hours painstakingly trawling the internet looking for pictures of a similar baler, hoping this would help to identify his own example, but to no avail. His father, George Morgan, bought it. But George never knew the make of the baler either, as when he bought it, the machine was already well used.
Deciphering the marks
As far as Eurwyn can recall, the baler has always been red with yellow wheels, so when he came to restore the old heirloom, he re-painted it in the same colours. “There is no maker’s plate anywhere on it,” says Eurwyn, who has stripped the baler right down and would have spotted anything resembling a maker’s name if it was there. “There’s nothing stamped on the frame either, just a few letters and numbers, one of which seems to be a letter H.”
The presence of this letter made Eurwyn wonder if the baler might be an International Harvester, but as there is no obvious IH, this seemed unlikely. The stamped letters on the frame appear to read HB11, and
