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HAY BALER? NO, A HAY PRESS

By David Timmermann & Karen Proenneke

804 Bergdahl Court, Mt. Pleasant, IA 52641

One of the many crowd pleasing demonstrations at the 1985 Old Threshers Reunion held August 29th through September 2nd in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, was my John Deere Dain Motor Press.

While I (David) was visiting a fellow tractor collector, I mentioned my desire to own an old hay press with eccentric gears like the one my grandfather used. I felt the shifting gears would make a very interesting exhibit for the Old Threshers Reunion visitors. The man happened to have traded for a 1937 John Deere Dain Hay Press and was undecided as to his need for the machine. Eventually I bought the press, which I found two states away in Arkansas, but it was manufactured only two towns away by the former Dain Manufacturing Company, now the John Deere Ottumwa Works in Ottumwa, Iowa.

The hay press was par...

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