@woodland creature that's a very fair point and in all honesty I don't have enough knowledge of vintage farm machinery to judge for myself. I will say the previous owner considered it beyond repair and my dad bought it and with many hours and a little money he got it working. He told me he enjoyed baling hay and the machine itself but it's been a money pit since he got it and he said (among other problems) that a lot of the internal parts were worn out and it suffered from severe overheating. The clutch is out and the knotting mechanism is too worn to work. I'll look around a bit before I begin disassembling it but not sure I'll have much luck.