Ground speed for round baling

Bama Ray · Jun 6, 2012

What ground speed do you round bale? I have seen some of the vermeeer videos that show round balng at a very fast speed it looks too fast for me. I have a 504M I Bale at one gear lower than I cut with my disk mower. I had a neighbor tell me I was going too slow with my baler. He tells me i get my hay too tight and will cause me problems with my baler.

Case Nutty 1660 · Jun 6, 2012

I have a 505 super I Vermeer in 11/2-3 ton per acre hay with two 14' windrows put together I run 6.5mph in lighter hay or single windrow baling I run 7-8mph cnt

Tx Jim · Jun 6, 2012

I rd bale at 5-6 MPH depending on roughness of the field. Granted the slower the baling speed and the smaller the windrow then the tighter the bale.

Jerry/MT · Jun 6, 2012

If you want good round bale, go slow. I feed with a bale spinner and if the bales are put up at too high a ground speed they just fall apart all over my lanes and I can"t control my feeding.I spent a couple of inter pichinghay from the lanes across the fence til I found someone who knew how to make a good round bale.

oldtanker · Jun 6, 2012

While you can run as fast as the baler will feed without plugging most of the time it's hard on equipment because fields can be ruff. I bale 3-5 MPH depending on how heavy the hay is. A friend bales about 5-8 MPH. He has newer nicer equipment.

Rick

tjdub · Jun 6, 2012

I don't think it matters to the baler if you go slower. Just more wear, I guess.

Personally, I feed that windrow into the baler just as fast as it will take it (5-10MPH). I like to unroll bales in the winter and if I go slow when baling it's almost impossible to get them to unroll worth a darn.

Also, I think you lose a lot more leaves when feeding the hay into the baler slowly.

rrlund · Jun 6, 2012

As fast as the baler will take it.

old · Jun 6, 2012

MPH I do not know but I have learned that if to slow you do in fact get a tighter bale and it will also be a lot heavier. I run an Oliver Super 88 and use 3rd gear with it and still get a real heavy big 6X6 bale pulling a NH850

Texasmark1 · Jun 6, 2012

As fast as you can hang onto your seat, or the throat can gobble the hay. I always watch the throat and I speed up till it just starts to bunch and hold it there. Course windrow size varies so speed varies but you have my benchmark. Works for me.

Mark

rabbit-1 · Jun 6, 2012

I had a field that I double raked. My NH 268 was almost choking on it, even at a very slow speed. Was injured by the baler on second round, got neighbor to finish with his round baler. Clocked him between 12 and 15mph with my 4wd SUV, car was just a bounding. How he held on was beyond me.

Ken Macfarlane · Jun 6, 2012

You do, the more turns it takes to form the bale the more bale you leave on the ground. Park with a full bale and just from tying you see a nice heap of leaves under the baler.

Anonymous-0 · Jun 7, 2012

Can't you adjust bale density on your baler.? Consult the manuals.

Ground speed for round baling

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