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will 30pto pull a JD346 baler?

Level fields? Soft or hard soil? Type of hay? Are both knives/knife-ledger plate factory sharp and set to factory specs? Pulling a wagon or dropping bales?
Depending.......... your tractor will either do just fine or it will be a helpless hazard.
 
In one ton per acre hay (no doubled or tripled windrows) it would probably handle it. A good first cutting here is 2.5 to 3.0 tons per acre and at that point I would want 70 PTO horsepower.
 
Jack Been a KUBOTA dealer for 28 years and Buickanddeer has pretty well told you like it is. More dependant on the terain than anything if it is hilly and soft ground, heavy hay no.
Good light hay and level ground kicking them out with no wagon yes. I bale with a L 4630 which is a little more tractor and a old 273 NH baler, don,t have any problems.
 
Pull a NH 268 with a Farmall 200. Ran it for several years with a JD B with wagon on behind. Ran it yesterday with a tired Farmall C - stationary. Yeah, doesn"t take all that much HP to run a small square baler. However, you want enough massive tractor so the baler doesn"t push the tractro around. They"re suprisingly heavy. Wife"s MF 180 just plays with the baler, wagon.
 
I don't have all the fancy talk, just doin my hay patch with my JD 14T and then a wire Ford that tied like 16 rather than 12 on the height....put out a bale that I could hardly lift.

I decided to see what my little Ford 2000 diesel could do one day so I hooked it up, hay was not grossly thick, terrain was slow rolling hills, the little Ford didn't even quiver on either.

Only problem was that it had a transmission driven PTO without an overrun clutch and the baler had to stop before the tractor would stop it's forward motion, or you had the ability to shift into N to stop the FM. Tugging power not a problem.

Mark
 

Some have reported on here that the drive train gets beat up from the back and forth action of the plunger on a light tractor. Also, that JD346 is a LOT more baler than the other balers mentioned. That being said, you don't have to run the things at full capacity and at a high ground speed.

KEH
 
sounds like the setup we have. we pull a 268 NH square baler with our MF 1080. The MF handles the baler well and the multi-power is a nice feature for the most part.
 
I have never been around a JD 346 baler, but I do not think it would be a wise choice to put behind your Kubota as I believe a JD 346 to be a rather high capacity baler that likes hp compared to the older vintage balers.

Your tractor will handle a baler, but I would pick a smaller lower capacity baler. (FWIW I bale with a Kubota L285 which is 26 max PTO hp and only about 23 PTO hp with throttle set for 540 PTO rpm).
 
If you have a light crop and a well adjusted/sharp baler you can hope to drop them on flat ground.
The problem you will encounter is that a 346 is NOT a small baler and if you get in a heavy crop it will want more than twice the power you have available to keep it running. The flywheel will carry it through a couple tough plunger strokes but after that the tractor will be down for the count.
If you were dealing with a 326/327 or some similar baler rated for a 35 hp tractor you'd probably be OK.
Again, it probably will run this one OK as long as you don't slug it or try to run it to capacity.

Rod
 
In the 1950's we used a Case DC, pulling a New
Holland small square bailer and a wagon, with no
problems,on a very hilly farm. In 1961 traded for an Allis D14, that was Anemic, slow, and
always stopping to let the bailer catch up. I
believe that the difference was,...the Case had
TORQUE!
 
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