Chain baler

kub6040 · Aug 18, 2016

I have been looking at round balers and noticed some new
chain balers on the market. I only had experience with a
new holland 850 and wasn't impressed with it, I bale with
a vemeer 605 currently and I am wanting to make 4' wide
bales instead of 5' wide . I would like your opinions on
today's balers good bad and ugly. Thanks for your comments

Ken Macfarlane · Aug 18, 2016

There are only a few on the market now, the Krone and M&W style ones that I can think off. Both make softcore bales in a sealed chamber and have good reputations.

Its more a choice of how you feel about soft core bales. I've got a roller type soft core baler, 5x4. I really like it. The bales are about 100-200 lb lighter than a hardcore late model JD for example but I can get away with a couple of % wetter hay if I leave them out a few days.

rustred · Aug 18, 2016

well here is the good bad and ugly... i have an old new holland chain drive 851 baler. and new holland 489 9 ft. hay bine. i can bale each swath even without raking the hay. old and does the job. chain broke on my baler yesterday so i got the brother to bale the rest with his new new holland 7060 baler. impossible.. i had to rake 6 windrows of alfalfa together just so he could keep his baler full. otherwise the belts would just twist and made very poor looking bale. once he had a giant windrow to pickup it baled easy and made good bales. so u need a wide haybine and rake to match the baler typical new stuff. everything is made for high production. so for my few cows i will stick with my old junk that works. and the cows dont really care what kind of baler made their lunch, as long as its green they really like that.

kub6040 · Aug 19, 2016

I may have been slightly misleading as I don't plan on using a new holland but am looking at up grading to make more production , I have a 10 wheel v rake and can make a healthy wind row in one pass at a high rate of speed. I will probably use a 1600 oliver for power.

Alan K · Aug 19, 2016

Is your roller baler a OMC? Ive often wondered how do you keep an eye on the bale when you are making it? Ive always been able to see the bale enough through the belts to see if one side needs more than the other on the MF baler.

rustred · Aug 19, 2016

ok, the way i see it with any new equipment production is increased.but as far as which balers are better i dont know.and they are also so computerized that is another thing.

Ken Macfarlane · Aug 19, 2016

My roller is a MF, that is a rebadged Gehl, which is basically an OMC. First off it is no where near as sensitive to side to side variation. Second, if you do a bad job it hides it by making the core a little softer on the more empty side. If you don't look at that side you wouldn't know you screwed up.

There isn't really anything to look at while baling but if you squint you can see a bit of what is happening. As long as you don't plug the pickup in the first 10 ft or so it never fails to start a bale. The first 3/4 of the bale you can drive as fast as you'd like really. I was hitting 12-15 mph in some 2.5 ton per acre timothy this summer behind a 14 ft rake. The last 1/4 I progressively slow down to really pack the bale. If you don't slow down you get soft bales than don't hold their shape and are a pain to handle later.

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