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What round baler to buy

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Keith Molden

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With the costs of teen age labor getting higher and the quality of help getting lower, I'm thinking of buying a round baler. As I sell all my hay to mostly horse people, I'd like to find one that makes 4X4 or 4X5 bales. I use a Massey 255 that has a single set of remotes so I guess I'd need one that is a hand controled tie unless I can put double remotes on without too much expense. I'd probably only be doing 60-80 bales a year with the rest still being square bales. Would like to find a used one. What one do you guys think? I have a Massey dealer in my area & that's about all. Keith
 
I forgot to mention that we DO have a J.D. dealer in our area, but he sure is proud of that green paint LOL. Off brand stuff on his lot costs more just sitting beside his green. keith
 
(quoted from post at 06:16:55 08/11/10) I forgot to mention that we DO have a J.D. dealer in our area, but he sure is proud of that green paint LOL. Off brand stuff on his lot costs more just sitting beside his green. keith
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Have a case/IH dealer the same way. They'll sell as scrap before lowering prices also.

Dave
 
Keith; Hello. We have a Vermeer 605F.hyd tie, open throat, which makes a tight bale up to 1500#. Cheap to buy, parts are no problem to get. As far as duel hyd. goes, I just added a duel valve, and wire the single tractor hyd. open. Works grt. Good Luck Bobmn
 
If all you have is a Massey dealer,I'd go with a Hesston for sure. You don't want to get a bunch of hay on the ground with rain on the way and have to drive half a day for parts if you break down.
Don't worry about the dual hydraulics,most of them have electric twine arms nowdays anyway.
 
Buy somthing that has local dealer support,even t5he best/newest doesnt work if the dealer is 100 miles awey(in my case,300).Stay local
 
I am useing my brothers M&W has round bars with chain on each side solid drum.Like a chain baler I guess.This has an electric tie,very little moving parts and so simple almost any kid could figure out how the whole thing works.he bought it new and I changed the first bearing on the chain this year.(snap ring and hammer about 10 min work.)He won't sell it because he says it always works and he never had anything break on it.It only makes the 4x4 or alittle bigger bale,he has a 5x6 now
 
(quoted from post at 22:43:24 08/11/10) WHO WANTS TO MESS WITH TWISTED BELTS
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The only person I've ever witnessed twist rd baler belts on other than the very first rd baler models is the operator that doesn't know how to correctly bale a rd bale of hay. It's called operator error.

And the first "bundle not bale making" models should be scrapped instead of trying to bale hay with them.
 
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