thommoos
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Gonna be close a 4x6 is a minimum 50 hp, I have ran 6x6 baler on a 45 hp before, slow but it worked.
daniel.carver":2lg28fca said:You all are great!
I've got a guy over at Pearidge AR, about 1 hr away, & he wants to sell a Hesston 5510 5X5 round baler for 1200.00, But I think that may be to much for 50 H.P. What do you all think.
Thanks, Dan
Cabo":tmiivqxd said:daniel.carver":tmiivqxd said:You all are great!
I've got a guy over at Pearidge AR, about 1 hr away, & he wants to sell a Hesston 5510 5X5 round baler for 1200.00, But I think that may be to much for 50 H.P. What do you all think.
Thanks, Dan
Your tractor will turn it ok but will it handle it if you are in hills? You can make the bales as small as you want as I think it has an electric tie that you start when it gets as big as you want. That is a simple baler to repair if you know which way to lock the cam lock bearings.
sounds like something a salesman would say that has no idea what he is talking aboutkjonesel":2t1jd1zo said:I bought a Krone KR181 last year for $800.00 spent an additional $400.00 for parts like roller chains, teeth, sprockets, twine tie wheel, and some oher small parts that could go wrong and were worn and I now have a reliable 5 x 6 baler. Two months ago I bought a M&W roung baler model 1800 which is identical to the Krone and it is ready to go to the field for it I paid $1,300.00. I have a MF 175 that I pull it with and have plenty of power. One of the best advantages of the soft center bale is that the cattle consume more hay with the ability to grab a mouthful and not have to work for a bite like they do when the bale is rolled tightly. I have been told but haven't read that a cow will only bite / work a limited amount of time for a meal and I believe that it is beneficial to make it easy for them to consume more hay. The other aspect is that they are so easy to operate, my son who has never operated a baler before was able to make beautiful round bales this past year.
I know that the M & W line was popular in central and northern Missouri and I have seen Krone in the SW part of your state. Maybe God will bless you like he has me with an affordable baler.
Angus Cowman":1qtrsjnw said:sounds like something a salesman would say that has no idea what he is talking aboutkjonesel":1qtrsjnw said:I bought a Krone KR181 last year for $800.00 spent an additional $400.00 for parts like roller chains, teeth, sprockets, twine tie wheel, and some oher small parts that could go wrong and were worn and I now have a reliable 5 x 6 baler. Two months ago I bought a M&W roung baler model 1800 which is identical to the Krone and it is ready to go to the field for it I paid $1,300.00. I have a MF 175 that I pull it with and have plenty of power. One of the best advantages of the soft center bale is that the cattle consume more hay with the ability to grab a mouthful and not have to work for a bite like they do when the bale is rolled tightly. I have been told but haven't read that a cow will only bite / work a limited amount of time for a meal and I believe that it is beneficial to make it easy for them to consume more hay. The other aspect is that they are so easy to operate, my son who has never operated a baler before was able to make beautiful round bales this past year.
I know that the M & W line was popular in central and northern Missouri and I have seen Krone in the SW part of your state. Maybe God will bless you like he has me with an affordable baler.
I have a ford sycle mower.thommoos":2lhwqqsq said:WHat king of cutter are you using also, sickle, drum or disc?
MU done some of the sam studies and had some of the same results BUT The results were different if you were running larger herds or if you were unrolling and giving them only enough that they would would clean it up in 6-8 hrshillrancher":1rf8a6ed said:From U of A bails set out waste is 36% rolled out32% in rings 3%.
Bails stored on ground waste is 22% elevate 16% in barn 8%.
Accoring to U of A we need to build barns and buy hay rings.
I roll out on step slaps there is not much more waste than in rings. We have feed in the bottoms this year on the sand that was left last spring by floods.
agmantoo"[b:oyom3dq6 said:]I am not impressed by the data posted from the universities! [/b] I am the man that owns the cattle, owned the hay , owned the cattle and fed each bale. Properly feeding unrolled hay has little waste and timid cattle do not go wanting for feed! I do so many things that are unconventional or unacceptable that I have become skeptical to most practices and published nonsense. If you want to to continue to subsidize those that provide inputs to our industry and technical advice feel free to do so. Just remember where you got that guidance when cattle prices do drop and the profits shrink accordingly.