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Mark: 9' haybine will tax the 340 to it's limit, however it sounds like your not cutting 30 acres per day. 60% of all the hay ever baled across North America has been done by tractors with 25 to 30 hp. If you have level ground and the baler is pre 1970 New Holland with thrower, you'll have no problem with the 340. I've baled the ocasional load pulling wagon and using thrower on a NH Super 69 pulled by my Farmall 130. I don't recommend it but it was better than waiting until my 300 or 656 were finished with silage. It was hay that got too dry for silage, so rather than pull the other tractors, and make my problem worse, I baled it with 130. I had a neighbor down the road, 7 months stored feeding of hay for 160 holsteins, probably 300 ton of hay and the heaviest tractor he owned was a 340. He dropped all his bales on the ground. It was all mowed with 7' mowers. And that was new for 1958. until that time he used a fleet of 100, 130, CS, 200, 230, etc. His 75 year old dad ran the baler and had one speed, FASTER.
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