A NH 575 can make a 115 pound bale???

lastcowboy32

Well-known Member
I was watching NH baler repair videos on youtube recently.

There was a comment on one of them talking about the horsepower requirements for a NH 575 baler. Essentially saying that the manual recommends 75HP and above...

The comment went on further to say...

That's only if you are running at the operational limits and making 115 pound bales. You could get away with less horsepower for lighter bales.

Now myself?

I don't have a NH575...or its manual. So that comment made me extremely curious.

A 115 pound bale? For.....what...like...small square baleage?

You'd have to make...like...a seven or eight foot long bale to get 115 pounds in a dry bale of hay.
 
Shoot if you tighten down most any square baler enough you can get bales in the 80-100 pound range very easy. Back when I was a kid and lived in Leigh NE I and my brother worked for a guy doing hay and his bales where in the 80-100 pound range all the time. Back then farmers wanted heavy bales because then meant they could put more hay in the barn in less space. Shoot if I wanted to I could make my NH271 make a 80 plus pound bale but it is old and I am old so I make bales in the 35 pound range to save on my back etc.
 

I'm with you...I'll stick to the 35-45 pound range.

I don't know what kind of twine you would have to use either.

I can bale 35-45 pounders all day...but if my bales get up into the 60 pound range, the knots will pop. I know it's an old baler...but darn...115 pounds...with two strings?

Maybe with wire.
 
Heavy bales are/where common. Shoot a couple years ago I had a lady that would not buy my hay unless I made bales in the 100 pound range and I told her sorry I'm not going to push my old NH271 that hard. I know it would do it if I really tried but I also figure it would also be hard on that old machine. And yes twine bales can be in the 100 plus pound range with no problems
 


Well, I'll take your word for it. It isn't, however, a life goal of mine to produce a 100 pound bale.

I am old enough, however, to remember 100 pound bags of feed that used to be common at feed stores. They weren't just bags of feed. They were a rite of passage into manhood.

Most places around here are down to 50. How are you going to train for carrying your bride across the threshold by handling 50 pound bags of feed?
 
When I was a kid in central Kansas 100 pound, more or less, were common. As someone else said, they allowed more hay to be stored (or hauled) in less space. I suppose there were some that went 115 in those days, but AFAIK the farmers shot for 100.
 

I should have added that they were all wire tied. I never worked with hay that was twine tied in those days (late 60s).
 
Those 100 pound bags of feed also came in cloth bags not paper bags and had some good designs on them so many got made into dresses etc. I can still remember seeing curtain made for old feed bags and other such things made form them. Shoot now days it is getting hard to find a true 50 pound bag of feed now days instead of 50 pound there 40 pounds. TSC, Orscheln's and other such farm and home chain store have 40 pound bags of feed. But then again you go to a store to buy sugar back in the day it was 5 and 10 pound bags now it is 4 and 9 pound bags to slip thing by so not be noticed your paying more for less
 
I friend of mine near Emporia made 100 pound bales with his John Deere 347(?) wire tie. That would wear you out handling them - especially since I was so used to picking and tossing bales by hand - the
correct way was to drag and push them into place using hooks when they were that heavy. A load of 150 on a wagon made for some real weight.
 
I remember back when I lived in Leigh NE the guy we worked for told my brother NEVER use 5th gear on the H when pulling a wagon load of hay. He told my brother the brakes where not good enough and he could get in trouble fast. Well my brother being the type of guy he was did not listen one time and almost learned the hard way that tractor take common sense to use. My brother had a college education and in doing so his common sense got taught out of him. Over the years I learned not to let my brother do many things because he had very little common sense
 
(quoted from post at 09:25:05 07/31/18) . Shoot a couple years ago I had a lady that would not buy my hay unless I made bales in the 100 pound range and I told her sorry I'm not going to push my old NH271 that hard.

She probably wanted heavy bales as she thought she was paying per bale; i.e. more hay for $$$.
I made the mistake ...ONCE... of buying hay at $4/bale without checking their weight. When they came they were maybe 25lbs!!!

It's nice to finally make our own hay, and now can dial in length and weight to suit 1) equipment, and 2) back pain.
 
I?ve done 100 pound bales with a 283 and no longer
than you would make a regular bale . I use to love
to see how much I could pack in em . I don?t know
what you have been baling with but 65 pound bales
are the kind you carry one in each hand around
here
 
(quoted from post at 17:13:29 07/31/18) I don?t know
what you have been baling with but 65 pound bales
are the kind you carry one in each hand around
here

For sure. Same here. But then again, around these parts and back in the day we had to walk 10 miles to school, barefoot, and in the snow, uphill, both ways!
 
I have a 570 and that thing will pack a tight bale. My hay runs in the 75 to 80 pound range.
 
I never worked with twine that would allow those heavy bales. It has been proved that the most efficient bales for random stacking in wagon
and barn are just a bit longer than they are wide. You can get some really tight dense bales that way without popping strings and they pile
about 90% as tight as stacked bales without anybody in the mow.
 
Tell it like it is old, its deceit, right smack in your face. I bought some Vienna sandwich cookies after a long hiatus and thought to myself, I dont care what price you put on it but give me the whole cookie.
 
575 is a 16x18 baler vs. the normal 14x18, so the bales are bigger to begin with. I've handled dry 14x18 bales that were 80lbs, that weren't as long as the baler could possibly make.

I can fathom a 16x18 baler in dry hay, with the chamber as tight as it would go and set to make the longest bale possible, could easily top 115lbs.
 
?575 is a 16x18 baler vs. the normal 14x18,?

The 580 is the 16x18 baler. 575 is a 14x18 baler, similar to the 570, but wider pickup, I believe heavier knotters and driveline. Great balers
IMHO.
 

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