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Not sure why I'm wasting my time talking to you, but here we go again.

Number in a book are one thing, I'm not trying to make you look as bad as you are. From what farmers I have talked to some small and some the biggest and best in our area. Not sure why or if you ever baled with a 69. Allison family said you well his words " your pulling every ones chain." This is a farmer of some 70 some years had a dairy and was in the chicken busness etc. So he was around when the s69 was new, said they are and were a good baler, but not in the class of todays balers. Guys from Bulter, PA area. said: NOW there baler is 4 year old NH top of the line some 128 (maybe more) stocks per Minute said: "it takes them all day to bale and store 1000-1200 per day every day." By the way they do 30,000 of timothy not in a good or bad year, every year!! The most hay they can bale is right around 2000 in a day, I asked him on a strench what can you think you can bale in a day he said that is about it, maybe if we started too early and ended too late pushing it maybe another 500, makeing it 2500. You can read and do what ever you would like about time and wieght , ratios but the facts are the facts here in the east any way , I'll at least give you that, MAYBE IN THE WEST, but here it is all but impossible to bale 4500 or for that matter 3500 in one day with one machine of the year you are talking about, by todays standards balers for the same basic size it is still all but impossible. Question for you , maintenance
for the s69 how oten were you to do it , now by the book ? Oil the chains and greese pick up knotter etc.

Hey Mr. Mckay how many bales can a older S77 do in a day , if you could get the S69 I bet you can do 6000-7000 they had a better baling speed for use not by the Book, they were and if you ever baled with one were eating machines, I was five and can still recall it just going right throw a huge mess of hay with todays balers you have to slow down or break something, boy that old baler was like a monster to me. Allsions said it had a bigger in take then the S69. You could feed it allot more.

Mr Moldovan

P.S. I don't have to name call!!! And I have a few more to ask but I already talked to the biggest square baler around.

I know you guys are saying that 300 bales on 40 acres is nothing but consider that I got the first measurable rain in 3 years last summer.

I try not to post about things I know nothing about, so I won't get into the number of bales a day controversy in areas I know nothing about.

However, I used a NH super 77 for many years and it was a very good machine and made good, well shaped bales. I later got a NH 67 and used it a long time. The 67 had much more capacity than the 77. It was a later baler and the technology had improved. The 69 was a still later model and should have much more capacity, but I have never used one. This was a period of rapid improvement in square balers, and like you said much of the improved speed came from more strokes per minute.

KEH

Have A Good One !!

Teddy

So basically Punchie decided to start this new thread, to see if he couldn't beat this dead horse to a pulp.

It is the time of year, me thinks.

In the dead of winter we all get a little edgy, a little grumpy and we've all just got a touch of plain old fashioned cabin fever while waiting for spring to get here.

Now, I'm not standing up for anyone, nor am I questioning anyone's numbers, but I can say that with age our memories do tend to fade and get a little bit "fuzzy" sometimes.

Case in point: I've been rackin' my brain for over 20 years trying to remember the model number of the New Holland baler my old hired man owned back in the 70s because it left such a positive impression in my mind in the way it would put up hay. That was the hay-eatingest baler I've ever seen!

For quite a number of years at every cutting of hay, here he would come with that big shiny outfit, treated it like a newborn babe, lubed it, adjusted it, oiled it and tinkered on the beast until it was humming like a new car engine. It drove me nuts that he was sooooo picky with the darned thing, but it was an absolute killer of a baler.

But I just could not remember the model number!

So, last month, I just happened to run into the hired man's dad. We're visitin' for a few minutes and I asked him what the heck the model of that silly baler was 'cause it was drivin' me crazy that I couldn't remember.

He told me that the boy had never owned a baler in his life. Come to find out, he had been borrowing it from another neighbor all along.

I had just forgotten.

So, I suggest we just lay this topic to rest, hey? Just leave it alone.

Allan

PS. By process of elemination, it turns out that the old baler was a 851. :>)

Who friggin' cares!!!!! Worry about getting your own hay in the barn and let others do theirs.

Jim

I talked to a number of full time farms in our area. They say 2500 would be tops. And farther more a NH 69 would have a good job of baling 1500 in one day let alone 4500 of any size. Most are beef and older Dairy men, they say the most any of them have done is 1000-1200 with a good crew and one baler. I have yet to talk to a family that sale hay for a living. I will this week and ask them what baler they are using, a couple of years old top of the line NH cost them some $$ . They do 30000 - 35000 bale of Timothy a year 1 st cutting him and his Dad. But they have top of the line equipment. They all said 500 in our area is a good number to make top grade 1st cutting. Per day, day after day after day. For any setup, one baler. That was my thinking.

Teddy

P.S. Posted late as to not feed this fire any more.

In Reply to: Re: Baling Hay numbers . posted by Punchie on February 04, 2006 at 21:37:49:

Teddy: That is a cowardly way of doing it, but then what could one expect. Time you woke up and read the numbers, manufacturers rating on most of these balers was 15 ton per hour and in any bodys book that 100 ton per day. Most balers I've seen were better than the rating by the manufacturer.