John Deere 375 and NH 853 round baler

I'm looking at two balers right now the JD 375 and a NH 853 and trying to decide which to buy. Both have been well taken care of and are in good condition. I'm a small operation and will probably only bale 100 bales or so per year unless I decide to do some custom work after I run it for a while and get comforyable with it. Anyone have some positives or negatives on ether of these machines. This would be my first round baler I normally bale small squares.
 
The chain balers are great until the chain breaks
and turns itself into a double pretzel 🥨. If you did
buy the New Holland check the bolts that hold the
apron tubes to the chain when they went to the
single bolt to hold the tubes on instead of the two
smaller bolts they eventually get a little loose and
the bolt breaks and it will turn a nice baler into a big
hunk of scrap metal
 
The chain balers were a good baler in their day. But they haven t been made for decades, and theres a reason. They really shouldn t be close in price. Between those two the Deere would be my choice every time.
 
I agree with you. But the chain balers aren?t that bad
if the chain is good but when it finally does break
and it will then you?ll curse than day you ever saw it
nothing like hay to bale and you?re trying to take a
truckers knot out of your apron chain . When a belt
breaks it?s an hour job to pull it out and relace it and
stuck it back in
 
(quoted from post at 03:02:01 06/18/19) Krone makes chain balers
Yes, but not really the same thing. The Krone is a fixed chamber baler, it doesn t quite work the same way. And I m not saying they re a bad baler, there are still a lot of people using them. But if those two balers are even remotely close in price, the belt baler is the only way to go.
 
I like the NH chain balers but they don't bring anywhere neat the money a JD baler will sell for.Matter of fact I have a NH 853 here now I bought for parts for $100 at an auction
that only needs some work on the pickup to bale hay.
 
My 855 would make just as tight of bale as a 535
John Deere the problem is the New Holland is ten
thousand times harder to maintain . The newer
series of chain balers will make a tight bale and
Wraps the bale a lot tighter than the old 851
 
Bingo again Mr. Jim.

In answering the post, I had a JD 530 which baled a 5x6 roll, said to be 1600# for a JD reference, which was pulled by a 100 PTO hp JD 4230 and at times
I could make it grunt and had a variable pressure adjustment for bale tension. I retired and bought a 57 PTO hp Branson and changed to a JD 375 which
bales a 5x4 bale at about half the weight of the 530...all things being equal with no capability to vary bale pressure and density..

The 375 was making sloppy bales and the gate lift cylinders provide the pressure on the rolls while baling......i installed a gauge on the circuit and bale
tension was around 1200 PSIG. After last season I bought a new high pressure popoff which controlled this pressure. Wala.....this year I was baling tight
rolls and the pressure jumped up early in the rolling process to 2800 to 3000.....the rated release pressure of the valve.

I never had a NH baler but around here commercial operators either use all JD equipment or NH cutters and rakers and JD balers. Once in a while you see
a NH chain baler but never saw one working......field sitters.

I had 3 JD Swathers over the years and one.....that's one NH. All my parallel bar rakes have been JD.......one of the reasons is they just work and work
and work.

My baler is a '91 yearmodel, paid $5k for at from an auction site but outright sale, not auctioned. Don't know how many bales had gone through it, most
of the belts were and are original. Had half a dozen roller bearings go out on the accessory rollers which I replaced working alone with $18 bearings over
the 12-14 years I have had it....contribute that to the PO leaving it parked out in the weather......I keep my equipment shedded. I repacked the gate
cylinders a couple of years ago and last year the high pressure cut out as I mentioned. HTH
 

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