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Mike(NEOhio)

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Newbury, Ohio
A Heston Rounder 5510. Been sitting in a barn for a long time. Former manager of the property told me they got it with plans to ship hay to Florida but never used it.
Close to home. The properties have changed owners and some old implements that were on an empty space have been removed. I'm considering going to rounds is my customers
will accept them as my custom bale guy is getting out of it. I have no experience with round balers.

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Is it a five footer? I see one twine coming out of the box and a electric actuator blow it. Does it tie one an shift to tie the rest? One loose wire hanging from the
top on the left side and a wire along the tongue. Looks like it uses one remote. Belts look pretty good. I have an Oliver 1550 RC to pull it. Or should I look for something smaller, I only do about 24 acres. Can two five foot bales go in a pickup?
 
If you've never ran a round baler you have a small learning curve. Raking hay correctly can save a lot of heartache. Double sided or 1 window against the other works the best. A single window requires moving from one side to the other to equally fill the baler. We used to count 12 seconds and then move so hay enters other side of baler. Double windows is just driving straight. We cut our field by making 4 passes across each end then cut rest of field in straight lines. Makes life much better than chasing around corners and keeping baler equally full so not to create a very loop sided bale. Larger windows work better than small as long as tractor clears them. We baled lot of alfalfa. Small window required bale to make many more revolutions thus beating leaves off stems and reducing quality of hay. my 2 cents
 
I had the previous model, the 5500. Similar machines. Technically, since there is no knot made, it wraps the bales with twine. That process is slow on these machines as there is only a single twine tube that goes from one end of the bale to the other then back, across the cutoff knife. You can see it above the pickup in your picture. It is controlled manually with a toggle switch. There is an indicator above the twine box with markings that show you where to stop periodically on the return of the twine tube to the knife to get a good wrap. You can stop the diameter at 4 feet if you want. I hauled two 5 foot wide bales end-to-end in a pickup with the tailgate down. The wire up top was for the maximum diameter limit indicator switch, which activated a light in the control box. Mine never worked the whole time I had the baler.
 
Thanks, found a youtube vid showing that process. Can it use plastic twine? I was thinking it tied one wrap then moved to tie another. It is five foot wide then? My customers are mostly horst owners with small barns. Don't know haw many would accept rounds. Just something I'm considering and I don't want to spend a fortune. I currently do between 1500 and 2000 squares.
 

5510 will make up to a 5x6 bale but can be adjusted to make a 5x5
Im thinking it is the last model of the closed through balers
Id keep looking for something a little newer like the Hesston 5545 that makes a 4 ft wide bale, it can be adjusted to make a 4, 5 or 6 ft tall bale
I went from a 5545 to a New Holland 640 auto wrap
 
Im thinking it is the last model of the closed through balers.

That sir is the demise of the Hesston as far as I am concerned. I had a 5x6 thinking a 5560 model, similar 4 belts and cross arms to
do the tieing, one eminating from each side and crossing over in the middle.

Kingsize PIA to get a bale to start and that's the reason I sold it....as soon as I found a sucker to buy it.

Went with JDs with the open throat and wide belts for better/tighter wrapping, flatter ends on the bale and aaaaaaah...like is good.
 
There it goes again. The first line of my reply is a quotation from the original post input. I had quotation marks on it when I wrote it but in posting none were shown.
 

I think TexasMark will agree that all make/model of round balers have a learning curve & the higher number of bales a person creates the easier it is to create level/nice appearing bales. Nice/flat/uniform windrows causes rd baler to be much easier to operate.
 
The Hesston 530 baler is just about the perfect size for horse people around here (mostly grass hay). The 530 chamber is 39 inches wide and the bales end up being just over 48 inches tall. They weigh around 300-350 pounds and can be rolled around by women who have horses. They will also bring the same price as a full 4'x4' bale. The 530 is simple to maintain and has five 4.8 inch belts on it. Starts a roll very easily. They can have manual, electric or hydraulic powered twine threader. The Case/IH 8420 was the same baler with different paint. New Idea and Massey also put their paint on the same baler. Hesston still makes it and calls it an 830, I believe. The Hesston 540 is very similar in design and makes a 44"x48" roll.

Garry
 
One thing I've learned is that within reason, a fat, wide, WW makes for a better bale. On the navel that I used to get...primarily from
narrow, low volume WWs your telling me to do a fast zig-zag to start the roll has really paid off. Hardly get them any more. Course
my place is very irregular, not a perfectly flat, long, narrow field and that does present problems in trying for perfect bales.
 

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