John Deere 330 vs 335 Baler - Whats Different

Bill VA

Well-known Member

What is the differences (and similarities) between the John Deere 330 and 335 round balers? I see a lot of 330 balers, not so many 335 balers. A friend of mine has a (outwardly appearing) low bale count, barn kept 335 with hydraulic tie. They havent used it in years and when they did only made a few bales.

Any sage advice on this baler is appreciated.

Thanks!
Bill
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From the pics that is an early 335. Later ones had an all green pickup. The late 335's also had longer pickup teeth. I bought a new 335 in 1996. The price was marked down as the 446's were out. It was a demo machine and I paid $9600 for it. Ours was electric tie which was nice because at that time we had several tractors with single hyds. We baled thousands of bales of hay and corn stalks including custom work. We replaced all the pickup teeth 3 times (corn stalks is very hard on teeth) and replaced the drive chains twice. We had the belts resized three times and updated to the heavier splices. Never replaced a single bearing and the only in field down time was for a tension spring. Usually baled with a John Deere 3020 (70 hp) or my 2510 (54 hp). Dad ran it a few times with his 2040 (40hp) and got along fine with it. I also baled a good bit of hi moisture hay but you had to clean the drive roller every 10 or so bales. I bought a hi mositure kit for it but never got it installed. It was not fond of brittle straw as it would break up and pile up and could cause the belts to slip. Waiting untill the straw was a little tough worked good. The reasons I sold it were I wanted a baler with net wrap, a pickup wider than the baler. My guess is my baler had 15-20,000 bales on it when sold. The 4x4 bales were nice to handle and we sold a good many to horse people. I still have a 4x4 baler as they work good for my smaller tractors. If my baler would have had net wrap I would never have sold it. Tom
 
My round baler is NOT a JD. But it has a single tube hydraulic tie. It is very simple to operate (short learning curve), and has few complications. Just from listening to friends talk about the frustrations of electric tie on some of their older machines, I think having a simple but effective hydraulic tie might be an advantage. But, I do less than 100 round bales per year.
 

Ditto what Tom stated about later model 335 having electrically operated twine arms vs single hyd only operated twine arm on 330. I much prefer electrically controlled twine arms over hyd controlled.
Longer pickup teeth(7-1/4'' long) could have be installed on a 330.

My knowledge of JD 4 ft diameter rd bale balers is very limited as to my knowledge none to very limited few were ever sold in my area
 

I know 330 is the older model of the two.

I will say there were a lot of 335 balers sold here, many were used to make haylage.

4x4 and 4x5 balers are basically all that people have here, haylage and round bale silage are likely more commonly made than dry hay.
 

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