Round bale wrapper

Deeredriver2520 · Sep 29, 2022

Looking to purchase a round bale wrapper. I have a small operation and dont want to get to big. My first cutting of hay is dry hay. Its my second cutting I cant get as dry as I want. So I thought about getting a round bale wrapper. Something simple but works good and reliable. Id be wrapping my second cutting. Can anyone tell me what they think would work good for me. My bales are 4 x 5. Your input would be greatly appreciated!!!

rockgrower · Sep 29, 2022

Like most questions, it depends on the details. I have the cheapest wrapper I could find <$4000. It will wrap bales just fine, but is slow. Operates off tractor hydraulics, so requires a tractor for wrapper and another loader to set bales on wrapper. Will work you to death if you try to do many bales by yourself. You are always in a hurry wrapping bales, so if you are going to do many at a time you need to have plenty of help or a wrapper with more features.

caterpillar guy · Sep 29, 2022

Maybe Bruce will come along. I think he used to wrap a boat load of bales with one. I would think you will need a baler to do silage bales to keep them from spoiling if they are not dry and not wet enough to ferment. Just my past experience with hay in general. With this thought I don't think you will find a regular round baler will work out well for this. I hope I'm wrong.

RogerinIowa · Sep 29, 2022

How many bales are you thinking of doing?

Have used individual bale bags, but less than 40 bales.

ohiodick · Sep 29, 2022

I have a newholland trailer type self loading has wrapped hundreds of bales no repairs and you can use a small tractor to run it. tried a 3point model takes a heavy tractor

Deeredriver2520 · Sep 30, 2022

I do have a baler to do silage bales

caterpillar guy · Sep 30, 2022

Well you're half way there with the silage baler. One of the details left out. Now Can they be put into a bag and not spoil? Never tried that we just chopped the hay and bagged it. This was before silage bales were around. We used to chop 3 bags of hay and 3 of corn and one of high moisture ear corn for feed. this was back in the 80's with 8x150 foot bags . Yup now they have something like a 10or12 x200 or so.

Amos Angus · Sep 30, 2022

Howdy, I have a hydraulic operated wrapper, I have wrapped first cutting hay, because the weatherman don't always hit it just right, unless you have a bigger tractor to move silage bales, you should reduce the size of your bales to match your tractor thats going to be moving them. I baled 4x4 silage bales and they are heavy, and I move them with a 100hp tractor

Amos Angus · Sep 30, 2022

also second cutting will be a more dense bale, because it will be mostly leaf and less stem

Bruce from Can. · Sep 30, 2022

If you are only wanting to wrap 200-300 bales each year a individual bale wrapper that goes on the 3pth of your tractor will fit the bill. There were early wrappers that were just a turn table, with a roll of bale wrap stretch plastic. My wife used to tie the plastic to each bale, then start the turn table, as it went around it would also Rita the bale as it turned so it was completely covered. Once you had the desired coverage of stretch plastic on the bale, the wrapper operator,( usually my wife in my case) would cut the plastic, and the wrapper would tip the bale off hydraulily. I would place the next bale on the wrapper with the tractor, and pickup the wrapped bale and take it to storage. Naturally you needed to have a bale grapple, and your loader tractor had to have a third function on the loader to operate the grapple. We did this for many years. But once we got over 500 bales it was far too slow. We paid $1,000.00 for our wrapper

495man · Sep 30, 2022

(quoted from post at 16:31:23 09/29/22) Looking to purchase a round bale wrapper. I have a small operation and dont want to get to big. My first cutting of hay is dry hay. Its my second cutting I cant get as dry as I want. So I thought about getting a round bale wrapper. Something simple but works good and reliable. Id be wrapping my second cutting. Can anyone tell me what they think would work good for me. My bales are 4 x 5. Your input would be greatly appreciated!!!

I do a few hundred wrapped bales a year. I have an Anderson RB200. It will last me a life time. Computer box counts the wraps, everything else is manual. Had it a few seasons now, no complaints.

It will handle a 4x5 bale easy, I mainly do 4x4.

You need a tractor with good hydraulics & single remote and solid CAT II 3pt. I run it on a 2wd 42 PTO HP utility with 15.4 GPM, handles it fine, I run engine at idle to run wrapper and it works good.

Need two tractors of course, loader tractor and wrapper tractor. One person can do both jobs if you swap seats, but goes faster with an operator on both tractors.

Fordfarmer · Oct 4, 2022

I bought my cousin's H&S Linewrap when he quit doing custom baling and wrapping. Easy for one person to run, and uses way less plastic than individually wrapped bales. Down side is, they're hard to find used, and more expensive than most idividual wrappers.
As has been pointed out, you need a baler than can make high moisture bales, and because of the weight, you may need to reduce the size. 4x4 is generally as big as you want to go, for hight moisture.

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