NH 68 Baler.....Pros Cons, Please..

They all want fairly uniform windrows and yes you can put too much through them by either rolling up too much in the windrow or hitting it too fast or some combination therein. The quick fix to that problem is as you imply a bigger capacity baler and the key to that is real simple, it's more of that green stuff.

Lemme know where those $150 68's are at, I'd like a few more.

The only bad thing I can say about NH is that some of the parts (needles, knotter stuff) are expensive, at least compared to what we used to pay for corresponding Deere stuff. We haven't had to replace anything of real consequence on the 68 in the 5 or 6 seasons we've had it. (The NH66 was a different story). We hook on the 68, use it a few days, then rustoleum or grease the shiny parts and park it for another year. NH is good about manuals, parts availability.

Some might note that the hay pickup and transfer parts groups are more elaborate than what the other people did. I think they work better as a result.

Other than that, they are the first name I think of when it comes to haying equipment.