Balers and yuppie tractors

Compacts were "never" designed to be an ag farm tractor to bale hay with. The old tractors were. Companies like Kubota build there "M" series for farm ag tractors to bale with, so buy one of those if you want an ag tractor.

Use the compact for what it was designed for and it will hold up just fine. Baleing hay just wasn't one of the things it should be doing.

Robert

So, the lightly built newer tractors cannot handle the 'feedback' from the 50 hp stored energy & the peak demands of a square baler.

Old tractors were built much heavier in the rear end, no problems.

Many of the compact tractor warrenties explain this, check the fine print. The larger compacts are sometimes ok with it.

--->Paul

Despite what some people on the internet think you don't need a brand new 100 hp cabbed machine to make a couple of hundred small squares.

His machine would be fun to toot around and make a few bales on for fun. Probably won't brake anything and if so Kioti parts are pretty cheap. The electric engage pto is the scary party, I don't know if that model has a main dry clutch too so you can feather the pto load.

We are putting a little 50 hp kubota to work baling this year. An aquaintence does 4 cuts of 80 acres of his own and some of his partners 120 acres with the same kubota model. The land is in Michigan and is heavily fertilized for maximum production. He pulls a JD336 with thrower and wagon and also pulls a brand new NH 4x4 rounder.

The rounder is pretty easy on stuff, he said the first year he loaded some of the bales too tight and broke some overload shear pins in the baler. Tractor had no trouble spinning any of it.