A self propelled Baler you can buy today

Saw one of these on a dealers lot yesterday. Bout a mile down from a biomass ethanol plant. They had one on the lot When Vermeer was rolling out the prototypes to the public also.

Perfect for the operator who can dole out a quarter mill for a baler!!

Didn't want to hijack the other two SP baler posts.

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Freeman still sells one you can buy to . Those Vermeer balers would be pretty neat to have
Freeman

So is the Vermeer in production now ? I had forgot about those until you posted this . $250,000 sure would buy an awfully nice tractor i can?t think a new round Baler could cost over 60,000$ could it ?

I scored a copy of CH Wendel?s tractor encyclopedia at a shop yesterday. Early in the book he lists this century old gem.

That is cool

This ones not self propelled but if you had a front mounted gyro rake you?d have a one person one pass operation. There?s a ton of failure points but it?s a very interesting concept.

These days that only takes around 10,000 bales to pay for, knock out a tractor and baler, move one machine, probably not hard to put a pencil to.

When the baler (rear) part wears out you can replace the rear baler with new and keep using front (tractor) part.That was the original plan local dealer said.

a tractor with a loader that can pull the baler pull the swather pull the rake and load the hay on semis to get it out Of the field and save about 40 grand Most people buying a lot of hay that are transporting it very far don?t really want round bales around here anyway so that would leave a pretty narrow market of who would could use it . Pretty neat outfit though it would be fun to spend a summer or two Running that

Zero turn....nice

The only problem with Mr. Wendel's entry here is that the baler was not built by the Ann Arbor Hay Press Company. The Ann Arbor Hay Press Company didn't build any Hay Presses at all! The Ann Arbor Hay Press Company existed only briefly, set-up by a disgruntled employee (former employee in the end!) who wanted to add a wire tying mechanism to an Ann Arbor baler built by the real Ann Arbor hay baler manufacturers, the Ann Arbor Machine Company (formerly the Ann Arbor Agricultural Company). Within about a month of first registering his company,John Christensen had won a court battle against his former employer (about being able to use the name'Ann Arbor Hay Press Company'), decided not to challenge the appeal against this decision and put his lot in with a money man just down the road at Ypsilanti;... ... and 'Wolverine' Hay Presses were born!... ... built by the newly formed 'Ypsilanti Hay Press Company'.
The self-propelled 'stationary' baler built around 1910 by Ann Arbor was one of a small number of such balers built by manufacturing companies at this time. Another one of significance was the 'Tractor Hay Press' built by the Ohio Tractor Manufacturing Company. There are records of several enterprising hay contractors and farmers building their own similar machines, often using a truck chassis to do it. If I'm able to attach a picture of one or two to this, I will.
Incidentally, Ann Arbor claimed their self-propelled baler could pull a 3 ton load behind; perhaps an exaggeration but certainly capable of pulling a small hay rack or a water cart.
Great conversation!