Re: 1066 and head examined

Posted by Hugh MacKay on May 02, 2007 at 03:03:27 from (216.208.58.130):

In Reply to: Re: 1066 posted by chadd on May 01, 2007 at 07:40:01:

Chadd: Bear in mind I really meant no disrespect suggesting he should have his head examined. To start with anyone doing small square bales in 2007, must have a strong back and weak mind, unless he has hundreds of acres of flat land and automatic bale wagons. I also mean no disrespect by that statment, been there and done that. The last year I did small square bales was 1975, and did that with SA, 130, 300, 560 and 656, 9ft haybine, two rakes, baler with thrower and 5 - 20' wagons. Sure that system will put up a lot of hay if you have an army around to handle the bales at the storage. That was my biggest reason for leaving square bales, couldn't find the 15 men it took to keep that machinery working at peak efficiency. I actually baled more hay in 1965 with less horsepower.

Yes, you can talk all you want about 100 hp tractors and high capacity balers, but unless you have a system to take care of bale handling and storage, what good will a 100 hp tractor be. Automatic pickup bale wagons are the only way I can see one could keep up with bale handling. I've never had a bale wagon, neighbor did and it worked well on flat land, but I have seen him uttering a few choice 4 letter words on hills.

Even when I baled with Farmall 300 and NH S-69 with thrower, it took 15 men to handle those bales at storage, and you had to be unloading two wagons at the same time. If you put slide chute on baler and pull wagon it will only add to the labor demand. Dropping the bales on ground will only add more labor.

Nothing wrong with big tractors, but you need the equipment system to make them work. I never had my 1066 hooked to my square baler. I did hook it up to my round baler a few times. I found the 560 or 656 could round bale just as much hay per hour as 1066 and they were doing it on 1.5 gallons of fuel per hour rather than 5 gallons per hour with 1066. Something else I noticed and my baler operation was always done by hired help. There was a lot more hay left on field with 1066 baling, why?, because the tractor was just too big and clumsy for the job.

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