Re: Best round baler

Posted by JD Seller on February 24, 2018 at 20:29:44 from (208.126.196.24):

In Reply to: Best round baler posted by Greenismeen on February 24, 2018 at 18:26:52:

I have had JD round balers since they brought out the JD 535 in 1989. I just sold my first JD 566 baler back in the spring. It had baled over 75,000 bales. We currently have three JD round balers, (2) JD 567s and one JD 568. We bale over 35,000 bales each year doing custom work. I will put a JD round baler against any one built in shredded corn stalks. In dry hay most of the modern balers will bale well. In corn stalks it take a GREAT baler to do so with any speed.

Two years ago my neighbor was looking at buying a new round baler. He was in my shop talking smack about how he thought a CNH baler would just eat a JD baler's lunch. He had demoed one in hay. So he had his corn stalks shredded. The local CNH dealer was bring out a baler and rake to demo. I asked him If we could come over for a side by side comparison. He said great. I called the CNH dealer, since he is a friend, and told him we would be there too.

When they got there they started raking the stalks. They where making 3 foot wide windrows. When they had raked about half the field I had one of my sons bring over our rake and double up every 3rd and 4th windrow they had raked. I wanted a WINDROW not a windrow. LOL The combined windrow was five foot wide by 2-3 foot tall. I had my JD 4455 and JD 567 Mega tooth baler ready. We started at the same time. I ran the baler two rounds. I jumped out and put my 14 year old Grand daughter back into "HER" tractor and baler. She can make it walk and talk. I told her to make fifty bales and quit. Fifty eight minutes later she was done. Between us we had made 62 bales in 75 minutes. Lets just say the CNH did not fair as well.

We brought over our feeder wagon with scales. If you throw a couple of 4x4s across it you can set a round bale on top and weight it. We had the neighbor pick 10 bales from each baler and we weighted them. Our bales averaged just under 900 lbs. The CNH just over 800 lbs. About 85 lbs. difference. The JD baler made more bales heaver and faster.

Not all of the difference was the balers. We bale a heck of a lot of stalk bales. I have worked with JD round balers for just at 30 years now. We set them up to bale stalks. JD nor CNH set them up like we do. We raise the baler up as tall as we can get it. That opens the throat up to the max. We remove the compression rack in stalks. We then rake LARGE windrows and crowd the stalks into the pickup and belts. It takes 125 HP minimum to run a larger baler at full capacity. We usually run 150 or more to keep it there even with hills.

So Yes I am bragging about a GOOD baler. They simply will bale fast and tight bales. Some Vermeer balers are close in stalks. In hay Vermeer and modern Hesston/MF will do good work. CNH has some models that do well but some do not. The older Hesston balers and Agco/CIH badged ones will bale just OK bales, not real fast but they are pretty economical for the smaller producer with hay only.

Replies:

• Re: Best round baler Bruce from Can. 03:43:19 02/25/18 (1)
  • Re: Best round baler wgm 11:10:25 02/25/18 (0)

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