HMMM, Mine is a steel tube type chain NH 855 with air tension bags. I can make a bale so tight that you can't pick it up with the hay fork unless you wedge it against a tree. I like tight bales for horse hay that doesn't get unrolled. It keeps alot longer.

 

It's probably the other way around. JD probably throws Green and Gold paint on a Vermeer. They've done that with a lot of Equipment.

 

We got an old 6x6 Vermeer sitting by the shop that's been baling several hundred a year since last century... don't know what the model number is, though.

I was told they don't make them that big anymore.

 

yep, JD uses someone elses, then after they figgure out how to copy without getting into trouble, they do. We use a Vermeer 504F w/hydraulic tensionors. Talk about a nice little bale.

Duane W.

 

We had trouble with the NH baler we had like this bending the bars and would have to take them out and press them back straight. Once we went to a NH belt baler we have never looked back and makes alot tighter and heavyier bales.

 

How did you get the bales out of the front of the trailer????

 

Look at the new Deere Balers, then go look at some older Hesstons and tell me what you see

Deere bought like 17 of Hesston's old Patents to make their balers...Hesston moved on to better designs. The new 54/5500 series Hesstons are pretty cool...all you have to do is drive and stop, the baler does the rest...at least if you want it to

4x5, and 4x6 balers is what I sell the most of. The only guys buying the 5x5 or 5x6's are the guys who use all their own bales, and don't haul/sell them! Of course out west is a different story
Chris

 

Combat Off-load?

 

I live about 25 miles from the Deere Ottumwa Works where they build their hay equipment and I've seen both Hesston and NH big square balers sitting on their lot but I can't recall another brand of round baler there, that's not to say they don't have some and I'm sure they do. I'd say Deere has 80% of the round baler market in this area with a handful of Vermeer and NH/CIH balers in the mix as well. We hire our baling done with a Deere 567 and I'm pretty impressed with it even though we've got very little green equipment ourselves. As for square balers after having a Hesston inline it would take alot for us to change brands.

 

BK, how did this ever turn out? teh 'discussion" with teh guys, I mean

 

Just wondering, why do you want 6x6 bales? to me, they'd he harder to haul and probably too heavy unless you have a good sized loader. The last semi load of rounds I got for my horses were 6x5 and around 1800 lbs. Heavy, but I can still feed them with my JD 260 skid loader.
l find very few people actually know what their bales weigh, (they always think more). THat is why I always buy per ton and not # of bales.

 

I would hope they'd have 80% market share 25 miles from their factory...that would really say something bad if they didn't Availability is pretty good

Glad I'm not the only one who like the inline balers...we sell a bunch of them!
Chris

 

Todays newspaper stated that the Dept of Agriculture is banning those round hay bales...seems the cattle are not getting a square meal

 

they are not free to roam, inside a pen, and no chance of parole....

I always thought the law required them to have three squares a day..