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JB, yep. To my knowledge NH had the first and only small square bale wagon. We hired a local guy to load and stack our small squares off the field. All us kids had to do was load them up on the pickup come winter feeding time.


It's all round bales now. And round bales have made me a little round.....lol

Check your auto steer at the door pal.

Ha!

Pretty much the same around here, though some are doing the big square bales too.

But the round bales are so predominant that we have one of those goose blinds that look like one. (Bought two, one for your "Uncle" Boone, who used it for a while....)

Still see a few small square bales around here, but not many....

The first baler Dad bought was so worn, it would miss the knots on about 1/3d of the bales.
My job (at 7 years old) was to ride on the twine cans of that International 37, and tie the knots that it missed.
I got good and quick at tying square knots!

He never bought much equipment (just upgraded a bit) until he realized I was about to graduate college.
First, he bought an accumulator and hay forks - then bought an early, small, stack wagon - tow behind style.
Now, we bale mostly with a 3X4 baler, and keep the small baler for the rare occasions we can put up some good horse hay.

My friend is going to give me a Pridgeon Fork.


I just need to change the mounts.

We've had pretty good luck with New Holland balers, swathers, and stack wagons.
Pulled by green tractors.

Bruh, no auto steer on the haying equipment around here! You bale on instinct with a little NH Bale Command....lol

My man knows what he is talking about!^^^^^

What a butt-fugk.

We have a NH 7060. It's been a great baler. It's pushing 20k bales so we've been thinking about a new one.


John Deere's round bales are ugly. Rounded corners and "puffy". They don't weigh up either. Seems like our NH are usually 200lbs heavier. Plus they are much more fussy with net wrap. Pretty gay if you have to carry baby powder around to make hay.

I boutgh a Massie new las year for a little over 30k. JD was another 15-20k more. I don't actually run it, a guy that works for me does. The bails are super tight netwrap. However, a couple of times it has become a tangled mess. It may be partially user error but also the dealer didn't set it up completely right, and the electronics shorted a fuse.

I bought new because there was nothing used available. I could have bough a used JD for more than I paid for the Massey, so that wasn't an option.

If I had to do over...not sure how it would turn out, but I would take a hard look at the used market.

Truth!!!


I'm pretty sure that our cows prefer to eat NH bales over JD bales.

So your cows are too good to eat Conrad's hay. Damn bro.

have owned quite a few. my current is my most favorite and is actually one awesome machine. New Holland 460 crop cutter..

in my opinion if there's an upgrade over this Baler anywhere in the market it's most likely a McHale..

Your cows like when you have to haul about 25% less bales, to get the job done.

Guess which ones are John Deere

In our neck of the woods it's a fairly even split between John Deere and Vermeer big round balers. There were 2 of Vermeer's self propelled balers on Vetter's lot this spring, only one now. I know of one McHale round baler. And one Hesston big square baler.

I've run both vermeer and John Deere in the past but right now we are running 2 560m's because of dealer support and overall weight of the machine and weight of the machine makes a big difference when baling wet meadows.

John boy,
Looking to make small squares or rounds?

20,000 bales and afraid of it?


Haha! Some machine.....