round baler

[Harryaroo]

Recommendations for a simple cheap round baler that runs on relatively low hp....?

 

[Hay hay hay]

About a billion cows ate hay out of bales made by an old NH chain baler. For sale today for $1000.

 

[Traditional Farmer]

Even cheaper,I picked up a NH 852 with auto tie and new bottom chain rails at an auction a few week ago for $200.Oiled and greased it up looks like everything works haven't baled anything with it yet.My Oliver 1550 tractors will pull those balers OK.Baled some hay the other day with a NH 851 I paid $300 for it at an auction.

 

[rrlund]

Anything over 30 years old.

 

[Traditional Farmer]

Neighbor had a small Hesston round baler made little 4X4 bales he ran it with a Ford 3000 for a few years.

 

[Bret4207]

Hesston 530.

 

[dcarp]

Case 8456. Has its own hydraulic pump and they can be set to make smaller bales, 5 x 5, 5 x 4.

 

[Bruce from Can.]

Like most things in this world the price needs to be related to how much work the machine is expected to preform. And how much time and ability you want to expend doing repairs. I have been buying a new baler every 4 years, maybe make 1500 bales each year. When I trade the baler in on the next new one, the difference is only 5-8 grand. I do Zero repairs, get top trade value, always under warranty. Getting hay done is important for me to get best feed value for my milk cows. And I cant buy many parts or labour for $1,500-$2,000.00 bucks ,

which is what it cost me each
year to own a new baler.
There are lots of good used balers on the market , CaaeIH and NH are good older CaseIH are built by Heston.

 

[Harryaroo]

That's generally not how I do things but the way you describe it makes sense.

 

[Tx Jim]

Bruce
I realize you have cows to milk & don't desire to be repairing a rd baler. $3- $4 baler cost per bale is more than I would care to invest in baler not to mention the other cost involved in making a rd bale of hay

Different strokes for different folks!

I haven't spent $5000 in repairs on my '05 JD rd baler which includes a new set of belts since I purchased it used in '07 from my neighbor with 4000 bales on the monitor. That was 14 hay seasons ago. Monitor now has 27,500+ bales on it & it baled hay day before yesterday before I got rained out.

 

[Bret4207]

(quoted from post at 16:50:57 07/03/21) Like most things in this world the price needs to be related to how much work the machine is expected to preform. And how much time and ability you want to expend doing repairs. I have been buying a new baler every 4 years, maybe make 1500 bales each year. When I trade the baler in on the next new one, the difference is only 5-8 grand. I do Zero repairs, get top trade value, always under warranty. Getting hay done is important for me to get best feed value for my milk cows. And I cant buy many parts or labour for $1,500-$2,000.00 bucks ,

which is what it cost me each
year to own a new baler.
There are lots of good used balers on the market , CaaeIH and NH are good older CaseIH are built by Heston.

I understand what you are saying, and I mean no offense, but "the difference is only 5-8 grand" puts you in a class that is out of reach for many of us and isn't really what the OP was asking. I'm sure we'd all love to be able to buy new, but...

 

[Brown Swiss]

And in the same amount of hay gone through that chain baler, 1.5 billion cattle could have been fed, man those balers wasted hay! Ran an 850 for a few years, was first round baler we had!