Used inline bale wrapper-WOW

[Formerly PaMike]

I got the Amish neighbor to come down tonight and inline wrap some round bales with his new Anderson Hydrid Inline Wrapper. All I can say is WOW. I couldnt spear a bale, move it 35 feet onto the wrapper fast enough to keep up with the machine. Machine is fully automatic. I set the bale on and it did its thing. I only had 23 bales to wrap,and he was in and out in less than 45 minutes. I wrap individual bales, and it is way slower. Anyone else use them? I am almost temped to sell my individual wrapper and hire the inline. Charged me $6 a bale plus $20 for end cap.

 

[dwrk]

We use a Tubeline 5500. I can usually do a bale every 40 seconds or so. Dad and I can get our first cut off faster with just the two of us than we could doing haylage with a custom operator, harvester, 3 wagons, 2 tractors hauling and one pushing and packing when we were using the bunker for haylage.

 

[dwrk]

For custom wrapping we charge $5/bale plus the cost of the plastic.

 

[Formerly PaMike]

Sounds like my price was good since the $6 includes plastic. How much do you pay for endcaps? Darn things are expensive.

 

[kyhayman]

I've used both Anderson and Tubeline, I hate the individual wrappers, slow, eat plastic, etc. My neighbor lets me use his Anderson for the cost of the plastic, Tubeline that our county Farm Bureau owns rents for 2.00 a bale plus plastic. I choose to pay the 2 bucks, its that much better a machine. On push off the Anderson is a finger getting, toe mashing, so and so (but for actual wrapping both seem equal). Tubeline pushoff is a dream after that.

I've never even seen an endcap except for a bale of dry hay or two, I reuse them year to year, something mushy and weedy, or molded. Get about 3 year out of them.

 

[Formerly PaMike]

Your right about the anderson pushoff system. Everything else on the machine was well made and thought out. The pushoff used 2 x 2 tubes that fit together. The tubes are already bent(machine is 2 months old) and it was a pain to hook them all together.

 

[dwrk]

Nobody uses endcaps here, we just put a bale of straw or old hay in each end, seems to work just as well.

 

[Gary- The Rookie Farmer]

Was this an Anderson Hybrid Inline Wrapper that the Amish guy whittled himself?

 

[Gary- The Rookie Farmer]

Was this an Anderson Hybrid Inline Wrapper that the Amish guy whittled himself?

 

[Formerly PaMike]

Whittled? Never heard that term. Whats that mean?
Yeah, it was the Amish neighbors. He brought it down with his rubber tire 4010.....He still has a steel wheel tractor too...not sure how he gets around it. We told him if diesel goes up anymore he will have to go back to mules and he was quick to tell us he still has them...

 

[phillip d]

There is alot of tubelineing here,mostly with Anderson wrappers too,some Reeves,which is just a knock of of the Anderson's.Most people use a couple of bales of straw or even dry hay,works abit better if it is preveously wrapped bales of straw as the plastic on the straw helps seal it abit better still.Silage in our area seems to have a shelf life of less than 2 years,don't know if it keeps longer if needed other areas or not.pd

 

[kyhayman]

Yeah, they run about a hundred bucks each, dont ask me how I know, lol. Seriously, if you get serious about an inline its worth looking at the Tubeline. I used to be a big Anderon fan since I like the direct hydraulic controls so much better than the electric over hydraulic on the Tubeline.