[AT] RE: AT Digest, Vol 16, Issue 30
Andy Glines
andyglines at hotmail.com
Thu Jun 30 05:52:11 PDT 2005
What about little round bales? Don't you have a few rotobalers sitting
around?
> 12. Big round baler? (Indiana Robinson)
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>Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 22:12:14 -0500
>From: "Indiana Robinson" <robinson at svs.net>
>Subject: [AT] Big round baler?
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> Son Scott and I are looking at big round balers and like with many other
>things the more
>we look the less we are sure of. :-) Does anyone have particular
>preferences in big
>balers? Some we have been warned away from then the next person we talk to
>will say that
>they had one of those and loved it... We looked at about 10 of them Sunday
>and one that
>was reasonable and in good shape was an IHC 241. Is anyone familiar with
>those?
> I might mention that we will likely be baling less than 50 acres a year
>with one (the
>rest will be small square bales). Also repairs don't scare us much. By the
>same token we
>don't want to start out with a basket case or a real trouble maker.
> We have noticed that some have wide belts at the sides. What is the
>purpose of that? We
>also looked at some that had a twist in two of the belts???
> Thoughts appreciated. :-)
>
>--
>"farmer", Esquire
>
>Francis Robinson
>Central Indiana USA
>robinson at svs.net
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