[AT] out with the old

[Cecil R Bearden]

Ed:
Just wait until you have hay down and get started with that new baler 
and the tractor quits, one of those "throw more money than you can ever 
begin to justify at it and never let the wife know just how much" 
problems and you then go through 3 more tractors before the job is 
finished.
I just hauled hay out of a field that I quit cutting and baling this 
summer because the pull type swather broke the drive shaft off and the 
self propelled JD swather hydrostat quit, and then a tornado dropped 
some scrap wood in the field and it got in the windrow with the swather 
and broke one of my new belts in the baler.

Now, I need the hay that was laying down in the windrow and not yet cut....

  I bought my 648 New Holland in 2006 for $9500 It had 11000 bales on 
the monitor.  I have since spent another 2500 on it including a set of 
belts and a JD style lacer to lace the new belts, new drive chains and a 
few sprockets.  It is now probably showing about 20000 bales on it.  
Here in OK with out yields, it cost me about $28/bale to cut and bale 
hay in 4x5 bales.   If you will back off the belt tension on that baler 
your cows will like the hay better and your belts will last a lot 
longer.   Also, let the tension off the belts for the winter storage..  
The lacings will last a lot longer..

Farming.....  It ain't for sissies!!

Cecil in OKla


On 1/18/2015 7:51 PM, Edchainsaw at aol.com wrote:
> this past summer I was using my 32yr old  852 New Holland baler when  it
> exploded --  bracket that hold the idlers on the back for the main  bale
> chains metal fatigued and that was that...
>   
> I was in the middle of a field and me, dad and the land owner had paid for
> a trip to the Corvette Sink hole the next morning.
>   
> We called our Dealer and he had a used baler we could use,  one of  those
> little things  4x4 I think it is. In 1 hour he had it up to me and I
> finnished the field , but then the pricing began...   fix a 32 yr  old baler. that
> just broke chains, idler shaft, radles and who knows what else,  or price a
> newer used baler.
>   
> He had a bigger used baler, It had more bales on it than my  852.   That
> 4x4 was just to small, and it was  20,000,    Next option was New Holland is
> changing balers  this winter so old inventory is reduced...  the 5x6 baler
> BRAND NEW was  36,000!   FOR 7 HEAD   NO  WAY!...     well the OLD used 4x6
> was 28,000???
>   
> I now have  a loan for a baler.....   and I still have the  852 in the shed
> because NO ONE WANTS THAT THING...  I like  the old  baler a whole lot, and
> my cows like it better too... they have a time with the  tight newer balers
> hay.
> I did see something encouraging the other day:   a 3 yr old baler  the same
> as this new one for 35,000 lol
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