round baler question

[PeytonM]

I don’t know how many here use a round baler but any one know of a good one that would use net wrap? I’d like to get one to make some hay with because I’m not able to put all my hay in side anymore because this last winter did a number on my parents barn and I don’t know what will come of it now. its leaking pretty good to say the least I’ve used a John deere 567 and 568 before but I dont have 20K to spend on a baler

Thanks for the help, I was hoping I’d be able to find something that isn’t totally shot for 5-7K that would use net wrap.

[Livewater Farm]

A Krone baler with chain rollers takes less horse power no belts to replace and
makes a nice 4+4 dry bale
plus makes a good silage bale if you have enough real horse power and a motor forecart can be used with alot of successthe trick to good dense bales is in the raking big enough windrow and slow ground speed when baling
Bill

[Rivendell Farm]

I like my Krone baler. I don’t have the net wrap option, but net wrap won’t keep out rain. Bob

[PeytonM]

what model baler is that? I just want net wrap because every twine bail I’ve had unless it was the orange plastic twine it rots and just leaves a mess, when my folks farm they always had a guy with net wrap and never had a mess where their hay was stored.

I have more than enough horses to pull it around on a cart, I don’t know what HP number it would take and I also don’t know how it starts to wrap cycle, the 567 568 I’ve ran had IH 7120,7130 or 8920 on them and they all had a monitor that would tell how much hay was on each side of the bale, you could choose how many times the bale was wrapped, the size height wise, had a door alarm bale counter and I cant remember what all else was on the stupid thing there’s a lot of things I could control.

My dad has a JD 336 small sqt baler but I’m not going to be able to bale everything with it I don’t think. I have horses at 2 different places currently and at one place I have about 15 ac of hay and at the home I have about 20 plus depending on how much more I get tilled up it’s old cow pasture, a lot like CRP currently so last year I plowed some over it but I have a lot of rock picking to do and if I get time I’ll have more to work plowing and picking..

I may cheat and ask an uncle to come out with his rock rake and do it that way just because I really don’t want to be buying hay any more a lot of places are getting a little out of control in my eyes.

I have 3 belgians, and 2 percheron’s and out the the 5, 3 of them are really hard workers and just dig in and work. I’m thinking about breeding the perch because they are mother daughter and the daughter has been a real knot head lately and several people told me to get her bred so if I do that I’m going to do them both so I’d have a team the same age out of the deal.

[Rivendell Farm]

My Krone baler is model KR130. It makes a 4ft. by 4ft. bale. The trouble with net wrap is the cost. Not only was the wrapping mechanism an expensive option, the net wrap itself was many times more expensive than twine. If I made a lot of hay to sell the net wrap would make sense, because it makes a nice, neat product. For my own use twine is just fine, and I don’t have all that net wrap plastic to get rid of. Bob

[PeytonM]

what kind of twine do you use? the brown stuff or the polly plastic stuff?

[Rivendell Farm]

I use the brown stuff, which is sometimes green, but it’s sisal, not plastic. Yes, if left out on the ground, it does rot on the bottom. It still holds together enough to move it around. Bob

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