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HESSTON 5800 ROUNDER BALER-any good?

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Ken McWilliams

08-18-2002 02:00:27




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Well fellas, I just bought a Hesston 5800 baler (SN RB58-3162)at an auction yesterday.

I've been needing to change my mode of operation from small squares to rounds since I don't have a reliable source of help. It looks to be in good shape with the paint, belts, chains and so forth in very good shape, although the tires are weather checked. I can't determine the year except that the pictures in the manual show a Massey Ferguson 2XX model tractor pulling it. The Clothing style of the people in the pictures look to be around mid-70's (one person is wearing a plaid sports coat and another has long sideburns).

It has a rope going to the tractor seat that controls the twine. When the rope is pulled, the twine feed tube pivots to the left side so that the twine will wrap around the bale and be cut off when tube feeding the twine swings reaching the other side.

Are these Hesston 5800's any good?
Where do I find replacement parts?
Do they give good service?
Any "do's or don'ts that I should know about?

Thanks for any input,

Ken McWilliams
Dayton, OH

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Norm

08-19-2002 02:36:17




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 Re: HESSTON 5800 ROUNDER BALER-any good? in reply to Ken McWilliams, 08-18-2002 02:00:27  
I bought one of these new in 1977 for $4800 and used it for many years. It was paid for in the first year with custom baling $4 a bale. It was a decent baler then. Many improvements have been made since then. We always bale hay when it is ready. Thyat means night time and morning baling and never had any problems baling 18% alfalfa with it. Real tough hay it will not bale but a person shouldn't do that anyway. If it is mechanicaly sound it will get U by quite well.

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Mike

08-18-2002 19:04:57




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 Re: HESSTON 5800 ROUNDER BALER-any good? in reply to Ken McWilliams, 08-18-2002 02:00:27  
Ken,
I can't help with any comments on the 5800 but Hesston does still make round balers, good ones from what everyone back home tells me. They are owned by Agco and they have do have a web site. This may help you in finding a dealer. I'm getting this address from a brochure I sent for: www.hesston.agcocorp.com
I know how you feel about getting the baler. I just got a John Deere 510 a couple of weeks ago. Had a few things to do to it that I've now got taken care of and am now waiting for these last rains to dry up and going to give it a try.
Good luck with yours.
mike

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Clem

08-18-2002 11:42:14




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 Re: HESSTON 5800 ROUNDER BALER-any good? in reply to Ken McWilliams, 08-18-2002 02:00:27  
According to my 2002 issue of Hotline Farm Equipment Guide, Hesston 5800 balers were made from 1976 to 1980. Hesston still makes balers, so, I'm sure parts are still available from a dealer.



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Bob Semrau

08-18-2002 11:19:58




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 Re: HESSTON 5800 ROUNDER BALER-any good? in reply to Ken McWilliams, 08-18-2002 02:00:27  
Ken, I don't know anything about Hesston balers, but I think that John is exaggerating a little about closed throat balers. I own a JD 510, and before that used an original Vermeer 605 (no suffix), both closed throat balers. I have NEVER had a problem starting a bale. John's point about making sure that the hay is absolutely dry is a good one, though. The Vermeer used a rope to move the twine tube, while the JD does it hydraulically. It isn't that much of an improvement - you're still watching the twine wrap and baby-sitting a lever instead of a rope.

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john2510-3020

08-18-2002 07:51:04




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 Re: HESSTON 5800 ROUNDER BALER-any good? in reply to Ken McWilliams, 08-18-2002 02:00:27  
Ken personally i would stay away from this baler, it is an older model which means it will ahve a closed throte design meaning that it will be a pain to start a bale, you can only bale when its dry, I mean DRY, not a bit of moisture in it, other wise it will wrap around the bottom roller and you will spend longer unclogging it then baling. I had 2 hesston 5510 rounders and they were a joke, we had tons of problems, finally got fed up with it and bought a new vermeer. Ours was a late 80's model and it was finiky about what you could bale when you could bale. yours being older(mid to late 70's) will be even worse, if you want something like that go with a 241 IH or 2400 IH both are better balers. I dont like the pull rope twin tie because you have to sit there and count then trip it and sit and count and do that until the bale is wraped, the IH balers had that too. It maybe that i dont like hesston because of the sour taste in my mouth from both of mine. hope i was of some help.
john

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Honkey

08-19-2002 18:13:15




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 Re: Re: HESSTON 5800 ROUNDER BALER-any good? in reply to john2510-3020, 08-18-2002 07:51:04  
John,
The 5800's were a much better baler than the 5500's and 5510's even though it's older. It does have the roller, but it will bale. The biggest problem with the 5510 was the cage in the bale chamber. They were a joke! With Hesston, the parts are expensive but they can be found.

IMHO, 5800 was the best baler Hesston ever made.

Matthew in SD



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Derrek Smith

12-16-2002 22:44:32




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 Re: Re: Re: HESSTON 5800 ROUNDER BALER-any good? in reply to Honkey, 08-19-2002 18:13:15  
I just bought one of these units last spring and it performed well in baling kochia weed. However, things do have to be pretty dry. I even had a tough time in the dew even when my tester read 14 percent dry. Sticking to that pressure roller can be a problem. I have the stationary pressure roller scraper and it seems to be permanently bent upwards. This doesn't effect performance after dew is off, however it does give you fits if you want to get an early start. I have found that when in light crop stuffing it in a little faster helps to get that core started. Once started you can fly and it makes beautiful bales. If anyone knows if the deflector kit and scraper assembly helps the "roller winding" let me know. My dad and I have thought that scraper should somehow be attatched to the roller so that roller and scraper will move together so scraper will stay tight to the roller! So far its been an ecconomical move for us from the square bales.

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I. Frost

06-06-2003 07:36:20




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 Re: Re: Re: Re: HESSTON 5800 ROUNDER BALER-any goo in reply to Derrek Smith, 12-16-2002 22:44:32  
We are also having trouble getting the roll to start. You really need to make sure that the hay is dry and needs to be raked in a pretty large row. Our belts do not turn until you get some hay started all the way across the baler. Is this suppose to be this way? I have not been able to find this out. Should the springs be tightened until the belts turn, should the belts be shortened, or should they not turn until hay is started across the baler? Our Hesston 5800 Rounder also has a scraper, or whatever the thing is, across one of the compression rollers but appears as though it should move but does not. It has small arms welded on each end of the scraper with holes in them but are not attached to anything. I have not been able to figure out what they are suppose to be attached to, if they are. Hay sometimes gets wrapped around one of the compression rollers between the roller and the scraper and you talk about a pain in the --- to get it cleaned out. I had rather square bale whenever this happens.
When everything starts right and the hay is good and dry you can run as fast as you want and the roller does fine.

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