Posted by IH fan on October 04, 2009 at 17:38:42 from (70.243.240.19):
In Reply to: 1486 needs more power posted by Larry B 1486 on October 02, 2009 at 19:42:10:
[quote="Hugh MacKay"](quoted from post at 04:40:55 10/04/09) IHFan: If it takes 1 minute per bale to wrap and dump, that is 40 minutes of the hour used up. You do the math, leaves 20 minutes for actual baling. I've never been able to take 40 minutes out of an hour and still have an hour left. Gosh, the work I could have done with your math.
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Okay, I was looking at rolling the hay into a bale and wrapping the twine or net as "wrapping the bale", not just finishing it, but including wrapping the hay into a bale. If he was doing 30 an hour, that's 2 minutes per bale... I haven't been around a round baler much, but that sounded reasonable to me, maybe not.
I pulled a square baler over many miles of hay fields, starting at age 10 with a JD A and a NH 77. I remember driving the A at least one year before Dad bought his first 60, so I was 10 at the time (1952). Needless to say, Dad was loading bales behind the baler when I was driving, and back then not everyone owned his own baler, so Dad did custom baling. $ .10 a bale dumped on the ground, $ .11 if he drove and the customer loaded, and $ .12 if I came along to drive and he loaded.
As for my math, if he has baled 137 in 4 hours, that's 35.5/hr.
This post was edited by IH fan at 17:44:38 10/04/09 2 times.
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