I ran a BR740A for years and now have a BR7070. I have had great luck with them. The 740 is still going with about 12000 bales on it. Replaced one roller, belts, and we did have the pickup head off it a couple years ago and went through everything. That was kind of because of a traumatic injury tho. The 7070 has about 1000 bales through it and hasn"t missed a beat.
Check the obvious stuff. A lot of the zerks for the bearings are on grease banks, but there are about a dozen that aren"t. Figure out where they are and keep it greased and chains oiled. The chain in the pickup head does stretch and needs adjustment maybe twice a season.
If the 7060 is nearly new it should have the seamless belts on it, so no need to worry about the crimps on the belting. I guess if one tears you just replace that one with a crimp style, I haven"t had to yet. In my opinion, John Deere has a better crimp system, so any belts we replace on the 740 have come from Deere.
All the BR series balers make great bales, I love the big extra sweep pickup head and how it sits in front of the baler where I can see whats going on, its just what I am used to.
We have the crop cutter on both balers, use it some. It works great for tall or coarse grass hay. The other benefit I notice is with that rotor in the throat of the baler, they start a bale really easily, basically dump a bale and go. My FIL has a BR750 without the crop cutter and to start a bale with his, you do have to start a little slower and let the bale get rolling before you gear back up and go.
The BR series balers are great in dry/mostly dry hay. I think the big Vermeer balers are probably better if you get into a lot of wet hay to bag or big coarse slough hay. I have a couple of friends who run them, and I swear you could run a small horse through their pickup head and not slow down. In most other conditions, I will take my BR, but that"s just me.
Oh, but I do like how you load the net wrap from the back on the Vermeers. It is a slight pain on the BR"s to load it from the front. Mostly because you have to play ring around the baler and go from one side to unlock the roll, to the other side to pull the empty roll off, behind the baler to get the new roll, back to the side to put it on , then around to the other side to lock it in and start the roll. A pretty minor inconvenience, but frustrating when you always run out with one round left and rain clouds coming.. Hope any of this helps BW
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