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Posted by JD Seller on June 10, 2018 at 13:04:57 from (173.215.45.26):

In Reply to: ????? posted by Donald Lehman on June 10, 2018 at 07:49:31:

All of the JD balers since the JD 530 have had adjustable density control. Vermeer has had it since the "F" series balers too. The majority of modern balers will make a good tight bale. It is all in how the operator runs/adjusts the baler. I have owned and ran Vermeer, Claus, and JD balers. You can make a good bale with any of them. You just need to know how to operate them. I really have not found any baler that will not make a good bale with a skilled operator and patience.

If your hiring the baling done by different people then you have control of the quality your getting. Tell the fellow up front that you want and need good tight bales. IF he does not do the job you want/like tell him so and do not get him back. Also if you think he is padding the bill by making more loose bales only pay him for what you think is fair. You do not want him back anyway.

I have been doing custom baling for over 30 years now. My customers are not bashful about telling me what they want and what they think of the job we do.

A lot of fellows think just running over the ground and wadding the hay into a circle makes you a good baler operator. You can make bales fast and tight. It takes properly adjusted equipment and a larger HP tractor to do it. We bale with 130-150 HP tractors. Part of that is because of safety on the hills we have. Second it takes power to make tight bales at any kind of speed. 80-90 HP on a 5x6 baler and you will be pulling it pretty good. If you have a drum baler it takes even more HP to really make tight bales.

Also some people actually think that having hay loose allows it to cure better. I say BS on that but I have a couple of neighbors that still twine tie. They make loose bales and only have maybe 4-5 wraps of twin on the hay. When their hay sets out side it is totally rotten in six months.

So the short answer is your baler guys are not doing you a very good job.

With the cost of Round balers coming down you can buy a pretty good used baler for $5000-7500 with mesh wrap. It does not take long to actually pay for a baler with it costing $10-15 a bale to hire it done. ( This is with fuel added in)

P.S. If your wrapping silage bales you really want mesh wrapped bales. They just wrap easier.

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