Soapweed
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tenbach79 said:Ranch77 that a very good point about taking your balers into a dealer during the winter. I always take our 3x3 baler in and it runs like a top its a Hesston 4755. I have not taking in our round baler in the last couple years and its really showing now. Just this week alone I have spent $1700 on our JD 566 (smoked the gear box) and then last night the shaft that runs from the gear box out to the chain on the left side of the baler snaped in two.
I would not buy a baler without net wrap saves so much time in the field. I timed it last night from when I had a full bale and it started to wrap to when i kicked it out the back was 15 sec (wraping to gates opening and closing). I dont care how big of a pain it is during the winter when I can go like that.
I'll bet the "time" saved during baling gets way more than offset when trying to get the netwrap untangled so it can be fed in the winter. Let's see, where would I rather spend that "time," in an air-conditioned tractor during haying, or standing around when it is twenty below outside, stomping on frozen feet, trying to get the frozen netwrap off so the cows can eat it? :wink: