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New Holland BR780

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AC Diesel

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Do any of you guy's have experience with a BR780. Are they pretty reliable and what did they change when they built the BR 7090. I dont need anything fancy just a good reliable baler. Thanks in advance AC!
 
We have one and I don't think it is too bad of a baler, but I don't put up a lot of hay. Our point of comparison though is a JD 535 so take my comments for what they are worth. The throat is huge, and unlike the 535, I have never plugged the throat on the BR780. The BR780 can be a pain to get bales started. You have to ease in to the hay a little at a time until the baler grabs it and throws a big enough chunk in to get the bale started. It has stuffer fingers on the pickup so it will keep jamming in the hay, but if the core hasn't started spinning it will eventually pile hay up on the pickup and you have to drop the compression bars off to get the slug to feed in. The model we have doesn't have net wrap so I can't speak to the wrap function, but the twine tie is fairly simple. The only real problem I have with the twine tie is the design concept. It has two arms, but unlike the JD, they work opposite each other instead of in tandem. Instead of starting at one side and going to the other they both start on the outside and go to the middle and back out. This results in the heaviest amount of twine at the middle of the bale and the outside edges never seeming to have enough twine. Mechanically we haven't had any significant trouble with it. I am thinking about changing the pickup bands that the teeth run between to the heavy poly aftermarket ones that All State Ag Parts sells, in the hopes that hay might feed in a little better and make it easier to start a bale.
 
The newer 7090 series is twice the baler IMO. They'll eat all the hay you can cram in it. Pickup is better and bales start much easier.
 
everyone I know has traded the 790 for the 7090 Specialty crop baler... 790 was not a good product
 
Thanks for the info guys. The mechanic at the local New Holland dealer said that there was an update kit for the 780, and that if it was installed it fixed all of the bale starting problems, and that they were a good outfit. I'm buying it privately so he had nothing to gain by filling me full of BS.

Rancherfred I sent you a pm
 
Hope it works out well for you. Neighbours had one and it turns out there is a bearing on them that takes about 20 shop hours to change. Hope it doesn't go out on you.
 

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