Thanks for the video! I’ve been kicking around the idea of getting this baler. I have a farmall 45c cvt tractor and was worried I wouldn’t have enough horsepower! Thanks again!!!
This was the Hesston 530 back in the 90s, we had one with ramps, gathering wheels and manual tie. Damn good Baler!! We ran it mostly with our Zetor 7211 or Deutz D68-06. But once the Zetor was down for a bit, and the Deutz was doing other stuff, so my Uncle and Grandpa loaned the 2510 Diesel John Deere to us, we put it on the baler. It was a PERFECT combination. We got it when we upgraded and purchased a farm near us, that was set up for Round Bales. Flip a door up from haybarn to manger, and just roll the bale out. By the time you got to the end, it was just a bit of the core, and you would feed the calves in the calf stalls just past the cows on the pipe line. 50 cows on the line total. Within a short time frame, there was 4 of these balers in our neighborhood.
@@wildcatwilly Seaway Valley NNY. We are on Quebec border, in the case of the other farm we had, literally. Back field had international boundary markers
@@wildcatwilly Allot actually. I tend to breeze through and enjoy allot of farm related content. Those what if I could farm again things, or try to see whoelse used similar equipment.
I understand that I'm really concentrated on the bulldozer at the moment. In the future I hope not to be a shop guy and be out playing on the equipment.
I have a 1734 baler, our dealer told us to shut the PTO off when dumping a bale. Bales look great! Love my little baler we run about 400-500 bales a year threw it.
Those balers are nice for low horsepower tractors. There are lots of them around where I live. Only down fall to them here is they will turn over on slopes. I’ve repaired two that were rolled, ended up building axle extensions on them. I have the 1745 baler which has been great! Just found your channel.
Dang! that is a nice baler. I bet that would work nicely on our Branson 4225ch. I could only wish though at this point in time that i could do that for a living. 👍❤️
This baler, I will tell you with the wheels, we had a Massey Harris 3pt hitch PTO drive hay rake. We could easily double windrows, and with the rows rolled up against each other, no weaving was required. 2nd and 3rd Cut we could do Triples. Our haybine was a Badger 1009 9ft.
I just bought a Hesston 530, my first round baler. Last week was the first time in the field for me with this baler. It is in good shape, probably built in the 90's and doesn't show a whole lot of wear. After reworking the manual tie system (welded a reinforcement on the twine arm which was built way too light for all the banging it takes, ground the anvil perfectly flat and sharpening/adjusting the twine knife - it was incorrectly installed backwards), I got the twine cutter to work. The next issue was that the tractor hydraulic system was too weak to open the tailgate completely (it would only open about 2 feet before the hydraulic relief valve would pop off. I fixed that with two steel washers behind the compression spring in the relief valve to set the relief pressure setting higher. The tailgate now opens all the way. Now I can make a full diameter bale, but the bale will not roll out of the baler! I have to carry a 10' long wood stick to push the bale out one side at a time before it will roll out. My baler does have the unloading ramps. I see that you continue to let the belts run while unloading the bale. The operator's manual is not explicit on this - It says "operate the tractor hydraulic lever to open the tailgate completely. The bale will fall out of the chamber" which it does not. Any suggestions? Thanks!
Leaving the belts run would rub some of the twine off the edges of the bales so we shut the baler down when unloading bales. I would lock open your baler and polish your side walls with a cup brush on a grinder.
@@wildcatwilly Yep I figured it had to be a friction issue in the bale chamber. I will try your suggestion with the cup brush. The next window of good weather around here is next week. It takes some doing to work the bugs out of a new to me machine! I baled for years with a NH 268 square baler when the boys were around to help me handle the bales, but those days are gone and I'm forced to modernize. Tractor power is still a 1945 SC Case (rake tractor), a 1948 JD B with a 45 loader and bale spear, and a new modern 1959 Cockshutt 560 (haybine and round baler). Thanks!
We still use a welger ap61 small bale machine and find such a demand foor the bales for so many different uses, big is not always best. Honest rays smal bale stfaw
@@wildcatwilly mines a 92 so that's about 30 years. I get out and clean the hay out of the gate on mine every so often or I have problem with it latching kinda like what you guys were experiencing.
My neighbor baled my hay with a 20 yr old one of these. It was way slower than this... royal pain to start bales. I could bale 2x as fast with my small square baler... So i swore i would never spend money on a baby round baler. Hopefully it works out for u
They are fantastic. They work better after about the first hundred bales. I feel the twine system could be designed a little better but if you keep it WELL LUBRICATED. You won't have much trouble. There are a couple of bolts with washers I believe on the right side of the baler. They have paint behind the washers and it makes them stick sometimes.
I dont like the large gap between the belts. Thats what gives u all that hay left in bottom on inside the chamber. I know these r "cheap" round balers but dang...
Our main company uses the warehouse for storage it sets on a 27 acre commercial property that is over 100 years old... It has larger areas where buildings use to sit that have been torn down and turned back into grassland.
@@wildcatwilly I'm purchasing a MF 1734 baler and a drum mower BDR185. I'm trying to make a decision between a side delivery, rotary, or wheel rake. I'm new at this and I'm not sure what would work best for baling 35-50 acres with this small baler. Most of the side deliveries I can find online are pretty beat up or really old. I'll keep a look out for a side delivery. Do you have a specific model # New Holland side delivery you prefer?
I've always used New Holland. Had an Alice Chalmers Side delivery wasn't really that great. They are pretty simple to work on. I have had no experience with wheel rakes.
Charlie said you won't regret any of the machines you have bought. He also said take your time and learn the machines they won't be in good adjustment for about a year. It takes time to get them shined up.
