Hay season is in full swing as summer begins! Today, we are baling with our old John Deere 24T square baler hooked up to Uncle Larry's new (to him) 1974 John Deere 4430.
Yes. We have been charging $2 per bale for custom baling square bales. For direct sales to customers, we’ve been charging $5 per bale if customer picks up directly from the field. If delivered by us, we’ve been charging $7 per bale on average. I wish we could keep some in stock, but we don’t have the storage for it at the moment. For round bales, we average $18 per bale for custom baling. For direct sales to customers, we get $70 per bale for 5x5 and $80 for 5x6. All rounds are net wrapped.
We had a JD 4030 bought new in the 70's, traded off sometime in the 90's. Last I heard of it was in 2015, tractor had over 17,000 hours on it then. So 8 to 10 thousand hours doesn't sound that bad LOL.
We had a 24T with thrower. It basically self-destructed. Wasn't Deere's finest design. We bought an early 336 to replace it in 1975. Unbelievable machine. They have the same similar design all these years later.
Interesting. So far, we’ve only had to replace the knotters. However, we got really lucky when we started having issues because our local junkyard just so happened to have one dropped off around the same time, so we were able to rob some parts off of it really cheap.
Hee .nice to see this . I have here in Germany a 224t baler . Its the same .but my one has more cover for security for maintenance and handling . Best greetings from East-Frisia in north-west germany from Bert
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Thank you! He really loves the camera. Really neat to have someone that far away watching our videos. My Great-Great-Great Grandfather Friederich Messmer came to the U.S. from Baden-Baden in 1844. Several other distant German relatives as well, but I’ll have to look at my tree to see exactly where they came from.