Congratulations on your purchases at the auction. Unless you are given your farm and equipment this is how most do it and upgrade as you can afford. Keep up the good work.
Yup we where very behind in equipment upgrades on our farm now that we have people involved that want to keep the family farm around we are upgrading as we can
Enjoyed this one a lot, I totally understand the older equipment, but like you said, you make it work! That is a nice baler for sure. Glad you got to upgrade if that's what you needed to be better productive! Look fwd to seeing it work soon!
It was definitely getting too time consuming with repairs on the old baler and expensive I think this baler will actually save us money in a couple years and so much time thanks for watching
I haven't seen many square balers around me. Wouldn't mind seeing one run in person. Most of the farms around here use bakers like the John deere you have. Not many old styles left here. If there is it's possibly someone sticking with what they are use to. Excellent video though. Have a good night.
My brother and I are going into the hay business for ourselves this year and plan to do small square to sell to horse people they will pay much better for quality squares the big rounds so it will hopefully be a way to make some extra cash
I love your videos about the 1086 and the John Deere 567 mega wide baler and I was wanting to know if you could do a video on how to hook up and unhook the John Deere 567 mega wide baler and the monitor to and from the 1086 and how they work and operate and how to operate them and how to maintain them and get them ready for hay season and a walk around and an overview of the 1086 and the John Deere 567 mega wide baler?
We had a 430 for twenty years. No fancy monitor back then. Probably had 50k on it when we sold it. Was far from worn out. Re laced the original belts twice, actually used twine to sew a few belts up to get through a season before we replaced the belts. Looks like you got a new machine!! I could use your new auger!
It might as well be brand new for our farm only thing we have with a monitor right now and I sure hope it lasts 50k but either way 10k with brand new belts will last us a while thanks for some feedback on JD balers and we couple actually use another auger for our plans lol
@@knappfarms it's pretty new for us too.. newest things we have are a 10 or 12 year old discbine and a 6 year old small baler. The big baler is a 1996 model.. the big disc is about the same vintage too.. everything else is 1960 to 1986,
Just recently it dropped to $5-6 a bale all last year in my area it was $8+ I seen some grass hay as high as $12 some was even sold at hay auctions for that in the middle of last winter so not even just asking price actual selling price but with the price of everything going up this year people must be getting out of horses because hay prices have dropped.
Northern Indiana we have a lot of horse people around that only feed quality grass square bales they don’t like clover or round bales so they have to pay up
@@knappfarms yep everyone bitches moans and groans at people like us who run older equipment well it's not like we can pull millions of dollars out of our asses and buy new fancy stuff want new stuff bust hour ass off and you can get it
Yup not to mention even the new stuff breaks it just comes with even bigger expensive you can’t afford then because you spent it all on buying the equipment
Will be a great baler for you..yes plastic twine will work best for outside. Do you have a problem pulling it off when frozen in winter or are you in a no freeze zone?
We are north West Indiana so we have a long freeze yeah sometimes we have trouble getting all the twine just have to make sure to gather it up as you can
@@knappfarms we keep our bales inside mostly , some of the poorer grade is out but we feed it first to use up. We have a Krone 130 it bales a tight 4/4 much better than the jd410. 4/5 we first had hope we all have a good year of growing
Hopefully we have a great season we need it this baler makes a 5x6 a little bigger then we wanted but will do fine just set it up to make them a little shorter if need be
It was an option on these this one only has the stuff for twine tie I would prefer it to have net wrap just so we could try it never had a net wrap baler but just the stuff to put in it for net wrap would cost almost as much as the baler now
I don’t know we have always ran the nylon twine on the round baler this baler just had the crappy stuff it will be getting switched over this spring that stuff doesn’t last 10 minutes out in the rain. Only reason I see people run it is because they don’t pick up there twine and that stuff will rot away
@@SouthSaskFarmer1 lol nope nylon works good for us we are even running nylon in our small square baler I know a lot of people that use the old stuff for square bales because it’s stored inside but it’s so nice not to have bales breaking all winter long
