I think Krone was one of the first to come out with a disk mower. My dad and I was at Pa Ag Progress Days in 1973 or ‘74 in Somerset County and there was a Krone mower on JD 3020 and some guy from Germany who spoke broken English. He run the mower and tractor 10 miles an hour and about run everyone else in front of him mowing with traditional haybines down. Then he couldn’t wait and cut across the middle of the field to get ahead of everyone. Never forgot that sight that day.
Disc mowers didn't become really popular until the 90s. Early cutter bars were high maintenance and expensive to fix. Now I don't know anyone who would buy anything different. It's said you can mow as fast as you can stay in the seat.
Great video, can you tell me how do you know when the bale is made? Do you have to do anything to make it twine up the bale and let it out? I'm thinking of picking up a secondhand one soon
On the front of the baler on both sides there is numbers 0 1 2 3 and red square with pointers. Best view briefly at 7:44. After the chamber fills and the bale starts packing the pointers start moving. Just move back and forth to the side the pointer is lower to keep them even as possible. When the pointers get between 3 and the red square the bale is done. You can stop on any number just depends how solid and dense you want the outside. Tying is done by when the bale is done and your just ready to stop you pull on the rope for 3-5 seconds. This pulls the knotter forward to let the pulley on the bottom of it to touch a pulley on the gear box and start feeding twine. Once the twine is pulled into the baler let go and it feeds itself. The twine drives the knotter and after it cycles and stops it's done, open gate releasing the bale and go again.
Hi. I have a red one of these down in my shed. I used drive her with Ford 7700. Similar to tour tractor I think. The back door giving bother last few years. I think I could fix it with guiding plate welded one side at bottom. Made a solid bale. I could never get mine to pick clean like yours is doing.. Also that is a very flat field. This little baler works poorly on slopes or on rough ground. Not good at baling short stuff either. Needs to be a bit long.
