Tag Teaming - KUHN VB 560 Round Baler 

Six second cycle time!

We used to make 970 kg round bales with the Krone Bellima and a 90 HP tractor.Our Kuhn on the other hand required the 200 HP McComick for a lighter bale.Needless to say we got rid of the Kuhn and replaced it with another Krone baler

He hasn't asked to run it, probably to resist temptation lol

I can't help but think the bales would roll off that accumulator in a heartbeat on our hills

@@HowFarmsWork u probably right. It would be nice behind the 82

They pick up the hay the same, they both use teeth on the pickups

Large square balers are expensive, and rounds keep better outdoors

Small squares are mainly for horses and small livestock operations, or larger ones with the means to handle and feed them mechanically. You either need a lot of labor or you need bale accumulators/sledges and grapples to load and handle the small squares and they all must be stored indoors to keep and not rot. Just not worth the trouble for most guys, unless they're selling hay retail to small buyers or auctions or something like that. Big squares are great for long distance transport, but the balers are VERY heavy and VERY expensive and take a LOT of horsepower to run them. The bales are dense but being square they either have to be stored indoors in a barn, wrapped in plastic, or stacked and tarped securely to protect them from the weather or they'll rot and deteriorate badly. Round bales shed water off the rounded sides of the bales pretty efficiently (like the old "thatch roofs" that were made out of palm fronds or grass-- the grass sheds the rain water from leaf to leaf and stem to stem til it drips off onto the ground-- so long as the hay is fairly fine stemmed/long leafed it can shed water quite well-- hay that is coarser and stemmier or has broad leaves like legumes doesn't shed water as well and you get more infiltration into the bales stored outdoors). Round balers are cheaper to buy than large square balers and don't require anywhere near as much horsepower to operate, and they're a good match of capacity and ease of handling, more like large square bales than small square bales. Rounds, like large squares, are easily moved and stacked with hay forks or spears but don't transport as tightly or as well as large squares (the big squares fit on a truck better). Some of the pros/cons of each type of bale... later! OL J R : )

Gotta have manufacturers willing to bring them stuff for free to use... Krone let them demo a baler a few years back. OL J R :)

It’s pretty well all the way up

A newer Deere baler blows the Kuhn away. We run a 569 silage special and I would put money on it makes a better bale. We’re nowhere close to having the pressure turned up high on it and it makes a very tight and heavy for diameter bale if we want to. We leave ours slightly less dense now that we mix the hay.

@@chevyon37s ya ok kid

We haven't changed any recently

I remember them being quite worn out but in this video those threads somehow look quite sharp and deep so I thought may be you have changed them. Oh boy, what an expense that would have been 😱

No shed space and they'll last much longer if wrapped

Its called compaction kid thinks about it

I saw where Vermeer has a continuous running baler where you don't need to stop to eject. Many brand feature varieties to suit any need on the market. I wonder which saves more time if time is a factor to do any given field until the hay all leaves the field? I lean toward the accumulator apart from any internal baler features.

@Acer Acres I didn't know that. I was only speaking ideas and not necessarily brands. No doubt Krone makes a quality product. With the pre-packer as you say it appears a lot to go wrong compared to a regular baler.