Your Hayin' Rigs: Let's see 'em and let's hear about 'em!

[Grateful11]

Here's a couple videos of the 5065M pulling the new NH H7220, it's running right at 5mph in these videos. I don't think it could take much more speed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iIR1kMEZ0Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzj_8Czi1eU

It could definitely use a bit more power, actually thinking about having boosted a bit when the warranty is out, if it's possible. The CaseIH 5140 will handle it better, just got to put a remote multiplier on it first.

 

[Grateful11]

Here's the 5065M before mirrors and front weights with a Krone 5.52 Tedder:

Here's what they normally bring the bales in with:

There's only one 4WD tractor here also, the Kubota L3940. I don't think 4WD is really necessary unless using a loader. Like my wife says if a field is too wet for 2WD it's also too wet for 4WD.

 

[cheoah]

These sales guys are taken aback when I order 2WD field tractors. I understand the need to get in a field in marginal conditions, it's that or failure some years - like last year's corn on my farm. Or harvest some years when the combine is up to its axle in Oct/Noc from tropical storms. Good to have one. In all other instances it is not good farm management to tear up ground needlessly. It increases weeds, compaction, erosion and isn't safe on the hills.

I like your Krone tedder. I've got a 16' new idea trail behind that has covered some acreage over the past 10 years and seen every repair imaginable. The roll pins for the coupling to the outside units like to ease out, and can machine a slot in the cast arms - and self amputate. I love baleage. Swath to baler width, and bale it up the next day. My next tedder for dry hay will be a Krone. Please guys, post more pictures of hay equipment and talk about your hay operations! Good learning opportunity for all! I've also got a Hudson trailer custom made for hay hauling. No ramps or dovetail, just 20' gooseneck. Funny how the things I think of as new, are over 10 years old now!

I gotta go get back on the M for couple more hours. T storm passed us and some acreage yet to cover in the corn with Lilliston rolling cultivator.

 

[bsrfarms97]

Jd 3150 pulling a vermeer 554xl. ive been useing this combo for several years now and so far it seems to work well for me. We have some pretty good hills here that I wouldnt want much of a smaller tractor to try to handle that baler. The baler is in pretty good shape. We only roll several hundred rolls a year and so far not too much to go wrong with the baler. Twine arms can be kind of tricky on these balers. Ive never understood why Vermeer put them so close to the pick ups.

 

[tmac196]

a few .

D7E- Is that a tandem haybine which you are pulling behind your Ford in the second pic.? It looks like one cutter is arcaded behind the first.

Manitoba looks like a place of extremes in temperature. HOT Summers and COLD windy winters.

Who is purchasing your big bales? Cattle feed, mostly?

 

[tmac196]

tmac, you are all kinds of better off without 4WD on that tractor for field work. I choose 2WD over 4 any day for most work. Only have it on my loader tractor, a farm like ours has to have at least one 4WD, and loader really needs it for traction when hauling baleage, gravel, etc. Less to break, cheaper tires, and tracks nicely without tearing up the field. I know that for most small farms one 4WD is a good way to go when you only have one machine. The picture above of cutting hay in one of my bottoms is misleading, we only have a couple hundred acres that are not steep. We mow our steep mountain pastures with 2WD, so you should be fine unless you start oversizing your implements.

I love our 85 M. It is a great tractor, out in the corn right now. Started my day at 6 somethin today on that machine, and it is really nice to wake up to.... Put 500 hours on it last year, has been down a couple of times for silly switches and the like. I do live in some fear, since I can't fix it like the others, but the difference between this and the other 5000 series I've owned over the years is huge. If it keeps on running, it is a dream come true. Please keep on running......


And the baler on the 6330.... Coincidence with the ladies in the shots, don't get distracted

Cheoah- Thanks for the feedback on the 2WD tractor. As I was considering the purchase, I received advice suggesting that late-model 2WD tractors would have no resale value as 4WD were becoming a burgeoning niche for small acreages like mine. Your points are valid and logical. As I was not considering a loader at the time of purchase, the 2WD fit my needs.

I suspected that you were not sitting on the 85M in your skirt, by the way. Thanks for the pics and the advice.

 

[tmac196]

Here's the 5065M before mirrors and front weights with a Krone 5.52 Tedder:

Here's what they normally bring the bales in with:

There's only one 4WD tractor here also, the Kubota L3940. I don't think 4WD is really necessary unless using a loader. Like my wife says if a field is too wet for 2WD it's also too wet for 4WD.

Grateful- That 65M video was very reassuring to me. I can't tell from the video that there is any need for more power as it seems to be handling that thick stand with ease. I suppose if you were looking to cut at faster speeds, it may be more apparent.

I see your 65M is factory plumbed for a FEL. Do you have one?

Your old IH machine is also in excellent condition. Great job taking care of these oldies!

 

[cre10]

Jd 3150 pulling a vermeer 554xl. ive been useing this combo for several years now and so far it seems to work well for me. We have some pretty good hills here that I wouldnt want much of a smaller tractor to try to handle that baler. The baler is in pretty good shape. We only roll several hundred rolls a year and so far not too much to go wrong with the baler. Twine arms can be kind of tricky on these balers. Ive never understood why Vermeer put them so close to the pick ups.

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Did you buy your baler new? We bought a 55XL brand new and if I could I would shove it up Vermeer's *****. It's the biggest piece of crap junk manufacturing joke of a machine I've ever ran. Those Vermeer engineers must have been smoking dope. Every issue that could go wrong has gone wrong from day one. Monitor, sensors, poor design etc. If you spit on hay then it's too dry to roll up and plugs it.

 

[hunterridgefarm]

Nice gear guys. Here's my Kuhn mower conditioner, only a few years old now, replaced a green Moco. It's a great hay mower. Here it is laying down a first cutting of a new planting of improved fescue, alfalfa and red clover. This cutting for baleage, very high quality feed. We bale with a JD 457 4x5 baler, with hi-moisture kit added years after purchase. These chores done with the 6330, they are matched very well.

I've also got one of those New Holland sq. balers. I think it is a 575 but I really can't remember. We make 1000-2000 bales these days, mostly barley straw and some grass/alfalfa bales for occasions. Ours is shed kept too, but yours looks nicer!

cheoah, those mountains in the background look familiar, what town are you close to?

 

[Bigfoot62]

Grateful, Cheoah, Tmac, et. al.,
Nothing wrong with a 2WD tractor in the hay field, as long as you don't have a loader on it.
However, a 2WD with a FEL is crippled.

My situation was, and is, I needed two 70-100HP tractors to work my hay AND everything else on my farm. Both of my big tractors carry a FEL all the time. (I've never taken one off) I've owned and operated FEL equipped tractors, both in 2WD and 4WD. Personally, I won't EVER buy a 2WD tractor again, IF I plan to use it with a loader.

If I had plenty of money, (wishful thinking) I would like to have another cab tractor to use in the hay field. 2WD would be fine.

I should be cutting and baling some hay within the next few days. I will do my best to get some pics posted.