5030
Epic Contributor
- Joined
- Feb 21, 2003
- Messages
- 24,645
- Location
- SE Michigan in the middle of nowhere
- Tractor
- Kubota M9000 HDCC3 M9000 HDC
It did 5 years ago, combined by a Case rotary with a output concentrator on the back end. Nice straight 1/4 mile long windrows. The 575 was spitting a bale every 10 feet or so. The 575 was NH's high capacity square baler. Sure glad I didn't have to handle them but then straw bales are pretty light to begin with. If I remember correctly, it only missed 6 bales the whole time. I did small squares on a contract job for a local stable on around 30 acres of mixed forage as well (and I didn't touch them either (or at least not all of them). Did that on shares, I got half, they got half and I usually round baled my share. Finally told them I wasn't interested and told them to find someone else. I presume they did. Finding anyone to run small squares around here is difficult. No many operators around here run forage. Mostly row crops and truck farms.I wouldn't attach sq baler & start my tractors engine for $0.25 per bale even back when I owned a sq baler. I got $1.00 just to small sq bale only. Baling 5000 small sq bales per day is very impressive if it REALLY happened! That's 400 bales per hr for a solid 12.5 hrs.
Only thing I never liked about the 575 was the weight and mass of the plunger when making turns on the headlands. It would throw the tractor around a bit.
Right now, I'm running everything I want to run and don't want any more. Was offered 2 more fields last fall from the farmer that rents the land for row cropping adjacent to the 4 fields I do in the adjoining county that are owned by our veterinarian. He owns 450 acres most of which are row cropped by a land renter. He owns no equipment at all except a smaller IH gas tractor and a shredder.
Gonna stand them up today and bale them tomorrow. No rain and hot here with a nice dry down breeze. Need to get the rotary rake on the back of one of the tractors and go to work. Perfect hay weather. Been patiently waiting for weeks for a good slot.