I bought a new NH TD95D last year so ground clearance isn't a problem. Power either. I went a little overboard on the tractor I know but after 3 years of farming this place with a super C farmall and a piece of junk MM 4 star, I am really happy with the NH tractor. It does all the work here in a fraction of the time and I don't get sunburned or go deaf in the process.
I do kinda miss that super C though. My son and I rebuilt and restored that one from the ground up and it was really nice.
This hesston baler seemed like the steel on it was at least a couple gauge sizes thicker than the new NH baler on the lot. It had all the same bells and whistles too like the quarter turn and the hydraulic tension. Some of the welds on the back end had cracked but I told them I'd fix those myself. It's no big deal. As long as the price doesn't go up any more. It's 9100 right now. My biggest concern with it is that I hope someone with experience from the dealer comes over and helps me learn to use it. I've never owned a powered baler before. Just a horsedrawn one, LONG story. And I don't know the first thing about setting one up or how to set the twine in it. I've only used the neighbors JD square baler a couple times and I could not get consistent bales out of that piece of junk to save my life. My dealer tells me it's because it's kept outside all year with bales in it and it takes a couple hundred bales sometimes to smooth the rust off the bale chute. That makes sense and it about right for how many bales I had to drop while messing with the tensioners before I could leave them alone and do some work. Usually 200-300 bales. I'm keeping mine indoors.
The dealer will have the baler, swather and my new grass drill ready to go tomorrow and is running the credit ap today. I'll get it all one way or another. I wish I had the cash to pay for it all outright but I can't. Thankfully we just made contracts yesterday for nearly all of our hay so there is the payments and then some.
It's funny how all of the buyers that called me are from towns way outside our county. More than 3 hour drives. I've seen the other wheat fields and alfalfa fields around here and they are all pretty sad. I mowed off my wheat a couple weeks ago and am replanting native grass there because it wasn't fit for hay.
It was all stem and seed, that's it. Nobody except me is anywhere near baling any hay this year from what I've seen. I always irrigate a little over the winter to keep the alfalfa and bermuda alive. In really dry winters like this one it really pays off. I think we only had an inch of rain and snow between october and April. Now this month 8 inches or rain. That's West Texas.
My neighbors all think I'm nuts irrigating like I do but one day they will come to realize that this Tennessee boy knows a little something about making things grow.
I do kinda miss that super C though. My son and I rebuilt and restored that one from the ground up and it was really nice.
This hesston baler seemed like the steel on it was at least a couple gauge sizes thicker than the new NH baler on the lot. It had all the same bells and whistles too like the quarter turn and the hydraulic tension. Some of the welds on the back end had cracked but I told them I'd fix those myself. It's no big deal. As long as the price doesn't go up any more. It's 9100 right now. My biggest concern with it is that I hope someone with experience from the dealer comes over and helps me learn to use it. I've never owned a powered baler before. Just a horsedrawn one, LONG story. And I don't know the first thing about setting one up or how to set the twine in it. I've only used the neighbors JD square baler a couple times and I could not get consistent bales out of that piece of junk to save my life. My dealer tells me it's because it's kept outside all year with bales in it and it takes a couple hundred bales sometimes to smooth the rust off the bale chute. That makes sense and it about right for how many bales I had to drop while messing with the tensioners before I could leave them alone and do some work. Usually 200-300 bales. I'm keeping mine indoors.
The dealer will have the baler, swather and my new grass drill ready to go tomorrow and is running the credit ap today. I'll get it all one way or another. I wish I had the cash to pay for it all outright but I can't. Thankfully we just made contracts yesterday for nearly all of our hay so there is the payments and then some.
It's funny how all of the buyers that called me are from towns way outside our county. More than 3 hour drives. I've seen the other wheat fields and alfalfa fields around here and they are all pretty sad. I mowed off my wheat a couple weeks ago and am replanting native grass there because it wasn't fit for hay.
It was all stem and seed, that's it. Nobody except me is anywhere near baling any hay this year from what I've seen. I always irrigate a little over the winter to keep the alfalfa and bermuda alive. In really dry winters like this one it really pays off. I think we only had an inch of rain and snow between october and April. Now this month 8 inches or rain. That's West Texas.
My neighbors all think I'm nuts irrigating like I do but one day they will come to realize that this Tennessee boy knows a little something about making things grow.
