Mini square baler for CUTs....

[JoeinTX]

It seems I remember seeing someone ask a question about their compact tractor running a conventional square baler, but I can't seem to find the post.

I just saw this.. Ebay CUT baler...onEbay and thought there might be someone here interested.

Quaint looking little outfit, but I wonder how many are willing to plop down $12k for it...

 

[HayDR]

Soon CUT balers will be available in the $7,000-8,000 range.

 

[Darren]

I've seen small round bailers that make a 40# bale for around $7K. That was a few years ago, so I expect they've gone up in price. One had an adjustment so you could trail it either to the side or directly behind the tractor and still pickup the windrow. I heard of a guy that had a truck load of the small round bales and ended up selling them for $20 each for Halloween. That's a helluva price for hay when you figure the guy was getting a $1,000 per ton. I guess some folks will pay through the nose for decorations.

 

[HayDR]

Just remember that CUT's are not that much cheaper than 40 HP utility tractors. A square baler both small & large will have close to the same number of moving parts because they both are doing the same work. The difference is just less steel in the smaller baler. Knotters cost the same on both balers.

 

[Robert_in_NY]

Is it just me or did they not want to cut this field. Look how high the grass is still.

 

[PineRidge]

Bob please keep in mind that is Japanese not Chinese grass. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[HayDR]

If they would have used a CCM drum mower or disc mower it would have been cut a 2-3" height.

 

[Robert_in_NY]

It still makes me wonder though, why cut and bale a field and leave over a foot of grass standing? I wonder if the baler has trouble handling too much hay or what is the reason?

 

[Magruder]

That is an expensive little unit.

 

[thegreatrandini]

man u could hire a lot of baling for $13,000.00. Wew... /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

 

[riptides]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Soon CUT balers will be available in the $7,000-8,000 range. )</font>

Do you have any details you would care to share? For instance baler weight? Round or square? Size of bale?

-Mike Z. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Darren]

If you check the link below, it will give you the details on a mini-round bailer designed for CUTs. Bale weight is around 40lbs. In Europe they pull them with a Gator sized ATV.

http://www.rekord.com/f%20&%20s%20machinery%20pages/Balers/columbia_r_500_minibaler.htm

The manufacturer's website is www.wolagri.it

They also have a model they call the Pony which is for mountainous terrain. I've been looking ino the compact round baler because I've got a 1/4 mile of pipeline R/W across the wooded areas of the farm I'd like to use for hay, but there's no way I can use my NH 310 on the hills.

 

[MicroPilot]

Ummm....What link?

 

[slowzuki]

I can imagine the 1/4 mile of hay in a narrow strip being worth investing in a baler. If it is that steep wouldn't all the bales go rolling down the hill?

I have seen some self loading loose hay wagons, could load one of them then fork it into the baler back home.

I get 2 acres for that piece if 60 ft wide, so 200 bales of hay if small squares. Maybe a hay fork on the tractor loader like in Montana, gathers it for stooking.

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[Darren]

Micro, there's two links in the post above. Run your cursor over the text until the cursor changes from an arrow to a hand. Click when it turns into a hand.

You're correct, Slowzuki. Just that stretch wouldn't be worth buying a baler. The pipeline goes for miles before it hits a road. I've got easy access from the top of the ridge. My neighbor has already told me I can take hay off his section of the R/W. While I only have 1/4 mile, there's miles out there.

Besides that I have small fields I can get a tractor into but getting the square baler in the same area doesn't work. Most of them are odd shapes. As for the hay rolling down hill, that might be a good deal if they roll down to my bottom land. I already have a frame that fits my loader forks that I use to transport small bales.

I've also looked into the self loading German hay wagons that load directly from a windrow. Some of those are built for steep terrain also, but they're priced higher than the small round balers. The Italians supposedly build them too, but the one builder I found wasn't currently building them.

 

[slowzuki]

I can certainly understand the romance with the idea of the small square or round but I really think picking up hundreds of small round bales will be a pita. Have you looked at centre line small squares such as Hesston?

There used to be a self loading wagon around that lightly compressed hay. Probably held 100 bales equivalent. The front gear off that might get you started on a small self loader.

I could see buying an old scrap baler or pull type conditioner and using the pickup attached to a wagon to build your own unit.

 

[Darren]

I agree, small bales are always more labor intensive. Here's a link to a self-loading wagon. Click on self loading wagons once you link to the Pottinger site.

http://www.poettinger.at/en/landtechnik/