The Life of a Custom Mowing contractor

[Hay Dude]

$120,000 for a used baler makes me wonder what they cost brand new?

A really loaded up 4x4 is $350,000-$400,000.

 

[Hay Dude]

So I finally got the driveshaft put back in.
The new greaser unit arrived yesterday and I got that installed as well, but much to my chagrin, no grease will push through the system. I isolated the blockage to the main distribution block.
Tomorrow, I am going to try using a manual pump grease gun to force out the blockage. If that wont work, I’m down to trying some ATF fluid to try dissolving the blockage, or the much less desirable option of a new distribution block at $900.

 

[Lineman North Florida]

$120,000 for a used baler makes me wonder what they cost brand new?

I've never even seen one down here in a field , but someone uses them as yesterday I saw 2 of them at Weeks Farm Auction in Moultrie Georgia and both went for around $6k each and I was thinking about this thread, one was a Hesston and I don't remember what the other one was, but they didn't appear to be wore out junk and looked to have been barn stored.

 

[Hay Dude]

Here’s a 3 year old 3x4 baler with 25,000 bales through it at my dealer for $150,000. New, it would be double that.

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[Hay Dude]

I've never even seen one down here in a field , but someone uses them as yesterday I saw 2 of them at Weeks Farm Auction in Moultrie Georgia and both went for around $6k each and I was thinking about this thread, one was a Hesston and I don't remember what the other one was, but they didn't appear to be wore out junk and looked to have been barn stored.

Here is my former Hesston large square baler I paid 12K for it in 2019 and it was unreliable by the time I traded it. Pretty easy to work on though.
Up here $6,000 would maybe buy you a parts baler.