TYM T754 for Round Baling?

[5030]

One thing I don't have to worry about is hauling round bales because my customer hauls them out of the field on his semi trailers. I just load them. He straps them and transports them.

 

[mo1]

I would never own a 5 foot wide bailer, simply because you cannot run 5 wide bales legally on the road on a trailer. 10 foot wide (side by side, exceeds the Federal maximum width of 104") Guy down the road has a 5 wide JD and got a ticket hauling them on his goose neck on a public road. State police cited him.

You sure can haul 5' wide bales legally using a trailer without any special permitting, lots of people use these to haul 5' wide bales:

In Missouri you are technically required to get an oversize permit to haul a load greater than 8' 6" wide. The laws allow for an annual blanket permit for somebody to haul loads of hay up to 12' 6' wide with no escorts and such as long they don't exceed the normal height, length, or weight restrictions, the cost is $128. The permitting is straightforward so a lot of people haul 5' wide bales two across on a flatbed or in two rows on a double-row bale trailer.

 

[Hay Dude]

You sure can haul 5' wide bales legally using a trailer without any special permitting, lots of people use these to haul 5' wide bales:

In Missouri you are technically required to get an oversize permit to haul a load greater than 8' 6" wide. The laws allow for an annual blanket permit for somebody to haul loads of hay up to 12' 6' wide with no escorts and such as long they don't exceed the normal height, length, or weight restrictions, the cost is $128. The permitting is straightforward so a lot of people haul 5' wide bales two across on a flatbed or in two rows on a double-row bale trailer.

I go 11+ feet wide down the road and the cops waive to me.
I guess some of the other states must be Marxist Authoritarian states.

 

[mo1]

I go 11+ feet wide down the road and the cops waive to me.
I guess some of the other states must be Marxist Authoritarian states.

The laws are technically on the books but do not appear to be enforced. I would be very surprised if everybody hauling 5' bales two across gets an oversize permit, and I have yet to see a single oversize load ticket get written in the entire county in the years I've lived here (the paper publishes every single violation as public record.) I've never seen any overweight tickets, or any tickets of the large number of people hauling a ~20k GVWR tandem gooseneck trailer with a 3/4 or 1 ton truck who don't have a CDL and aren't under an ag exemption. The county and state police basically just seem to care about speeding, reckless driving, expired plates, running stop signs, driving while high/drunk, and then tack on invalid license, no seatbelt, or no insurance fines after they stopped them for something else.

 

[Gardner Allen]

Does anyone use a TYM T754 for round baling? I'm looking at picking up one for a lot of tasks, but the deal maker or breaker for me is probably round baling. I've currently got a Vermeer 604K 1000rpm baler, and TYM shows the T754 as having an optional 540/1000 pto on their website. I'm on hilly ground and I don't know if the T754 is enough tractor weight wise. If I get the tractor I would have it ballasted.
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I don't really want a machine that needs DEF, and older larger pre-emissions tractors are holding a real premium on the used market. I could potentially sell the 604 baler and go to something like a 504, but I kinda want to have an idea of what I might be getting into before pulling the trigger. The T754 looks to me like a good value, if it delivers as advertised.

All opinions welcome.

On flat ground I would think a minimum of 90hp for a baler like yours. But I have no experience with Vermeer baler.

 

[Iowa Hillbilly]

On flat ground I would think a minimum of 90hp for a baler like yours. But I have no experience with Vermeer baler.

I'm not opposed to switching to a smaller baler like a 504 if I need to do that. I'm just not sure if even a 504 is still too big for the tractor. I'm pretty close to pulling the trigger on the tractor, and just trying it out on the baler I have and seeing how it feels.

If the 604 is too much weight I don't mind selling it and picking up a different and maybe newer 504, but what scares me is if the smaller baler would still be too much weight. Then I'd have to find another, bigger tractor and spend that much more cash.

 

[woolyAcres]

We run a Krone 130 behind our Kioti RX7320. With loaded tires and loader (but no bucket) I think we're over 9,000# on the tractor We've been doing this for the last 5 years with no problems at all. The 130 is a pretty small baler (4x4) but we do make wet bales for one cutting per year. Most of what we do is flat ground but we do have some spots with slopes, the kind of slope where a released bale could/has rolled all the way down the hill to the treeline. But the tractor and baler have never slid or given any reason to be concerned about sliding.