Vermeer

Lacattleman · Apr 23, 2014

I've been a John Deere man all my life, but got sticker shock when pricing a new JD 459. Been looking into some other brands and have heard good things about vermeers. John Deere has the better dealership in my area but there are also 2 vermeer dealers within about 50 miles. I do most maintenance and repairs myself. I've got a JD 457 that's been a good baler. Can anyone tell me about the monitors on the vermeer balers? Also, how does the net wrap perform? I bale between 1200 and 2000 bales a year. Anyone else have any experience switching from John Deere to Vermeer balers?

Tx Jim · Apr 24, 2014

Where I live one would wear out a pickup driving around looking for very many Vermeer rd balers in the field baling hay. JD rd balers RULE the hay fields here. I bought a truck load of cow hay from East Texas that was baled by a Vermeer that the bales had a soft core(wagon wheel) appearance and the netwrap was only on about 75 % bale coverage. If my JD 467 did that poor of a job it would be "looking for a home" but my 467 is by far the best baler I've ever baled with.!!!!!! Here's a couple photos of the Vermeer baled 2013 cow hay that I bought last month.

dan28040 · Apr 24, 2014

Vermeer has come a long ways with their balers and hay equipment.

Zscoop33 · Apr 25, 2014

We had a john deters baler which we sold and a few years later purchased a Vermeer. Both were good balers but price was the deciding factor. We baled about 2000 bales so far with it and no problems the bales are tight. I think the ones you bought the guy trying to get as many bales out the field as he could. Down in south louisiana you are seeing more Vermeer equipment then john deere. I think price and the quality are the factors now. I bought my baler rake and Tedder for a little more than just the John deere baler.

D7E · Apr 25, 2014

I have never seen a vermeer up here and god knows where you would get parts . NH are the most common but there are quite a few New MF's starting to appear too.

BHD · Apr 25, 2014

I think most all the custom guys in my area use Vermeer,

I am not sure but I think Vermeer uses farmer dealers, or at one time they did, I looked up dealer in our area and I see some that are tractor dealers now, but still seems like some are "independents" or farmer dealers,

foreman Etexas · May 3, 2014

Tx Jim said:
Where I live one would wear out a pickup driving around looking for very many Vermeer rd balers in the field baling hay. JD rd balers RULE the hay fields here. I bought a truck load of cow hay from East Texas that was baled by a Vermeer that the bales had a soft core(wagon wheel) appearance and the netwrap was only on about 75 % bale coverage. If my JD 467 did that poor of a job it would be "looking for a home" but my 467 is by far the best baler I've ever baled with.!!!!!! Here's a couple photos of the Vermeer baled 2013 cow hay that I bought last month.

Thats more operator than baler:laughing:

Bigfoot62 · May 30, 2014

Lacattleman said:
. . . I've got a JD 457 that's been a good baler. . .

Yep, they cost some big bucks.

Why don't you just get yours a tune-up. New belts, maybe a new starter roller, chains and sprockets. Not much more than that to go wrong. Can't cost nearly as much as a new baler.

As far as going from a JD baler to something else, you're probably not gonna be happy. Just sayin'.
I've never seen any round baler that makes as dense and uniform bale as a JD.

PMA · May 30, 2014

JD way over priced. I got CI and it works great.

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Tx Jim · May 31, 2014

Bigfoot62 said:
Yep, they cost some big bucks.

Why don't you just get yours a tune-up. maybe a new starter roller,

As far as going from a JD baler to something else, you're probably not gonna be happy. Just sayin'.
I've never seen any round baler that makes as dense and uniform bale as a JD.

I've never seen a starter roll on a JD rd baler wear out enough to require replacement. I do weld extra rods on each end of my 467 balers starter rolls to stop dry coastal from running up belts in the frt of baler and collecting between belts. Last time I talked to JD employees in Ottumwa they didn't advise welding on starter roll with spirals but I've done it on several with great success.