You aren't seriously comparing decent box section with a ratchet strap? Are you?What's the difference between that and hydraulic side's ?
What width are you? Where's @roscoe erf when you need him?
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You aren't seriously comparing decent box section with a ratchet strap? Are you?What's the difference between that and hydraulic side's ?
Not comparing it to a metal side but they're all held in so what's not to likeYou aren't seriously comparing decent box section with a ratchet strap? Are you?
What width are you? Where's @RoscoeErf when you need him?
I hope you don't go on a road like that!
You hit the nail on the head.....Good Driver.A new chaser is over £80,000. With a good driver you can clear 60t per hour easily to the side of a field and make stacks that look like a telehandler made them. Thats one load every 8 minutes tot he side of a field. We run 4 balers and rarely have any bales out overnight, and the chasers are back in the yard soon after the balers.
If we carted them back to the yard with a chaser we would need about 6 chasers and staff to drive them.
This stack was just over 500 bales, took just over 4 hours and was 4 fields cleared to a central grass field. Longest haul was a mile.
Any more than 5 minutes on the road and its cheaper to tip on the headland, get the fields clear and the bales safe, then cart with trailers or a lorry.
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What are bale chasers like to buy second hand? Do they usually get moved on due to problems? Are they controlled by electronic control boxes or just hydraulic valve?
Depends on the make and the driver.
I've just sold mine, was a Heath QM. Built by a farmer in a farm workshop. Very simple. Very simple electrics to. 1 giant valve block, 12v off / on.
In 7 years mine had a 4 rams resealed and one crack welded up. However I was the only driver and treated it like my baby.
I have seen 2yr old machines that are a wreck. They pick the last bale up and then get unhitched and left all winter covered in straw. The rats go in and demolish the wiring. The students never grease them and the bushes get badly worn. The good news is it's easy to tell and abused one.
#yoloI hope you don't go on a road like that!
But a clever man all the same.
I often see him at vintage shows with his stationary baler.
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Camera shy.
Think Richard Briggs and John Heath are a bit more than farmers with a workshop , have you ever been in Richards workshop or yard Who build the chasers.Depends on the make and the driver.
I've just sold mine, was a Heath QM. Built by a farmer in a farm workshop. Very simple. Very simple electrics to. 1 giant valve block, 12v off / on.
In 7 years mine had a 4 rams resealed and one crack welded up. However I was the only driver and treated it like my baby.
I have seen 2yr old machines that are a wreck. They pick the last bale up and then get unhitched and left all winter covered in straw. The rats go in and demolish the wiring. The students never grease them and the bushes get badly worn. The good news is it's easy to tell and abused one.
Think Richard Briggs and John Heath are a bit more than farmers with a workshop , have you ever been in Richards workshop or yard Who build the chasers.
Think Richard Briggs and John Heath are a bit more than farmers with a workshop , have you ever been in Richards workshop or yard Who build the chasers.
I could do with getting in touch with whoever makes them as need some parts for mine and can't make owt of big bale north !.
Was just chatting to Richard as he coming to our wedding and was asking where places to stay. Will send you his number. @Andrew did your old chaser have the hay bob tine drawbar lock mod done to stop drawbar opening on road and double muscled thumbs working old switch box thousands of times a dayI could do with getting in touch with whoever makes them as need some parts for mine and can't make owt of big bale north !.
Was just chatting to Richard as he coming to our wedding and was asking where places to stay. Will send you his number. @Andrew did your old chaser have the hay bob tine drawbar lock mod done to stop drawbar opening on road and double muscled thumbs working old switch box thousands of times a day
What do you need?
PM'd you Pete Heath's details. Richard Briggs might have something too.