Best Round Baler out there for reasonable cost

DrDunc said:

Aye, very pleased

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If you're buying second hand, be more concerned about condition than brand. I bought new this time, but started with a very second hand Greenland rf130, traded up to a fresher Deere 578, traded to an ex demo Krone xc150, then back to a fixed chamber with the new Kuhn purchased this summer

If you have a tractor fit to pull a baler of your own, and the skill to operate it, why instead would you want to keep paying money to a contractor every single year?

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Elpresidente said:

I love my Kuhn but didn’t bale much straw with it last season, did you get round to weighing any straw bales? The hay and silage I’ve done seem to have a more solid core than my Claas balers and retain their shape well. Kuhn must have done a good job of making a power efficient driveline on this baler as even with the pressure screwed in to the max it doesn’t make the tractor pull hard at all unlike a Claas or Mchale 5500 for that matter. I’ve driven lots of my friends Mchale 5500 and it’s quite power hungry.

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DrDunc said:

Aye, definitely agree about the power. Did plenty with 110hp pulling the Kuhn, and you've still to listen for the beep because the tractor isn't on its knees begging for mercy when the bale gets to size.

Weighed near every load of about 700 bale of spring barley straw, very impressed!

They ranged between 250kg at density level 5, and, in one 80 acre, field they averaged 280kg when I tried it flat out at setting 10. They'll were 1.35m diameter (dry enough they didn't register on the moisture meter when probed) and with hindsight, I should've baled them all at max pressure. Initially I was going too fast at the end of the bale (because the tractor wasn't dying back), and the net sprung even at density 5.

Slowing down at the end, and at least 3 turns of net produced bales that were shaped like peas from a pod, and bloody heavy!

I've only made about 300 bales of grass so far, but they are equally as impressive. From some previous day's baling side by side in fields, I know the Krone (that was traded for the Kuhn) made bales the same weight or heavier than McHale's 5500. Weighing the Kuhn bales, and there's consistently over 10% more dry matter in a bale in comparison, and the ground is covered faster as well

I'm very much looking forward to next summer's baling!!!

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daveydiesel1 said:

Man up the road used a few different contractors to do his silage balein using various welgars and then onto mchales and then he got a neighbour to bale it with a kuhn last few years. All the balers were roller balers and he said his mf 290 was always fit to lift the welgar and mchale bales without weights but since he started gettin the man with the kuhn he had to get weights as the bales are a fair bit heavier

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