Claas dominant conventional baler

[Chris16]

Hi, I’ve been offered a decent looking Claas dominant, it’s supposed to of been set up and is ready to go, it manually trips and knots well, it’s only for 10 or so acres a year and is sensibly priced, are these balers any good, anything specific to watch out for? We’ve had a fair few conventionals over the years but never had anything to do with a dominant. Thanks for any inputs!

 

[auld major]

have one as as backup. only problem had was chains were bit loose and overloaded it and timing jumped bent the needles. also bent knotter bar. sorted all out been ok since, makes a nice bale. this was baling hay. if its set up ok good enough machine in my experiance. not had any farther problems with it.

 

[Chris16]

Thanks for that, good to know

 

[Will 1594]

Deeper bales like the old 8 model nh ,or some jd baler 466

 

[Chris16]

They make them like the welger size bales do they?

 

[d ned]

Hi, I’ve been offered a decent looking Claas dominant, it’s supposed to of been set up and is ready to go, it manually trips and knots well, it’s only for 10 or so acres a year and is sensibly priced, are these balers any good, anything specific to watch out for? We’ve had a fair few conventionals over the years but never had anything to do with a dominant. Thanks for any inputs!

Hi, did you buy that claas dominant baler as I'm thinking of getting one but know nothing about them and was wondering did you go for it?

 

[Nick Dunican]

They were an outstanding baler when they were new - with massive output..
Only one thing to remember- they got their increased capacity by being made with a 16 inch bale chamber rather than your conventional 14 inch chamber on all other balers made at that time ..
Great for output but no ideal if your selling you hay or straw by the bale
2 inches extra on ever row of bales on a trailer