Used baller for 6500 pounds or euro( like in my country)

[rm36house]

Hello friends!
I'm balling round balls with my New Holland 644 baller four season now. Every season I can't start smoothly and when neighbors balling than I repair some thing on my round baller. I'm balling 300-500+ round bales each year.
What is the best 90's to early 00's round baller in the market pros and cons? Or maybe I need to be patient and stay with my 644 and try my best to resolve all the possible trouble shoots this winter and replace or improve some things on to it?
Friends I need some advice, because at now I have little dilema, I'm quite worried what to do with it.

 

[rm36house]

Seriousley guys? Is it so good to keep it? Looks like so, just need some proper TLC and it will be good to go.

 

[essexpete]

Well I suppose you ought to consider parts back up. How easily do you source parts?
What would your budget plus trade in be?

 

[Pringles]

@rm36house You will need to tell us about the problems that you are having with the 644.

They are usually very good balers, if you are doing 500 bales per year then your 644 should be more then capable.

 

[rm36house]

Well I suppose you ought to consider parts back up. How easily do you source parts?
What would your budget plus trade in be?

Sorry for late reply mate. Parts are quite difficult to find or must have to go to official New Holland dealer to get necessary parts or improvise and make some modified parts from other brands.

 

[rm36house]

@rm36house You will need to tell us about the problems that you are having with the 644.

They are usually very good balers, if you are doing 500 bales per year then your 644 should be more then capable.

Sorry mate now I can reply You. Problems are not so big but quite time consuming every season when I'm start balling, like this season. One bearing got damaged, but that's ok I replace with new one and was back in field again. But when I started another field than universal joint broke and than I was quite angry and got thinking about another baller. But few things I thought in my mind and got thoughts it makes so good round bales and if I'll get new used one I'll go through this trouble shoot areas and maintenance again but with this 644 baller I know almost every weak place now.

 

[Tim G]

We replaced a 648 (slightly newer version of your 644) this season with a br6070. The main reason being wanting a proper chopper, but the old one was slow and at 20 years old, reliability was only going one way. The new one is very similar mechanically but with a rotor feed rather than stuffer, the difference is like night and day. Frustratingly, the new one has needed a couple of bearings too but hey ho, they weren't too tricky. Without pushing too hard I've been doing probably 40 x 4ft bales of chopped silage an hour, the old one was much slower. If you change, get one with a rotor feed.

 

[essexpete]

As Tim G has found, you could change the baler and still have problems with an odd bearing or UJ joint. If you understand the machine and it covers your work easily, then I would keep what you have. I do a similar amount to you and changed my JD round baler for a more modern JD, not because of reliability but I wanted one that is more user friendly.

 

[rm36house]

Thanks for reply friends. Looks like you all are right. I stay with what I have already.

 

[bobk]

Get used to changing bearings on a round baler , caused by wet grass getting in the bearings , same as pressure washing machines .