NH baler

[cowsense]

Have baled about everything you can grow in our north country ranging from thin droughted out salvage crop to extremely heavy tame forage and slough hay. We have used NH balers since 1981 starting with an 851 moving to a 855 chain balers and presently use a 688 belt baler. The chain balers could be tempermental in short dry conditions but if you idled back and stayed away from the heat of the day you could get along. The 688 will start anything I've tried from chewed up rotary combine straw to dried up crested wheat and has tremendous capacity. I can run 2 MPH faster than Hesstons in heavy straw and tie and dump faster! I haven't had a chance to check out Vermeers but do hear lots of good. Dealer service means a lot to us and we have had an excellent relationship with our NH dealer!

[Manitoba_Rancher]

Cowsense,

Your 688 must be different than the ones we have up here. With our hesston we can run circles around any New Holland. This is the mai reason oour Case dealer is now selling Hesston balers as well as the new Case RBX balers (New hollands). We run about 8.0+ MPH in a 36Ft heavy swath of straw. Makes people stop on the road and take notice.

[cowsense]

MR.....was running with Hesston 565's.....don't seem to be any new 856 or 956's around-the first ones seemed to have a lot of problems and they never caught on in sales like the 565. Our country is heavy on NH but that is partly due to several strong dealerships ! Personally I would love to be able to raise cows without running any iron but that is probably a pipedream

[cowsense]

SP.....the first thing our NH dealer does on a new baler is change the axle settings ( there are 2.....can't remember whether he raises or lowers the baler from factory settings ...will have to check). They claim this improves the feeding and makes for a better flow. They also back off the spring tension some to make a slightly softer core. Let me know if you want more info and I can find out for you. Good luck!

[sp]

Thanks, I would be interested in what axles they are talking about.

[Manitoba_Rancher]

You sure are right there cowsense. Wouldn t it be nice to beable to save the money we put out on iron. Would be darn nice to let the cows do the cutting and processing them selves. Hard to make any money these days!

[cowsense]

SP- Check the axles on your baler:there's two positions a forward lower (factory setting) that raises the baler and a rear higher setting that will lower the working height of the machine. Our NH dealer swears by setting the baler to the low setting.....he claims it makes for a better feeding angle for the swath in difficult conditions! It seems to work as I have had very few problems in starting bales. Hope this helps....good luck!