Shelly,the belt problem isn't because it's a vermeer baler.All baler's will do that,if the bale is made to big all the time.The belts weren't made to stretch that far,so it ends up pulling out the lacing.I had that happen on my old hesston baler also.You think it's a pain changing belts on a vermeer,the hesston had another 4 belts to do on top of that!