This is the first I've heard of this being done but it makes sense when doing it for a farm store. I've seen bales of hay unrolled out in the field for cows to eat. Thanks for making this video.
Great video! Love seeing the tractors powering that specialized machinery. I never knew unrolling rounds and rebaling into small squares was a thing. Very cool.
Hey Dennis, Great video as always.And it warms my heart up to see the way you interact with Dorsy, That is one hell of a smart kid and the... way you are teaching him is excellent he will be one hell of a helper some day Be safe and God bless you and the family..
I wouldn't say it's an efficient way of making square because your baling twice but if you have the rounds and need squares then definitely a good way of doing it.
Good day Dennis ,you have some neat equipment to help keep the cash flow moving inthe right direction .Great video , you are keeping the little one busy so he will be a great asset down the road of life .See ya .
Good morning Dennis. I guess I have never seen this operation before. A great tool to convert roll of hay to square bales. I have done lots of this baling hay with that type square baler. Enjoyed watching as always. Thanks 🙏
Pretty cool setup, never seen that before. I spent many years loading and distributing hay to a bunch of hungry horses but never got the chance to grow,cut and bail the hay, maybe one day I'll get lucky enough to own some land to grow some hay. I really like your videos stay safe and God bless. Kevin and Karen
Yeah me too normally we are out also but we didn't have a bunch of big jobs this time to use it on. Last year we were buying all the straw we could find.
@@DLHFarms Amazing how things work out. I hope all this rain isn't messing up your hay production and grading too much. We are behind on construction work but not that bad.
Your son has it figured out! No easier time to build all that muscle than as a very young kid, and it doesn't even feel like work. Anything he gains now he can maintain well enough for life, but no way to build all that strength all over the body. :thumbsup
I think it's really really cool when people take their kids with them when they work with equipment. It's teaches them a lot about the equipment even if they are just sitting there. And it helps them not to be afraid of heavy equipment too. A father couldn't ask for more whenever he gets to take his kids to work. I'm sure someone will complain about it though.
Thats another cool video!:) I´ll start my own hay operation in maybe 5 years, and you do some really good stuff that I could do also...so you give some good ideas,thanks!:D
I've got a system that rebales hay, but on a much larger scale at a slower pace. I unroll a round bale on a gradual hillside, then the cattle come and eat all of it over the next couple of days. During this time they digest it and crap it all over the pasture, which helps fertilize the growing hay, which I then cut and bale it as squares. Simple, cheap, and I don't have to have additional equipment or labor to do it.....lol.
Clever setup, thanks for posting. Wonder if it would work with an inline baler with the bale unrolled above and just behind the baler tractor or unit providing PTO power. I like using our refurbished 8555 Case IH inline.
When I was younger I worked 3 months at new company, unloading large alfalfa bales into 4 big "stripping mills" that were feeding into "chopping stages" and then into the blending tanks and then into the "pelletizer heads" for ... rabbit food mostly. After I left they got larger pelletizers for zoo feed and ag feeds. I was staying with my mom and dad and every night after work I'd have to hose off outside because my dad was really allergic to alfalfa. Luckily it was summer. LOL
Hey buddy that works awsome for rebaling!!! I've used my bale processor to put the round bale i a windrow but then ya still have to pick up the small squares. I like your set up better!! Have a good one Dennis👍
Awesome video sir! I love to learn about what you guys do every day!! Very interesting for sure! How many square bales do you get out of the 2 round bales?? I had a little buddy like the one you have and all of a sudden he GREW UP!!!!!!!!. Enjoy your time with him now and thanks for the great videos. Oh and by the way it’s pretty exciting that you answer every comment and being the UA-cam star and all!!!
Cool set up. Did you try blocking the tires on the baler. looks like over time it could be hard on the tractor's brakes. Them lil square balers are hard on drawbars and pins anyway. Thanks for the video.
Hey Dennis nice job on the re-baling. I sure like the old Ford, it looks in great shape, probably a Perkins diesel. I couldn t quite read which model it is. Nice!!!
Hi Dennis I absolutely love watching your videos would you be able to do a Equipment Tour of your an your fathers equipment Thanks heaps From Australia
Is it safe to say that this machine is better suited for large square bales seeing they don't have a core to worry about or even having to mess with the unrolling aspect. I would like to see a demo with a large square bale. Eric
Well we tried a large square bale of straw, but it had been chopped really fine. It would not tear it apart. I need to try just a regular bale but I don't have one. It's supposed to work.
Trying to think back when I rebaled hay for Florida back few years now in that crazy drought. Small squares by the van trailer load @ 20$ a bale. Thinking I got all but 25 bales out of a 4x5. I rented an unroller @ 1$ a bale to unroll. I agree totally with putting small machine afield. But I was being an opportunist n make a few bucks with my case. Dealers will rebale mostly straw tho. Nice video.
DLH Farms I like the 3 point setup you got. Yea made some money to spend it again 🤦♂️. We’ve run into some chopped big bales too n you’re right. Pile of chaf n strings sliding off. Now if you could bale into your accumulator n run the skid steer you’d be set 👌. Often thought bout selling my kicker wagons n getting one n grapples for loader. I reckon they’d pay each other’s cost to replace, n I’d handle lot less bales. Still kicking em in wagons tho ....
@@Gixzer04 Yeah I've been thinking about building a roller bed or roller conveyer to put behind the accumulator so I can bale into it. Haha those chopped bales make terrible rebales.
Well u beat me too it 😂. I've been trying to work out how to do it with hay. I'm a one man band with hay....literally no to help so was thinking round bale hay and reprocess when I've time. Was thinking either a straw chopper or bale u roller with a haybob (if you know what one is? Like a tedder but uk old shool job) to fluff the hay up
@@DLHFarms oh i loved it. I may even have a my first contract for this hay season. I would love to become a small bale contractor. Gotta start somewhere.
A pretty neat machine. I looked into one for feeding cows in the fall on pasture but not sure I would get my money out of it. I been rolling bales down hill. Sure is a smart design though.
I saw there was a lot of straw on the floor. Is it swept up and put into the baler? I was thinking the store could sell the loose straw to someone willing to sweep it up and take it away for a cheaper price than a square bale.
Always wondered how may sq would get outa a round. More money in sq than round up here. Thats nice outfit. I have an old 315 still works good.kept inside
Good video I just started watching your again I kinda lost touch with your operation still a good video one question do you still have the John deer have a good one
Spoiled by my Haybuster. Paid $8750 new 20 years ago, only averaged about 1,000 1,500lb. bales/year, just now needed some minor repairs. Self-loading, can haul two, and of course it doesn't matter which way the bale unrolls. Most people around have the same kind, or one set on a mover for more bales. Processes an even windrow and the entire bale in under a couple minutes. No need to take twine/net off, very handy when it's frozen on. That just wraps on the rotor for easy removal (I do after every 40 bales). I see they have some on clearance, new, a bit above $20k now, higher than that when not on sale. I saw one of these like yours sitting at a dealer, they didn't sell it in 3 years. Looked well built, but I don't see the point really since it only unrolls it, when comparing the cost, vs. a lightly used other type, vs. a simple and cheap unroller (for feeding purposes, sitting still like you have here, maybe). If a person needed less hp, they make another type with sickle sections and hydraulic drive (local ranch used to make them locally, either with wheels, or it could go in the back of a pickup). My type, could slow it down, but 80 pto hp would be about as low as I'd want to go. I don't know of anyone that does straw. Very little use for small squares in my area, but my neighbor sells a few truckloads sometimes. He uses a Haybuster and bales the windrow. Some years nobody wants many, so he just does some on demand.
@@DLHFarms The "spout/blower" one, similar to a 2564 or so? Looks handy for covering areas like you were doing. I've never seen one of those around or in stock at the dealers either for some reason. Mine's a 2620, got it right when they came out, replacing the 256 plus II. Had a few things I didn't like about it when I bought it, saw the lift/pickup was poor compared to the old model, dropped bales in harder, they fixed pretty much all of the issues/weaker spots/gripes in the 2640. But mine held up this long. Never messed with bearings, broke a few flails on some purchased hay though.... The main dealer that stocks them now carries more Vermeers since they switched to working about the same way. I demoed one of their old ones when I got the 2620. No chain, harder on the tractor, core dropped in at the end often lugging it down. Plus you had to rock the bales back and forth. But, at the time, they looked "built" better, despite not working nearly as well. I'd look at one now though, don't know how build quality compares, but they should work fine.
@@DLHFarms That'd be why I haven't seen one around :) . I looked at trading for a 2650 when mine was in getting (free) updates. Trading mine in I would have owed about ~$3500 to $4k or so I think (held decent value), around the time you mentioned. I seem to recall the 2640/2650 being around $12k or so about '05ish? Maybe.... Shoulda probably traded, but I didn't, it held up anyway. Place here that sells them goes through old 2650s, replaces all the bearings, goes through the gears/box too, chain, new flails, whatever, they say basically as new, and ask about $15k.
Hey Dennis, quick question for you, are you nervous or apprehensive with getting to much machinery with to much tech built into it? Just thinking about how a lot of farmers prefer to fix there own equipment, especially attachments and stuff, but eventually your going to have software locks on equipment forcing the farmer to send things to the dealer for expensive repairs, what your take on this?
Another good machine you got there Dennis. Think less to go wrong with no chain on it .Just wondering how much higher does the jd lift than the massey loader ? When stacking small square bales .Would it do two more layers of bales high or more ?
I stopped helping on the families farms just before round bails came into play . I could never understand why farms went to round bails . I was told it had to do with storage . But it seems large bails would be easier to handle , transport , and store , than the round bails .
That's how the boys do there horse hay every year down Stanley valley roll them in the field an bring them in an unroll them an square bale them right in the barn
Wheat straw...olf will be bail n next weeks too...if you need another sorce...oh not good for sqr bails...oops never mind...haha...just keep rolling..cheers
Never seen anyone feed a bale into the pickup of another baler before, but have seen them roll it onto the ground first and then bale. I've had a Hustler chainless feed out wagon for about 20 years (the company is based here in New Zealand), but it has forks out of the back to load the table and to hold a 2nd bale, would make it impossible to get in close enough to do what you're doing.
@@DLHFarms Before we bought the setup we have we were looking at the Hustler... but a complete setup became available so we bought it......along with Tractor supply contracts.......John Deere net has a wide band on the far side....so loading on the table is easy.... I had to change the gearing so the 3 tables feed the baler a uniform as baled windrow... We found that you have to really crowd the New Holland to get bales that the Bale Bandit will bundle without a lot of trouble We discovered that the hardened bolts don't last as long as the soft bolts in the flywheel
Only beneficial if there is a source for a re-sale of the new bale..clear wheat straw is costly..this method seems to provide a good bale if the result is a nice tight bale..good show..I might add love seeing kids around machinery but to show a running situation of the machine with the child in the cab by theirself is risky especially if you were to fall towards the machine and the child pulls the wrong lever..lost a friend that way..
@@DLHFarms give me a call at 540-381-3864 if you don't mind. I buy straw off of Kevin out there at Floyd also. He said before you guys cut some hay together. Everywhere is just out.and had been for quite a while. I'd like to have several hundred bales
Goodness gracious if you make hay square bales into round bales you need a tractor driver and a guy to feed 20 square bales in. My goodness ya'll want to make durn sure what kind of bales you need to make. In rain and snow you need cover with two tractors running one for this bale ripper aparter and the other running either a square baler or a round baler. Sheesh.
Maybe for your next upgrade you might consider a Ken Mills Engineering system? perfect for rebaling large rounds and square bales - ua-cam.com/video/3fMgMdJp_fA/v-deo.html
I never understand the point of re-bailing a bail. Seems like a lot of extra work. I get the having round bails and them wanting squares. But ive seen and heard of it done alot never understood the point
I sell all my unclaimed round rolls of Bermuda hay to a man who unrolls it and re-bales it to square bales. He doubles his money. But he unrolls the rolls in the field and re-bales it conventionally. He gets 20-21 square bales from a roll.
@@DLHFarms I have a unique situation. I retired from Public Works Inspection for the City of Los Angeles. Am currently back to inspecting for consultants, after supervising Inspectors in LA for 12 years. I have to finish fixing up the house to be sold first, and I have a brother in Chesapeake, but I'm not so sure I want to move back to Virginia Beach.
This is the first I've heard of this being done but it makes sense when doing it for a farm store. I've seen bales of hay unrolled out in the field for cows to eat. Thanks for making this video.
Yeah its kind of a special needs type of thing. They need straw and we have to much just in the wrong shape.
Great video! Love seeing the tractors powering that specialized machinery. I never knew unrolling rounds and rebaling into small squares was a thing. Very cool.
Thanks! Yep it's a thing!
Hey Dennis, Great video as always.And it warms my heart up to see the way you interact with Dorsy, That is one hell of a smart kid and the... way you are teaching him is excellent he will be one hell of a helper some day Be safe and God bless you and the family..
Thanks he is awesome!
Haven't ever seen this done before here in Sweden and even thought about it! :D Thanks for the demo, Dennis!
I wouldn't say it's an efficient way of making square because your baling twice but if you have the rounds and need squares then definitely a good way of doing it.
nice setup Dennis I really like your videos and content they are very educational and informative; thanks! have a good night.
Thanks Don!
Good day Dennis ,you have some neat equipment to help keep the cash flow moving inthe right direction .Great video , you are keeping the little one busy so he will be a great asset down the road of life .See ya .
Yeah the little man got a work out that day haha
The Ford 4600 looks in great condition, It's nice to see older equipment being used and taken care of.
Thanks it was my grandpas tractor we had it restored and the engine rebuilt.
Kewl Beans! Didn’t know there was such a thing! Thank ya and God bless ya
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Good morning Dennis. I guess I have never seen this operation before. A great tool to convert roll of hay to square bales. I have done lots of this baling hay with that type square baler. Enjoyed watching as always. Thanks 🙏
Those are good ole balers 👍
DLH Farms : yes they are great bakers. It was always a pain to tie twine together were it won’t break when it ties itself. Thanks
Good morning buddy. Hope you and your family are doing very well and staying healthy. Great video as always. God bless you and your family.👍🙏👍🙏🇺🇸🇺🇸
Thanks! Hope your doing well also!
Pretty interesting. Nice setup you had going on there. Stay well, stay safe and we’ll see ya on the next one 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Glad you enjoyed it!
Well done Dennis with a very good explanation, good video. Nick, North West Farmer
Thanks Nick!
Thanks Dennis, that was interesting to watch, I've never seen one in use like that.
You're welcome 👍
Great video Dennis thanks for showing us
Thanks Bill!
Pretty cool setup, never seen that before. I spent many years loading and distributing hay to a bunch of hungry horses but never got the chance to grow,cut and bail the hay, maybe one day I'll get lucky enough to own some land to grow some hay. I really like your videos stay safe and God bless. Kevin and Karen
I hope you can good luck Kevin!
Fancy thing you guys got there. Pretty neat to watch too. Good to see the the ol' hay liner on the FORD 4600 just chugging along. Stay safe.
Yeah it's no problem for the old Ford
You've got your helper with you this morning!!!!
Yep my little buddy!
Glad y'all have the straw to sell like that. That unroller is pretty handy for sure.
Yeah me too normally we are out also but we didn't have a bunch of big jobs this time to use it on. Last year we were buying all the straw we could find.
@@DLHFarms Amazing how things work out. I hope all this rain isn't messing up your hay production and grading too much. We are behind on construction work but not that bad.
Thanks for sharing Dennis. I have never seen this done before.
You're welcome John!
Your son has it figured out! No easier time to build all that muscle than as a very young kid, and it doesn't even feel like work. Anything he gains now he can maintain well enough for life, but no way to build all that strength all over the body. :thumbsup
Yep if he is awake he never stops moving haha
Boys getting better every time we se him awesome
Oh yeah
Interesting. Thanks. You would make a good teacher/instructor.
Thanks!
I think it's really really cool when people take their kids with them when they work with equipment. It's teaches them a lot about the equipment even if they are just sitting there. And it helps them not to be afraid of heavy equipment too. A father couldn't ask for more whenever he gets to take his kids to work. I'm sure someone will complain about it though.
Thanks I'm trying to teach him as much as I can
Thanks Dennis, another informative video. Kind of a pain rebaling but sometimes its necessary. Nice bale unroller though.
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Thats another cool video!:) I´ll start my own hay operation in maybe 5 years, and you do some really good stuff that I could do also...so you give some good ideas,thanks!:D
Awesome good luck with your operation!
@@DLHFarms Thanks Dennis!
This is awesome!!! Not a bad looking Ford hooked too your square bailer either.
Yeah that was my grandpas tractor we restored it.
Oh that’s awesome.
Hi Dennis I agree with Luke about the Equipment Tour Take care from South Africa
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@@DLHFarms Thanks for the reply Dennis and be safe.
I've got a system that rebales hay, but on a much larger scale at a slower pace. I unroll a round bale on a gradual hillside, then the cattle come and eat all of it over the next couple of days. During this time they digest it and crap it all over the pasture, which helps fertilize the growing hay, which I then cut and bale it as squares. Simple, cheap, and I don't have to have additional equipment or labor to do it.....lol.
Haha 👍
Very interesting glad it all worked out.
Thanks!
Great video! Thank you!
Thanks!
Little man was ready to rock and roll wasn't he ? LoL 🤭🤭 🤭
Always
I can remember prevailing hay in the barn for my grandfather. Only it was 3 grand sons with forks and grampa with whip! Lol
Haha
Clever setup, thanks for posting. Wonder if it would work with an inline baler with the bale unrolled above and just behind the baler tractor or unit providing PTO power. I like using our refurbished 8555 Case IH inline.
I’m sure it anything is possible but might be more hand work involved
Very interesting for this city boy, Thank you
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Simple setup and I might just have to look at one for bedding cattle with rye bales or corn stalk bales
Yeah I guess that would work.
I believe you on rebaling being a PITA. Looks like you have a good set up to get the job done.
Yeah it can be a pain but we are figuring it out little by little.
Glad to see your boy with you
Yeah he loves helping
@@DLHFarms and I'm sure you absolutely love having him with you like every dad would
Yep 👍
Love his name Dorsey....good vid thanks for makin
For the longest time, I thought Dennis was calling him “Dorothy”. That would have been as bad as “A Boy Named Sue”.
Haha I wouldn't do that to my boy. It's actually spelled Dorsie it was my great granddads name.
When I was younger I worked 3 months at new company, unloading large alfalfa bales into 4 big "stripping mills" that were feeding into "chopping stages" and then into the blending tanks and then into the "pelletizer heads" for ... rabbit food mostly. After I left they got larger pelletizers for zoo feed and ag feeds. I was staying with my mom and dad and every night after work I'd have to hose off outside because my dad was really allergic to alfalfa. Luckily it was summer. LOL
That's pretty cool 👍
Hey buddy that works awsome for rebaling!!! I've used my bale processor to put the round bale i a windrow but then ya still have to pick up the small squares. I like your set up better!! Have a good one Dennis👍
Thanks!
Would love to see more videos of that attachment
Ok 👍
Awesome video sir! I love to learn about what you guys do every day!! Very interesting for sure! How many square bales do you get out of the 2 round bales?? I had a little buddy like the one you have and all of a sudden he GREW UP!!!!!!!!. Enjoy your time with him now and thanks for the great videos. Oh and by the way it’s pretty exciting that you answer every comment and being the UA-cam star and all!!!
My little guy is growing so fast too! We get about 19 bales out of each round bale.
What will they think up next, handy machine the old 315 was chewing it up good👍
Yep chomp chomp haha
Cool set up. Did you try blocking the tires on the baler. looks like over time it could be hard on the tractor's brakes. Them lil square balers are hard on drawbars and pins anyway. Thanks for the video.
I actually thought about do that but the back an forth rocking actually helps the bale feed better at times
Hey Dennis nice job on the re-baling. I sure like the old Ford, it looks in great shape, probably a Perkins diesel. I couldn t quite read which model it is. Nice!!!
It's a 4600 su. It has a Ford 3 cylinder engine. It belonged to my grandpa we restored it.
@@DLHFarms He chose a nice tractor to restore. Mint!!!
As growing up on a cattle farm Dad pushed us to 200 bales a hour in barn,he liked heavy bales.
Sounds like working with my grandpa
Get you a double low back bale spear for the FEL, and you can move pallets with them like they are forks, and never leave the seat.
I actually have one of those. Moving one pallet at a time with a tractor though is pretty slow.
I can remember trying to re bale straw off the barn for from the chaff off the straw wagon turns out you can't keep a steady flow with a pitckfork.
Yeah it's a little hard to do that.
Hi Dennis I absolutely love watching your videos would you be able to do a Equipment Tour of your an your fathers equipment Thanks heaps From Australia
I thought about doing that but dad is kind of a private guy i try not to over do it with his stuff.
Maybe just your stuff
DLH Farms That completely understandable My old man the same haha Thanks
Excellent!
Thanks
Like you said it’s not something you would choose to do. It does work good.
Well its just cheaper and more efficient to square bale in the field if you know you need them in squares
Is it safe to say that this machine is better suited for large square bales seeing they don't have a core to worry about or even having to mess with the unrolling aspect. I would like to see a demo with a large square bale. Eric
Well we tried a large square bale of straw, but it had been chopped really fine. It would not tear it apart. I need to try just a regular bale but I don't have one. It's supposed to work.
Trying to think back when I rebaled hay for Florida back few years now in that crazy drought. Small squares by the van trailer load @ 20$ a bale. Thinking I got all but 25 bales out of a 4x5. I rented an unroller @ 1$ a bale to unroll. I agree totally with putting small machine afield. But I was being an opportunist n make a few bucks with my case. Dealers will rebale mostly straw tho. Nice video.
You where make some good money 👍
DLH Farms I like the 3 point setup you got. Yea made some money to spend it again 🤦♂️. We’ve run into some chopped big bales too n you’re right. Pile of chaf n strings sliding off. Now if you could bale into your accumulator n run the skid steer you’d be set 👌. Often thought bout selling my kicker wagons n getting one n grapples for loader. I reckon they’d pay each other’s cost to replace, n I’d handle lot less bales. Still kicking em in wagons tho ....
@@Gixzer04 Yeah I've been thinking about building a roller bed or roller conveyer to put behind the accumulator so I can bale into it. Haha those chopped bales make terrible rebales.
DLH Farms amen man , now a conveyor would be slick. You know you got like all the awesome toys right? I love it.
Well u beat me too it 😂. I've been trying to work out how to do it with hay. I'm a one man band with hay....literally no to help so was thinking round bale hay and reprocess when I've time. Was thinking either a straw chopper or bale u roller with a haybob (if you know what one is? Like a tedder but uk old shool job) to fluff the hay up
Maybe try one of these should work for ya.
My nabors sometimes ask me to rebale. Bale buster in the field four 5' bales. Baled them all up in under an hour on a NH 296.
Sounds fun!
@@DLHFarms oh i loved it. I may even have a my first contract for this hay season. I would love to become a small bale contractor. Gotta start somewhere.
A pretty neat machine. I looked into one for feeding cows in the fall on pasture but not sure I would get my money out of it. I been rolling bales down hill. Sure is a smart design though.
They are definitely expensive
what about using it with small square / rectangular balers ?
The good old Hustler from good old New Zealand that's where they are manufactured
Didn't know that. Cool!
@@DLHFarms you should do some research on it
Hi, where did you get the additional piece where you lay the round bail?
You mean the unroller?
How many small bails do you get from a big round bails?
20 to 22
I saw there was a lot of straw on the floor. Is it swept up and put into the baler? I was thinking the store could sell the loose straw to someone willing to sweep it up and take it away for a cheaper price than a square bale.
We pick fork it in the baler when we are done.
Now that you have some time on the massy how do you like it and how much trouble have you had with I'm looking for a new tractor what hp is it
I really like, ive only had a couple small issues with it. It’s 100 engine hp
@@DLHFarms thank you for your help
How many square bales do you get out of a round bale?
18 or 19 out of a 5x5 round
Always wondered how may sq would get outa a round. More money in sq than round up here. Thats nice outfit. I have an old 315 still works good.kept inside
315 is a good ole baler.
Good video I just started watching your again I kinda lost touch with your operation still a good video one question do you still have the John deer have a good one
Yes I definitely still have the JD it's not going anywhere for a while.
Why did you not baled small bales in the field ?? Makes lota extra work ?????
Good video, is it not worth hooking up the accumulator so you can fork them on to the truck in p[acks of 10???
That’s what I’m doing now but I had to figure out how to use the accumulator while it’s stationary. Video come soon on that.
@@DLHFarms I look forward to that
Spoiled by my Haybuster. Paid $8750 new 20 years ago, only averaged about 1,000 1,500lb. bales/year, just now needed some minor repairs. Self-loading, can haul two, and of course it doesn't matter which way the bale unrolls. Most people around have the same kind, or one set on a mover for more bales. Processes an even windrow and the entire bale in under a couple minutes. No need to take twine/net off, very handy when it's frozen on. That just wraps on the rotor for easy removal (I do after every 40 bales). I see they have some on clearance, new, a bit above $20k now, higher than that when not on sale.
I saw one of these like yours sitting at a dealer, they didn't sell it in 3 years. Looked well built, but I don't see the point really since it only unrolls it, when comparing the cost, vs. a lightly used other type, vs. a simple and cheap unroller (for feeding purposes, sitting still like you have here, maybe). If a person needed less hp, they make another type with sickle sections and hydraulic drive (local ranch used to make them locally, either with wheels, or it could go in the back of a pickup). My type, could slow it down, but 80 pto hp would be about as low as I'd want to go.
I don't know of anyone that does straw. Very little use for small squares in my area, but my neighbor sells a few truckloads sometimes. He uses a Haybuster and bales the windrow. Some years nobody wants many, so he just does some on demand.
We have a Haybuster also it’s on my channel
@@DLHFarms The "spout/blower" one, similar to a 2564 or so? Looks handy for covering areas like you were doing. I've never seen one of those around or in stock at the dealers either for some reason. Mine's a 2620, got it right when they came out, replacing the 256 plus II. Had a few things I didn't like about it when I bought it, saw the lift/pickup was poor compared to the old model, dropped bales in harder, they fixed pretty much all of the issues/weaker spots/gripes in the 2640. But mine held up this long. Never messed with bearings, broke a few flails on some purchased hay though....
The main dealer that stocks them now carries more Vermeers since they switched to working about the same way. I demoed one of their old ones when I got the 2620. No chain, harder on the tractor, core dropped in at the end often lugging it down. Plus you had to rock the bales back and forth. But, at the time, they looked "built" better, despite not working nearly as well. I'd look at one now though, don't know how build quality compares, but they should work fine.
I think ours is a 2554 it cost about 24,000 back around 2004 ish
@@DLHFarms That'd be why I haven't seen one around :) . I looked at trading for a 2650 when mine was in getting (free) updates. Trading mine in I would have owed about ~$3500 to $4k or so I think (held decent value), around the time you mentioned. I seem to recall the 2640/2650 being around $12k or so about '05ish? Maybe.... Shoulda probably traded, but I didn't, it held up anyway. Place here that sells them goes through old 2650s, replaces all the bearings, goes through the gears/box too, chain, new flails, whatever, they say basically as new, and ask about $15k.
Hey Dennis, quick question for you, are you nervous or apprehensive with getting to much machinery with to much tech built into it? Just thinking about how a lot of farmers prefer to fix there own equipment, especially attachments and stuff, but eventually your going to have software locks on equipment forcing the farmer to send things to the dealer for expensive repairs, what your take on this?
I'm not to concerned about it.
How many square bales do you get out of a round bale
With these 5x5 rolls I'm getting 18 to 19
@@DLHFarms thank you for answering my question
rebaling has it's place. in your case with the storage you have you don't need to rebale like us with no storage.
Never thought about the storage that makes sense
That is pretty slick, I have never heard of making square bails out of round bales. Approximately how many square bales do you get to one round bale?
There are about 19 bales in one round bale
Another good machine you got there Dennis. Think less to go wrong with no chain on it .Just wondering how much higher does the jd lift than the massey loader ? When stacking small square bales .Would it do two more layers of bales high or more ?
Almost 2 more layers
My dad always had little toe heads helping him.
Haha!
I’ve been wondering how to do this thanks
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Is this a second baler ?
Yeah it was the first baler I had I bought it from my grandpas dairy farm
I stopped helping on the families farms just before round bails came into play . I could never understand why farms went to round bails . I was told it had to do with storage . But it seems large bails would be easier to handle , transport , and store , than the round bails .
Round balers are much cheaper than the big squares and they can be pulled with a much smaller tractor.
Or should use another machine for non round bales ?
Do you mean large square bales?
What make is this machine?
Hustler
That's how the boys do there horse hay every year down Stanley valley roll them in the field an bring them in an unroll them an square bale them right in the barn
It definitely works. It has advantages
Neat
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Wheat straw...olf will be bail n next weeks too...if you need another sorce...oh not good for sqr bails...oops never mind...haha...just keep rolling..cheers
It's supposed to work with squares but the ones we have have been chopped and they wouldn't work, cut up to fine.
Never seen anyone feed a bale into the pickup of another baler before, but have seen them roll it onto the ground first and then bale. I've had a Hustler chainless feed out wagon for about 20 years (the company is based here in New Zealand), but it has forks out of the back to load the table and to hold a 2nd bale, would make it impossible to get in close enough to do what you're doing.
Hustler seems to be a good company
You might had said , but how many bails do you get out of a roll, if you know. Be blessed
We get 18 out of a 4x5, 20 out of a 4x5.5 and 22 out of a 4x6.
We were getting about 19 to 20 bales out of these 5x5s but it's straw and they don't pack as tight as hay.
Have you ever figured out how much it costs to rebale round to little squares ?It seems it would cost more than what you can sell the straw for.
Not sure what I cost but you can take a round bale that cost 35 bucks rebale it and sell it for 95 bucks
4000 su. Super utility
4600 su.
@@DLHFarms newer than a 77 alternator instead of a generator with a regulator
A la rampa de salida de la empacadora está alta y saca el paquete combado.
That's cool, but I also noticed a lot of waist tho
It's not waste we clean it up with a pitch fork every couple of bales and put it in the baler.
We round bale and then rebale into squares........ Takes about 3 hours to bale 500 squares...... and load into a trailer
That's pretty good speed for rebaling
@@DLHFarms Before we bought the setup we have we were looking at the Hustler... but a complete setup became available so we bought it......along with Tractor supply contracts.......John Deere net has a wide band on the far side....so loading on the table is easy.... I had to change the gearing so the 3 tables feed the baler a uniform as baled windrow... We found that you have to really crowd the New Holland to get bales that the Bale Bandit will bundle without a lot of trouble We discovered that the hardened bolts don't last as long as the soft bolts in the flywheel
Yeah we are learning a lot of stuff too.
Only beneficial if there is a source for a re-sale of the new bale..clear wheat straw is costly..this method seems to provide a good bale if the result is a nice tight bale..good show..I might add love seeing kids around machinery but to show a running situation of the machine with the child in the cab by theirself is risky especially if you were to fall towards the machine and the child pulls the wrong lever..lost a friend that way..
I have been looking for straw. If you have some to sell I'd be interested!
Where do you live?
@@DLHFarms Christiansburg va
I'm in Meadows of Dan about an hour away from you. How much straw do you need?
@@DLHFarms give me a call at 540-381-3864 if you don't mind. I buy straw off of Kevin out there at Floyd also. He said before you guys cut some hay together. Everywhere is just out.and had been for quite a while. I'd like to have several hundred bales
We're getting pretty low we might could sell you about 100 bales. We're trying to keep the local farm store supplied too.
Goodness gracious if you make hay square bales into round bales you need a tractor driver and a guy to feed 20 square bales in. My goodness ya'll want to make durn sure what kind of bales you need to make. In rain and snow you need cover with two tractors running one for this bale ripper aparter and the other running either a square baler or a round baler. Sheesh.
The problem with hay is the cor is packed hard.
I bet so. I haven't tried hay yet.
Maybe for your next upgrade you might consider a Ken Mills Engineering system? perfect for rebaling large rounds and square bales - ua-cam.com/video/3fMgMdJp_fA/v-deo.html
I never understand the point of re-bailing a bail. Seems like a lot of extra work. I get the having round bails and them wanting squares. But ive seen and heard of it done alot never understood the point
Well one thing is you can take a round bales worth $35 and rebale it into squares and it becomes worth $90
I sell all my unclaimed round rolls of Bermuda hay to a man who unrolls it and re-bales it to square bales. He doubles his money. But he unrolls the rolls in the field and re-bales it conventionally. He gets 20-21 square bales from a roll.
Yep if you did it you could double your money 😉
Ours is under a shed so we have baled once during a hurricane...
How many square bales do you get out of a round bale?
With these 5x5 rolls I'm getting 18 to 19
@@DLHFarms Thank You Dennis!
I am a former Virginian! Wish I was Still there. California is not for everybody!
Come on back!
@@DLHFarms I have a unique situation. I retired from Public Works Inspection for the City of Los Angeles. Am currently back to inspecting for consultants, after supervising Inspectors in LA for 12 years. I have to finish fixing up the house to be sold first, and I have a brother in Chesapeake, but I'm not so sure I want to move back to Virginia Beach.