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Power for a Welger baler

  • 23-03-2010 5:28pm
    #1
    roosterman71
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    I'm looking at buying a Welger round baler for our own silage (~100 acres). Its only a few years old and has done very little work. But would I need to upgrade the tractor in order to work it? I have a JD 6400


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  • #2
    pajero12
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    No you'll have lots of power with a 6400


  • #3
    greenpeter
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    Will you be chopping?
    Is the land hilly?
    I think there hard enough driven


  • #4
    vanderbadger
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    drove a 220 welger last year for the first time for our own silage, 100hp worked fine for me anyway and all my ground is hilly


  • #5
    poor farmer
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    any reasonable 100 hp tractor is well capable of baling silage have seen lads baling with ford 4000 or old massey 165/185


  • #6
    Pacoa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 520 ✭✭✭Pacoa


    I had a 6610 driving a welger 220 up till last year. It struggled on hilly ground, i'd have to crawl. I changed it for a ts115 so now i've plenty of power.

    100 acres seems like a lot of ground for bales. You'll have 1500 of em in the first cut alone. I hope you've lots of help.


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  • #7
    reilig
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    poor farmer wrote: »
    have seen lads baling with ford 4000 or old massey 165/185

    Not operating anything bigger than a RP12 you haven't. Any of the 200 models need 90+HP. If its a chopper you won't make good bales with anything less than 100hp.


  • #8
    maidhc
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    reilig wrote: »
    Not operating anything bigger than a RP12 you haven't. Any of the 200 models need 90+HP. If its a chopper you won't make good bales with anything less than 100hp.

    I tried baling silage with a RP12s and a Ford 4600, it started overheating after 30 mins and couldn't get the bale to close to max pressure (shearbolt breaking pressure...). The engine in that tractor does have some odd power loss issues though.

    Eitherway I got bored of my experiment quick and put the TS115 back on. I think if I had a more modern baler like a 220 or 235 chopper I'd be fitting a turbo to the NewHolland.

    I also had a Zetor 6340 on the 12S, and to be fair that also struggled a little at the end of the bale and we don't have particularly hilly ground.


  • #9
    fiatagri8090
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 63 ✭✭fiatagri8090


    Have baled with a fiat 8090 2wd with a welger rp200 in wet conditions. Was under pressure though.


  • #10
    roosterman71
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,842 ✭✭✭roosterman71


    I'm not sure of the baler model number. I'll get the old lad to check. The land isn't hilly (one field is uphill for the length of it, but its not steep).


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