HP FOR ROUND BALER

keep going

whats the min hp you need to drive a baler-nice handy 10 year old baler now not a fusion or something

Richk2012

keep going wrote: »

whats the min hp you need to drive a baler-nice handy 10 year old baler now not a fusion or something

Baled with a 2wd 4610 before running a welger ..
Fine giving it plenty of time and on reasonably flat land

bob charles

remember seeing my MF 165 baling with a krone when I was a boy

reilig

bob charles wrote: »

remember seeing my MF 165 baling with a krone when I was a boy

Plenty of people around here stillbaling with a 165 and a Krone. I even know one guy who does a little bit of contract work (about 5000 bales per year) with a MF 165 and Krone and a MF 135 with a wrapper.

He had the double wheels out in force this year!

bob charles

remember about 5 yrs ago the 165 got tackled onto the feeder wagon one day for some reason, spent the rest of the winter singing loudly out front and never batted an eyelid

blue5000

bob charles wrote: »

remember about 5 yrs ago the 165 got tackled onto the feeder wagon one day for some reason, spent the rest of the winter singing loudly out front and never batted an eyelid

Ah but Bob I bet you weren't putting baled silage through the feeder wagon:eek:

bob charles

blue5000 wrote: »

Ah but Bob I bet you weren't putting baled silage through the feeder wagon:eek:

I was, as I had allot of bales that year, thankfully I never have to put bales through nowadays, I remember seeing a large clouds of smoke from the 165 as the feeder chewed up the bale.

blue5000

Fair play to it so. What sort of engine revs did it do to have 540 on the pto?

I reckon you'd need about 90hp min to have a bit of comfort at baling OP

bob charles

blue5000 wrote: »

Fair play to it so. What sort of engine revs did it do to have 540 on the pto?

I reckon you'd need about 90hp min to have a bit of comfort at baling OP

enough trottle for it not to cut out, dial doesnt work so we worked of the noise coming from the engine, no wonder im half deaf. IMV lots of guys are doing work with way too many horse out front and then complaining about fuel use. How many tiny disc mowers do you see on big 4wd these days. The old 165 would sing he way through a heavy cut of silage with the 5'6" mower.

blue5000

I agree with you there Bob with ppl complaining about diesel, what's the point in having a 160hp tractor spreading fertiliser for example?
Something with a 3 pot engine and about 60 hp is capable of working a bale wrapper, yet there is lads around here with 130 hp in front of a wrapper and then wondering why they sank in a wet field

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for years our contractor made our bales with a fiat 80-90. It didnt chop them that well though!

vanderbadger

depends on your ground as well, my own ground is very hilly and I found 100 hp was just about ok for baling with a 220 welger but you would really know it when the bale was nearly full, as for the wrapper I dont think you need massive power normally but good hydraulics are important so dont think a 135 or 165 would be ideal, also I find in wet conditions its the wrapper that sometimes does more damage than baler

keep going

bob charles wrote: »

I was, as I had allot of bales that year, thankfully I never have to put bales through nowadays, I remember seeing a large clouds of smoke from the 165 as the feeder chewed up the bale.

i had a 165 too and when i think of what she did and the poor treatment she got,it was unbelivable,

blue5000

bob charles wrote: »

remember about 5 yrs ago the 165 got tackled onto the feeder wagon one day for some reason, spent the rest of the winter singing loudly out front and never batted an eyelid

Was thinking about this later on and was wondering was it a MF 165 or a TM
165?

bob charles

blue5000 wrote: »

Was thinking about this later on and was wondering was it a MF 165 or a TM
165?

Mf 165 would get through more work in a day than the unreliable TM165. A MF 165 im talking about of course, 52hp I think at the shaft. Would be fun to stick her on the dyna