MCHALE F550

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Hi I have a ts 115 2001 turbo how would this Cope with a McHale f550 chopping with 12 or 13 knives. Any extra information on the baler and what to look out for and how much roughly for a 2005 McHale f550

ZETOR_IS_BETTER

Running all those knives, you would need 150hp.
Those balers afaik require decent hp to run comfortably and not run at snails pace and make well packed bales.

Reggie.

ZETOR_IS_BETTER wrote: »

Running all those knives, you would need 150hp.
Those balers afaik require decent hp to run comfortably and not run at snails pace and make well packed bales.

And don't forget it needed weight up front to pull the baler with a wet bale inside up any hills too

Gillespy

You'll be fine. It's only a baler, no way you need 150hp. So what if you have to drop a gear to go up a hill, you have a gearbox. 12 or 13 knives do nothing when you see what the full set do. Keeping them sharp helps a lot.

Zr105

Gillespy wrote: »

You'll be fine. It's only a baler, no way you need 150hp. So what if you have to drop a gear to go up a hill, you have a gearbox. 12 or 13 knives do nothing when you see what the full set do. Keeping them sharp helps a lot.

It's not all about dropping gears to get up hills, a baler has virtually no weight transfer to a tractor. So when your faced into a strep bank with a full bale of wet silage the tractors trying to pull a lump of a baler(new balers are a lot heavier than their predecessors) and up on 7-800kgs of silage with very little weight for traction

Gillespy

Traction is never going to be the limiting factor with a ts115. On a steep hill with a full bale, the tractor will die before you start spinning. Be smart and attack the steepest parts empty. TS115 isn't a small a tractor, perfectly capable of round baling.

agriman27

Local balerman baled a lot of stuff for years with a welger rp220, it always seemed to be its ease she just purred away all day long lovely sound and I doubt it was screwed out, never ever saw him struggling for grip or dropping gears heading up hills and there isn't one flat field around here some serious banks. Ts 115 more than man enough for any baler even with all the knives down just mightn't be as fast as 150hp in front. You'd probly get a good enough f550 for around the 15k

TGJD

If its not raked it should be grand with the ts 115. 8360 pulled the 5500 with all knifes up last year at ease through 28 foot swarths. 150hp makes things a bit faster but if you aren't a contractor I can't see you having an issue. No point having a huge tractor doing feck all most of the time.

lakill Farm

my contractor is driving a F550 with a valmet 8050 and according to the tractordata its 6cylinder 110hp.

He picks 9 foot swards and mades a fantastic solid bale. bales 60 an hour, not hard on man, baler or tractor.