Anyone know where there's a tarrup Bio baler for sale, looking into buying one??
You assumed my mentioning lower HP requirement meant sub 100hp, you are actually the only person in the thread to mention sub 100HP tractors as an option.
The Bio baler has a much lower HP requirement than other combi balers and it is a combi baler why would we compare it to the HP requirements of a standard baler? Your argument seems to assume there is no tractors on farms between 100HP and 130HP.
We’ll take that as a no so, Good lad
I'll cut you off here as you are going down the road of making a Strawman argument.
Good luck
Have you experience of a Bio?
I was talking in the context of sub 100hp tractors, the point I made earlier is that a sub 100hp tractor cannot handle a bio baler on heavy hilly or soft ground. So it's a silly comparison akin to comparing cutting down a tree with a penknife vs an Axe. The Balers I mentioned are relavent for low hp tractors, again in the context of the conversation, the options for running a baler do not include combi balers
How is it a silly comparison? They stated they had a lower hp requirement than other combis. The balers you mentioned don’t wrap the bale so your comparison is irrelevant.
Compared to other combi balers which is really a silly comparison. For a low hp baler one of the older krones or rp12/200's or non chopper Deutz require far less hp.
I see comments made that you can run them on low hp, well that's only true on flat dry land, see how you get on with a sub 100hp tractor on heavy upland with a Bale jammed on the lift door!!
I believe I mentioned lower HP requirement, I meant compared to other combi balers which I still think is true regardless of land.
I suppose if you already had the spare labour and a suitable tractor it would make a big difference.
We make about a 1000 a year between silage,haylage and straw
had a baler and wrapper to sell to part fund it which helped
At a tenner to rake and bale, how many bales would you have to make to justify/pay for one of them?
Well wear. Bought one ourselves a few weeks ago
Doesn't matter now, bought a fusion 2
Can't see the attraction of one to be honest,like if your a 1 man operation it's would leave getting a decent crop of bales painfully long to get baled and drawn,.much better get a contractor or just buy a wrapper and let a contractor bale it ahead of you
Can parts for these Balers be got anymore? This was a very different baler to most other balers of the era with many bespoke parts, plus there is a very limited number of second hand or machines for breaking. Contractors never took to them for several reasons, mainly output rate was slow, but there were also a few other issues such as soft bales, bales getting stuck on in the chamber when you tried to pack the bales. Tension on the plastic was often too low leading to as little as 24 bales per roll, add that to the soft bale and it isn't such a bargain as it seems.
The newer Kuhn machines are a different beast, but still not a contractor machine but obviously aimed at the farmer who has a spare 80k
The biggest negative to the bio is having to switch off the pto every time the bale is ready to be wrapped. I hear it’s hard on a tractors pto clutch stopping and starting a lot…
I think @Milton09 is running a Taarup Bio. He might have a lead for the OP?
Lower HP requirement surely makes them attractive as a farmers machine, pretty sure it would be considerably quicker than my claas 46 and separate Mchale wrapper, and bales wrapped as they are baled beats having to bale the whole field before starting to wrap if/when there is only one driver.
Slightly but they make a seriously dense bale if the operator is willing. Be interesting to see max weights but any I've ever moved from a Taarup bio have been heavy heavy bales.
Ye I was discussing it with a lad one day, he was saying you loose 30 seconds able wrapping each bale. That's an hour every 120 bales in time you loose. But it's handy for a farmer doing hid own with only 1 tractor.
Good job for a farmer baling their own but are slower and make a noticeably smaller bale than any other baler
Bit cheaper and lighter I'd say is the reason
Why specifically a taarup bio? As far as I remember they need to stop to wrap the bale unlike the fusion, kuhn, lely etc that can wrap and bale at the one time.
I would say google is your friend, if your not very savvy, google and tap images, see where it brings you.
