Jeffersonville, OH | wbh56 - 7/2/2026 23:35
We traded an old John Deere in on a new MF/Hesston 1840 in 2017 and we have not been impressed. It does not seem to have the intake capacity the John Deere had. Dad hated the fact that you couldn’t see the bale drop out of the chute. We pick up bales with a new holland stack wagon and I don’t think it makes the consistent bales that they claim they will make. A retired neighbor came and ran it one day for us. He got off and said his old wire tie IH baler would easily out bale ours. Most people I talked to before we bought ours seemed to like them so maybe we just got a dud. It will bale straw behind a rotor combine a lot better than the JD would. I hate to bash it and am sure they’re not all like ours but this has been our experience with it.
One of the only people I have ever heard make these comments about an inline baler. We've sold about 150 of them since the 1840 came out in 2015, and the first couple of years did have some hiccups depending on how they were operated, mainly which type of rake you had, and how you decided to bale.
The early ones had underturning augers for higher capacity, but if you raked long rank hay with a wheel rake, it would roll it into a rope, and the augers tightened that rope more, so that the stuffer couldn't pull it in the baler, and you'd shear bolts. An Auger change fixed that, somewhere around 2017 honestly, I can't remember what year now. It wasn't all baler affected, only guys with wheel rakes in those conditions.
As far as them not taking material, sounds like there was/is something wrong with yours. I have baled behind 35' windrows right out of the back of the combine and have had zero issues with intake capacity, but you do need some lower gears if you're going to feed that much into one.
Chris |
Do inline small square balers always make more consistent length bales