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Schomberg, Ontario, Canada | What are the good and bad points of the inline small square balers?? Thanks! |
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Sumner GA, Located in southwest GA, | Good points, they bale bricks, no contest. Simple design to them, no bananas.
Bad points, mine isn't extremely hungry, you don't want to try to crowd it or it will bust the stuffer shearbolt, If you break a bale, especially a tough bale, spread it out or you will break the stuffer bolt. It is a two man job to retime the stuffer if you ever get it out of time. Build quality on the newer ones, need to check sprocket alignment, mine has a chewed up sprocket from misalignment.
Overall, extremely sastified. |
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WY, OK | Only bad thing I can think of is they aren't green so there is a large number of people that won't even entertain owning them. Our 4655 has been nearly bullet proof in 20 years of using it. Good points: less parts, easier to stuff more hay in and unplug, straddling windrow (which I guess can be a bad thing if you have huge windrows). Since you straddle the windrow every single row is the same distance apart which makes stacking a lot easier. If you do need to make more room for heavy hay you just ride each opposite side of parallel windrows and make some room down the middle. |
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| I like mine. Got a caseih 8530. Maybe don't like ginormous windrows, but very nice bales. |
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NW Illinois | Had one for 10 years, there is nothing bad about a Inline.
Dave
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southwest IA | We have a Hesston 4590 (think it's the same as CaseIH 8545) and really like it. Don't have to swing the hitch going to and from fields, it has a hydraulic pickup so don't have to lift that. It has two large twine boxes, each holds 3 balls of twine. In alfalfa it seems to more evenly distribute leaves throughout the bale than conventional square balers. Agree with other posters that bales have more consistent shape. |
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Kentucky | I have a Case IH 8520. very good baler. Got mine to use with a bale wagon because of reputation of consistant bale size. Been pleased.
Daryl in KY |
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| 4590 here. Yes, it doesn't like to be fed huge hunks of hay, but really there is no baler that is going to make pretty bales with only 9 slices in them. The inlines are awesomely consistent if you just feed them steadily and consistently. |
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Sourthern WI | Had a 4570 Hesston back when we were putting up hay and it's my list of "would buy again" equipment. I doubt I'd even spend the time to look at anything but an inline if I were to buy again. Very reliable and simple. Every shaft turns the same direction so power flow is very simple.
Pickup height is directly related to leaf loss and an inline has the lowest pickup of any small square.
It also has the widest pickup.
I really liked the fact I could pick and choose which windrows I could bale without driving over other hay. I could easily leave doubles to be baled later in the day.
About the only bad thing is you have to turn a little farther around to see what's going on, but if that's a big deal IMHO, I don't know if you should really be putting up small squares. |
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humboldt iowa | i have a Massey Furgeson 1837 (2010 Hesston). the one thing i would say to you is just go buy one you wont find better balers. Like said above they make bricks. nice to stack and use with accumulators. leaf loss is greatly reduced we use ours with a kuhns bale accuclotor and have done 7 bales a min with it
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MN | Jon-how do you like the kuhns? what model is that? I picked up a case 8530 late last season and like the looks of the kuhns |
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humboldt iowa | absolutly love it. I have a 1034 10 bale on edge. the learning curve is on the grabber. once you get the accumulator set for your bales you just go with it. the key to the stack is a tight pack to stack |
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SW Minnesota | That's almost the same outfit I have. I have a Massey 1839 with a Kuhns 1036F which makes a pack of 10 laid flat with the 2 end ones set the other way to make a tie row. I had the accumulator before the Massey baler - pulled it behind a JD 338 the first year, then bought the 1839 so that I could lay the packs centered over the windrow they were baled out of. I really like the MF 1839 baler - makes a more consistent bale than the JD did. Less moving parts and everything is in a straight line both in the field and on the road. Kuhns also makes a well-built bale grabber - heavier construction that most others I looked at. And it all looks just fine powered by green tractors! |
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Huntley Montana | Have had a 4590, 3 7115s, now 3 1839s. Bad is the drawbar is too short if you don't want tires on the sawth. Set the tires so to use the full pickup & the windgaurd is destroyed. Good is I didn't have to move tires in, bad is the windgaurds had to come off. But I have my tires set @ 96" for 24" rows. Don't like uneven sawths, but will put out 75-90# bales.
Like the inline, lot easyer to bale a feild without moving bales |
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| bales dont fit as nice on balewagon if you have different kind of balers in the same field.
other than that they are okay.
cant beat the NH 575 about that,but other things can go wrong on those ones. |
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| Looks like one plus would be, a rake that is used to pull a round baler behind it could also pull sq baler behind it so you cut out one trip... |
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Snipesville, GA | We bought a 8530 CIH brand new and a 8545 used. I wish I knew how many bales the 8530 has baled since we bought it. Started pulling it with a 75hp tractor years ago. Went to a 7110 Magnum for the powershift. It likes to eat hay all day long. I would highly recommend them. |
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Good an bad of inline small square balers
