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Central PA | I had asked a few months ago about New holland and Vermeer. Well I found a 1475 ( I think) with net wrap for a very good price. What is everyones thoughts on this machine? We do have some dealer support in the area, so parts should not be too much of a problem. |
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| I have a 1875, very good baler for the money. Gehl has discontinued the farm equipment so parts may become an issue. |
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| Find a different baler. I demoed a 1475 once, couldn't get it off the farm fast enough. It sat on the dealers lot for probably 3 years and was demoed by several guys with the same opinion as mine. |
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Central PA | What were the issues with it if you don't mind me asking. |
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Perry County, 35 miles NW of Harrisburg, PA | RUN, very very fast!!!!!!!
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Central PA | Do they not make good bales, weak parts? |
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| I don't know about that particular model but the older one ( think it was the 1470, mabey) ... but my neighbour has a couple of them. They both work good. I'm not saying he hasn't tweaked a few things, but they seem to be good reliable balers for him. He can bale hay or silage with them and it seems to do well in both. They make nice tight good looking bales.
I think those are pretty good value balers right now. They're cheap bewcause it seems that nobody wants an orphan now that Gehl is out of the farm equipment business.
I don't think there is a whol lot on them that can't be obtained locally in the way of parts, or fabbed if need be... so I wouldn't be scared of one on that basis.
If you're getting into fancy electrics on a net wrap machine then it might get more dicey down the road, but a basic twine machine would be easy to keep running I think.
Rod |
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| I was baling silage. Wouldn't start a bale. If you got it started it would foul the belts when the little stabilizer carriage retracted. If you managed to get a bale made, it wouldn't pick up the twine. Oh, and the compression rollers in the front are bad news. JD got rid of those after the 510's and good riddance. Wrapping up pain in the neck. The bigger balers might be O.K., but that thing was a giant pain in the neck. One of the service techs at the dealership took it home to bale dry hay and it didn't sound like he had much better luck with it. |
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Traverse City MI | We have a 1375 Gehl and like it a lot. Its probably baled close to 6000 blaes before we bought it. We dont use it much. 40-50 bales a year but we havent had any trouble. Ours has auto tie and thats a handy feature. This is the only round baler we've owned so I don't have anything to compare it to. I would buy another one even though they shut down the ag line. Its mostly bearings anyway. Should be able to get most parts at the supply house. |
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Thunder Bay, Ontario, Great White North | I've got a 1465 Gehl, a couple versions older than the 1475. Works okay for me, but I only do 600-800 bales/ year. Ours has required very little maintenance, just grease and go, but some days it can be frustrating to operate. I have modified the twine cutoff (major source of frustration), but the baler still has a few 'tricks' to master to get it to feed smoothly and make good bales. Not something you can just jump in and have work perfectly from the get-go. My Dad can't run that baler properly at all - makes about 20 crappy lumps of hay for bales and he quits in disgust. I guess we have a 'relationship', the ole 1465 and me - I've mastered how to treat her right, she keeps rolling along without breaking down. Reminds me why I chop 90% of my forage...
As for parts - anything that isn't a bearing, chain or belt could probably be welded up or farm - fabricated to keep the baler going till everything is wore out... |
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Perry County, 35 miles NW of Harrisburg, PA | Don't bet on parts for any Gehl machinery, no matter what they say. Neighbor needs a couple of things for his Gehl 980 silage wagons, can't get them, they are on indefinite backorder.
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Perry County, 35 miles NW of Harrisburg, PA | I have used the neighbor's 1475, as well as several Deere's, a New Idea, and several Claas's, of which I own one. When the Gehl makes a bale, it is an nice bale, in dry hay. Wet hay for baleage or corn stalks, you don't know what you may get, if you even get something that resembles a bale. The Gehl was also the hardest to operate. I am glad that I'm no longer using his 1475.
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What are your thoughts on a Gehl 1475 Round baler
