Posted 9/29/2025 13:27 (#11383029 - in reply to #11382689) Subject: RE: Custom baling gone wrong
Northeast Iowa
johndeere1 - 9/29/2025 07:59
GS2 - 9/29/2025 02:05
When we have very heavy 5x6 bales, it is because it was:
Dry
And/or
A tiny swath feeding in so the bale went around a few thousand times and got packed to death.
Interesting. The opposite of everyone else. Your dry hay weighs more than wet hay?
Not all wrappers can handle a bale that weighs a ton or more. Did some fourth-crop years ago that was dry during a stretch of good weather, but it was short. Took forever to make a bale. I thought I had fuel or transmission problems when I first took off with the load behind the pickup. The bales scaled around 2300-2400 pounds each. We found out the hay was bone dry when the person unloading them ripped the net wrap two of them when he stabbed the bale too high. They rained chaff all over the place. I know all of it was bone dry, because I had to pull the trailer next to a round bale feeder and fork it in there.
Custom baling gone wrong
