I was in your shoes about 5 years ago. I ended up buying a CIH 8575(same as Hesston 4755) that had been traded in by a guy who did custom baling. The pickup had already been rebuilt, I had a good mechanical guy helping me at the time and we completely rebuilt it over one winter, I had about $3500 worth of parts from Maize Corp. Re-did the bale chamber, rebuilt the knotters, worked on the stuffer, etc. etc. Supposedly my baler had 32K bales, but he did do some cornstalk baling. Stalks are VERY hard on balers, lotza dirt.

Now it should be good for my 500-1000 bales/year. I would do it again, 'here', it is a real challenge to get a custom guy to show up when you need him. The guys who did a good job got sick of the BS and went to just raising grain.