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Central NY | We had an older Kuhn I bought for $4500 and used for one year. We sold it and then bought a slightly used McHale for $9500. McHale wrappers are heavier frame than others. A 4x5 or 5x5 bale of wet hay is very heavy and you can break or bend the frame/lift arm on the wrapper. McHale makes an excellent wrapper.
We pickup all of our bales with a bale spear and haul them to one location. There we unload them with a skid steer using a bale spear. we line up the bales about 5 feet apart and then wrap them. When done we swap the spear for a bale clamp and stack the bales 3 high.
Even if you don't stack the bales having the attachment that puts bales on end is a must. There is more plastic on the ends of the bales which reduces the holes in plastic compared to being stored on the side. Try not to move the bales except right after wrapping since the squeezing of the bale allow air inside the plastic which promotes bacteria growth.
We sell about 1/3 of our baleage so a single bale wrapper works best for us. A tube wrapper requires a relatively flat, smooth and long area. If you use a tube wrapper it's best if you are feeding at least one if not two bales per day so that the face of the exposed bale doesn't grow to much bacteria. Our neighbors with tube wrappers will have lots of spoiled bales every year. We have almost no spoilage. If you sell bales out of a tube wrapper other than the dead of winter they need to get used right away or they spoil. Most of the tube wrappers here are Anderson.
You can probably wrap more bales in a day with an inline wrapper than a single wrapper. We will bale and wrap only 20 bales tomorrow after racking 4 windrows into one because that's what little hay there is due to the lack of rain. Hauling and wrapping the bales will take about the same amount of time as the baling.
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