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Michigan | I bid too high on a consignment sale and brought home a New Holland RB450 Crop Cutter. I've never run a round baler before and hadn't even thought about whether I had a suitable tractor to pull it. Am I reading the chart in the manual correctly? (see pic) Looks like I need 100hp. 122.5hp if I want to use all 15 knives. That would make my JD6330 insufficient. On top of that, it has four sets of hydraulic hoses and I only have 2 scvs. I could use the JD8200 (big 1000 only), but the baler is 540 pto. Do you think I'd do well trying to bale at an engine rpm of 1000-1200? I have in the past ran the old 336 square baler like this, but as I understand, a round baler doesn't need to run at max speed, and may not want to. Is there an easy/cheap way to change the gearbox to make the baler 1000pto?
The seller said he used a 75hp tractor with only two scvs, and never engaged the knives. I could do the same as he did. No knives is one less set of hoses to worry about, and less HP required. I wasn't too keen on his idea of starting by lifting the drop floor and then pulling those hoses under pressure. I could get a splitter.
I have a habit of making hay on my small hilly fields that I don't like row cropping on. Going uphill might really overtax the 6330, while going downhill will easily push the 8200 past 540.
Looks like I'm in the market for another tractor.
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Round Baler HP requirement
