Narrow Baler width advice please

[HWC Darren]

Hi folks new member here we farm on Dartmoor and have decided to start baling our own small bales

However access is tight short of a helicopter dropping us in a baler we're looking for as small an old conventional baler as we can find.

Or an inline if we can find/afford it

What model should we be searching for in the cheap and cheerful old zone

Thank you in advance

 

[spark plug]

When it comes to conventional bailers cheep and cheerful = mental torture, my advice would be buy the best you can and pray the knotter gods are kind. Welger are always held in high regard.

 

[HWC Darren]

When it comes to conventional bailers cheep and cheerful = mental torture, my advice would be buy the best you can and pray the knitter gods are kind. Welger are always held in high regard.

Yep thanks we've cut corners with the rest of the kit but alas for our pocket think you're right

 

[Will 1594]

359 john deere ap52 welgar
if you can wagon a nh 945 know of a good one and cooks sledge and grab

 

[ollandroverman]

359 john deere ap52 welgar
if you can wagon a nh 945 know of a good one and cooks sledge and grab

359 John Deere and New Holland 945 are not narrow balers like the O.P. was asking for!

 

[forblue]

H/H 945 and 575 have wide pick-up's 940 or 570, the 5 series are much better than 9's but like all balers unless you understand how the knotters work and how to rectify the faults it will cause you problems and remember no one buy's a baler to sit in the shed so most have had a hard life and overtime rust can cause a major problem with the plunger rails that's not to say they can't be fixed but it's all down to money.

 

[Nearly]

1982 Jones Mk13 baler here, one family from new.
Instead of helicoptering it in, transport it the last bit on its side?

 

[Sam Partridge]

PM me if after the first season you want the bales delivered in instead

 

[Sam Partridge]

Hi folks new member here we farm on Dartmoor and have decided to start baling our own small bales

However access is tight short of a helicopter dropping us in a baler we're looking for as small an old conventional baler as we can find.

Or an inline if we can find/afford it

What model should we be searching for in the cheap and cheerful old zone

Thank you in advance

width wise its only inline that would suit and can't imagine you'd get a decent one for under 15k. Balers tend to be offset even in transport which is NOT the same as travelling evenly behind the tractor, one side will always catch and you can often travel one direction on a thin lane but not the other!

 

[Will 1594]

359 John Deere and New Holland 945 are not narrow balers like the O.P. was asking for!

no that’s why i said if he can wagon . ie handle it
in line is the only option i bought one last night for a mates lad who is in lake district for that very reason they only 7 ft6, wide .
morgan machinery in kent have one

 

[HarryB97]

If access is that tight I would look at trying to sort that out first, it’ll make everything a lot easier! As said above though, buy the best you can afford. Little balers are a pain at the best of times!

 

[AlCapone]

You say access is tight
How tight exactly is it?

 

[HWC Darren]

1982 Jones Mk13 baler here, one family from new.
Instead of helicoptering it in, transport it the last bit on its side?

Finding a good'un may be an issue but have looked at them

 

[HWC Darren]

You say access is tight
How tight exactly is it?

2.2 metres at narrowest but lots of tight corners and S bends. I'll run the tape over a neighbours gates later and see if I can cut a corner or 2

 

[HWC Darren]

PM me if after the first season you want the bales delivered in instead

Where abouts are you, we want to be as self sufficient as poss but there are limits

 

[HWC Darren]

Thanks folks great forum

 

[Wellytrack]

 

[carbonfibre farmer]

2.2 metres at narrowest but lots of tight corners and S bends. I'll run the tape over a neighbours gates later and see if I can cut a corner or 2

I assume that'll make it tight for the bale trailers too? Swinging in and out of gateways etc?

 

[carbonfibre farmer]

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[Sam Partridge]

Where abouts are you, we want to be as self sufficient as poss but there are limits

Between Starcross and Dawlish. Doesn't take long to get to, say, Haytor but depends where you are on the Moor. Hay and straw?