Krone Baling Hay

[tude]

This is a picture of my neighbor baling my hay field behind the house. He gets the hay and I get the field mowed.

 

[foreman Etexas]

Great pic...I wondered about the Krone balers over the others JD,vermeer,NH...

 

[bigbull338]

that meadow looks like its making alot of hay.

 

[Tx Jim]

Great pic...I wondered about the Krone balers over the others JD,vermeer,NH...

Krone balers are soft core while the others are hard core.

 

[creekbend]

Thanks for posting.

 

[Grateful11]

Krone balers are soft core while the others are hard core.

Is that because they use a chain and bar system instead of rubber belts or some other reason?

 

[MFRED]

The fixed chamber balers are soft core. The Variable chamber balers give a hard core.

 

[MFRED]

The fixed chamber balers are soft core. The Variable chamber balers give a hard core. It's in baler design. A fixed chamber is kinda like rolling into an empty drum, the more hay you put in the more dense the bale gets. The center 18" or so can only get so compressed, hence the soft core. The variable chamber, like the one in the picture, starts with a smaller diameter center and hydraulicly resists the rolling bale. Packing it tighter.

 

[Grateful11]

Why would anyone want a soft core bale? My wife and sons JD 448 makes a bale that's as hard in the core as the outside. We have noticed you can get a fixed chamber Krone with Net Wrap for a lot less money than the others. Net Wrap is the one thing my wife said she wish she had but the twine is doing fine and net wrap isn't available on a 448 so bumping up to something larger with net wrap would cost $6-8K more. I believe the dealer recently told her a new JD with net wrap would be about $32K list price.

 

[MFRED]

When making dry hay I have found that a soft core baler can handle a few more percent moisture and not mold as the center can breathe a bit more. I have found the fixed chamber/soft core balers are a bit easier to get the bale to start when using a belt baler.

 

[tude]

Here is a photo of a finished bale.

 

[Tx Jim]

I agree that the fixed chamber will allow one to bale at a little higher moisture BUT I think the soft core bales squat more over time than a hard core bale that was baled at the correct moisture content. I have very little trouble starting a bale with my JD 467/Mega-wide pickup. Usually bale starting problems are caused by "operator error".