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- Joined
- Feb 21, 2003
- Messages
- 24,597
- Location
- SE Michigan in the middle of nowhere
- Tractor
- Kubota M9000 HDCC3 M9000 HDC
Watched one a while ago. Interesting arrangement.
Absolutely. A couple tight layers of quality net wrap is like having a roof over the bales and a net bale is so much easier to deal with than string anyway. 10 seconds with a box cutter and the hay is free.I store my bales outside so the mice prefer to chew the bale and not so much the string. Even for the bales that are sitting, it's the weather that deteriorates the strings. It's all for my personal use but I'd like to be able to have less waste and a used net wrap baler should cost less than a new building for hay.....
You don't have to straddle the tongue but you do have to lean over it. The JD setup is still easier because the net roll on the Kubota (and the NH I traded in, you swing the empty net roll bar to the side and put on a new (heavy) roll. The older I get, the heavier they get. I know, 75 pounds (roll) don't seem like a lot, but it is.JD net attachment is simple & durable. As I've previously stated all 29091 bales my baler has made have been with net. Loading net from rear is difficult enough. I can't imagine the "FUN" of straddling tongue while loading netwrap in baler.
I personally don't like over the edge netwrap. YES if bale has been made correctly & net applied correctly over edge net bales have a little more eye appeal BUT when stacking bales in a row(flat to flat) if stacking person doesn't get bales very snuggly together the rolled over edge can allow rain water to enter between bale flat sides. BTDT. I also think over the over the edge what JD calls Cover-edge is more difficult to remove from bale at feeding time.
2 consecutive quarters, not months.Just keep monitoring the per bale price here. it's been climbing steadily, just like everything else today. 2 consecutive months of economic contraction equals a recession. Been 2 months now so I'd say we are there.