25hp not only operating a baler, but pulling the baler, a trailer filled with hay, and two people. Crazy. 💪

The full wagon is a few tons also. Cool Kubota!

I have a Kubota L2501. When I first saw the caption,I thought I didn’t want to see someone abusing a tractor that badly. I grew up on a farm where we had dairy, beef, and hogs. I grew up baling hay. I have to say, I think the Kubota did very well. I agree with you. Just because you can do something with something, doesn’t mean that you should. Thanks for sharing this. Really enjoyed it.

As someone who stacked thousands of bales on wagons on the farm I grew up on: Ur doing that the hard way, deadlifting those bales straight up like that, using two guys, and handling the bales twice! You only need one guy on the wagon, get yourself a good hay hook for one hand, makes grabbing the bales off the chute and handling them much easier. No need to deadlift the bales vertically over your head to the top of each section of stacked hay; just use the hay bales as a stairs, start the next section on the floor of the wagon before you top off the first one, and then simply step on the first course of bales of the second section to make yourself taller and finishing the top of the first section is a snap! If you are short in height, you can even make a stairs out of the first and second courses of the second section, so that you only have to walk up the stack and put the higher bales in place. When we were going through the field, the side view of the wagon when it was half loaded looked like a stair case low at the front of the wagon and gradually going up towards the back. That way you only work hard to lift bales vertically at the end of the load - much less tiring when loading hay all day! Give it a try, I think you will find it much easier!!

3:20 Man, I can SMELL the hay dust! I am impressed at what the little girl could do!

The flat ground was your helper with that Kubota.

I bale with a L 3901 and a JD 14T. We baled 40 years ago with 35 hp and the Kubtoa is a dream with the HST transmission compared to those days.

Lot bales were balled with small 8N fords we baled with a Farmall H both hardly over 20HP yeah wouldn't put lot of pressure on the little Kubota but she will do in a pinch,

I’ve used a Kubota tractor on a baler for years. Biggest little tractor

50 years ago we baled hay with a Case baler and an old Case 300 tractor that was 38 hp. That old Case baler jerked that poor tractor all over the field! Lol Great video!

The little engine that could is a kid story written about Kubotas tractors lol. I’ve got an m9960 I use as my chore, hay, and shop tractor because it has such a tight turning radius even with a loader to watch for. I pulled my dmi 530 with it after throwing a few bearings on to test them since it was already hooked up. Had enough power for 8 inch deep and didn’t hop real bad but I watched my fuel gauge drop fast

For many years I run a hay business with one Kubota 2550 DT...run inline sq baler and a 4×4 round baler.. run over 500 acres a year..

Never underestimate a smaller hydrostatic compact or utility compact tractor. They may be a little bad on fuel or driving on hilly roadways, but the newer ones especially are beast when it comes to working, and are really safe and easy to drive. Not trying to brag but Our 42hp branson 4225ch would of probably done all of that with no problems. 😂👍

Nice!! That’s impressive, I was surprised to see this was *with* a wagon too! Glad it was flat ground by the looks of things. Always memorable when you have an unexpected equipment matchup. Thanks for the way you explain and think about things!

Looking good! I use a L4060 HST Kubota with a Krone F130 round baler. Makes great 4x4 round bales, the 40 hp tractor only burns .7 gallons per hour when baling, no complaints.

Those old 8Ns had less hp than that and they worked fine.

The little tractor that could!

ran a L2900 kubota tractor in front of a newholland 310 baler for 5 years averaging probably 6000 bales per year and had no problems. wish their big tractors were built like the small ones.

Neat! That worked pretty good! For your wear concerns, we pull a NH 66 with a Ford 8N (which is a properly sized tractor before anyone canes along saying we need 100hp or something (I have seen people actually claim that online for balers made when 50hp was as big as you could get)) or a 2025R and the little Deere handles it much better than the 8N IMO Granted I would never imagine pulling a much bigger baler like this, much less a wagon lol

That's how we baled hay when I worked for several farmers in our area back in the late 80's when I was in my teens. Although I never ended up looking like that old boy throwing those bales around like they are nothing. I was 6'-1" and 150 lbs soaking wet. Anyway brings back some memories. Neat to see that NH Baler.

I custom bale with a Kubota L3200 4wd (32 hp). Match the baler to the tractor, I use a Farm Maxx / Redlands mini-round baler, rolls a 60 lb 2x2 round bale that is basically equivalent to a standard square bale. Runs like a charm.

i own the l2501 dt (geared) model. the d1703 engine was detuned from 37hp>25hp to meet tier 4. the l2501 has NO def, dpf or regens, it is a simple direct injection (mechanical) diesel engine. you can advance injector timing (shims) and fuel to get ~32hp engine + 26hp on pto dyno... for free! got it new (2019) for 18k and have over 500hrs, not a single hiccup! i operate at ~4k# with fel + box blade.... this tractor is a little bull! btw, you can expect the same results form branson/tym, JD/yanmar, kioti and mahindra/mitsu. the manufacturers are using detuned engines (to meet tier4) on CUT frames, most can be tweaked to 30hp+ with minor mods. gearheads are adding turbos ($1k-$3k) and hitting ~35hp engine and ~39hp on pto dyno... NO def, dpf or regens!!!

You may not of felt it rocking but I could hear rocking the motor

Immediately before you said something I was thinking man a 1066 would work great for that, then you said it wouldn't start... completely random thought to use a 1066

The smaller tractors today are not as heavy as the old small tractors of yesteryear,I just sold my old 550 oliver one heavy little pack mule sold it to my nephew...point is you don't have to have the newest equipment to farm the old stuff still gets job done ,good job

I was impressed... Was not expecting to see the hay wagon behind the hay baler.... But did answer a question for me... I am getting a l3560.. and was wondering how it would handle a small square hay baler 😁👍

Real nice job.

Well, it's the weight of the tractor that becomes more of a concern than the HP for baling. The Kubota just looks a little funny because farm tractors, generally, were build with more ground clearance for field work. Kubota's just are built more for hobby use and probably even were intentionally designed to fit in an automotive sized garage.

My 2501 has done many of square bares on hills and the such. Does fine. May not go as fast as a bigger one.

A few things to check on your 4610. 1- change the fuel filter. 2 - check the on/off valve on the fuel tank and be sure its not plugged, there should be a screen on top of it that can get plugged up. 3- check the fuel inlet line to the injection pump because im pretty sure there's a screen in there too. 4- check the air filter/ intake pipes for restrictions/obstruction.

I'm using a JD3038E with 30 HP at the pto using a New Holland BC5050. I feed the baler as much as it can eat with hardly any rpm drop. The Tractor weighs 3000lbs and hardly rocks.

Once that flywheel gets into motion you're halfway there, on level ground that's firm should work all day.

I don't know you were working it that Hurd we have a kubota B3200 and in the winter we use it as a logging tractor and that is pretty hard on that little thing so I wouldn't say your were working and L2501 all that hard. And a side note the B series is smaller than the L series and our B3200 has more hours power but L series has a larger engine so they have more tork

Purchasing a used New Holland model 271 baler but not shure if my Kubota L3902 can handle it. Whats your opinion?

Thats is fine for flat field only

Thanks for sharing as I'm considering a L2501. Why did you not buy a L33 or 3901?

Sounds like the HP and particularly the torque were there, could have just used a bigger flywheel to even out the variability from the plunger. On a larger tractor, the larger engine flywheel accomplishes this, but if you wanted to bale regularly with a smaller machine, adding a bigger flywheel on the implement side would probably resolve. Also, don't forget while the tractor is 25hp, PTO is only about 20hp on the HST model, making this even more impressive. I have a vid on my channel showing how to up the hp/torque on the 1.6L engine in this machine. It's a sweetheart of a motor and little tractor.

I grew up on a farm bailing hay for sheep and we ran the baler with a Farmall "H" and it did just fine with only 26HP.

That is baling Hay the hard way..........It has been 60 years since I had a hand in Hay that way......

That just proves what I always told people , you do not need 50+ HP to bail. We did it for years with a 30 HP old International. 1960s something tractor..

Considering that self powered NH 273 is only 17HP. it doesn't take much to run the baler. I did some baling to test out the new used one with my B2410, worked effortlessly. It's the back and forth from the plunger that is not good for the little tractor, so yeah, not really something you want to do all the time with the 2501, which is just a tiny bit bigger than the B2410. I bet you had a bit of getting land legs back once you were done with the tractor going back and forth those 500 bales! LOL

Awesome and impressive tractor. Do you happen to know what is the recommended baling number for Kubota 25HP tractor?

Why would you be surprised that that tractor can do it? Other than the hydrostatic transmission robbing you of horsepower, the old Ford N series tractors had about the same or less horsepower.

Where is the case tractor at?

Think this is feasible for a L2501 permanently for only 4 acres of haying? :D

Wow !!!

Obviously this baler is rated for a higher PTO HP than this tractor can provide. No doubt that it made do, but is there any concern that the shear bolt rating is beyond what is actually safe for this small tractor?

What “speed” setting are you running on? I assume “M” not high-

Is this gear drive or does it have that stupid Kubota Treadle pedal hydro?

The real question is where you buy a good baler ive bought 4 balers 3 are supposed to be field ready ive not been able to bale ony about 53 good bales the rest was shit

i'd like to see it cut and rake too!

A Farmall H has almost the same amount of HP and they have been getting the job done with a square baler and a wagon for decades..

Nice ❤❤

Why not?? We bale hay with a 20 hp John Deere B.

Custom bailing are usually when people custom bail they have the shit that they spray on the bales but you know you’re a custom Baylor shower you don’t have it

Need more horsepower with bale kicker, throw bale to back wagon. Wait for kicker belts get upto speed before start baling. Great see square baling with "Sperry Newholland" baler!

The amish put small motors on there bailer they work fine

Just wait till all that shoves you down a hill, just because it can pull it, dont mean it should, that baler weighs what that tractor does, then you add a few thousand pounds of hay make for a disaster

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What model baler is that?