Georgian here… I love North Dakota! Thanks for posting. ❤❤❤❤ I am amazed by how fast the tractor goes and then stops on a dime when the baler is full ! AWESOME!!

As in every walk of life Mike someone always knows best. Keep up the great work.

I like the mischievious foxes at the end. Hopefully you will continue to ad fun bonusmaterial like that in the future. It makes for a pleasant interlude from a very informative video.

The problem with regular balers is there's only so much power you can shove through the PTO because of the torque and shear standards. The HD large square balers use the inertia of a flywheel to get more umph into the plunger but the tractor still has to replace that by spinning the flywheel back up. Krone has a design that uses both hydro flow AND PTO to power up a baler with a hydraulic low end booster on the system to get the wheel spinning and keep it from stalling. The old Hesston/Massey units down in the south-west that have on-baler engines are true beasts because of this. Self-powered Freeman 3-string not-so-small balers really hammer out bales too.

It's great to see the innovative self propelled design from Vermeer working out in real life applications!

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Theres another ZR5 in south central north dakota, sometimes see it going during the summer about 4 miles east of my farm. Vermeer has gotten extremely popular in the last 5 years in the region... normally see usual guys running JD or NH balers all their life, and all of a sudden they have a Vermeer now.

Seeing is believing! Great presentation!

The driver of the John Deere must have been very frustrated: "Damn! He's been overtaking me for 125 times, now!" 😉 Thanks a lot for the video! 😊👍🏻

That’s an impressive machine. It’s really moving out there! Great video as always!

Great job!! Appreciate your efforts quality shows

Wow, the self-propelled Baylor sure goes fast 😳. Happy subscriber 😊!

Never made a round bale. I really miss making hay. Excellent videos man thank you.

Love these machines. Been waiting for more videos since their release and as always FHM delivers!

amazing machines and excellent camera work. Thanks Mike!!!

Smart machine at its work Great to see I wish i would work on farmlands like this!!!

Awesome video thanks Mike as always

Dang farming has come so far past twenty years. Loving it

Great to see the self propelled baler at work😉👍 great video👍👍

... and here I thought Redd Foxx was dead. Cool video of the balers and the foxes Mike. My dad always loved Vermeer balers.

Great video, Mike. Both balers working together in the same field. I like the idea that the power unit part and the baler part can be separated on the SP baler for maintenance.

Great video! I have only seen the self propelled baler in Farming Simulator. Great to see one actually working and to hear why some farmers prefer it over a trailed version. If you have a lot of land to cover it makes sense to me! 👍 Thanks for sharing! 😎

Wow that’s awesome that the S.P. can go twice as fast! I can see why they are selling then for sure! I am not a arm chair City Boy, born and raised on the farm and worked on round and square balers all my life at a dealer that carried Hesston and New Holland iron. But we don’t have a Vermeer dealership around here so very interesting video Mike! Thanks!

My son just purchased a 605N. It was impressive. I was baling wheat and was curious about how fast the baler would bale. I'm baling with a JD 8300. I was up to 12.7 mph and according to the monitor, I was dropping a bale every 55 to 56 seconds. This baler was impressive. I started out with a 605C. I owned a 605G, 605J, 605SuperJ , 605L.

Many many years ago I saw some "top 10 farming machines" video that featured a self propeled round balers. Haven't seen one since. Fun to come across one again.

That's the perfect bailer. Get twice as many bails in less time that's a winner.

That is one cool baler!!!

that self-propelled unit is really amazing you would need a sizeable farm to justify ir or be a custom operator fun to watch

That's a very awesome baler

This is one Awsome looking machine. I could see how it can bale fast then the pull type

Great. Well done.

Haven’t seen a self propelled Baler even at our farm show yet. Great video

This is so awesome! Slow down buddy! 😮

Great idea

Saw my first one a couple days ago around Strathmore, AB Had to slow down and watch it for a couple minutes.

Amazing ❤

Mike is that ZR5 is very cool round baler I like it that is very fast work of the hay

Good video.

Be interesting to see if they ever go to 4 wider belts on the chamber the way Deere and agco have gone. They seem to be a big improvement. Also would be interesting to test against a pull type round baler with a true CVT/ hydrostatic type tranny in a 200 plus horse tractor like a JCB with an operator who knows how to run it. Also interesting if Vermeer ever intends to offer a 4 ft wide bale chamber for the self propelled.

Loved the foxes. Haters will hate. Keep up the great videos.

This is the first time I have seen a self propelled baler. I can not under stand why no one has made them before now. we done see them here in Northern British Columbia

Thanks Mike for another great video. Dont listen or mention the idiots posts just...keep making your videos and 99% will enjoy them!

nice machine.

Mike thanks

Vermeer makes a good hay roller,and I can see the self propelled is hauling tail,like to have one in 4 wheel drive

The self propelled bailer is the way to go. I'm sure other Ag companies will follow suit. Very cool Mike 👍🏻 😊.

When I first saw that bailer hauling butt down the field I was amazed. Time is money. Speed it up by increasing ground speed, eliminate manual function by using automation and you have a winner.

Great Video. Would like to see these in person.

That baler was sure fast.

I don't know about others but I'd love a go though it would be tight around some of our lanes.

Did you now that deutz made a self propelt sqare baler in the 90s its called power press

I was hoping you would run into one of these SP balers some time.

The self propelled baler certainly makes the trailed machine look slow.

I remember when the round baler came out it must have been 70 or 71 our neighbor got a dealership before that he was running a Heston stackhand and everyone else was running f10 farmands

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I got to ride in the one by Wahpeton . Sure can cover the ground.

Now that’s really neat

I think they are cool just wish they were 4 wheel drive with a rake on front.

The stop is "only" 15 seconds, but I'm still amazed they didn't put a prechamber into the self-propelled baler.

I usually setup course play to bale and follow me to pick up the bales.

Seeing the foxes and this video featuring making hay reminds me of "Fox" brand silage equipment back in the 1950s. What ever happened to the Fox company ? Merger I suppose.

I wonder if putting tandem axles on the self-propelled baler would make it a smoother riding and lower ground pressure. The tires would need to be smaller.

At 1.5 to 1.75 wraps on my 68" its 9 seconds clutch to clutch, yeah the ZR5 was defo blasting down the field faster than the Deere

Have you seen the Vermeer baler that constantly bales. Ejects bale without stopping

The self-propelled takes about half. The time to dump a bale as the other one.

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Great video Mike just ignore the loons who do stupid comments

Looks impressive!!!! How does it ride going down the fields that fast, it looks kinda bounce with all that weight hanging over there rear axle??

Is it a pain to put net wrap in, or did they move it to the door?

On the pull type baler an overhead view shows the 2 belts on the left have 2 belt end connectors instead of just one like the others. Is that a belt repair connection? Just curious. Amazing how much faster the self-propelled unit is. Great video.

Would there be much difference in bale weight between the pull type baler and the self propelled?

There’s only one problem I see that is I don’t make enough hay to afford one!😂

I’m thinking it might be possible to replace the baler if worn out while keeping the power unit?

The self-propelled unit is a very impressive machine but I have questions. How is it able to operate so much faster than a pull type? You mentioned that it can bail at up to 12mph. How fast can you go when using the pull type? Also how did they make the wrapping/unloading process so much faster? I think the big square bales are more efficient. No need to stop to unload and no wasted space on the truck when hauling them. Are there disadvantages of square bales I do not know about?

Bet all the western hay growers want a ZR5 1200 bailer, what power runs it?

Looks realy rough ground that sp baler going to shack the crap out of that back kicker

So did vermeer give up on the protocol type of the continuous round baler that they where working on in the past 3 years?

Did you see Salem Sue while you were out there? 🙂

What size paddock and how many bales?

I wonder if it has chopping knives

Thanks again for the great videos Mike! These keyboard cowboys are ruining KZfaq with stupid comments it's a problem on every channel I'm subscribed to if you can't say something nice don't say anything

I've always wondered why some farmers do round bales and some do square bales?

Do you have to zig zag with a self propelled baler Like you have to with a pull behind baler

Could you make the baler pull tupe if the tractor part went down

Not like there's any hills for the bails to roll down their.

I don't know why people want to be so negative now and throw their opinion when more than likely they don't even know what their talking about.

I don't no why thay don't take it a step further and include continue to bale technology as well as plastic rap as a option. Big farmers need big equipment.😓😓😓😓😓

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Maybe avoid posting pics on Facebook to avoid the haters. Haters are everywhere. That's why I don't do social media anymore.

And as far as color goes it’s only paint everything is metal color under it every manufacturer has a lemon and they all burn the same orange color farmers use what they like let them be it’s their life and farm stop judging you hater are so smart go farming then you can talk

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To bad keyboard warriors have no clue about farm life you use what works for you not what works for others there’s no way. Kip Sieglers farm runs anything like Andy houragins farm and Clark farm and duffyag farms are even more in left field give it a rest haters

I know what your saying Mike , it's amazing how such ill informed people that do no research and don't work in the farming game claim to know so much more than the people doing it day in day out 😂😂😂😂