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Like your video but from an economical standpoint and the size tractor you have and the flat land. You could buy a great used square baler NH or JD with tons of parts availability and local farmer experience for repair purposes then a used rake tedder and mower cheaper than you purchased this equipment for. Again it is your farm and your decision but for the money... Also the sickle mower lays the hay out flat and flat hay spread over a 7ft swath dries faster than the bunched up windrowed of hay the drum mower leaves, You will most likely have to ted or flip the windrows to get them dry. I say this part from experience with a drum mower for 10 years + . It will be very interesting to watch your future baling videos. **Note I edited this after watching the rake video and found out you didn't buy this equipment...So for you that is even better, but others should consider used equipment and research before jumping into this small foreign made equipment and questionable parts availability. Tractor tools direct seems to be legit as i have studied them for several years now. But I definately would not Buy this stuff off ebay or amazon You will need a good dealer to get parts in the future.

It is funny that 70 years ago they had the technology to make round bales without electricity. Now they have to make it really complicated.

So happy that you’re making these videos! Keep them coming.

That is some awesome equipment! Really looking forward to watching the whole process.

We love our TX31 ibex baler. A draw bar is worth the money for sure. We have made over 500 bales and have only broken 1 sheer bolt. Setting the drop arm is easy after you figure it out, but a small challenge the first time. These balers are very durable, keep them greased and the chains oiled. Our salesman, John, was a great guy. Had all the answers and recommendations.

That's the one reason I did not buy a Kubota. The fel capacity is not great and the tractor doesn't have enough weight in the chassis. I bought a TYM 4820r . Weighs 4000 lbs without loader and the fel capacity is 2700 lbs to full height at the pins. I don't bale my hay. I just cut and rake it with a regular landscape rake and the push the hay into big piles. Then I use my grapple to load the hay into a trailer and store the hay in the barn

I’ve been researching mini balers and small farm hay and I believe these are what i will be getting when I get into it I would prefer net wrap for personal preference though I can’t wait to see the videos of this equipment in use

I don’t see the point I round bales this tiny. An old hayliner would be my personal choice but I cannot deny that little baler is awesome. Seems to work good

That is so cool. Love 💕 it

Problem with those compact balers is they're $10,000 + Then the hay rake, tedder and mower for hay to go with it are also high dollar. The small farms that actually want small scale hay equipment could buy hay for 10 years before they pay as much as the cost of the mini equipment. Or get an old square baler and old Farmall with the old rake, tedder and haybine... for under $5000. 50 to 80 year old equipment that just keeps working.

Brad nice Job. Looking forward to watching your process. I would really like to try a mini baler on my 2515.

A couple shims in the hydraulic pressure relief valve to preload the spring so that it makes the relief pressure higher and your loader will lift more. These things are engineered past what they are capable of out of the box. Obviously do at your own risk.

I use a similar baler, chinese production. First they are expensive for the results, especialy that it did not proved to be reliable, and has alot of small issues that you need to know the workarround for. However this branded model may be better, due selected supply source(some of this balers are better), also due especially the selections of parts spare that are readily available.

Good thing you had Rim Guard loaded tires!!!

I'm curious to see how well bahia grass will bale?

Nice well made video other than seeing it function. On the fence between new or used, it would bale my 40 or so acres of hay field on the farm well enough for my needs most of my farm is an 11 acre pond woods and 4 paddocks. Thinking new it should last until I am to old to use it. My tractors are 40 H.P. Ford 2110, 60 H.P. closed station 2660 Mahindra. 75 H.P. Ford 5000. 2110 to cut 5000 to rake 2660 to bail. Like my A/C. Need this before cattle previous owner had 100 head I want less than 6 head. Its hayed now they get about 175 half ton bales plus or minus a dozen or so per year 1 fall cut. Should have been born rich work 50 years 37 so far get all you need and want then your to danged old to use it. T.M.I. anyway liked the review.

looks nice...but something with less moving parts and is more basic may have better reliability?

LOL, the baler hanging from that chain costs a lot more than 3-5 thousand dollars...

Sir, getting ready to buy one of these mini balers next week. Looking at the IHI unit in your other videos and the Ibex you are showcasing in this video along with the Farm Maxx unit. Any comments or thoughts going forward for a person trying to decide between them? Thanks.

Maybe show it baling???

Wouldn't a scissor jack work just fine for installing those wheels?

Why not a square baler ?

I would have had to use a hydraulic jack with a piece of wood and lifted one side at a time and then the front last. :) Great video as always.

a WHOLE video and no footage of it working

Enough with the drama, just lift the damn thing.

If this was a sponsorship, ok. But this will never make sense vs buying older equipment suited for making real bales for a fraction of the price.

Wheres the beef, i mean bales??

We rolled 58 net-wrapped 4x5s yesterday afternoon (June 28th). At 725lbs each, that's 21 tons of hay. That will feed a lot of livestock. To bale, we required three operators, three tractors, and three machines (a tedder, a rake, and a baler). However, with the miniature equipment in this video, we would have still required three operators, three tractors, and three machines, but we would have produced, what, perhaps one ton of hay? This is not economically feasible. This miniature equipment might suit eccentric millionaires or hobbyists determined to be self-sufficient or those who are intimidated by big machines, but economically feasible haymaking requires a resource-intensive, cooperative effort-- haymakers working together diligently with big machines to cover big tracts of land to realize big yields.

That’s not a tractor. It’s a boat anchor.

An awful lot of money tied up in a very low production setup. No way this would be profitable if a person actually had to BUY this junk rather than have it given to you to use to make videos.

You guys every now and then mention about God just wondering maybe you could put a Bible verse at the end of your videos like a few others are doing