Baling Straw

rusty6 · Oct 25, 2018

Nice fall weather continues so I went out and baled a few small squares with the JD 2140 and Massey 120 baler. Needed a few new bales to
cover up the septic tank for winter.

JD Seller · Oct 25, 2018

What are you pulling behind the baler??? An accumulator?

Part Time Pete · Oct 25, 2018

I was wondering the same thing - around here we called them bunchers
That's a nice picture

showcrop · Oct 25, 2018

Rusty, I have a Massey 224. It can really take in an oversized windrow a lot better than the JD 336 that I had before it. What is your experience? Do you have much market for straw there? Here in NH it goes for 2.5 times what good hay goes for.

Bruce from Can. · Oct 25, 2018

I could use about a thousand of those, you probably wouldn?t want to deliver.

rusty6 · Oct 25, 2018

That is an automatic stacker behind the baler. Stacks 6 bales (when it works). You can see it a little better in this video from a few years back when we baled some flax straw. The flax straw bales stuck together so bad that we needed a rider to pull them apart so they landed properly on the stacker. It worked a little better in hay and cereal straw. I don't use it enough now to get around to fixing it.
Baler and Stacker

rusty6 · Oct 25, 2018

(quoted from post at 06:04:22 10/25/18)
Rusty, I have a Massey 224. It can really take in an oversized windrow a lot better than the JD 336 that I had before it. What is your experience? Do you have much market for straw there? Here in NH it goes for 2.5 times what good hay goes for.

I've heard the JD 336 was a pretty good baler. This 120 Massey is not big capacity. Shear pins will break if I push it too fast.
Straw market varies. This year being dry and short of hay there is good demand. I sold a few big oat straw bales (could have sold more) but most of it goes back into the ground.

MSS3020 · Oct 25, 2018

I have a buddy that bought one of those and I helped him run it couple years ago.. It was the first and last time he wanted to use it.. parked in the weeds in back of his place now.. He said it was more hassle then what it was worth.. I thought it was a pretty neat thing if he could have gotten it working right..
I have a bale wagon.. This year it worked like a dream but took me a year and half to figure it out and replace/work on it to get it that way.. love it now..

MSS3020 · Oct 25, 2018

He always call it a bale stoker ????

quefan · Oct 25, 2018

Spent a lot of time behind a MF #12 on the wagon and when all wagons full the manual stoker.
When I got a fulltime off farm job Dad replaced me with the allied Auto Stooker.
It was a little fun to setup but once dialed in was OK.
Still in the weeds at brothers farm.
Allied Auto Stooker

Northvale PA · Oct 25, 2018

I bale straw with my JD336 behind a 20? combine. Need to drive in 1st gear. Makes for a fast filled wagon and a very long day. Plus, the combine corners are a 2x bunched up nightmare.

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