14T baling corn stalks ?

glennster · Oct 27, 2011

will a 14T square baler handle corn stalks? mother in law wants to try mulching the garden next year for potatoes. was thinking about running the bush hog thru the corn stalks to shred them, then maybe running the 3pt finish mower thru them to fine chop em, then rake and bale them. will that go thru the baler ok?

IaGary · Oct 27, 2011

Should work OK if you keep the dirt out of the baler.

Only time we had baling anything with a New Holland baler is when a guy ran a wheel rake to low in oat straw without seeding and had a bunch of dirt in the windrow.

We had to rebuild the plunger shortly after.

Gary

schultz47 · Oct 27, 2011

Used to bale cornstalks all the time with our 14T. Used a stalk shredder first, then raked and baled them. HTH

bradk · Oct 27, 2011

Chop them up as you mentioned and you"ll be fine.Coarse stalks are pretty tough on an old 14T.

randallnMo · Oct 27, 2011

THe baler shouldn't have any problem baling them, but if you chop them up too fine with the finish mower, you'll probably have a hard time picking them up with the pickup attachment on the baler.

8850dave · Oct 28, 2011

Deere sold a flail chopper attachment to be used instead of the pickup to do just what you are going to do.

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