Bruce, I have a claas 280 rotocut. We only chop about 200 bales a year for tube wrapped silage, the hay and straw don't get chopped. The chopper does add to the horse power needed, my book says 100hp minimum and I don't think that are living... the baler is usually on our 160hp Massey which handles it no problem. Silage hard on balers, and I would be tempted to go with a European made baler just because that have been designed from the outset for silage. My claas weighs over 6000lbs without a bale in it. Knives seem to chop OK, the claas chops about 4inches long, except for the sides of the bale which are longer. Claas balers have a rotor in the throat that forces the material through the chopper and into the bale chamber, the 3 hundred series balers have some kind of mechanism to drop the chopper floor to allow blockages into thw baler, my 280 requires we back out the blockage by hand. From what I hear from friends in the UK, McHale is considered king of the silage balers but they only do a 4x4 baler. One other thing to add, although the silage is chopped in the bale, the bales still take some effort to break up, it's not like they fall apart once the net wrap is off, we feed by rolling out bales and the bales take a bit to get them to unroll but once they start to unroll they fall apart very quickly. Hope that helps, email is open if you want
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