Roto baling

Nice job taking. That is the key!!!

Yeah, roto baling is my favorite farm related thing to do; bar none.
Job that I was working on there was ideal. Someone else cut the hay, Someone else picked up the bales; all I had to do was bale @ $1.50/ bale. Made around six hundred of them, and the guy is thinking about 300 more.
Thanks for watching, guys!
Darrel

Thanks Mack. Dumb question for you. Supposin' I do see the twine wrapping around that roller, is there a way to restart the cycle and get twine on the bale without kicking the bale out?
Thanks, Darrel

x2...and someone already wisely took off the side shields.

It's a D17. My painter was slightly stubborn, and went ahead and painted it PO1, when it is supposed to be PO2, PO2 is what I told him that it was supposed to be
Darrel

You can push it pretty good in good conditions.  I grew up around them and the neighbors still have 5 of them. We have 1 old orange top at our place. When I was a boy, the neighbors put up 10,000 roto-bales of hay and another 2000 straw. We had a NH square baler and put up another 8000 squares. Needless to say I always had work !!  We were both milking around 45 cows at that time. When help got hard to find and big round balers came around, the neighbors cut back to around 4-5000 little round bales and the rest was custom baled. They still milk around 35 cows and put up several thousand little rounds a year. 

The only thing you can do is loose  drive belt and turn twine tube back to start. Catch it quick enough, reverse bailer, but it may spit hay back out on head.                   MACK 

It just wrapped the bale with a few extra wraps on each end.              MACK

I followed the baler when I was 12 and tied the end of the wrap of even bale and turned sideways. We used a bale loader it lifted them into the barge wagon. Got back to the farm and had an elevator that ran them up into the loft. The barn was built differant than most the cow heads were toward the center and the loft drop was in the middle. Feeding was easy drop the bales cut twin and kick the bales they'd unroll in front of the cows. We did 6000 hay and 1000 straw every year for the 45 milk cows. If you didn't tie the end wrap the twine came off and got wrapped up in the bale loader and the elevator. We never left in the field always picked up the same day we baled and stored inside. The cows really likes the hay and it wasn't scratchy like the squares we baled at home.

Allis did persue the round baler- tested the Hawk round baler- it was a round baler that was tire/ ground driven - didnt work out too good