Round bale tractor

I bought a fairly new, new holland roll belt 460 and the biggest tractor I own is a 7000 and it seems it takes all it has to run it without the crop cutter, will a 7040 handle it, or what size should I be shopping for, would like to stick to the 7000 series because there are plenty around my area for sale.

Chuck, for those of us not familiar, what size bale does a NH 460 baler make and what forage are you baling? 

Crop cutter is a set of knives that can be extended from the floor of the baler to cut what your baling into smaller pieces.  

Edited by victoryallis - 09 Nov 2021 at 5:54am

chuck, how will you be feeding the hay, and to what?  You may not want to use the crop cutter.  I use a feeder wagon, bought some cut hay, and the cows wasted a LOT of it, had a snow drift looking berm of hay all the way around the wagon where they would pull it out and slobber.  

I would like to know if you have any trouble making a good round bale in dry hay with the cutter? Seems the Vermeer balers I have used love to role the long stems and the bales store better outside without a cover? That is one reason I square bale the later cuttings. I use a 185 most of the time with a 4x5 wet or dry. I kind of feel that it’s hard on the Baler to run a lot of extra Hp.

Edited by allisbred - 09 Nov 2021 at 4:04pm

I pull a vermeer 605m cornstalk special with an agco allis 9535. It's 135 horsepower. Their are days I wish I had a little more under the hood. I sure would want a power shift if I was baler tractor shopping!