[calico190xt]

If the baler is just for making bales for your own operation, then this baler might work out. If you are wanting to do custom baling, I find most customers want netwrap. In my area a 4x5 bale is the most wanted bale for custom bales. Smaller tractors can pick them up. Two guys can even roll them. 5x6 bales are desired by cow guys but most of them do their own baling. I only keep about 15 rouns bales per year and sell all the rest.

I have never done anything but Megawide pickup/netwrap/push bar with my 467 so I don't know the issues without having these features, but I believe Jim and others on here. I was told to absolutely get the megawide, so I did.

I had broken tension springs on my baler and a bunch of badly worn sprockets and chains. I replaced them all with parts from all states ag at about 1/3 price of JD so that wouldn't scare me off but it will still add about $1,000. Some of those sprockets come off hard.

That's a rusty bunch of pickup bands and my 29,000+ bale count 467 has more paint than those do.

I learned something new about baler belts today. I didn't know about counting the ridges. I bought JD belts though recently because 2 of mine were cracking. Some things I do buy from JD.

Picture doesn't show any lacings but that's where most of my bad issues were on my belts. One belt did not even have a real pin in it. Just a high tensile fence wire fashioned into a pin. I baled a hundred bales with it before I fixed it because I didn't notice it.

If 5 foot baler and twine is what you want, then make him a low offer. Never know.

 

[calico190xt]

On your picture where you have the door open, it is that big spring running sort of vertically in front of your chain. Mine were broken in 5 places on both sides. Big nut on top can be a bitch to get loose but once you get it, it is easy to replace.

 

[calico190xt]

My only reason is a guy I respect said he bought aftermarket and they weren't as good as jd. I also was buying netwrap from JD for the same reason but my son has stopped doing that and we had no issues with the ruralking wrap this past season. You may very well be right about outsourcing but my JD belts have worked well.

 

[calico190xt]

Interesting, and will keep it in mind.

I have always heard the Rural King net is much cheaper, but doesnt hold as tight. And you have to put on almost double the wrap to keep the bale together. Cheaper to use the more expensive JD wrap.

Interested to hear your thoughts.

It is hard to say if the Ruralking wrap falls apart because we net wrapped and then we plastic wrapped this year. So, we changed two things at once. The rural king bales did not sit out in the weather to get judged.

Due to the fact that we plastic wrapped, it made sense to use the cheaper $200 rural king versus the $349 JD wrap. i was worried that the non JD wrap would not work in the baler well. That was not the case though. It was fed, wrapped and cut just fine. We do have some custom bales we did from last summer so I might check with those customers to see what they thought of the rural king wrap.

 

[calico190xt]

I actually hooked my new belts to the old belts and ran them via the PTO to not worry about rethreading. Worked well.

I bought those tension springs from All States Ag at a discount from JD. Good luck and glad you got it at the bottom of the suggested price.

None of your pictures show the chain sprockets but if it has more than 15,000+ bales they should have a fair amount of wear on them and you might want to look at replacing those.

Good luck and hope it all works. Some of your sensors might be giving you false alarms if it has sit for awhile. Sometimes it can take a few bales before they start working correctly after sitting for a long time.