[Hawkins2015]

Based on the pictures, just over 15,000 bales sounds low. I bet the monitor was replaced at some point. That's the case on mine too.

Mega wide I'm sure will be nice. It depends on what rake you plan to use and how you build your windrow. Mine is standard pickup and I really have to weave and crowd the edge to fill in the sides of the bale.

@calico190xt, I'm needing to replace belts this spring before we get busy. What made you want to buy your belts from Mother Deere? I'd bet my paycheck they outsource their belts.

 

[Hawkins2015]

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.

 

[Hawkins2015]

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.

If I were wrapping, then I would have made the same choice.