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Post by 70ds on Mar 22, 2014 21:29:41 GMT -5
Our new to us baler. It is a Vermeer 605 Super F.   |
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Post by JDRanch-Hand on Mar 22, 2014 22:09:36 GMT -5
I hope you got a good deal on it Clayton. From all the old Vermeer's I've ever been around they're nothing but trouble. Hopefully all works out well for you.
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Post by 70ds on Mar 23, 2014 9:03:11 GMT -5
Got if for 500 dollars. It will scrap out for that if it doesn't work out. I honestly can't believe it can be any worse than the 510.
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Post by swfarms on Mar 23, 2014 17:25:27 GMT -5
I will say for her age she looks to be in good shape, and $500 sounds a whole lot better than the $28000 I paid for our last new baler  |
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Post by Southern on Mar 23, 2014 19:49:58 GMT -5
The old baler might work out. There is a local still runs one similar to that. Better be glad you didn't get a Gehl. You can't get parts for those.
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Post by harleyboy65 on Mar 31, 2014 14:03:23 GMT -5
605c balers can be pita, I bought a 605c last fall for 500 bucks, I like the abuse. I talked to a local farmer-rancher who has baled millions of squares and round bales, they also sell vermeer parts and balers if you want one, he said 605f balers are by far the best of the old vermeer balers. Of course thats can be subject to the maintenance and care, I wish I could of found a 605f for 500.
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Post by johndeererules on Mar 31, 2014 18:18:29 GMT -5
About how many bales and hours are on that thing ?
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Post by 70ds on Mar 31, 2014 21:40:27 GMT -5
605c balers can be pita, I bought a 605c last fall for 500 bucks, I like the abuse. I talked to a local farmer-rancher who has baled millions of squares and round bales, they also sell vermeer parts and balers if you want one, he said 605f balers are by far the best of the old vermeer balers. Of course thats can be subject to the maintenance and care, I wish I could of found a 605f for 500. If is turns out to be a pos I will hook you up. lol |
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Post by harleyboy65 on Mar 31, 2014 22:24:28 GMT -5
605c balers can be pita, I bought a 605c last fall for 500 bucks, I like the abuse. I talked to a local farmer-rancher who has baled millions of squares and round bales, they also sell vermeer parts and balers if you want one, he said 605f balers are by far the best of the old vermeer balers. Of course thats can be subject to the maintenance and care, I wish I could of found a 605f for 500. If is turns out to be a pos I will hook you up. lol I think I will try and make my headache work. I need to bale about eight big bales a year. I need to go through the belts and even them up, I thought belts stretched but they shrink. Round baleing is new but I will learn just as I did learning how to make a small square baler work properly. I went to talk with the farmer-rancher because his family has been in the cattle business forever. They used to milk about 70 cows and had about 500 beef cattle, now he and his sons raise about 800 head of beef cattle and farm. He told me they used to bale 30,000 small squares a year, back in the seventies a local Vermeer dealer told them about a new baler vermeer was coming out with, they needed to put $500 down. They got the 15 vermeer baler built, he didn't say how much they paid for it though. |
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Post by harleyboy65 on Jul 8, 2014 21:57:22 GMT -5
Good couple days, critical road hay put up with no rain. Seven rounds and seventy small squares, I swore at the 605c a couple times but it made bales. I can be happy now lol
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Post by 70ds on Jul 20, 2014 18:19:13 GMT -5
I almost cut ours up for scrap iron. LOL 700 dollars in parts and it is working pretty darn good now. Too bad no one ever greased the pickup. It would have saved a lot of head aches for us. It is a hay eating machine and makes nice bales when it will work. We have too much in it to junk it now. So I guess the pink baler will have to stay.
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