1. Hesston Rounder 5500 Specs

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Well thats what I was wondering I assume your talking about a Vermeer 605J? Yeah a Vermeer 605SJ. There were 605J's and then came the 605SJ. A J should be more affordable than an SJ If your looking at Vermeer one difference Im sure between a J and SJ is the sprial roller. Look in the front of the baler and down at the bottom of the belts you will either see a round roller w/ a piece of steel wraped around it in a sprial or proably a square tube. The sprial is a way better starting baler.depending on what your trying to bale.

Alfalfa it doesnt make much difference. A 530 isn't a bad baler in my openion.

Weather its worth that much depends on what kinda shape its in and what kinda shape your hesston is in. I do believe you can put double arms on a 530. You can get quite a bit newer machine for not much more than that.Vermeer, NH, etc. Id say more like 2500 unless its a cream puff. I would consider my Hesston 5500 to be a cream puff. However, we bale mainly hay grazer hay with it and I have always had lot of problems with it clogging if the hay is the least bit damp.

Also we have a lot of belt problems with the 4' wide belts on it and the string cutting knives get clogged. I think that maybe it wasn't designed for the more stalky hay and I was thinking the Deere 530 might do better with it. We also bale a little bit of coastal hay and the 5500 does a great job with that. It make a much more square bale and it won't clog unless you run into some hay that's just soaked. So that's what I was hoping to get by switching. A baler that would do a better job with the cane hay. What do you think?

I guess I should add that I would prefer the 530 over the hesston if they were the only 2 balers to choose from. It's funny that you guys don't see that many vermeer balers in your area because the ones I have been around have been awesome bale starters, high capacity fast moving machines(I could run faster with my vermeer 605SJ in double windrows than my bb960 large square until I had to stop to tie), and yes the spiral starter is a big plus over the square tube. I would have wagered that my 605SJ would make a perfect round bale out of siphon tubes. Well I finally got a chance to really run the baler today. I baled about 80 rolls of hay grazer hay. It was a tremendous improvement over the Hesston.

It's so nice not to have to manually tie the bale and with the monitor, it makes a perfect looking bale everytime. Also was able to crowd twice as big a windrow in it at a time. It really seemed to work better with larger windrows.

The only problem I had with it was about once every four bales or so it would fail to start the bale. All I would have to do is remove the hay in the chamber by hand and try again and it would usually go ahead and start. It wasn't even stuck in there just loose.

That's nothing next to some of the problems I used to have to deal with. When that Hesston would clog it would wear two people out trying to get all that hay jamed in there out. We had a 605 f a lot of vermeers around here. Now there is not one around all the guys that had them and bragged are running john deere.

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We just bought a 567 we had an 8480 cih. The vermeer went down the road the first year we had it. Even the new hollands are getting traded for jds. We could have bought a 2007 br780a with 1400 bales in sd for 16000 but every one even some nh dealers say run away from them. You can weld another tube along side the twine arm and run two twines to speed it up on the 530. Once you run that baler some more, youll wonder why you never got one sooner.

I just traded an 01 Hesston 845 with net, for a BRAND NEW Deere 458 with net. I can bale twice as fast(we are baleing with a 3688 running 6-8mph in heavy hay) and never have to worry about plugging it. My hesston would plug up tight as dicks hat band if you tried to bale over 3.5mph. Ive just baled 64 bales with it so far, and 40 of those were put on today. I swore Id never own a piece of deere equipment, but now I wonder how I got along the last 5 years with out it. After owning one of these Id never give a hesston a second look.

Youll love that 530. My neighbors bought one about 3 or 4 years ago, traded a 540 hesston for it. So far they've baled 3000 bales with it with out a problem. Around here a 530 will still bring 55-7500. A 435 with net will bring 9500-10k easy.

I think you did alright on it. If you get some super slippery and over dry hay, wait and bale it at sundown, the bit of moisture it picks up really makes a difference. I have a 430 and agreed with Tommy about the rate it takes in hay, at times I can almost fall off the tractor from driving so fast and it hogs it all in.

Hesston Rounder 5500 Specs

I find that starting bales in dry straw or really dry hay that feeding hay too slow causes it to jam, there is not enough pressure in the chamber to cause the hay to want to roll and you just get a bunch of hay jammed there and no rolling happening. Maybe take a look at the roller that starts the bale rolling, are the flat bars worn down a lot?

I run my baler at high density at all times, not sure if that makes a difference but rarely if ever have trouble in hay, straw is a problem sometimes, especially from Axial Flow straw, not as bad on JD straw. Overall they are an amazing machine for early 80's technology.

Round baling is incredibly experience driven for every different machine, far more so I believe than any other farm tool. When I have someone use my baler they just make a mess and have trouble all day, you learn to do things without hardly thinking about it. In a while you will have better results.

Are you sure the back door is latched every time? That is a guaranteed no bale starter to have the door closed but not latched. There are shims that can be adjusted to make the door latch easier, right at the latch. That is a big factor too, you shouldn't have to slam the door, and do not start baling without the green light on the bale trak, it is always correct when the micro switches are adjusted correctly. When I first got my baler the shims needed adjusting and until I realized that I was mis starting every third bale or so, and I am sure too that is why the baler was sold by the previous owner. Will use my double post to add a thought I had today while baling.

When I get a false start bale now it is almost always due to feeding a tuff of hay or two while the door is still closing, and I don't notice the green light not being present or losing it after 5-10 seconds of feeding hay again. I am always trying to pull into the windrow again while the door is just closing and occasionally a bit of hay feeds with the door still not fully closed, that little tuff of hay is enough to keep the door ajar, and stop the proper start of a bale.