(intense rock music)
- Through the years, we've
gotten a lot of customers
that would buy a new baler from us
and they would call and they would say,
well, my tractor only goes 18
miles an hour down the road.
I can't get very much done
when I'm driving across
the country all day.
Well now with the power unit,
they can go 34 miles
an hour down the road.
I really think it's a major milestone.
- It will be a big plus.
I got jobs that are 15
miles away from home.
You can double that speed
of what you're normally traveling,
and it don't take so long to
get to the field that way.
- I compare it to driving,
like, a riding lawnmower.
It's zero turn, so you're
just zipping around.
You don't have to skip
windrows or anything.
You're just coming right
back down the same windrow.
We run, usually, about eight mile an hour
and we're up to nine, nine
and a half mile an hour.
- We can bale pretty fast.
The best day I did was
560 bales in eight hours
of rigged corn stalks.
- The other thing I thought
was very impressive was
the turning radius of it.
A lot of our fields that we did this year
had drowned outs, tile
ditches, stuff like that.
I was able to bale right up to
the tile lines of the wet holes,
spin right around, and that feeder house
was hardly ever empty.
All on the end rows and stuff like that
it was very rough this year,
where my tractor baler system
would've only been able
to go four or five miles
an hour on end rows,
the ZR5 system was just
10, 11 mile an hour.
You don't feel the bumps.
That's huge time savings
when you're talking about
end rows being up to 20 acres.
It's definitely a time saver.
You really can't appreciate the efficiency
of it until you've operated it.
- [Eric W.] Dreaming
and going back in time,
if I could go back and custom bale again,
having a self-propelled
baler would be the way to go.
I can imagine that I would
have saved a lot of time
and had to hire a lot less
extra help on the farm
had I had one of those.
