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- Ran it up against the two
tractors and six of five ends
running, they did 150 bales
in the same amount of time
as what I did 130 with the ZR5.
I would say you're better
off to buy a ZR5 than
buy two tractors and two
balers, it's gonna be
a lot more feasible in the
long run and you've got
everything mated together
to where you got power
that you need and just,
everything works better.
It was a whole new experience.
- We make about six to
seven thousand stock bales
which are really hard on
balers so we've gone to Vermeer
with that, it outperformed
our regular Vermeer
balers by probably 50 bales
in a three and a half hour
period, so it really
did a great job for us.
The simplicity of it, I
mean all you did was you sat
in the cab, it tied it all
for you, it did everything
for you, you didn't have
to roll into your windrows,
it stopped automatically,
it tied, it dumped it
and you hit go and you're
off again, it was just
a real simple process.
- It's quite the machine.
The efficiency rating of
it was I thought the most
impressive that I was
getting normally about three
acres with my traditional
tractor baler systems,
where this system I was
getting four acres by the time
they got done with their three acres.
And that's within a 10,
15 minute span, so you're
getting an extra acre
every 15, 20 minutes.
It stops, it wraps, turns
a quarter turn if you want
the option, it spits the bale
out and you push a button
and away you're going
again, you know 10, 11
mile an hour.
I see the ZR5 as not quite
replacing two of my balers
but it does increase it by a
baler and a half hands down.
- Having the ZR5 on
this operation is a very
good deal, we use such
a large quantity of corn
stock bales, saves wear
and tear on our tractors
and equipment, we can
bale a little faster, get
everything done we need to.
You got more clearance under
the front end or you can
run bigger windrows through,
and on a tractor you're
only limited to so big.
Go under the draw bar and
anything like that, this
machine here would just
eat up as much as you
could shove in it.
