I'm Dan Shamburg I'm from Tekamah, Nebraska
I've been putting up hay here for probably 15 years.
I put up somewhere in the 10 to 15,000 round bales a year of cornstalks,
alfalfa and some hay like this CRP roughage hay that we do.
This is a wetland reserve program it's all in a
99-year lease with the government and
they let you put up a third of it a year.
We're starting to put up a lot of it
in strips that's going to help the wildlife habitat.
That's why an N baler with an inline ramp works best,
so it's easier to pick the bales up.
Most I've ever done was 800 bales in a day
and I've never had anything besides a Vermeer
that would even come close to doing that.
The inline ramp is so much faster on gate cycle times,
that you can have the bales dumped out and it's not even done rolling and you're gone again.
The best thing is the pickup teeth, I mean
nobody wants lay underneath put pickup teeth in.
If you keep them out of the dirt you won't put pickup teeth in.
I run in some really really rough conditions.
Out of all the Vermeer balers I've had, I've only ever one time
had to put like six pick up teeth in — and it was because I dropped in a ditch.
You know, it was my own fault.
With my previous baler, I was running probably 3,500 bales,
and I'd have to change all the pickup teeth.
Now I'm running 10,000 bales and not putting any teeth in, so it's definite savings there.
I switched to Vermeer and they've just held up so much better than anything else I've had.
I think I'm on my 7th or 8th baler now in 6 years or something like that.
With all of them I've put close to 10,000 bales on and
the breakdowns are really minute.
I'd really recommend them to anybody.
The thing is, if you hook anybody else's baler behind
a pickup and go down the road with it
and then you hook a Vermeer behind your pickup and go down the road with it you know it's back there.
It feels twice as heavy there's so much extra iron in one.
I think that's why they hold together so much better.
I'm Dan Shamburg and that's why I switched to the 605N cornstalk special.
