(upbeat music)
- The most rewarding thing about living
and working in Montana is
the people and the scenery.
I work on a ranch year-round,
and we raise cattle,
have cow-calf pairs and
then sell yearlings.
So I feed lot and
everything, all winter-long,
and then in the summer,
my boss and I have a custom hay company
and we sloth, rake and
bale for other ranchers.
In 2019, we put up between
15 and 20,000 bales.
We have a TE330 tedder and
we have three R2800 rakes.
We have an in-baler and a
super in-baler and a ZR5.
I got invited to go to
Nebraska to see a new product
that Vermeer was putting out,
then came to find out that it was the ZR5,
and it was amazing.
It was pretty crazy seeing
it drive over the hill.
That's awesome.
Looks like a smooth ride.
Well, if it can go as fast
and be as productive as I think they can,
we'd be able to probably
run half the balers.
We run four, and I can bet we
can probably run two of those
and be doing the same
production that we are now.
(Door squeals)
I would say the ZR5 has
been a game changer.
This book here is my bale book
that I pack with me in the baler every day
and it's got my bale count for each field,
as well as the other bale count
from each of the other balers.
I'm definitely putting up
more bales than one baler
and a lot of times,
I'm doing about double.
For instance, we'll look at
some alfalfa numbers here.
In one pivot that we did, the ZR5 had 192.
Conventional baler had 117.
Another example, ZR5 had 133 bales.
Conventional had 66.
The ZR5 did 325 bales.
Conventional did 165.
The next field, the ZR5 did 517
versus the conventional at 198.
The last field at that place we did
was 276 bales for the ZR5
and the conventional did 85.
I'm Toby Roscoe and that's why I switched
to the Vermeer ZR5-1200
self-propelled baler.
