Hesston by Massey Ferguson: Running Fast, Cutting Clean
A new customer had seen the clean, close cut Monte Innes, and his wife Julie, had achieved on a nearby property and realized his existing custom balers—who used equipment of a certain green color—were leaving money in the fields. “This...
Hesston by Massey Ferguson: Running Fast, Cutting Clean
A new customer had seen the clean, close cut Monte Innes, and his wife Julie, had achieved on a nearby property and realized his existing custom balers—who used equipment of a certain green color—were leaving money in the fields. “This...A new customer had seen the clean, close cut Monte Innes, and his wife Julie, had achieved on a nearby property and realized his existing custom balers—who used equipment of a certain green color—were leaving money in the fields.
“This is the third RazorBar disc header we’ve had, and we now wouldn’t own anything else,” Monte says. “We get all the hay. It is a clean cut an inch from the ground.”
He also appreciates the speed with which the machine can travel in the field and on the highway. “It is awesome traveling down the road at 20 mph from one field to another,” he continues, noting how important that speed is when you’re working numerous scattered fields and dodging weather to get a sole cutting following a brief 70-day growing season.
The windrower is quick. “Today I cut 180 acres in six-and-a-half hours,” Monte says, “and I couldn’t have done that with any other machine.”
The Innes’ Hesston by Massey Ferguson 2170 XD baler produces bales that are denser, heavier. Because of that, Monte can now get 26 to 27 tons of hay on a semi trailer truck for shipment, rather than 22 tons.
“That saves us about 50 loads per season,” says Monte, “which saves us about $25,000 in shipping costs. “Our new baler is a home run for us.”
See Monte’s full story at http://www.myfarmlife.com/features/high-country-hay/.
