I have pulled a baler in places I should not have gone with the wheel tractor I had. I can say a very wise decision to use the Cat. And yes I have baled with a D2 in front of a baler with it's own engine. It was steeper than most of the picture looks and the D2 did very well.


On the flip side have you ever driven a wheel tractor down a hill and had it lose traction and start sliding going faster than the wheels are turning? I was spraying weeds with a 100 gal of solution at most. A hay baler makes everything worse as ever stroke of the plunger give the tractor a push. Again been, there done that, farmer has made a very good decision.

Wish I would have had the green baler in the picture rather than my NH with the &$#@&%$ Wisconsin engine on it back in the day. Pretty big load of bales on the old hay rack behind the D2 that shows the D2 was the way to go. We picked up the square bales with a Farmhand to save save handling and took them directly to the stack. Luckily our fields are flat with few hills. .

Hi, D4Jim.
Translation, please: "&$#@&%$"????????????????????????

Just my 0.02.

Sharp eyes Deas!! What I meant was *$%#@&%#& Wisconsin engine!

Nothing wrong with a V4 Wisconsin on a 3 wire baler have spent Mannnnnnny hours,I mean years on one, my Dad talked about pulling a heavy 3 wire hand tie baler in the hills with a Diesel 40, I have seen a 9U D6 on a 3 wire Freeman in the Livermore hills just like pulling a Combine with a Cat piece of mind! 17afarmer

I used to try to average about 115 pound bales with a 3 wire baler was a good solid bale, you had to be a stronger guy than me to throw them up on a truck. thank god they invented Harobeds, I have seen them do pretty good on some pretty good hills. But they did not like sand. In the mid to late 60s you could get wire for 6 to 8,to 8.50 a roll when it got to $50.00 a roll I Quit! 17afarmer

the krone high density square baler the uncle used to run for a local contractor bailing cane trash would make bails weighing in at a metric tonne each they had special bailing twine for that job. it was about twice the dia of the stuff most people use for hay. they had to adjust the knot tying mechanism for the new twine. these where all shifted with a bail fork either on the tractors loader frame or with a telehandler.