Hi everyone, new to the forum, have just bought a 1997 D6000 baler with 48,000 bale count, baling 200 acre of my own straw up plus a little contracting, arte these balers ok? feedback on these balers is very welcome, thanks!

Regards Andy

we have run a 1996 model for the past three seasons and have a mixed opinion on it. if it is a good machine then you will be fine but we had some problems. In the first season we baled all of the needles which was a painfully expensive move but luckily the insurance paid for it. even last year it was still playing up a bit but mostly electrical stuff and nothing major. As for the qulity of the bale again its a mixed opinion. You cant pack as much weight into the bales as other brands and in barley straw we struggle to produce a good shape but in rape and wheat straw with a good driver the bales are just as good if not better than those from a claas etc good luck and i would like to hear what other users have to say.

didnt no you could insure against baler breakdown, please tell me more!

you should have gone for a new holland!!!!!!!!!! what size bale does your baler produce? KEEP THE KNOTTERS CLEAN AND GREASED! Be nice to your baler, they have feelings and can soon turn into a nasty B**CH!

The welger 6000 bale size is 1.2mx0.70m, could not afford a new holland. I know balers are great to use when everythings going alright and a nightmare when they arnt, talking from experience when running a vicon mp800 and a new holland d1000, i have a old claas 1200 in the shed for when the welger bales the needles up or something!

used to run welger balers you could not get enough top fill in bale on a small swath. and they were probably the most unreliable machines we have ever owned. we know run mf/hesston balers .

hi i have just bort a 1996 wleger D6000 how much hp should it have on the front of it to drive it.

is it a conventional baler?

if it is you could power it with a fergy t20.

its to big for one of them its the same bale size as a quadrant 70cm by 120cm i think

its a big baler i think were going to put a mf 8150 on it for the summer

we have run a d6000 for the last 2 seasons and have found it to be a very reliable baler,as for top fill we have never encountered such a problem,we have baled hay and straw with it effortlessley,welger backup is also second to none,parts if req are available next day and it will produce a very neat bale.

we have baled hay with it the first 20 or so was shoking but found go up a gear and get trapping on when we did that it never missed a bale all perfect

as long as its as reliabel as the 420 welger round baler we have its all plane sailing from here

Our local contractor runs a D6000 and is a good baler, the only thing to look out for is the pick up, they are a bit light duty.

As for a NH, i wouldn't go near them! Another contactor who has 2 BB940 and only runs 160hp on them has sheared the main driveshaft out of the main gearbox on BOTH of them, costing him thousands each!

Also a fitter for one of the biggest NH dealers in the UK said he wouldn't have a NH, he'd have a Vicon

 I work for a large straw contractor and we ran several 6000 and 4000 welgers..... all i can say is i'm glad we moved to class.... the last season we ran 3 6000's, it was a miracle if all 3 were out the yard at once. the plus points were a good appetite especially in silage and high number of ram strokes per minute. bad points. you had to keep it heavily fed to make to fill the top of the bale which in turn made it hard to get a decent weight in the bale. the stress on a weak drive line due to this caused us alot of problems. firstly the pickup is very lightweight, we lost cam followers for a past time ( while being very careful not to run them low) pickup bands also very lightweight, the mid post on the pto's were forever breaking up. we tried everything to absorb some of the vibration but to little avail, i spent alot of time welding these back together. electrics were just an absolute nightmare. we ended up running 1 6000 and 1 4000 without electrics at all which actually improved them no end, just set the pressure on the valve when you start and enjoy a trouble free day. we baled 2 sets of needles that year, one set went when a peice of flint got stuck in the ram and obstructed the needles which broke the driveline and BANG, and one set where i drove under a branch and the knotter gearbox which has a small opening on top ate a small piece of twig ( and i mean a small twig) which got between the gears and threw the timing off, BANG. you generally aren't looking at just a set of needles either it generally causes some major destruction to the needle/knotter driveline.(over the years we had several needle sets lost mainly to foreign objects and driveline failure in five years of claas 2100's and 2200's just the odd bent needle.) we also had 2 flywheels come away, one while at full tilt which caused ( my best description is) one hell of a mess. general maintainance is rather excessive and often awkward. i invested alot of time every morning stripping, cleaning (especially the retaining cones, loosen and clean with a pick set) and resetting the knotters. the lads who didn't had trouble all day. i got very quick at this and often stripped them halfway through the day as well. she hardly missed a knot then. i've driven claas, vicon, nh and hesston as well and although all have their good and bad points the welger is definately the most high maintainance. give her alot of tlc and hopefully she'll see you through without much grief

oh dear!!!..you should have bought a mf/hesston....like young haighy`s...quality baler and driver young scooter..p.s...good luck..te.he.

a well at least wev gt a fregy on the fromt insetad of a hooking great deere haha it will be al r8

wont it

yer but the price of a heston 160 which you carnt find eny were we could have bort 3 welgars

 all the best with your fregy?...a...

nothing runs like a deere!!!!!

runs like a quere more like haha

hows your renualt going