We purchased an older hay baler from Hodges Farm Equipment after being guaranteed that it was field ready. He told us that several bales had been run through the machine and so we drove over a hundred miles (one way) to pick it up. After hooking the baler up to the tractor and heading to the field we were more than dissapointed that the baler would not even knot. As we are beginners at the whole hay thing we took it to someone we knew that worked on farm equipment and it cost us over 1,400.00 for parts and labor. That is pretty substantial on a baler we paid 1,850.00 for.
The man that worked on the baler said all we bought was a paint job and decals. That baler cost us 3,200.00, and for that price we could have bought a considerably newer and nicer one. If you plan on purchasing anything from Hodges Farm Equipment I highly suggest you drive, run, bale, cut, or whatever it does before you leave the premises as his paperwork does state you purchase 'as is'.
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