Vermeer Balers and Rakes in Buna, TX

A wheel rake and a rotary rake both turn cut hay into a windrow, but they work differently. A wheel rake uses tined wheels that turn as they touch the ground and roll hay into a row. A rotary rake uses tine arms on a spinning rotor, driven by the tractor's PTO, to sweep hay into a row. Both work well. Vermeer builds wheel rakes and rotary rakes, and Krone builds rotary rakes. Which one fits your place depends on your ground and how much hay you're putting up. Come by the Buna store to look at both styles.

A round baler rolls cut, dried hay into bales you can move and store outside. It works for pasture and hay meadows across Jasper County, from open ground to smaller cuttings near timber. A round baler pulls behind your tractor and turns a windrow into a tight bale. It's simple to run. You'll get the hang of it. A round baler handles every cutting through the summer, not just the first one. If you put up hay more than once a season, a round baler on your own place lets you bale each cutting on your own schedule.

Plan on having your baler and rake ready before first cutting. It's smart to look at equipment before the grass gets ahead of you. Shopping once hay is already down puts you in a hurry. That's no time to learn a new machine. Hay ground in Jasper County keeps growing through summer, so a baler and rake prove themselves on later cuttings too, not just the first one. A rake turns your cut hay into a windrow, and a round baler finishes the job. Come see the Vermeer and Krone lines at our Buna store while you've got time to compare.

Browse our implements on j5tractors.com. You can do that anytime, and it's a good place to start if you want to see what a round baler or a rake looks like. It's a good way to narrow down what you'd like to look at in person. The lot changes as units sell, so a listing you liked may be gone. Once you've got an idea, come by the Buna store to see it up close and ask how it works on your ground. Hay ground here varies from open pasture to meadows cut from timber, so seeing a machine in person still helps.

Pasture grass and the more open meadows you find in timber country both work for a round baler and a rake. The ground plays a part. Jasper County ground ranges from cleared pasture to acreage cut out of pine timber. What matters more than the type of ground is how even the cut is and how dry the hay gets before you rake it. A rake windrows hay the same way on flat pasture near Buna or a meadow cleared out of timber. A round baler then rolls that windrow into a bale you can move. It's the cutting and drying that change with the ground, not the equipment itself.