Jul 22, 2026 · 13 min · 8 segments
In this episode of Leap Forward with Riesterer & Schnell, host Todd Vogel sits down with Regional Sales Manager Marty Wilfert to take a closer look at the all-new John Deere V452M Round Baler. They…
this is a V452M, and it's going to be really a further dive for us into the high-density baler market.
This M is going to get us into, you know, a baler that's just a little more affordable for guys that aren't doing, you know, custom baling or thousands and thousands of bales a year or so.
We've got, you know, moving into continuous belts on it and really lets us get a high density bale and we can bale a lot wetter product, a lot higher moisture crop than we're able to.
We're able to put a little more pressure on the belts being we don't have the, you know, we've had really good success in our regular baler line with the spliced belts and, you know, they're serviceability-wise, they're very easy to change, but there are some limitations to that as far as how much pressure we can put on those.
So we actually, you know, are able to, you know, through time, if we would need to down the road with one of these balers, able to splice a couple of the belts on them, you know, to keep going and not have to take all the time to replace, you know, an endless belt.
can splice a belt and get going again but uh yeah that definitely lets us put a little more pressure on to get a tighter bail
where are some of those areas or you know in what practices are the customers looking for those higher density bales
it seems you know my experience so far has been a lot of silage crops we're looking to make a little little higher density bail but also We've got guys looking to make a denser straw bale or a denser dry hay bale, save space.
So if we can get more product condensed into the same size bale and have a heavier bale, sometimes we can get more bales or more weight on a truck.
Maybe the same number of bales that we can actually load on a semi truck to full weight and maximize how much hay we're moving in a load.
So basically it seems like, you know, some of those beef guys or dairy guys where they're wrapping bales and kind of looking for that balage and wrapping them.
We were able to wrap a little tighter in those silage bales and try to get, you know, displace more of the air and oxygen and just get a better, you know, better quality fermentation.
this is a V452M, and it's going to be really a further dive for us into the high-density baler market.
This M is going to get us into, you know, a baler that's just a little more affordable for guys that aren't doing, you know, custom baling or thousands and thousands of bales a year or so.
We've got, you know, moving into continuous belts on it and really lets us get a high density bale and we can bale a lot wetter product, a lot higher moisture crop than we're able to.
We're able to put a little more pressure on the belts being we don't have the, you know, we've had really good success in our regular baler line with the spliced belts and, you know, they're serviceability-wise, they're very easy to change, but there are some limitations to that as far as how much pressure we can put on those.
So we actually, you know, are able to, you know, through time, if we would need to down the road with one of these balers, able to splice a couple of the belts on them, you know, to keep going and not have to take all the time to replace, you know, an endless belt.
can splice a belt and get going again but uh yeah that definitely lets us put a little more pressure on to get a tighter bail
where are some of those areas or you know in what practices are the customers looking for those higher density bales
it seems you know my experience so far has been a lot of silage crops we're looking to make a little little higher density bail but also We've got guys looking to make a denser straw bale or a denser dry hay bale, save space.
So if we can get more product condensed into the same size bale and have a heavier bale, sometimes we can get more bales or more weight on a truck.
Maybe the same number of bales that we can actually load on a semi truck to full weight and maximize how much hay we're moving in a load.
So basically it seems like, you know, some of those beef guys or dairy guys where they're wrapping bales and kind of looking for that balage and wrapping them.
We were able to wrap a little tighter in those silage bales and try to get, you know, displace more of the air and oxygen and just get a better, you know, better quality fermentation.
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