2023 New Holland RF Fixed Chamber Round Baler RF450 Utility

2023 New Holland RF Fixed Chamber Round Baler RF450 Utility

New RF Series fixed-chamber balers are simple, tough, affordable and easy to use, ensuring you can create quality bales in a wide range of conditions. These new balers are the perfect choice for smaller livestock farms, sundowners, and rural lifestylers, and a great alternative to a more premium variable-chamber silage machine.

Choose from two Utility models—the 4’x4’ RF440 or 4’x5’ RF450—each featuring a 2.0-meter pickup. Or, for even more capacity and high-moisture baling ability, choose the RF450 SuperFeed™ baler, which features a wider 2.25-meter pickup, an undershot rotor feeder and seven bale chamber rolls.

RF Utility hay balers were purposely developed for smaller, lower horsepower tractors, with minimal hydraulic flow capabilities. Only two hydraulic remotes are required--one for the pickup and one for the tailgate.

Features may include:

The pickup is key to baler performance. RF Utility balers feature a 2.0-meter pickup, while the RF450 SuperFeed™ pickup is 2.25 meters wide. These extra-wide pickups are ideal for consuming large windrows from high-yielding crops.

Four tine bars with closely spaced tines across the full width of the pickup ensure a clean sweep and even feeding of the swath into the bale chamber. Two stub augers create well-packed bale edges.

The simple, proven windguard feeder helps to both flatten and flow the swath as it enters the bale chamber. Select from two operational modes – floating or fixed – to optimize ground speed.

The RF450 SuperFeed baler features a shearbolt-protected rotor feeder with tines mounted in a spiral pattern to actively feed material into the bale chamber.

The bale chamber feed opening is the full bale width, with a generous clearance between the front of the bale chamber and floor roll to allow for large swaths.

Pneumatic rubber pickup wheels provide excellent ground following for clean crop gathering.

The tine bars are mounted in robust bushings and are designed to have a long service life with no need for maintenance. When the bushings are worn, you can quickly and easily replace them, reducing costs and downtime.

The chain and slat system quickly tumbles crop material to start the baling process. As the bale forms, the chains and slats shape the bale, increasing pressure on incoming material to form a lower density core, ideal for feeding and bedding, while applying maximum density on the outside third of the bale which contains the most hay, forming a dense water repelling shell.

As material enters the bale chamber, it is forced to tumble and start to roll by the combined action of the ribbed floor rolls and the revolving slats. Bales form consistently, even when the swath is uneven or wet, sticky or both.

A key design feature of the RF Utility balers is the close spacing between each slat. More slats ensure efficient compression of incoming material throughout the formation of the bale for consistent density.

A simple, mechanical bale density system provides three settings. Make changes using the lever on the front of the baler.

• Green setting for a less dense bale

• Yellow setting for an intermediate bale density