MegaWide™ high capacity and cutting (HC²) feeding system

The 0 Series Round Baler family welcomes the first, John Deere, North-American built precutter.

This feed system in front of these machines is the MegaWide HC2. The MegaWide Plus name is known as the industry-leading feed system since its introduction with the 7 Series Balers.

John Deere continues that legacy with the 0 Series. Proven designs of the MegaWide were maintained and improvements were made to key components to gain significant capacity.

The primary rotor is only available on the MegaWide™ HC²  and is located directly behind the MegaWide™ pickups.

This rotor grabs the crop and drags it over the knives to size the crop to a theoretical length size of 2.5 inches.

• For the 4 ft machines, there are 14 slots to receive the knives that are located on the floor of the feed system.
• The 5 ft machines have 20 knives and 20 slots.
  

Drop floor – if the baler exceeds capacity and plugs, the MegaWide™ HC² can lower the knife floor from the cab of the tractor to easily feed the plug into the chamber.

• Drop floor is an insurance policy to allow the operator to push the machine knowing that a plug can clear in 30 seconds, not 30 minutes.
• In factory-observed testing with the 2016 test fleet, 99 percent of the plugs were cleared from the cab.
• Floor is self-cleaning – when lowered to feed a plug, it allows chaff that has been built up around the knives to fall through into the windrow.
• This release of crop allows the feed system to stay cleaner
• Allows for easier engagement of the knives and servicing of the knives
• The floor is also responsible for engaging the knives
• Based on lack of success for re-engaging knives in competitive machines, John Deere made sure the MegaWide™ HC2 was built to meet the demands a Deere producer expects.
• Knife-engagement forces on the MegaWide™ HC2 are 10 times that of the New Holland™ Roll-Belt™ 460 CropCutter® Baler. It gives the producer the confidence that if the knives are engaged, they are all up and cutting.
• Once the knives are up, each knife has individual spring protection, limiting bent or broken knives.
• Hit a rock and the knife moves out of the way and automatically re-engages.

automatic electric-tie option

The automatic electric-tie option using BaleTrak™ Pro monitor allows for more productivity. The monitor sounds an alarm for near-full, full, and oversized bales.

Monitor beeps once to notify the operator to even-up the bale prior to reaching the desired size.

Monitor beeps twice when the bale reaches the desired size. (If the operator continues to feed hay into the baler, the monitor will sound continuously to warn of an oversized bale.

Bale shape bars are not available on the 440E or 450E Round Balers. The 440E and 450E Round Balers allow for adjustment of twine settings from the cab by using the BaleTrak™ Pro Monitor.