- My name's Danny Wann,
we're at Wann Ranch,
just outside of Poteau, Oklahoma.
We run about 250 head of
registered Angus cattle,
there's a few commercials in there.
We do some embryo transfer.
It's definitely a family operation.
We all own cattle and we
all know which one's whose,
and everybody gets a little
check at the end of the year,
and of course, Mom,
she gets a check for sure on her cattle,
but you gotta keep Mom happy.
We use about 1500 round bales a year,
and between what we own and
lease, we're at 1200 acres.
A typical summer day around here,
it'll take two days to cure.
We try to bale at somewhere
in the 15% moisture range.
The last baler basically,
it was supposed to be
that company's cat's meow.
It seemed to not have the
longevity in it that I thought.
We was constantly replacing pickup teeth,
there was constantly
some little nagging issue
we needed to fix or replace,
that I didn't think should be there.
I heard about the 604R Signature
by way of my local Vermeer dealer,
and I was in between trading balers,
or fixing the old baler I had,
and then just out of the blue he called
and kind of offered this to me,
and I bought it because I
felt like, by looking at it,
Vermeer was trying to
build this baler to last,
and I bale about 4,000 bales a year,
and I think as much money
you give for a baler,
if they need to bale 4,000 bales a year,
even if it's for 10 years,
they need to get it done.
The day I ran it, we absolutely
had no issues at all.
It fired up and I baled like some guy.
It just baled all day long.
I like the camless pickup, the quietness,
there's fewer moving parts to go wrong.
And anytime you can simplify
something and make it better,
that's common sense.
I like the big chains, big
sprockets, big bearings.
I mean, Greg told me I may
never replace a tooth on that,
and if that's the case,
I'll be a happy camper.
The monitor takes some getting used to.
I'm not a computer wizard by any means,
but they're able to
identify certain fields,
and how many bales that field makes,
and at the end of the year
I can put this on an Excel spreadsheet
and I've got all that data.
Actually, there's times I
could've used that in the past,
we've always kept a running notebook.
The moisture monitor is
built into this baler;
we had it put on our other baler.
Yeah, the density is pretty
important, and I like the fact
we can set that in the
cab, the pressure on that,
because the other one I had to get out,
go try a couple of bales,
and get out, and go try (laughs).
I like that, and I like setting the wraps,
and I like the accessibility
from inside the cab on that.
I went with it because I felt
like it was built heavy-duty.
I was tired of the excuse
of other companies saying,
"Well you bale 4,000 a year."
I'm like, "So? It's what it's made to do.
Or supposed to be made to do."
I'm Danny Wann, and I
switched the the Vermeer 604R
because I believe the
engineers at Vermeer and myself
think this baler's gonna be built to last.
(gentle music)
