30 years BiG Impact

Almost as tight as a diamond! Driving a BiG Pack, the farmer can expect to receive premium-quality, extremely tight bales, resulting in top-quality forage, healthy animals and good milk. This density also helps you to save costs: high-density bales significantly reduce the transport and storage costs. This advantage is particularly important in regions where bales are moved over long distances.

Extended bale channel: Further improvement of bale shape and density
The new BiG Pack machines are equipped with a 20% longer bale channel and have top baling flaps over the entire channel width. These are perfect conditions for even better bale shape and density, beneficial particularly with dry crops and high throughputs. Even with changing moisture conditions and different crops, all the bales will be of the same shape and have perfectly defined sharp edges. This is ensured by the on-board hydraulic system with the automatic baling pressure regulation. The BiGPack is equipped with a divisible residual bale ejector which provides additional convenience and saves time when changing fields. It can be used to either eject the last bale, or empty out the channel completely.

Haste makes waste? Not when it comes to the rock-hard premium-quality square bales of the BiG Pack. Their high speed on the field saves you not only time but money as well. Particularly the HighSpeed models of the BiG Pack are designed for fast working on the field. Working at full speed, independently of the working conditions on site, while producing bales of constantly high quality – this is a unique KRONE feature!

Active Pick-up
KRONE “Active Pick-up” – a clever combination of the tried-and-trusted camless EasyFlow Pick-up plus an additional powered feed roller. The special feature of this pick-up is the design of the galvanised scrapers. They are shaped to ensure a continuous crop flow at tine immersion. 30% higher rotational speed increases the advancing speed by 2 km/h, with the other conditions remaining unchanged. Speed starts already at pick-up!

VF system: Optimum efficiency
With the Variable Fill System (VFS), you work with maximum efficiency no matter what crops type, swath size and swath shape. In particular with short material, the VFS ensures optimum mixture and pre-compaction compression for optimum filling of the bale channel. This in turn provides maximum throughput with optimum utilisation of the machine. Even drivers who are new to the job can work very efficiently with the VFS since they set the desired pre-compaction compression at the operating terminal and can constantly monitor the machine efficiency. All components of the VFS are extremely robust, ensuring a long service life.

The next big thing. Innovation with the customers, for the customers. From the start, KRONE’s further development of the BiG Pack has been guided by the customers’ requirements. To this day, these focus in particular on basic needs such as time and cost savings, e.g. in connection with transport and storage costs. The development of the BiG Pack High Density Press (HDP) for rock-hard bales was an important milestone in this respect.

High Density Press: The superlative in terms of efficiency
When it comes to large square balers, the BiG Pack 1290 HDP sets standards. Accounting for by far the largest proportion of the large square balers built each year, this model produces extremely compacted bales in 120 x 90 cm format. With a bale weight of 500 kg for straw bales, the BiG Pack HDP yields an approx. 25% greater bale density compared to conventional large square balers, resulting in a corresponding reduction of follow-up costs. These fall in particular to savings in respect of  labour and logistics costs resulting from enhanced efficiency in straw collection, unloading of the transport vehicles and utilisation of storage capacities. This more than compensates for the additional costs of components adapted to the high performance and susceptibility to wear of the machine. In case of the BiG Pack HDP, competence pays off!

V-knotter: Guarantee for stability and safety
With the new V-knotter, KRONE launched a game changer: This double knotter combines the high knot stability of the loop knot of the single knotter from McCormick with the significantly higher operational reliability of the double knotter from Deering. In particular with the high baling density of the BiG Pack large square balers, these benefits really make a difference. This is attributable to a leading-edge innovation: The V-knotter pulls the twine ends remaining in case of the conventional double knotter from Deering into the second knot in the shape of a loop, which significantly improves the stability. By means of the V-shaped billhook with the central opening, the loop can be pulled off easily. In addition to increasing the stability, the V-knotter also avoids environmental pollution from twine ends on the field.