V8940 - Variable Chamber Round Baler 

The McHale V8940 is a non-chopper variable chamber baler that is equipped with a high intake feed rotor to ensure even and efficient crop flow to the bale chamber. The McHale V8740 is driven by a primary drive system for optimum bale formation. Central grease blocks are fitted on the machine for greasing whilst oiling is controlled through the continuous oiling system. Net and bale density can be adjusted from the cab through the Expert Plus control console. 

Key features include:

• New Pick-Up with a choice of am track or cam-less to choose from
• Larger Lateral Feed Augers
• Larger Rotor
• Adaptive Intake 
• Selectable Knives
• Drop Floor Unblocking System 
• 3 Heavy Duty Endless Belts
• High Performance Netting System
• Automatic Greasing (optional)
• New Pannels
• Exper Plus Control Console 
• Bale Kicker 

McHale have developed various types of pick-ups. After extensive testing, McHale decided it would offer customers the choice of 2 pick up options depending on their conditions:

Cam Pick-Up

• As standard, a cam operated 2.1m high-intake galvanised pick-up ensures excellent ground cleaning in all types of crop. The cam pick-up runs on a cam track that is fitted with double raced cam bearings to stand up to the most testing of conditions.
• All pick-ups across the McHale variable chamber baler range are fitted with 5 tine bars for excellent delivery of crop to the bale chamber. The 2.1 metre galvanised pick-up will lift even the shortest of crop. A side inspection port allows the operator to quickly check and change the cam bearings.

Camless Pick-Up - Optional indent order only

• A 2.1m camless pick-up is available as an option on all machines in the variable chamber baler range. Six tine bars are fitted to all McHale camless pick-ups to provide excellent ground cleaning and fast delivery of crop to the chamber. The new camless pick-up has been designed for increased output, with that in mind the cam-track free pick-up is more reliable, consists of less moving parts and is maintenance free.

All McHale pick-ups come with a number of standard features that include:

Heavy Duty Pick-up

All McHale pick-ups feature heavy-duty tine bar supports to ensure long service life. A vital part of the pick-up is the tine, McHale have developed a pick-up tine designed to lift even the shortest of crop.

Efficient Crop Flow Delivery

The specially designed McHale pick-up is positioned close to the rotor to improve delivery of the crop through the rotor to the bale chamber. Large diameter lateral feed augers help direct crop to the bale chamber ensuring a consistent and even crop flow for producing high density bales.

Adaptive Intake 

Over the course of a baling season, machines have to work with different volumes of crop. McHale have designed an adaptive intake which allows the intake area to automatically adjust for light and heavy crops. This avoids peak loads and results in higher daily throughput regardless of working conditions.

Non Chopper Twin Finger Rotor

All balers in the variable chamber baler range are fitted with the McHale Drop Floor Unblocking System, a feature which operators have come to love for it’s simplicity of use and effective unblocking cycle. As baling conditions are not always ideal, uneven swaths can occur which can lead to blockages. The McHale variable chamber baler range is fitted with a drop floor unblocking system, which means blockages can be fed through in three simple steps.

The V8940 can produce bales from 0.60m to 1.90m

A heavy-duty drive system powers belt and bale rotation on all machines in the variable chamber baler range.

On all McHale V8940 balers, a Double Drive System is fitted to ensure belt rotation and bale formation.

All V8 variable chamber balers are equipped with 3 heavy-duty endless belts as standard. These strong belts exert a high pressure on the bale in order to form a dense bale in the chamber.

These belts are manufactured to the highest of standards using layers of synthetic and rubber material to form a durable endless belt with no joins.

In more difficult conditions, such as wet heavy grass, if the primary drive slips slightly, the double drive will engage in order to aid belt and material rotation in the chamber.

This double drive helps bale formation as a constant pressure is kept on the chamber belts which results in the production of a solid and uniform bale even when dealing with a wet and heavy crop.

The McHale variable chamber baler range of balers are all fitted with a continuous oiling system. Once the PTO is engaged, the continuous oiling system constantly lubricates the chains to ensure a long lifetime.

The continuous oiling system on the baler is driven off the gearbox and delivers oil to the following chains:

• Chamber Drive -Side Chains
• Rotor – Drive Chain
• Pick-Up – Drive Chains
• Pick-Up – Cam Track
• Pick-Up – Drive Gears

he McHale V8940 and V8950 is fitted with an Expert Plus control console, which has a large graphic display. The Expert Plus console, also gives the operator the choice of selecting a soft or hard bale core, depending on the customers feed out requirements. The control console can also store ten bale count totals so the operator can record ten different counts that may be associated with different fields or different customers.

From the control console in the tractor cab the operator can adjust the following;

• Core Size & Bale Size
• Core Density & Bale Density
• Revolutions of Net Being Applied

The McHale Expert Plus Control Console also features: