Driving impression: Massey Ferguson 2190 big baler For the past 25+ years, the US-built Hesston big baler has been the machine against which all others in its 4ft x 4ft bale profile class have been judged. Today its latest incarnation has been subjected to a cosmetic facelift and upgrade to specification detail, but most of the design fundamentals remain unchanged. Meet the MF2190 model, complete with its fancy new curves
‘Never change a winning formula’ would seem to represent an eminently sensible credo for sport, business, life in general – and, for that matter, the design of farm machinery, too.
This was clearly the policy adopted by Massey Ferguson when updating its 190 big baler to the new 2190 model, as little has changed other than the replacement of dated square-lined 190 tinwork with much more modern looking and aesthetically pleasing curved 2190 panels.
Indeed, such has been the long-standing and universal success of the 190 and its Hesston ancestry that it would have taken a staggeringly brave designer to suggest anything more radical and dramatic.
OK, so we’re possibly being more than a touch unfair here, because that newly streamlined red profile does conceal a number of significant upgrades. It’s more that current operators will be relieved to learn that the core pre-pack chamber and double-knotter philosophy is left alone and stays much in evidence.
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