[AT] baler trouble and balers for sale

Cecil Bearden crbearden at copper.net
Fri Jun 10 21:14:16 PDT 2016


Just looking I would go with the 276. The 310 looks like a real bear to 
unplug with that low clearance between the pickup and the top of the 
feeder.  Perhaps the cover raises up....
Cecil in OKla



On 6/10/2016 9:07 PM, John Hall wrote:
> My ancient Super 66 New Holland baler is getting to be more trouble than
> its worth. Long story short, one side of the knotter is acting
> up--again. The top knot lets the other end of the string slip through. I
> changed and shimmed out the disc cleaner today as it had 3/16-1/4" of
> slop, this effectively changing the timing. Even flipped the gear over
> as it was pretty well worn. The knife arm has less than 3,000 bales on
> it. I may have replaced the bill hook on this side, as the chrome
> platting looks pretty fresh. I replaced the flat spring that hold
> tension on the 2 fingered piece that runs in the twine disc (is that
> called the twine finger?). Any way we have adjusted the heck out the
> baler by the book, nothing really seems to help. Its not the twine as it
> switched over to a new ball after the problem started. I kept adjusting
> things, the last was to adjust how close the needle was to the twine
> disc cleaner--it was hitting the old one.
>
> 2 weeks ago we baled 160 bales, it missed 3 bales--I can live with that
> on a 60 year old baler. Today it started out missing 1 out of 20, and
> then went to missing 1 out of 3. After changing parts and adjusting
> things I got it to bale about 10 in a row before it was too damp and we
> had to stop. Maybe its working OK now, maybe I just got lucky.
>
> By the way, the timing appears off on the other side, but it ain't
> missed but 1 or 2 bales  out of the last 2-3,000! And yes, I've tried to
> copy its settings, doesn't work either.
>
> We are baling fairly stemmy fescue that is exceptionally dry--the low
> humidity made it so the hay will crackle. I'm making a bale about every
> 17-18 plunger strokes. Using sisal twine--9,000.
>
>
> Take a look at these balers and tell me your opinion of such
> models--regardless of fixing mine, I need to begin plans for an upgrade.
>
> http://raleigh.craigslist.org/grd/5627641040.html
>
> http://raleigh.craigslist.org/grd/5581835426.html
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> John Hall
>
>
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