[AT] Hay baling fun...

[Cecil Bearden]

No one around here to call until they get done with their own stuff.  
Sometimes would have to wait 2 weeks.
Cecil

On 7/18/2021 8:26 AM, Brian wrote:
> I used to enjoy cutting hay with my old Ih 230 swather.  No steering 
> wheel just sticks just like the one I drove new in the early 70's for 
> the neighbor.  Well Son says the crimper don't work like the new ones 
> and Baler man has to wait a extra day to bale so I parked it. Neighbor 
> kids use it now to cut 2 sprinkler corners in hay.  Cut some with our 
> 1086 pulling a Hesston 1014 until the auger twisted up like a tin can 
> from rust and age.  These aren't really antiques or are they.  Only 50 
> yr. old.  Because of this and the problems you describe We call a Guy 
> and say "Hay is ready".  There's still always plenty to do with the 
> corn and wheat.  Finished wheat harvest yesterday and since I'm 
> suppose to be retired I'm getting the Bike out.  Got a itch to ride to 
> Walden.
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> On 2021-07-18 06:44, Cecil Bearden wrote:
>> Long story.  My 648 New Holland round baler baled 47 bales and about
>> Noon, the knife would not cut wrap.  Baled another 3 bales after
>> installing new roll of wrap.  Climbed up on top of baler each time to
>> try to get knife to cut.  Called my buddy at Chickasha who is a baler
>> expert.  He had not worked on that one. Called Local New Holland
>> dealer and baler guy said he had not worked on that model and it was
>> to old.  Only a 2000 model.    I opened up the side covers and looked
>> at main drive chains and they were coming apart and cutting a slot in
>> main frame!  and had cut grooves in the teeth of the Drive sprocket.
>> It was fine when I started..
>>
>> Wife asked how much is a new one??  Just take it out of your 401k
>> before the gov't gets it all.  I made a few calls and the local NH
>> dealer did not have anything in a 4ft wide baler.   I have 12 rolls of
>> Net for 4 ft wide.  So the Vermeer dealer delivered a new Vermeer 504R
>> Premium at 3:30pm.  I finished at 11:30 that night.  I still like my
>> old one better.  This one has a touch screen that drives me nuts in
>> the cab at night.  It is so bright on the lowest setting it is like a
>> house of mirrors in the cab.  No night setting.  It seems to run
>> slower on the belts than the old NH, so it takes longer to wrap but
>> bales may be a bit denser.  This one has  a hyd pickup that is a pain
>> in the butt since I have to disconnect my loader to connect the
>> pickup.  And with a loader on I have to drive with the loader at 7ft
>> above the ground to see the windrow.  No fault of the baler.  I got
>> 128 bales baled..   The monitor tells me how many bales per hour, how
>> many minutes per bale, and the moisture.  15 % on one field and wet on
>> the other.  Really tells me a lot!!   I really want my old one running
>> again..    I bought my old one in 2005 for $10K  I baled for 12 years
>> and spent about $3500 for bearings gears and belts.  It needs about
>> $1500 in chains and sprockets now, and the knife problem is something
>> on an adjustment.  The knife drops by gravity, and I have looked at it
>> so many times trying to figure out what raises it when the chamber
>> opens I finally gave up.  I have not found a dealer who can tell me
>> yet.   The new one is not better by the $26500 difference in price.  I
>> had 30 acres of hay down that resulted in 121 bales at $50/bale, so I
>> had to do something.  Forecast was for rain that evening and it only
>> sprinkled for 5 minutes.  I had another baler in a shed that I bought
>> but it needed some parts and I did not  know anything about it.
>>
>> I started laying hay down again yesterday and after 3 acres the
>> swather pitman oscillator bearing went out and during removing the
>> collar the shaft broke on the oscillator.  I have another on a salvage
>> swather but the bearings seem to be frozen on the spindle.  Then we
>> had a cold front come through and an inch of rain.  Heat and humidity
>> and more rain today......
>> Cecil
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