Anonymous-0
Well-known Member
Hi,
Over the winter I bought an old 430 IH baler and tried to use it for the first time this evening.
Now before I get too far, I was performing a test baling on my field that I had cut yesterday. Unfortunately, the weather did not cooperate, and now I have about a quarter acre of wet hay.
Anyways, I decided to try and bale it to make sure everything works. The first bale didn't work as I needed to re-thread the twine after removing all of the old hay from the chamber. However the remaining bales were moving through nicely and tying perfectly. The problem that I had though is that while the hay was very tight within the chute, the twine was not. It looked tight across the top of the bales when they were in it, but when I pulled the twine "up" on a tied bale in the chute, a lot of slack fed through.
My question is should the twine be that loose while the bale is in the chute? When I got back home and cleaned the chute out, the complete bale that came out seemed to fill up the remaining slack in the twine, so it seems to make sense that this is okay, but to me it just doesn't seem rit.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Over the winter I bought an old 430 IH baler and tried to use it for the first time this evening.
Now before I get too far, I was performing a test baling on my field that I had cut yesterday. Unfortunately, the weather did not cooperate, and now I have about a quarter acre of wet hay.
Anyways, I decided to try and bale it to make sure everything works. The first bale didn't work as I needed to re-thread the twine after removing all of the old hay from the chamber. However the remaining bales were moving through nicely and tying perfectly. The problem that I had though is that while the hay was very tight within the chute, the twine was not. It looked tight across the top of the bales when they were in it, but when I pulled the twine "up" on a tied bale in the chute, a lot of slack fed through.
My question is should the twine be that loose while the bale is in the chute? When I got back home and cleaned the chute out, the complete bale that came out seemed to fill up the remaining slack in the twine, so it seems to make sense that this is okay, but to me it just doesn't seem rit.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.