Hey JD Seller

Donald Lehman

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Didn't want to hijack Hay Hearts post.

So what you are saying is that my Oliver 60 is a bit light for a JD336 baler??????


Come to think of it, every plunger stroke did rock the tractor back and forth about 2 feet. LOL!!!

It was one of those situations where we needed to bale the last 200 bales before it rained and the only blinkin' tractor still running was the 60. It WAS flat ground and we didn't try to pull a wagon either. Had to load every one of those dawg-gone bales by hand, but we got em in before it rained.
 
Any port in a storm! My 1655 broke down while cutting the last 5 acres of 1st cut. I put a super 77 on the 1090 haybine and it finished the cut but didn't care too much for cutting uphill in that thick stuff!
 
Last year my brother finished up his baling with an 8N Ford pulling his JD 336 after his (turbo) IH 560 went down.As was said,any port in a storm!
BTW,I also have an Oliver 60,I have no doubt it could pull a baler if needed.....
 
Don a JD 336 or NH 276 would really keep you rocking on an Oliver 60. LOL

Just don't want some inexperienced guy hurt with too little of a tractor in the wrong place.
 
So what is wrong with my setup (and I agree there must be something not right). I use an 806 wheatland and I feel every plunger stroke, it even makes the engine smoke a bit each stroke.
I have assumed it is the plunger track or bearings needing work/replaced and plan to get to it this winter.
 
Any tractor will jump and surge on a baler.Enen a big one,you just dont feel as much.But then could be something there...How does it turn by hand? by tractor EMPTY?.I once had a NH 283 with a bent bale chamber.I paid good money for it, too!:( It really made a tractor snort.In fact it was so bad,it would stop as soon as the pto was disengaged,no 'coasting' at all.I fought that PoS till I forgot how a baler is supposed to work! It went to the scrapper.I smiled when the 'claw' got it!!!:
 
The scrapper is where mine should go too.... but for now its in my price range.
I picked it up free about 8 years ago, the guy who had it had let a bale freeze in it and then tried to use the PTO to push it out. The dealer mechanic told him there was more wrong with it than it was worth. I monkeyed with it and threw about 400 in parts at it and baled with it for a few years then could afford a few more parts. It has run about 20,000 bales since I got it running.
When I first got it I had to use a spud bar to get the flywheel to turn. Now it still has a hard spot, but I can turn it by hand easily when empty.
 

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