Lining ourselves up for new wood plunger slides,
bearings, bushings and u-joints on the NH68. More
daylight each day and looking forward to getting
this baler back together and running again!
We kept the baler throttled back a bit last year
during our hay making sea trials, but will turn it
up a bit with the refresh this year.
Last year I probably broke 3 shear bolts at the
flywheel. I chalked it up to sending to large a
wad of hay into the bale chamber and between the
knife gap and the dullness of the knife, the
plunger knife probably couldn't cut through the
wad of hay and sheared the flywheel shear bolt. I
now understand the concept of how the flywheel
moving at full speed helps prevent shearing the
flywheel shear bolt - so hopefully with the
refresh of the plunger stem to stern, I can kick-
up the rpms.
The other thing that we encountered with the NH68
was if the windrow was to large or there was just
a large pile of hay in front of the pick-up,
sometimes the pick-up would stall. Not sure yet
if I need to adjust the tightness of the pick-up
drive slip clutch - yet.
When you folks are running your NH or other brand
balers, do you have any trouble stalling the pick-
up in a heavy windrow?
Mostly on the New Holland balers I read - they
like a lot of hay, large windrows. Question is -
if the plunger and knife are in good order, are
you shearing flywheel bolts when you feed to much
hay into the baler?
I'd like to get 12 strokes per bale if possible,
but I've read of some balers making a bale on as
few as 3 flakes!
Question is - anyone just flooding their baler
with hay - like a bull dozer, plowing through
thicker areas of windrows, without letting the
feeders get the hay in to the bale chamber and off
the pick-up and hay piling up in front of the
baler like dirt in front of a bull dozer blade -
no slow down, jam the baler with hay until the
windrow thins in a few yards ahead and living with
a few 3 or 6 flake bales AND - NOT stalling the
pick-up or shearing the flywheel bolt?
Ready for Spring!
Thanks!
Bill
bearings, bushings and u-joints on the NH68. More
daylight each day and looking forward to getting
this baler back together and running again!
We kept the baler throttled back a bit last year
during our hay making sea trials, but will turn it
up a bit with the refresh this year.
Last year I probably broke 3 shear bolts at the
flywheel. I chalked it up to sending to large a
wad of hay into the bale chamber and between the
knife gap and the dullness of the knife, the
plunger knife probably couldn't cut through the
wad of hay and sheared the flywheel shear bolt. I
now understand the concept of how the flywheel
moving at full speed helps prevent shearing the
flywheel shear bolt - so hopefully with the
refresh of the plunger stem to stern, I can kick-
up the rpms.
The other thing that we encountered with the NH68
was if the windrow was to large or there was just
a large pile of hay in front of the pick-up,
sometimes the pick-up would stall. Not sure yet
if I need to adjust the tightness of the pick-up
drive slip clutch - yet.
When you folks are running your NH or other brand
balers, do you have any trouble stalling the pick-
up in a heavy windrow?
Mostly on the New Holland balers I read - they
like a lot of hay, large windrows. Question is -
if the plunger and knife are in good order, are
you shearing flywheel bolts when you feed to much
hay into the baler?
I'd like to get 12 strokes per bale if possible,
but I've read of some balers making a bale on as
few as 3 flakes!
Question is - anyone just flooding their baler
with hay - like a bull dozer, plowing through
thicker areas of windrows, without letting the
feeders get the hay in to the bale chamber and off
the pick-up and hay piling up in front of the
baler like dirt in front of a bull dozer blade -
no slow down, jam the baler with hay until the
windrow thins in a few yards ahead and living with
a few 3 or 6 flake bales AND - NOT stalling the
pick-up or shearing the flywheel bolt?
Ready for Spring!
Thanks!
Bill