NH460 may have cut its last blade of hay

old · Jun 20, 2016

So I went out to mow some hay with the old 460. Made it one pass around and the rollers started to clog up and had lots of hay wound up on the upper roller. I stopped and cut the hay off and took back off again and it did it again. Then I cut that off and back up a little bit to make a turn and noticed the tension spring/cable for the roller was dragging the ground. Seems that the cable on the right side of the machine broke. I could not pull it back on place as it sits. I do not even know for sure how it should be routed even if I could get it back in place and hooked back up. Any body by chance have a picture of how the cable should be run??? There is a tube the spring seems to sit in but I have not been able to get the spring back into that either.
Thanks or any help you maybe able to give me

RacerX · Jun 21, 2016

My 467 was doing that when I first got it, I determined what was wrong was the upper roller wasn"t sitting all the way down. The right end was down on the stop, so I had good mesh on the rollers on that end, but the left end had about 1 1/2" gap between the rollers. It would not cut grass hay like that, kept wrapping the top roller.
I don"t know how the 460 tensions the upper roller, the 467 has torsion bars on it that get really stuck. My immediate solution was to remove the links between the torsion bars and the upper roller so it would sit down on the stops just from it"s own weight. It cut grass hay like that OK, and it quit wrapping the upper roller. Later on I added some stiff extension springs off a snowplow to tension the upper roller, since I couldn"t un-stick the torsion bars. It might not condition alfalfa correctly the way it is, but it works fine for the grass hay I cut.

NH460 may have cut its last blade of hay

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