Finished rebuilding the cutterbar on my Hesston 1110 haybine. Mostly finished that is.....
Need to run it some more and retorque the bolts again. Gave it a short trial run to see what I had and one of the hold downs (adjustable) was mashed on a sickle section and got pretty hot. I'd hate to set one of my DRY fields on fire!
The apron on this mower is pretty straight, but has a few minor waves in it - which make it a bit more difficult to get the sections evenly onto the ledgers. All in all though, the new guards and their ledger surfaces, once all was tightened down ( prior to adjusting the adjustable hold downs) mated up pretty good with the bottom of the knife sections. Only needed to adjust one or two hold downs to get a section onto the ledger surface.
Question - do you put your hold downs positioned on an individual guard, or do you bolt it onto two guards - centering the hold down between two guards?
Shoups sent me plow bolts with my guards. Carriage bolts fit much better. Had about half of the carriage bolts I needed to do the job, will probably swap out the plow bolts with carriage bolts - later!
The guard next to the knife head drive has a deeper trough vs the other guards. Hesston has special their P/N for it and Shoups has theirs. This is a guard one would typically use at a cutterbar splice - presumably to deal with a larger size bolt head under the knife, so this guard is cut deeper than the others. The guard I took off was a standard guard, just like the others. This special guard has a wide vertical gap in it. I don't like that as it looks like a great place for grass to plug. I may order the $20 something Hesston guard to see if it fits up better.
The spring that holds tension on the reel pulley was broken. Noticed it and rigged a substitute. Don't have a pic - yet, but what I got/did looks pretty good IMHO.
Sickle drive is still noisy. I'll be doing a rebuild on that over the winter. The good news is - the ball joint that connects the sickle drive and knife assy is in excellent condition, an expensive replacement part.
Got a field that needs clipping. There's enough leaf to warrant IMHO making hay off the cutting. Hoped to cut and bale it this weekend, but between the day job, other distractions, Murphy's law, didn't get done with enough time to cut and bale and get dry hay. It will be at another two weeks or more before I try again.
Bill
Need to run it some more and retorque the bolts again. Gave it a short trial run to see what I had and one of the hold downs (adjustable) was mashed on a sickle section and got pretty hot. I'd hate to set one of my DRY fields on fire!
The apron on this mower is pretty straight, but has a few minor waves in it - which make it a bit more difficult to get the sections evenly onto the ledgers. All in all though, the new guards and their ledger surfaces, once all was tightened down ( prior to adjusting the adjustable hold downs) mated up pretty good with the bottom of the knife sections. Only needed to adjust one or two hold downs to get a section onto the ledger surface.
Question - do you put your hold downs positioned on an individual guard, or do you bolt it onto two guards - centering the hold down between two guards?
Shoups sent me plow bolts with my guards. Carriage bolts fit much better. Had about half of the carriage bolts I needed to do the job, will probably swap out the plow bolts with carriage bolts - later!
The guard next to the knife head drive has a deeper trough vs the other guards. Hesston has special their P/N for it and Shoups has theirs. This is a guard one would typically use at a cutterbar splice - presumably to deal with a larger size bolt head under the knife, so this guard is cut deeper than the others. The guard I took off was a standard guard, just like the others. This special guard has a wide vertical gap in it. I don't like that as it looks like a great place for grass to plug. I may order the $20 something Hesston guard to see if it fits up better.
The spring that holds tension on the reel pulley was broken. Noticed it and rigged a substitute. Don't have a pic - yet, but what I got/did looks pretty good IMHO.
Sickle drive is still noisy. I'll be doing a rebuild on that over the winter. The good news is - the ball joint that connects the sickle drive and knife assy is in excellent condition, an expensive replacement part.
Got a field that needs clipping. There's enough leaf to warrant IMHO making hay off the cutting. Hoped to cut and bale it this weekend, but between the day job, other distractions, Murphy's law, didn't get done with enough time to cut and bale and get dry hay. It will be at another two weeks or more before I try again.
Bill
