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Check your equipment slip clutches!!

Tx Jim

Tx Jim

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Location
Coyote Flats, Texas
I've neglected checking slip clutch on my '05 JD rd baler. I know better but it's easy to overlook. Yesterday while baling hit a rough spot in the waterway,long drive chain broke,fell down and locked up baler. Long story-short story my 120 pto HP tractor twisted off the input shaft on baler gearbox. OUCH high $$$$$$$$. Stupid is as stupid does!!! :oops: :oops: :oops:
 
I read one here a few years about taking clutches loose to be sure they work. Last year I took the ones loose on my 2615L bushhog and apparently I did not get one of the wing clutches tightened enough. I was shelling corn and dad was bushhogging stalks and I seen smoke...the clutch was slipping and got real hot. We got the fire out but sure was scary for a minute.
 
Unfortunately many of us are in the same boat. We think " I oughta check that ???????????". We move on with what we are doing and later say " I was gonna check that ????????". Oh it'll be alright, I'll get it later. Sometimes later is never, or a major break down. Just another installment on your million dollar education. Hope everything works out for your repair. gobble
 
If you had one of the Hesston balers (Challenger, Hesston, Agco, New Idea, older CaseIH, the clutch would automatically disengage when it slipped.
 
(quoted from post at 14:44:55 10/14/16) If you had one of the Hesston balers (Challenger, Hesston, Agco, New Idea, older CaseIH, the clutch would automatically disengage when it slipped.
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OK BUT my SC didn't slip so AGCO automation wouldn't have saved my input shaft from twisting off.
 

My baler now has a used gearbox installed and slip clutch has been disassembled,cleaned and 2 new floating disks installed. Both old floating fiber disks were stuck to metal disk.

I'm ready to bale hay again
 
Did the same thing with a JD 2 string baler. Wasn't the gear box, but the knotter brake. Hadn't used that baler in 2 years and always parked inside. Caught it before it did any major damage.
 
I think most owners' manuals say to loosen the plates and slip them briefly after setting over winter to clear the rust off the plates.Then retorque the bolts.Mark
 
Not a good one, but another reason to have good working slip clutches. The husking roll slip clutch in a one row New Idea corn picker kept my hand/arm from being chewed/ripped off, and who knows how much more damage could have been done?
 
When I first got my NH 316 baler, there was tremendous drive line shock with every stroke of the plunger in turns. I then read on this site a post stating the importance of the slip clutch being free. I checked mine, and sure enough, it was frozen up. I freed it and adjusted it - drive line issues gone
Pete
 
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