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Bret4207 · Jul 23, 2017

Finally, FINALLY!, got the gear box off the 488 haybine. Had to torch off the bearing from up under the machine that had probably been there since I was in high school. Rust has got to be the very best form of loctite ever made! Only burnt myself twice and the small fire I started got put out before it did any damage. All this to replace a single leaking seal and a belt! I've already found one roll bearing is totally shot and need replacement and that one chain idler is pretty iffy.

I'd have been better off selling this as a parts machine, but I'm too stubborn to do that! :lol:

Charlie M · Jul 23, 2017

If you have good rollers then its probably worth the effort. I had a 479 that kept going through the outside bearings and finally junked it.

Brendon Warren · Jul 23, 2017

I had to put a bearing in mine this spring.

Bret4207 · Jul 23, 2017

I haven't even got into the gearbox proper yet, but it feels like it's going to need a bearing or 2. Of course, we're supposed to get rain for the next 5 days, so maybe I'll get a chance to tear into it.

To be honest, that Hesston makes the old beat up 488 look like the poor cousin......

Brendon Warren · Jul 23, 2017

The hesston is allot easier to work on. I
got my dad's 1091 out of the brush this
spring. That gives two hesstons and two new
Hollands ready to go. Now I just need the
weather. I did manage to get 1700 bales in
this week.

Bret4207 · Jul 24, 2017

I rolled up a dozen day before yesterday, but I had wet tires the whole time. Weather has to break soon or we're in more trouble than last year!

Bill VA · Jul 24, 2017

Didn't you buy a Hesston 1120 over the winter? Just curious if you did - have you got it going?

I really LIKE the New Holland 472 and 488 haybines, but dread having to work on one after rebuilding the half-swaybar drove on my Hesston
1110. IMHO, just about everything on that machine is easy to service/repair. Whoever the engineer was on the Hesston 1110 and 1120, they
definitely had their head screwed on straight with that design.

Good luck with the 488.

Bill

Bret4207 · Jul 25, 2017

Yeah Bill I did and it's working fine. But the 488 is the backup and if I don't get it fixed, sooner or later I'm gonna need it. Owing both the 488 and 472, I agree they are nice when working right. But the Hesston is just built stouter and, IMO, with more common sense by far than the NH. I suppose it's a "Ginger or Mary Ann?" type of thing.

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