baler twine

Steven-Id

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Has anyone tried to use 6500 twine in a John Deere 224 baler. My neighbor uses it in his small square baler and says he would never go back to the 9600 twine. I just don't know if it would feed right and thought I would ask before I just went and bought some. Thanks in advance for any inputs.

Steven
 
We tried 7200 from 9000 this year, 7200 being thicker diameter and less ft on a spool. I assume 6500 is even thicker. We have our reasons for going to 7200 sisal, but I can't imagine going any thicker. If 9000 is working, I'd stick with it.
 

Never even heard of 6500. Is it for big balers or something?

I just got some 9600. Had been using 9200, but new supply is 9600. But- the 9600 test strength is something like 50lbs more than the 9200 and the balls of twine are taller than the old stuff, thicker twine too. I think it will work fine.
 

Not sure what big square balers use, round balers use the small 16,000 twine.
If your baling heavy small squares or using a bale thrower and having issues with twine breakage I can see changing to 7200, no one in my area carries 6500.
 
Your knotters will have trouble with that heavy twine. You can make them work with it by adjusting them to use it BUT then they would not tie lighter twine correctly. I see no reason to use that heavy of twine on small square bales. 9000 will easily hold all the force a normal bale needs to still weight 60-70 Lbs.

Also I would be worried about breaking and bending the parts in the knotter with the heavier twine. I can easily see the tucker fingers rods getting bent with that heavy twine if you tighten the bale restrictor's up very much more.


So why are you thinking of the 6500 twine???
 
I think you are confusing twine thickness and length in a package. It used to be 7200 or 9000 sisal for square balers. Now you can get poly in different lengths, but the knot strength is the number that indicates thickness. I use 9600-170. 9600 feet per ball, and 170 lb knot strength. I have used 9600-210 in the past, but it's more expensive, and overkill for most small bales. Sometimes the 210 knot strength comes in shorter lengths, so your 6500 twine is probably 6500-210. It will work fine, but so will 9600-210, or 9600-170. 6500-210 is about the same price as 9600-170, and you get 2/3 as much.
 
I am having a problem with the twine holder dropping the twine occasionally and the knotter not tying. It just needs some adjusting but the neighbor said he switched and wouldn't go back. So basically I was just checking to see if it would work and if it was feasible. If I need to go through the adjusting process if there was an advantage I would adjust accordingly.

Steven
 
6500 is for big square balers. Comes in 210,240, and 280 knot strength. Way too heavy for a 2 string baler. 210 might be okay but I wouldn't use it in anolder baler. Just my opinion.
 
6500/210 is for small square balers, but not much is sold. Big square balers use twine with knot strengths from 400 to 500 and ball size of 4000 ft.
 
(quoted from post at 11:31:28 08/20/17)
Not sure what big square balers use, round balers use the small 16,000 twine.
If your baling heavy small squares or using a bale thrower and having issues with twine breakage I can see changing to 7200, no one in my area carries 6500.

Around here we use 20,000 for rounds. Go through a lot of it!
 
Man, it's hard to keep up.

Used to be there was the same amount of twine in a package, about 38 lbs worth. As the twine got thicker, there was less length, and the number was the length in that package.

So now they are doing it different. Makes sense I suppose, as between sisal and plastic, and the 3 different types of balers (small, large, and round) there get to be quite a few different combinations, throw in the quality differences you can get with plastic.....
paul
 

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