Hi,
In a recent post you talked about your 68 making solid bricks of hay. We are going to plant a small field of alfalfa next year and I want to work on our 68 this winter to get it better at making sale-able hay bales. This baler almost never misses a tie and has been really reliable for us overall.
The bales now are frequently inconsistent in length, and the cut edge is ragged. I am sure that I need to replace the wood runners and work on getting the knife edge to be more precise to clean up the side of the bale. Quite a bit of wobble there. Also the ends are rounded, not brick square like I see on bales being sold at the auction.
Anything else you suggest to get the baler to produce higher quality bales? I did replace the small inner knurled spacer that the length sensing arm rides on but it did not seem to clean up the variable length problem much.
Any help or pointers would be appreciated.
John
In a recent post you talked about your 68 making solid bricks of hay. We are going to plant a small field of alfalfa next year and I want to work on our 68 this winter to get it better at making sale-able hay bales. This baler almost never misses a tie and has been really reliable for us overall.
The bales now are frequently inconsistent in length, and the cut edge is ragged. I am sure that I need to replace the wood runners and work on getting the knife edge to be more precise to clean up the side of the bale. Quite a bit of wobble there. Also the ends are rounded, not brick square like I see on bales being sold at the auction.
Anything else you suggest to get the baler to produce higher quality bales? I did replace the small inner knurled spacer that the length sensing arm rides on but it did not seem to clean up the variable length problem much.
Any help or pointers would be appreciated.
John
