Baling question

Animal · Sep 11, 2011

I have an old 116 JD wire baler and a MF10 twine baler, they both do a real fine job as long as you are baling a sixty pound bale or heavier, but as you all know most of the customers that want small bales can not lift sixy pounds and would like fifty or less. I just think it is impossible to make any kind of decent bale with my 116 that light, but when I use the twine baler I can not get them uniform and tight, especially in light hay, then I get real long bales or bananna bales. Am I expecting too much out of the old MF baler or is it something I am doing? What is the lightest bale that you are baling successfully?

Tx Jim · Sep 11, 2011

My neighbor bales uniform 40# bales of grass hay with his NH and has no problems. Maybe you need to rake a larger windrow.

old · Sep 11, 2011

I use a NH 271 and bale squares at around 35lbs each and never have any problems. I do make pretty good size windrows and also weave back and forth some so as to keep the feeder full.

paul · Sep 11, 2011

I bale with a NH 270, and like the others, takes real poor grass otherwise it's pretty easy keep a 40 lb bale looking good. I like a very full windrow, pretty much at the point of having to ride the clutch, in 2nd or 1st.

--->Paul

hayray · Sep 11, 2011

Hey Animal, was wondering where you have been? If the hay is around 16% or more then I have no problem baling a 40 lb. uniform bale. When the hay gets real dry I have to tighten up the density control and side doors on the chamber alot more and as I am baling mostly as fast as I can go then the bales are not necessarilly uniform per se but good enough. For length issues check that the gauge wheel that the knotter trip arm rides on is not slipping - most makes and models are two split hubs that a nut and bolt tighten up. Going slow and adding more plunger strokes per bale almost always adds to uniform consistency.

jackinok · Sep 12, 2011

bannana bales are very often caused by too light of a windrow,especially in light hay.couple of ways to overcome this,one is to make windrows heavier,two is sort of weave back and forth down windrow leting pickup feed all the way across.some balers are worse than others about this.

farmer steve · Sep 14, 2011

I have a MF10 baler also. To adjust your bale size/weight you need to move the stop on the knotter. This is that L shapped metal piece connected to the star wheel bale indicator on the top of the chamber. The manual does a good job of showing how to do this. I have mine adjusted for 35 to 40 lbs. bales in grass alfalfa mix. May have to adjust your chamber pressure to compensate for the long string and short bale length.

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