More to that than just 'tine spaceing'.Those old balers are notorious for lopsided bales.The tines are probably worn off.They wont effective move hay if they are 'short'.Compare them with a new one.Ground speed is an issue.So is windrow size,The baler must be full to do good work.Light windrows are prone to bananaing.Play with the spaceing,see if different settings help.I once installed an extra tine in a 283 once,made a huge difference/improvement.Something else that helps,Count the strokes per bale,adjust ground speed to maintain that count.On the old 282 and 283,I would aim for 20 spb.down to 15 shift down,up to 25 shift up.Your counts will probably be different from mine.Keep rpm to pto or close to it.Slow rpm effects things too.
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