Posted by Paul on July 22, 2013 at 08:07:14 from (66.60.223.232):
In Reply to: Re: lite bales posted by wally b on July 21, 2013 at 22:14:03:
Depending on the baler, you should be pushing out a bale with 10-14 flakes in it, or plunger strokes.
You must be getting 30 or so?
Myself, I run 3/4 throttle, and as fast a gear as the baler pickup will eat. Always get better bales with an almost too full throat than too empty.
That is how dad did it, and I was the kid on the hay rack stacking. Was a real workout keeping on your feet on some of those fields, and in light straw he would shake bales off the rack sometimes, but keeping the baler 'full' was the priority....
I would think most of the time I would be 3/4 throttle and in second gear with your setup. Perhaps 1/4 of the time I would be in 3rd gear, and when I really raked a full windrow a little dampish I'd begrudgingly drop to first gear and open up the throttle.
That is what works for me. I have poor luck with full throttle and light windrows, feels like parts are going to fly off the baler. I have too much work to do to putter around in low gear, I get fields so rough from pocket gophers I need to tear them up and replant, can still drive across them in 2nd gear but yea its a little rough. Generally find 3/4 throttle, less than full pto speed, works well for my older baler, would be different with a very new high capacity baler, but the older lower capacity type seem comfortable moving a little slower rpm.
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