D17 and Round Baler?

How about a Super MTA? Would it run this baler?

Thanks.

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My buddy to the east who is 91 years old only wants square bales. It has been harder and harder to find someone to cut squares around here and it is more costly than ever. Have a guy lined up, but it may fall through. The crew may not hold out. If that happens, we"ll be ready to cut some squares on our own in his hay pasture. I will do all of mine in rounds if this baler works out okay. There is a lot of money in hay between gas and fertilizer, but there was such a shortage around here this past season, it was going high and still is fairly high. May not be worth much this year. Never know for sure.

I noticed the live power in the center position on the handle. It does slow down quite a bit.

My Super MTA has live power. I guess they only put live power on them during 1 year, 1954, from what I heard. It has live power, live hydraulics and char-lynn power-steering which works great.

This Hesston baler has an electric tie which I guess is a plus. Thanks again.

I believe the remote hookup on the M has 2-way hydraulics, but like you said, the D17 does not. Just flipped through the book and it needs 2-way hydraulics to open and close the gate.

Is there a way I could put a splitter on it to run the gate? or what do I need to add to make the D17 functional? It has a single hook-up with a knob or dial under where the coupler is.

Just came in from working on the sickle bar mower. Have all the teeth on it and the wheel has rusted and split. It needs a new hydraulic line too. I"ll then work on the old square baler. Thanks.

Essentially, you re-route the hydraulics to flow in a loop through the valves (input/return). Return re-enters through hydraulic drain plug in the bottom of the tractor. The fluid flows in a circle until one of the valves is operated. Single acting ports have 1 line. The double acting port has 2 lines (input/return). It returns to the set of valves. The valve set returns to the hydraulic pump.

To run the valves, keep the shift lever in raised position (keeps fluid moving in circle through valve set).

One posting indicated AC has a high pressure (3000 psi)-low volume system which will work, but it will be slow. The cylinder needs to handle that high pressure or have a "bleed off" to handle the excess pressur. Not sure if the cyl on the baler will that pressure at this point. That may be a problem. It said the standard is low pressure, high volume.