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Blue Buddy
06-18-2007 15:39:27
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Re: square baler upgrade in reply to kelly campbell, 06-18-2007 08:45:12
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The New Holland 315 baler is a bit bigger capacity, but is pretty near as old as your massey so wear and tear and abuse have to be looked at before just buying it. Simple places to look for abuse are any places it has been welded, they will show it has either been worked hard or abused, general wear, look at where the twine lays across the bill hooks and check for grooves where the twine runs across the edges of them, and in the eyehole of the needles for wearing a slot from the twine running through them. Also look at the cross conveyor for damage as overspeed on the PTO is very hard on it. Fix the bale knot hanging on your massey is not to hard, assuming the twine has been cut, make sure the twine tension coming out of the twine box is not too tight, if you pull the twine at 90 degrees at the spring, the spring should bend about 1 1/2 inches at most and then the twine should slide through, if too tight the knot is too tight to slide off the billhook, also the little coil spring on the twine discs should be set to length, not sure what that spec is, has been a while, lastly, with any baler use GOOD quality twine, if the twine breaks on the bale it will not pull the knot off the billhooks, sometimes the ball looks good on top but has gotten damp on the bottom and the twine breaks there these two balers use totally different knotter styles with the Massey being the SureTie design.
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