605 f

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• 605 Super G

Lastly DON"T OVER FILL THE BALER!!! unless you like to replace parts on it. Oh yeah and kick off the pto before dumping a bale...Kick is back on while the gates still up and make sure that the gate latches!!!

Your windrow will be the key as to how easy it is to start a bale. The faster you can fill the entire width of the baler the easier your bale will start. Idle down until you have the bale started and weave completely from side to side. Never drive down the center of a windrow but fill the sides of the bale. We ran the self contained hydraulic tension at 1500# I think. It was so the needle was straight up in hay.

I see someone earlier mentioned the flaps onthe starting roller. They are crucial in grass hay. they must be stiff and wipe against the bales hard. Sometimes we would get more life out of them if we turned them over. And yes that roller should turn backward.

Don't let these guys with chain balers spoof you. Around here if the hay is ready and rain comming they will leave it lay on the ground rather than bale with a chain baler.

Allan

Bearings, bearings, bearings. Read the manual before trying to get one out, they have very different (for me anyhow( taper-lock bearings in places that are easy to remove _if_ you read the manual. I was ready to torch one out before I started reading.

If a roller breaks (had 2 break the end shaft on me), take it to a metal shop & have them build you a new one. Will be 1/2 price of trying to order one from V. My V dealer told me to do that....

Starting a bale can be an adventure with any round baler at times.

New teeth on the pickup will help the most. Those rubber flaps on the rotating roller should be in good shape too, pretty cheap & easy to replace if they are wore.

--->Paul

Think that is one of the drawbacks of a belt baler, isn't it?

Used to watch my neighbor fighting those old Vermeer balers; felt so sorry for him.

Along about 10 am he could finally get the thing going..... just about the same time the dew was burning off and it was getting way too darned dry to bale hay.

Allan

Newbie,
To adjust properly to start bales good: I had a 504 F but I think the 605s had the same adjustment. The hitch is hinged where it attaches to the baler. There is a ratchet jack which raises and lowers the hitch. Lower the pick up with the pick up lever. Use the ratchet jack to get the pickup teeth the proper clearance, which I think is 1 1/2 inches, but check the manual, from the flaps on the cylinder. On the side of the pickup there are tension springs which have to be tightened occasionally. Now, It has been a few years since I had an F baler, so check carefully in the manual. If everything is in adjustment and, like the other post said, the flaps are good, that baler will start bales including hay that is a little damp that you want to bale ahead of a rain.
Later Vermeers, I,J and up start bales better. I have had a 505 I for a few years and I can remember it failing to start one bale.

KEH