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Question for RodinNS... re: Claas balers

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12-07-2007 17:19:19




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Rod, noticed your post earlier about having trouble in straw, I've noticed the same thing, although it seems a little better in 'fresh' straw than straw thats been on the ground a day or two. Wondered if your 44S had net wrap or twine tie? i bought a 62 this year at an auction sale, it has twine tie, and doesn't always wok as well as it should, it has trouble cutting the twine (I've changed the knife a couple of times, not much improvement) and if it doesn't cut the twine quick enough it tends to take the twine into the next bale while the bale is still forming... any ideas? It's been a good reliable baler otherwise. We also tried on demo a Claas 280 Rotocut baler this past summer... what a machine... 16ft of barley at 10 miles an hour and it never missed a beat... it's on my Christmas wishlist.

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oj

12-08-2007 09:30:48




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 Re: Question for RodinNS... re: Claas balers in reply to oj, 12-07-2007 17:19:19  
Thanks Rod, I"ll try the whet stone trick... bought the baler this summer for $500, no one seemed to want to bid on it! I figured it would do as a back up, we use a Gehl 1870 as a main baler, but it was temperamental this year... but has been great over the last six or so years. Should have mentioned that the 280 rotocut we tried was in barley silage, didn"t get to try it in straw. Does your 44 have electric tie? Someone has made mine hydraulic!!! Very hi-tech... I"m considering making a double twine arm for it instead of the single it has now (if i can sort out the twine cutting issue.
fyi I"m in western Manitoba. Thanks again for the reply.

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RodInNS

12-08-2007 10:31:28




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 Re: Question for RodinNS... re: Claas balers in reply to oj, 12-08-2007 09:30:48  
Mine is a single electric tie. When that's working correctly I find it just as fast anyway. There was a speed control on it so that you can slow it down and take about a minute to tie or speed it up to about 20 seconds. I run it full speed which is not a lot of twine. A bit more would be better but the rheostat is bad in this one now so it can't control the speed anymore...

It's funny how nobody wants to pay anything for those balers. It's much the same here. There are a few of us that know.... and the rest will pay five times as much for 1/5 of the baler. If you got a good working Claas for 500 bucks you got one heck of a steal IF it's in good shape. If it needs work, then not so much.... All I've really done to this one is some rollers from rock damage, some pickup bearings and cam followers along with one cam, one major pickup rebuild and a couple sets of chain now. It's baled probably 15000 bales of silage and another as much of hay, done it in hard conditions with careless people driving it... and when I run it, it's run hard. It's stood up well i my opinion considering what it's been through. I wouldn't want any other make of baler to be perfectly honest.

Rod

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RodInNS

12-07-2007 18:27:11




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 Re: Question for RodinNS... re: Claas balers in reply to oj, 12-07-2007 17:19:19  
Yes, mine does the same thing. Take the knife out and file it until you think it's sharp. Then put a whet stone to it until you can shave with it. I'm NOT joking. When it will shave arm hair it will cut twine.
I've been half thinking of buying a new knife section from Claas to see if that will help, but I don't know if it will or not. I have noticed that this has only really been a problem the last couple years... and it's not a problem with some twine, so I think that does play a role in it. You might also try playing with the tension. That does play with it some too. I WISH I had netwrap on mine. I've always wondered if I could push 70/hour through her with netwrap.
The 250RC is on my wishlist. If I was doing more baling I might buy one but we're only doing 800-1000 a year now so the 44 will hang on for that much. She's counting on over 30000 now but starting to need some work from all the things that have been neglected on it the last few years...

Rod

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