JD 530 Round Baler

It (the monitor) also has lights that tell you that the gate is down and LOCKED (green light), tells you that the bale is getting ready to tie so that if the needles aren't even, even them up (blinking amber), and that the tie arm has left it's station (solid amber) and is starting the tieing process, and a red light for when you miss all the things that should have happened and the bale is getting dangerously large and you had better pull the manual trip lever.

I baled several of those 6 1/2 foot bales one day and man they are too big to do anything with....and they are really hard on your equipment. Course the baler and I were getting used to oneanother. I had just bought it and things I assumed the previous owner had been using were just a figment of my imagination.

Side to side like you say is how you do it to setup the square (flat topped) bale. Don't worry about the center; it will fill it'self. Only time you center up is to get the bale started, and with the 530 that is a piece of cake.

Mark

Mine had v belt tensioners on the main drive chain. Obviously this was not good as it was metal to metal and not designed for that. You need chain sprocket tensioners on your chains....have teeth that fit into the links of the chain.

I only had one roller bearing go bad and you could tell it by looking at the ends of the rollers. This one threw all it's balls and was running race on race which produced a lot of heat (which causes fires) and the heat turned the roller blue. I saw it and got it changed before anything happened. If the roller is one that is on slack belting (when you raise the gate) it is a piece of cake to change. On the others it will surely take 2 people all day.

The JD dealer has all the parts you need.

Get a manual from JD online as there are several adjustments that are important to proper operation.

Only problem I have is triggering the tieing process. I have been over it several times with the book and sometimes it works, and other times I have to trip it. I think the trip mechanism is binding a little.

After having had a Hesston 5580, this guy is a dream to run.

But, one difference in this and the Hesston was the fact that the belts were farther apart on it and I could actually see the roll and the twine on it. On the 530 the belts almost touch and you have to get under it to see if it tied.....if you can't tell from watching the process.

SAFETY is a prime concern with these things and when they say turn it all off before you start trying to fool around with clogs or whatever TURN IT OFF, IT ALL OFF, INCLUDING THE TRACTOR. That thing can eat you before you can think and I don't even want to think about what kind of mess that would make.

Mark