lastcowboy32
Well-known Member
We had an issue with twine coming out of the needle on our baler last year.
I tightened the spring clamp on the twine box tensioner, and the problem went away for the rest of last year. No problems this year, through thousands of bales.
Then, Saturday evening, after loading six wagons of first cut without incident... I wanted to bale up one wagon of some of the nicest red clover second cut I ever saw....
About three bales in,... ping.... twine out of the needle
WTF? (Why This Farmer?)
huh... that's curious... must be a fluke.
Restring the baler.... about ten bales later.... ping... there it goes again.
Anyway... the load of second cut was two types of hay. Some of the bales were about 100% clover. Others were mostly grass. I baled through the grass areas with no problems.
I ended up restringing the twine about four or five times on the clover. Which included restringing it after one popout that happened during "re-baling" of the broken bales... but all when doing the clover.
Odd.... odd.... odd
I didn't tighten my twine box tensioner any more, as it's a 7/16" nut... and it's a little rusted in place. I'm getting a new bolt/spring, because I was worried that I would just plain break this one if I really tweaked it hard with the wrench.
Maybe I just need to replace the bolt/spring and tighten some more.
I tightened the spring clamp on the twine box tensioner, and the problem went away for the rest of last year. No problems this year, through thousands of bales.
Then, Saturday evening, after loading six wagons of first cut without incident... I wanted to bale up one wagon of some of the nicest red clover second cut I ever saw....
About three bales in,... ping.... twine out of the needle
WTF? (Why This Farmer?)
huh... that's curious... must be a fluke.
Restring the baler.... about ten bales later.... ping... there it goes again.
Anyway... the load of second cut was two types of hay. Some of the bales were about 100% clover. Others were mostly grass. I baled through the grass areas with no problems.
I ended up restringing the twine about four or five times on the clover. Which included restringing it after one popout that happened during "re-baling" of the broken bales... but all when doing the clover.
Odd.... odd.... odd
I didn't tighten my twine box tensioner any more, as it's a 7/16" nut... and it's a little rusted in place. I'm getting a new bolt/spring, because I was worried that I would just plain break this one if I really tweaked it hard with the wrench.
Maybe I just need to replace the bolt/spring and tighten some more.