Baler twine

Was baling hay yesterday with the old Case 200. Never missed a bale until I ran out of twine at around 150 bales. Reloaded the twine with the same Poly that was in it and started mis-tying bales about every 4 to 8 bales. The twine was wound around the bill hooks sometimes. Lifted up the cover and the twine was tangled like you had twisted it about ten times. on the right side which was the bothersome side. Pulled out about 10 feet cut it off and respliced it. When I was done about 50 bales later I found the same situation again. I blame it on poor quality twine. When we were using sisal twine several years ago we would have to pull out and toss 20 to 50 feet of twine off half the new rolls. It was tangled and would keep breaking if we didn't. Does anyone have quality control people now or just sell everything that comes off the line.? I'm done my rant now. Thank you for listening.
 
Have mever had an issue with that,and I bale. 10,000 bales a year.Are you sure you don't vave the ball upside down?This is what your issue sounds like.
 
I am pretty well convinced the twists in the twine are the problem. I've had this baler for over 50 years so I know it pretty well. No problems until I put the messed up twine in it. I'll try to get a pic of it.
 
You may have simply gotten a bad ball. Switch sides and see what happens.As said,check twine knife and sharpen/replace if needed.
 
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As you can see twists and even a kink after leaving the box and the left side is straight
 
Im not sure how many people even understand what quality control means. I think its just looking for something to blame. Baler problems arent always, or even often, the fault of bad twine.
 
Years ago they made twine at the Minnesota state prison. Ether the prisoners didnt care or were doing mischief.

Quite a bit of twine got labeled upside down.

This was sisal twine, but it did the same thing. Curled up and wouldnt feed.

The twine got a bad name and no one wanted it.

Dad bought a lot of it at farm auctions, the minnesota brand. If it didnt feed right turn it upside down and it would feed like it should, good twine. Just labeled upside down. It had such a bad name dad would get it for a quarter or 50 cents a ball.

Has to do with the twist of the twine and how it spirals out of the ball.

Pretty obvious that is what it is.

Paul
 
Picture to me looks like it is looped around itself, may just be camara angle. Have not baled since 1981 so not familuar with the plastic twine. When it first came out tried one bale and baler would not handle it so no more plastic.
 
What you said makes sense. I will flip the bale over and try it. Will have to wait til next year, I'm done this year. Wonder if the other bale in the package is the same.
 
If it was mine, I would feed a few bales thru it by hand to see if the problem was fixed by flipping the twine. If you wait until next year and it isn't the problem...what to do with 10 acres of hay down and a problem not fixed?
 
This has been a year from he double l as far as haying up here. Rain every other day high humidity and hotter than usual. I'm going to grease everything up and put it away until next year.
 

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