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There is a lot to be said about Mike's remark about knives. Makes sense to me that if you can't cut the end off the twine, it will either pull all your twine off the roll or do what yours is doing. Yours is an interesting comment about clumps. I have had problems with clumps but not knot tieing. My baler (JD 24T) has a set of brake shoes that squeeze against a friction disc. Mine would shear the pin on the flywheel every time I hit a "clump". Set of shoes solved that. Maybe, you have a similar situation but it affects the knot more than mine did. The other problems I had with clumps was dull cutter blades (on the ram and side of the chute) and worn out rollers on the ram which would allow the ram to move away from the blade in the chute and the grass would wad up rather than cut off. Sharpening the blades and new cam follow bearings on the ram fixed that.
Brake shoes are visually inspected. Mine had almost no shoe surface left.
Ram is easy to inspect. Visually for blade sharpness and a crowbar or large screwdriver to see if you can force the cutter blades apart as the ram blade passes the chute blade. Spacing there is supposed to be like .030 or less. Additionally, on my round baler, my twine cutter is sharp enough to cut your finger, but not sharp enough to cut the twine. When Mike says sharp he means sharp....razor sharp. Just some ideas. Mark
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